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Saturday, July 7, 2012

LUBANG MISTERI DI LEBUHRAYA

LUBANG MISTERI DI LEBUHRAYA


BEIJING - Sepasukan polis terpaksa melakukan operasi mencari dan menyelamat lewat malam kelmarin, apabila secara tiba-tiba sebahagian lebuh raya di jalan Xiangjiang, wilayah Hunan, China, roboh lalu membentuk sebuah lubang besar.

Kejadian itu turut meranapkan sebuah kereta dan meragut seorang pemandu akibat terjerlus ke dasar lubang berkenaan.

Lubang berkeluasan 30 meter persegi itu terbentuk pada laluan paling sibuk dalam wilayah berkenaan.

Menurut anggota penyelamat, mangsa yang terperangkap itu, gagal diselamatkan selepas usaha mengenal pasti dasar lubang tersebut menemui jalan buntu.

Justeru itu, bagi mengelakkan kemalangan berulang, pihak berkuasa tempatan terpaksa menutup jalan berkenaan dan siasatan kemunculan lubang misteri berhampiran sungai Viangjiang itu sedang dilakukan

Smoking orangutan




Smoking Indonesian orangutan forced to quit


JAKARTA


Tori
A Sept 21, 2011 photo of Tori puffing a cigarette from its enclosure at the Taro Jurug Zoo in Solo, Java island. Fifteen-year-old Tori, who became the star attraction of an Indonesian zoo for her penchant for puffing on cigarettes, will be forced to quit cold turkey, a conservationist said on July 7, 2012. AFPpic
AN ORANGUTAN who became the star attraction of an Indonesian zoo for her penchant for puffing on cigarettes will be forced to quit cold turkey, a conservationist said Saturday.
Visitors began throwing lit cigarettes into the cage of 15-year-old Tori when it was five, and the female orangutan had developed an addiction over the years, Centre for Orangutan Protection coordinator Daniek Hendarto said.
"We are working with the zoo's management to try and move her to an island, in a big lake in the middle of the zoo, away from the other orangutans and where visitors can't toss her anymore cigarettes," Hendarto told AFP.
He said Tori's parents had also been smokers, adding that orangutans easily mimic human behaviour, including smoking.
News of the smoking orangutan spread quickly 10 years ago, attracting more visitors to the Taru Jurug Zoo in the central Javanese city of Solo, Hendarto said.
"Until we get approval from the zoo to move her, a guard has been placed outside her cage to make sure she doesn't smoke and she is undergoing therapy. She will have to go cold turkey," he said.
Indonesian zoos have drawn international criticism in recent years for their poor treatment of animals. In March, a giraffe at a zoo in eastern Java was found dead with a 20-kilogram (44-pound) beachball-size lump of plastic in its stomach from visitors' food wrappers thrown into its pen.
Indonesia is also one the world's last bastions of big tobacco, where few restrictions are placed on marketing and smoking rates have risen six-fold over the last 40 years, according to the World Health Organisation.

Yellow river

Gushes of water are released from the Xiaolangdi dam to clear up the sediment-laden Yellow river and to prevent localised flooding, in Jiyuan, central China's Henan province.

Friday, July 6, 2012

High-ranking general defects from Syrian military

High-ranking general defects from Syrian military

By Joe Sterling and Elise Labott, CNN
July 6, 2012 -- Updated 1435 GMT (2235 HKT)
Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlas, right in an undated photo with Bashar al-Assad, has been a key member of the Syrian president's regime.
Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlas, right in an undated photo with Bashar al-Assad, has been a key member of the Syrian president's regime.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: The Tlas family knows "how the place is wired," a Syria expert says
  • Tlas' father is a former Syrian defense minister
  • Manaf Tlas was perhaps the most senior Sunni in Bashar al-Assad's regime, scholar says
  • He was disgusted with the killing of Sunnis, a Western official says
(CNN) -- A key member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's "inner circle" has defected, Western officials said, a stunning blow to the embattled regime.
He is Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlas, a Republican Guard military commander, the son of a former defense minister and possibly the most senior Sunni in a power structure dominated by the Alawite minority.
"He's an inside confidant of Assad. So it counts that even an insider thinks it's time to go," said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Syria has been engulfed in nearly 16 months of unrest resulting in thousands of deaths. The defection comes as government assaults against protesters led to a nationwide uprising.
Tlas has been estranged from the regime over the killing of Sunnis, the official said. His father, former Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, and the rest of his family are in Paris, the official said.
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Reports of Tlas' defection first surfaced Thursday. Western officials are saying he is on his way to Paris. It is not known whether he has joined the opposition.
"It's by far the biggest defection. ... This is a good-sized step in the right direction," said Andrew Tabler, Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The Tlas family knows "how the place is wired," he said.
Rafif Jouejati, spokeswoman for the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria, called the development "quite significant."
"It signals that the domino effect of defections is speeding up as longtime regime supporters and collaborators realize that Assad's ship is sinking fast. Expect more defections in the coming days as the regime accelerates its scorched-earth policy in a desperate attempt to destroy as much as possible before falling apart," she told CNN.
Jeffrey White, a defense fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, called the development "an important event."
"He was the commander of an important regime protection unit, a component of the Republican Guard Division, whose main responsibility in the current conflict has been the defense of Damascus. His defection raises questions about the cohesion of his brigade and division."
White recently wrote an essay describing the mounting pressures on the Syrian military, including the growing opposition clout and defections. He told CNN on Friday that the "defection process is accelerating somewhat and that we are getting more reports of higher-ranking officers leaving."
White said Tlas' defection reflects two important trends. One is that many of the higher-ranking defectors are staff officers and medical officers. Tlas, in contrast, is from a combat unit.
"If we start seeing more defections from the higher ranks of combat units that will be significant," White said.
The move also might indicate that the regime "cannot count on the Sunnis it has so far kept in the fold."
"It will create suspicions within the regime about 'loyalist' Sunnis and 'loyalist' Sunnis will be wondering what the regime has in store for them. Some will likely split, if they can find a safe path for themselves and their families. Manaf's defection will undoubtedly heighten the awareness of the regime's security personnel."
Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma, said Thursday in a post on his blog Syria Comment that if Tlas has indeed fled the country, "the regime will be thrown back on its heels."
Tlas "was a close confidant of Bashar from his earliest days and part of his inner circle," Landis said. And he "supported a policy of negotiation, flexibility and compromise" but "was overruled by the military leadership and has since looked for a way out."
For example, Tlas had been ordered to solve problems in the restive Damascus suburban towns of Harasta and Douma, Landis said.
"He did a good job by negotiating with the opposition leaders in both suburbs, agreeing that both government forces and opposition would pull back," Landis said.
But, Landis said, the "Alawi leadership said 'no, that is not how we are going to do this.' They pushed him aside and came down like a ton of bricks on the opposition in both neighborhoods, in an effort to assert state authority and crush the uprising through military means."
Tlas is "perhaps the most senior Sunni in the regime because he was a close friend of Bashar," Landis wrote.
"For 16 months the opposition has been complaining that elite Sunnis have not defected. That complaint can now, officially, be put to rest if the stories of Manaf's flight prove to be true. In March it was rumored that he had led with his father and brother, but those stories were false," he wrote.
Tlas exudes charisma, and Landis describes him as "smart, dashing and cunning."
"Manaf is as handsome as a movie star and carried a lot of authority. He was a true military guy and had spent his entire life in the military, unlike Bashar. People close to him say that when he walked into a room, all eyes turned to him. Not only did women find him attractive, but men did as well. He carried himself with an air of self-confidence and authority," Landis said.
The Tlas family has been part of the Syrian power structure during the tenure of Bashar and his father, Hafez Assad.
"When foreign statesmen or Syrians thought of a Sunni who could possibly take power, Manaf had to be at the top of the list or very close to the top," he said. "Manaf is respected by Bashar's generation and a military leader."
There has been a lot of buzz about the development on the streets of Damascus and the pages of Facebook. One man wrote it's important because the Tlas family wasn't just pro-regime, "they are the regime."
Another activist said, "You idiots, defect before it's too late. Tlas saved himself at the very last moment."
While opposition voices welcome the move, they voiced suspicion and scorn.
"Should we work with him? No, never," said one. Another said, "(H)e and his father and brother should return the money they stole from the Syrian people first."
This comment is an apparent reference to Manaf Tlas' brother Firas, a businessman. Firas Tlas has been in favor of reform in Syria. He told reporters in 2005 there was a "huge expectation" from Syrians of economic change.

BABI Kau mengamuk????




Gempaq!!! Babi Mengamuk Di Bandar Kuantan

KUANTAN, 6 Julai - Orang ramai kecoh dibuatnya apabila melihat kelibat "Babi Hutan" tiba-tiba mengamuk di bandar ini tengahari semalam. Masing-masing terkejut kerana mana mungkin binatang terbabit boleh berkeliaran di dalam sebuah bandar yang merupakan ibu negeri pada waktu siang. Difahamkan, babi (khinzir) yang entah dari mana datangnya itu telah berkeliaran di sekitar Jalan Mahkota. Salah seorang saksi utama yang sempat merakamkan detik mencemaskan itu, Kamarulzaman Mohamed Yunus (foto) berkata "Pada jam 12.15 saya menuju ke kereta berada di dataran Mahkota, sebaik menaiki kereta, saya nampak seekor babi hutan sedang melintasi jalan mahkota dan menuju ke ke kedai Hamid Bros, babi tersebut terus masuk ke dalam kedai dan memecahkan dinding cermin kedai seterunya bersembunyi di bawah meja dalam pejabat pusat pelancungan dalam kedai tersebut, selepas itu lebih kurang jam 12.35 babi tersebut berjaya dikeluarkan dari kedai dan terus pula menuju ke Masjid Negeri da masuk ke dalam masjid, dihalau seorang India babi menuju ke kawasan pejabat lama Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang (JAIP), dan terus menuju ke Mahkahmah besar, seterusnya menuju ke pasar". Kamarulzaman yang juga dikenali sebagai Pak Long turut menegaskan beliau amat hairan dengan kejadian ini. "Apakah peristiwa ini ada kaitan dengan pembaziran SUKMA atau kenyataan Mufti Pahang mengenai Himpunan Bersih, kemarahan rakyat mengenai kilang Lynas atau tanda awal mula kejatuhan UMNO BN di negeri ini (Pahang)", kata beliau. "Selama ini kita memang selalu menengar babi mengamuk di dalam kawasan kampung. Tapi, bila ia terjadi kepada bandar seperti Kuantan, ia sesuatu yang sungguh menakjubkan. Apatah lagi Kuantan kini sedang menyambut ketibaan tetamu-tetamu dari luar sempena Temasya Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) yang akan dirasmikan esok. Situasi ini amat memalukan dan tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini", kata seorang pemandu teksi yang ditemui di tempat kejadian.


Babi mengamuk smpai masuk ke dalam kedai Travel Agency Hamid Bross

Orang ramai berpusu-pusu mahu menyaksikan babi di dalam kedai terbabit

Orang ramai berpusu-pusu mahu menyaksikan babi di dalam kedai terbabit

Kaca bertaburan, pecah akibat disondol oleh babi di dalam kedai terbabit


goal-line technology

Technology debate unlikely to stop on the line

July 06, 2012
The line that defied Lampard at the 2010 World Cup. — Internet file pic
ZURICH, July 6 — Football’s rule makers are adamant that the use of technology will go no further than the goal-line, yet there is an uncomfortable feeling another Thierry Henry-style handball controversy could trigger a whole new debate. Yesterday’s decision to allow the use of applied science to help the referee decide whether the ball has entered the goal or not, ended a decade of argument and came amid pressure from players, coaches and the media.
Having given their approval, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), responsible for the laws of the game, and football’s governing body FIFA insisted that any further forms of technology would not be considered.
But they had said exactly the same thing about goal-line technology less than three years ago, only to perform an abrupt U-turn after Frank Lampard’s infamous phantom goal for England against Germany at the 2010 World Cup.
UEFA president Michel Platini is among those who fear that yesterday’s ruling will open the floodgates for other forms of technology to be introduced.
“I am not just wholly against goal-line technology, I am against technology itself because then it is going to invade every area of football,” he warned last week.
“Why don’t we have technology for offside decisions as well? And what about Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal in 1986? Why don’t we have technology to see if Maradona handled it? Where does it stop? It won’t stop. I am against technology itself.”
The number of cases where goals have been wrongly awarded or disallowed because officials have been unable to see whether or not the ball crossed the line is relatively small.
Most injustices come from incorrectly awarded offside decisions and penalties or players who are either wrongly sent off or stay on the field when they should have been dismissed.
Argentina may have benefited from the Hand of God in 1986 but they were on the wrong end of a similar decision at the Copa America nine years later when Brazilian Tulio clearly used his hand in scoring a late equaliser for a 2-2 draw.
Brazil then won on penalties.
Henry’s infamous handball in the run-up to the goal that sent France to the 2010 World Cup at Ireland’s expense would not have been avoided with goal-line technology.
Neither would the incident involving Dutch defender Ronaldo Koeman in a 1994 World Cup qualifier against England.
Having been allowed to stay on the field despite denying David Platt a clear scoring chance, he then scored the first goal in the Netherlands’ 2-0 win.
Big screen
On the same day that Lampard’s effort was disallowed at the 2010 World Cup, Argentina beat Mexico 3-1 with the help of an opening goal from Carlos Tevez that replays showed was clearly offside.
Ironically, the stadium screen exposed the mistake as it replayed the goal and the Mexican players surrounded the referee urging him to look at it.
A similar incident in the future is bound to reopen the debate and spark demands for match officials to have access to video replays that are witnessed by millions of armchair fans.
However, IFAB members were adamant this would not happen.
“Goal-line technology is where this starts and finishes for us,” said Alex Horne, English FA general secretary and one of four representatives from the British associations on the board.
While the two systems being introduced can inform the referee within one second of the incident, video replays would involve either having to stop the game or wait for a break in the action. Neither option is remotely satisfactory.
Stopping play to study a penalty claim would deny the defending team, which might have fairly won the ball, the opportunity to launch a counter-attack of their own.
On the other hand, allowing it to continue could force the referee to nullify two or three minutes of play, possibly involving further incidents.
“The beauty of football in my mind is its fluidity and, of course, we would be removing that from the game which would be a great shame as far as I’m concerned,” Welsh FA general secretary Jonathan Ford told Reuters.
“There have been so many instances where play has gone straight down the other end of the pitch after a disallowed goal. When do you say stop?” — Reuters

Uncle Seekers


Uncle Seekers "Berani Kerana Benar", Kata Bapanya Pak Habib..


Syed Hussein Al-Attas aka Pak Habib yang juga ayah kepada pengkaji aktiviti paranomal, Syed Abdullah atau lebih dikenali sebagai Uncle Seekers berkata, beliau serta seluruh ahli keluarga menerima berita mengenai penahanan anaknya itu dengan begitu tenang.

Meskipun pihak polis sehingga kini mereka sekeluarga tidak dimaklumkan apa-apa daripada pihak berkuasa, dan tidak sedikit pun merasa bimbang.

Malah penulis buku politik terkenal ini berkata, tidak banyak yang boleh dilakukan sebaliknnya membiarkan pihak polis menjalankan siasatan ke atas anaknya itu mengikut prosedur yang sewajarnya.

"Apa yang saya boleh katakan lagi? Kami boleh buat apa? Bila polis dah tahan dia dan simpan pula dia di Johor Bharu. Cuma apa yang membuatkan saya tertanya-tanya ialah dia di tahan di Senawang tapi macam mana pula dia boleh dibawa kesana", ujar Syed Hussein Al-Attas kepada Malaysian Digest ketika dihubungi memintanya mengulas mengenai isu terbabit

***** Macam macam*****Mana mana anda nak percaya****Hanya Allah yang Tahu>>

Uncle Seekers positif morfin


uncleseekers
July 06, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Julai — Pengendali laman blog Uncle Seekers yang ditahan semalam di atas penyiaran artikel yang didakwa mengandungi unsur hasutan, provokasi, dan mengaibkan kerabat Diraja Johor di dalam blognya disahkan positif dadah jenis “Morphine” hari ini.
Beliau yang nama sebenarnya Syed Abdullah Syed Husein Al-Attas juga merupakan pengamal aktiviti paranormal telah ditahan kira-kira jam 9.45 malam semalam di Tol Senawang, Negeri Sembilan dan telah di bawa ke Nusajaya, Johor.
Tengku Mahkota Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris ibni Sultan Ibrahim dalam laman Twitter baginda juga telah mengeluarkan kenyataan berhubung perkara itu.
“Hari ini Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah (JSJ) Johor ingin memaklumkan perkembangan siasatan kes terhadap pengedali laman blog Uncle Seekers yang didakwa memfitnah Duli Yang Maha Mulia (DYMM) melalui laman blog.
“Pada 6/7/2012 jam 1.25 tengahari, ujian air kencing (urine test) telah dibuat ke atas suspek Syed Abdullah Bin Syed Husein (uncleseekers) di IPD Nusajaya, dan hasil ujian tersebut didapati positif ‘MORPHINE’. Laporan polis dibuat dan Kes disiasat di bawah Seksyen 15 (1)(a) ADB 1952,” kata baginda di laman Twitternya.
Baginda turut menambah, “Rupanya Drug Addict daaahh, patut lah tulis mengarut. Rupanya kaki steam.”
Ketua Polis Daerah Nusajaya, Supt. Noor Hashim Mohamed yang dihubungi The Malaysian Insider, mengesahkan perkara itu.
“Tiada cadangan untuk menambah reman, kerana pihak polis masih mempunyai baki dua hari reman, daripada empat hari bermula semalam (Khamis),” kata Noor Hashim kepada The Malaysian Insider.
Bagaimanapun, tiada pengakuan dicatatkan daripada Uncle Seekers berhubung perkara itu.
Semalam, laporan media menyebut, Uncle Seekers telah ditahan bersama seorang perempuan yang dikenali Siti Nadhirah Mohd Zain berusia 26 tahun.
Timbalan Ketua Polis Siasatan Jenayah Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen Johor, Mohd Akhir Ishak mengesahkan tangkapan itu.
“Polis menerima tujuh laporan polis ke atas pengendali laman blog itu sejak 13 Jun lalu. Susulan itu, dua pasukan polis telah melakukan tangkapan ke atas beliau malam tadi (semalam) .
“Kedua-duanya ditangkap untuk siasatan lanjut bersangkutan kes di bawah Seksyen 8(1) (d) Akta Rahsia Rasmi 1972,” katanya pada pemberita di Johor Bharu, semalam.
Mohd Akhir berkata, jika disabit kesalahan mereka boleh dipenjara setahun dan tidak melebihi tujuh tahun.
Sebelum ini, memetik laporan media, lebih 30 laporan polis telah dibuat terhadap Uncle Seekers kerana menyiarkan artikel di laman blog miliknya, uncleseekers.blogspot.com yang dikatakan mengaibkan Sultan, dan kerabat Diraja Johor.

**** Sebab di Tahan pada awal kerana ini....

Part 62 - Johor military (JMF) relevan atau tidak?
Part 63 - Rakyat johor anjing?
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Part 66 - Kesimpulan - Tutup kedai