So much of Stimulus...

Nowadays, nobody can deny the fact that the whole world is having economy recession.

How it was getting started? I guess everybody knew it already. Sub-prime mortgage, non-performing loans, then the banks started not to trust each other, then the money got stagnant, consumers lost confidence to consume crazily as ever... Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citigroup, GM motors, bla bla bla...

It's all started in America. And then, they started to save the economy, by providing huge amount of stimulus, bail-out and so on. Stimulation of the market, so they said.

The question is: Will stimulus solve the problems?

The governments around the world now following the bandwagon, keeping pumping money into the market, to 'boost the spending', and so stimulate the market, and so the economy.

First they started with millions, then now trillions.

The problem is: Do the people (I mean, normal people like you and me) able to even taste the stimulus? And if not, then where is all the money gone?

From personal point of view, I think, stimulus doesn't work.

It will make the economy temporarily high (that's what all of us chasing for, maybe). The share market will go up everytime the governments announcing new stimulus. But it's all just symptomatic treatment.

It's like patient complaining of pain, then the doctor doesn't care about how the pain get started, and prescribe only pain-killers, then ask the patient go home. Well, it will solve the problem for a while. The pain will immediately resolve, because of the effect of pain-killers. But the pain-killing effect has its period. After a while, the pain-killing effect will wear off, then the patient will have to take another dose of pain-killers. Even so, it's still alright, cause maybe the doctor already gave the patient many pills, and so, can help resolve the pain for quite some time. However, one day, the patient will run out of pain-killers. And the pain starts all over again. And the patient shouting for help, again. And so, the patient go to the doctor, and the doctor, still, ignore the cause of the pain, and prescribe more pain killers. One day, the pain-killers no longer working. And the doctor prescribe higher dose of pain killers, or different types of stronger pain-killer. Throughout the sessions the patient seeing the doctor, the patient was getting so-called treatment, and happy with it. But, in the end, as the problem being delayed for too long, the root problem cannot be solved anymore. Maybe, the patient is having cancer. If the doctor was willing to check carefully, and pay more attention, he might have solve the problem since the beginning, and would have avoid the pain-killer nonsense. But, because of the ignorance, and so much of symptomatic 'treatments', it's all too late. The patient finally collapse, and this time, really, nothing can be done anymore.

The stimulus, is actually like the pain-killer. It's not solving the problems, it's just symptomati treatment. The longer period of stimulus being given, the longer period the problems are delayed to be solved. One day, all the problems will be snowballing, getting much bigger than we can solve. Then, I really cannot imagine how it's going to be.

Most of the stimulus just doesn't make sense to me. The economy recession is mainly caused by non-performing loans, but the stimulus plan is encouraging all the banks to give out more loans to the public. In short term, yes, the economy will get stimulated, everyone will start to spend more. But such type of spending, is dangerous.

One day, the government will running out of money, to provide another dose of stimulus. Then, the economy will surely gone down again. And so, the consumers' confidence level will gone down again. When it happens, surely, the production industry will cut off their production, resulting in more job cuts. Then, this time, because of the previous stimulus, the banks were giving out massive loans to the public. Now, part of the public started to having trouble paying off the loans, because of the job cuts and so on. The non-performing loans are being accumulated again. Till one day, some banks cannot handle the non-performing loans anymore, and get bankrupted. Then the domino effect starts. When it's serious enough, it may cause a country to bankrupt as well. Because during the second round of banking finance collapsing, the government might not have any more money to bail them out anymore.

If that really happens, it will be no longer banks don't trust each other anymore. It will be developed to countries don't trust each other anymore. If it's really happened, I don't want to imagine. Maybe, it will never happen. I pray that it will not.

Hmmm, so much of stimulus......

Freedom of Speech is Detained

Well, today is the day that Raja Petra being detained under ISA.

Today is also the day freedom of speech being detained, in Malaysia.

So, this blog, will be stopped, until further notice.

After all, what's the point of blogging if I can't say what's in my mind here?

John F. Kennedy once said:

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

When will our country can achieve such standard? God knows...

Chinese, Don't Take the BAIT!!!

-Some said this post contained SENSITIVE ISSUES-

-So, I decided to just DELETE it-

And well... just, Don't Take the BAIT!

Don't give UMNO another 513, as 916 is enough.

We still Talking about Racism

I don't know much about history. Well, it's not because I didn't study about it, it's just... I forgotten most part of it already. Nevermind, you can say I'm not patriotic enough, but, do you still remember much about history? However, the only thing that I can clearly remember is, Malaysians are constantly talking about racism.

Our beloved Hollywood-quality politicians are just can't get enough of racism. It's a cheap issue, you don't need a think tank to raise it. You don't need to be 'heavily' educated to talk about it. The only thing you need, is your mouth, and a mindless brain, and perhaps a 'keris'. Just a few words, or statements, you can already heat up the blood of the people, and raging over the issue. The television, radio, newspapers, internet and whatever media you can think of, will help you to promote the issue. ROAR!!!

Seems like everyone is enjoying racism issue. 'You tak suka, you keluar dari Malaysia!'

Thanks to these politicians, now we are all racist, and we are actually enjoy being a racist, believe it or not.

We all are racist, therefore we don't have the same dream, to make Malaysia a better place.

We all are racist, therefore we don't fight for development of Malaysia, we fight for our own race only.

We all are racist, therefore we are still ruled by race-based party.

We all are racist, therefore we are constantly blaming each other for everything.

We all are racist, therefore we still talking about racism.

It has Nothing to do with You, Right?

What is 916 meant to you? Or should I ask, what is all the politic in Malaysia meant to you?

I'm sure, many people will say: I don't care about politic, it has nothing to do with me. So, why do I have to make a fuss out of it?

Yea, when the Hindraf was happening, it has nothing to do with you, right? As you are living comfortably, it's the poor Indians' problem, not yours, so why care, or even making noise about it?

Yea, when the Bersih was happening, it has nothing to do with you also, right? It's about election, it's the opposition politicians' problem, not yours, so why care, or even making noise about it?

Yea, the UMNO member called the chinese as 'squatters', it has nothing to do with you also, right? It's just a word from him, the PM already said the UMNO guy didn't mean it, and DPM already apologized about it, so why care, or even making noise about it?

Yea, Malaysia Today being blocked by local internet service providers, it has nothing to do with you, right? It's Raja Petra's problem, you just view it once in a while, so why care, or eve nmaking noise about it?

Yea, there are many more things are happening, and obviously, they have nothing to do with you, too. As you are living comfortably, these political things, have nothing to do with you.

That is just, your right hasn't been violated, YET.

It reminded me of a poem written by Pastor Martin Niemoller, titled: 'First they came...'

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Yea, now everything seems unrelated to you. You are living your life happily, nothing is bothering you.

Group by group of people in the country being marginalized, and it does not bother you, so you remain silent.

One day (may that day never come), when they come for you, take everything from you, who will fight for you?

51

So it's 31st of August again, for the 51st time. But, honestly, how many people in this country now, are really exciting about it?

Some people even suggested to put up our flag upside-down, to show the disappointment towards the government. But hey, it's not the country being wrong. It's the government! If you really want to protest, well, you should put up Barisan Nasional's flag upside down, instead of Jalur Gemilang. Do not confuse the country and the government, although the government at times confuse by themselves, as they think the country is theirs.

Malaysia itself, is a kind and gentle country. The land has abundant of richness, under the land also has abundant of richness (sorry for my poor vocabulary). The people living here are peaceful (might not be very competitive, but really peaceful). Everything is fine.

Even when the country achieving independent, all the people here still very much at peace with each other, regardless of what race, or religion you are. Yesterday, I was watching mandarin news on NTV7. An old man said: When the country first formed, Malays, Chinese and Indians are all living in harmony. Well, well, well, ever since the day I know what's going on around me, I hardly sense the harmony mentioned by him. I guess, that was only his generation, when the first generation of truly patriotic people, helping the country to achieve the state of independent.

Now, it's the second, towards third generation of ruling, by the same party, on this country. Majority of the leaders are the 'rich kids' of the first generation people, having education abroad, amused by the material world in the western countries. I do not know how they are brought up, but I'm sure they are a group of people who can never appreciate the feeling of being a 'rakyat'. Running the country, for them, pretty much, are like running the 'family business'. Since they never really been through the hardship on 'setting up the family business', they will never really appreciate the soul and the fundamental principle of the 'family business'. For them, profit is the main priority. Well, if the profit is for the 'rakyat' of the country, it's OK. The problem, the profit, is only to benefit the 'rich kids' who run the 'family business'. That will be a serious problem. And very often we see the trend of 'family business', 'family business' cannot last for 3 generations. After 2nd or 3rd generation, many 'family business' will end up bankrupt. This is another trend that we are afraid of.

Now we talk about the harmony of the country. The current government, pretty much using the 'segregation ruling' on the rakyat. The 'segregation' method is simple, like the USA way: You are either with us, or against us. Means: If you are not with BN, you will be marginised. We often mistaken that the government pro-bumiputra, marginised other races. The fact is, the non-BN people are marginised, and it's so happened that non-BN people, are often non-bumuputra. Therefore, more and more misunderstanding are formed. Racism begin to rise, deeper and deeper.

Without racial harmony, the development of the country also being paralysed. When all politicians talk nothing but racial issues all the time, there's simply no space left for the discussion on developing the country, economically. The country, is basically rotting, in the name of racism.

Plus, the freedom of speech is no longer existing in this country. Internet censorship is the first step of canceling the freedom of speech. What next?

So, after 51 years, what is the condition of the country now? Getting better each year? Or just regressing?

What is there for us to celebrate, this year?

I respond to 'Yeh, yeh, kita menang!'

Obama said: Yes, we can!

Raja Petra now say: Yeh, yeh, kita menang!

What are they about actually?

Simple: Change!

Now, many Malaysians want a simple thing, that is 'Change'. And obviously, some parties, still resisted to change. Still as majestic as ever.

Why Raja Petra declared victory? Cause when the government decided to ask all Malaysian ISPs to block Malaysia Today. The government has finally admitted it has lost the internet war. The funny thing is: the government want to start internet censorship, but they incapable of implementing it. Why? Because they have no idea what really internet is. Look at China, if you want to have internet censorship, you just going to be as tough as them. But, the problem is, the government is too corrupted to be tough. Censorship like this, will only be a joke to other countries in the world.

Well, I might be wrong. This may be only the start of the internet censorship. Now that Malaysia Today's 'father website' is dead, as declared by Raja Petra, the 'son website' is rising! And I believe, there will be more 'sons' to come. One day, the government will 'consult' countries like China, Singapore, or even 'Myammar' about internet censorship (I'm serious about Myammar, they have 'higher tech' people than in Malaysia). Why so desperate? Because, the government just can't afford to lose the internet war. If they cannot win it, so they 'burn it down'. Easy.

And maybe one day, when the government has lost, they will use army power, to clear off the People Coalition, like clearing off communists.

The internet censorship, is just a start of all these tendency toward Anarchy, and military intervention, and so on.

However, the people has won the internet war, is undoubtable. Especially, it happened, on the day of Anwar’s historic win in Permatang Pauh. The government has realised that they can't let this going on. So, internet censorship, is just a sign of surrender. And people can expect more violence to come.

Speaking of Permatang Pauh by-election. What we hear from the government, was nothing more than 'Sodomy Sodomy Sodomy'. And also all these 'swearing' nonsense. Another joke for the world to laugh at. What they don't know, is the people now more concern about ECONOMY.

Wellm they may able to shut down the website, but they will never able to shut off the eyes of the people. The people's eyes already open, and there will be no turning back. These actions that the government are doing, will only piss the people off, not constructive at all, to gain back the trust of the people.

Or perhaps, they don't need the trust of the people anymore, as they are already gods, and we, rakyat, are their slaves, to provide them with money. They are so godly that they can even state that some rakyat in this country are SQUATTERS. Mind you, 'squatters' in this country have contributed to the country a lot, and this is what the 'squatters' deserved? A disgusted view by the gods?

Do we need gods like these in our country?

Or, we need 'Change'?