Tag Archives: Penang

Nice Bait and Switch

Najib Fails to Cash-In on PSY.

Najib came to Pen­ang and made some grand over­tures which won’t be repeated here. The point is, videos on state media were rather con­spicu­ously lack­ing in long speeches, and any sort of crowd cheers in their report. Here’s what Pen­angites did to the homo­phobic douchebag. First, a twist to “Satu Malay­sia”: Next, a rather unam­bigu­ous

Penang State Government Allocates RM 64 million to Islamic Affairs.

Cross post from Malay­sian Athe­ists. In the 16-31st Decem­ber 2012 edi­tion of Buletin Mutiara, it was stated that the Pen­ang State Gov­ern­ment under Pakatan Rakyat con­trol had increased the alloc­a­tion to the Hal Ehwal Agama Islam depart­ment by 300% com­pared to 2008. In the graph provided in the freely dis­trib­uted state bul­letin, the fol­low­ing break­down in

Najib Lying on Affordable Housing in Penang.

Janji Dite­pati or Prom­ises Ful­filled is the Bar­isan Nasional’s new slo­gan for shov­ing down your eyes and ears, which is sup­posedly meant to remind every­one about the prom­ises that this party has ful­filled dur­ing their ten­ure in power. Here’s a fact which makes that par­tic­u­lar piece of polit­ical hand­hold­ing laugh­able in Pen­ang. From 1976 to 1991,

Penang Atheist Meet-Up Update.

1540 hours on the 8th of Decem­ber. Loc­a­tion: Pen­ang Sports Club.

Penang Atheist Meet Up on the 8th of December 2012

The fol­low­ing is a cross-post from Malay­sian Athe­ist. Hey folks, do you have plans for the 8th of Decem­ber? Would you like to be part of social change through dir­ect action? Come join us for a Pen­ang Athe­ist meet-up on the 8th of Decem­ber on Pen­ang Island (obvi­ously). Meet act­iv­ists both young and exper­i­enced and

Bersih Leaders Recently in Penang.

The Ber­sih move­ment has become more than elec­tion reform. It is now a mon­ster built from des­pair from hope­less­ness and injustice. With less than five months to go before Najib has to call for gen­eral elec­tions under pen­alty of viol­at­ing the law of the land, it is indeed going to be a very excit­ing time