We should be proud to read of such news.

Taken from TheStar.

PETALING JAYA: Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, who was honoured by the United States for her advocacy of women’s and human rights, hopes her experiences will inspire others, especially Malaysian women.

Her courage and leadership garnered her the prestigious Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage 2009 award in conjunction with International Women’s Day.

“This award has given us the opportunity, which we would not otherwise have had, to share our stories, our successes, our failures, to reach out across our borders and establish a base upon which we can build a meaningful network of support.

“These stories must be told in all our countries,” Ambiga said during her speech in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, when she received the award.

Ambiga, one of eight women from around the world honoured for women’s and human rights advocacy in their homeland, was also given the honour of representing the others in a speech before US First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Honoured: Ambiga receiving her award from Clinton as Obama looks on at the awards ceremony in Washington on Wednesday. — AFP

Ambiga said Clinton had inspired women around the world to “reach great heights” when she was First Lady and later a US Senator.

Clinton, in her speech, lauded Ambiga for pursuing judicial reform and good governance, standing up for religious tolerance, and resolutely advocating women’s equality and their full political participation.

The seven other women honoured at the ceremony were from Russia, Uzbekistan, Niger, Yemen, Guatemala, Iraq and Afghanistan.

I got to hand it to the strategists in BN.  What happened in Perak is a brilliant strategy.

First they get one fella to cross over to Pakatan.  They then made sure the press conference made front page news on almost every newspaper and the news on every TV station, showing them celebrating and holding their hands high.  It was a Pakatan victory.  I was already curious then why the govt controlled media was giving this kind of exposure to Pakatan. 

It showed BN in a bad light and Pakatan milked it for all it’s worth.  ‘Another BN rep had yet again lost confidence and jumped ship.’ ‘Another BN rep had yet again come to his senses and join the government that was for the rakyat.’  I was sold.

But then the real bombshell dropped.  3 fellas crossed over to BN, well as independent candidates but pledge their support to BN.  The fella who crossed over to Pakatan then decides to cross over back into BN.  Pakatan was in no position to protest because they had celebrated the crossing over of the BN fella.  If Pakatan had protested now, it would show them as hypocrites.  And now BN was singing the tune that Pakatan had so proudly sung a few days ago.  It’s an absolutely brilliant strategy.  Well done.

This shows that Najib is no Abdullah.  He and his team (whoever they are) put much thought into it.  Put people and strategy into play. 

Things have also been slowly happening in the corporate world.  People are slowly being placed into corporate Malaysia that are Najib friendly.  Something Pak Lah failed to do.  This shows that Najib is gearing up for a long rule.

Anwar should have killed off the competition when he had the chance with Pak Lah.  He had the numbers.  Or at least he told us he had the numbers.  Of course, not many of us believed him.

I read this piece of news with much curiosity.  Army to get rocket launchers.  Apparently the Royal Malaysian Army have purchased 18 Astros II multiple rocket launchers for RM27million. 

What for ah?  No seriously.  It’s a genuine question.  I’m not slacking the army off but just curious why.  What do they write in their requisition forms?  18 Astros II MLRs required for ……………….

Perhaps to be used whenever the army is sent overseas for peacekeeping missions?  Perhaps just to aim at our neighbours?