Thursday, April 18, 2024
A Gung-ho Gambler, Game Plans & Gamechangers By Dato M Santhananaban
The following is an opinion written by Dato M Santhanaban. It was quite long so I have truncated it. I have also switched some names (as usual) but you will know who is who. Some main points are reproduced here. My comments in blue.
M Santhananaban
April 15, 2024
A Gung-ho Gambler, Game Plans & Gamechangers
A procedurally convicted and imprisoned former prime minister, a notorious gambler and speculator with public pension funds, is objecting strenuously to the conditions of his incarceration. Undoubtedly he had had, from the beginning, full or partial knowledge of these prison conditions for a long, long time. He received a controversial partial pardon on his prison term and a high discount on the fines imposed on him. Instead of being grateful he seems grossly dissatisfied.
Bifurcated 1Malaysia
While in high office he declared and was driven by a paradoxical 1Malaysia mantra. But he has now finally concluded that he is seemingly not of that utopian 1Malaysia mould but of another special Malaysian category. In the context of the other category of elitist Malaysia’s highest ranking kleptocrats, he seems to believe and imply that he should not be treated like the normally convicted white collar criminals of 1Malaysia.
He wants to be placed in a home environment to complete his prison term. His loyal or beholden workhorses are seeking special dispensation for this novel unprecedented home stay facility. This is not just a plea for mercy but a movement to pressure and possibly blackmail the current prime minister to arrange an unspecified unfettered home stay environment.
OSTB : My view is the whole thing has been choreographed, scripted, crafted and drafted. In other words you and I are being taken for a ride. And I think Mr Kleptocrat is also being shafted.
That '38 charges DNAAed' fellow made a brilliant move by pressuring his coalition partners into a General Election in November 2022. The outcome - a hung Parliament with no clear cut winner - has worked out the best for him. He has since bargained his way out of a jail term
But without a doubt he had an able and willing partner to assist him - none other than the prime minister of Gaza. Kleptocrat had a role to play throughout the 'hung Parliament' time period and he obviously secured his 'Get out of Jail Card' by throwing his support behind the main actors (as in a drama or play).
But he is finding out now that he is indeed being shafted. The latest episode about that "home stay prison sentence" is evidence of that. He was promised things that "they" cannot or do not want to deliver now. Kleptocrat is being shafted. He will not smell breakfast in his own kitchen for a very long time. 2028?
And here is another catch - what about the other ongoing charges and cases against him? "They" still hold the trumpcard against him. If he is found guilty again and is sentenced to jail again, then which idiot or idiots are going to "support" another Pardon for him? You mean each time he gets convicted he can get pardoned? Main-main kah?
That Court affidavit citing that Tengku's name (about that "home stay prison sentence") clearly indicates that everyone knew the script. Such 'suggestions' cannot get into the pardons process without everyone signing off on the matter. To say that the prime minister of Gaza did not know of such a thing is being simple. I wont use the word 'stupid' :)
Nearing the end of his 17th month in office he is not being fervent or forthrightly decisive in addressing this difficult divisive, explosive issue.
With a full 16 month-term in office behind him, he is not making waves, not the impressive impactful ones.
He seems bogged down, caught almost in some surreal space, hemmed in within vicious bigwig manoeuvres and a time warp, and seems unable to inspire any new or fresh confidence in his administration.
There were some grand unrealistic expectations of him at grassroots level initially but there was also the cantankerous cadence of scepticism as to what he would or could be.
He has disappointed his most keen supporters, detractors and sceptics alike.
OSTB : So he went to that Ponggal Celebration and told the Indians straight to their faces 'Stop asking me this and that'. Actually this is him. This is the guy. The script has never changed. This is what he always was, always has been and always will be.
Have you considered the possibility that these are also just deflections and diversionary tactics? To keep us (the you, me and the general public) from paying too much attention to the billions that are being dished out by the truckloads? We hear snippets like the billions being dished for the digital projects, The Star newspaper mentioned 'a new star is born'. Big money contracts.
The highway monopolies have been extended, the rice monopoly has been extended and the vehicle inspection monopoly has also been extended. That carbon footprint crap in Sarawak etc. All worth billions. These are the billions that we know. What about the other more quiet contracts and projects about which we do not know much?
Instead we are being kept preoccupied over :
- 'home stay prison sentence' (not happening - Klepto is being shafted)
- Iran's missile attack
- the Press barred from covering that Court case
- ubi kayu as a replacement for rice
- and all sorts of crap.
These are all just useful pieces of 'useless information' to be put on the front pages to divert the public's attention away from the money and the projects. This has been the SOP for a very long time, since from the bad old 'ketuanan' days.
This is partly on account of his perceived selective anti-corruption and assessed wealth accountability drive. He suffers from another serious disability - his original reformasi rovers, are no longer with him. He is more reliant on capitalising on the support of identifiable minority groups than being propped up by the primary stronghold of peninsular Malay power. He seems to have failed in wooing mainstream Malay support.
He is in a bind mainly because he has unsuccessfully but frantically tried to pander and placate this powerful peninsular Malay base. In an earlier era he and Dr Mahathir wittingly or unwittingly Islamised and radicalised this same power base to sustain themselves in power. That playground, which has assumed largely an extremist ethnic-religious bent, is increasingly the province of PAS, Bersatu and marginally UMNO.
His own party is a bit player and a nonentity in that milieu.
(OSTB : Well they have just about 30 seats in Parliament. That is not a good showing. And in the recent SIX State By Elections his party got wiped out, along with UMNO. Kuala Kubu is coming up next and he will most likely get thrashed there as well).
All these three obviously major Malay-First parties seem to have in their respective individual closets a candidate for prime minister. UMNO’s de facto leader is the imprisoned Klepto..
The youth wing of UMNO seems to be openly working against the best interests of the government to free, empower and rehabilitate Klepto
OSTB : I think it is all part of the script. But Klepto is being shafted. The loser here is Klepto. Klepto is not going to be going home anytime soon.
Money politics was what created an unchallenged UMNO juggernaut from the 1980s onwards. Somewhat oddly there is now a harkening for those halcyon days amongst a minuscule minority of adventurous political entrepreneurs.
There seems to be no other plausible reason for UMNO’s obsessive preoccupation with pursuing a pardon for the country’s most prominent convicted felon, its boycott of a particular store chain and its constant refrain on inflammatory sensitive issues. UMNO is playing with fire and undermining and derailing whatever forward and positive progress that the prime minister of Gaza is capable of making.
(OSTB : ditto. Same comments as above. They are all in the game. It is all part of the script. DNAA man does not do anything without consultations first. Every move is agreed upon).
Unity, Rule of Law Fundamental
(OSTB : Unity, Rule of Law??
This subject is too alien to them. In their order of priorities these things rank somewhere near that brown ring in a dirty toilet bowl. Money and power is still the lingua franca and the coinage that makes them get up in the morning.
How to solve this problem?
- JUST DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM.
- THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.
- WE ARE A DEMOCRACY.
- WE HAVE THE VOTE.
- NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR ONE VOTE.
- NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR ONE VOICE.
Its A Sign Of The 'Time'.
The flight was at 01:15 which is AM.
If it was 1.15 PM it would show as 13:15.
Personally I always liked the 24 hour format for telling time. Also known sometimes as "military timing" because the military always uses this format to avoid confusion between AM and PM.
The military has some really neat "tricks" to get its job done. In the Navy when an officer issues an order to the sailor standing beside him, the sailor will repeat back the order - to make sure that he heard the order right. Otherwise if the sailor turns to 'starboard' when the officer said turn to 'port', the ship might hit a rock and sink.
When you order a few items from the menu at the restaurants (or for those who run restaurants) it is always wiser to have the waiter repeat the order - just to make sure the waiter has got it right. Otherwise your order might 'sink'.
I have said this before - today many young kids cannot tell the time from an analog watch or clock.
I have experimented with this before. If you ask the time from a young person who is wearing an analog watch, very often they reply 'Jam saya rosak'. They cannot tell the time quickly from an analog watch. I kid you not. You can try this experiment yourself.
Its a sign of the 'time'.No pun intended.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
LEADERSHIP VS NO LEADERSHIP - A COMPARISON
The following was originally written by Murray Hunter. But I have "adapted" it - not to an unrecognisable level - but to a certain degree. My 'changes' in red. My comments at the end.
For 25 years, the people (especially the nons) were tricked, cheated and conned into believing that Chameleon would bring reforms to the country. The Pakatoons came to power with a pledge to focus upon the economy. Now we are looking at a situation, where the nons perceive they have no meaningful place.
After nearly 18 months, Chameleon appears to be continuing the same agenda he carried out while he was a jihadi back in the 1990s. Back in the 1990s, he Islamized the government, and played a major role, alongside his former boss, nurturing crony capitalism in the country. Over the last 25 years, Chameleon has portrayed himself as a reformer.
Today, Chameleon oversees a nation plagued with vigilantism, religious inspired violence, terrorism, and the rapid advancement of crony capitalism in the economy. To make matters even worse, the Chameleon administration is embarking upon the most draconian censorship and loss of freedom of speech, the nation has ever seen.
Any hopes of reform have gone down the drain.
In contrast, Argentina’s new president Javier Milei, who pushed back on the World Economic Forum in person, at Davos last January, is trying to radically change the nature of his country’s economy. The libertarian and economist Milei presented a sweeping agenda to overhaul the economy and rid the nation of the ‘deep state’ within the bureaucracy.
- Milei has quickly acted to shrink the size of the bureaucracy
- cutting ministries from 18 to 9 in the government
- Milei is reducing public spending by 5 percent of GDP
- while putting an end to subsidies at the same time
- A large number of public tenders have been cancelled to eliminate corruption.
- Milei is also on the road to privatising Argentina’s state owned companies
- to free up the economy and make it much more competitive.
- Regulations are being slashed at unprecedented rates.
Although there is much congressional and provincial governor resistance through court challenges to Milei’s measures, he is attempting to crash through these barriers, or risk crashing himself. Milei hopes to break up the political forces that control Argentina, a country with 161 percent inflation, and 45 percent of the people live in poverty.
Milei has a small team of ministers in contrast to Chameleon's 38 senior ministers, not including deputies. The Milei government has an economic-libertarian bias. While Chameleon came to power with a similar philosophy, the government has been on the authoritarian side, maintaining much of the regulatory framework in place, and has heavily supported existing monopolies and government linked companies (GLCs). In addition, the Chameleon government is pursuing an Islamization objective.
There are challenges ahead for both Chameleon and Milei. Foreign investors are closely watching the paths and outcomes of both countries. Both leaders have disapproval ratings at present, and the lynchpin to both leaders’ survival will greatly depend upon economic performance.
Chameleon is running his government on record deficits, while Milei is keeping hyperinflation down by achieving a fiscal surplus after 3 months in office.
Milei is Dollarizing the economy in an attempt to stabilize inflation. Dollarization, could well be used as a short-term method to stabilize the local currency, in lieu of pegging the currency to the US Dollar. Once the threat to the local currency has passed, it may be wise to speed up the ASEAN proposed payment connectivity scheme, where the local currency can be exchanged with other currencies, without using the US Dollar and as a medium of comparison.
The greatest contrast between Chameleon and Milei is that Chameleon is trying to preserve the existing class system, while Milei is trying to rid the nation of those who exercise great power behind closed doors within the bureaucracy and GLCs.
There is no doubt fearless leadership of a nation is needed in these times. Milei has attacked the structural aspects of the economy that matter for a democratic country to exist. Chameleon hasn’t touched upon any of the deep structural problems of the economy, which will maintain the existing class system.
My Comments :
Hence the country is doomed. The final doom will come when either or both of these two things happen:
1. the existing class system runs out of taxpayers money, public funds and lucrative monopolies to be dished out among the elites. The elites will start fighting over who gets more free money and plum monopolies. This fight has already begun. Hence the incessant turmoil in party politics in the country.
2. the people get fed up and begin expressing their displeasure publicly. We have seen this in other countries. In Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Tunisia and many other Third World countries the people have expedited change by expressing their displeasure with an unchanging, inefficient, non-competitive and corrupted system.
However in different societies (or different races) the breaking point can be triggered by different levels of deprivation. Poorer societies (or poorer races) whose people cannot get three square meals a day may revolt in the streets.
Wealthier societies where the honest, hard working citizen can only afford a Toyota when he should be able to buy a Mercedes or Ferrari (for the same level of education, hard work and productivity) may vent his frustrations.
One way or another there will be a collapse of the corrupt system.
MULTICULTURALISM IN A CHINESE TEMPLE IN SINGAPORE
When we lived in Melaka in the 1970s most of our neighbours were Hokkien Chinese. There were a few Hindu Temples in Melaka and when the Hindu people celebrated their festivals there would always be Hokkien Chinese praying alongside them in the Hindu temple. For Thaipusam dozens of Hokkien Chinese would come out and pray to the Hindu deity that was pulled on its chariot. Here is an interesting video. Someone suggested the identity of that young fellow who is giving the blessing in this Chinese temple.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Abrahamic Accords Kick In By Default.
The October 7th attack against Israel by the Hamas / Muslim Brotherhood was an attempt to derail the Abrahamic Accords from being cemented. Saudi Arabia was poised to also announce their joining the Abrahamic Accords.
The Abrahamic Accords would create peace treaties between the Arab countries and Israel (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Morocco aside from Egypt and Jordan).
One of the suggestions of the Abrahamic Accords (it was stated during the presidency of Donald Trump) was that the West Bank would be "returned" to Jordan and the Gaza would be returned to Egypt.
Historically the West Bank was ruled by the Jordanian kings (Emirate of Trans Jordan, Jordan etc). From 1948 until 1967 the West bank belonged fully to Jordan.
Likewise Gaza was ruled by Egypt or Egyptian governors (Ottoman and post Ottoman period). From 1948 until 1967 the Gaza belonged fully to Egypt.
This implies a permanent solution to the 'Palestinian' problem.
The October 7th attack did appear to derail the Abrahamic Accords, or so it seemed. But now with this missile and drone attack by Iran against Israel the Abrahamic Accords have come into play in full force even though Saudi Arabia and Jordan have not officially signed on yet.
It has now been confirmed that in Saturday's missile attack not only did Jordan completely open its airspace to the airforce's of Israel, US, UK and France but so did Saudi Arabia. More important than that both the Jordanian and Saudi Arabian airforces sent their own fighter jets to actively pursue and shoot down the Iranian drones and missiles.
For the first time the militaries of Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Saudi Arabia were involved in joint military operations against a common enemy Iran. This is the new Middle East that is emerging
It is also becoming clear that Saturday's attack by Iran has failed very badly. Nothing was destroyed in Israel, no one died and unfortunately one seven year old Arab Bedouin girl was injured by debris from an Iranian missile that fell close to her home. Here is some news:
- Many Iranian Missiles Failed to Launch, Crashed U.S. Officials
- midnight April 13, hundreds of drones launched from Iran, Iraq
- ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, rockets from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon
- despite scale of operation, appears to be a tactical failure
- Roughly 50% failed to launch or crashed, 3 U.S. officials said.
- 115 to 130 ballistic missiles half of them failed in flight
- rest were intercepted successfully
- Iran’s attack a strategic miscalculation
- 99% of more than 330 weapons intercepted over Jordan, Iraq
- 185 drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, 36 cruise missiles
- minor damage occurred at Nevatim Airbase
- 7-year-old Arab Bedouin girl seriously injured by destroyed rocket
- Tehran regime increasingly concerned about stability, failing economy
- violent oppression, increasing number of executions, internal dissent persists
- attack grave miscalculation by Tehran
- US, West and Arab countries swiftly rallied to support Israel
- Most of Iranian projectiles intercepted by Israel, US, UK, France, Jordan
- Israel has array of long-range missiles, jets and drones, covert operations.
- Arab countries hoping for Israel’s severe response
- Tehran worried about nuclear program sites
When the drones crossed over into Iraqi airspace Jordanian, Saudi Arabian and possibly Israeli and US airforce jets were already patrolling the skies and waiting for them. All the drones were shot down over Iraq and Jordan. None of the drones penetrated Israeli airspace.
Likewise all the cruise missiles were also shot down mostly over Jordanian territory. The cruise missiles had a flight time of TWO HOURS between Iran and Israel. Hence they were all easily detected.
The ballistic missiles had a flying time of eight minutes between Iran and Israel. They were also shot down except seven of them which were allowed to fall harmlessly in open areas. The Arrow 2 and 3 missile defense system can detect and determine the trajectory of the ballistic missiles as they fall through the sky. If the terminal point is an open space with no threat of harm to people and buildings the missile is allowed to fall harmlessly.
Debris from one ballistic missile which fell near the home of some Arab Bedouins seriously injured a seven year old Arab girl.
"Amina, from the Bedouin town of Al-Fur'ah in southern Israel, is now in a critical condition after she was hit by shrapnel which fell on the roof of the family home at 2am, the Times of Israel reports. The young girl's brother told Haaretz how she lost consciousness and was unresponsive. Her parents then rushed her by car to Arad, before she was taken to the Soroka Medical Centre in an ambulance".
Despite shooting over 300 missiles and drones the Iranians did manage to harm one seven year old Arab Bedouin child.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
JORDAN AIRFORCE SHOOTS DOWN IRANIAN DRONES HEADED TOWARDS ISRAEL
The long awaited direct Iranian "retaliation" against Israel has begun. Yesterday (Saturday) Iran fired over 200 projectiles (drones, ballistic missile and cruise missiles) directly from Iran to Israel.
The Israelis say air defenses shot down 99% of all the ballistic missiles and 100% of the cruise missiles and slow moving drones.
The flight distance from Tehran to Tel Aviv is 1,200 km. The flight distance of the missiles would be about the same, give or take.
Iran has a variety of supersonic and hypersonic ballistic missiles that can easily reach Israel within minutes. It is believed that FOUR of these ballistic missiles landed inside the Nevatim Airbase in Israel but caused minimal damage. A seven year old Arab Bedouin girl was seriously injured. There was no other loss of life or injury from this massive Iranian attack.
This is the same airbase from which Israel is believed to have carried out that strike against Damascus which sparked off this tit for tat.
The Iranian cruise missiles have a slower speed of below Mach 1 but can also easily reach Israel.
Iran fired about 100 drones including the Shahed 136 drone which has a flying speed of about 180 km/hr and an endurance of 11.5 hours. The drone would have taken almost seven hours to reach Israel from Iran. American intelligence picked up the departures of all the drones from Iran and were able to give Israel and all their Arab allies at least SIX HOURS advance warning. So everyone was ready and waiting. ALL the Iranian drones were shot down by multiple interceptors including airforce jets from Israel, US, UK and Jordan.
AMMAN,
April 13 (Reuters) - Jordan's air force intercepted and shot down
dozens of Iranian drones that violated its airspace and were heading to
Israel, two regional security sources said. They
said the army was also in a state of high alert and radar systems were
monitoring any drone activity coming from the direction of Iraq and
Syria. Residents
in several cities in the northern part of the country near Syria and
central and southern areas heard heavy aerial activity.
This is the first time ever in history that Iran has attacked Israel directly from Iranian soil. The Israelis have promised retaliation but it remains to be seen how and when that retaliation will take place.
This is also the first time ever in history that Jordan, an Arab country and a former enemy of Israel, sent up waves of its own airforce jets to shoot down the Iranian missiles and drones flying over its territory.
Despite being outside the area of hostilities Egypt also placed its armed forces on alert ready to assist Israel. Although it has not been reported Saudi Arabia would also most certainly have placed its airforce on alert duty.
Although Iran has launched an attack against Israel there are almost no celebrations in the Sunni Muslim countries. Certainly there will be no pro-Iran rally after Friday prayers at the Masjid Kampong Baru. This is because the Iranians are Shias. Sunnis do not like Shias. Just like the Shia Houthis in Yemen have received ZERO support from the Sunni countries despite the Houthis seizing Israeli and British ships and shooting missiles at Israel.
And now Jordan has sent jet fighters to intercept Iranian drones and missiles fired at Israel. As the world turns and as the stomach churns.
There will be an Israeli retaliation. The Americans are weak and fear escalation of hostilities in the Middle East just SIX MONTHS before the next presidential elections. Six months is a very long time.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Sdra Tamrin Tun Ghafar, Dr Mahathir, Tan Sri Muhyiddin, Madani dan pelbagai - Sila Dengar Baik-Baik.
I am referring the recent opinion by Tamrin Tun Ghafar worrying that the DAP will determine our politics for the next 10 years.
- "Hantaran
Tamrin bertajuk ‘10 tahun lagi DAP akan jadi tuan' itu menyatakan DAP
mempunyai blok terbesar ahli parlimen dalam kerajaan persekutuan hari
ini dengan 42 kerusinya.
It means that YOU have failed.
It means that YOUR people, the Malays, have rejected YOU.
That is what it means.
Sdr yang telah gagal.
Sebab itu DAP boleh berjaya.
Jangan salahkan DAP.
Salahkan kegagalan saudara dulu.
Even Malay commentators disagree with Tamrin's assertion. You can read Permadu's opinion here:
https://permadumalaysia.blogspot.com/2024/04/jika-dap-dapat-memberi-kebaikan-kepada.html?m=1
Jika DAP dapat memberi kebaikan kepada orang Melayu, lebih baik dari pemimpin Melayu, apa masalahnya?
KENAPA PULA POLIS PANGGIL TAMRIN?
But what I disagree with is the Police calling in Tamrin Tun Ghafar for questioning over his opinion - "Tokoh kontroversi Tamrin Ghafar dipanggil polis untuk siasatan".
It is just Tamrin's opinion. Opinion pun tak boleh kah?
Dato Sri Zaid Ibrahim berkata dia terkejut polis akan memanggil seseorang berdasarkan ramalan. “Membuat ramalan tidak sepatutnya menjadi satu kesalahan jenayah".
Dengar baik-baik ok. I keep saying this - the Malaysian voter is getting fed up with this type of actions. I am getting fed up with this type of actions. So Pakatan Harapan be prepared to lose the elections.
Hello Polis, pergilah tangkap bebudak yang baling Molotov cocktail kena kedai KK Store itu. Sampai hari ini tak boleh cari dia orang ke? Tapi Polis boleh tangkap 'sepai' dari Israel.
Balik kepada Sdra Tamrin. Sejak 1994 UMNO sudah hilang populariti.
UMNO's failed policies, their "philosophy" of stoking racial politics has brought UMNO to their sakratul maut or death throes. UMNO sudah mati dah. Now UMNO is a junior partner in Pakatan Harapan - along with 19 other parties.
In the August 2023 By Elections in the SIX states UMNO was almost completely kicked out.
Only 27% of Malays voted for UMNO.
PN secured almost 50% of the popular vote.
PN won 73% of the Malay vote.
PN won 146 out of 245 State seats. That is 60%.
PN won, PH lost. UMNO lost.
Its as simple as that.
Ismail Sabri said the results of the SIX State by-elections "marked a stunning rejection of UMNO".
UMNO's
failed policies, their "philosophy" of stoking racial politics has
brought UMNO to their sakratul maut or death throes. UMNO sudah mati
dah.
Dasar-dasar perjuangan UMNO, falsafah mereka sekarang telah membawa UMNO kepada sakratul maut.
In the graph above you can see that UMNO/BN has been losing popularity steadily since 2004. That is 20 years ago. This graph is not complete. UMNO/BN began losing popularity since 1994. That is 30 years ago. 2004 was an aberration because after Dr Mahathir quit in 2003 the Malaysian voters wanted to give Mr Clean a chance in 2004. In 2008 for the first time since Independence in 1957 Mr Clean lost UMNO's 2/3 majority in Parliament.
And then something really weird happened.
In 2018 UMNO/BN lost the general elections.
Dr Mahathir 2.0 and Pakatan Harapan took over.
But Dr Mahathir 2.0 did not change a single failed policy from the UMNO/BN era.
Dr Mahathir simply continued the 48 years of UMNO/BN's failed policies.
The cronyism, the corruption, the racism, the nonsensical economic policies (lets make the 3rd National Car. Nauzubillah hang punya bodoh!)
End result : Dr Mahathir 2.0 got kicked out in 2020.
Replaced by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
Again no change.
The same failed and nonsensical policies that makes a few people rich and makes the majority poor continued. The racism continued - but to a lesser degree.
End result - Tan Sri Muhyiddin was also replaced.
Replaced by Ismail Sabri. Same story.
Then we came to the November 2022 General Elections.
This General Elections was a huge watershed in Malaysian politics.
Because ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES LOST. THERE WAS NO WINNER. IT BECAME A HUNG PARLIAMENT.
- 2018 pemimpin parti menang hanya 13 kerusi parlimen jadi PM
- 2022 PM sekarang pun partinya menang kurang 30 kerusi
- PAS menang paling banyak kerusi hanya mampu jadi pembangkang
And now again this entah apa government is continuing the failed cronyism, the corruption, the racism, the nonsensical economic policies of UMNO/BN since 1970.
They are thinking that maybe this time, just one more time, they will succeed when these policies have failed now for 54 years (since 1970). Albert Einstein says you are mad.
The Malay people dont believe in your stupid and failed policies anymore.
The Chinese people never believed in your stupid and failed policies anymore.
The Indian people dont believe in your stupid and failed policies anymore.
The Dayak people dont believe in your stupid and failed policies anymore.
The Kadazan people dont believe in your stupid and failed policies anymore.
That is why there was a hung Parliament in November 2022.
And now the Pakatan is really, really unpopular.
They are continuing with the same failed policies as UMNO/BN from 54 years ago.
So there may be another hung Parliament in 2027.
And when there is a hung Parliament parties like DAP with only 40 seats can be big boys in the government. This is what is happening now.
So to Tamrin Tun Ghafar, Dr Mahathir, Tan Sri Muhyiddin, Madani, PH, PN dan pelbagai - if you want to win more votes CHANGE THESE FAILED POLICIES.
1. We dont want Rohingyas in the country.
2. We dont want troublesome Myanmars in the country.
3. We dont want Arab 'militants' in the country.
4. We dont want Indian terrorist mentors in the country.
5. We dont want rice import monopolies in the country.
6. We dont want any type of gomen licensed monopolies.
7. We are fed up with APs for cars, stupid car import taxes, duties which make cars so expensive.
8. No need RM5 Million paid up capital for the low value added, low technology, tepi jalan "vehicle inspection" business. How stupid can you get?
9. We dont want cronies making billions from human trafficking (foreign worker permits). Restaurants and businesses are closing because the foreign worker permits are so screwed up. The cronies make money.
10. We dont want toll roads in the country. Get rid of them.
11. We dont want the Sedition Act.
12. We dont want that really stupid Section 233 of the MCMC Act.
13. Reform the really outdated Defamation Acts in Malaysia.
14. Reform the education system now. Bring back Maths and Science in English.
15. TOTALLY LIBERALISE THE BANKING AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN MALAYSIA
This is just the beginning. The list is much longer.
Jadi Sdra Tamrin Tun Ghafar please understand this.
Parti politik Melayu yang sudah gagal.
Semua parti politik Melayu - UMNO, Pas, Bersatu, Amanah, PKR - semua gagal.
Perjuangan politik Melayu yang sudah gagal.
Perjuangan bangsa konon, perjuangan agama konon, perjuangan hudud, RUU, penipuan reformasi konon - semuanya sudah gagal.
Akibatnya orang Melayu sudah fed up.
Akibatnya pengundi Melayu sudah fed up.
Akibatnya adalah hung Parliament.
Akibatnya DAP dengan 40 kerusi jadi kingmaker.
Akibatnya Sarawak boleh suruh Federal pi terjun dalam laut.
The Sarawak people dont care about you anymore.
Akibatnya ahli politik Melayu jadi badut. Bahan ketawa.
Bila kalah pilihanraya ahli politik Melayu jadi kluster Mahkamah pula.
And then sdra nak menakutkan orang Melayu dengan DAP pula.
Kalau tak DAP, nanti PAP pula boleh datang.
Kalau tak PAP, mungkin British akan terpaksa datang balik.
Musuh kita bukan di luar.
Musuh kita di dalam.
Sapu duit, kroni kaya, dasar dungu itu adalah Musuh No.1
RUSSIA MAKES DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT AT UNITED NATIONS
Yesterday the Russian ambassador to the United Nations made a dramatic statement.
He basically delivered an ultimatum on Ukraine. Cessation of the war in Ukraine depends on
1. Ukraine never joining NATO
2. The demilitarisation of Ukraine (no army in Ukraine but Russia will give security guarantees).
3. The de-Nazification of Ukraine.
4. The Russian speaking regions of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaphorizhia remain in Russia as well as the Crimea.
Plus other ancillary points like no foreign soldiers on Ukrainian soil ever, not even for training visits or military exercises.
Then the Russians dropped their bombshell. They said that if these terms are not accepted they will resolve the matter on the battlefield. The Russian ambassador said that Russian troops are now entrenched and can advance all across the 1,000 km frontline with Ukraine at will. And Russia can take Kiev (the capital of Ukraine) in the next few months and then impose an unconditional surrender on Ukraine.
If Russia defeats Ukraine completely there may not be a Ukraine left.
I think the Russians have a clock ticking which is the US presidential elections on November 5th 2024. Donald Trump, who is Russia friendly, is expected to win.
If Trump becomes president and he adopts a friendly attitude towards Russia - which he did before - it may place President Putin in a difficult situation to say no to any peace proposals by Donald Trump. Trump has already said he will stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours.
Russia is looking beyond the Ukraine war. Of course Putin wants the west to remove all the economic sanctions against his country, re-establish sales of Russian gas to Europe (and make Germany great again) and resume normal trade links with the world. Putin will need close cooperation with Donald Trump to achieve this.
Folks, when the Ukraine war stops there will be great prosperity around the world again. The Stock Markets will jump.
So if Ukraine does not accept Russia's terms then Mr Putin will try to take Kiev and impose an unconditional surrender on Ukraine by November of 2024.
The British do not like what is happening. As usual they are planning more sneaky things. You can watch this short video:
Thursday, April 11, 2024
"As a nation, we have no shame". Please Do Not Say "We". Sometimes You Have To Say 'I'.
Haris Hussain
3 February 2024
"Malaysia, a nation with no shame?"
As a nation, we have no shame.
We are a nation that celebrates convicted criminals, turning them into cause célèbres.
We are a nation where convicted felons get five-star preferential treatment, and are invited to speak at business forums after being charged with criminal breach of trust, abuse of power, and money laundering.
We are a nation where politicians facing a mountain of charges can still hold office, are escorted by police outriders – not to prison – but to attend state functions and to shamelessly welcome visiting heads of state. (OSTB : Dont forget the Indian terrorist mentors.)
We are a nation that shamelessly expects, and doles out handouts, creating a culture of unfettered entitlement that spans every facet of Malaysian life – from business, to education, to illegal street racing.
We are a nation that rewards bad behaviour, and embraces slogans extolling the virtues of shamelessness. We celebrate thieves and thievery. One slogan that for a while became the national mantra of sorts loosely translated to “What Is There To Be Ashamed of, My Dear Boss?”
We are a nation that rewards mediocrity. We excel at coming up with excuses, justifying the unjustifiable, sugar-coating the harsh realities of the outcome (football, hockey, badminton, take your pick), and propping up the losers with hollow “Attaboys” and “Kita sudah buat yang terbaik demi bangsa dan negara”.
It doesn’t detract from the fact that we can’t seem to do anything right.
Malaysia’s disastrous outings in both the men’s and women’s Olympic hockey qualifiers recently were hard to stomach, but the results were not unexpected. Once a hockey powerhouse, Malaysia’s national teams have now been reduced to a shadow of their former self, instilling paralysing fear and abject terror only in an opponent’s girls’ Under-12 team.
Our national football team, carrying the fierce moniker of ‘Harimau Malaya’ came home to a heroes’ welcome – and an additional funding of RM5 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned money, on top of the RM10 million given by the government in 2022 – this, after being mauled and torn apart 4-0 by Jordan, and losing 1-0 to Bahrain in the AFC Asian Cup 2023 group matches. Go figure.
When it drew 3-3 with South Korea and was sent home packing, one would think that Harimau Malaya had qualified for the World Cup, going by the euphoria that swept the nation, and the headlines in the local press, which had the audacity to put Malaysia on a par with football juggernauts Brazil and Ghana.
We are a nation that takes pride in circumventing and beating the system, in cutting corners, and using back doors, loopholes, and technicalities, to get what we want. Some even go to the extent of poking holes through the roof. All, while screaming about the sanctity of the rule of law. Shameless.
A system that rewards incompetence and mediocrity will do nothing to spur us as a nation, to greater heights. It only reinforces the belief that there’s no need to excel, since even those placing dead last will be hailed as heroes. You get the medals, cash rewards, and all the accolades simply for showing up.
This only breeds a culture of entitlement, evident by the number of financial aid handouts the government has had to dish out under a litany of creative and catchy-sounding names over the years. A rose by any other name is still a cash handout. The end result is the social engineering of a people who just sit and wait – no need to work – for the next round of disbursements. Malaysia’s ‘subsidy mentality’ shows no sign of being consigned to the scrapheap of history anytime soon.
What have we become? What used to be right is now wrong, and what is wrong, “kita boleh ejas”. When motorists refuse to yield to ambulances and emergency services vehicles with the regularity with which it occurs in this country, you know that Malaysia’s ‘collective conscience’ is dead and buried, its epitaph a sad indictment of the true state of the nation.
Facts and evidence no longer matter. What matters is the tensile strength of your ‘cable’. As a nation, we are hopelessly rudderless, our moral compass completely askew. And that, is a crying shame.
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My Comments :
A very apt and precise description of what is going on in the country. Club of Doom.
This is a very important article. It is an acknowledgement of failure. The first step towards correcting your wrongs is to admit that you have failed. Once you can admit that you have failed that will (or should) lead to more honesty. It should lead to more self criticism and self awareness.
That in turn will lead to a search for the remedy. Or rather it should. But that too has its own threats and boobytraps. For example it could lead to a search for remedies through "religion" - another rabbit hole. Or hell hole.
Hence this sentence "As a nation, we have no shame" is not fully accurate.
The problems that we face in this country are not 'universal'. The problems that we see in the country are too, too often unique to one main race and one main religion.
To highlight this problem, let me use the 'its not listed here' approach.
Lets take inter-racial and inter-religious relations. Please include a vice-versa:
- The Dayaks in Sarawak have no issues with the Indians or the Chinese.
- The Dusuns and Kadazans in Sabah have no issues with the Dayaks.
- The Indians have no issues with the Orang Asli or the Chinese.
- The Chinese have no issues with the Orang Asli, the Dayaks or the Dusuns.
- Everybody just goes about their business.
- This is also Malaysia - about 50% of Malaysia.
- The Hindus have no issues with the Buddhists.
- The Buddhists have no issues with the Taoists.
- Both the Taoists and Buddhists have no issues with the Christians.
- They just go about their own religions.
- This is also Malaysia - about 50% of Malaysia.
Can you see who is not listed here? That is the problem.
So the amoral corrupt the morals of everyday people.
The Gomen Budget (2024) of RM394 Billion depends on about RM308 Billion of tax revenue or 78% of the total Budget. The huge bulk of the tax revenue obviously comes from taxpayers who are productive and hardworking people. Otherwise they will not be able to generate the sales and revenues which contribute so much tax revenue for the gomen. These are the people who obviously do not depend on subsidies and free handouts.
One expert recently said that in the past three years 96 out of 97 new public listed companies were non Muslim owned. That is 98.96%. This means that 98.96% of the corporate taxes collected from this group of 97 newly listed companies are from the non Muslims.
These are definitely NOT the 'we have no shame' people. These are people who work very hard.
The non-Muslim business class have little love for the 'shameless' classes but they are business people. They have to be practical. They owe money to suppliers, they have bank loans to pay, monthly salaries to pay, rental for the factories and offices and they import stuff by the shiploads from overseas. All this needs hard work and money. They have to pay for everything.
But sitting over all these are the shameless classes who dont know anything about business, who dont give a shit about almost anything and who dont care about anyone else except themselves.
And of course they want their cut. For free.So the amoral corrupt the morals of everyday people.
So please do not say "we" have problems. I disagree.
You must be more honest and say 'I'. "I have a problem".
You must be more honest and say 'I'. "I have a problem".
Here is one example of problem solving that I mentioned above. This 'problem has been solved' provides solid evidence for what I said earlier - that the problems we face in this country are not major. The problems that we face are minor and easily fixable. Sometimes these so called problems are insignificant to a ridiculous extent.
The example I have is education. From kindergarten to university the government education system in the country (other than the vernacular schools) is a shambles. The other cesspool that has been created are the religious schools - gomen and private. No one knows what type of confused minds are being nurtured in these religious schools.
What is the fix? What is the solution?
Thankfully we allowed private education and vernacular education. From kindergarten to universities we have private education that is contributing so much to our economy.
There are now over 100,000 non-Chinese children attending Chinese vernacular schools. This means 200,000 non Chinese parents feel that the Chinese schools are a better option for their children. Chinese schools are renowned for their emphasis on discipline, tons of homework, Maths and Science subjects and now also English. (However the Tamil schools outscore ALL other schools in Maths and Science). The enrolment of non-Chinese in Chinese schools is increasing rapidly and it may double in the next few years.
Chinese schools must prepare for this ever higher enrolment of non Chinese students.
Then we have the private schools - private boarding schools, international schools etc whose medium of instruction is in English. The government run boarding schools also teach in English. There are also private 'Islamic' schools which prepare students for the British O and A levels or the Singapore syllabus who also teach in English. (Then there is also the other highly successful private schooling system that I still will not mention).
Finally we have the private universities which also teach in English. All these private educational schools and universities which teach in English are far more successful than the gomen schools whose main medium of instruction is Malay.
Graduates from private universities are rarely unemployed. On the other hand the over 70,000 (figure is debateable, it could be higher) unemployed graduates are mostly from the gomen universities.
So here is the problem and its solution. The problem is in the gomen's education system and the solution is in the private education system.
Just make a simple, honest comparison.
Graduates of gomen education system (primary, secondary, tertiary) versus graduates of vernacular and private education system (primary, secondary, tertiary).Where are they five years after finishing their education?
Where are they 10 years after finishing their education?
How many have jobs?
What is their per capita income?
How many are on drugs?
How many are on subsidies and free handouts? Or gomen / GLC jobs?
How many are in the 'shameless' category?
Where are they 10 years after finishing their education?
How many have jobs?
What is their per capita income?
How many are on drugs?
How many are on subsidies and free handouts? Or gomen / GLC jobs?
How many are in the 'shameless' category?
Just stop following the system that has failed, failed and failed.
Just follow the system that has been proven to be succesful.
The solution is so simple.
Please do not say "we" have problems. I disagree.
You must be more honest and say 'I'. "I have a problem".
Because other people do not seem to have as many problems.
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