
Papaya leaves save life

Where is Colonel Gaddafi...
The vanquished dictator becomes the world's most wanted fugitive, he may find one thing to his liking the longer he can remain free, the more a legend will once again spring around him."As we saw with Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, (Radovan) Karadzic and (Ratko) Mladic, the longer it takes, the more chance they have of being spirited away to a place which is much more difficult to find,"
So how will Gaddafi stay on the run?
One likely solution will be to travel light avoiding armoured or large convoys, or large bodyguard details that can be seen by drone planes. He will also steer clear of phones, for fear that his voice patterns could be detected by Western intelligence agencies' eavesdropping equipment.
As well as having millions of dollars in private cash reserves, he is also believed to have pilfered part of Libya's gold reserves to pay for his protection, according to claims last week by his former central bank governor, Farhat Bengdara.
Like Saddam Hussein, who was eventually found living on the outskirts of a peasant village near his home city of Tikrit, it is thought he may too try to return to his tribal roots, heading either for his coastal birthplace of Sirte, or the shabby desert town of Sabha, deep in the Sahara, where he was schooled.
Equally, Gaddafi might head to the Libya's desert south, a landscape of bare, lunar mountains and vast sand dunes which ranks as some of the remotest, emptiest territory on the planet, and may also host various purpose-built hideouts. An area the size of France, the region's lack of roads, searing temperatures and regular sand storms would make any prolonged manhunt a major logistical challen! ge.
However, businessmen from Benghazi have offered a bounty of two million Libyan dinars (1.03 million) for Gaddafi's capture, a sum that could well tempt local tribes to turn bounty hunter.
But even if Gaddafi were to escape this way, few other countries would accept him.
Early on Saturday the Egyptian press agency reported that a convoy of six armoured Mercedes had crossed into Algeria from the southern border town of Ghadames, amid frenzied speculation that the cars could contain the Gaddafis.
One other possible refuge would be Zimbabwe, another non-signatory to the court, and on Saturday there were yet more wild rumours that he had fled in the dead of night to a suburb of Harare.
source:the telegraph
Mugabe hantar pesawat bawa lari Gadhafi
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ALLAH PELINDUNG DARI SEGALA KEJAHATAN
MALAYSIA: TV-3 Lies and Misleads to Worsen Islam vs Christianity Controversy
QUOTE:
"It was pretty clear the qariah and the surau reported on TV3 does NOT exist. TV3 cooked up the false news and at the same time poked fun at Muslim places of worship with that name Al-Musyrikin.
The tuition centre has been there for years for the purpose of teaching Christianity to the children living in the area who are Christians.They comprise students who are Chinese, Indian and a small number of Christian Indonesians. There are NO Muslims who attend Christianity classes there.
The TV station is maliciously spreading false news aimed at stoking religious and racial tensions, that at the same time had ridiculed Islam."
-Fariz Musa

An NGO has lodged a police report against TV3 for allegedly FABRICATING news of a tuition centre in Jalan Klang Lama, Kuala Lumpur, trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, on account that the surau whose members were shown protesting the centre appears to be non-existent.
The TV station was maliciously spreading false news aimed at stoking religious and racial tensions, that at the same time had ridiculed Islam.
The group, Jingga 13, said the private TV station on Aug 21 aired a report during its main news bulletin (Buletin Utama) alleging that the tuition centre had been spreading Christianity to its Muslim students.
The news clip showed footage of jalan klang lama tuition centre tv3 report 4a group of about 50 from the Qariah Surau! Al-Musy rikin led by a Mustapha Kamal Mohd Yusof - believed to be an Umno branch leader in Seputeh - gathered in front of the centre, protesting the proselytisation of Muslims.
NGO, Jingga 13 Coordinator, Fariz Musa said,
The report is meant to portray that there are efforts to spread Christianity through the tuition classes, to the point that it has caused the surau members to protest. Jinggo 13's checks suggest that no such surau exists in the area.Meanwhile, the news report concerned has apparently been removed from TV3's website.
From Jingga 13's investigations in the vicinity of the tuition centre in the Jalan Klang Lama squatter area, and from speaking with the locals there, we found that not a single surau exists in the area. The tuition centre is located in a squatter area populated mainly by Chinese and Indians, along with some foreign Indonesians.
It was pretty clear the qariah and the surau reported on TV3 does NOT exist.
The name of the reported surau itself is suspect, and appears to be aimed at poking fun. The name of the surau 'Al-Musyrikin' that was reported looks like it was intentionally conjured up.
It is indeed impossible that someone would call their house of Allah with a name such as 'Al-Musyrikin' (non-believers). It's pretty clear that TV3 cooked up the false news and at the same time poked fun at Muslim places of worship with that name Al-Musyrikin.
The residents in the squatter area had said that the tuition centre has been there for years for the purpose of teaching Christianity to the children living in the area who are Christians. They comprise students who are Chinese, Indian and a small number of Christian Indonesians.
There are NO Muslims who attend Christianity classes there."
Creative Minds Are Nurtured
Looks ordinary enough
but watch as the rice grows!



Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan, but this is no alien creation. The designs have been cleverly planted! Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colour rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants. The colours are created by using different varieties of rice plants, whose leaves grow in certain colours.
This photo was taken in Inakadate, Japan.
Napoleon on horseback can be seen from the skies. This was created by precision planting and months of planning by villagers and farmers located in Inkadate, Japan.
Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are featured on the television series 'Tenchijin' appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture of Japan.
This year, various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan, including designs of deer dancers. Smaller works of 'crop-art' can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.
The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the coloured patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September.
The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields.
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.
Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen. Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees.
The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces. In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year. But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between land owners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art. A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot the planting of four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life!
TRULY A WORK OF ART!!
TV3 news on proselytisation fake, says NGO...
An NGO has lodged a police report against TV3 for allegedly fabricating news of a tuition centre in Jalan Klang Lama, Kuala Lumpur, trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, on account that the surau whose members were shown protesting the centre appears to be non-existent.The group, Jingga 13, said the private TV station on Aug 21 aired a report during its main news bulletin (Buletin Utama) alleging that the tuition centre had been spreading Christianity to its Muslim students.
The news clip showed footage of jalan klang lama tuition centre tv3 report 4a group of about 50 from the Qariah Surau Al-Musyrikin led by a Mustapha Kamal Mohd Yusof - believed to be an Umno branch leader in Seputeh - gathered in front of the centre, protesting the proselytisation of Muslims
The report is jalan klang lama tuition centre tv3 report 5meant to portray that there are efforts to spread Christianity through the tuition classes, to the point that it has caused the surau members to protest, lamented Fariz Musa, Jingga 13's coordinator.
However, said Fariz, their checks suggest that no such surau exists in the area.From Jingga 13's investigations in the vicinity of the tuition centre in the Jalan Klang Lama squatter area, and from speaking with the locals there, we found that not a single surau exists in the area, said Fariz, who is also a PKR exco member.
The tuition centre is located in a squatter area populated mainly by Chinese and Indians, along with some ! foreign Indonesians.
It was pretty clear the qariah and the surau reported on TV3 does not exist, he said.
Surau name 'pokes fun'
Fariz also pointed out that the name of the reported surau itself is suspect, and appears to be aimed at poking fun.
The name of the surau 'Al-Musyrikin' that was reported looks like it was intentionally conjured up.
It is indeed impossible that someone would call their house of Allah with a name such as 'Al-Musyrikin' (non-believers).
It's pretty clear that TV3 cooked up the false news and at the same time poked fun at Muslim places of worship with that name Al-Musyrikin, said Fariz.
According to him, the residents in the squatter area concerned told him that the tuition centre has been there for years for the purpose of teaching Christianity to the children living in the area who are Christians.They comprise students who are Chinese, Indian and a small number of Christian Indonesians.
There are no Muslims who attend Christianity classes there, said Fariz.
The NGO lodged a police report today at Shah Alam police district headquarters against the TV station for maliciously spreading false news, that it said aimed at stoking religious and racial tensions, that at the same time had ridiculed Islam.
Meanwhile, the news report concerned has apparently been removed from TV3's website.(Check video below)
Berita 'murtad' TV3 palsu, kata NGO
source:malaysiakini
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Independence vital for panel on electoral reform
As expected, the Parliamentary Select Committee will try to sideline the importance of the Bersih 2.0 movement, even though the protest on July 9 was the single most powerful condemnation of the existing electoral process in our nations history.
By right, the Select Committee ought to appoint members of the Bersih 2.0 movement, or any of the 62 NGOs in its lineup, to be consultative members of the committee.
A Select Committee is a parliamentary device employed to solicit the views of the Rakyat in as inclusive a manner as possible. For Bersih 2.0 to be excluded is typical of the high-handed arrogance of the Barisan Nasional and its acolytes.
The governments adamant refusal to include Bersih 2.0 in instituting electoral reform is a telling sign of the Barisan Nasionals reluctance to take the Rakyats complaints of electoral cheating seriously.
As such, I do not have high hopes for the BN governments declared intention of cleaning up our polls.
In recent weeks, we have continued to receive damning evidence of electoral fraud from members of the armed forces. These ex-servicemen have outlined a wide range of abuses of the postal voting system, involving military personnel.
Postal vote fixing public knowledge
These snippets revealing voting irregularities involving our armed forces merely confirm what ordinary Malaysians have known to be public fact for a long time.
The secrecy of our military postal ballot has long been compromised. In practice, at each general election, a huge number of postal votes have been entrusted to a few individual personnel to mark them as they wish.
After more than half a century, and a dozen general elections, little has been done to protect the sanctity of the postal vote.
This betrays BNs underlying assumption that the countrys militar! y must b e loyal to the party in power, thereby contravening the principle that the confidentiality of postal votes is sacrosanct.
As long as this issue is not resolved, and the BN takes no action to defend the secrecy of postal votes by military personnel, the electoral system in Malaysia is never going to be free and fair, thereby reducing the entire process of postal voting to a laughing stock.
While the controversy surrounding the composition of the Select Committee goes on unabated, nothing has been promised regarding the protection of the independence of the postal votes by army personnel.
As far as I am concerned, as long as nothing is done to protect that secrecy, the electoral system in Malaysia is condemned to be compromised.
Postal votes will never be a secret in army camps. And the elected government of the day cannot be said to enjoy the free and full support of the Rakyat.
Necessity for electoral reform
There are some arguments about whether the clean-up of the polls can be completed by the Election Commission before the next general election.
Personally, I would like to see our Parliament take more time in instituting long-lasting reforms in our electoral system, especially in ensuring the validity and secrecy of postal votes. If that requires more time, then so be it. It is better to do a thorough job than a rushed one.
The Parliamentary Select Committee is a useful legislative instrument in pooling together the views of a multiparty parliament.
In Malaysia, such a bipartisan attempt at parliamentary reform has never been a grand success, though a credible attempt was made in the 1980s: the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Dangerous Drugs (Preventive Measures) Act 1985 made an effort to visit every state to gather the Rakyats views on the proposed legislation.
The development of a healthy parliamentary democracy does depend very much on how our politicians are able to work across party lines, to make sur! e that t he end result represents the collective will of the people.
In the past, the process of nonpartisan committees has never been a grand success. There is no reason to believe that statesman-like vision will prevail over partisan or sectarian vested interests this time.
Frankly, I think we will fail again at this attempt to forge a multi-party attempt at electoral reform. Parliamentary reform still remains, as ever, an elusive task in our country.
SIM KWANG YANG was member of parliament for Bandar Kuching, Sarawak from 1982 to 1995. He can be reached at sky8hornbill@gmail.com. All comments are welcome.

