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Lively Chinese New Year celebrations
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#MyJihad: This Video Will Renew Your Faith in Humanity
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Video Wajib tonton!! Buta-buta rakyat ditipu oleh Dato Seri Najib (video Kempen PRU13)
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Traffic congestion still persists on major highways
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Pembantu dedah Ronnie Liu taukeh maksiat
AIDCNews 08/02/13 Pegawai Khas kepada Exco Selangor Ronnie Liu mengumumkan perletakan jawatan hari ini laporAntarapos, tindakan itu dibuat kerana berikutan tidak tahan dengan sikap hipokrit dan penyalahgunaan kuasa oleh pemimpin DAP itu.
Jafrei Nordin berkata, tindakan berdiam diri Ronnie dan tidak menjawab pelbagai tuduhan rasuah serta penyalahgunaan kuasa menimbulkan
"Someone told me"
Jake Bugg, (only) 18. Someone told me is the line we're regularly using in the postings though this kid has incited it in to the melodic number. Kind of remind me of the young, acoustic Dylan although Bugg says Bob isn't the major influence upon his music.
Enjoy the vid, and the holidays. Soon enough, I will share with you what Someone (just) told me over breakfast ..
Politicing religion is deliberate action
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Khalids future cloudy as PKR mulls Selangor candidates list, sources say
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Rakyat Akan Kembali Berkuasa Di Perak ***Sumber Berita Dari: http://mediaperak.net/2013/02/10/rakyat-akan-kembali-berkuasa-di-perak/
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The Stripper
But we contingency admit, which underneath a circumstances,OldNyanyukdoes merit a pretension of "The Stripper".
Awhile ago, OldNyanyukalong with a Indian Muslim organization called Kimma made an appeal for BERSIH co-chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan to bestrippedof herdatukship.
Now, we personally don't consider much ofdatukships-- anymore than we do knightships or OBEs or MBEs (if you're British). They have been meant to be an honour, though if a body or chairman who bestowed it on we is not honourable, it equates to nothing during all.
However, citizenship is a utterly opposite thing altogether. No a single really has a right to frame anyone of their citizenship, certainly not an unelected supervision who unlawfully sits in office by carrying cheated as good as rigged elections for decades.
This line of meditative obviously does not lay good with OldNyanyuk, as he believes which electorate should give two-thirds majority to a BN supervision so which they can rectify a constitution to enable them tostripAmbiga of her citizenship.
BERSIH has come behind with a disappointingly diseased response, saying merely thatDr M contingency apologise to Ambiga, Bar Council.
But afterwards again, perhaps they have been a lot more professional than to indicate in turn which OldNyanyukbe nude of his citizenship for fraud in randomly giving out citizenships to foreigners in sell for votes to keep his celebra! tion in power.
I digress. Ambiga has finished a nation probity by trying to set true what is curved as good as corrupt.
Any chairman capable of judicious suspicion would see which in a democracy, job for giveaway as good as fair elections is a really noble as good as responsible gesture.
I am personally in favour of giveaway as good as fair elections, as good as am in sound mind to recognize which Malaysia does not have giveaway as good as fair elections hence a constant need to direct them generally by taking to a streets.
The last time we checked, BERSIH 3.0 at! tracted a crowd of 200,000 to a streets. This, in spite of meaningful which they could be arrested as good as charged underneath draconian laws.
Would OldNyanyukand a BN supervision similar to to frame those 200,000 people of their citizenship too?
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PR parti Semenanjung, UMNO berakar di Sabah
Teck Lee memberi alasan parti-parti yang ditubuhkan di Semenanjung perlu memberi laluan kepada parti seperti SAPP untuk menerajui kerajaan sekiranya menang dalam
Mayat Claudia tiba 9.40 malam tadi di KLIA
GONG XI FA CAI FROM HOUSE PK!
Selangor still waiting for Putrajayas reply on SYABAS, MB says
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Jafrie to tell truth behind resignation as special officer to Selangor exco member, says Zahid
IPOH, Feb 9 Jafrie Nordin will tell a truth behind his abdication as special military officer to a part of of a Selangor State Executive Council (Exco).
Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi pronounced Jafrie can clarify a make a difference upon a stage or any non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
He did not want Jafrie to make use of a Umno stage to explain a make a difference for fear of being accused by a opposition.
"The antithesis will surely credit Umno of shopping him over although he did not voluntarily. I hope most more expose such things so which a people can judge who is great as well as who is not good."
Newspapers repo! rted which Jafrie quiescent as special military officer to Chairman of Local Government, Study as well as Research Committee, Ronnie Liu, after losing faith in a Selangor DAP leader.
Jafrie, 41, claimed which Liu has extreme views upon Malay leaders in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) as well as PAS.
Meanwhile, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir pronounced a question of DAP leaders showing disregard to PKR as well as PAS leaders is not new.
"Karpal Singh does not respect PAS as well as alternative parties. The antithesis leaders are usually covering their weaknesses to uncover which they are upon great terms."
He pronounced a people can declare a inner predicament as one by one of their party members began leaving.
"The predicament does not exist usually in PAS as well as PKR though also in DAP.
In Perak, DAP leaders are fighting to become general choosing candidates," he added. Bernama Read More @ Source !
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Been there, done that
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Dr M must apologise to Ambiga, Bar Council
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BN leading Malaysia to destruction
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Catalan's TV3 Apologises For Real Madrid Hyena Video
MAKE SENSE? Hisham charges ex-ISA detainee for inciting people of SYRIA
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BR1M a picture is worth a thousand words
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Ahjib Gor's firecracking Gong Xi Fa Cai
Selamat Tahun Baru Cina
kepada
semua pembaca dan pengomen di blog ini.
Moga sukses selalu ..
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2013 (GONG XI FA CAI)
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APA NI? BAWANI KOMUNIS PUN TERIMA BR1M LE? BANGSATNYA MINAH NI...
Dulu 28, kini 124 pula ... Sabah Sarawak 25? Kah kah kah
Macam BN tak tambah kerusi dari pencapaian paling buruk di PRU12. Pendulum dah sampai masa untuk kembali balik.
Baca petikan dari AYT berikut:
PRU-13: PR Yakin dapat 124 kerusi Parlimen
Hampir 20,000 hadir menyaksikan debat antara Ezam dan Noh Omar.. Saksikan!!
Debat Rakyat anjuran Sekretariat Jom Tolak Pakatan Rakyat yang telah dilangsungkan pada 8hb Februari 2013, di Lapangan Letak Kereta Depan KFC, Taman Alam Megah, Seksyen 28, Shah Alam, Selangor dilaporkan telah mendapat sambutan yang luar biasa.
Debat syok sendiri antara dua pemimpin dari "Anwar Ibrahim" iaitu Penaung Waris Malaya Senator Ezam Md Nor dan juga Timbalan Pengerusi BN Selangor Datuk Seri Haji Noh garbage bin Omar telah menggunakan sebuah lori kecil sebagai pentas.
Menurut sumber debat ini lain dari yang lain kerana tiada pihak yang membangkang hujah yang dikemukakan oleh pihak lawan, hanya menyokong semata-mata..
Atau dalam lain ayat dalam debat ini tiada pembangkang hanya pencadang yang ada..
Kelainan yang ada itu telah berjaya menarik minat orang ramai untuk hadir hingga ianya dilihat mampu mengugat kuasa Kerajaan Negeri yang ada sekarang pada pilihanraya yang akan datang ini...
Saksikan!! puluhan ribu hadir menyaksikan debat syok sendiri itu...
Ramaikan yang hadir tu..
Baguslah dia orang dah belajar buat ceramah atas lori...
Sebab kalau kalah dalam PRU13 nanti senanglah nak buat ceramah..
Sumber info dariOmak Kau Read More @ Source
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Moderate earthquake in Malaysia can occur anytime
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Is it possible that the BN can really lose?
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Book Review: Engineers of Victory, by Paul Kennedy
February 9, 2013
War Machines
'Engineers of Victory,' by Paul Kennedy
By Michael Beschloss
Published: February 8, 2013
The historian Daniel Boorstin once complained to me about a Smithsonian Institution's decision in 1980 to delete a last two difference from a name of a Museum of History as good as Technology. Boorstin had a point.
Scholars of alternative fields do mostly tend to blink a change of technology. Although many of us know which World War II brought us radar, a novel of which titanic conflict is by no equates to free from this phenomenon. For instance, a memoirist Joseph P. Lash subtitled his 1976 wartime comment of Franklin Roosevelt as good as Winston Churchill "The Partnership That Saved a West," in reply to which we once heard a British academician carp, "If Lash is right, afterwards given did all those scientists as good as comprehension officers as good as factory workers bother operative so hard?"
With this uninformed as good as discursive brand new work, a Yale historian Paul Kennedy, many appropriate known for his at large debated "Rise as good as Fall of a Great Powers," published in 1987, calls courtesy to a way "small groups of people as good as institutions" surmounted clearly insuperable operational obstacles to enable Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill as good as Stalin ultimately to learn a laurels for an Allied triumph.
"Engineers of Victory" achieves a formidable charge of being a consistently strange book about a single of a many relentlessly carefully thought about episodes in tellurian history. Un! like man y studies of a war, this a single is not primarily about politics, generalship or terrain glories. References to a Big Three are few. Instead, similar to an engineer who pries open a slot watch to reveal a middle mechanics, Kennedy tells how little-known men as good as women at reduce levels helped win a war.
Kennedy concentrates especially upon a European drama as good as upon Allied progress during a duration from early 1943, when Hitler's Admiral Doenitz sank 108 Allied vessels in a single month, provoking fears which England would be carnivorous of essential bunker fuel, to a almost illusory summer of 1944, when British as good as American troops scrambled onto Festung Europa. By Kennedy's telling, a number of concurrent accomplishments spelled a difference in between victory and, if not defeat, then, at least, a struggle which competence have dragged upon past 1945, with countless additional casualties.
The first was ensuring which Allied convoys could cross a Atlantic though being sunk by Germans. As Kennedy acknowledges, this was a first fight in which sea power's success was motionless by air power, so part of a resolution was cranking out airplanes (especially long-range bombers). But critical too were innovations similar to a Hedgehog, a forward-firing ship-mounted mortar (devised by an idiosyncratic British section called "Wheezers as good as Dodgers"), as good as a Leigh Light, which exposed German U-boats which were surfacing at night to recharge batteries so which British bombers could do their deadly work. In contrariety with a cadre of renouned as good as erudite authors who given a 1970s have written, mostly breathlessly, about glamorous code breakers, Kennedy is skeptical of Bletchley Park's importance, given a comprehension operation known as Ultra "co! uld do u sually so much."
Command of a air over Germany was seized usually when American squadrons arrived to enlarge a Royal Air Force, invert a existing British doctrine of restricting attacks to night as good as direct pinpoint bombing of specifically identified German troops as good as industrial targets. The zenith of Allied fulfilment in a air, of course, was D-Day 1944, when a previously unimaginable 11,590 planes were sent aloft. "There had been nothing similar to it in world history,"
Kennedy writes, "nor has there been since. . . . There was no possibility for a completely diminished Luftwaffe to do anything solely remove some-more as good as some-more of a planes as good as pilots at your convenience they rose in to a air." Kennedy goes upon to report how a Allies stopped a inhuman blitzkrieg assaults of 1939 to 1942 by deploying "stronger, tougher as good as better-equipped forces (with panzers, bazookas, mines, better tactical aircraft)" in unison with a western bearing of a Soviet Army, aided by their T-34-85, which Kennedy calls a "most all-round conflict tank" of a war.
Victory in Europe prior to a summer of 1945 also required a Allies to make reckless swell in perfecting a art of amphibious warfare. After World War I, Kennedy notes, with "a really bad degraded as good as much-reduced Germany, in a really bad damaged as good as perceptibly victorious France as good as Italy, as good as in an infant Soviet Union, there were many thoughts of war, though none of them concerned a projection of force opposite a oceans." The humiliating debacle of a one-day Allied hearing effort in August 1942 to breach a Atlantic Wall with a raid opposite a medium German castle at Dieppe, ! France, supposing crucial lessons which led directly to a world-important success upon D-Day two years later.
Kennedy shows how wise a Allies were to curb themselves from invading France until their commanders as good as troops had gained some-more experience in amphibious landings as good as until control of a Atlantic had been secured. He insists which D-Day could have been a subjection though for a fact which by mid-1944, British, American as good as Canadian warriors from a tip down had remade their classification in to a smoothly functioning apparatus, refined their equates to of gathering comprehension as good as designed a now-famous "bodyguard of lies" which misled a Nazis about when as good as how a Allies would invade Europe.
Succinctly covering a Pacific theater, Kennedy illuminates some of the main tools which enabled United States forces to make their delayed swell opposite a ocean in order to bomb Japan brand new quick conduit groups, brand new fighters similar to a F6F as good as bombers similar to a B-29, as good as a American submarine use as good as a 325,000 enlisted members of a Navy's construction battalions, a "Seabees," which by a finish of a fight had erected $ 10 billion worth of troops infrastructure around a world.
While Kennedy rightly elevates a significance of record as good as those much-too-unheralded bands of Allied innovators, upon a grander scale he fully appreciates which "the winning of good wars regularly requires higher organization," which "will concede outsiders to feed uninformed ideas in to a office of victory."
An part really bad missing from a centralized systems of imperial Japan as good as Nazi Germany was a willingness, demonstrated again as good as again by tip Anglo-American troops as good as political leaders, to share ene! rgy with those of some-more medium rank who had greater imagination in rebellious a particular problem as good as who were closer to a action. Kennedy notes which even a dictatorial Stalin "began to relax his iron learn once he understood which he had a team of first-class generals operative for him."
Although spasmodic loquacious as good as repetitive, Kennedy's volume is an critical grant to a understanding of World War II, as good as it sets a high standard for historians essay about alternative conflicts by reminding us to keep a close eye upon technology. The curious reader may good finish this book as good as wish which scholars would pay some-more courtesy to how much American setbacks in lesser wars similar to Korea as good as Vietnam competence have been influenced by gaps in a technological mastery.
Michael Beschloss, a author, many recently, of "Presidential Courage," is essay a story of American presidential leadership in wartime.
A chronicle of this review appeared in print upon February 10, 2013, upon page BR15 of a Sunday Book Review with a headline: War Machines.
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Book Review: Engineers of Victory, by Paul Kennedy
February 9, 2013
War Machines
'Engineers of Victory,' by Paul Kennedy
By Michael Beschloss
Published: Feb 8, 2013
The historian Daniel Boorstin once complained to me about the Smithsonian Institution's decision in 1980 to undo the last two words from the name of the Museum of History as good as Technology. Boorstin had the point.
Scholars of alternative fields do often tend to underestimate the change of technology. Although many of us know which World War II brought us radar, the literature of which titanic dispute is by no equates to free from this phenomenon. For instance, the biographer Joseph P. Lash subtitled his 1976 wartime account of Franklin Roosevelt as good as Winston Churchill "The Partnership That Saved the West," in reply to which we once heard the British academician carp, "If Lash is right, afterwards why did all those scientists as good as intelligence officers as good as bureau workers worry operative so hard?"
With this uninformed as good as discursive brand brand new work, the Yale historian Paul Kennedy, many appropriate known for his during large debated "Rise as good as Fall of the Great Powers," published in 1987, calls courtesy to the approach "small groups of people as good as institutions" surmounted clearly indomitable operational obstacles to enable Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill as good as Stalin ultimately to grasp the laurels for an Allied triumph.
"Engineers of Victory" achieves the difficult charge of being the consistently original book about the single o! f the ma ny in cold blood examined episodes in tellurian history. Unlike many studies of the war, this the single is not primarily about politics, generalship or battlefield glories. References to the Big Three have been few. Instead, similar to an operative who pries open the pocket watch to reveal the middle mechanics, Kennedy tells how little-known group as good as women during lower levels helped win the war.
Kennedy concentrates mainly upon the European drama as good as upon Allied progress during the period from early 1943, when Hitler's Admiral Doenitz sank 108 Allied vessels in the single month, provoking fears which England would be starved of essential fort fuel, to the almost illusory summer of 1944, when British as good as American troops scrambled onto Festung Europa. By Kennedy's telling, the series of point accomplishments spelled the disproportion in between feat and, if not defeat, then, during least, the struggle which competence have dragged upon past 1945, with large one some-more casualties.
The first was ensuring which Allied convoys could cranky the Atlantic without being sunk by Germans. As Kennedy acknowledges, this was the first fight in which sea power's success was decided by air power, so part of the resolution was cranking out airplanes (especially long-range bombers). But vital too were innovations similar to the Hedgehog, the forward-firing ship-mounted mortar (devised by an sold British unit called "Wheezers as good as Dodgers"), as good as the Leigh Light, which exposed German U-boats which were surfacing during night to recharge batteries so which British bombers could do their lethal work. In contrast with the cadre of renouned as good as scholarly authors who given the 1970s have written, often breathlessly, about glamorous code breakers, Kenn! edy is d oubtful of Bletchley Park's importance, because the intelligence operation known as Ultra "could do only so much."
Command of the air over Germany was seized only when American squadrons arrived to augment the Royal Air Force, upend the existing British doctrine of restricting attacks to night as good as demand pinpoint bombing of specifically identified German troops as good as industrial targets. The zenith of Allied accomplishment in the air, of course, was D-Day 1944, when the formerly unimaginable 11,590 planes were sent aloft. "There had been nothing similar to it in world history,"
Kennedy writes, "nor has there been since. . . . There was no possibility for the completely diminished Luftwaffe to do anything solely remove some-more as good as some-more of the planes as good as pilots whenever they rose in to the air." Kennedy goes upon to describe how the Allies stopped the ferocious blitzkrieg assaults of 1939 to 1942 by deploying "stronger, tougher as good as better-equipped forces (with panzers, bazookas, mines, improved tactical aircraft)" in concert with the horse opera bearing of the Soviet Army, aided by their T-34-85, which Kennedy calls the "most all-round conflict tank" of the war.
Victory in Europe prior to the summer of 1945 additionally required the Allies to make hasty swell in perfecting the art of amphibious warfare. After World War I, Kennedy notes, with "a really bad degraded as good as much-reduced Germany, in the really bad damaged as good as scarcely winning France as good as Italy, as good as in an infant Soviet Union, there were many thoughts of war, though none of them involved the projection of force opposite the oceans." The humiliating debac! le of th e one-day Allied hearing effort in August 1942 to crack the Atlantic Wall with the raid opposite the medium German garrison during Dieppe, France, provided consequential lessons which led directly to the world-important success upon D-Day two years later.
Kennedy shows how wise the Allies were to restrain themselves from invading France until their commanders as good as troops had gained some-more experience in amphibious landings as good as until control of the Atlantic had been secured. He insists which D-Day could have been the rout though for the actuality which by mid-1944, British, American as good as Canadian warriors from the tip down had remade their classification in to the smoothly functioning apparatus, polished their equates to of entertainment intelligence as good as designed the now-famous "bodyguard of lies" which misled the Nazis about when as good as how the Allies would wage fight Europe.
Succinctly covering the Pacific theater, Kennedy illuminates some of the main collection which enabled United States forces to make their delayed swell opposite the sea in order to explosve Japan brand brand new fast conduit groups, brand brand new fighters similar to the F6F as good as bombers similar to the B-29, as good as the American submarine service as good as the 325,000 enlisted members of the Navy's building the whole battalions, the "Seabees," which by the finish of the fight had erected $ 10 billion value of troops infrastructure around the world.
While Kennedy rightly elevates the significance of record as good as those much-too-unheralded bands of Allied innovators, upon the grander scale he fully appreciates which "the winning of good wars always requires superior organization," which "will allow outsiders to feed uninfo! rmed ide as in to the office of victory."
An part really bad blank from the centralized systems of majestic Japan as good as Nazi Germany was the willingness, demonstrated again as good as again by tip Anglo-American troops as good as political leaders, to share energy with those of some-more medium arrange who had greater expertise in tackling the sold problem as good as who were closer to the action. Kennedy records which even the dictatorial Stalin "began to relax his iron grasp once he accepted which he had the group of first-class generals operative for him."
Although spasmodic loquacious as good as repetitive, Kennedy's volume is an important contribution to the bargain of World War II, as good as it sets the tall customary for historians writing about alternative conflicts by reminding us to keep the tighten eye upon technology. The curious reader might good finish this book as good as instruct which scholars would compensate some-more courtesy to how much American setbacks in obtuse wars similar to Korea as good as Vietnam competence have been influenced by gaps in the technological mastery.
Michael Beschloss, the author, many recently, of "Presidential Courage," is writing the history of American presidential care in wartime.
A chronicle of this examination appeared in print upon Feb 10, 2013, upon page BR15 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: War Machines.
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