Khamis, 29 April 2010

Mengapa Bunuh Kanak_Kanak

A knife-wielding man attacked a kindergarten class of 4-year-olds in eastern China on Thursday, slashing 28 children in what an expert said was a copycat rampage of two other episodes at Chinese schools in the past month.

A 47-year-old jobless man, Xu Yuyuan, burst into a classroom at the Zhongxin Kindergarten early Thursday, waving an eight-inch (20-centimeter) knife and stabbing a security guard who tried to stop him, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Five students were in critical condition following the attack in Jiangsu province's Taixing city and two teachers and the security guard were injured, said Zhu Guiming, an official with the Taixing propaganda department.

A series of school attacks in China in recent years have mostly been blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness, leading to calls for improved security.

China's inadequate mental health network has left millions of unstable people without the help they need. Many otherwise healthy Chinese also feel frustrated and powerless because they aren't able to adapt to the constant social upheaval and because they believe the changes favor the corrupt. That kind of anger has occasionally erupted in mass violence and in isolated attacks.

It is not known why schools are targeted.

On Wednesday, a teacher on sick leave due to mental illness broke into a primary school in Guangdong province's Leizhou city in southern China and wounded 15 students and a teacher in a knife attack. That attack came on the same day a man was executed for killing eight children last month in stabbings that shocked China.

It was not known if Xu knew about the previous day's attack in Guangdong, but Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing, said these sorts of violent attacks often happen in clusters because one may trigger copycat attacks.

"It's like suicide, which is another type of mental health problem that can spread in a community," said Zhou. "Normally, with these kind of violent events we hope the media won't blow them up too much. Because that tends to make it spread."

A survey of mental health in four Chinese provinces jointly done by Chinese and U.S. doctors that was published in the Lancet in June concluded that China likely had about 173 million adults nationwide with mental health disorders and that most, 158 million, had never gotten any professional help for their problems.

But state media said Zheng Minsheng, 42, had no history of mental illness before he rampaged through a school in Fujian province in March, killing eight children.

During his trial, Zheng said he killed the children because he had been upset after being jilted by a woman and treated badly by her wealthy family.

The court also heard that Zheng lived with his 80-year-old grandmother in a one-bedroom apartment and slept on the balcony in summer and in the living room in winter. He testified that he had trouble dealing with people at work but had not gotten the help he needed from his boss, so he quit his job but was unable to find another one.

Yu Jianrong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has said China's sweeping social changes might be partially to blame for Zheng's anti-social rage.

"A social environment lacking fairness and justice, in which those who abide by the rules gain nothing, while those who do not can profit, could bring about resistance by the weak against the entire society," Yu was quoted as saying by the Southern Weekly newspaper a few weeks after the attack.

Zheng was executed Wednesday, just weeks after his crime. Zhou, the Renmin University professor, said China's use of capital punishment helps fuel the cycle of violence by enforcing a belief in "blood for blood."

He said China should abolish the death penalty, improve human rights and make its justice system more fair and transparent.

After a 2004 attack at a school in Beijing that left nine students dead, the central government mandated tighter school security nationwide.

The Ministry of Education did not immediately respond to a fax Thursday asking whether the attacks would result in orders to step up school security.

In Wednesday's attack, in which a teacher stabbed fourth and fifth graders in their heads, backs and arms, Xinhua said the suspect suffered from mental illness and had been on sick leave from another school since February 2006. He is now in police custody.

None of the victims in that case had life-threatening wounds, said the director of the command center at the Leizhou Public Security Bureau, who gave his name as Qin.

Two weeks ago, a mentally ill man hacked to death a second grader and an elderly woman with a meat cleaver in southern Guangxi, and wounded five other people.

Rokok Naik Harga Lagi

Aduyaii.... Harga rokok naik lagi. Harga rokok akan naik 25% bermula 30 April 2010. Tapi bukan di Malaysia tetapi di Australia. Kononnya, langkah ini adalah bertujuan untuk membendung tabiat merokok.

Langkah menaikkan harga rokok ini dijangka dapat mengurangkan penggunaan tembakau sebanyak 6 % dan mengurangkan perokok sebanyak 2 hingga 3 %.

Dengan kenaikan cukai sebanyak 25%, harga rokok akan meningkat sebanyak $2.16 menjadikan harga sebungkus rokok kandngan 30 batang beharga $ 17.95.

Khabarnya menaikkan cukai rokok akan memberi pendapatan sebanyak $5 bilion dalam masa 4 tahun dan wang ini akan terus dilaburkan kepada hospital.

Baca seterusnya dari sumber asal.

The Government will also force tobacco companies to use plain packaging from July 1, 2012.


Raising the tobacco excise will generate an extra $5 billion over four years and the money "will be directly invested in hospitals".

Internet advertising of cigarettes will also be restricted, and an extra $27.8 million will be spent on anti-smoking campaigns.

New legislation will prohibit logos, brand imagery, colours, and promotional text other than brand and product names in standard colour, position, font style and size, the Government said

* The Punch: Cough, splutter

"The new branding for cigarettes will be the most hardline regime in the world and cigarette companies will hate it," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today.

The Australian Greens, Family First senator Steve Fielding and Independent senator Nick Xenophon have all voiced support for the tax increase giving the Government the numbers it needs to have the legislation passed by the Senate.

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the hike is a cash grab designed to balance the books after Mr Rudd's big spending.

"I'm not in the business of defending smoking, I want to make that absolutely clear, but I also want to make absolutely clear that this is not a health policy, this is a tax grab," Mr Abbott said.

"In fact it is a panic tax put in place by a Government who's spending is out of control.

"The Rudd Government is addicted to spending in the way that some people, sadly, are addicted to nicotine."

In response to changed packaging laws, Mr Abbott said he wanted to see evidence of its effectiveness in reducing smoking habits.

Although it appears Labor will not have to rely on the Coalition, Senator Xenophon urged them to get support for the initiatives.

"An increase in the tax is inevitable and it's a good thing," he told ABC TV.

Tobacco companies to fight

A spokeswoman for Imperial Tobacco Australia said the company was preparing to "legally" fight the Government over the proposed changes.

"Introducing plain packaging just takes away the ability of a consumer to identify our brand from another brand - and that's of value to us," she told ABC Radio.

"It really affects the value of our business as a commercial enterprise and we will fight to support protecting our international property rights."

The spokeswoman said the move - designed to make cigarettes less appealing to young people - may actually be a bane to public health.

"If the tobacco products are available in the same easy-to-copy plain packaging, it makes it much easier for counterfeiters to increase the volume of illicit trade in Australia," she said.

"That illicit product may not have the health warnings on it, it won't be subject to ingredients reporting."

Health Minister Nicola Roxon said legislation allowing the packaging changes would be carefully drafted to withstand any legal challenges from the industry.

"We have firm advice that this action can be taken," she said.

Brave move

Cancer Council Australia chief executive Ian Olver said the move would stop some people smoking and cut cancer rates. It would make Australia a world leader in reducing tobacco deaths, he said.

"Tobacco companies cleverly tailor product packaging to attract people to the pack and send a message to smokers about the personality of the consumer," Prof Olver said.

He said health warnings would be more prominent without other patterns on the packaging.

Quit praised the "gutsy" plan and said it would hamper the recruitment of new smokers.

With advertisment of cigarettes already banned, packaging was serving as the main way to lure people into the habit, according to Quit's executive director Fiona Sharkie.

"By adopting plain packaging we can stop the tobacco industry from using the pack to recruit new smokers and promote their deadly and addictive products," she said.

National Preventative Health Taskforce adviser Simon Chapman recommended the Government adopt the policy, which he said was the most significant attempt to try and stop smoking since tobacco advertising was banned.

"I would expect many other governments to follow very quickly," he said.

"We believe that it is totally inappropriate to allow cancer-causing products to be dressed up in beguiling, attractive boxes."

Ahad, 25 April 2010

Di Mana Salahnya Mengupah APCO

APCO milik Yahudi. Jika pemimpin UMNO berurusan dengan APCO maka UMNO bersengkokol dengan Yahudi. UMNO menggadaikan negara kepada agen Yahudi. Begitulah hujah sesetengah orang.

APCO yang pendafaranya di Malaysia sebagai sebuah syarikat perunding imej dan komunikasi telah dikaitkan dengan kekejaman Yahudi. Jonathan Winer , seorang daripada eksekutif APCO dikatakan menuduh Ikhwan Muslimin dari Mesir sebagai pengganas. Marc Ginsberg, seorang lagi eksekutifnya membandingkan Sayid Qutb dengan Hitler yang ganas dari German.

Isu APCO ini bolehlah dikatakan sama dengan isu-isu syarikat Yahudi lain. Coca-Colajuga adalah syarikat milik Yahudi. Muhtar Kent, pemilik Coca-cola berketurunan Yahudi dan Turkey. Abangnya mendapat sanjungan dari bangsa Yahudi kerana telah menyelamatkan bangsa Yahudi pada perang Dunia Kedua. Syarikat ini sudah bertapak dari dahulu lagi dan jenama ini sudah serasi dengan Malay. Ada usaha-usaha kecil untuk memboikot jenama ini, namun syarikat ini terus berkembang.

Philip Morris, pengeluar rokok terbesar jugak milik Yahudi. Ramai antara pemimpin UMNO dan pemimpin PKR menghisap rokok hasil dari syarikat ini.

UMNO bersekongkol dengan Yahudi kerana menggunakan khidmat APCO, sebuah syarikat Yahudi. Kalau begitulah hujahnya, maka ramai di antara kita yang bersekongkokl dengan Yahudi ketika membesarkan anak. Kita beri anak kita minum susu nestle. Syarikat nestle juga adalah milik Yahudi.

Malah kita yang menulis blog ini juga bersubahat dengan Yahudi kerana menggunakan komputer Yahudi. IBM dan Intel juga adalah syarikat Yahudi.

Apalah istimewanyanya APCO ini. Oleh itu, di mana salahnya mengupah APCO ini.