BERSIH 2.0 Live Updates & LIVE Photos from Kuala Lumpur
As you know, Kuala Lumpur is now in a Lock-Down and not many people are allowed into the City Center in anticipation of the BERSIH 2.0 Rally towards Stadium Merdeka as well as UMNO Youth’s own PATRIOT March at Bukit Bintang. Here’s some of the Live photos from the ground as well as a Live Update from LoyarBuruk of what’s happening around the city.
And here’s photos from the ground where it’s all happening. The photos will be updated whenever I get new images coming in so do come back for more or for those of you that’s keeping track via the Live-Update here, just refresh every now and then for new images. The latest images are at the top. (more…)
CIA’s WTF for WikiLeaks damage
As reported by The AFP and picked up by all the national newspapers across the world, a CIA task force – known by the suitable acronym WTF was formed to to assess damage done by WikiLeaks’ mass release of classified US documents, an official said on Wednesday.
The WikiLeaks Task Force will ‘examine whether the latest release of WikiLeaks documents might affect the agency’s foreign relationships or operations,’ CIA spokesman George Little said. Few of the thousands of confidential documents leaked by WikiLeaks were from the CIA, but many were secret communications by high ranking diplomats discussing sensitive questions of world and US affairs.
The task force, headed by the CIA’s Counterintelligence Center, is to make an inventory of the leaked cables and will report on the impact of the leaks, particularly regarding the ability to recruit of informants, a source who asked not to be named said. Some of the leaked documents originated on the protected SIPRNET, or Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, which is used to share classified information between different government branches.
Pudu Prison – A Heritage We Won’t Have
The amazing thing how news travel through the internet when the Government announce that the Wall of the Pudu Prison (more fondly known among the locals as the Pudu Jail) will be torn down, and this activity will be followed by the complete destruction of the Prison to make way for residential and commercial buildings has created a ‘feeding frenzy’ of sort as everyone suddenly realized that they have an iconic structure (even though it’s historical for the wrong reason) that they suddenly want to keep.
Well, sad to say, even though Although the Pudu Prison is more than 100 years old, it would not be turned into a heritage site, so say our Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussin. “The government’s view is that the Pudu Prison is not something to be proud of and it is not suitable to be turned into a heritage site despite its age,” he said “the government would proceed with the development that had been decided on.” But my dear Datuk, shouldn’t the status of the heritage site be decided by the proper authority like the UNESCO instead of a bunch of old people sitting in an air-conditioned office seeing which company would offer them more money for this prime piece of land? (more…)
Exclusive Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Footage
Check out this exclusive Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen footage from Michael Bay. Sam Witwicky and Mikaela is all grown up and heading off to college and maybe more? Do the new ‘bots catch your eye or was one Transformers enough for you?
New Malaysian PM names New Cabinet Members
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Malaysia’s new Prime Minister announced his new 28-member Cabinet with 25 ministries that saw eight ministers dropped and seven new faces appointed at 3pm today.
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who won the Umno deputy presidency in last month’s party elections, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister. Najib, who took his oath of office as the new prime minister on April 3, also retained the finance portfolio which he has held since Sept 19 last year following the portfolio swap between him and former premier Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at that time.
Najib said that the new members of the administration were highly spirited and ready to serve. “I am confident that all of them share the same commitment to spur the nation towards excellence. This is our lineup and our team which reflects Malaysia’s plural society,“ he said when announcing the list at the Prime Minister’s Department, carried live on national television.
The new Cabinet also a reflection of the slogan “One Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” adopted by Najib’s administration. The eight dropped are Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar (Home), Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said (Tourism), Senator Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib (Rural and Regional Development), Senator Datuk Amirsham A. Aziz (Prime Minister’s Department), Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan (Housing and Local Government), Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed (Works), Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique (Federal Territories) and Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad (Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs) who had resigned. (more…)