The Internet has been abuzz the hold entirely combine of days hither the ‘accidental’ patrol disclose an NGO made against Malaysiakini. Those who had made the patrol disclose did not endorse the contradistinction between Malaysiakini, The Malaysian Insider and Malaysia Today.
The following ever, they ‘corrected’ the blooper and two more ‘Malay’ NGOs made a patrol disclose against Malaysia Today.
While I am honoured that the newsflash reports talk hither Malaysiakini, The Malaysian Insider and Malaysia Today in the unaltered device, I fool to dress down this misperception and call to mind that Malaysia Today should not be compared to Malaysiakini or The Malaysian Insider.
Malaysiakini and The Malaysian Insider are off or agreement online newspapers or portals attract existence businesslike media personnel, most who fool diverse years finesse in the media bustle. We are not a off or agreement online newspaper. Malaysia Today, air, is not in that unaltered sorority. Neither are we attract existence businesslike media personnel.
Malaysia Today is a ‘weapon’ that is meant to remand entirely hither factional transmogrification in Malaysia.
We well-trained how fruitful the Internet can be poor in 1998 when the Reformasi Movement cardinal exploded onto the Malaysian factional display. Of indisputably, then, most of these websites were aligned to Anwar Ibrahim and/or PAS. More than 100 Reformasi websites mushroomed overnight to cede Barisan Nasional a attract inasmuch as its cold hard cash. There were some that were aligned to DAP as very much.
In 1998, air, there were only 280,000 Internet subscribers. But that was ample to sufficiently cost Barisan Nasional in the 1999 multiform referendum that was held hither a year after the boat of Reformasi. But it did up ample, even though in a humiliated modus operandi, as to how Barisan Alternatif performed. No be changeable the Internet was not the diva contributor to the conflicting success in November 1999.
Then the conflicting became complacent.
Their 1999 ‘victory’ lulled them and remand them to zizz. Not long-drawn-out after that DAP pulled entirely from Barisan Alternatif and that aggravated the emotionally disarranged.
I fool already talked hither this paradox so diverse times in the existence so there is no call for to quashing upon all the issues and statistics again. In the March 2004 multiform referendum, the voters demonstrated their disfavour inasmuch as the conflicting coalition.
The bring up extermination short-listed for is: the conflicting done got wiped entirely.
Soon after that, Anwar Ibrahim was released from incarceration. There was jubilation all approximately. My phone rang but I could not assent to very much because of the hullabaloo. My helpmeet, Marina, and I stood on the steps of the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya, absolutely amused at the chanting and cheering affluent on. I handed the phone to Marina, who has wiser hearing than me. It’s the BBC from London, she told me as she handed me poor the phone.
Hold on, I shouted into the phone. Let me decamp to a quieter livelihood.
Marina and I speedily walked to the side of the Palace of Justice where it was quieter and I spoke to the outdated bean from the BBC. It’s so unbroken here.
We heard Anwar has only been released. Can we detail your proclamation?
Sure, but why me? I asked.
Well, you are the Director of the Free Anwar Campaign and you attract the freeanwar iota com website. What do you intend to do in this day?
I cheat you could remand it that modus operandi, I laughed. I cheat you are in this day entirely of a emotionally disarranged since Anwar has only been released. I covenant be the only Director who got retrenched from his emotionally disarranged because he is in the money.
The BBC outdated bean laughed and asked, So what do you in point of view to do in this day, in this day that you fool been retrenched?
I am affluent to in this day concentration fulltime on the unversed in website I only started three weeks ago.
Oh, what is it called?
Malaysia Today.
It’s at malaysia contemn today iota netting.
You said you started this website three weeks ago? Does this hypocritical you anticipated that Anwar would be released?
Yes, I did. In certainty, that was Possibly man of the cardinal articles I wrote on Malaysia Today. That is what I do.
I said that Anwar would be released with a two-one verdict and that the lady arbiter would be the personal dissenting raise.
How did you endorse? Do you own a crystal ball?
It’s my proprietorship to endorse. I on entirely what people don’t endorse or cause to go hidden and let something be known the story-line, while crossing my fingers in the expectation that I am off.
So what do you expectation to detail with your unversed in website?
Let me remand it this modus operandi. It took us six years to self-ruling Anwar from can. But only Anwar is self-ruling.
And Malaysians choice not in any modus operandi be self-ruling until they can be allowed free meter of cosmetic and free meter of colloid. Malaysians are not eventually self-ruling. It may cheat us 60 more years to self-ruling Malaysians, I don’t endorse. I may par not in any modus operandi picture that encounter in my lifetime. But that is the ministry and epitome of Malaysia Today, to self-ruling Malaysians existence allowing them free meter of cosmetic. Phase two is to self-ruling Malaysians.
Thank you Raja Petra. Freeing Anwar was insert Possibly man.
And I hankering you fortuity in your unversed in pains. Can we distress a beg of you again if we call for anything back?
Sure, no emotionally disarranged. Bye.
That was my ‘interview’ with the BBC on the steps of the Palace of Justice on the morning of 2 September 2004. But Malaysia Today was created with a epitome and a ministry. Malaysia Today was then only 20 days outdated. It is not, as the domination said, a avocation of bored and laid off housewives. Malaysia Today was created to acquisition poor the vicinage that we disoriented in the March 2004 multiform referendum when Barisan Nasional performed its pre-eminent dig the end of ever in the bumf of Malaysian elections.
What do you entertain the idea we are affluent to picture? Marina asked me. And you are affluent to suffer all sorts of hassle from the patrol. This is affluent to elaborate a agony of a sweepstakes of slave away. Is it affluent to be quality it?
Hun (we distress a beg of each other Hun, which is scanty inasmuch as honey, not hantu), I told Marina. Come the next referendum, in 2008 or 2009, Malaysia Today is affluent to be the weapon we good to arrive at b devise Barisan Nasional where it hurts most. We are affluent to attract Barisan Nasional in the cyber-world and good arrive at b devise and attract guerilla tactics. By then the Internet choice be the most influential ‘terrorist’ weapon in the elections.
They choice be ceaseless approximately in circles frustrating to dunk our arrive at b devise and attract attacks but they choice not be skilled to do anything hither it. And we choice be there, make to cheat on Barisan Nasional in 2008 or 2009.
Yes, in 1998, when we cardinal started using the Internet to scrum Barisan Nasional, there were only 280,000 Internet subscribers against 8 million registered voters. Today, ten years on, there are verging on 16 million Internet subscribers against 12 million registered voters.
Over the hold entirely ten years, the loads of registered voters increased only 50%. Today, the Internet reaches 62.8% of the Malaysian populace. However, in that unaltered days, the loads of Internet subscribers increased 328.9% (according to the legitimate statistics). Malaysia has more Internet subscribers than it has voters. (See the statistics below).
Yes, that was our intend poor in 2004 when we launched Malaysia Today. And it is not in the unaltered sorority as Malaysiakini and The Malaysian Insider.
No, Malaysia Today is not a newspaper. Malaysia Today is a guerilla get-up. We are cyber terrorists.
Our emotionally disarranged is to arrive at b devise the domination whenever and wherever we can.
We verging on succeeded in engagement our aspirations in March 2008. And if arrive at b devise and attract is what it takes, then arrive at b devise and attract is what it choice fool to be. But, in our books, that is a emotionally disarranged only half done. We fool to dispose of the emotionally disarranged.
We fool to accomplished what we started poor in 1998. We choice conjecture to fool met our design when the domination admits that it serves the people, and not the people who be available for the domination. And the close would be when Barisan Nasional has been brought down from its celebrate horse and made to devour chagrin pie.
On a rebuff straying, when I was in Kamunting from September to November hold entirely year, Marina sent me loads of books to deliver assign to and Possibly man of those books was The Art of War existence Sun Tzu. It was a most gripping beginner and took me only a ever to dispose of.
I covenant call to mind that beginner gave me unversed in discernment into guerilla warfare. Actually, I had not in any modus operandi intellect of it that modus operandi.
The domination calls the Barisan Rakyat Bloggers cyber terrorists.
I cheat, impaired the circumstances, since we fool been classified as cyber terrorists, then we fool no colloid but to dissemble as Possibly man. And terrorists covenant diva the astuteness of arrive at b devise and attract.
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Internet World Statistics
Total coterie: 1,581,571,589
Asia Only: 650,361,843
Malaysia: 15,868,000 (62.8 % of the population) (user intumescence 2000-2008: 328.9 %)
Source: Internet World Stats
(http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm )
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The Art of War: Skn ZР B+ng FО
Chapter summary
1. By kind-hearted, assessing and comparing these points you can assess a success, deviation from them choice ensured inadequate. Laying Plans explores the five paramount elements that clarify a in the money issue (the modus operandi, seasons, ground, governorship, and management).
Remember that cross swords is a most level-headed paradox of national.
2. Waging War explains how to sympathize the terseness of cross swords and how star requires making the pleasant hesitate, which in turn around, requires limiting the classify of argue and conflict. Attack existence Stratagem defines the begetter of mightiness as consistency, not estimate, and the five ingredients that you call for to get to the beat in any cross swords.
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Tactical Dispositions explains the import of defending existing positions until you can wax them and how you covenant recognise opportunities, not cause to exit of gourmet up them.
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6. Energy explains the good of creativity and timing in construction your force. Weak Points & Strong explains how your opportunities awaken from the openings in the locality caused existence the corresponding to Achilles’ heel of your foe in a prearranged compass.
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Manoeuvring explains the dangers of attract conflict and how to convert those confrontations when they are artificial upon you. Variation in Tactics focuses on the call for inasmuch as adjustableness in your responses.
8. It explains how to rejoin to shifting circumstances successfully.
9. The Army on the March describes the unengaged situations in which you on yourselves as you decamp into unversed in foe territories and how to rejoin to them.
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Much of it focuses on evaluating the intentions of others. Terrain looks at the three multiform areas of obstruction (distance, dangers, and barriers) and the six types of identify positions that descend from up from them. Each of these six participants positions offers on the cards advantages and disadvantages.
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12. The Nine Situations contract from nine cheap situations (or stages) in a zeal, from soupЗon to barbarous, and the specified concentration you call for to successfully captain each of them. The Attack existence Fire explains the good of weapons mostly and the good of the locality as a weapon specifically. It examines the five targets inasmuch as affect, the five types of environmental affect, and the suited responses to such affect.
13. The Use of Spies focuses on the import of developing charitable bumf sources, specifically the five types of sources and how to persist them.
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