G8’s fat hypocrits club
July 9th, 2008 by MM2H
How fat can a hypocrite get? Very fat!
It’s getting more and more easy these days to become a politician. All you have to do is:
- Say THIS and
- Do THAT
THIS
The G8 politicians spend the whole day discussing how to combat food poverty.
THAT
The G8 politicians indulge like pigs into a sumptuous eight-course dinner including:
- corn stuffed with caviar
- kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef shabu-shabu
- exotic sounding water shield and pick conger
- a selection of fine wines and champagne.
Whether our dearest British Mr. Brown finished everything on his plate, after earlier urging British families to cut down on their food waste, remains unknown.
Green house effect
If you have a greenhouse, it only takes little maintenance to keep it up and enjoy the heat it produces each and every time the sun shines.
The same greenhouse we have made around the world already. Even if you stop all emissions of carbon-dioxide, the greenhouse will keep on warming up the earth.
So cutting down 50% in 42 years is as much as a joke as stuffing your big belly and saying that the world has a problem with food: how can we solve that?
Agriculture and profit is to blame
If you know that the European Commission started as an agricultural entity, you know that lobbying against anything agriculture is more difficult than finding Osama Bin Laden.
Why people don’t have enough food is because:
- people don’t have a little piece of land to grow organic crop
- organic sustainable agriculture is changed into money and petrol intensive mono-cultures
- gosh, nobody cares if all those pesticides will give you liver cancer: that way the medical world can earn a few billion bucks as well
Simply put:
It’s easy to make way too much profit
when you don’t care what you leave behind.
Like it’s easy to burn down a rainforest with 1001 abundances to grow 1 stupid corn crop and the next year you need tons and tons of fertilizers as nothing is left anymore…
Amazingly: there was a rainforest with 1001 abundances able to sustain itself for more than 1001 years…
It would be an honour if Malaysia could lead the way and show the example. As we do have a prime minister that’s overly interested in agriculture. The task is simple:
- produce quality food the ways our ancestors have done
- reduce diseases due to eating only healthy food
- reduce environmental problems by using organic agriculture
This will lead to:
- less money spend on production
- less money spend on health care
- less money spend on cleaning up the environment
- more healthy people working harder
- a more beautiful environment attracting more tourists
I would be honoured if I could participate in any huge scale organic agricultural project making both each family as each society able to produce enough healthy food for ages to come.
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Why are the Twin Towers still standing?
July 9th, 2008 by MM2H
You most likely have been following the news hour by hour these days about what’s happening between the mud fight concerning Anwar Ibrahim and DPM Najib.
Maybe they didn’t feel like fighting but like Kung Fu Panda says: "there are no accidents"… Now let’s not guide our decisions by a Panda…
Not only is this mud fight dirty, it’s wasting our valuable free time. We all are living in an economical crisis where wasting time is becoming a luxury. So do we really want to fill it with the game of "who is going to be the leader of Malaysia"?
Do we forget there is already a leader in place chosen by the democratic rules? And if we forget, why is our memory suddenly so bad?
What is the most important thing in life?
It would be ideal to have a leader of a country saying his country is the most important thing in his life. These are people like Nelson Mandela who are ready to sacrifice all in order to gain something bigger or loose everything.
It is more human like you and me to say things like: "the most important are my children". This is exactly what P Balasubramaniam said after his first statutory declaration on July 1 and his second changed statutory declaration yesterday.
It shows that P Balasubramaniam is taking care of his children. He should be an example to all people responsible for the future of the children in Malaysia.
What does this have to do with the Twin Towers?
You know that the tallest twin towers are built in a swamp? Why they had to be built in a swamp is debatable, but with the right vision, measurements, people and money they managed to built these 2 gigantic towers on a muddy, swampy base. Congratulations to everyone involved!
So why can’t we built Malaysia like we built the twin towers? What are the basic problems?
Independence comes with a price
Although people are happy when they finally get rid of their colonizers, these colonizers still make sure that their profits are still looked after. Why you have a Sadam Hussein in power in a country where his "tribe’ is in the minority? Thanks to the colonizers who put him there, the same colonizers that claim democracy is important.
Colonizers are also good in drawing borders where they are doomed for conflicts. I mean, why are there Malaysian-like people living on the south borders of Thailand? Just have a look at the map of Africa and you will see lines drawn only to divide 1 tribe in more than 1 country. A recipe for instability.
The World Bank is not there to help nations. It’s there to colonize nations. Borrow money from an AhLong and you know you are in trouble. AhLong makes the rules, just like the World Bank makes the rules. Your choice is: not to have any money or take money and be at the mercy of whomever gave you the money.
Who knows best
Being an expat I have no clear view on what happened here in the past. I came here because people speak English, politics were stable, the country was prosperous and if a taxi driver wanted to charge me $10 for a 1 minute ride to KLCC, I couldn’t be bothered.
Things are different now: my bag of rice costs twice as much as 6 months ago, and that’s not because I am an expat, it’s the same price for everyone.
So what is it that causes prices to double in 6 months?
Chedet draws a part of the picture: how money comes into Malaysia but not quite where Malaysia spends money. Who can draw the complete picture? Like Abdullah says: criticizing is one thing, how to give constructive feedback?
Is it that Malaysians never learned how to queue?
Go to neighbour Singapore, and you will notice queues which you don’t find in Singapore’s ancestor: Malaysia.
Is this jumping the queue the reason why:
- in 1998 Anwar who was DPM and ready to become PM never made it?
- a few days after the last elections people want to know who will succeed Abdullah, when he is still PM by a majority of votes?
- Anwar cannot wait until the next round of elections?
The problem with democracy is that it is a very, very slow process. If you have the same person in power for 22 years, you can go in his direction, whether you like it or not.
But when there is a new person in power and everybody is shouting which direction he has to steer and who should take over the wheel…
So let’s all do what made the twin towers still standing:
- get the best architects to draw a plan
- agree on a plan
- execute the plan until the towers are standing
The important word here is:
PLAN
The problem with democracy is that the timeframe of a decent plan for a nation is much longer than the timeframe of 1 leader’s term. Something the Americans suffer hard from and Italy with statistically 1 new government a year suffers even more from…
You can only have a 20/20 vision when the leader of that plan keeps in power until the plan is executed. Or making sure that the next leader keeps on executing the plan “according to plan”…
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Did you see Balasubramaniam today?
July 7th, 2008 by MM2H
Balasubramaniam was so brave?, crazy?, honest?, stupid?, …?, to make a statement against a prominent politician seemingly helping another prominent politician. All happy faces.
Next day Balasubramaniam retracts his statement: no more happy faces and a new lawyer…
Next day Balasubramaniam and his family are gone
missing…
It is sad that for the fame he enjoyed on the first day, he now needs to go hiding for the rest of his life. This is said being optimistic that he has gone into hiding with the help of a prominent politician.
We hope he is not on the run for the rest of his life in fear of repercussions of another prominent politician.
And we hope even more that all is well with him: one little person in a huge political game going out of hands further each and every day…
Prominent Politicians
I don’t even bother to name which prominent politicians are trying to get the power into their favour. We have seen the race between Obama and Clinton: politics it’s not about a plan for the people, nor a party, politics is first and foremost all focused on 1 person…
Why don’t we name politicians anymore?
Because it’s no more fun when people’s life are at stake in the name of a country’s politics: be it in Malaysia, be it Aung San Suu Kui in Cambodia, be it in Zimbabwe, be it anywhere in the world…
This earth has enough to offer for all of us if we could just find people willing to manage it wisely for all of us in stead managing it for a minority.
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