Left 4 Dead Live Action Photo Shoots

Be sure to also check out the huge Left 4 Dead comics collection!

The Left 5 Dead project is a photo shoot paying homage to that most thrilling, fun and addictive of team-geared games, Left 4 Dead (available on PC and Xbox 360).

Yeah, that’s Zoey, Bill and their encounter with the Witch from about 40 seconds into the game’s cinematic intro movie!

Anyone who has played the game and watched the scary intro will recognize the iconic moments captured in the photos! Cool stuff!

Left 5 Dead is created by the Night Zero team (Night Zero is a graphic novel style webcomic, using photos and real actors, about survivors in a zombie apocalypse).

See all the photo shoot pics below the fold, or at the Flickr page which has the original captions. The blog post also has some behind the scenes photos of how they set up the shoot.

Obama, Please Stop Talking Sh*t

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Original gaming comic from Press Start to Play.

See also screenshots at Obama Speaketh, Stock Market Crasheth.

Hypocrite Dr Drama Mahathir Says Bank Bailouts Wrong, Ignores His Own Past Bailouts of ‘Failed Institutions’

Hypocrisy Meter from theblogprof.

From The Star 3 April 2009:

Dr M: Don’t bail out failed banks

LONDON: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called for the closure of banks that caused the global financial crisis instead of bailing them out.

The former prime minister lambasted the West for pumping in billions of dollars to resuscitate these “failed institutions”.

He said they should be allowed to go under as bankers were rewarding themselves with fat bonuses rather than be punished for their inefficiencies.

“Let’s start new banks. We don’t need to have banks with those names anymore as they are a disgrace,” he said in his talk ‘The Alternative G20 Agenda: Real Financial Fairness’ at the Royal Commonwealth Society here on Wednesday.

More than 200 people attended the event on the eve of the G20 summit.

In his usual hard-hitting style, Dr Mahathir said there should be no attempt by governments to rebuild institutions which have failed.

“If they must dole out money, give it to the people who suffered actual losses due to the banks’ failure, but not to the bankers,” he said.

He questioned the logic of rewarding bankers who caused the economic crisis, saying those who created trouble were normally put in prison.

Dr Mahathir also took a dig at hedge funds, saying their borrowings should be limited and not be 20 or 30 times more than the investments.

“Imagine if a hedge fund were to borrow US$30mil and trades on US$20mil based on a US$1mil investment, the profits would be far bigger than that of the original investment,” he said.

He said a stop should be put in creating money out of nothing, adding everyone must come clean instead of obtaining false wealth through shuffling papers. “Most of the wealth comes from playing around with money. You can sell currencies and make tons of money,” he said, adding they were not derived solely from producing goods and services anymore.

He called for a review of the international monetary, financial and banking system which had suffered a systematic collapse due to gross abuses.

Dr Mahathir said the global community could elect people to represent the differing economies and work together in curbing financial abuses.

“If we’re going to be fair – real financial fairness – we should give everybody a say in the formulation of a new banking, financial and monetary system.”

This, from the man who bailed out his pet projects and failing institutions like MAS, Bank Bumiputra, Konsortium Perkapalan Bhd (KPB), and PROTON!!!

Above are #11 and #12 from Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters

This is also the same ‘role model’ who would welcome a return to the non-freedom of speech of his era, where you can’t raise valid questions but he can say Jews cause trouble so they can rule the world.

This letter sheds some light on his reasons for starting mega-projects and bailing them out when they fail.

And other past hypocrisies:

• Criminalizing only wars he doesn’t like personally

• Condemning South Africa’s apartheid while his own policies promote similar race-based privileges/discrimination back home

• Blasting Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib while himself arresting hundreds without trial under the Internal Security Act

Cukupah drama anda, Dr M!

Even Capitalism in Recession and Depression is Better Than Socialism/Communism

So the free market has failed us, capitalism is dead, we’re all headed into the biggest recession ever, blah blah blah…

Put things into perspective here. Just take a look at nations which have been historically or are currently Socialist/Communist compared them to nations which have applied free market economics.

Cuba? Poor and underdeveloped.

Zimbabwe? 89.7 thousand million million million % inflation rate, land of starving billionaires.

Vietnam? Poor and underdeveloped but now embracing capitalism.

China? Heartily embracing capitalism, imagine if it had done so half a century ago.

Radical socialist, business killing amateur Obama’s USA? $1.85 trillion deficit.

Compare that last one to Ronald Reagan’s 16 million new jobs, 9.5% drop in inflation and 3.4% GDP growth.

So maybe free market capitalism veered off the road awhile and got a punctured tyre or two. It’s still magnitudes more efficient than crawling on hands and knees along the road of human advancement… While strewing broken glass into your own path (aka nationalizing businesses).

KOMAS Freedom Film Fest: Win RM5000 to Make a Film or RM2000 for Completes Video

Malaysian bloggers, please do repost this information!

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The outcome of the last general election had everyone talking about the reawakening of people’s power. But how far has this political transformation resulted in the improvement of our lives as Malaysians?

The FreedomFilmFest is now accepting entries for video proposals with the theme “Real Change?”

Send in your proposal and stand to win RM5000 to make your film.

You can also send in your completed videos and be in the running for a cash prize of RM2000.

Click for Competition Details and entry form

Watch this year’s competition trailer:

Keputusan pilihanraya umum tahun lepas telah mencetuskan perbualan hangat mengenai kebangitan kuasa rakyat. Tapi persoalannya, sejauh manakah transformasi politik ini telah membawa kepada perubahan bermakna dalam kehidupan seharian kita?

FreedomFilmFest kini sedang menerima kertas cadangan yang bertemakan “Perubahan?”

Hantarlah kertas cadangan untuk sebuah video dan berpeluang memenangi RM5000 untuk memproduksinya.

Ataupun hantar video siap dan memenangi hadiah tunai berjumlah RM2000.

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John Lennon’s Imagine – You Don’t Need to Imagine It

Imagine (John Lennon)

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

I say to you, you don’t need to imagine a world like John Lennon’s Imagine.

A place like that already existed. You just need to know where to look.

It was called Lenin’s Red Terror (280,000 finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

It was called Stalin’s Great Purge (1.2 million finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

It was called Stalin’s Holodomor (8 million finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

It was called Mao’s Great Leap Forward (43 million finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

It was called Pol Pot’s Killing Fields and Cambodian Genocide (2.2 million finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

It was called Castro’s Cuba (141,000 finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

It was called Kim’s North Korea (800,000 finished dreaming John Lennon’s dream).

We don’t need to imagine a world like John Lennon’s Imagine. You can see it right here in the past 100 years of atheist history, where there was no religion to hold back human evil, and where there was no hell below us because hell was right here on Earth.

And if you doubt that was what Lennon was singing about… Well, just check out the top entry at this list (hat tip to Sodahead.com commenter yourmom.

So yeah, keep playing it on the radio, sure. In fact, it goes perfectly well with the end results of Earth Hour.

Oh, and thanks for breaking apart the Beatles. Can’t forget to mention that great achievement, can we?

See also Sting’s Russians – Not Applicable to Modern Terrorists and Tears in Heaven – Atheist Despair Version for more song politicizing.

Above from Diversity Lane.

Video of Brazen Robbery in House Driveway, Taman Maluri Cheras (and Anecdote of Similar JB Robbery)

How real is this happening?

Real enough that just the other day, a church member in Johor Bahru was a victim of a similar crime.

She had just alighted from the car and was walking the few metres to a friend’s house. Suddenly, a motorcycle rider rode past her, then did a u-turn and headed back towards her. She immediately suspected a snatch theft attempt, and flung her purse into the compound of her friend’s house.

The motorcycle rider coolly stopped his bike, got off, opened the gate, walked in, retrieved the purse and rode off again.

At least she was not harmed, unlike other Johor robbery cases where they slash you first and then take your valuables while you are in shock, no demands made at all!

Be warned: It is exceedingly simple to be robbed outside your own house.

A Just War: George W. Bush Saved 600,000 Muslim Lives

UPDATE 4 April 2009: Made some corrections to the calculations.

UPDATE 7 April 2009: This post is in letter to the newspaper form as well.

Are you anti-war? Do you oppose the use of force and the loss of human lives in order to achieve an objective?

What about just war? That is, a war that has justified reasons and is based on justice. Do you oppose the use of force and the loss of human lives if it would save more lives?

Picture this scenario: You see a woman just about to be raped by an unarmed man in a secluded alley. Do you ignore what is happening and walk away? Do you keep your distance and call the police, who will arrive in 15 minutes… AFTER the rape has been finished? Or do you rush in to try and stop the rapist, even if it means you will end up in a fist fight with the rapist?

Now put it in the context of nations and war. If a thousand people a day are being slaughtered in state-sponsored genocide, do you stay out non-involved because “It’s a matter of national sovereignity”? Do you file a complaint with the United Nations, who will take a few months… To even VOTE on a resolution to FORMALLY COMPLAIN regarding that state’s actions (just look back at the Rwandan Genocide)? Or do you send your army in, together with whichever nation is willing to stand up to gross injustice, and save as many innocent lives as you can?

Now put it in the context of Iraq. If Saddam Hussein is killing and torturing thousands of his own citizens and letting them literally starve to death while he himself lives a life of luxury (thank you UN and Oil-for-Food), do you close a blind eye because he is “A duly elected leader” or “A Muslim brother”? Do you appeal to the UN, who will basically ignore the dozen plus resolutions while cosying up to the UN Secretary General? Or do you march right in there, unilaterally or not, weapons of mass destruction or not, international condemnation or not, KICK THAT B*STARD’S A$$, and free millions of Iraqis from tyranny and death?

Yes, you heard that right: George W. Bush freed 29 million Iraqis and directly saved thousands of lives.

Don’t believe this rightwing neocon? Here are the facts:

George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq: From the 57 months of 20 March 2003 until end 2008, using the Iraq Body Count estimate, a total of 98,882 Iraqi civilians died as a result of the war and occupation. That is a rate of 1734.772 deaths per month. The overwhelming majority of these deaths were caused not by US military forces following Bush’s orders, but by Islamic militants and terrorists (most often foreigners from outside Iraq) who targeted their own Muslim brethren. The death rate has now trailed off as Al Qaeda in Iraq and other terrorist groups have been soundly defeated and pushed to the margins of the country (see conclusion).

[SIDE NOTE: This proves the point that it is JIHADISTS who have been causing all the death and suffering, and if they hadn't meddled in Iraq then the US forces would have been long gone out of there! So blame the mujahideen, not the US troops for the prolonged occupation of Iraq by 'kaffir' American infidels.]

Saddam Hussein’s reign: From the 285 months of Saddam Hussein’s reign from 16 July 1979 to 9 April 2003, using just six of the war crime events listed by U.S. War Crimes Ambassador David J. Scheffer, a total of 865,000 Iraqis civilians died as the result of Saddam’s ethnic cleansing, political oppression and ‘arrests’. That is a rate of 3035.088 deaths per month… 1.75 times greater than Bush’s death rate. This figure does not count the deaths of non-Iraqis, nor the casualties suffered during the wars against Iran and Kuwait, nor the countless other documented human rights abuses Saddam committed.

Bill Clinton era embargo: From the 108 months of 6 August 1990 to 6 August 1999, using the United Nations estimate, a total of 1 million Iraqi civilians died as result of the sanctions. Of these, as many as 567,000 of the casualties were children. That is a rate of 9259.259 deaths per month… 5.337 times greater than Bush’s death rate. Justify that, anti-war liberal Democrats. (Clinton actually only gained the Presidency on 20 January 1993, but the sanctions also lasted past the date of the UN estimate – to 22 May 2003, while Clinton stepped down on 20 January 2001.)

RECAP: Bush’s per month Iraqi civilian death rate was 1.742 times less than Saddam’s and 5.334 times less than Clinton’s.

CONCLUSION: Considering that now Iraq has a FAR LOWER violent death toll than any one of Colombia, South Africa, Jamaica, Venezuela, New Orleans, Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta and even Obama’s Chicago (and dropping every day!) and there is clearly visible peace in Iraq, I stand by my claim:

The just war initiated by George W. Bush saved 601,895 Muslim lives.

[Figure calculated using total deaths over span of Bush's Iraq invasion and occupation (98,882), multiplied by higher rates of Saddam and Clinton and totaled (173,044 + 527,733), and subtracting the Bush total from that (700,777 - 98,882), to find the total of how many more lives would have been lost if Saddam still ruled under continued sanctions (601,895).]

Now just try and call Bush a genocidal crusading murderer with a clear conscience.

PS. This post was inspired by preliminary calculations and comparison I had done earlier, Let’s Throw Shoes at Others Besides Bush (’Cos He Actually Saved Iraq).

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Kudos to Dr. Rusty of the Jawas, Gateway Pundit and Doubleplusgood Infotainment for the featurage!

Press Start to Play: Hello, My Name is Sin

Lol, I just find this funny. It stays in my head:

Click the comic snippet above to go to full comic.

Gunman Shoots Three in JB, Killing One

From The Star 1 April 2009:

Gunman on shooting spree

JOHOR BARU: A gunman and his accomplice went on a shooting spree in the city, killing one person and injuring two others in three separate incidents.

Johor CID chief Senior Asst Comm (II) Datuk Amer Awal said the first incident occurred near a petrol station in Taman Perling, at 9.17pm on Monday.

He said the victim, a 19-year-old self-employed youth, was on his way to refuel at the petrol station when two men on a motorcycle tried to stop him.

As the men were strangers, he sped off but heard three shots being fired. He was hit on his right ankle and later received medical treatment for his injuries.

SAC (II) Amer said police believe the same duo shot and killed a 23-year-old man behind a bank, along Jalan Camar 1 in Taman Perling, less than 15 minutes later.

The victim, identified as P. Vikneswaran, from Beruas, Taiping, was shot in the back.

Five hours later, police believe the same duo shot at a 37-year-old vegetable warehouse caretaker, in the Pulai industrial area, and injured his left hand.

He was rushed to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital and is reported to be stable.

SAC (II) Amer said although the suspects who shot the caretaker came in cars, police had reason to believe they were connected to the first two cases.

“We have ruled out robbery as nothing was taken from the victims, but are pursuing several options in our investigation,” he said.

SAC (II) Amer said that after the first case was reported, police had launched a manhunt.

“We have identified the suspects but have yet to establish a motive for the shootings,” he said adding that the suspects are believed to be in their 20s or 30s.

He also said several witnesses had seen a group of six motorcyclists in the same area in the first two cases and police were working on establishing if they were linked to the crimes.

SAC (II) Amer advised the public to call the police if they noticed strangers in their area.

Those with information about the shootings have been urged to contact the nearest police station or the police hotline at 07-2212 999.

Note that it took an entire two days (the news update came Wednesday night) before this was reported in the news.