A movement in hopes of a brighter Palestine

I read this on Avaa.org and just really wanted to share this. Spread it.

It was the hottest week of the year. All Fadel Jaber wanted was some water for his family. But Fadel lives in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli government has redirected water pipes to provide swimming pools for Jewish settlers and empty faucets for Palestinians like Fadel.

When the Israeli forces dragged Fadel off for taking water, his heartbroken five-year-old son Khaled could be heard screaming “baba, baba!” as his dad was torn away. This is daily life for Palestinians living under the brutal fist of martial law where their land and water has been stolen by settlers and they have no basic civil rights. But after years of violence and hopelessness, a movement is growing in Palestine -- a nonviolent resistance seeking the same thing that all Israelis already have: freedom, dignity and a state of their own.

For years, the media has focused on Palestinian militants, and to this day, extremists on both sides are pushing peace further out of reach. But what’s lost in all that vitriol are the loving families like Fadel’s that just want a normal life. Now, those families are stepping forward, leading peaceful marches, organizing sit-ins, and working with Israeli activists to seek justice and freedom. In response, the Israeli military has thrown them in jail, beaten up organisers, and ripped children from their beds.

Days ago, I went to the West Bank to meet with these brave, peaceful people. When I proposed that our community could come to their aid, their eyes lit up. They need funds for lawyers when friends and family are jailed on spurious charges, cameras to document abuses, training in media skills and nonviolent tactics, and campaigners to take this local protest global. These families are the real hope. Let’s each donate to boost the peaceful movement over the extremist ones and give Khaled a future worthy of his father’s dreams.

- Alice Jay, Campaign Director

So if anyone would like to help the people of Palestine please DONATE HERE

Sharing is Caring. Til next time :)

How to submit an article to Digg.com (With Pictures)

So, you stumbled upon Digg.com. Its awesome right? 

When I first "dug" it up, I was such a noob. I was looking for the 'Submit a link' button and cause its a pretty important button i figured it would be somewhere easy to find but i was wrong. Come to think of it, its kinda weird where they put the button. I wonder why they placed it where it is. So anyhoo, Imma help you out :)

I'm guessing you've already signed up and all that and you want to submit a link but don't know how? No worries, i got you covered :)

You have to scroll all the way down to the end and you'll see it. 

See what i mean by a "weird". So just click on it and it'll bring you to page to submit the link.

Well there ya go. Till next time :)

The most lenient punishment for rape

I just received an email from Avaaz.org to sign a petition to get justice for a girl in Kenya and i was so shocked about what i read. How can they take such a low action towards this violence? How can they even call that punishment? 

What was said in the email :

" Dear friends,

16 year old Liz was walking home from her grandfather’s funeral when she was ambushed by six men who took turns raping her and then threw her unconscious body down a 6-meter toilet pit. Their punishment? Police had them mow their station lawn, then let them go free! 

Liz’s horror story has sent shockwaves through Kenya and now politicians and the police are under pressure to respond. But women's groups in Kenya say nothing will truly change unless the government is put under the global spotlight. They are calling on us urgently to help ensure justice is done and that Liz’s nightmare marks a turning-point in Kenya’s rape epidemic. 

Nobody has been brought to justice -- not the rapists, and not the police. Today, we change that. Let's stand with Liz right now, before her attackers and the police escape. Click below to get justice for Liz and help make sure no girl anywhere suffers this violence: 

http://www.avaaz.org/en/justice_for_liz_loc/?betIBfb&v=30665 

According to the girl’s mother, after they were set free, the rapists returned to Liz’s home to taunt the family. They acted like they were above the law, and they had good reason to think so. Because of ridiculous bureaucratic requirements, the police logged Liz’s attack as mere "assault" and asked her mother to “clean her up”, destroying key forensic evidence. Now her rapists are free and Liz is in a wheelchair. 

Liz’s story is an extreme example of a much bigger problem. In Kenya, two thirds of school girls and half of school boys have been sexually abused. And earlier this year, a landmark court ruling found police guilty of failing to do their jobs and ordered them to uphold Kenya’s strict anti-rape laws. Rape is illegal everywhere, but too often these laws are just not enforced by the men charged with protecting our daughters. Beginning with Liz, we can change that. 

The police claim that they don’t have the money or training to uphold the law. But you don’t need much training to know that cutting the grass is no punishment for rape. If we can help ensure these rapists and police are held to account, we can set a precedent that will compel police to treat rape as a crime, not a misdemeanor. Sign up now for justice for Liz and to help end the war on girls:  


http://www.avaaz.org/en/justice_for_liz_loc/?betIBfb&v=30665 

PS: Liz is a pseudonym given by the news outlet that broke her story and has since been widely used. She is not pictured here. 

PPS - This campaign was started by a member of our community in Kenya."

Are you as baffled as I? As outraged? To even dismiss this with a blink of an eye! I mean really so much ignorance and disrespect . "The police claim that that don't have the money or training ti uphold the law." That is such bs. Lock them up in prison! You don't need that much training just to do that do you? The poice officers don't they have daughters, nieces or cousins? What if it was someone from thei family? Surely they won't just bat their eyelashes and say "We don't have the money or training to help you.".

I'll stop now cause I might just write profanities. I wanted to share this to help spread the world and help other girls like Liz in Kenya.

till next time.

What is 8Share.com?

Hello there :) 

If you stumbled upon this particular post then you must be wondering what 8share is or wondering if 8Share is another internet scam but I assure you it is not. 8Share is a rewards "club" for those who want to earn extra pocket change,an alternative way to earn money on the internet in Malaysia,India,Philippines and Singapore and it is so simple! All you have to do is share some news on your social media site( Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ ).

Have I mentioned that its totally FREE?? Yup. Just SIGN UP HERE and start sharing! And you are on your way to making some money via the internet.

It is totally LEGIT.

Still sounds sketchy?

See there are people who swear by it, no worries. Also if you are still suspicious that this is a scam read THIS, it is a post I did proving that 8Share pays out active/diligent/consistently-sharing users. :)

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Well, if you have already signed up and signed in you would be directed to a page called Specials where random or not-so-random news which were picked by 8Share will be displayed for you to choose and share(see pic below). 

And each news would say 'RM10 for you to share' but that means as a total if you are lucky enough(and people just keep clicking your links) you would earn RM10 for sharing that news but you actually earn RM0.20 for every "unique visits" to that specific link as long as the Special is still running and available. 

Yes, there is a time limit or more like a number of days in which those links are considered "Special" and can garner you money. It will be shown on the news how many days are left. Some special lasts for very long like maybe a month,30 days. Some specials lasts about a week,7 days. 

Interested yet? Sign up here.

Besides "Specials" they also have "Social Good"(see pic below) where you earn Bonus Points,though these BPs aren't money related. But the BP earned can be used to purchase merchandise from 8Share when it is available.

What is Social Good? Well, the word social good in itself is a big give-away. Its another chance for you to help the NGOs, non-profits and grassroot movements by sharing and spreading news about their social causes. They usually have the "how many days left" but from what I've seen even if it says however many days, the social good news is usually there all year long. For example, in the picture above there's the news with Planet Earth and the one with the kid, those social good news has been there forever(I may be exaggerating but for the past 3 years they have been there). The social good news about NoExcuseForAbuse is new though.

Also, if you wanted to post in something for a good cause you can do so by sending an email to 8share. It says here in the F.A.Q. You can also read up on any questions you have in the faq.

If you are nterested? Just Sign Up Here and your good to go.

Have fun sharing!

*Sharing is Caring :D 

Attempted Rape and Murder

PETALING JAYA: The body of 15-year-old girl Ng Yuk Tim, who had been missing since Monday, was found stuffed in a suitcase and in Jalan Kebun Nenas, Shah Alam.

Selangor deputy police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Rahim Jaafar said a 23-year-old male suspect had confessed to killing the girl in his house and was brought in to the Petaling Jaya police headquarters at 6.30pm.

“He led police to a body which was in a suitcase at the side of the road near a curb,” he told a press conference at the crime scene.

According to sources, Ng Yuk Tim left her home at 11am on Monday and went to the man’s home in Kelana Jaya to work on cosplay costumes for an upcoming event.

The man initially claimed that he had dropped her off at the Kelana Jaya LRT station at about 3.30pm.

Under persistent questioning by a crime watcher, he confessed to murdering her.

He admitted that he tried to rape the girl before striking her with a dumbbell, killing her on the spot.



Family in Despair. Grandpa out for blood.

PETALING JAYA: "HE is not human but an animal; a devil. If I were given the chance, if the police were to allow me, I would take an iron bar and smack his head like what he did to Yuk Tim."

Such was the grief of the family of murdered Ng Yuk Tim that her maternal grandfather, William Sim, is considering facing the gallows just so he can avenge the 15-year-old's death.

"My granddaughter was a very nice person, who had a good heart and a bright future. How could the murderer do this to her, to us?

"He wanted to rape my granddaughter, and killed her when she fought back. I am 70. I have nothing to lose if I am sent to the gallows."

Speaking at the University Malaya Medical Centre mortuary, Sim said what the family could not stomach was that the 23-year-old suspect, who was reported to have confessed to the killing later, had initially showed concern about Yuk Tim's disappearance, even "helping" to look for her.

The family's anger at the man boiled over at the mortuary as Sim, Yuk Tim's grandmother and an aunt told reporters they would never forgive him and hoped the courts would send him the gallows.

Sim said the man had initially told his 35-year-old daughter, Sim Yee Ling, Yuk Tim's mother, that he had dropped the teen off at the Kelana Jaya LRT station at 3pm on Monday.

When checks were made on the station's closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera recordings the following day, Yuk Tim was nowhere to be seen.

"When we told him (the suspect) about the CCTV, and asked him to come over, he dared to come and acted innocent.

"I really would like to thank (Selangor Community Policing Association chairman) Kuan (Chee Heng), as he was the one who detected the suspect's injuries and coaxed him to tell the truth."

Kuan had gone to the LRT station on Tuesday afternoon to join the search party, and spotted injuries and a bite mark on the man's hand. The man confessed that he had hit the victim's head with a dumbbell when they scuffled after she refused to have sex with him.

He led police to a location in Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam, where he had dumped Yuk Tim's body which he had stuffed into a luggage bag. Sim's wife, Yap Pik Wan, 59, said the suspect was among her granddaughter's circle of friends who shared a hobby in cosplay.

She said on the day Yuk Tim went missing, she had left their house in Bandar Tun Razak at 11am for a drink with the group in Kelana Jaya.

"However, my granddaughter followed the man home to work on a cosplay project. She wanted to make a helmet for a cosplay competition in December.

"Usually, they would do it in a group as other girls had also asked for the man's help to make their costumes, but that day, he tricked my granddaughter into following him home alone."

At 1.30pm, the suspect was brought to the mortuary by police for a physical examination. Sources said the bite mark on the suspect was examined to see whether they matched Yuk Tim's teeth.

At 3.15pm, a Buddhist monk arrived at the mortuary to lead prayers for Yuk Tim. With them was Yuk Tim's 10-year-old sister, Ee Sing. Three hours later, family members were called in to view Yuk Tim's body after a post-mortem was concluded.

Yee Ling came out wailing, and her ex-husband, Ng Sai Kuan, 38, had to carry her, holding her close to console her. There was not a dry eye among Yuk Tim's relatives.

Sources said pathologists had concluded Yuk Tim died from injuries sustained when she was hit on the head.

She had been hit at least three times with a 10kg dumbbell. The examination confirmed she had not been raped. Police yesterday obtained a remand order to hold the suspect for seven days.

Senior court registrar Zalina Abdul Rani issued the order after the suspect was brought to the magistrate's court at 11.30am. The suspect was calm as he was brought out of court and escorted to a police car outside the Petaling Jaya Court Complex at 12.30pm.


And then i found this:

I have to tell you, i got a real shock from this. Like really. I mean it's one thing to know the person who passed on but it's a totally different thing when you realize that you know the man responsible for such a crime.

I find it extremely scary and creepy. Makes me wonder about all the people around me. Like how do you know if somehow somewhere deep within the darkest corner of their mind  they aren't some psychotic killer or something other? I know I'm being totally unreasonable and I'm not saying I ever thought and am now thinking of kicking my friends to the curb just cause I don't trust them but it makes you wonder, huh?