Category Archives: Politics

Only on Independent Media

The Malay­sian Insider, des­pite whatever flaws it may con­tain, at least has one brain up (and per­haps the balls of Zeus) on the tra­di­tional main­stream media bod­ies in Malay­sia. Zurairi A. Rah­man has pub­lished an art­icle call­ing out the extraordin­ar­ily stu­pid and self-serving decisions (my words, Zurairi is much more of a gen­tle­man in prose) …

Wednesday, 8th February, 2012 – 0117 | By Rewarp | Posted in Politics, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

The Bugle

Highly recom­men­ded pod­cast full of enter­tain­ing bull­shit hos­ted by John Oliver of The Daily Show fame, and Andy Zalts­man of being co-host of The Bugle, and cre­ator of the audio cryptic cross­word fame. A true test­a­ment to the spirit of using lies to tell the truth (to para­phrase Neil Gai­man), this is one pod­cast you will …

Saturday, 28th January, 2012 – 2336 | By Rewarp | Posted in Funny, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Wikileaks/Mastercard

Couldn’t get down to blog­ging for the past few days as the mobile broad­band con­nec­tion at my cur­rent medium-term abode is some­how at the very edge of the DiGi bor­der of Internet-land. When I do find myself in such a land, I also find myself sep­ar­ated from the nearest source of elec­tri­city, thus lim­it­ing my …

Monday, 22nd August, 2011 – 0306 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship, Donate, Free Speech, Geeky, Human Rights, People, Politics, Poverty, Social Issues, Stuff | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Tell EU Leaders to Say No to Syrian Oil

Ima­gine your gov­ern­ment, point­ing their guns at you, your fam­ily, your friends, your neigh­bours, your acquaint­ances, and at com­plete strangers — because you want a bet­ter gov­ern­ment. That’s Syria, although Malay­sia nearly falls into that descrip­tion as well. From the New York Times: Human rights act­iv­ists said that at least 200 people had been killed in …

Saturday, 13th August, 2011 – 0118 | By Rewarp | Posted in Politics, Social Issues | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Passive Aggressive Media

The New Straits Times had a strange non-committal but aggress­ive report from our reli­gious and racist over­lords about the appar­ently recent spate of “Islam belittling” to be found online. Those who are using Face­book and other social web­sites to belittle Islam may soon find the author­it­ies knock­ing on their doors. The gov­ern­ment, with help from vari­ous …

Sunday, 29th May, 2011 – 1923 | By Rewarp | Posted in Atheism, Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (24)

Guantanamo Files

This is the way the world works. The United States employs agents to arrest people based upon laugh­able reas­on­ing, sends them for tor­ture, extracts a con­fes­sion, then keeps them detained in Guantanamo Bay. Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (ISN 212), the emir of a mil­it­ary train­ing camp for which Abu Zubay­dah was the gate­keeper, who, des­pite hav­ing …

Tuesday, 26th April, 2011 – 2038 | By Rewarp | Posted in Human Rights, Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Obama. Now Would be a Good Time to Grow a Backbone.

Remem­ber that time when you uttered the words Change We Can Believe In? Remem­ber that time the rest of the world breathed a sign of relief that you were not George W. Bush? Scrap that shit. You have been noth­ing more than a dis­ap­point­ment. Bend­ing over back­wards in your prom­ises to stop the wars in Iraq and …

Thursday, 10th March, 2011 – 2342 | By Rewarp | Posted in People, Politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)