Did a ‘man’ called Jesus Christ exist? Why does Mona Lisa have that enigmatic smile on her face? Did the Americans really land on moon, or was it only a hoax?

These are just a few mysteries that have perplexed mankind and history over years, if not centuries; we can now add one more to this line of great, unanswered conundrums:

RAJA PETRA
RPK@GMAIL.COM
115.66.201.150

THIS BLOG IS A PIECE OF CRAP SHIT in response to my article

Wong Choon Mei of Malaysia Chronicle watch your words our words are weapons

The volatile pacer, who responds to even simple things in life in inexplicable ways, opened the Pandora’s Box, no less,

“I have had enough,” or something to that effect,  RPK  cried once again. “I don’t know why I  have to spin every time there is acontroversy or anything untoward on the politics.” Clearly,  RPK doesn’t understand the way media functions.

Or maybe he didn’t hear the old theory: once you pick up a stigma, it sticks with you for ever.

You could have excused him under the pretext of naivete; you could even have ignored his outburst (44 tweets in under two hours, apparently) as a cunning attempt to cover  his spinning woes. But then, this is RPK: he will come up with something out of this world. The ‘spinning-gate’ never took place, he claims.

 TILL CONSPIRACY DO US PART

LEAVING ASIDE ANWAR’S SUPERIOR ORATORY SKILLS AND EMPOWERING PERSONALITY, WHAT ELSE HAS HE PROVEN HIMSELF TO US?

AFTER ALL, THE ONLY THING YOU STAND TO LOSE IS YOUR SANITY AND CREDIBILITY!

 HELLO, EVERYONE, GOD RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN  HERE AGAIN. ALTHOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT THINK IT TO LOOK AT ME, I AM OFTEN GIVEN TO DEEP INTROSPECTION, AND THIS TIME OF YEAR FINDS ME JUST AS CONTEMPLATIVE AS THE REST OF YOU. IN FACT, MUCH LIKE MY SUBJECTS, I FIGURE I BETTER GET THESE RESOLUTIONS DOWN NOW BECAUSE IF I DON’T COMMIT TO THEM I WILL JUST BREAK THEM WITHIN THE WEEK. IN ANY CASE, I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE MY SHARING MY GOALS WITH YOU. EVEN A SUPREME BEING NEEDS A LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY. PEACE OUT

getting a bit confused, he he!

YOURSAY ’RPK is feeling homesick. He just wants to come home without going straight behind bars. In the end, he sold out his principles.’

RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN (RPK) THE BLOGGER NOW-IN-EXILE IN BRITAIN HAS BEEN WRITING SOME ARTICLES HIGHLY CRITICAL OF PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT, ESPECIALLY REGARDING ITS DE FACTO LEADER DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM, BUT I TEMPERED MY CONCERN WITH GIVING BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TO THE BLOGGER NOW RESIDENT ABROAD THAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED OR DISINFORMED BY HIS CRONIES BACK HOME INCLUDING CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER-CUM-BLOGGER HARIS IBRAHIM.

There’s an interesting story in Malaysia today’s on a study which argues that Facebook can have an impact on general elections in India. It’s an interesting hypothesis but not one, in my view, borne out by the study.

The fairly crude statistical analysis goes like this: look at the number of FB users, voters and margin of victory in a constituency, and look for constituencies in which the number of FB users exceeds the margin of victory. Conclusion: in those constituencies, FB could sway an election.

These are what I see as the problems in this analysis:

1. The study does not measure what if any is the overlap between FB users and voters, without which the analysis is incredibly crude.
In fact, since internet penetration in Malaysia towards the rich, and the rich are less likely to vote, an FB user is probably less likely to vote and by extension sway an election.

2. The study does not look at the types of conversations people are having on Facebook. In my experience of FB and Twitter, people with existing preferences for a political party ‘follow’ the party and have discussions with like-minded people. If the study was able to demonstrate that FB was swaying voter beliefs, then its ability to swing elections could be discussed. But it doesn’t.

The most compelling statistic I’ve seen on this came from a Pew Research survey on social media and politics in the US. One question asked respondents: “Have you, personally, ever…changed your views about a political issue after discussing it or reading posts about it on a social networking site?” Over four out of five said no.

Moreover, the proportion of FB users who are talking politics is probably lower than those talking Bollywood and sport. The most ‘liked’ Indians on Facebook are A R Rahman, Sachin Tendulkar and Salman Khan.

More generally, I feel this study – and many commentators – make the mistake of seeing Facebook as a “thing” that can “do” things to its users (sway/ convince) rather than a “place” where, like a tea-shop, people have conversations, more often than not with people like themselves.

The potential of the social media in influencing Indian politics is immense and fascinating. Unfortunately, I don’t think this study proves it.

But eventually ANWAR lost  patience with  UMNO. Najib was speaking about the Umno’s crony agenda. Not the Malay agenda. For those reasons we must do the exact opposite. Deny these so-called Malay leaders a chance to concentrate power. It’s power which they shall apply to the misfortune of the majority of Malays and to . …Read more