Racist Remarks by Malaysian Blogger!

A Blogger known as “Sammy”, was reported to have posted anti-Indian sentiments on her blog, Life is a Drama. The blogger posted her comments after she claimed her mobile phone was stolen by two alleged Indian youths when she was having lunch on Sept 23.

Malaysiakini,
Malaysia’s leading online news portal, managed to get a copy of her original
posting, which was reported to have included comments like:
I hate Indians. It’s bad enough they are famous for being drunk and rude (most of them anyway). Now they carry the reputation of being stealer, robbers, rapist, idiots, morons, drunkard bastards and list goes on…
I am not trying to be racist but it always Indian. It’s Indian fault. I don’t care if I am sued for racism.

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/10/03/malaysia-outrage-at-racist-blogger/

F1 Singapore Update

Formula 1's first ever night GP received near-universal praise after last weekend's action packed events. Night racing was a total step into the unknown for Formula 1, but F1 fans could not have asked for a more exciting race, filled with crashes, upsets and a surprise winner.

There were a lot of driver complaints about the bumpiness of the track. But in this case their complaints were totally ignored as the bumpiness made the track more challenging and viewing the race a pleasure. Only part of the track was newly created and for the most part it was a genuine street surface, unlike the new Valencia track.

The flood lights brought the cars to life, creating a vibrant viewing experience. Singapore could not have asked for a better advertisement of itself when the surrounding city landscape and the Singapore Flyer were beamed to over 500 million global audience.

However there are still some improvements that can be made. Early road closures were a huge turn off for shoppers, affecting malls like Suntec City and Marina Square. There is also a need to address the position of the pit exit and entrance.

Latest news from the other side of the channel are saying that the Malaysian Grand Prix organisers have ruled out turning their event into a night race, but plan a late afternoon start to make the Sepang race more convenient for European television audiences.

For more details about what happened during the race itself please visit this site - http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12433_4207366,00.html

The Cost of Rising Military Expenditure and the New Asian Emergence!

Military expenditure in the new millennium (2001 – 2006)

Right up to 2005 Japan remained the top military spender in Asia, investing up to 47 Billion.However,China overtook Japan as Asia’s biggest arms spender in 2006 as global military expenditures grew 3.5 percent to US$1.2 trillion, according to a Swedish research institute, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI).The USA remained the biggest spender spending more than 400Billion.America’s war on Terror since 2001 has drained much of its resources into this expensive affort thus becoming the probable cause of the current economic slowdown.

According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the cost of the Iraq war which was 50 to 60 times bigger than the Bush administration predicted was a central cause of the sub-prime banking crisis threatening the world economy, The former World Bank vice-president yesterday said the war had, so far, cost the US something like $US3trillion ($3.3 trillion) compared with the $US50-$US60-billion predicted in 2003.

< http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23286149-2703,00.html >

Religious Enforcement succeeds!

66 nabbed for not respecting Ramadan.

By Irene C

Number of Muslims caught for offences drops, says Daud

KUCHING: The number of Muslims caught for not respecting the month of Ramadan in Sarawak has dropped by nearly 50 per cent this year compared to 2007.

Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman said only 66 Muslim were caught for offences such as eating, drinking or smoking in public this year, compared to 126 last year.

Daud said he hoped the number of Muslims committing such offences will continue to decrease in time to come...

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India Bans Smoking in public places!

India has banned smoking in public places from today(2nd Oct) in an attempt to fight tobacco which is blamed for the death of a fifth of all deaths in India.Offenders will be fined 200 Rupees.

Everyone agrees, that implementing the ban could be a problem and much will depend on compliance rather than enforcement.

How effective is enforcement going to be in the largest democracy of the world???

Could this lead to a rise in corruption associated with the police???

The Unseen Forces - Technology and the Spiritual!

Teleportation and Spirituality

Teleportation is the ability of moving matter from one point in time and space to another point in time and space instantaneously. There are different types of teleportation available at this time both visual and physical teleportation are possible and we use visual teleportation as our starting point. The different types of visual teleportation are. visual body or astral body teleportation, or visual object teleportation but before we can master teleportation we must first learn the art of Telekinesis/Psychokinesis and Clairsentience and the higher state of consciousness the seventh sense. Other abilities useful in teleportation are Tele-Visualization and ESP (Extrasensory Perception). The ability of teleportation is used in Time travel, Interstellar travel, and Dimensional travel. Teleportation is the near instantaneous transport of the Psychic from one location to another and there is no other form of travel faster then teleportation Teleporting An Visual Object.

http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/Wingmakers/Teleportation.html

The connection I am trying to make here is in the ability of ancient Siddhars, the enlightened souls or saints/yogis of India in Teleporting themselves to different places.Yogic powers called Siddhis are acquired by constant meditation and practice of certain Yogic disciplines. Those who acquire these Siddhis are called Siddhars and teleportation is just one among the wide range of Siddhis that they possess.

Typically Siddhars were saints, doctors, alchemists and mysticists all at once. They wrote their findings, in the form of poems in Tamil language, on palm leaf which are collected and stored in what are known today as Palm leaf manuscript, today still owned by private families in Tamil Nadu and handed down through the generations, as well as public institutions such as Universities the world over (India, Germany, Great Britain, U.S.A.).

Powers of Siddhars

The Siddhars are believed to have had powers both major and other ‘minor’ powers. They are explained in detail in various Yogic as well as religious texts;Thirumandiram 668:

1. To become tiny as the atom within the atom (Anima)
2. To become big in unshakeable proportions (Mahima)
3. To become as light as vapour in levitation (Laghima)
4. To become as heavy as the mountain (Garima)
5. To enter into other bodies in transmigration (Prapti)
6. To be in all things,omni-pervasive (Prakamya)
7. To be lord of all creation in omnipotence (Isatvam)
8. To be everywhere in omnipresence (Vasitvam)

These eight are the Great Siddhis, or Great Perfections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhar

Here is something else I stumbled upon during my research.It is called Project White Horse.Written by Ashok Kumara (Seattle, USA) on Jan 9, 2008 (updated on Jan 13, 2008).Below are some of the interesting parts relevant to our topic.

Powers of enlightened beings (EB):

•Ability to shift awareness into the fifth dimension (the dimension of light) and invoke
celestial experiences at own will, including devotion/love, which is nothing but oneness
with the object of contemplation.

•Ability to play with sound energy which includes emotions.

•Ability to understand deep concepts and articulate with clarity.

•Ability to connect with ascended masters (siddhas) through telepathy and astral meeting (i.e.
meeting of light bodies) and receive inspirations and creative ideas.

•Ability to assist seekers in invoking glimpses of blissful experiences. EB can only be an
Acharya, not a Guru. Guru means immortal light, and exists within the seeker.

•Ability to manifest dreams into reality

•Ability to maintain a healthy body for a long time.

•Ability to teleport matter (i.e. move matter from one place to another instantly, giving theappearance of materialization). Only some of the beings have this ability. This art can be
learnt by all enlightened beings if they so desire. This is a cheap trick, and most EBs do not
care about this ability. True creation is materializing matter directly from thought and this
ability can be learnt only after ascension (see the section on evolution process)

http://www.sadhanaschoolofarts.com/PDF/WhiteForce.pdf

For more informaion on the Siddhar Tradition read "Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition"

Teleportation Tutorial : Based On Tesla's Magnetic Wall Theory

Today, our gadgetry and electronics rely on unseen forces as much as we rely on them. The following effect celebrates the wonders of natural science and the impossibilities made possible through man-made technology....more from metacafe

Canada PM faces Plagiarism Claim and Speechwriter RESIGNS!

Portions of the speeches played side by side - WATCH!

Wednesday, 1 October 2008
BBC News

A Canadian Conservative Party speech-writer has resigned after Prime Minister Stephen Harper was accused of plagiarism in a speech he made in 2003.

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Mount Kailash / Kailasam

The Sacred Mountain

The towering 22028 ft high peak Mt. Kailash in the Himalayas, a great mass of black rock,25 miles north of the Mansarovar lake is hailed as the abode of Lord Shiva by Hindus. It is an arduous trek to Kailash through the snow clad Himalayas and is attempted only by a few. The Tibetians refer to Kailash as Kangrimpoche (Jewel of Snow). Kailash is also referred to as Hemakootam.

Kailasam is considered sacred by four religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bön faith. In Hindu religion, it is considered to be the abode of Lord Shiva. The mountain lies near Lake Manasarowar and Lake Rakshastal in Tibet. There have been no recorded attempts to climb Mount Kailash; it is considered off limits to climbers in deference to Buddhist and Hindu beliefs. It is the most significant peak in the world that has not seen any known climbing attempts.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash)

The Buddhists refer to the sacred mountain as Kangri Karchchak; they regard the presiding deity of Mt. Kailash as Deity with three eyes, holding the damaru and the trishul; his consort is referred to as Dorje Fangmo. The Jains regard Mt. Kailash as the Ashtapada mountain where the first Tirtankara Adinath (Rishabhadeva) attained nirvana.

(http://www.templenet.com/Tamilnadu/s070.html)

Followers of Bon, Tibet's pre-Buddhist, shamanistic religion, call the mountain Tise and believe it to be the seat of the Sky Goddess Sipaimen. Additionally, Bon myths regard Tise as the sight of a legendary 12^th century battle of sorcery between the Buddhist sage Milarepa and the Bon shaman Naro Bon-chung. Milarepa's defeat of the shaman displaced Bon as the primary religion of Tibet, firmly establishing Buddhism in its place. While the Buddha is believed to have magically visited Kailash in the 5^th century BC, the religion of Buddhism only entered Tibet, via Nepal and India, in the 7^th century AD. Tibetan Buddhists call the mountain Kang Rimpoche, the 'Precious One of Glacial Snow', and regard it as the dwelling place of Demchog (also known as Chakrasamvara) and his consort, Dorje Phagmo. Three hills rising near Kang Rimpoche are believed to be the homes of the the Bodhisatvas Manjushri, Vajrapani, and Avalokiteshvara.

Pilgrims to Kailash, after the difficult journey getting there, are then confronted with the equally arduous task of circumambulating the sacred peak. This walking around the mountain (clockwise for the Buddhists, counter-clockwise for Bon adherents) is known as a Kora, or Parikrama, and normally takes three days. In hopes of gaining extra merit or psychic powers however, some pilgrims will vary the tempo of their movement. A hardy few, practicing a secret breathing technique known as Lung-gom, will power themselves around the mountain in only one day. Others will take two to three weeks for the Kora by making full body prostrations the entire way. It is believed that a pilgrim who completes 108 journeys around the mountain is assured enlightenment. Most pilgrims to Kailash will also take a short plunge in the nearby, highly sacred (and very cold) Lake Manosaravar. The word 'manas' means mind or consciousness; the name Manosaravar means Lake of Consciousness and Enlightenment. Adjacent to Manosaravar is Rakas Tal or Rakshas, the Lake of Demons. Pilgrimage to this great sacred mountain and these two magical lakes is a life changing experience and an opportunity to view some of the most magical scenery on the entire planet.

http://www.sacredsites.com/asia/tibet/mt_kailash.html

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