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Craig

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(Msg. 16) Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:43 pm
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pico wrote:
> "KatWoman" <spamfree.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:jEjvj.91262$rc2.5309@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>> "pg" <penang.RemoveThis@catholic.org> wrote in message
>> news:2148aea5-702d-4923-b78b-61085e6fc73e@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Feb 21, 1:16 am, pg <pen....RemoveThis@catholic.org> wrote:
>>>> I have a huge pdf file, @http://penangA1.com/Malaysia/bn106.pdf
>
>>> Apparently that file carries a list of embarrassing moments of the
>>> Malaysian government and obviously the Malaysian government doesn't
>>> want anyone to know about it.
>>>
>>> Net censorship of the worst kind !
>> Well be careful what you post
>> pissing off the ISLAMIC admin can have serious consequences
>> GOD BLESS THE USA
>> (and our buddies in UK that have not agreed to their own dhimmification)
>> go Pat
>
> I saved a copy. I can RIP it into modest size web pages and serve them if
> the author needs that. It would be helpful to read what it says, first. Our
> Chinese interpreter is out with (ironically) the flu. Maybe it is Japanese.
> I wouldn't know.
>

Instead of serving it yourself, consider submitting the doc to wikileaks
<http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks>. It's a project dedicated to
storing and serving up documents from whistle-blowers around the world.

It was recently written up here
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/wikileaks_bulletproof_hosting/>
after a California judge tried to shut it down. "Try," in that it's
been replicated outside Cali (& US) jurisdiction.

Here's to Information, may it always flow freely.

-Craig

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(Msg. 17) Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:48 pm
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"Craig" <netburgher RemoveThis @REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
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> pico wrote:
>> "KatWoman" <spamfree RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:jEjvj.91262$rc2.5309@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>>> "pg" <penang RemoveThis @catholic.org> wrote in message
>>> news:2148aea5-702d-4923-b78b-61085e6fc73e@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Feb 21, 1:16 am, pg <pen... RemoveThis @catholic.org> wrote:
>>>>> I have a huge pdf file, @http://penangA1.com/Malaysia/bn106.pdf
>>
>>>> Apparently that file carries a list of embarrassing moments of the
>>>> Malaysian government and obviously the Malaysian government doesn't
>>>> want anyone to know about it.
>>>>
>>>> Net censorship of the worst kind !
>>> Well be careful what you post
>>> pissing off the ISLAMIC admin can have serious consequences
>>> GOD BLESS THE USA
>>> (and our buddies in UK that have not agreed to their own dhimmification)
>>> go Pat
>>
>> I saved a copy. I can RIP it into modest size web pages and serve them if
>> the author needs that. It would be helpful to read what it says, first.
>> Our Chinese interpreter is out with (ironically) the flu. Maybe it is
>> Japanese. I wouldn't know.
>>
>
> Instead of serving it yourself, consider submitting the doc to wikileaks
> <http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks>. It's a project dedicated to storing
> and serving up documents from whistle-blowers around the world.
>
> It was recently written up here
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/wikileaks_bulletproof_hosting/>
> after a California judge tried to shut it down. "Try," in that it's been
> replicated outside Cali (& US) jurisdiction.
>
> Here's to Information, may it always flow freely.
>
> -Craig

thanks for that info
KEEP ON ROCKIN IN A FREE WORLD...................

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Don Wiss

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(Msg. 18) Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:22 pm
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:19:40 -0800 (PST), pg <penang.DeleteThis@catholic.org> wrote:

>Not bandwidth. As I'm hosting it on my site, it's costing me an arm
>and a leg.

Bandwidth is cheap. For example, for $4.95 you get unlimited bandwidth:

http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.planBusinessPlus

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
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(Msg. 19) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:38 am
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On Feb 22, 2:44 am, "KatWoman" <spamf... DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
> "pg" <pen... DeleteThis @catholic.org> wrote in message
>
> news:2148aea5-702d-4923-b78b-61085e6fc73e@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Feb 21, 1:16 am, pg <pen... DeleteThis @catholic.org> wrote:
> >> I have a huge pdf file, @http://penangA1.com/Malaysia/bn106.pdf
>
> > Whoa !
>
> > Just a offtopic annoucement !
>
> > The above file is no more. Locked up by the Malaysian government !!
>
> > Apparently that file carries a list of embarrassing moments of the
> > Malaysian government and obviously the Malaysian government doesn't
> > want anyone to know about it.
>
> > Net censorship of the worst kind !
>
> Well be careful what you post
> pissing off the ISLAMIC admin can have serious consequences
> GOD BLESS THE USA
> (and our buddies in UK that have not agreed to their own dhimmification)
> go Pat
>
> http://youtube.com/user/patcondell



About the file, I managed to find another copy of it, and right now
I've put it on http://bn106.4shared.com

That "4shared" server is located in the USA, so let them ISLAMIC try
to lock it up !
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:44 am
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On Feb 22, 3:07 am, "pico" <pico.pico.pico> wrote:
> "KatWoman" <spamf... DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:jEjvj.91262$rc2.5309@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>
>
>
>
>
> > "pg" <pen... DeleteThis @catholic.org> wrote in message
> >news:2148aea5-702d-4923-b78b-61085e6fc73e@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> >> On Feb 21, 1:16 am, pg <pen... DeleteThis @catholic.org> wrote:
> >>> I have a huge pdf file, @http://penangA1.com/Malaysia/bn106.pdf
> >> Apparently that file carries a list of embarrassing moments of the
> >> Malaysian government and obviously the Malaysian government doesn't
> >> want anyone to know about it.
>
> >> Net censorship of the worst kind !
>
> > Well be careful what you post
> > pissing off the ISLAMIC admin can have serious consequences
> > GOD BLESS THE USA
> > (and our buddies in UK that have not agreed to their own dhimmification)
> > go Pat
>
> I saved a copy. I can RIP it into modest size web pages and serve them if
> the author needs that. It would be helpful to read what it says, first. Our
> Chinese interpreter is out with (ironically) the flu. Maybe it is Japanese.
> I wouldn't know.


It's in Chinese. It has a listing of 106 really embarrassing things
related to the Malaysian government.

The reason they COULD lock up that file on my penangA1.com domain is
because my domain is hosted by a company with servers located in a
datacenter run by Telekom Malaysia, a Malaysian government company.

I had to trace back the thing to find out that ugly truth. Had I known
that the servers were located inside Malaysia, I would have chosen
other hosting companies !!

Sigh !
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(Msg. 21) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:47 am
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On Feb 22, 9:22 am, Don Wiss <donwiss DeleteThis @no_spam.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:19:40 -0800 (PST), pg <pen... DeleteThis @catholic.org> wrote:
> >Not bandwidth. As I'm hosting it on my site, it's costing me an arm
> >and a leg.
>
> Bandwidth is cheap. For example, for $4.95 you get unlimited bandwidth:
>
> http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.planBusinessPlus
>
> Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).



Thanks for pointing this out !!!!
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(Msg. 22) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:48 am
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On Feb 22, 9:22 am, Don Wiss <donwiss.TakeThisOut@no_spam.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:19:40 -0800 (PST), pg <pen....TakeThisOut@catholic.org> wrote:
> >Not bandwidth. As I'm hosting it on my site, it's costing me an arm
> >and a leg.
>
> Bandwidth is cheap. For example, for $4.95 you get unlimited bandwidth:
>
> http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.planBusinessPlus
>
> Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).


If you can help out, would you mind shrink that huge PDF to less than
10MB so I can attach it with the emails I send to people.

Many webmail providers have a limit of 10MB or smaller on email
attachment.

I thank you in advance !!

You can send me the shrunk pdf to penang1 at hotmail dot com

Thanks again !!
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(Msg. 23) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:00 pm
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:48:07 -0800 (PST), pg <penang.TakeThisOut@catholic.org> wrote:

>On Feb 22, 9:22 am, Don Wiss <donwiss.TakeThisOut@no_spam.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:19:40 -0800 (PST), pg <pen....TakeThisOut@catholic.org> wrote:
>> >Not bandwidth. As I'm hosting it on my site, it's costing me an arm
>> >and a leg.
>>
>> Bandwidth is cheap. For example, for $4.95 you get unlimited bandwidth:
>>
>> http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.planBusinessPlus

>If you can help out, would you mind shrink that huge PDF to less than
>10MB so I can attach it with the emails I send to people.

While I do have the full Acrobat 8 Pro, by the time I found this thread the
file had been removed from your host. So unless someone gets me the file, I
can't help. For what I put on the web (and the hosting service I noted
above is one of the ones I use, but not for donwiss.com) I use Advanced ->
PDF Optimizer. Acrobat is a little confusing. There are several places
where optimizing appears on the menu.

>Many webmail providers have a limit of 10MB or smaller on email
>attachment.

As far as I know all e-mail systems limit attachments to 25 MB at 7 bits,
or less. A PDF is 8 bits. So even on the best e-mail systems the limit
becomes around 20 MB.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
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(Msg. 24) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:13 pm
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:38:19 -0800 (PST), pg <penang.DeleteThis@catholic.org> wrote:

>About the file, I managed to find another copy of it, and right now
>I've put it on http://bn106.4shared.com

I find this version to be 12.2 MB. I opened it in Acrobat 8.1 Pro. After
Advanced optimization it came to 10.9 MB. There are many settings. I can
reduce the resolution, but it might become hard to read. I next tried
Document -> Reduce File Size. Some of the characters are a little fuzzy,
though probably still readable. It now is slightly bigger!? Next there is
Document -> Optimize Scanned PDF. There are a lot of settings. I'll start
with it in the middle. That made a big change. The characters are darker.
And the size is 1 MB. I'll e-mail it to you.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
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(Msg. 25) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:39 pm
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On Fri 22 Feb 2008 11:38:19, pg <penang DeleteThis @catholic.org> wrote:
>
> About the file, I managed to find another copy of it, and right now
> I've put it on http://bn106.4shared.com
>

Very nice download speed. Bit cryptic guessing the right buttons.

The pages looks as if they would be suitable for a GIF or PNG.

Not sure what to use to extract the images from this PDF.
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(Msg. 26) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:57 pm
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On Feb 23, 4:00 am, Don Wiss <donwiss RemoveThis @no_spam.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:48:07 -0800 (PST), pg <pen... RemoveThis @catholic.org> wrote:
> >On Feb 22, 9:22 am, Don Wiss <donwiss RemoveThis @no_spam.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:19:40 -0800 (PST), pg <pen... RemoveThis @catholic.org> wrote:
> >> >Not bandwidth. As I'm hosting it on my site, it's costing me an arm
> >> >and a leg.
>
> >> Bandwidth is cheap. For example, for $4.95 you get unlimited bandwidth:
>
> >>http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.planBusinessPlus
> >If you can help out, would you mind shrink that huge PDF to less than
> >10MB so I can attach it with the emails I send to people.
>
> While I do have the full Acrobat 8 Pro, by the time I found this thread the
> file had been removed from your host. So unless someone gets me the file, I
> can't help. For what I put on the web (and the hosting service I noted
> above is one of the ones I use, but not for donwiss.com) I use Advanced ->
> PDF Optimizer. Acrobat is a little confusing. There are several places
> where optimizing appears on the menu.
>
> >Many webmail providers have a limit of 10MB or smaller on email
> >attachment.
>
> As far as I know all e-mail systems limit attachments to 25 MB at 7 bits,
> or less. A PDF is 8 bits. So even on the best e-mail systems the limit
> becomes around 20 MB.
>
> Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Many thanks for shrinking that file to 1.1 MB !!

On behalf of many, many people from Malaysia, I salute you !!!

And I've uploaded that 1.1 MB file onto http://bn106.4shared.com

Now more people can download it. Bandwidth is still quite a problem in
Malaysia, one way or another.

And a big Thank You to all for your support !!

ROCK ON, FREEDOM !!!
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(Msg. 27) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:44 pm
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"Don Wiss" <donwiss.RemoveThis@no_spam.com> wrote in message
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> While I do have the full Acrobat 8 Pro, by the time I found this thread
> the
> file had been removed from your host.

I have it and am going to apply Adobe's translation to it.

In the meantime, I got it down to 10 MB.

BFD, eh?
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(Msg. 28) Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:26 am
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On Feb 24, 8:51 am, Franklin <no_u....DeleteThis@www.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat 23 Feb 2008 03:57:44, pg <pen....DeleteThis@catholic.org> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 23, 4:00 am, Don Wiss <donwiss.DeleteThis@no_spam.com> wrote:
> >> [...]
>
> > Many thanks for shrinking that file to 1.1 MB !!
>
> > On behalf of many, many people from Malaysia, I salute you !!!
>
> > And I've uploaded that 1.1 MB file ontohttp://bn106.4shared.com
>
> > Now more people can download it. Bandwidth is still quite a problem in
> > Malaysia, one way or another.
>
> > And a big Thank You to all for your support !!
>
> > ROCK ON, FREEDOM !!!
>
> Can you give us a basic summary in English of what it says.


Since it has 106 items, I can't list them all here. But I'll pick a
few examples ...

In 1987, the Malaysian government rounded up all the people who dare
to speak up against the government, and detained them for years and
years, without trial. The operation was named as "Operation Lalang".
This is a blatant violation of human rights.

In 1999, the Chinese community put out a list of requests, in the hope
that the Malaysian society can have a more leveled playing field for
all people. The government responded by accusing those who signed the
request as "COMMUNIST TERRORISTS".

In year 2001, the government ordered the closure of a Chinese primary
school, without any reason. Forcing the students who study there to
another school situated quite far away. The Chinese community objected
to it, but the government deployed armed police to chase away all the
children and their parents from that school. BTW, that Chinese school
is NOT owned by the government.

The local universities in Malaysia have a policy of limiting the
enrollment of ethnic Chinese students, even when the Chinese students
have scored much higher in all the examinations. The only reason for
the policy is that they want to reserve the slots for the Malays -- of
the majority Muslim population. Unlike America where you have more
university slots than students, in Malaysia, for every 100 eligible
students, there are only 80 slots. This means that the more qualified
Chinese students are shut out of university education, while the much
lower echelon's Malays students get to study. This is yet another
blatant violation of human rights.

In year 2005, the state of Selangor sent a delegation abroad, in the
name of "research". That trip cost the government a lot of money,
millions ! And it was later revealed that part of the delegation's
"research itineraries" included "belly dancing" and other vice
activities.

While the country is poor, with many citizens having no roof over
their head, the government spent 40MILLIONS to build 10 resort houses
for top civil servants. That 40MILLION, if applied in building
ordinary housing for the people, is equivalent to at least 400 houses,
or 2000 apartments !

The above is but a small portion of the 106 items mentioned in the
bn106.pdf file. The Malaysian government has done a lot of terrible
things, and the things I translated are of the "milder" kind. There
are more heinous crimes the Malaysian government has perpetrated.

The file listed 106 incidents done by the Malaysian government, no
added MSG at all. And yet, the government of Malaysia is afraid of the
world know of their dirty laundry. In this aspect alone, the Malaysian
government is no better than the Myanmar or the Chinese regime.

The old adage of "People Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw
Stones" should be applied to the Malaysian government. They do not
want to be treated badly, but yet, they are treating other people
badly.

If they don't want their dirty little secrets to be known to the
world, then they shouldn't have done so many terrible things to their
own citizens.
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(Msg. 29) Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:51 am
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On Sat 23 Feb 2008 03:57:44, pg <penang.TakeThisOut@catholic.org> wrote:

> On Feb 23, 4:00 am, Don Wiss <donwiss.TakeThisOut@no_spam.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Many thanks for shrinking that file to 1.1 MB !!
>
> On behalf of many, many people from Malaysia, I salute you !!!
>
> And I've uploaded that 1.1 MB file onto http://bn106.4shared.com
>
> Now more people can download it. Bandwidth is still quite a problem in
> Malaysia, one way or another.
>
> And a big Thank You to all for your support !!
>
> ROCK ON, FREEDOM !!!


Can you give us a basic summary in English of what it says.
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(Msg. 30) Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:12 am
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:26:13 -0800 (PST), pg wrote:

> Operation Lalang

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