OutSyed The Box

OutSyed The Box


China Will Get Here - By Rail !

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:00 AM PST

Here is the news :
  • World's longest high-speed rail line opens in China
  • world's longest high-speed rail line, 2,298km (1,428m) Beijing to Guangzhou.
  • Trains will initially run at 300 kph (186 mph) travel time of eight hours. 
  • Before fastest time between two cities was more than 20 hours.
  • government plans grid of four east-west, four north-south lines by 2020.
  • July 2011 crash of high-speed train raised concerns about safety 
  • developed full range of effective measures to manage safety 
  • Last year's accident when train stranded after hit by lightning.
  • Ministry of Railways raised budget three times this year 
  • government committed to build high-speed railways 
  • China eventually planning to run them into Russia and Southeast Asia. 


The last line caught my attention. They plan to run their high speed lines into Russia and South East Asia. Obviously the Chinese have some huge plans for Russia as well. Dont know if the Russians are aware of this.

The fact that this forms part of an official press release by China's Ministry of Railways speaks volumes. They are making public wedding proposals. It is up to Russia and the South East Asian countries to respond to thess Chinese plans for the region.

Chinese commerce and industry is going to spread over the world.  Every power will have its rise and fall. There is absolutely no doubt. Benevolent powers last longer. Malignant powers fizzle out faster. 

China seeks growth through trade. They want to come here by fast train. Not via tanks and aircraft carriers - even though they have the capacity. The fact that they are a rising power is beyond doubt. And they do not seem to be a malignant power. 

The critical point for South East Asia is latching on to a rising power.  Or shall we give the China-boat a miss. We can still buy 'Made In China'.

Satu Untuk Kau, Dua Untuk Aku

Posted: 27 Dec 2012 11:00 PM PST


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Winnable Candidates : Beware The Bloggers

Posted: 27 Dec 2012 03:00 PM PST

Around this time in 2007, just a few months before the March 2008 general elections the pro-UMNO Bloggers were  out in full swing conspiring how to bring down Abdullah Badawi and his regime.  I was writing almost full time for Malaysia Today. 

Kalimullah, Khairy Jamaluddin and Kamaluddin's biggest mistake was their decision to remove all the Mahathir era writers and journalists from the mainstream media. I was not a journalist but a writer. When Dr Mahathir was the Prime Minister I wrote two columns in two different newspapers. After six years (of saying whatever I wanted to say) they just chopped off my newspaper columns. So many other journalists lost their jobs.

Then the Blog revolution chanced upon us. For almost free you could open a Blog, say what you want to say and people would read your Blog. It was as simple as that. Fueling the fire was the true, undeniable fact that Abdullah Badawi literally fell asleep in his job.  Plus there was the hanky panky.  

But the biggest mistake they made was the victimisation of Dr Mahathir Mohamed.  A third rate 'curi lembu'  fellow's son with absolutely no pedigree nor any worthy family name (and who has gotten away with millions of Ringgit worth of crony contracts) was suddenly plotting against the greatest  statesman and leader this country and the Third World had seen in decades. And they seriously expected to sustain.  They should know that no one has forgotten them. I know people who bear serious grudges against these folks and maybe their families for the next seven generations.  You have really screwed yourselves up royally. 

All this unpleasantness unleashed a huge deluge of negative energy against these people. The pro-UMNO Bloggers went all out to  make sure that Badawi would be kicked out. This has certainly come to pass.

The same Bloggers are still in place. And now, after many more years of Blogging, the same Bloggers have accumulated millions of hits, followers and supporters. Do not underestimate the influence and the reach of the Blogs. 

Many of them are now with the Prime Minister. Here I can vouch that all the pro-UMNO Bloggers fully support the Prime Minister Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak in leading the party and the nation onward.  The Bloggers also support the deputy party president and Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyudin Yasin. 

However I am quite certain that the love stops there. Beyond the PM and the Deputy PM, no one can say for sure if the Bloggers support any of the other Cabinet Ministers, the other UMNO and BN  leaders, MPs and ADUNs.  

The Bloggers certainly are against many of the Jurassic Park candidates who are left overs from the Abdullah Badawi regime. We are still perplexed why the PM has kept them around. Too many of them are serious liabilities. 

So here is my prediction. Parliament will be dissolved soon. Once Parliament is dissolved, the Federal Constitution provides 60 days before Polling. In practise however the whole thing is over in about three weeks.  

Nomination Day for candidates will take place say within about a week to 10 days (plus or minus) after Parliament is dissolved. After Nomination Day, the elections will follow in say about another week to 10 days. It will all be over in about three weeks. 

Imagine a situation where 10 days before the Polling Date, the pro-BN Bloggers start throwing bricks against  BN candidates who they do not like?  The party leadership better think about this very carefully. 

DO NOT EXPECT THE BLOGS TO SUPPORT CANDIDATES THAT NO ONE REALLY LIKES OR WHO HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF OUR PROBLEMS BEFORE.

The Bloggers may consider it a sabotage if these remnants from the Badawi regime show their faces again for PRU13. The same goes for the Jurassic Park candidates. 

It will indeed be a sabotage of the party if these candidates reappear on the ballot. There are not many of these past due date candidates anyway - just about two dozen of them. Surely a country of 28 million people has better choices who can replace these two dozen or so problem causers.

So imagine a situation where 10 days before Polling Day, it is the pro-UMNO Bloggers who are throwing brick-bats against UMNO and other BN candidates? Wouldnt that be  embarrassing? And many of the UMNO Bloggers know  "secrets" of many of these people whom they really do not like.  Thankfully there are only about two dozen or so of these problem candidates at the national level.

I hope the PM and the Deputy PM will read this. I hope their various communications teams will take note of this point. In 2008 it was the pro-UMNO  Bloggers who brought down the Badawi regime. They can influence the voters. Dont play play
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