Tommy Peters' Bicycles

“The future belongs to those who show up” - a pointed quote by Mark Steyn, but the mother of signages is one that is felt in everyone's gut - "Your actions reflect your breeding". The five words on a signage is apt for the door of the humble public toilet to the entrance of the glamourous UN, not to mention the hotspots where masters and servants alike gathered in Kuala Lumpur for Bersih's 3.0 event. To add to the sentiment of Steyn's revolutionary quote, it is not ‘freedom from inconvenience’ that makes people huddle in their comfort zone but ‘freedom from fear’ that prevents them from touring the Serengeti. Most have excised the ‘inconvenience’ of the vehicular gridlock but for some the millstone of ‘fear’ of their own paid servants, on the verge of mutating from business to beast, is still a personal battle. A friend was taken in on Saturday’s Bersih 3.0 event after being roughed up by such servants whose due reversal from beast to business was comple...

Siberia, November 15th 2011:- A dialogue between a hysterical school principal and a calm, tech-savvy 15-year old, who surreptiously made the recording, represents a generation gap where the old fascist reigns, not necessarily in that part of the world, that symbolizes ignorance in assuming that knowledge is and will always be the monopoly of politicians in higher echelons. November 16th 2011, GlobalVoices:- A scandal caused by a hidden camera recording at a school in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia has highlighted a serious problem in Russian schools: teachers campaigning for the ruling party,  United Russia . Underpaid and dependent on government funding, teachers are one of the pillars of the current political system. Local and regional elections often take place in school buildings, and the electoral committees in Russia often consist mainly of teachers. Whether it's from fear of losing funding, or belief in United Russia's promises, this often leads to illegal electione...

The perpetrator is not quite the sociopath who possesses charm and spontaneity. It has none. It is not quite the sociopath that plans ahead its acts. It does not. The act upon the lass was borne of ignorance that the trail would result in a stripping thereof by a Machiavelli looming in the background; the one who commissioned the investigation not to be commissioned; the one who told the world about mademoiselle’s destruction; the one who abetted the nation its breathing space to impel agenda 709; the one who revealed the stones of Jacob while he slowly but surely breaks the legs of her demolisher; the one who regards a wound as an opportunity and two wounds as two opportunities; the one who will lead eventually the homeland like Niccolo said he will. Words - Tommy Peters Afterword: I had the pleasure this afternoon of meeting K. Arumugam, Chairman of Suaram, who with passion and pride sports the EO6 support-badge. Arumugam confirmed that Suaram's lawyer, William...

“If  the rally takes place my people and I will kill Ambiga and all those around her one by one including the idiot politicians who are in cahoots with this infidel. This is my warning. You watch out.” read the text on her cellphone two weeks ago but the former chair of the Bar Council is undeterred.  The faction that sponsored the threat must have considered that if Ambiga, a mother, was not particularly enraged at the compromised electoral rolls in 2007, she must be postal at the gruesome murder of a life-giving woman in 2006.  July is a wicked month for the faction. If Ambiga’s just concluded Bersih 2.0 was not a timing issue for the clique, then Breham’s tentative arrival in Kuala Lumpur late July to dredge up evidence in the Scorpene matter, may become one.  Breham Ambiga is now a euphemism for a progressive pincer move that would finally bring justice to the memory of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa.  Words - Tommy Peters  (Adva...

J ustin, you are doing good work. Your blog adds immense value for the man-on-the-street. Expect some bureaucratic nonsense from some bar-council uptight about advertising limitations and such but for our sakes, please stay the course. I have a question about YouTube and copyright infringement. At what point does Satriani relinquish control of his work! His live performance at Anaheim 2006 is ‘downloadable’ from YouTube not only via Websatch, his YouTube page, but also through accounts of his fans. It is reasonable to assume that it is illegal to take and use what you have not paid for or what you do not have permission from the owner to take. For all intent, it is ‘theft’ - synonymously known as ‘download’ in the digital platform. The video depicts One Robot’s Dream , a track I ‘stole’ via the relevant algorithm in Safari’s Activity Window. Safari is one browser that makes the algorithm route possible but that is another issue. Observe the quality of the video. All tracks ...