Malaysiakini reports that following a directive from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), internet service providers are not allowing access to Malaysia Today.
Upon receipt of information, I went to a website accessible through http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008/ and, yes, it does resemble the Malaysia Today that I have grown accustomed to.
Go on, have a look yourself and tell me if that does not look and read like Malaysia Today.
Posted in: Free & Fair Media
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langsuir
August 27, 2008
Assalamualaikum,
Looks like MCMC/TM redirect and poison the DNS entry to point to Mtoday to localhost 127.0.0.1
Perhaps MT/Bro Haris could suggest all the visitor to use oversea’s DNS server instead of the one provided by Streamyx/ISP.
They could use below DNS IP in their TCP/IP setting.
– such as : ns1.betterbox.net 68.90.68.18
or use harapanmalaysia DNS server
– ns1.harapanmalaysia.com 72.47.218.28
– ns2.harapanmalaysia.com 72.47.236.85
– ns3.harapanmalaysia.com 117.120.1.154
or any other external parties DNS servers.
It is just a matter of time for them (MCMC/ISP) to redirect harapanmalaysia.com as well.
Abdul
August 27, 2008
Well, they will never learn because their case is beyond salvation point. It is affirmed that Mr Mongolia is behind this nefarious plan. But this is a battle that he will lose. If Malaysia-Today publishes incendiary statements, what does Utusana Munafik</i? publish? Rosy statements? If Malaysia-Today publishes unsavoury statements and comments, what do BN leaflets such as Nasty paper (NST), Utusan Munafik, B.Harian and The Star publish? Stupid people. We shall overcome them.
LKO
August 27, 2008
Correct! Correct! Correct!
the other view
August 27, 2008
Hahaha. Thanks to Linggam for the tip. You can always make the most of the Judicial crisis and turn it round to your best advantage. And thanks to TDM’s equivocal promise to the Malaysian rakyat the MSC shall stay free withour Government interference. Looks like the present PM is one more up against his predecessor.
Menangis Dlm Gembira
August 27, 2008
Salam Bro Haris,
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.malaysia-today.net
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com
Sama geng la tu kot.. RPK should have “Reversed” more ip just for back-up or “mirroring” Malaysia Today..
Anyway good luck & good job
Lawan-Tetap Lawan “stayS”
Malaysia Negaraku
halim
August 27, 2008
Haris, I dont understand. It looks like MT. What’s going on???
sing lau
August 27, 2008
Yes, yes, yes!
The tyrants are beaten yet again! Long live RPK.
Let all the enemies of free speech perish from the face of this earth.
“Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.” —Florence Ellinwood Allen
bangmalaysia
August 27, 2008
First, the title of your post sounds very much like Lingam. Anyways are you saying that those oxymorons hijacked Malaysia Today and relayed us to a dubious website that resembles MT.
Can someone verify with Pete whether http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008/
is the real McCoy.
sharleen
August 27, 2008
YES SAMA LAH…KEMBAR “MALAYSIA TODAY”..
goodfella
August 27, 2008
yeah, it’s the real McCoy. via jaring.
i don’t really care. seldom go there.
ella-mae
August 27, 2008
sorry to get off topic guys… but dahling Khairy Jamaludin is desperately seeking new employment 😉
Khairy Jamaludin’s CV – Desperately Seeking New Employment
http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/kj-my-curriculum-vitae-desperately-looking-for-a-new-job/
wira
August 27, 2008
Or try access through many of those free anonymous/proxy web surfers.
eg. http://hotsurflive.com/
Go use your google search machine.
There are thousands of ways to get around the block for the adventurous.
LKO
August 27, 2008
And Haris, thanks for the dedication from you and your fellow bloggers in giving us the details in the last election.
very concerned
August 27, 2008
Can someone explain in more layman term whether this new URL is correct? It does look very much the same… But I’m illiterate when it comes to bloging and web languages… Very anxious here to know if there is a real mirror site that I can continue to pay my daily pilgrimage??
Shiok Guy
August 27, 2008
I personal just access MT via proxy server outside the country.
But offcos they ISP can blocked it too. But they are thousand and thousand of proxy server in the world.. so try blocking the whole world out..
What happen to the bill of guarantee?
You can access the proxy via my blog
Shiok Guy
Gary Hsia
August 28, 2008
Alternatively, manualy uses overseas DNS server;
I am using these 2 and they are working fine!!
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
koolgeek
August 28, 2008
why don’t MT to just keep on publishing articles in public blogs… until MT comes back online..
lets see how much this idiotic gov can censor internet.
kwmark
August 28, 2008
Correct,correct,correct says Linggam..
Korek korek says my brother….YB Lim Guan Eng….
“Bukan Pakatan menang,BN kalah”…What a stupid statement by a well respected stateman.Kalau satu dah kalah,yang satu lagi dah menanglah,MM….
Actually,rakyat dah menang sebab dah tak ada Ops Lallang selepas MM bersara.
Tabik dan penghormatan kepada YB Husam….
Ketenangan hati DSAI yang berani melawan demi keadilan…
Semoga PR akan membawa Malaysia Baru kepada semua rakyat Malaysia!!!
Merdeka!!! Merdeka!!! Merdeka!!!
Saya Anak Malaysia!!!
Klaw
August 28, 2008
To those who are keen to explore a better DNS than what our local ISPs are offering, look no further than OpenDNS. Head on over here for some explanations and instructions (last paragraph).
tamade
August 28, 2008
Haris, it’s another stupid BN guomen’s flip-flop policy.
They fixed the bill and they got F@#$ themselves.
The whole world is looking at us, and I am very sure our International Rating of Press Freedom will sink to the bottom, at par with Zimbabwe and Yangoon.
The people of Bolehland must remember that this situation is caused by the evil and corrupt leaders from UltaManNo and these goons must pay for it.
Just hope that a new Fed Guomen will form soon and lets F%$# all those involved, including those from MCMC who “sodomised” the guarantee provided by the Bill.
These goons never learn how to respect the Parliament and the People..
veonszu
August 28, 2008
What did Bn do immediately after 826 PP By-election?
CRACK DOWN ON BLOGGERS!
The first victim: the blogger king, RPK’s Malaysia-Today.
They will never learn.
http://veonszu.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/post-826-bn-launched-cyber-crackdown/
Seng
August 28, 2008
Hi Guys,
This is what Wong Chun Wai said about RPK is his blog
“He is outspoken, daring and imaginative but he has little regard for accuracy. He doesn’t give a damm about evidence but that is beside the point – he is entitled to his views.”
Can you believe that!
Patriotic1994
August 28, 2008
I think mt.harapanmalaysia.com is temporarily the current site for Malaysia-Today.net because malaysia-today.net itself is blocked.
The IP for malaysia-today.net match mt.harapanmalaysia.com. So they are the same server. Just different name.
It is MT. Korek3.
CalvinTheArchitect
August 28, 2008
ahh… even more reason for Google, Yahoo, ebay to skip Malaysia, i bet singaporean are laughing at us, foregin companies will take this as an example where we never keep to our promises… Afta and now this! we’re blacklisted now, Thanks BN.
citizenken
August 28, 2008
i was there at sembilang poling station on polling day, i heard the sudden loud noises of jeering, quickly i ascend from the car to observe what is going on, i was wearing a keadilan tshirt, i walk on the side of keadilan of supporters, i saw najib got out from the car other side of barisan supporter. he was standing up giving moral support to the barisan ground troop. while barisan supporters were shouting liwat, keadilan supporters replied with altantuya. the noises from the shout increase as keadilan supporters were winning the vocal wars with” altantuya , altantuya”. one also can tell the keadilan supporter shouted more passionately, whole heartly than the pathetic cries of liwat by barisan supporters, very soon “altantuya” cries drown “liwat” calls, i could start see najib standing with his face blusing red,next i saw was a few bottles of mineral water being thrown by the other side of the barisan supporters, a bottle flung miss me by a foot, by that time, keadilan supporters were ducking to avoid the missile. one of us, the keadilan supporter were holding a barisan branded mineral water and shouted injustice. as the situation get unruly ,the FRU trurn their sheild on keadilan supporters and najib were quickly whisked to his car by a band of his body guard. the next day i saw najib screaming violence by keadilan supporters which indeed was violence being started by the barisan supporters, we, the keadilan supporters were ducking to avoid those missiles and did not retailiated at all, the MSM media spin their stories to suit the goverment’s liking and blame the opposition for agression and violence. from that day onwards, i was not surpised Najib is being pissed and took his grudge to RPK and Malaysian today the very next day as TMnet blocked the popular site.talk about bias reporting and dirty blame tactics,ihave seen it live and i have seen Najib red faced with “altantuya, altantuya ” chanting.
ttc
August 28, 2008
…oops….posted something on this a little earlier on your “Dear Najib” thread btw.
WE SAY YEAH! 🙂 AND HARIS FOR AG AND RPK FOR IGP!
>;;;pOOraN;;;=
August 28, 2008
Unfortunately for TMnet, MCMC and the government, the internet is structured to protect against these kindergarten idiocy!
Folks, just open up your network connections and change the DNS. Open DNS is a good choice.
I am viewing MT using its original URL. So don’t fret, what the government is doing is not only against nature but its really stupid. Think of the amount of money they are wasting on this!
kehoe
August 28, 2008
http://www.cantbustme.com/surf.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tYWxheXNpYS10b2RheS5uZXQvMjAwOC8%3D
hope the above link help.
doggone
August 28, 2008
“…chief operating officer Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi confirmed that the block was ordered by the commission.”
No commission for guessing who ordered the clampdown. A couple of my diehard blog reading friends believe that a famous philanderer who received a hefty sub-COMMISSION was behind the move. I argued that he was too beat to do anything at the moment after the trashing in PP. They reminded me about the lastest article RPK wrote under ‘The Corridors of Power’ titled ‘Swear On This..”. After pondering awhile, I concurred.
Talk about learning anything after March 8th and Permatang Pauh. Even your nicely penned letter to him fell on deaf ears. I believe the last fragment of his luck just ran out.
No one, no matter how ‘magically’ protected they are, can ever defy the barrage of perpetual curse that escape the snarled lips of the outraged. I too believe that there is one very furious spiritual force exacting revenge at the same time while helping all Malaysian head speedily towards a new dawn.
Vineeth Menon
August 28, 2008
Yes !! It is the same Malaysia Today of RPK. When they block this , next one will come.. We where expecting this much earlier.New links will be published as and when they block. Keep looking at http://mtadmin.livejournal.com/ or http://www.new.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=18169906223
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Email from a reader of MT:–
Just want to share with you that we can bypass the MCMC block. This URL(http://www.privax.us/) contain a list of website that we can bypass the block. They cant block those website as well.
I went into one of the site (CantBustMe.com) and type in your url, it works well.
-Khong
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su
August 28, 2008
Malaysia-Today is fine for me, accessing from overseas.
So just to confirm to those who are still dubious about whether the new URL (http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008/) is really MT, the answer is yes. They set up the mirror site just as quickly as the MCMC blocked it.
hadi
August 28, 2008
This government is known to be arrogant, self denial and now showing their stupidity. The blocking of Malaysia Today will have other ramifications and implication. C’mmon MCMC, I am sure you know it. Can you now advise the government before its too late. It is not so much of Malaysia Today but the whole industry that is related. Where is your BRAIN.
omar qayyum mohan
August 28, 2008
thanks my fren …. u “Dirty Dozen” did it again after buggering Najeeb now ur bugeering MCMC
cheers
Reniv
August 28, 2008
WHAT A SHAME? FIRST THEY TRIED POLICE INTIMIDATION, UNPRECEDENT COURT INJUNCTION THEN FOLLOW BY DEFAMATION LAW SUIT…… YOU KNOW WHAT? WHEN RPK TOOK AWAY THE FEAR, THEY REALLY CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO HIM! SO THEY PULL THE PLUG ON HIM.
I HATE TO THINK WHEN BLOGGERS ARE FORCE TO GO UNDERGROUND.
Reniv
August 28, 2008
“This means that MCMC is allowed to block any particular website which has committed acts that contravene the local laws of the country, for example, sedition,” the source said.
RPK WAS NOT CONVICTED OF ANY SEDITION, WHO IS MCMC TO MAKE THIS CALL?
Meanwhile, Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin lashed out against the blocking of the online portal, saying it was a breach of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) charter.
RPK SUE THEM FOR ALL THEY GOT!
Bigjoe
August 28, 2008
They broke their promise of NO CENSORSHIP in MSC. Wonder what International Advisory Board members of MSC is going to say about this. Bet you, many will start to resign citing ‘other commitment’.
anomie
August 28, 2008
The Mamak is arrogant! But at least he kept to his words.
The Bodowi is either blur2 or still sleeping, while his lieutenants are running wild & doing all sorts of things using his name!
Can they touch the bill of guarantee under the MCMC acts?
Is this piece of act, just for main2? Mamak eats yr heart out. Yr legacy is slowly going down the drains!
fitr
August 28, 2008
Man, didn’t those IT intelligence in the government agencies advised those BN goons that in the IT world, this blockage will not work?
They can do what they like in the MSM print media…not internet.
Duh…betul betul bodoh. Hopefully, Raja Petra will expose more on these BN goons……
AT
August 28, 2008
Hi,
Some of you here are quite funny lar..Asking what’s goin on, whether http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008/ is the real Malaysia Today, etc…
Don’t you get it that Harris is indirectly telling you guys that the link is the alternative address for Malaysia Today since that it has been barred by authorities..
So don’t need to hesitate, just forward the link to whoever is affected by the ban. 🙂
I like chopin
August 28, 2008
Not surprising,considering how RPK gave fiery ceramahs in Permatang Pauh,leading to BN embarassing defeat.This is the only way BN simpletons can think of in trying to punish RPK for his role in helping Anwar.But they have forgotten that we can find ways to bypass this blockage.
gandhi
August 28, 2008
Dear Harris , Anwar sworn in this morning and given a seat directly opposite Badawi in Parliament, oops THE PEOPLES PARLIAMENT!!!!3 CHEERS TO ANWAR ,HARRIS,RPK
You all are our Superstars.MAKKAL SAKTHI VAALGA!!!!!
Chris
August 28, 2008
Guys, you can bypass the block by using an independent DNS server instead of your ISP’s DNS server.
Please look here for more information:
http://www.opendns.com
essence
August 28, 2008
Ha ha ha!!!
It’s like trying to stop a Tsunami! When oh when are these people going to Wake Up??
Melissa Kraal
August 28, 2008
lol!!! cheeky, haris, cheeky… thanks for the tip-off, guess it just flew over a few heads. shame.
bangmalaysia
August 28, 2008
MALAYSIA TODAY HAS DIED
http://bangmalaysia.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/malaysia-today-has-died-now-the-son-wants-to-avenge-its-fathers-death/
Tok Cik
August 28, 2008
Looks and sounds like MT. It’s MT of course. A classic example of a desperate and irrelevant Umno gasping for its last breath.
tired
August 28, 2008
Someone should design buttons and mini banners for bloggers to link to harapanmalaysia’s website. All bloggers should put up this link as a show of solidarity. Then blog readers can always find their way to some truths.
Perhaps we could try something like:
“Another broken promise: The Bill of Guarantees is a pile of lies”
matt
August 28, 2008
You say kick,punch or even try to strangle him but RPK has the will and the balls of steel.You can never bring a good man down however you try bee end which is now the end.
Nyghtsky
August 28, 2008
Tis the Son of Malaysia Today! Long Lve RPK!
ColorsMalaysian
August 28, 2008
Sigh !!!!!
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Looks like Malaysia Today! Reads like Malaysia Today! Is it Malaysia Today?
==============================================================
Haaaaaaaaaaa……….
They(Umno-BN the bigots and gang)have forgotten the previous tsunami hit them badly.
Hey !
Umno-BN the bigots, watch out…….. !
A lot more such tremendous wave to come !
To remind you, you are sitting inside a “half sinking” ship , it can no longer stand any further.
To help you to reach heavan ,so now,do more good toward the anak-anak bangsa Malaysia, otherwise you(Umno-BN the bigots)will ended in the HELL.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa……..even you practise “Jihad” way also can’t send you to heavan, still end you down to “HELL”.
RAKYAT the Power of Nation
Seng
August 28, 2008
Hello Seng of August 28, 2008 at 1:06 am
I know you are not me, even though we both have the same name.
A coincidence?
And more interestingly, how do we differentiate in future?
sunnysardine
August 28, 2008
everyone! spread the news fast! embed this thing at ur website or blog to take back our web!
take back our web
p/s: if you have better ideas, please contact me.
mca7forjustice
August 28, 2008
No Evidence? Just Swear!
A word to Saiful, Tajol Rosli, Najib on all this swearing business: It is patently obvious that when all else fails (i.e. when you DON’T have evidence), you SWEAR!
mca74justice
Posted by mca7forjustice at 7:22 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Devolution Not Advancement (DNA) Bill!
Permatang Pauh shows that it is not about DSAI anymore. It is about realising that we as a nation is standing on the cusp of a new identity as a nation of Malaysians. It is about realising that we the citizens of Malaysia want justice to be done. It is about realising that the democratic institutions, and the people we elected into Parliament, do not abuse the powers entrenched in the system to victimise a single person. It is about realising that if the DNA bill gets passed in its present form, it is not just DSAI’s human rights that will be trampled upon, but ANY of our human rights can be trampled upon willy-nilly by the supposedly democratic institutions that were set up to protect us! And this includes the human rights of any UMNO or MCA or MIC MPs or Senators that have run afoul of the elitist few that holds the power to yield the DNA sword!
Think: how incredible it is that the BN Government is so fearful of one man that they are willing to create a new law in an effort to snare him, after failing to get him to submit his DNA! Syed Hamid’s denial that this is so despite it being so painfully obvious, once again makes the BN Government the laughing stock of the international community, lurching Malaysia towards Mugabe-style (mis)leadership!
Yes, this DNA Bill have shown that the Malaysian Parliament has Devolved Not Advanced (“DNA”) as a transparent and accountable democratic institution!
mca74justice
Posted by mca7forjustice at 6:59 AM 0 comments Links to this post
mca7forjustice
August 28, 2008
http://www.mca74justice.blogspot.com
Mike
August 28, 2008
MCMC has no standings at all and are tools of BN. Its a fact RPK @ MT has damaged the credibility of BN with truth. If BN is so afraid of RPK @ MT, then, how we the rakyat will have confidence of BN to govern the country. They have the machinery and people who can counter RPK @ MT but it seems they took the easy way out to shut MT. Why? coz they have dungus in BN who have no brain and intelligence to counter RPK. If they can’t handle him, i wonder how these so called ministers handle in afairs and dealings with other countries. Even for Bt puteh which we lost, we had to engage a foreigner to fight our case while Singapore did it with their own people. Shame on MCMC and BN!!
omar qayyum mohan
August 28, 2008
can i find another better fool than this government ?
cheers
Lazarus
August 28, 2008
BEWARE: FAKE MALAYSIA TODAY SITE IS A TRAP! I found this out at http://margeemar.blogspot.com
Please pass the word around.
jaredsdad
August 29, 2008
BN’s Limbo Rock – “How low can you go”? Obviously, this is a new low, even by BN’s very, very low standards. They’ll never understand, will they? Any sort of publicity, be it negative or otherwise, is publicity nonetheless. I’d bet my last dollar that the hits on Malaysia Today would have doubled or even tripled in the last couple of days. It’s like having a bunch of peroxide blondes running this country. The sooner they’re ousted the better…!
http://www.jaredsdad.wordpress.com
ttc
August 29, 2008
Viva La http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com!
Enigma to all slimey thought-police pond-life at MCMC:
Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. Will you soon too?
WE SAY YEAH! 🙂 AND HARIS FOR AG AND RPK FOR IGP!
Bangsamalaysia7
August 29, 2008
Haris – can you and fellow bloggers please initiate a Public Petition via email for all justice minded Malaysians to sign and protest the arbitrary and high handed action of BN and its cohorts at MCMC in banning MT? Surely it is a disgrace to ban MT and allow free access to all other garbage on the Net. If we can get a million email signatures to support our petition even if the bigots at BN do not bow to our pressure we would have raised our collective consciousness that we need to stand up and fight such arrogance and loss of freedom and not take it lying down.
BangsaMalaysia7
colorsmalaysian
August 29, 2008
Hey ……..!
You(Umno-BN,the racist bigots, the toothless evil power).
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Looks like Malaysia Today! Reads like Malaysia Today! Is it Malaysia Today?
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You can’t block our open space from telling the truth.
If you think so, you are really left behind the era.
The more you block, the more head-ached and heart-ached you will be getting.
Be more realistic !
Time for you to admit all your wrong doings, failures and sins have done so far.
Time to correct yourself(Umno-BN the racist bigots).
We celebrate “National day” is mainly for our motherland , strictly NOT for “Umno-BN the toothless bigots”.
They(Umno-BN the toothless bigots) not fit to have this auspicious day.
Let’s celebrate our National day in a meaningful way.
We all have true loves towards our motherland .Our brothers and sisters of all anak-anak bangsa Malaysia
and
Our families .
That’s all our only dream.
One dream One Nation.
Only dream we are all looking forward and want to make it happen.
Happy 31st Aug
Merdekah !
Merdekah !
Merdekah !
Long live secularism Malaysia !
Malaysia , we anak-anak bagnsa Malaysia will always protect you from evil power.
We all proud of you !
RAKYAT the Power of Nation
renaissance.my
August 29, 2008
in a rebellion … you can kill 1000 fighters but the mission will be continued
renaissance.MY’s last blog … Mission : 3P
Sam Sambal
August 29, 2008
Haris bro… this fella nails it in the head: http://paksako.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-not-block-all-blogs-with_28.html
scout
August 29, 2008
Haven’t they heard?
“You can’t take something off the Internet – it’s like taking pee out of a pool.”
than
August 29, 2008
I love Malaysia
ls
August 29, 2008
Where is PI Bala and Dr Osman?
Salak
August 30, 2008
Can somebody work out a mailing list?
Have a point where interested email owners can subscribe to receive RPK’s latest posting, artcle or news.
I know its regressive but for the time being its a stop gap whilst something else is being thought on!
Having got that working, please leave ALERT here at HARASSIbrahim! 😀
persian
August 30, 2008
Hi! Could anyone please help me? I can’t retreat mt.harapanmalaysia! Help! Help!
I need to read! I’m suffocated with newspapers & tvs. I need different reading material so my “brain” will not kering kontang, shrink and dead!! It has been washed for too many times! My poor “brain”!! Please help me!!! 🙂
ttc
August 30, 2008
Bravo! Shiok Guy! Thank you for telling us about your proxy server on Haris’s “Merdeka” thread.
And terima kasih for your tough guts for making this proxy server available to your fellow citizens and for the next potential one and the next and the next and the…..and on and on like that tough Duracell Ultra battery!
And Bravo! also to all the other 🙂 fighting-spirited citizens supporting RPK and providing alternative server-access e-addresses to click into RPK’s MT/MT’s son.
Bravo! way to go Rakyat! KICK MCMC hard for anal and foolish short-sightedness, and for breaking their important promise/guarantee without valid justification.
And BRAVO! to the INTERNET and to its British scientist knight founder 🙂 SIR TIMOTHY JOHN BERNERS-LEE!
WE SAY YEAH! 🙂 AND HARIS FOR AG AND RPK FOR IGP!
Casey
September 3, 2008
I really do not know how stupid the BN leaders be to direct the blocking of MT when the success of doing so is so slim. Either they are ill advised or they did it on purpose to make RPK more popular and more believable. Incredible to have these guys run the government, messing up simple things like this.
Chavin
September 3, 2008
they’ve done it again, now waiting 4 the new mirror