Underneath the Mango Tree in Permatang Pauh

Underneath the Mango Tree in Permatang Pauh
Permatang Pauh: Most well-known ‘mango territory’

Underneath the Mango Tree (Music Video Parody)

Malaysiakini news by Athi Veeranggan | Aug 23, 08
It’s undeniable that Permatang Pauh by-election has hit the international limelight because one man – the parliamentary constituency’s favourite son and opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim.
Foreign journalists flocked [...]

An Hwa Yi Bu La Sin or Ebrahim or End War Abraham? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

An Hwa Yi Bu La Sin or Ebrahim or End War Abraham?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
 
An Hwa or End War or Ann Wha or Ibrahim
Abraham or Ebrahim or Eebulasin o 
 
 
An Hwa (Hokkkien) End War (CNN) Abraham (Christian) 
Annuar Ebrahim (Burmese /Pakistan / Northern Indian /Bengladesh)
Ibrahim (Malay) Ann Wha Yi Bu La Sin (Mandrine)
 
“What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose 


By [...]

Capitalism

Capitalism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capitalism is the economic system in which the means of production are owned by private persons, and operated for profit[1] and where investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods andservices are predominantly determined through the operation of a free market.[2] Capitalism is usually considered to involve the right of individuals and corporations to trade, incorporate, employ workers, and usemoney, in goods, services (including finance), labor and land. [2] By definition, production and distribution in a capitalist system are governed by the free market rather [...]

Distributism, a better system than Capitalism and Socialism

 
Distributism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Distributism, also known as distributionism and distributivism, is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Roman Catholicthinkers as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of Catholic Social Teaching articulated by the Roman Catholic Church, especially in Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum[1] and more expansively explained by Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quadragesimo Anno[2] According to distributism, the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely [...]

The paradox of intellectual honesty

The paradox of intellectual honesty
 Jeremiah Liang’s letter to the Malaysiakini
The ability to consider dispassionately two opposite ideas is a sign of
 

intellectual maturity
and honesty.
Far be it for a sound-thinking rational person to have no passion about anything.
But it is essential for him/her, when faced with 

two opposite ideas, 
two contrasting choices, 

to consider everything with a cool head [...]

Irrawaddy;Suu Kyi Reportedly Refuses to Meet Gambari

By SAW YAN NAING
Friday,August 22, 2008
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reportedly refusing to meet UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari because she’s unhappy with the way his mission is being organized and carried out.
An official of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) said: “We heard that she is unhappy with the atmosphere [...]