I have bought my ticket to KL on Friday! Yeehhooooo.... My bus will be at 10.30am by NiCE bus. First time with NiCE. Will be excited to try. Before, I have been on Transnasional bus. But what I have heard from my friends. They said that NiCE is much nicer then Transnasional. Will be looking forward to it.
Today, I am having my speaking test with Mr. Hiu for BEL 260. I had just finished my class with Mdm. Farah at 1.00pm studying the court system. Adversarial vs Inquisitorial system. What an interesting class. The topics are very very cool. We had to study cases and so on.
What I am worried about is the speaking test. For the last few days, I have not been in a very good mood. The mood is unstable. Sometimes I'm OK and sometimes I'm NOT! Probably its time. That..I'm not sure! Whatever it is, I got a topic of the importance if English Language and how to improve the language proficiency in school. The point that was given to me was 'English language web-based activities in the syllabus'.
Quite easy huh? Yeah! There's a-lot to talk about but seriously, I am not in the mood! I am gathering all the points and information I got but I am not sure whether I'll be able to present cause seriously, my mood today is not that good. Plus, I am only left with RM 2.00. No dinner today. Have to go to ECM to withdraw money. Yeah. That's right. And the taxi fees to go to ECM is RM 8.00. How am I suppose to go then? hurmmm... MENAPAK la JAWABNYER!
More to that, I am going home this weekend. Will take the bus on Friday morning. Probably the 8am bus and I am expected to arrive in KL at 1.00pm. Yeah. It's a 5 hours journey. That's all for now. Going for discussion now.
Most people would be interested in the latest or hottest news on the particular day such who fought with who today. Will BTN policy be abolished or even who is the hottest celebrity in Hollywood right now but the one that caught my eyes today is something new to me. This is some kind of a new discovery for me. For the last few days, I've been going online and looking for issues due to my new participation in debate that requires one to know all the global knowledge. Not to be brag but I have been doing this since before only then I need to get even more smart in searching the information. Back to the main thing that I want to share with everyone.. is this.
WORLD MILITARY SPENDING vs SPENDINGS BY UNITED NATION FOR PEACE
Expenditures on Military purposes has been rising since 2005. In 2005, the expenditure on military has been estimated as $1.2 billon and it has been rising since then. In 2008, $1.464 trillion. What a shock, right? That is a huge amount of money to be spent in the period of 3 years. The country with the most amount of spending towards this is for sure and not surprisingly United States which spent under half of the world total, at 41.5% of the world total. That is no shock. The 15 countries with the highest spending account for over 81% of the total;The USA is responsible for 41.5 per cent of the world total, distantly followed by the China (5.8% of world share), France (4.5%), UK (4.5%), and Russia (4%). If you click on the link you can see the pie chart that is given. I can't copy it to my blog cause it is copyright reserved.
SIPRI also adds the factors on the increasing expenditure in military stuff, there are:-
Foreign policy objectives
Real or perceived threats
Armed conflict and policies to contribute to multilateral peacekeeping operations
Availability of economic resources
* More information on the military expenditure please click on the link.
Let's focus back to our main topic which is the expenditure on military stuff vs the spendings by UN for peace.
If you read further on the article you would know that the UN's entire budget is much much lesser than the military spending. Even it is lesser than the spending by the US alone.
The United Nations and all its agencies and funds spend about $27 billion each year, or about $4 for each of the world’s inhabitants. This is a very small sum compared to most government budgets and it is just a tiny fraction of the world’s military spending. Yet for nearly two decades, the UN has faced a financial difficulties and it has been forced to cut back on important programs in all areas. Many member states have not paid their full dues and have cut their donations to the UN’s voluntary funds. As of May 31, 2009, members’ arrears to the Regular Budget topped $1282 million, of which the United States alone owed $857 million (67% of the regular budget arrears).
OK! Let's think together. The spending for military stuff is much higher compared to the entire budget of the United Nation that need to consider all sorts of disaster in the world to spend it on. so how does this goes? How can UN coped with the whole war thing. UN was set up to be commited to preserving peace through international coorperation and collective security. At the current level of spending (2008) it would take just a handful of years for the world’s donor countries to cover their entire aid shortfall, of over $3.6 trillion in promised official aid since 1970, more than 35 years ago.
Lets just think over this for awhile, aite! Why is this happening in our world? Not to mention who is the starter of this. This doesn't reflect that we are in the age of civilisation. The billions and trillions of money spent is for what? Disasterous? WAR? The money that is spent for military purposes should be the kind of money that should be used by UN to preserve the peacefulness of the world and not to just copped up with all the WAR mess that was left by some parties. That is not cool! Not just WAR, we all know that the climate of the world now are very very unexpected. We cannot expect the weather. There were many natural disaster that has happened for the past few years yet we are still spending our money for WAR? We are still thinking about WAR? huh? We should keep that money in case our country need them. This goes to all the countries in the world.
Extra information:- (The top ranking nations on the global peace index were, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Austria, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Finland, and Slovenia. It is worth looking at the report for the full list of indicators used, which cover a mixture of internal and external factors, weighted in various ways.)
Thursday, November 26, 2009
SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL ADHA EVERYONE! LET US SACRIFICE SOMETHING TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING ELSE FOR GOOD! MAY GOD BLESS!
I have never expected that the fights between Muslims and Non-Muslims are in almost every country. I have just read a book called 'The Politics and Government of South East Asia' on Islam in each ASEAN countries.
Based on what I have read, I am quite surprised on the discrimination against Islam in Burma. Muslims lived in Arakan and it is bounded to the north-west by Bangladesh, and to the north by India and their local language is Rohingya also their population is estimated as 4 million. Conflict between Muslim and Burmese- Maghs started in 1942 when both Burmese and Maghs jointly conspired to depopulate the Rohingyas and they have created a dreadful massacre in which more that 100 000 Rohingyas were killed. It will not be a shocked if all they did were closing up the schools and not allowing the Rohingyas to be in the government system or whatsoever. It is such a shocked when the Maghs used their powerful exploitative group and secretly planned the systematic extermination of the Rohingyas Muslims. As a results, thousands of innocent Rohingyas were put into prison, hundreds of them were killed, the Rohingyas women were raped, religious sites were desecreted and the old were tortured. To escape this, the Rohingyas had to flee to Bangladesh to seek for shelter and security in 1978.
In 1988, General Sau Maung has faithfully following the policies Ne win set up agaist the Rohingyas and thus he put Rohingyas students into prison. tortured them, deployed army in Rohingyas areas, uprooted many Rohingyas villages and established millitary camps and Buddhist settlements. The Rohingyas Muslims were victims of killing, tortured, and rape. The consequences, Rohingyas that seeks for help becomes the refugee in another country. Why is this so?The above statement happened years ago.
Looking at the present times, in Malaysia. What is the status of Islam in our country? It's true that Islam is the official religion of the country as stated in the Federal Constitution Article 3(1) maintains that 'Islam is the religion of the Federation: but other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony in any part of the Federation'. This clause certainly provides the distinctive position of Islam in this country. But, looking at the situation in our country now, I really couldn't see the position of our religion. Yes, our Agong is a Muslim, our PM is a Muslim but do the position of Islam really preserves by them? I might not have a-lot of knowledge about this but based on my observation, I can see that the Muslims or I can say the Malays now have done a really bad job in preserving their own race and religion. What have they done to preserve their rights? A DEMONSTRATION? That's not the way. Other races for example Chinese. Only once I heard that one of their temple have to be moved to some other places and they have made a huge issue on it. There were quite a number of mosque that has been 'bulldozed' away for development but have we said anything to stop that? I don't think so. Teoh Beng Hock's case which has been a huge issue this year that was claimed by the Chinese that it was some sort of discrimination towards the Chinese but based on what I have read, the case not only involved TBH ( Chinese) but also a Malay. Have the Malays say anything to defend this case? No?
Not only that, in Bangsar, there were a number of Islamic Kindergarden that were instructed to closed down for so called development but surpringly, other Kindergardens along the same road have not received any intruction to close down? Hurmm..Have anyone done something? Not even the Government who claimed to be the one who will preserve Islam in our country? I don't think so. Seriously I'm asking. Who is the one that is responsible in preserving our religion now? What are the Malays doing now? Blaming each other?
Again I'm asking, what is the status of Islam in our country right now? Right now, I'm looking at the argument between Malays. So, where is the Malay unity? Why when something happend to other races, they make a big-fuss about it and when something happened to the Malays, no one says anything?
I might not have a strong argument on those stated above but I am just wondering. I am a student and I need answers. It has always been Muslims against Non-Muslim and Malays against other races. Why is this so?
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It is now the time to return to the old routine which is :-
a) Get up b) Take a shower c) Go to class d) Lunch e) Class f) Dinner g) Do anything that is necessary h) Sleep i) repeat step (a) till (h)
For this 2nd sem, I am placed in 1208 which is one floor down from the previous house. Which is somehow good. Although the environment might have changed a little bit here and there but it's cool. Plus it is now rainy season, so the house will not be as hot as before. My room. 3rd room.With who? G-Pah, Maton n Lynn. The room is quite cool though. Ok! It's time for DINNER now! YES!
MILITARY SPENDING vs SPENDINGS BY UNITED NATION FOR PEACE
s think together. The spending for military stuff is much higher compared to the entire budget of the United Nation that need to consider all sorts of disaster in the world to spend it on. so how does this goes? How can UN coped with the whole war thing. UN was set up to be commited to preserving peace through international coorperation and collective security. At the current level of spending (2008) it would take just a handful of years for the world’s donor countries to cover their entire aid shortfall, of over $3.6 trillion in promised official aid since 1970, more than 35 years ago.