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Jumaat, 30 September 2011

CANNONS OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO

CANNONS OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO

Don Davie

The invention of gunpowder, a mixture of sulphur, charcoal and saltpetre commonly known today as black powder, has been ascribed variously to the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Greeks, Germans and English and remains the subject of debate. Black powder was possibly used in rockets in the 10th century and ‘fire arrows’ containing black powder and propelled like rockets were in military use in China by AD 1000. In cannons, black powder was used as a propellant from the early-14th century and the Chinese were among the earliest exponents of the science of gunnery. The fleet of a Ming Admiral and Grand Eunuch, Zheng He, is said to have collected sulphur from a volcano on Java for use in medicines, alchemy and the manufacture of black powder in the early years of the 15th century. In venturing onto the oceans of the world at the time of the third Ming emperor, Zhu Di (r.1403-1424), Chinese mariners and traders sailed in enormous junks armed with cannons and far exceeding in size contemporary vessels of the West. Passage to Southeast Asia, Africa, Southwest Asia and South Asia was made through the waters of the South China Sea and it is likely that the Chinese would have introduced the peoples of the Malay Archipelago to the instruments and techniques of gunnery at that time.

It is clear that muzzle-loading cannons were a feature of the Malay armaments inventory prior to the advent of European expansion into Southeast Asia. European voyaging by sea to South Asia was initiated by the Portuguese when Vasco da Gama made the port of Calicut on India’s Malabar Coast in 1489. The Portuguese then sought to establish themselves in Southeast Asia. When Portuguese forces commanded by Alfonso de Albuquerque besieged Melaka in 1511, the Malays employed cannons in defence of the city and it is said that 3000 pieces of artillery were captured when the defenders capitulated. The nature of the cannons used by the Malays at Melaka is not known but it has been noted that they were outranged by the Portuguese guns and it is probable that they were of small calibre. After Ferdinand Magellan’s death in the Philippine Islands in 1521, the survivors of his expedition found cannons in use in the East Indies as they made their return westward to Europe.

Wheeled artillery was not a significant feature of warlike operations in maritime Southeast Asia in pre-colonial times but swivel guns for use on land or at sea proliferated. Known as lela ormeriam kecil (small cannon) in Malay, or as lantaka in the region of the southern Philippines under Malay influence, these pieces were perhaps copied from the small guns on yokes or swivels developed in Europe for placement on the bulwarks of naval and merchant vessels. While the European guns may have been brought to the Malay lands by Arab traders, Malay cannons (meriam) of local origin were commonly of a dissimilar construction to European weapons of the same period.

Generally, meriam kecil did not follow the design of European cannons comprising - from the face - muzzle, chase, second reinforce, first reinforce and cascabel. In lieu of the cascabel button, meriam kecil normally had a tubular projection capable of accepting a tiller, perhaps the butt of the rammer, as an aid to laying– elevating, depressing and traversing – the piece. A variant of the meriam kecil had a curved metal handle (monkey tail) for laying rather than the socket and tiller arrangement. They did have trunnions, situated a little below the centreline of the bore as was the

European practice. The swivel yoke or cagak, pronounced ‘cha-guk’, consisted of a U-shaped bracket with holes to accept the trunnions above a tapered spike. The spike fitted into holes or sockets in the bulwarks of a ship or the ramparts of a fort. Although the mass of the pieces was commonly heavy for the small bore diameter, in the absence of any recoil-reducing feature the firing of meriam kecilprobably had a considerable battering effect upon the material in which they were mounted.

Malay meriam of all sizes were often highly decorated with scrollwork, floral and geometric designs, bands and rings. Barrels were usually slim, tapered and round, although octagonal and half-octagonal barrels were not rare, and there were fluted barrels, some with spiral fluting. Customarily, muzzles were expanded in a conical or discoidal form but were sometimes cast to represent a dragon’s mouth. Crude open sights, a blade or square knob at the muzzle and two projecting ears or an oval bulge in the vicinity of the vent, were usually provided. Even the common pieces usually had some form of decoration.

Meriam kecil were employed by the many pirates who preyed upon commerce between the hundreds of islands of the archipelago and by trading vessels as a defence against piracy. Thesultans and rajas of the region installed cannons in the forts erected for the protection of their ports and communities and for the control of riverine commerce. From at least the 16th century, it was common for Malay sailing vessels, perahu, on inter-island trade to carry a number of meriam kecil of small to moderate size. Typically, bore diameters were in the range of about 10 millimetres to 50 millimetres and lengths varied from about 800 millimetres to 1600 millimetres.

The founding of cannons was undertaken in the Malay lands at an early time. Foundries located in Brunei, Trengganu on the Malay Peninsula, Palembang in South Sumatra, the Minangkabau region of West Sumatra and Aceh in the north of that island cast cannons in brass, bronze and, less commonly, iron. It has been reported that some cannons of the Malay pattern were cast by the Dutch, both in the East Indies and in the Netherlands, and by the Portuguese at Macau during colonial times.

Turkish artisans skilled in the casting of cannons came to Aceh after the sultan sent an embassy to Turkey in the mid-17th century. Following a visit to Banda Aceh in the course of a voyage to the East Indies in the vessel Cygnet in 1687, the English seaman and buccaneer William Dampier commented that the ruler’s palace had about it ‘some great guns’. Four were of brass and were said to have been a gift from the English king James I (r.1603-1625).

In common with European muzzle-loading ordnance, the basic design of the Malay cannons changed little over the centuries and the muzzle-loading meriam remained in service until comparatively modern times. The European presence in the region brought a measure of political and social stability in the late-19th century. This was reinforced by the suppression of the most rampant forms of piracy by the British Royal Navy and the Netherlands Koninklijike Marine and brought a decline in the prevalence of cannons. At that time also, the possession of firearms of all types, except by Europeans, was very much circumscribed by the British and Dutch wherever they had established their colonial authority in the archipelago. Nevertheless, firearms and cannons remained in large numbers in the peripheral areas of the Outer Islands of the East Indies where Dutch dominion did not prevail or was at best tenuous.

The noted writer Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) served for some time in Southeast Asian waters as a deck officer and master mariner in the British Mercantile Marine and was familiar with the Malay Archipelago as it was in the closing decades of the 19th century. In his fictional workLord Jim, he placed much of his story in the domain of a minor raja in an outlying region of the archipelago. He wrote of a kampung of Bugis immigrants from Sulawesi being defended by ‘two rusty 7-pounders, a lot of small brass cannon – currency cannon.’ Conrad gave an accurate representation of the times and conditions of which he wrote and his comment is indicative of the ubiquitous presence of cannons in the outer reaches of the archipelago. Alfred Searcy, who was Sub-Collector of Customs for the Colony of South Australia in Darwin from 1882 to 1896, commented that the perahu of the Makassan trepangers working on the North Australian coast during his time in Darwin were all armed with ‘numbers of very ancient cannon.’

While the rifling of cannon bores was attempted in the mid-15th century, it was not until the 1850s that rifled-bore cannon came into general use. Very few, if any, Malay cannon would have had a rifled bore. The purpose of miniature meriam is not clear. Usually between 150 millimetres and 300 millimetres in length and 15 or 16 millimetres in calibre, most miniatures replicated themeriam kecil and had a swivel yoke. However, some were in the European pattern with a cascabel

button but lacking a yoke, carriage or handle. While one source has it that pistols were rare in the region until quite recent times and that the miniatures were carried in a waist band or sash and used as hand guns, they would have been particularly inconvenient in this application. Perhaps, they were used to fire salutes or were produced as a novelty. In any case, they were still to be found in Indonesia in some quantity in the late-20th century.

In a region with a mainly barter economy and limited reserves of currency, meriam kecilsometimes served as currency. The value of a piece is stated to have been determined by the nature and mass of the metal from which it was cast and could perhaps have been increased by the intricacy of its embellishment. Meriam kecil were sometimes displayed ostentatiously outside residences as an indication of wealth. While serving in HMAS Geelong in 1993, Craig Wharton of ACANT saw in Ujung Pandang (formerly Makassar) in South Sulawesi a row ofmeriam kecil embedded in the ground with their muzzles uppermost to form an ornamental fence. A sad end for examples of the craftsmanship of the past but it would appear that, at that time at least, they were not seen as rarities of any monetary or cultural worth.

With animistic beliefs still prevailing in the region despite the coming of Islam and Christianity,meriam were often credited with having supernatural powers, particularly as aids to fertility.

A large British cannon is displayed on the broad flight of steps leading to the entrance of the building housing the office of the governor of the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur on Jalan Raya El Tari in Kupang. Mounted on an iron carriage, the piece is embossed with the cipher GR. As the cipher does not include a number, it is presumably that of King George I (r.1714-1727). The Indonesian authorities were ignorant of the history of the piece. The British occupied Kupang from 1812 to 1816 and it is possibly a relic of the British interregnum in the Netherlands East Indies during the Napoleonic Wars.

Other European and indigenous cannon would still exist in the archipelago as remnants of past confrontations and disasters. In particular, it is likely that there are many cannons in the more remote areas as the loss of European and local shipping in the time of armed sailing vessels, due to adverse weather, navigational errors or attack, was quite common. As an example, HM colonial brig Lady Nelson and the schooner Stedcombe failed to return to Fort Dundas on Melville Island after voyaging to South Maluku in 1825. In the course of a search for relics ofLady Nelson and Stedcombe, Peter Spillet of Darwin in 1981 saw and photographed in the region cannons believed to be from the lost vessels. One was an unmarked iron piece with a length of 1700 millimetres and a bore of 89 millimetres and thought to be from Stedcombe. The other was an iron carronade marked with the numerals 6-1-7 and the broad arrow indicating government property and was said to be from Lady Nelson. This piece had a length of about 1240 millimetres and a bore of 156 millimetres.

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) located at Darwin’s Bullocky Point has seven meriam kecil in its Southeast Asian collection. These relatively plain pieces, illustrated below, are typical of the everyday armament that would have been mounted in perahu used in trade, war or piracy and in defensive positions on land. Calibres are nominal and the bores display a tendency to deviate from strict circularity! Length overall is from the muzzle to the rear of the tubular laying projection. All were cast from brass or bronze. The IND numbers are MAGNT collection numbers.

IND 295: loa 1020 mm, calibre 27 mm. Barrel round and plain. Some damage to the laying projection.

IND 364: loa 1220 mm, calibre 30 mm. Barrel octagonal to trunnions then round.

IND 364: Detail

IND 371: loa 880mm, calibre 22mm. Barrel round. Yoke missing.

IND 373: loa 770 mm, calibre 25 mm. Barrel round.

IND 700: loa 1180 mm, calibre 35 mm, barrel octagonal to trunnions then round.

IND 701: loa 780 mm, calibre 26 mm, barrel octagonal to trunnions then round. The flat ahead of the vent bears a very neat representation of a crocodile. Twin ‘handles’ in the form of dolphins.

IND 1515: loa 1480 mm, calibre 37 mm, barrel octagonal to trunnions then round. Elaborately decorated and twin ‘handles’ in the form of dolphins.

Almost unceasing warfare between the states of the Malay Archipelago, endemic piracy and resistance to European colonialism all promoted a requirement for cannons of European and local design for either aggression or protection. Cannons were particularly common at sea and the meriam kecil are among the most unusual and interesting of the artefacts of the Malay Archipelago.

The cannons in the MAGNT collection were examined and photographed with the kind permission of Anna Malgorzewicz, Director MAGNT, and the most obliging assistance of Malene Bjornskov, Collections Manager.

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Dipetik dari http://www.acant.org.au/Articles/MalayCannons.html

Khamis, 4 Ogos 2011

Back to Future: Ramayana Mahabharata

Sesuatu yang baik untuk difikirkan. Ia berkaitan masa kini, masa depan dan masa yang telah berlalu beribu tahun yang lalu....

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Opinion: Is economic collapse good for Linux?I would recommend you panic. (Hedge funder Hugh Hendry)

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As I write this, the USA is less than 48 hours from defaulting on its national debt, an event which would be more-or-less the economic equivalent of a comet the size of Texas crashing into planet Earth (as portrayed in the 1998 Bruce Willis action movie Armageddon. Imagine that.

In the movie, Bruce Willis and his motley crew fly the Space Shuttle to the offending comet, land on it, drill a big hole and dump a nuclear warhead down there. Unfortunately, a damaged timer-detonator means that the heroic Mr Willis must stay behind and blow up the comet by hand, saving the Earth but dying in the process. Miraculously, Bruce Willis is resurrected from the dead and goes on to star in The Sixth Sense (1999) andUnbreakable (2000). All of which goes to show that you can't keep an action hero down, even with a nuclear bomb.

Fortunately, averting worldwide economic Armageddon this week will probably not involve nuclear weapons. More than likely, the USA's two warring political parties will come to a last-minute budget compromise, agreeing to increase the national debt, thus postponing the Apocalypse until another day. That's good news, especially if you haven't yet prepared your bomb shelter. There is still time to stock up on weapons, ammunition and canned goods. Forget precious metals - gold is for optimists.

So, assuming the requisite last-minute deal comes through, we can all (hopefully) breathe easier. For now. Unfortunately, the world's economy might not be quite as "unbreakable" as Mr. Willis was in the above-mentioned 2000 movie. The USA is not the only country on planet Earth with economic skeletons in the closet. The EU has recently discovered that some of its member states have balance sheets with as many holes in them as Swiss cheese. Asia is still looking good on the surface, but there are rumblings of already-massive real estate bubbles swelling to galactic size, just itching to pop. Everywhere there are dark rumors of unpayable debts, creative accounting standards, and yes, giant asteroids hurtling towards Earth. To make it worse, the USA just retired the Space Shuttle, so it's no longer in service lest we need to nuke another extra-terrestrial threat.

But what does economic collapse have to do with Linux?

Glad you asked. It's always good to look on the bright side of things, especially when facing The End of the World As We Know It. Thus, I would like to posit the theory: "Economic collapse is good for the free-software movement.

Yes, I know that at first glance, my "theory" sounds like a no-brainer. Assuming that the world has grown poorer but people are still living above ground and have electricity, then for sure they'd be running Linux or if they prefer, one of the BSDs. If you can't afford new shoes, then surely you're not going to trade your last bag of salt or used bicycle tire for a Windows or OSX license. So Linux wins, right?

Actually, it's not so certain. Reality often trumps logic. I've spent a good deal of my life living and traveling in the Third World, and I've witnessed at least one pretty spectacular economic collapse circa 1991. True, that was during the dark days of MS-DOS, which few outside the USA actually paid for. Plus, in those days there wasn't a free open-source alternative that you could download from the Internet (which also didn't exist back then). However, in these modern times, we do have Linux, excellent free software that very few Third World citizens even know about, much less use. Despite pleadings from open-source fanatics such as myself, poor folks seldom bother to install a free copy of Linux and LibreOffice, preferring instead to obtain a pirated copy of Windows and Microsoft Office.

It's interesting to speculate just why this is so. Part of the reason may simply be a lack of copyright enforcement. In the freedom-loving developed countries of the West, jack-booted storm troopers from The Intellectual Property Cartel may well break down your door, haul off your computers, and after forensically examining the hard drive, impose harsh fines and criminal penalties if they discover an unlicensed software application or a pirated MP3 file. This scenario is fortunately seldom seen in the Third World, where the police, judges and government officials charged with enforcing the law are also running pirated copies of Windows on their home computers too.

In fact, far from enforcing intellectual property laws in countries where there is little money, there is evidence that software piracy is actually being encouraged by Big Business as a shrewd marketing tool. Bill Gates himself admitted as much in a speech at the University of Washington in 1998. When talking about software piracy in poor countries, Mr. Gates said: "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

My own experience backs this up. I've lived half my life in Asia and I've watched this part of the world develop rapidly over the past few decades. When I first came here, you couldn't even buy legal copies of MS-DOS and applications. There were plenty of shops openly selling pirated CDs with all the latest software for around US$2 per copy. Service was excellent - many shops would even replace a defective disk for free. Indeed, Windows XP appeared on the pirate market 35 days before it's official release date of October 25, 2001. But nowadays, most of the software I see for sale is legal, and costs considerably more than US$2 per copy. Bill Gates was right.

That having been said, this business model (using software piracy as a marketing tool) is only likely to succeed when economies are growing, not shrinking. When money becomes scarce, software license becomes an unaffordable luxury. In many poor countries today, electronic shops cobble together their inexpensive computers with a combination of old used and new parts. These shops have no volume licensing agreements with Microsoft, and almost invariably they install pirated Windows copies that deploy various hacks to turn-off product activation. These hacked copies have, in many cases, become easy prey for viruses and root kits, allowing the machine to be turned into a bot for launching DDoS attacks.

Given the security risks, let alone legal issues, it would make sense to avoid pirated software as long as a secure and functional free alternative exists. That should create an opening for Linux. However, Microsoft (and more recently, Apple) have captured the hearts and minds of the mass market. People in the poorer nations understandably want to catch up with the rich developed world, so they want what they perceive to be "the best." Thus, they'd be suspicious of software that advertises itself as being "free." I've often wondered if we free-software proponents shouldn't take a hint from Microsoft and charge US$300 for Linux, in the hopes that people will then pirate it.

This will be the year of The Linux Desktop

It was Windows 98 and its infamous Blue Screen of Death that finally pushed me into trying Linux, and I have not looked back since. And almost every year since then, I've been reading in one oracle or another that "this will be the Year of the Linux Desktop." I'm not quite sure what a "Year of Linux" would entail, but I gather that it would require more than the current 1% desktop market share we now enjoy.

Making future predictions is always a risky business, but hey, it's not (yet) illegal, so here is mine. I predict that WTSHTF (economically speaking), we will finally enjoy the long-awaited "Year of the Linux Desktop." My reason for thinking so is that - unlike in the current Third World - intellectual-property laws in developed countries have real teeth. If you think that the Business Software Alliance is going to just sit around on its hands while computer shops in formerly rich countries openly sell pirated software, think again. All the hard-fought battles by the intellectual-property police to instill fear into the public has, for the most part, been a resounding success. A sophisticated surveillance system and accompanying gulag has been painstakingly constructed just to protect copyrights and patents. These victories will not be given up lightly.

Thus, though we may face economic hardships not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s, we can at least look forward to a Linux Renaissance. As the old saying goes, "every cloud has its silver lining."

On the other hand, I could be wrong about this. Perhaps 50 years from now, our grand children will be living in a prosperous paradise, where all the hard physical labor is done by robots. Everyone will have lots of free time to enjoy their holographic 3-D televisions, powered by Micro-Apple software. During the annual 3-month vacation, they'll have a choice of making a trip to Mars or one of the moons of Jupiter.

Alternatively, they could be living in the forest (or what's left of it), gathered around the evening camp fire as the rising tides engulf the ruins of the world's abandoned cities. Tribal elders will talk about magical things they once saw, like electricity, iPhones, the Space Shuttle, Bruce Willis, and an amazing technology called "Linux." The children may suspect it's all a myth, but nevertheless will sit and listen in wide-eyed wonder.

Dipetik dari http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110801#feature

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‎"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

Peperangan Armageddon adalah peristiwa pertama sebagai permulaan dari serentetan huru-hara di akhir zaman, pertempuran ini adalah perang penghancuran dan nuklier yang akan memusnahkan sebagian besar senjata-senjata strategik. Setelah itu, alat-alat dan senjata yang dipakai dalam peperangan selanjutnya adalah pedang, panah, dan kuda.

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This is from the ancient Hindu text the Mahabharata.

“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana [fast aircraft],hurled a single projectile [rocket]

charged with the power of the Universe [nuclear device].

An incandescent column of smoke and flame,as bright as ten thousand suns,

rose with all its splendour.

It was an unknown weapon,an iron thunderbolt,

a gigantic messenger of death,which reduced to ashes

the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.

The corpses were so burnedas to be unrecognizable.

Hair and nails fell out;Pottery broke without apparent cause,

and the birds turned white.

…After a few hoursall foodstuffs were infected…

…to escape from this firethe soldiers threw themselves in streams

to wash themselves and their equipment.”

A second passage.

“Dense arrows of flame,like a great shower,

issued forth upon creation,encompassing the enemy.

A thick gloom swiftly settled upon the Pandava hosts.All points of the compass were lost in darkness.

Fierce wind began to blowClouds roared upward,

showering dust and gravel.

Birds croaked madly…the very elements seemed disturbed.

The sun seemed to waver in the heavensThe earth shook,

scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon.

Elephants burst into flameand ran to and fro in a frenzy…

over a vast area,other animals crumpled to the ground and died.

From all points of the compassthe arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely.” — The Mahabharata

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Setelah melihat masa kini, masa depan dan masa yang lalu....persoalannya ADAKAH IA AKAN BERULANG!!

Rabu, 3 Ogos 2011

709 BERSIH-tarikh peperangan ke atas negara Islam

Dipetik dari http://anakbukitgantang.blogspot.com/

by Anakbukitgantang

Tak ramai yang mengetahui bahawa pada 9 Julai 2011 atau lebih dikenali dengan 709 di Barat (di baca bulan dahaulu sebelum tarikh), berlaku perpecahan ke atas 2 negara Islam. Ini adalah satu domino efek ke atas perpecahan dan kemusnahan negara Islam seperti yang dirancang di negara negara Arab. Setelah satu demi satu negara Arab yang dominan dalam pembankan Islam seperti Lebanon, Tunisia dan Mesir dimusnahkan kini tiba giliran Malaysia pula dimusnahkan dengan permainan jarum Yahudi dan sepupunya Wahhabi.

Pada hari tersebut, 709 Republik Sudan Selatan dengan rasminya tertubuh. Republik ini walaupon kecil, membawa banyak simpanan minyak kepada negara baru dan majority penduduknya ialah Kristian.

Di Malaysia pada 709 pula terjadi gerakan memecahkan umat Islam melalui BERSIH. Tidak hairan juga BERSIH diterajui oleh ulama suk Wahhabidan golongan syiah di dalam PAS.

Tidak keterlaluan jika dikatakan bahawa Malaysia kini sedang memasuki fasa mula permainan mereka dan akan mengikuti laluan yang sama dengan apa yang berlaku di negara Timur Tengah.

Bagi rakyat yang perihatin, tanda ini menunjukkan blessing camportangan asing di bumi Malaysia

Untuk Siapa? Satu pertanyaan yang seakan melucukan. Adakah boleh dipercayai bahawa ia adalah untuk negara Israel timur iaitu Singapura? Cuba renungkan, bila Pakatan menang pilihanraya nanti, kawasan parlimen di bandar-bandar besar akan dipinda. Penambahan kerusi yang banyak ini akan memberikan peluang DAP untuk mendominasi politik malaysia sepenuhnya walaupun pada luaran diterajui oleh "reformis" Melayu. Inilah masanya Singapura menyertai semula Malaysia dan ahli parti komunis Malaya (bintang tiga) pula dibenar bebas bergiat dalam politik secara terbuka.

DAP yang sekian lama berlakun sebagai sebuah parti politik Malaysia, sebenarnya adalah proksi PAP. Ia pasti dibubar apabila tiba masanya dan bergabung semula dengan induknya PAP. Semua ahlinya (semua kaum China?) menyertai PAP yang berpusat di Singapura. Sejak dari tarikh ini, Melayu Malaya dan Bumiputra Sabah Sarawak hanya termangu dan melihat apa yang terjadi dengan mata putih, negara telah dikuasai pendatang. "Reformis" yang tadinya angkuh bertahta sebagai PM akan didesak melepaskan jawatan untuk memberi laluan kepada ketua PAP menjadi PM (berlakulah Malaysian Malaysia seperti yang mereka laungkan selama ini.. Melayu Pakatan yang menang dan bersorak gembira pada mulanya kini tersedar bahawa mereka hanya menang sorak sahaja.

Usaha terancang Rejim Pulau Pinang menghalau orang melayu pulau pinang

http://theflyingkick.blogspot.com/2011/07/guan-eng-berjaya-buktikan-melayu-pulau.html

Singapura raya meniru h=gaya Israel raya di selatan tanah air

Singapura Raya terbentuk dengan resminya meniru Israel raya. Kerusi yang banyak dalam sistem demokrasi akan memberi lesen yang sah untuk mereka meminda perlembagaan negara. Klausa Islam dan Raja-Raja akan dimansuhkan dari perlemgaan baru ini. Hilang lenyaplah riwayat Persekutuan Tanah Melayu dan diganti dengan Malaysian Union sebagaimana kehendak British pada era kemerdekaan dahulu. Tiada lagi negara Melayu dalam peta dunia.

Greater Sin

Sayugia diingat, bilamana pendatang menguasai politik, mereka tidak akan senang selagi ada ruang kebangkitan semula pribumi, mereka tidak akan mengizinkan untuk ditewaskan oleh pribumi semula. Ultrakiasu tetap besikap sedemikian, mereka masih belum yakin selagi tidak menguasai segalanya. Mereka tahu, andainya terjadi, nasib mereka tentu sahaja menjadi tidak menentu terutama bila kaum pribumi berusaha menghalang berulangnya peristiwa yang menyakitkan tersebut.

Untuk itu akan berlakulah peristiwa penghijrahan beramai-ramai boroh murah dari negara China atas alasan membantu meningkatkan pembangunan negara. Kedatangan rakyat Indonesia, selatan Philifina atau Melayu Pattani akan dihalang seketat-ketatnya. Hanya mengizinkan sedikit pendatang India bukan Islam dan majoritinya akan dibawa terus dari negara sebangsa mereka sama ada China atau Vietnam. Tujuan utamanya tentulah untuk menguasai setiap ruang dan peluang yang ada di negara ini disamping mempunyai undi yang cukup dalam setiap pilihanraya. Inilah wajah demokrasi moden yang bakal dilalui oleh Malaysia, jika pemerintah Islam gagal mendominasi pilihanraya.

Sebahagian dari rakyat Malaysia sudah mula terhidu permainan ini. Cuba memberi kesedaran kepada sebahagian yang lain. Seperti yang diduga, ia tidaklah semudah yang difikirkan dan ternyata masih sukar diterima terutama oleh pengikut taksub beberapa buah parti politik Melayu. Taksub menyebabkan akal menjadi beku dan menghalang pengikut tersebut melihat kebenaran. Mereka sering berburuk sangka dan menganggap pemerintah seumpama syaitan yang sangat jahat. Para pemimpin mereka pula telah tenggelam dalam angan-angan untuk menjadi juara. Islam diketepikan demi mencapai hasrat untuk menjadi penguasa. Tanpa Islam, kezaliman akan tetap berlanjutan, Ini adalah fakta bukan andaian semata. Mereka akan melakukan hal yang sama dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah sebelumnya jika mereka berkuasa atau mungkin lebih buruk.

Apa yang telah berlaku di negara Arab tersebut hampir sama dengan apa yang sedang dimulakan oleh rakyat Malaysia sekarang ini. Jarum suntikan ditusuk dengan perlahan-lahan dan ia harus memberi gambaran keburukan pemerintah dan membuahkan isu memihak penentang. Kes terbaru BERSIH 2.0 telah diatur seakan sama dengan apa yang berlaku di Libya Mesir dan kini Syria. Zionis akan menjadikan negara ini bergolak dan lemah dan ini memaksa pemerintah terus menerus mengharap sokongan dan akur segala permintaan mereka sebagaimana Iraq sekarang.

Bersih adalah alat propaganda yang boleh mencipta beberapa isu lain. Tujuannya ialah untuk memenangkan penentang baik secara formal atau sebaliknya. Proksi Zionis melalui USA sedang bersedia untuk mengambil alih pemerintahan negara bila pemerintah sedia ada tumbang melalui demonstrasi sebagaimana di beberapa negara Arab. Propaganda akan menjadi lebih mudah bila pasukan keselamatan yang selama ini dilabelkan sebagai entiti zalim melakukan kesilapan atau dipaksa melakukan kesilapan. Sokongan rakyat akan berpihak kepada mereka yang (dikatakan) telah dizalimi oleh polis yang secara zahirnya mewakili pemerintah sedia ada.

Maka puak Wahhabi di dalam PAS mulai menipu walau apa cara sekalipon untuk membuatkan rakyat berpaling sokongan ke atas mereka hatta menipu mati 2 kali seperti dalam video ini. Kecerdikan kerajaan dan rakyat Malaysia bergantung sejauh mana mereka mengetahui hala tuju musuh dunia ini. Juga sejauh mana mereka menghalang racun yang sedang menular dalam sistem politik negara. Demokrasi adalah syaitan yang berwajah indah. Resipi Yahudi untuk kita semua.

Ramai penyokong jumud pembangkang maseh terus menidakkan poeranan danan asing dalam kegianatn menjatuhkan pemimpin ulul amri di Malaysia

Diharapkan Melayu (bagi saya Melayu itu adalah Islam) menjadi semakin cerdik menelah kerja jahat musuh Islam ini dan menghalangnya berlaku sesuatu yang amat kita kesali sepanjang hayat. Melayu harus bersatu kembali sepaya dominan dalam mengatasi masalah yang semakin kritis ini, jangan sekali-kali menjadi musuh kepada bangsa sendiri dan melantik bukan Islam sebagai pemimpin. Jauhilah pemimpin yang jelas mempunyai gerak kerja yang meragukan apatah lagi jika terbukti ia seorang munafiqin. Semoga bangsaku bangun kembali membina komoniti Islam yang paling utuh di atas muka bumi ini.

Rujukan

Selasa, 2 Ogos 2011

Dunia Arab: Kebangkitan rakyat atau menjadi alat?

DUNIA Arab dan Asia Barat kini terus bergolak dengan pemberontakan rakyat di beberapa negara di rantau itu, yang dilihat tiada kesudahan.

Pemberontakan di dunia Arab bermula di Tunisia yang kemudian menjadi inspirasi kepada rakyat di negara-negara Arab lain untuk bangkit menentang kerajaan atas alasan mahukan pembaharuan dan demokrasi yang lebih luas.

Segala-galanya bermula pada pada 17 Disember lalu, apabila seorang siswazah berusia 26 tahun, Mohammed Bouazizi yang bekerja sebagai penjual sayur dan buah-buahan di Tunisia untuk meneruskan kehidupan setelah puas mencari pekerjaan, bertindak nekad membunuh diri dengan membakar dirinya di hadapan khalayak ramai.

Bouazizi kecewa setelah polis cuba merampas barangan jualannya kerana beliau berniaga tanpa mendapat permit.

Tragedi yang menimpa Bouazizi itu telah meraih simpati orang ramai terutama golongan penganggur muda di negara itu dengan mengadakan tunjuk perasaan membantah tindakan pihak berkuasa itu.

Demonstrasi bantahan yang berterusan di Tunisia itu akhirnya menumbangkan kerajaan kuku besi Presiden Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, yang kemudian melarikan diri ke Arab Saudi untuk mendapat perlindungan.

Kebangkitan rakyat di Tunisia itu merebak ke Mesir apabila rakyatnya turut bangkit memberontak sehingga memaksa Presiden Hosni Mubarak disingkirkan.

Selepas itu satu persatu negara Arab lain termasuk Yemen, Bahrain, Maghribri, Syria dan Libya mencontohi Tunisia dan Mesir, apabila rakyatnya bangkit memberontak atas alasan mahukan pembaharuan dan demokrasi yang lebih luas.

Kini timbul persoalan tentang sejauhmana, kebangkitan rakyat di negara-negara Arab terbabit benar-benar kerana mereka mahukan pembaharuan atau ada pihak luar mempunyai agenda lebih luas bagi memecahbelahkan perpaduan Arab atau ada pihak tertentu dari dalam yang mengeskploitasi konflik di rantau itu demi kepentingan politik peribadi.

Apa yang jelas pemberontakan yang berlaku di rantau itu kini tidak menguntungkan bangsa Arab dan dunia Islam secara umumnya kerana ia mengundang campur tangan luar seperti yang berlaku di Libya.

Malahan demonstrasi bantahan di Yemen dan Bahrain lebih dilihat sebagai satu pemberontakan oleh kaum Syiah untuk berkuasa di negara terbabit dan bukan kerana mahu melaksanakan pembaharuan kerana kemunduran ekonomi kerana Bahrain merupakan sebuah negara kaya dan membangun sebagai salah sebuah negara pengeluar minyak utama di rantau itu.

Amat malang rakyat di negara-negara Arab sudah tidak dapat membezakan antara kebangkitan membawa pembaharuan dengan pemberontakan, dan antara kebangkitan menghapuskan penindasan dengan menjadi alat kepada pihak tertentu yang mempunyai agenda.

Dipetik dari: http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0802&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Rencana&pg=re_06.htm

Sabtu, 9 Julai 2011

Kebetulan? Demokrasi ialah alat Iblis...

Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria & Malaysia

"Keperluan menentang penindasan tidak perlu mengguna pakai gaya hidup atau transformasi politik. Ia merupakan satu gejala kekal keadaan semula jadi manusia." ~~ Jonathan Azaziah

Entiti Zionis dan jenayah rangkaian sekutu 'Revolusi Syria' adalah sebuah operasi ketidakstabilan yang diciptakan oleh rejim Israel dibantu oleh sekutunya di Washington DC, Paris, London, Riyadh dan wajah-wajah lain yang bersembunyi di sebalik topeng persahabatan dan berkecuali. Ini merupakan tawaran pilihan untuk selamatkan diri. Sejarah yang membawa kepada peristiwa-peristiwa baru yang belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya bagaimana Tel Aviv dan Riyadh sekali lagi berganding bahu dalam zaman moden ini untuk menghapuskan halangan untuk kepentingan bersama.Al-Jumhuriyyah al-Arabiyyah dikenali sebagai -Suriyyah, Republik Arab Syria, atau Syria, secara sistematik sedang diserang oleh kuasa-kuasa yang sombong dan takbur di dunia. Syria tidak dihujani dengan bom dan peluru berpandu dari helikopter atau F-16 (sekurang-kurangnya belum berlaku). Ia dihujani oleh sesuatu yang lain, sesuatu yang lebih jahat, lebih licik dan deadlier. Ia dihujani oleh entiti yang terselindung dari kekerasan sepenuhnya iaitu 'Demokrasi' rekaan Zionis, suatu senjata yang amat mengelirukan manusia sejagat yang secara halus dikuatkuasakan oleh Zionis. Penawaran terhadap hidup lebih bebas, mewah dan maju yang bakal dinikmati rakyat Syria digembar gemburkan supaya rakyat menolak pemerintah sedia ada.

Seperti dart katak beracun dari hutan hujan Amazon, dan Octopuses beristri biru berenang di dalam kolam air pasang Pasifik dari Jepun ke Australia, 'demokrasi' ini dikaitkan dengan idea keindahan yang kelihatan megah. Ia digambarkan sebagai sesuatu keunikan, ciptaan paling unggul dari institutusi pendidikan tertinggi dari Barat; sebenarnya sesuatu yang asing kepada dunia Timur, terutama orang-orang keturunan Arab dan Afrika.

Walau bagaimanapun, keindahan 'demokrasi' adalah semata-mata cantik dan mulia dipermukaannya sahaja, terdapat racun yang tersembunyi di belakangnya. Beberapa bahagian di luar dilihat amat menyenangkan mata. Racun ini boleh membawa kematian dalam keadaan tidak disedari. Semut yang menghurungi gula akhirnya mati dalam timbunan gula tersebut, begitulah gambarannya. Demokrasi ini adalah ciuman maut, bakal membawa kehancuran, perampasan secara terpaksa dan cloaked (tersembunmyi) dalam pakaian kebebasan, kesaksamaan dan pelajaran tinggi.

Jika sekiranya demokrasi adalah sebuah entiti yang berasal dari wanita, ia adalah succubus sebuah tradisi mitos (female demon appearing in dreams who takes the form of a human woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual intercourse.). Jika ia adalah berasal dari lelaki, ia akan menjadi kengerian. Orang Timur, Arab dan Afrika, boleh bercakap selama beribu tahun tentang apa yang 'demokrasi' ini bawakan, sebenarnya demokrasi adalah amat jelas mewakili iblis.

Rakyat Syria harus berhati-hati, kini 'demokrasi' mensasarkan negara anda setelah Libya; ambillah pengajaran dari pertumpahan darah saudara-saudara kamu yang ditindas di Iraq, "keajaiban demokrasi" telah membawa 6 juta rakyat Iraq sebagai pelarian, 2 juta maut, 2 juta wanita Iraq kini adalah para balu, 5 juta kanak-kanak Iraq kini anak-anak yatim dan 80% dari keseluruhan rakyat Iraq telah menyaksikan siri tembakan, penculikan, rogol, pembunuhan dan kekejaman . Kini masih berlarutan menjadikan sebahagian rakyat Iraq kembali rindukan zaman pemerintahan Saddam, pemerintah yang dikatakan kuku besi dan zalim oleh Barat itu. Rakyat Iraq baharu mengenali apa itu demokrasi sebenarnya.

Rakyat Afghanistan, masih lagi terasa bahang penekanan risikan tentera Amerika lebih dari 4 dekad, juga boleh memberitahu anda secara lengkap apakah manfaat kegemilangan demokrasi, iaitu 7.4 juta lelaki Afghanistan, wanita dan kanak-kanak yang kini hidup dalam kelaparan dan berada di ambang kematian terhasil daripada penjajahan yang disebabkan oleh sistem zionis yang dipaksakan kepada mereka.

syaitan 'demokrasi', dilihat berpesta ke atas Gaza;
sekarang mengidam Syria pula dan seterusnya...

Palestin, tanah suci dan bersejarah, telah didiami oleh sebuah entiti yang bersifat perampas selama lebih 63 tahun. Entiti yang memanggil diri mereka 'Israel' juga memanggil dirinya sebagai "satu-satunyanya demokrasi di Timur Tengah". Palestin menjerit pada dunia, siang dan malam, bahawa demokrasi ini adalah adalah pembohongan dan penuh sinis, lawak dan lucu. Tanah etnik Arab Palestin kini dibersihkan dan dikenali sebagai 'Israel', sekurang-kurangnya 30 undang-undang yang diwujudlan untuk mendiskriminasi secara kejam terhadap orang bukan Yahudi.

Di Syria, bukanlah seperti yang digambarkan oleh media. Bukanlah satu revolusi Islam seperti yang sering disanjung oleh kebanyakan umat Islam. Sebaliknya ia sebuah ilustrasi dari Iblis yang ingin mewarnai Syria dengan "demokrasi" ciptaan zionis. Untuk itu Asad mesti digulingkan dan proksi merampas kuasa untuk kepentingan Israel memperluaskan wilayahnya.

Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad sasaran
Zionisme seterusnya

Dalam era Asad menjadi presiden, pembangunan pembelajaran meningkat pesat dan ramai rakyatnya telah celik huruf. Rupanya inilah mala petaka bagi dirinya bila rakyat dengan mudah dihasut pula untuk menentangnya. Sesawang sosial dipergunakan dengan meluas dan usaha diatur mewujudkan kelompok yang membenci kerajaan. Hasutan semakin hari semakin lantang, berita dusta ditabur dengan hebat.

Helah ini berjaya mengucar kacirkan Syria sekali gus menekan Presiden Asad. Senjata dibekalkan secara sembunyi kepada penentang. Media menghebahkan kekejaman tentera kerajaan secara satu arah dan tidak membuat liputan buruk terhadap penentang.

Syria adalah medan paling hampir dengan Israel bertepatan dengan hasrat mereka mencipta Israel Raya. Namun mereka tidak akan berhenti sahaja di sana, mereka mahu seluruh dunia terutama yang membencinya dimusnahkan. Tidak keterlaluan jika dikatakan bahawa Malaysia kini sedang memasuki fasa mula permainan mereka dan akan mengikuti laluan yang sama dengan apa yang berlaku di negara Timur Tengah.