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TM Let’s Talk 38 Package

I was offered TM’s Let’s Talk 38 package last month. Without going into further details, I readily accepted the offer. Now, I think I may have been duped.

At a glance, the package was a saver, no ( RM25 ) monthly fees, free 500 minutes of local calls ( I only make around 200+ monthly ), free 60 minutes national calls ( most of my national call were to hand phones and occasional to my Mum in KB ). Calls to mobile phones are at the same rate or is it?

After making a call to their toll free number, I was informed that if you make calls to hand phones using Let’s Talk 38 package, you will be charged based on a flat rate. Which means that if you call your friend’s hand phone for only 20 seconds, you will still be charged 1 minute ( i.e 33sen/min to Celcom and 38sen/min to other telcos ).

Previously when I make a call to a Celcom number say for 10 seconds, I was only charged 10 sen. Now, under this package if I make the same call for 10 seconds also, I will be charged 33 sen, night or day! So where’s the saving?

So the only way to save using this package is to avoid calling hand phones using your house phone and avoid making national calls MORE THAN 40 minutes in a month.

Can’t wait to see my first bill due on the 28th of this month to see how much I have saved!

Please take note that once you subscribe to this package, you can only terminate it after 6 MONTHS.

Indian Kashmir’s Anti Terrorist Force

Fate of Saddam’s captor

Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to help him start a new life. The mayor of New York, officials of his parents’ home town in Puerto Rico, the borough president and other local dignitaries honored him with plaques and silk parade sashes. They handed him their business cards and urged him to phone.

But a “black shadow” had followed Cruz home from Iraq, he confided to an Army counselor. He was hounded by recurring images of how war really was for him: not the triumphant scene of Hussein in handcuffs, but visions of dead Iraqi children. More here

The Deadly Occupation

One day in January 2005, an elderly couple was driving down a road in Mosul, Iraq, when without realizing it they passed through a makeshift US military checkpoint. The checkpoint, recalled a sergeant who came upon the scene, was “very poorly marked.” Yet, he said, the soldiers “got spooked” and opened fire. The bodies of the couple sat in the car for three days, the sergeant said, “while we drove by them day after day.” Read it here

Worst Than You Think!

The non-stop violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis–nearly one in three–in need of emergency aid, says a new report released by the international agency Oxfam and NCCI, a network of about 80 international and 200 local NGOs established in Baghdad in 2003 to help assess and meet the needs of the Iraqi population. Read more

Facebook – the CIA conspiracy?

Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA.

The social networking phenomenon started as a way of American college students to keep in touch. It is rapidly catching up with MySpace, and has left others like Bebo in its wake.

But there is a dark side to the success story that’s been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defence. Read more here

The Bush Family America Doesn’t Know

Prescott Bush (George W’s grandfather) was not only instrumental in bringing Hitler to power in Germany, Mussolini to power in Italy, but was also plotting to overthrow the legal government of the United States and establish a fascist state here. Read more of this disturbing news here