I think today hope was restored in many around the world when Barack was elected. Not simply because he was black, although if you read his acceptance speech the significance of a black man ascending to the White House did not escape him:
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for [...]
Somehow you elected Dubya into the White house not once but twice. Now people like Barack Obama don’t come around every decade, so do the right thing this time… please?
John McCain is just more of the same, more of the same – your run of the mill politician. But the real reason he’s going to [...]
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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.”This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.”, said the entry at Boing Boing. Well it’s only two days into it, but I’ve a pretty good feeling it will be.It’s basically a goofy dance done by Matt, “a 31-year-old [...]
This week’s TIME had a piece on Norway’s Government Pension Fund-Global, Norway’s sovereign trust fund. Profits from their oil and gas resources are channeled into it and invested.
Highlights:
- Assets of USD 382 billion.
- Owns 1% of the entire European stock market
- Scored 100% in governance, accountability, and transparency in a study by the Peterson Institute. [...]
Robert Mugabe, the tyrant of Zimbabwe (and good friend of Dr. M), on his impending election loss:
“We fought for this country, and a lot of blood was shed,” Mr Mugabe told his supporters. “We are not going to give up our country because of a mere X. How can a ballpoint fight with a gun?” [...]
We are certainly lucky to be Malaysian.
And no, it’s because we are so muhibbah, or because we are an independent nation, or even because we have oil. It’s because natural disasters are rare here. In the floods of Dec 2006 for example, “only” six people died. Not that I am belittling anyone else’s suffering, but [...]
Last week’s TIME had an article about the diary of Rutka Laskier, a Polish Jew whose diary had been found and kept by a friend for 60 years. It outlines four months in 1943, before Rutka and her family were sent to Auschwitz and killed.
If you’ve read the diary of Anne Frank, you’ll find haunting [...]
Any other politician would have taken the easy way out. Denounce all ties, slam the media, find some other way to put the opponent down. Maybe redefine the meaning of the word is.
That was what I thought Obama would do when a series of video snippets surfaced on Youtube of his pastor of 20 [...]
For some reason, whenever Malaysia makes international headlines, it’s hardly for flattering reasons – last I checked, the first post on Google News under “Malaysia” is Beyonce cancelling her concert here because she’s too sexy for us.
In contrast, New Zealand recently turned heads for using wikis to gain feedback on the drafting of their new [...]
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