THE MOTHER OF ALL VIDEO - BERSIH 2.0

There are now uncountable articles and videos on the Bersih 2.0 it is just mind boggling.

This is the Mother of all Bersih 2.0 Video, you just to have to Watch This.
Note: Make sure you pump up the volume.

Lady Liberty vs Lady Whore

Lady Liberty acknowledges her background without shame. She knows where she stands in society.

On the other side, Lady Whore refuses to acknowledge her background out of shame. She does not know her place in society.

Lady Liberty represent ALL MALAYSIANS.

Lady Whore represent Mother of all shits and lover of BOMOHS.

The day before BERSIH 2.0...

Rosmah received her Ring of Power on 8 July 2011,
just in time for the BERSIH 2.0 rally!

An exquisite blue gray cushion cut diamond ring..Custom-made for the Red Queen of Putrajaya by Jacob & Co, New YorkWow, look at the price...USD24,458,400 (that's RM74,108,952)... duty free!
Erm, isn't Jacob & Co a Jewish jeweller? Must have been recommended by APCO....The images were posted online by somebody in the Customs Department and first appeared in the LowYat Forum yesterday. Guess whoever the whistleblower was must have been emboldened by the ma! ssive sh owing at BERSIH 2.0. If I were a customs officer and spotted something like that, I would most certainly be inspired to snap a few images of the computer screen too and leak them.

Well, folks.... we knew all along who calls the shots in Putrajaya.... but to her credit, Rosie was able to control Pinky's entire cabinet even before she obtained her Ring of Power from Jacob & Co!

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St. John Ambulance in the hands of crude Government

I would like to tell the whole world that St. John Ambulance were given orders by the Home Ministry and Police that they are to standby for emergency for the Uniform men on duty and Patriot and Perkasa group only.

No-one must assist the Bersih and Opposition.

So can someone with balls explain what is the actual function or rather the intention of St. John Ambulance.

This is what written in Wikipedia.

St. John Ambulance of Malaysia (Malay: St. John Ambulans Malaysia, Abbreviation: SJAM) is a Malaysian-based, non-profit statutory body dedicated to the works of humanity and charity for the relief of persons in sickness, distress, suffering or danger without any distinction of race, class, colour or creed.

Mr. PM- Blood on your hands

• A responsible PM would look after the interest of all rakyat. He is not supposed to look at the interest of his political party. He is the PM of Malaysia and not PM Barisan Nasional. The fact is that his refusal to assist BERSIH to walk or to grant the use of stadium Merdeka is because he was looking after the interest of his political party. For the same reasons he abuse every single government machinery in painting a false picture about the walk and lied incessantly to the public. Documents are now in available in the public domain
  to show the concerted effort that starts from PM office.
  

• Because of his actions, the RMP disrupted the live of millions. The people did not cause a riot. The police did. The Pasukan Pencegah Rusuhan actually merusuh It can be seen that the police use all its might to merusuh and disrupt the peace gathering. These led to the senseless count of injuries and a death. I saw on YouTube on how Baharuddin Ahmad died with his hands tied behind his back and the police watch as if they are watching a cow being slaughtered for Qurban! Video dont lie. See the following YouTube at minute 8:50.
  

• This is a senseless death which should not have happened. I urged Najib to visit the family and extend his apologies and condolences. The IGP should do the same. A wife has lost a husband. The children have lost their father. To those who want to make a contribution, may I suggest that apart from a short prayer in your own religion please make a small contribution to this grieving family irrespective of your political partisanship. The account details of the wife of the deceased is as follows:
  

  Account Name : Rosni binti Malan (wife of deceased)
  

  Bank account Number: Maybank: 1640-5232-3091
  

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• Shouldnt the PM and his merry man be made accountable?
  

BERSIH 2.0 - TRULY MALAYSIA 9711

Good Things that Came Out of Bersih 2.0 Rally

by Kee Thuan Chye | MalaysianDigest.com

WHAT the Bersih 2.0 rally of July 9 has shown is that Malaysians of all races are willing to risk arrest to speak up for their rights; that Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali is nothing but hot air and the media should no longer give him any attention; that Umno Youth is just a directionless bunch of brats; and, above all, that the Government is the biggest loser for mishandling the entire issue.

As it was, the rally turned out to be peaceful, as the organizers had pledged it would be. The only acts of violence were those committed by the police, when they attacked the protestors with teargas and water cannons although the latter did not provoke them. In retrospect, if the Government had allowed the rally to go on without fuss from the start and it must be said that Bersih 2.0 (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections) asked modestly for only two hours, from 2pm to 4pm it would have just gone on without fuss, and everything would have been all right.

The Government would have been seen to be accommodating and benevolent, and not afraid of a call for fair elections. Instead, by choosing to clamp down on the rally even weeks before its scheduled date in ways as brutal as detaining six people under the Emergency Ordina! nce and as absurd as arresting more than 200 people, some for merely wearing yellow T-shirts it has lost immense favor and, some analysts say, the middle ground. It is also seen to be insecure, and irrational in its overreacting to the rally, surely not a trait of good governance.

Be that as it may, two positive things emerged from July 9.

One, the culture of fear that was forged during the time of Mahathir Mohamad is forever gone. If Malaysians were daring enough to defy the strong, repeated calls by the police and the Government to stay away from the Kuala Lumpur city center on July 9, they will not be intimidated any more by future threats as long as they know what they are doing is right and the Government is wrong.

Sure, pro-Government critics will argue that the Bersih 2.0 supporters did not comprise all Malaysians, but what is significant is that it comprised the knowing ones. In the history of revolutions, these are the ones who agitate for change and cause it to happen, not the ones who have been brainwashed by official propaganda.

Two, the most heartening feature about the rally is the composition of the protestors. They came from all races, young and old. They came from all over the country, including Sabah and Sarawak. Even a one-legged man walked (on crutches) for fair and free elections.

Many were the Chinese on the streets shouting Hidup Bersih! and Hidup rakyat!, giving the lie to Ibrahim Alis prediction that the Chinese would stay home. As it turned out, he was the one who stayed home!

After the event, the New Straits Times interviewed some Universiti Sains Malaysia lecturer about his observations of the rally. When he said he did not see any Chinese there, he told a blatant lie. I was there and I saw a few thousand Chinese, if not more. Many were women, many were elderly. One of them said to me, We are walking for our rights. To see how wrong he is, this lecturer should go to youtube and type in Bersih 2.0 at Petaling Street and watch the video.
My frie nd, the writer-filmmaker Amir Muhammad, said it very well in response to the lecturers observation, Maybe he meant that there were no Chinese because everyone there was MALAYSIAN.

Indeed. Everyone there must have been a Malaysian who cared enough for the country to dare to defy the odds against them, in order to ask for their country to be set right again.

Many of them actually booked rooms in KL hotels the night before so that they would not be locked out of the city on the historic day. Many came from other states one or two days ahead to elude the authorities restriction on travel. Many from the outskirts found ways to get into the city center despite the police road blocks and checks, causing massive traffic jams.

Many feared arrest as they made their way to gathering points. I walked with trepidation, with my friends, from KL Sentral to Stadium Merdeka. We passed by policemen stationed along the way. When we got to the stadium vicinity, we found the road to it barricaded so we hung out for a while in Petaling Street. Throughout our wait for the rally to start, we felt a sense of unease; at any time, the FRU could rush us and catch us unawares.

When the march started, many faced the dreaded power of the police as the latter shot water cannons and teargas at the crowd. But whenever the crowd was thus scattered, they regrouped a short while later to carry on the march. Some protestors were chased and beaten up, but spirits were not broken. In the end, nearly 1,700 people were arrested, including the leaders of Bersih 2.0 and those of Opposition parties that had responded to Bersih 2.0s call to all (including the ruling Barisan Nasional) to join its cause.

Ten thousand is an underestimation of the total crowd size at the rally, although thats what an online news website puts it at. The polices estimate of 6,000, on the other hand, is far too few. That puts the 1,700 arrested as being a quarter of their total, which doesnt seem plausible. The crowd I marched with to Pud! uraya, a t the base of Menara Maybank, was already about 10,000. This did not include the other groups elsewhere at the time.

If there had been no road blocks, no court order barring the leaders from entering certain parts of the city, no restriction on travel from other states to KL, no shutdown of public transport, no fear-mongering, no warnings from sultans to subjects to stay away, many, many more people would have come.

Even so, in spite of all these formidable stumbling blocks, the turnout was fantastic. The peoples belief in the cause overwhelmed their fading belief in the Executive, the Police and, even to a certain extent, the Royalty. And when a people come to lose faith in their countrys institutions, that is when change is inevitable.

The July 9 rally marked a moral victory for Bersih 2.0. And it was a well-deserved one. It proved more than ever to Prime Minister Najib Razak that the people wanted electoral reform and, more than that, a better government. He and his government would have been spared all this drama if they had read the writing on the wall from the very start.

Last week, when it seemed he had relented by agreeing to let the rally be held in a stadium, he could have still achieved some damage control, but instead his ratings dropped further when his team came up with a Catch-22 that made it impossible for Bersih 2.0 to get the stadium.

Now it seems hes still rejecting the writing on the wall. Hes still talking tough and trying to put on a brave, even aggressive, front by hastily arranging an unusual gathering called Majlis Penerangan Perdana, attended by reportedly 6,000 Umno members and Malay NGOs, at which he ridiculed the Bersih 2.0 rally and boasted, Umno has three million members. If we gather one million members, it is more than enough. We can conquer Kuala Lumpur.

This is pathetically childish behavior for a prime minister. It is as if he is playing the game of Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better. His need to stage this show of force cl! early sh ows his insecurity. One wonders which adviser of his suggested this move, but the effect of it is more laughable than impressive.

Deep down, Najib is afraid. That explains the paranoia he exuded over the Bersih 2.0 rally before July 9. Now, in its aftermath, neither he nor anyone can stop the reform movement. The wheels of change are already rolling. Even if BN wins the next general election, it will not rest easy.

The knowing Malaysians are already sensitized to BNs dirty rule and want to have a clean government. They will continue to press for change and reform. If BN tries to stop them by applying repression, it will not frighten or deter them anymore. If one group is put down, another one will rise and take its place.

To BN, Bob Dylan sings:

Then you better start swimmin
Or youll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin

If BN doesnt hear that, it will surely sink.

Himpunan Bersih 2.1 di Suhakam - Sila Sebarkan

Tulang Besi dapat pernyataan seperti dibawah:

"Himpunan bersih 2.1 membantah keganasan Polis dipejabat SUHAKAM bgn th perdana jam 2ptg, 12 Julai 2011 bersama Ketua Pemuda PAS...sila hdr & sebarkan"

Tulang Besi

Malaysians Passed The Test, Brilliantly!

By M. Bakri Musa

[Due to last Saturdays Bersih 2.0 event, for this week only, the serialization of my book, Malaysia in the Era of Globalization, is switched to Wednesday, and my weekly essay to today (Sunday). My usual pattern will resume next week.]

A remarkable thing happened this past weekend. To many, the event on Saturday was nothing more than a massive public demonstration that capped a long brewing confrontation between those advocating fair and free elections and those who deemed that our elections are already so.

As with any fight, the drama was played out long before the event, and by the time the actual battle took place, the participants had long forgotten the original issue. Instead, now the preoccupation is who blinked first, who outsmarted whom, and most of all, who lost and who won. These then become the new overriding divisive issues, eclipsing the original one.

The losers would return to their corner with their new resolve: Next time! And the battle continues; they never learn! There were plenty of losers this weekend but few winners. The winners may be few but their achievements scaled new heights.

To me, this weekend was one of those moments (much too frequent, I hasten to add!) that test our nation. This time however, Malaysians acquitted themselves well. The same cannot be said of the Naj! ib admin istration.

If this was an academic exercise, I would grade the performance of Malaysians as represented in Bersih an A, while the Najib Administration flunked badly. So dismal was its performance that the Najib administration should have no recourse to a remedial course or supplemental test; expulsion is the only option.

Terrible Trajectory

I would have thought that after the debacle of 1997 with the grossly inept handling of the reformasi demonstrations, and again a decade later with HINDRAF, the UMNO government would have learned a thing or two on how to deal intelligently with dissent and public demonstrations, two inherent features of a democracy. My expectation is not unreasonable, if not heightened, considering that we are today dealing with essentially the same characters in the administration. Most of the ministers who were in power during the reformasi and HINDRAF (now dubbed Bersih 1) are still there in Najibs cabinet.

Obviously they, individually and collectively, have a flat learning curve. They are incapable of learning. There is a clinical term for that, but since this is a lay article I will resort to street lingo: idiots.

Their flat learning curve is even more incomprehensible considering that the consequences to them were so severe. The 1997 reformasi mess resulted in Barisan being thrashed in the 1999 elections, with Najib nearly being kicked out of his safe seat in Pekan that his father had held for many years.

The price escalated with Bersih 1.0. The general elections of 2008 saw Barisan being humiliated with an unprecedented loss of its two-thirds parliamentary majority, along with five states, including two of the most developed: Penang and Selangor.

I will let readers plot the trajectory as to the consequences of this weekends mess should the next general elections be held soon, as is widely predicted.

The iconic image of the reformasi debacle was of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwars battered face; that of Bersih1.0 w! as of In formation Minister Zainuddin Maidin frothing at the mouth, babbling incoherently in front of the international news media trying to justify his governments brutal suppression of its people. It was a classic demonstration of that uniquely Malay mental malady, latah (verbal diarrhea). It was also a display of amok, another peculiarly Malay affliction, albeit in this case only of the oral variety.

The iconic image of Bersih 2.0 was refreshing; that of its leader Ambiga Sreenivasan, former Bar Council President, serenely leaving the Istana after an audience with the King. The symbolism could not be overstated, for the Najib Administration had earlier declared her organization illegal! Only those retarded would miss the message, and they are precisely the types we are dealing with here.

Winners and Losers

My award for courage and excellence in Berseh 2.0 goes to those brave Malay masses who defied their government, their imams, and the party that had long proclaimed and presumed to speak on their behalf. In taking a very active part in a movement led predominantly by non-Malays, those Malays showed that they are no longer trapped by tribalism; they had escaped the clutches of chauvinism. There is now no going back.

This significant milestone is not acknowledged, much less appreciated. However, leaders who ignore this do so at their peril. For aspiring Malay leaders, it is now no longer enough for you to display your nationalistic zeal or ethnic instincts. You have to articulate the issues that matter most to the Malay masses: fairness, honesty, and justice, in elections and on other issues. I would also add competence. Those incidentally are also the concerns of all Malaysians.

Yes, there was a time when you could garner Malay support by justifying that the victims of your corruption, injustices and unfairness were non-Malays. Those days are now long gone; get used to it! Malays now realize that while in the past those victims may be mostly non-Malays, today they are ! increasi ngly Malays too.

The comforting corollary to my observation is that those capable non-Malay leaders would be assured of Malay support, if they were to address the central issues facing the masses.

Yes, Bersih 2.0 had strong non-Malay support especially abroad. Unanswered is whether a similar movement with equally noble objectives but with predominantly Malay leadership would garner the same enthusiastic support from non-Malays. If reformasi was any indication, the answer would be a reassuring yes.

I am especially heartened by the responses of Malay NGO leaders like Marina Mahathir. When Najib, and others who took their cue from him, began demonizing Ambiga by maliciously injecting ugly racial and religious accusations, Marina unambiguously and passionately defended Ambiga. Marina was of course all smiles and gentleness, as is the traditional halus (fine) Malay way, but there was no disguising her contempt for such odious tactics and their purveyors.

The biggest loser was of course the Najib Administration, specifically Najib and his fellow UMNO ministers. Their inanity was typified by Home Minister Hishammuddin complimenting the police for keeping the peace and stability. Yes, with the streets blockaded, stores closed, and citizens bludgeoned the peace and stability of a prison lockdown. That was KL all week leading to last Saturday.

The conspicuous silence of other Barisan leaders was noted; that reflected solidarity not out of courage but cowardice. In contrast, even UMNO Youth defied Najib in declaring that it too would stage a counter demonstration.

Despite its defiance, UMNO Youth was also the loser, together with that ultra-Malay organization led by has-been politicians and past-their-peak professors, Perkasa. Good thing that the government had banned their leaders from KL; at least they had a ready excuse for their dismal performance.

The list of losers is long; there is little merit in mentioning more except for just this one, and I do so with pro! found sa dness. A few weeks before the event, all the mosques in Kuala Lumpur, including the National Mosque, were warning their Friday prayer congregants of the evilness of those who led Bersih 2.0 and the sin that would befall those who would participate in it.

At a time when our community is divided, as with this central issue of fair and free elections, I would expect our ulamas and religious leaders to be our healers, to bring us together, to be the balm to our collective wounds. Instead they became only too willing instruments of the state with their canned state-issued sermons demonizing those who saw merit in the objectives of Bersih 2.0.

Obviously to the thousands of Malays who took part in Bersih 2.0, including one particular old man in his jubbah who had to be helped to walk, those characters cloaked in their flowing robes standing at their mimbar every Friday noon are less pious ulamas to be revered but more propagandists for the state to be defied. They may be Imams, but to the thousands who took part in Berseh 2.0 last Saturday, they are carma imams, to borrow National Laureate Samad Saids term. Carma is the Malay contraction of cari makan, seeking a living. Idiomatically it refers to those who prostituted their honored craft or profession.

Those GI Imams (Government-issued) have flunked their test; there is no remedial course for them either. That is one of the great casualties of last Saturdays event. For those carma imams, there is no corner they can return to or hide in.

Mat Sabu: Police Land Rover rammed me...

PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu today claimed police rammed a truck into the motorbike he was riding en-route to join Bersih 2.0 protesters last Saturday. Visiting the Selangor state assembly building in a wheelchair, the usually jovial leader took a more sombre tone as he recounted his harrowing experience.

"I was on a motorbike on the way to Masjid Negara, when suddenly a Land Rover rammed into us. I didn't know it was a police Land Rover at the time," he told journalists at a press conference.

"The impact threw me off and I was rolling on the ground. They then brought me into the Land Rover and took me to a clinic in Jinjang, which referred me to the hospital."

Mat Sabu, as he is popularly known, said he was eventually released for outpatient treatment, but decided to seek further checks at the Selangor Medical Centre, which confirmed a far worse injury than initially thought.

"I was suffering from constant pain in my leg, so I went for a check and the doctor confirmed I am suffering from a torn ligament and now I will have to go for an operation this Friday to put in plates," he said, indicating to his right knee.

Also present at the press conference was PAS' Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad, who was also allegedly injured on the back of his head by a tear gas canister fired directly at the crowd at KL Sentral.

Khalid, who got six stitches on his head, claimed riot police at the station's airport bus route sandwiched him, along with Pakatan and Bersih 2.0 top leaders and protesters, as they attempted to march to Stadium Merdeka.

'My spectacles flew'

"We stopped when we saw FRU blocking the way, and we also noticed FRU moving in behind us. Without warning, they started shooting tear gas and they were aiming at the demonstrators.

"I turned around to look at the FRU (members) behind us, and suddenly my spectacles flew and there was blood everywhere," he said.

Khalid said he was then brought in for treatment, claiming that even the doctor who treated his wound was shocked to see the extent of his injuries.

"The doctor who checked me was surprised that the wound was very clean cut, just like (getting sliced by) a knife. This would only happen if tear gas was aimed directly at people," he claimed.

Khalid was incredulous over the police's behaviour in allegedly brutalising Bersih 2.0 protesters, particularly for the alleged assault on Mat Sabu.

"What is this? It is as if he (Mat Sabu) is a big time drug smuggler. He's lucky only his leg was injured."

Khalid also slammed the police for allegedly firing tear gas and a water cannons into the compound of the Tung Shin hospital along Jalan Pudu, accusing the men in blue of acting like the "protectors of BN".

"Don't take sides. Stop behaving as defenders of the BN government... Your job is to take care of the rakyat," he said.

'Najib a liar'

Mat Sabu also had little good to say of the police's actions on Saturday, calling them a bunch of "gangsters".

But his harshest criticism was reserved for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, whom he called a "liar" for back-tracking on his promise to allow the rally to be held at a stadium of Bersih's choosing.

"First he says we can use any stadium, and when we ask to meet him, he denies our request. Najib is a li! ar, and he is not qualified to lead Malaysia."

Mat Sabu declined to comment when asked if he would urge Pakatan to demand for Najib's resignation, though he had no qualms launching more barbs at the premier.

"(Resigning) is up to him (Najib). But he is a liar. At least say you will investigate (claims of police brutality)... He is only qualified to be Rosmah (Mansor)'s husband," he said in a snide reference the self-declared First Lady of Malaysia.

source:malaysiakini

cheers.

Bersih 2.0 Allahyarham Baharuddin Ahmad : Truth that Cannot Be Cover - Pics & Video

Baharuddin Ahmad died on the 9th July 2011 while participating in the Bersih 2.0 peaceful rally. The government and police claimed that he died of heart attack.

Let the following pictures and video speak for itself. Could he died of a heart attack or from non available help from the police and medical attention.

20110709 Bersih2.0 Videos parts 1, 2, 3

Videos from eTVmal complete compilation of the Bersih 2.0 rally. Commentary in Mandarin

Butiran Cincin yang Dikatakan Milik Rosmah PERLU PENJELASAN

Di bawah adalah beberapa butiran berkaitan cincin yang dikatakan milik Rosmah. Bagi Tulang Besi, Rosmah mempunyai tanggungjawab untuk menperjelaskan isu ini kepada umum. Harga RM24.4 juta untuk sebuah cincin adalah MELAMPAU. Dalam keadaan rakyat Malaysia berjuang untuk hidup kerana kenaikan harga barang, terpaksa berjimat habis-habisan, seorang pemimpin negara tidak boleh membelanjakan wang yang sebegitu banyak untuk sebuah cincin.

1.0 Butiran yang dikatakan datang dari pihak Kastam:







2.0 Gambar cincin tersebut:


3.0 Website Jacob & Co, penjual cincin tersebut:


Rosmah WAJIB memberi penjelasan terhadap cincin ini. Rakyat Malaysia wajib tahu apakah kesah di sebalik c! incin ya ng berharga RM24.4 juta ini.

Tulang Besi

No-one should starve in Malaysia just for one bitch

This ring is worth RM24,458,400.00 and the owner is none other than Rosmah the Whore.

Malaysia has 28 million population including illegal immigrants. If we can get hold of Rosmah's ring and her RM1 million per bag, which number around 250 bags. No-one in Malaysia should be starving. In fact everyone is a millionaire.

We are fortunate in a sense unlike her, we don't need to spread our thighs open and beg for the Chinese and Mamak Toyboys to enter.

http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/from-around-the-blogs/41931-rm244-mil-rosmah-mansor-ring-bn-cybertrooper-come

BERSIH 2.0 is the Movement of the Facebook Generation

Never has an anti government rally in Malaysia being so well attended by young people linked together in social networks before. I'd like to call them the Malaysian Facebook Generation.

Their linkages inside the world of Facebook and Twitter had formed a formidable group of like minded but brave individuals, to come out and express their dissatisfaction about how the country is being run.

They are, however, green horns to the scene of public protests in Malaysia. Here are a few pointers i'd like to give.

Tear gas only hurt the most when you experienced it the first time. Subsequent inhalation of tear gas hurts less and less.

From the pictures i saw, the flume coming out of the canisters were white in color. That means, the type they used during KESAS demonstration is still being kept in their reserves.

The ones they used for KESAS had green gas coming out of it. People say that smoke is just one notch below cyanide, but what do I know.

Experienced Reformasi veterans told me the acid water used this time is still mild compared to the ones they experienced before.

They say, most of the demonstrators are first timers. They have just experienced the brunt of Malaysian police action in Malaysia. Most Chinese and Indians stayed away from the Reformasi. SO, they missed their chance to breathe chemical gasses and skin irritation from acid water.

Now, they have experienced it, they believe the first timers will come for more.

The Police treatment is relatively mi! lder tha n the ones experienced during Reformasi. For once, there was no ringing of the bell by the FRU, there was no raising of red flag (which means free for all) by the FRU commanders and the acid water is still white in color. The ones we had to endure was very very yellow and it smelled very bad too.

So, first timers. Consider this your induction experience, for there's more to come. Trust me on this.

Things will get more and more "exciting" after this. For one, there was no free beating done by the FRU this time. A lot of my friends got beaten up before.

Oh, and i remembered the FRU firing high grade tear gas into a closed room in Masjid Negara filled with women and children during the arsenic demo. I know many UMNO members in that room whom has left UMNO for good never to return.

All in all, a good multiracial crowd has given Najib and UMNO more than a red face. It has hurt their popularity so bad, that it will take them more than a year to recover.

I believe, it rules out any early election widely speculated to happen within this year. The debacle of BERSIH 2.0 will cause Najib and Muhyiddin more migraines than usual.

No one will look at Najib as a saviour anymore. Just about everyone look at Najiv with disgust and contempt.

And, if our call is still being neglected, i heard rumors that BERSIH 3.0 will cometh and cometh it will.

I suggest Najib listens to the call of the people. It's just common sense to do so.

Tulang Besi

The doctored New Shameless Times explains

The NST today has what it calls an explanation for the huge photo of a Bersih demonstrator used on the front wrapper of the New Sunday Times. The explanation is to rebut claims on the Internet that the photo was faked. The trouble with that explanation is that it does not quite ring true.

Was it an actual photograph of a protest demonstrator about to hurl something, presumably a tear gas canister back at the police? Possible. But when was this photo taken? It looks eerily familiar. Not just to my eyes: another former NST editor said it looked just like a photograph from another protest rally, maybe 2007s Bersih rally, or even earlier.

And the NSTs explanation of its photograph, and the use of the Reuters photograph as backup evidence, also looks eerily familiar.

So, too, the 14-page coverage of the Berish rally also looks all too familiar: the empty church where a wedding was postponed, the story of lost business, the story of two hours of madness even a first-person account by a woman reporter gushing about how exciting it all was. She almost died in the crush, the headline said. You could have written almost the same story for a first-timer on a Cup final night, or a Sunday night at a PC Fair at KLCC. The crush is quite bad there, too. Sometimes people slip and fall. Sometimes people faint. The only thing missing is massed ranks of police and FRU, tear gas and water cannon. So the NST doesnt assign reporters to write execrable gushing accounts of the crush at a PC Fair.

Of course, there will be pages of heavy analysis and commentary by the NSTs top hatchet men earning their datoships and their fancy titles and their fancy perks.

If the NSTs coverage all looks familiar, its because it fits into a formula. The Umno owners of the newspaper, and their security guards m! asquerin g as guardians of the law, only want one thing: to look good and for the protesters to seem evil.

Another protest rally? Do what we did before, just update the facts. Rinse and repeat. So there is a stale sameness to the coverage of the NST.

The New Sunday Times was not a newspaper this week. It was a propaganda machine, with a huge team of reporters and editors busy doing a so-called professional job, writing exciting stories, producing good copy, checking spellings, writing great headlines, producing award-winning photographs.

The end-result of all that professional activity is to produce an effective piece of propaganda. Real journalism not necessary. Just reporting, editing, and photography skills needed. Journalists not required, loyal newspaper workers will do.

At times of crises, when the future of their owners and their owners police dogs are at stake, real journalism to seek the unbiased truth becomes a hindrance.

At times like these, the New Straits Times and the New Sunday Times become the New Shameless Times. Its not a question of whether one photograph was doctored.

The whole newspaper was doctored.

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