18 Apr 2024, 18:43 Kuching
18 Apr 2024, 11:43 London
Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz has said assessments that Malaysia was tumbling into a failed statehood were unfair.
Among others, he dismissed the white flag campaign as being a signal that the country was faltering.
“I am sure that many social and political scientists are as baffled as I am by how a single community-care campaign – and perhaps also social media conversations – on helping those in need can be equated with impending failed statehood,” he said in an editorial piece for Singapore’s Strait Times.
The white flag campaign urges those in dire need of help to put up a white flag to signal to others that they require aid.
Of course, this unelected royal buddy has never understood hunger or poverty and so doubtless fails to understand that in the eyes of the wider population a failure to ensure access to the life-sustaining basics represents failure by a state towards its people.
Doubtless he has ‘indicators’ learnt from banking. However, his investors understand that a starving and disaffected population led by a bunch of corrupted headless chickens makes for an unstable prospect.
So even he should realise that his is a failed government both in the eyes of the people and in the eyes for the world, therefore it would be better to keep his pouty lips zipped rather than arguing the toss about the level to which he has dragged his country down.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang launched a scathing broadside against those politicising the Covid-19 situation and accusing the government of failing to contain the pandemic.
Pointing out that not a single nation has succeeded in curbing the spread of the virus, he also noted the emergence of more infectious variants.
Without mincing words, the veteran politician said those who hurled such accusations are “mad with politicking”.
Shooting for the stars with his criticism, Hadi (above) said these people “appeared to be dwelling on another planet and not on earth.”
Apart from referring to the unfulfilled promises in the Pakatan Harapan manifesto with regard to the last general election, he attributed the detractors’ actions to “political greed and thirst for power.”
Backdoor Hadi is always swift to criticise others for failings that he blatantly exhibits himself.
This is a man who poses as a religious leader (genuine religion strives to remain above politics) in order to progress his earthly agenda of personal power and wealth. In the process he has caused deaths by firing up extreme passions among followers. Even Saudi Arabia has banned him as a terrorist, although laughably the ever unscrupulous Mahiaddin has rewarded him with the title of ‘Envoy to the Middle East’ a place he dare not visit.
Meanwhile, although he daily claims to place his wellbeing in the hands of the divine, he races constantly to hospital to receive the best modern medicine that science (and deep pockets) can provide, in order to counter the effects of overeating and other indulgences on his elderly heart.
To further his personal power agenda Hadi manoeuvred into the top position in a party that for decades had campaigned against the depravities of UMNO (using secret support from UMNO who was seeking to infiltrate PAS in just this manner) and started to attack those within the party who continued to support the opposition on the spurious grounds that they were not radically religious enough.
Having got rid of that half of the PAS movement (now Amanah) he steered the remaining MPs through the last election still pretending to oppose BN/UMNO to ordinary voters whilst secretly receiving support from Najib to fund an increasingly lavish lifestyle and political machine. Only PAS contested every seat at the last election – funded by UMNO.
Straight after the election Hadi drove his astonished party to at last openly join UMNO, after years of thinking they were in opposition to all the corruption that UMNO represents. They thought they were the ‘moral’ party after all.
Having got into office (at last) by then joining in with the egregious antics of yet more former opponents, namely the rebels bought over from Bersatu and PKR, Hadi and his followers have been engaged ever since in an orgy of self-indulgence and waste, awarding themselves lucrative jobs and positions and doing very little actual work in the midst of the Pandemic.
He has supported the closing down of Parliament on the grounds that democracy is a waste of time now that Allah is allegedly ruling the country through his good self and his fellow rag-tag bag of rebel coup-mongers.
So, when a desperate population starts through their actual representatives to criticise this abuse, Hadi naturally assumes their motives match his own. It is “politicking” to point out that PAS are pillaging the nation and neglecting to focus on the pandemic, he opines. These critics are merely ‘greedy’ and ‘thirsting for power’ that he wants to continue to enjoy himself.
It seems the only person who cannot see all this for what it is is Hadi himself. So perhaps it is he who resides in ‘outer space’ or maybe just a in self-deluded bubble on planet Earth?
Netizens have asked if they can receive the same treatment after Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa visited former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at his Kuala Lumpur residence even though house visits are banned during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Annuar, who is Umno’s Ketereh MP, revealed his visit on Twitter but deleted the post after it sparked public outrage.
“Today, we as husband and wife had the chance to visit Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Jeane Abdullah at their residence at Bait Badawi, Kuala Lumpur.
“We spent more than two hours with him and had lunch cooked by Jeane. May Allah always blesses Pak Lah’s whole family,” he tweeted.
Following the post, several netizens replied with a screen capture of the SOP which stated that house visits were not allowed.
“Even if you’re not smart, at least be a good example,” said one Twitter user.
Others lamented that they had not seen their family for a long time and asked if they, too, could visit their parents.
“It’s been almost two years. You can have Raya family pictures while some of the rest cannot. This is unfair,” another Twitter user said.
Annuar Musa wasn’t caught out breaking the harsh ‘anti-Covid’ rules imposed by his own government. He revealed it himself!
Ministers all over the world have been forced to resign in the face of popular fury over far smaller and perhaps more understandable violations, but this nitwit boasted openly about the transgression because he was so keen to brag that a former PM had made him (and the missus) welcome at his home.
Is the stupidity more worrying or the arrogance that comes with his sense that he can get away with such gross behaviour (along with all his colleagues who openly act likewise) whilst Malaysians suffer under gratuitously harsh conditions which they imposed?
With selfish fools like this in charge what chance does Malaysia have of combatting Covid?
It is yet another glimpse for infuriated Malaysians into how ‘the other half lives’, namely the politicians who make the laws and their friends and families and crony hangers on, compared to the rest of the population facing fines often just for trying to survive.
The fact that this man survived even one hour in office after such a scandalous admission is as good a sign as any of the moribund nature of the Muhyiddin government, lacking in spine, direction and credibility let alone a shred of moral or any other accountability.
Yet is seems clear that these useless and selfish creatures will continue with their fantasy that they are governing the country, are loved by all and can do as they please until someone puts them out of their dangerous delusion which is costing lives.
June 30 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been admitted to hospital after suffering a bout of diarrhea, his office said in a statement on Wednesday.
When Muhyiddin was first hospitalised with reported diarrhoea on June 30, Twitter erupted with theories he had deliberately flushed his scheduled meeting with the Agong down the toilet.
Three days on, however, there has been no more news. At all. As far as can be divined the PM remains in hospital but the government is yet to release an official statement or update regarding his health. In the silence, reports are circulating social media in KL that he has undergone surgery to have his gall bladder and duodenum removed due to his long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Last June, of course, it was denied he was sick at all. In response to a Sarawak Report disclosure about his ongoing treatment the PM Office declared him to be ‘cancer free’.
Meanwhile, without a Deputy PM to step in, Malaysia is left in the dark and without a clear leader—or at least without word on who is running the country in the grips of an emergency of this man’s making, while Muhyiddin lies, potentially desperately ill, in hospital.
Yet decisions appear to be being made…. by someone. Law minister Takiyuddin popped his head over the parapet Friday morning to announce that the PM has decided to recall parliament as soon as possible, but without any news on his health. “As soon as possible” reeks of the same deliberate obfuscation as the claim that “diarrhoea” sent the nation’s leader to hospital for three days.
Countries have a right to information about their leader’s health and who is standing in. In the UK, when Boris Johnson was hospitalised with COVID-19 in April 2020, the press were given regular updates on his health and he directly addressed the nation via video on Twitter. Westminster stated that Boris was still “in charge of government” but nonetheless gave clear details about which Ministers would lead which meetings in his absence.
Similarly, when Trump was hospitalised for COVID-19 treatment in October 2020 the White House gave regular press statements, Trump’s personal physician himself gave updates on the then-president’s condition, and the man himself, unsurprisingly, tweeted during his stay.
It is absurd that a nation’s leader and his office should fail to update on his ill health at any time, but to do so during this tumultuous moment in history that has thrown the nation into crisis is unforgivable (along with his many other sins). Muhyiddin’s exploitative reign as PM guarantee him little sympathy from the people he has failed and calls abound for his resignation. However, it is increasingly unlikely he is in any state to throw his weight around which begs the question—who is pulling the strings now?
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been admitted to hospital after suffering a bout of diarrhoea, his office said in a statement on Wednesday (June 30).
The Prime Minister’s Office said Tan Sri Muhyiddin started having the condition on Tuesday night, and was hospitalised the following morning for treatment and monitoring.
It did not provide any more details.
Mahiaddin has to go – in more ways than one as he himself informed us.
This hospital move is the failing PM’s equivalent of raising the white flag, like so many of his desperate countrymen have been forced to do.
Retiring on grounds of ill health is a deal more dignified that getting the sack, which is what ought to have happened to him by now, but at least he will be out by the backdoor which was the way he came in.
Thousands have died following his PN government’s counter-productive ’emergency lockdowns’ of the past months, designed to keep themselves in office rather than tackle the pandemic. The measures brought living hell for the kettled masses, whilst ‘Moo’s’ ministers and business cronies swanned around breaking all the rules and setting up ‘key industry’ exemptions for themselves.
The sooner this failure issues his statement of retirement the sooner Malaysia can get down to the genuine job of saving lives and restoring the economy. There is not a moment to lose and the Agong should not call in his stead any of the quarrelling team of puppet masters who have been running this sick man’s government from behind the scenes.
Malaysia needs a fresh start.
Padang Rengas MP Nazri Aziz will be flying abroad to help his son enrol in a school overseas, but he will be back in time for Parliament when it reconvenes.
The Umno man said he obtained the necessary visa from the proper channels and was given clearance by the immigration department.
Though unsure when exactly he will be returning, he told FMT that he will return before Parliament sits.
“I’ve got to quarantine for 14 days, so I will fly back at least 15 days before Parliament starts.
“There is nothing wrong. I know someone from Umno was trying to go overseas but couldn’t because he had a court case to settle. But I have clearance,” he said, declining to go further into details about his son.
On reports that he was going on “holiday” for two months, Nazri clarified that he was only joking when he said that.
Malaysiakini reported that Nazri’s son is five years old.
People are committing suicide or dying slowly of hunger, many thrown out of house and home by loan sharks, now to be given special status by the odious Zuraida.
Others are cashing in more of their pensions, on the special advice and permission of a Government that refuses to support them properly, but has spent billions on vaccines that appear to have gone AWOL.
Meanwhile, this fully vaccinated minister (who is of course free of any Parliamentary duties on the excuse of this emergency) plans to head off abroad away from all the misery and tedious suffering to escort his five year old to enrol in a foreign school (just as the long school break begins?).
In normal times one would ask what is wrong with the schools provided by this man’s own government for everybody else that he should spend a fortune sending him abroad aged five? One still asks it.
The country may be on its knees but the pampered panjandrums of this present government continue to manage to find ways to outrage and incense the people further by acts such as this one and the gross insensitivity and selfishness involved.
The Nazri family are setting off abroad (first class naturally) just after this politician threw the political scene into further chaos by openly admitting how he has been playing all sides to his own advantage and splitting his party in the process. No thought to the need for a working government supported by the majority at the election, just good old-fashioned selfish opportunism by a wealthy warlord.
As the political stalemate Nazri has helped to create deepens, ordinary Malaysians remain kettled in their homes, unable to provide for their own families, whilst the fires of infection are being simultaneously stoked by the passes given by this same regime to factories and businesses that are making money for their pals.
That’s also annoying – nay infuriating for all but the ruling elite who have themselves taken no notice whatsoever it would seem of the rules they have imposed on everybody else.
Everyone knows the rate of infections and even deaths are clearly far in excess of what is being reported, yet PN are playing a juggling act allowing just enough bad news to let them carry on with locking up the people and preventing Parliament, whilst keeping secret the full extent of their appalling failure to control the virus.
The last thing that anyone in this government, least of all Nazri Aziz, appears to be thinking about is how to gain control of this pandemic and how to return life and liberty to the people of Malaysia. They have more important things to think about – themselves.
Nazri has his vaccinations and private plans to be getting on with – including settling this latest offspring into some other country to enjoy his life and take care of Daddy’s investments in.
Certainly, as he knows better than most, plundered and ruined Malaysia will be no place in years to come for the son of a rich political profiteer to enjoy.
PN has seen to that.
In 2018, then BN secretary-general Nazri Abdul Aziz reached out to PKR president Anwar Ibrahim and pledged Umno’s support if the latter would guarantee the party is not dissolved once he becomes prime minister.
Nazri – who is now vocally against Umno working with Anwar – said his manoeuvrings at the time was necessary to ensure his party’s survival.
“At the time, I felt I needed to be close to the next PM, and then coax him not to dissolve Umno.
“Because (then prime minister) Dr Mahathir Mohamad was set on dissolving us,”..
Now back in government, Nazri said Umno was no longer under threat, and hence did not need Anwar anymore…
This stance had motivated him to turn against Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi – whom he believed was still trying to align the party with Anwar.
Nazri said 25 out of 42 BN lawmakers have signed a declaration pledging support for Sembrong MP Hishammuddin Hussein as their spokesperson.
This is as Nazri did not trust Zahid represented the party truthfully during his meeting with the king earlier this month.
“I trust Hishammuddin to tell the truth that we don’t support Anwar or DAP,” he added
Nazri makes no bones about it. He himself (in true UMNO fashion) is openly untrustworthy and sees no problem with deceiving and lying to promote his own ends.
Yet he trusts his colleague Hishamuddin, he says. The same cousin of the convicted kleptocrat Najib who has schemed with his dear friend Azmin Ali since the day UMNO lost the election to bribe MPs and destabilise his own government.
The sickly Mahiaddin is the temporary puppet but this was always about the dopey Hishamuddin claiming his ‘birthright’.
The problem these fellows have is that they are all so utterly transparent and it is plain for all to see than none of them have a moral fibre in their bodies or the least care for the nation of people they are supposed to be pledged to serve.
What facades of purpose and patriotism they might once have hid behind as they pursued their selfish ends have now utterly fallen away with the disastrous gold rush that PN has represented. Raping a country in the midst of the pandemic.
Were members of UMNO or the nation to adopt this band of openly dishonest and self-serving rascals the consequences are plain for all to see.
Hunger, poverty and oppression would eventually be followed by a sell-out to Hishamuddin’s ‘Chinese Uncles’ at a price suitable to keep him in luxury – to hell with the rest.
Police have launched an investigation against de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan, over his comments on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s wish to see Parliament reconvene as soon as possible.
In a brief statement, Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani this evening confirmed that they have received reports against the minister.
“The investigation is being carried out by Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department,” Acryl Sani said.
The top cop added that investigators would call all the relevant individuals to assist in their investigation.
On Wednesday, a statement issued by Istana Negara stated that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah is of the opinion that Parliament should reconvene as soon as possible to allow MPs to debate emergency laws and the National Recovery Plan.
Several hours after that, Takiyuddin told PAS mouthpiece Harakah in an interview that the king did not specify an exact date on when the legislature should be in session.
The PAS secretary-general had argued that September is soon, as per the National Recovery Plan that was laid out by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin a day earlier (on Tuesday).
Malaysia needs to decriminalise freedom of speech. It is simply ludicrous to have a situation where the average man in blue is left scratching his head over whether the opinions of, for example, an elected representative of the people are ‘illegal’ – or maybe not.
There are few people lower in the estimation of Sarawak Report and many others than Malaysia’s present law minister. However, the idea that he should be reported, harassed and intimidated for expressing his lame opinions is unacceptable, unless he is urging active harm against someone else,
There are other ways of dealing with the nonsense that certain people spout, lies or even false accusations, all of which carry no need for threats of criminal prosecution. Indeed, you cannot sustain a genuine democracy for even a day if people are unable to speak freely, criticise and hold contrary opinions safely.
If, as in this case, the man has spoken nonsense, others may answer with clarity, sense and fact. He has lost this argument in the eyes of the public already. But you cannot shut up the likes of Takiyuddin by adding criminal complaints without silencing others who bring vital information that we all need to hear.
Leave it to the listener to decide. In the present case 95% of Malaysians who heard the law minister’s remarks will have judged them for what they were – a load of self-serving nonsense to justify his not budging from his undeserved position.
No need to construct arguments that the Agong has somehow been insulted – who is after all up to his neck in this present ’emergency’ and in the appointment of Takiyuddin’s government in the first place, so let’s not go there.
Certainly no need for a police officer to interrogate on the basis of such contorted allegations. By his own utterances the minister has already condemned himself in the only place that really matters, which is the court of public opinion.
Meanwhile, Leave police officers to mind the traffic, stop brawlers and deal with their own bad apples. Don’t ask them to decide on matters which ought to be left for voters to determine at the ballot box.
[Takiyuddin] said the Agong did not explicitly mention a date for when Parliament should reopen again.
“His Majesty did not specify any particular date, but said it should be held as soon as possible. So the Prime Minister can announce, for example, that Parliament will reopen in September or October,” Takiyuddin said during a discussion on Bicara Harakah.
Speaking to moderator Badzli Bakar, the de facto law minister added that the Agong also stressed the role of all MPs across the political spectrum to focus on dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
“So if Parliament is to reopen, then they should focus on how best to deal with Covid, rather than anything else.
“As always, the government is ready to openly accept the views of the Opposition MPs with regards to Covid-19. We also thank His Majesty and the Conference of Rulers, over their concerns on the matter,” he said.
This wily law minister (the one who declared 1MDB reparations were a state secret) is one of many crying like babies now that the Council of Rulers has slapped down their experiment in hijacking the democratic process.
The appointed Speaker of the house (another lawyer who is not even an MP and whose equally unelected brother has been appointed Attorney General) is also wailing at the prospect of the early demise of their cosy crony positions propping up the coup.
But whilst these fellows can only smell the gravy, having teamed up with a bunch of fellow opportunists with nothing in common besides happening to be Malay, the Rulers have plainly smelt the coffee. So, at long last, has the Agong.
These power grabbers were so intent on the fruits of office they barely registered the pandemic to begin with. When they did it was primarily to use it as an excuse to control the country rather than prioritising public health and economic pain.
They were too focused on their own economic gain.
Everyone in Malaysia has watched this blatant performance with growing anger, hence the decision by the rulers to intervene and end the abuse of constitutional process and “bring down the temperature” in the country.
Predictably, the likes of Takiyuddin and Art Harun are nonetheless seeking to re-interpret the rulers’ stated position, confirmed by the Agong, that this show needs to come to an end as soon as possible.
That there is no need for the bogus ‘state of emergency’ to continue this shut down of parliament means the charade should end today. Not maybe September or October or sometime never, as these two second rate lawyers are now desperately pleading before the bench of public opinion.
The bench is not amused. And since the Agong no longer accepts the advice of a prime minister who lacks a majority the law is now being broken by these advocates for a failed administration.
Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri James Jemut Masing is still mourning the demise of his younger brother Jantai Masing, 68, who died due to Covid-19 at the Kapit Hospital on May 31, just a day before the Dayaks in the state ushered in the Gawai celebration.
According to him, his late brother would have a better chance to survive Covid-19 if he had been given the vaccine as Jantai’s son Kudi, who nursed his father when he was infected by the disease, had survived because he had already been vaccinated.
“The choice is simple — vaccinate and live, don’t you die! Vaccine is the only tool we have to contain Coronavirus. Use it we must, if humans are to survive this deadly pandemic,” he told Bernama via WhatsApp today.
Masing, who is also the Baleh assemblyman, said the vaccination programme in the state constituency which is located in Kapit district had been well accepted by the people there but he wanted the federal government to guarantee that ample supply would reach the interior division of Sarawak fast.
The horrendous mismanagement of Malaysia’s present vaccine rollout has thrown a poignant light on the grotesque system of graft and cronyism established by the country’s ruling elite.
This is a regime that serves itself and nobody else and now that the storm has hit it is has been plain for all to see that cronyism and corruption cannot cope with a crisis such as Covid 19. All its structures and policies are designed only to steal from and not to administer the country.
James Masing’s youthful nephew received the vaccine because the government favoured so-called ‘essential workers’ over those most vulnerable to the disease, namely those in the age group of his father.
Essential workers were deemed to include the presently unemployed political classes, all laid off by the bogus ’emergency suspension’ of Parliament which is designed to keep minority PN in office (all so they can continue to cream contracts out of Covid amongst other forms of graft).
Throughout this appalling era of selfish power mongering by PN the salient feature as the pandemic raged has been the favouritism shown towards this political elite and their cronies and hangers on.
So it’s been jabs for themselves and chaos and confusion for everyone else (handily ‘justifying’ the continuation of the lucrative emergency rule).
How young Nicholas Kudi Janta must now personally regret this disgusting and selfish policy of his own government. It has resulted in the tragic deaths of his own mother and father, whom at least he was able to safely visit on their deathbeds owing to his own privileged vaccination. Being young he would have been at minimal risk anyway from Covid.
It is worth mentioning that in most countries Kudi would still have been required not to visit his parents at this tragic time because of the risk he could spread the virus without contracting it – but again special exemptions for ‘special people’ have been the hallmark of this pandemic in Malaysia. Millions of other families have suffered the sadness of separation to protect others.
Thanks to the same selfish policies, Uncle James has also been vaccinated. He at least qualifies by age, having like most of his political contemporaries in Sarawak occupied the same lucrative position for decades without doing anything visible to benefit the wider population.
However, the story of Kuti Janta has done more than this to shed light on the self-serving situation in Sarawak. This ‘essential’ politician qualifies for his special status having been appointed as one of no less than 32 political secretaries appointed by chief minister Abang Jo!
The prime minister of Great Britain makes do with one political secretary (and by the way he also waited his turn like every other political, royal or famous figure for his vaccination based on age and health). However, the impoverished taxpayers of Sarawak are forced to fund the perks and salaries of no less than 32 for this one politician, the posts being artfully divided out to benefit the families of the various leading political figures in order to bolster GPS and its grip on power.
Indeed, Sarawak and Malaysia are littered with such characters who have created a whole ruling class for themselves around the families of politicians living off the taxpayer. Down in the jungle they have a name for such creatures: they call them leeches.
Like a leech to your leg, these political bloodsuckers are now clinging to office as if their lives depended on it – which in fact they now do!
