No Malaysian would want Malaysia to ratify ICERD at the price of another May 13 racial riot
Posted by Kit in nation building, Politics on Sunday, 25 November 2018, 8:33 am
The Pakatan Harapan government to build a New Malaysia suffered a setback yesterday when the Prime Minister’s Office announced that the government will not ratify the International Covenant Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and that it will continue to defend the Federal Constitution.
No Malaysian would want Malaysia to ratify the ICERD at the price of another May 13 racial riot in the country, as there is no doubt that there are irresponsible elements which are seeking to incite and escalate racial and religious distrust, animosity and hatred to engender the conditions to replicate another May 13 racial riot in Malaysia.
Is ICERD against the Malaysian Constitution, anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay Rulers? Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysia should emulate Abu Dhabi’s IPIC and sue Goldman Sachs to recover US$7.1 billion for losses suffered as a result of three bonds totaling US$6.5 billion and US600 million commission to Goldman Sachs
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals on Thursday, 22 November 2018, 4:29 pm
Malaysia should emulate Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC) and sue Goldman Sachs to recover US$7.1 bilion for losses suffered as a result of three bonds totally US$6.5 billion and US$600 million commission to Goldman Sachs.
Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Co (IPIC) yesterday filed a lawsuit against US investment bank Goldman Sachs and others to recover losses suffered through its dealings with Malaysian state fund 1MDB. Read the rest of this entry »
It must be history’s most pathetic mea culpa, contrived and totally unconvincing, completely unable to evoke sympathy and understanding, let alone pity
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, Najib Razak on Thursday, 22 November 2018, 3:51 pm
It must be history’s most pathetic mea culpa, contrived and totally unconvincing, completely unable to evoke sympathy and understanding let alone pity.
Who would believe Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s admission that his administration was cheated by fugitive financier Jho Low, the other mastermind of the 1MDB scandal?
Please stand forward and declare yourself and we have the new suckers in Malaysia!
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More questions about Hadi and PAS MPs’ position on ICERD
Posted by Kit in Parliament, PAS on Thursday, 22 November 2018, 10:25 am
Yesterday, I asked the PAS President Datuk Seri Hadi Awang what he really meant when he said that all Muslims must oppose the ratification of the International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) when the Covenant had been ratified by countries representing 99% of the 1.9 billion Muslims in the world, including countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, UAB, Algeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
While we wait for answer from the PAS President, Hadi can also explain why 55 of the 57 countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) States have ratified ICERD, except for Malaysia and Brunei. Is there a suggestion that somehow the 99% the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims, who live in 55 of the 57 OIC countries, have been misled and not as Muslim as Hadi would want them to be? Read the rest of this entry »
Is Hadi suggesting that only 1% of the 1.9 billion Muslims in the world are qualify as true Muslims, as all Muslim countries except for Malaysia and Brunei, have ratified the International Covenant of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Icerd)
PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang has upped the ante and declared that all Muslims must oppose the ratification of the International Convention of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Icerd).
Is he suggesting that only one per cent of the 1.9 billion Muslim in the world qualify to be called true Muslims as all Muslim countries including all the Muslim countries in the Middle East except for Malaysia and Brunei have ratified the International Convention of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Icerd)?
The countries which have ratified Icerd, some with reservations, include the following 36 countries:
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All the UMNO and PAS MPs who disregarded and defied the Speaker’s directives and shouted and yelled incessantly to stop Waytha Moorthy from continuing his reply in Parliament on Monday should be referred to the Committee of Privileges to prevent another recurrence
Posted by Kit in Parliament, PAS, UMNO on Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 11:37 am
What happened in Parliament on Monday morning, when UMNO and PAS Members of Parliament defied and disregarded the Speaker’s directives and shouted and yelled incessantly to stop the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, P. Waytha Moorthy from replying and delivering his speech during the Ministerial winding-up in the debate on the 2019 Budget is the greatest disgrace in the half-a-century history of Malaysian Parliament, as such a dishonourable incident had never happened before in the Malaysian Parliament since 1959.
Has parliamentary standards in Malaysia degraded so much in the past half-a-century? Is the Malaysian Parliament next to graduate to fist-fights and physical attacks on the Speaker as happened in other Parliaments?
What made Monday’s disgraceful incident in Parliament even more shocking is that some of the miscreant Members of Parliament were former Cabinet Ministers – which highlighted the glaring fact that the former Cabinet that was unceremoniously chucked out of Putrajaya by the Malaysian voters on May 9, 2018 was one the worst in Malaysian history – made up of the most “deadwood” and “half-past six” Ministers. Read the rest of this entry »
Two “laughing stocks” in Malaysian politics within 48 hours
Malaysian politics achieved two new records of sorts within 48 hours – both highlighted by none other than the new MCA President, Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong.
In the first instance, Wee had captured the essence when he said that the UMNO President, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi had been turned into a “laughing stock” after his overture to PAS for a UMNO-PAS merger were ignored. Read the rest of this entry »
Will UMNO and PAS hold joint protest rally to condemn Najib, 1MDB scandal and Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy
Will UMNO and PAS hold a joint protest rally against Najib Razak, 1MDB scandal and Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy?
There are no signs that UMNO and PAS are prepared to do so, as their leaders and Members of Parliament do not regard the international 1MDB corruption, criminal breach of trust and money-laundering scandal or the infamy and ignominy to Malaysia to be regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy to be of any concern at all.
This is why in the 2019 Budget debate in Parliament, while the 1MDB scandal continues to make daily waves internationally, not a single UMNO or PAS MP dare to take a stand that the monstrous 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal is a national catastrophe and that the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak must be held responsible for the infamy of Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy. Read the rest of this entry »
Fie to all Opposition MPs as not a single UMNO, MCA, MIC, PAS or Opposition MP dared to take a stand during the Budget debate that 1MDB scandal is a national catastrophe and Najib must be held responsible for the infamy of Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy
Posted by Kit in Parliament, PAS, UMNO on Monday, 19 November 2018, 10:58 am
The 2019 Budget debate in Parliament has ended, with the Ministers beginning their replies today.
One of the most astounding features of the 2019 Budget debate is that not a single UMNO, MCA, MIC, PAS or Opposition MP dare to take a stand that the monstrous 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal is a national catastrophe and that the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak must be held responsible for the infamy of Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy.
This despite my public reminder before the budget debate that every Opposition MP should declare his or her stand whether 1MDB scandal was a national catastrophe and whether Najib should be held responsible for Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy.
This shows that not a single Opposition MP could be depended upon to perform the national duty to redeem Malaysia’s international reputation and standing by transforming Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation in integrity in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Did Zahid get a mandate from various UMNO levels – UMNO Supreme Council, UMNO MPs and State Assembly representatives, UMNO Divisions, UMNO Youth, UMNO Wanita and UMNO Puteri and the UMNO General Assembly – as well as from other Barisan Nasional parties for the proposal of a merger between UMNO and PAS?
UMNO President Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi must be credited with making the most astounding announcement in the six months after Malaysians created history toppling the sixth Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the six-decade rule of UMNO/BN Government in a peaceful and democratic transition of power.
This is his proposal at the joint UMNO-PAS rally in Pasir Salak last night openly calling for a PAS-UMNO merger “in the name of Islam, Malays, Malaysia and bumiputera”.
Two months ago, Zahid assured Malaysians that the co-operation between UMNO and PAS was not leading towards the formation of a new coalition but was a co-operation between two parties to strengthen their roles in the opposition camp.
There is now a quantum jump in Zahid’s political thinking where an informal co-operation for Opposition’s sake had been skyrocketed into a merger between the two parties.
But two questions need to be clarified first: Read the rest of this entry »
Since 14GE, there was hardly a day when the 1MDB scandal did not dominate news headlines, very often with multiple items a day
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, Najib Razak on Saturday, 17 November 2018, 2:38 pm
What a far cry from what the then Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib said in his 2016 New Year Message on Dec. 31, 2015 that his RM50 billion 1MDB and RM2.6 billion donation twin mega scandals had been resolved and were no more issues.
Since the 14th General Election on May 9,. 2018,, there was hardly a day when the 1MDB scandal did not dominate news headlines, very often with multiple items a day!
Today, for instance, there were four news stories connected to the 1MDB scandal in Malaysiakini, viz: “New Zealand gov’t: Jho Low not given passport”; “Jho Low drops claims to New York’s Park Lane Hotel to facilitate sale”;“1MDB probe to be completed in ‘another month or two’”; and “Najib upset over muted gov’t bench when he talks about 1MDB”. Read the rest of this entry »
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon’s voice mail too little, too late and too paltry – just repay US$600 million to 1MDB to show genuine contrition and take first step back to become a responsible global corporate citizen
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, Najib Razak on Friday, 16 November 2018, 3:17 pm
Goldman Sachs Group Inc CEO David Solomon’s voice mail to Goldman Sachs employees that “This isn’t us” to distance the mega bank from the multi-billion 1MDB scandal is too late, too little and too paltry, when in July 2016 and later in June 2017 in its expanded and updated kleptocratic litigation to forfeit 1MDB-linked assets in the United States, US Department of Justice (DoJ) had listed the “material misrepresentations and omitted facts” of the three 1MDB bonds arranged by Goldman Sachs in 2012 and 2013 and the almost-instant misappropriation and fraudulent diversion of some 40 per cent each of the three bonds.
The guilty plea of Goldman Sach’s former top banker in Asia, Tim Leissner, to two counts of conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act in relation to the 1MDB scandal has undermined the mega bank’s attempt to wash its hands of responsibility for the 1MDB scandal.
In his guilty plea in a New York district court on August 28, which was unsealed on November 8, Leissner said others at the bank helped him conceal bribes used to retain business in Malaysia.
He said the culture of secrecy at the investment bank led him to conceal wrongdoing from the company’s compliance staff. Read the rest of this entry »
Why the Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs should contact the Malaysian Government to offer an acceptable settlement for its criminal facilitation of the 1MDB “kleptocrtacy at its worst” scandal
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals on Thursday, 15 November 2018, 10:55 am
It is most ironic that the Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs is criminally involved in the facilitation of the 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal of Malaysia.
Goldman Sachs has produced top-notch United States government leaders, and some of the former Goldman Sachs employees who have moved on to top government positions include former US Secretaries of the Treasury Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson and current US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, former US Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn, European Central Bank President Mario Craghi, former Bank of Canada and current Governor of Bank of England Mark Carney.
In addition, former Goldman employees have headed the New York Stock Exchange, the World Bank, and competing banks such as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.
Goldman Sachs has a compliance group responsible for managing and overseeing compliance policies and internal accounting controls covering bribery, money-laundering, conflicts of interest, personal investments, outside activities, etc.
Goldman Sachs Chief Executive David Solomon said in Singapore last week that he felt “horrible” that two former employees “blatantly broke the law” in their dealings with Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad. Read the rest of this entry »
Not enough for global mega-bank Goldman Sachs to feel “horrible” for its principal role in the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal, as it is time for it to explain how it is going to compensate 32 million Malaysians for their criminal breach of trust and kleptocracy
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals on Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 1:13 pm
The Goldman Sachs chief executive David Saloman said in Singapore last week that he felt “horrible” that two former employees “blatantlyh broke the law” in their dealings with 1MDB.
It is not enough for the global mega-bank Goldman Sachs to feel “horrible” for its principal role in the interntional 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal, as it is time for it to explain how it is going to compensate 32 million Malaysians for its criminal breach of trust and kleptocracy, for it is crystal clear that without Goldman Sach’s criminal role, the 1MDB scandal would not have become, in the words of the former United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions at the inaugural Global Forum on Asset Recovery last December , “kleptocracy at its worst”.
At the inaugural Global Forum on Asset Recovery, Jeff Sessions said that “nearly half of the US$3.5 billion in corruption proceeds we have restrained is related to just one enforcement action” – the 1MDB scandal. Read the rest of this entry »
Documentary “Kleptocrats” about the 1MDB scandal making world premier in New York while the Supreme Kleptocrat in Malaysia continues in his bubble to deny existence of 1MDB scandal
Posted by Kit in Education, Financial Scandals on Sunday, 11 November 2018, 8:38 am
Former UMNO Minister and UMNO Wanita leader, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz has asked a most important and pertinent question about education in Malaysia at the Nurture, Engage, eXchange Leadership Conference in Penang yesterday: “What are you bringing up? Kleptos (thieves) and bullies?”
She said Malaysia has no need to come up with reports on the education system, as by the time the reports are written, the rest of the world would have already moved ahead.
“So many studies, so many reports, but nobody looks at them. So no need”, she said. Read the rest of this entry »
Hope that the US-China trade war will end at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Argentina at the end of November
All over world, events are developing at unprecedented speed and it is important that Malaysians, if they are to succeed in the building of a New Malaysia which is a world top-class nation, keep abreast or even ahead of these developments.
China, for instance, led the world when China’s state news agency Xinhua this week introduced the newest members of its newsroom – AI (artificial intelligence) news anchors who will report “tirelessly” all day every day, from anywhere in the country.
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DAP and Pakatan Harapan in full support of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but make it an all-win formula and it might even contest the “Clash of Civilisation” theory and lead to One Universal Civilisation for mankind
The Third Academic Forum on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (RBI) today cannot be more timely, held six months after the historic peaceful and democratic first transition of power in Malaysia after six decades to reset nation building policies to create a New Malaysia.
In this New Malaysia, academic forums and the civil society have an active and important role to play in Malaysia’s robust and vibrant democracy, which is open and receptive of diverse views about the future of Malaysia and the world, where dissent is not regarded as an act of disloyalty or anti-national expression which must be met with detention without trial or repressive authority of the state.
When the change of government in Putrajaya first took place six months ago, there were concerns about the China policy of Pakatan Harapan Government. Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysians must always be reminded of the 1MDB scandal and the national catastrophe we avoided by a hair’s breadth six months ago until we have suceeded in redeeming ourselves by transforming Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, Najib Razak on Friday, 9 November 2018, 12:50 pm
Six months ago, we were rushing headlong in the trajectory towards a rogue democracy, a kakistocracy where a Cabinet Minister could not differentiate between a turtle egg and a chicken egg and where even those with the of IQ of a carrot can hope to get into the Cabinet, and an instant global kleptocracy.
By a hair’s breadth, on May 9, 2018, Malaysians escaped the national catastrophe awating the country if we had continued unchecked towards such a trajectory towards disaster.
Voices are gathering saying that it is time to put the 1MDB scandal behind us now that multiple charges on the 1MDB scandal had been made against various personalities in the courts, including the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his wife Rosmah Mansor, and that the people should leave it to the courts to adjudicate on the matter.
I cannot disagree more. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Sessions was fired by Trump as US Attorney-General six months too late to be of any use to Najib to save him from the 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, Najib Razak on Thursday, 8 November 2018, 4:24 pm
Jeff Sessions was fired by US President Donald Trump as US Attorney-General six months too late to be of any use to Datuk Seri Najkb Razak to save him from the international 1MDB corruption, criminal breach of trust and money-laundering scandal.
This must be one of Najib’s greatest regrets – to think that he might have salvaged his political life and the Prime Ministership if Jeff Sessions had been sacked very much earlier, as he and his legion of propagandists and cybertroopers would then be able to crow that even President Trump had repudiated Jeff Session’s caustic indictment at the Global Forum on Asset Recovery last December that the 1MDB scandal was “kleptocracy at its worst” and that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) was working to provide justice to the victims!
All these historic “IFs” were of course subject to the greatest “IF” of all, i.e IF Najib had not been thrown out of Putrajaya by the Malaysian electorate in the historic peaceful and democratic transition of power first time in six decades in Malaysia.
All these possibilities, combinations and permutations are now so much water under the bridge, for it is completely unthinkable that under the present circumstances, Trump would even spend a second of his time on the question of how to bail out Najib – although things might have been different IF Najib had won the 14th General Election and remained as Prime Minister. Read the rest of this entry »
I have asked Chong Chieng Jen whether Sarawak State Assembly could be the first State Assembly in Malaysia to condemn 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal following the damning guilty plea of former Goldman Sachs banker Timothy Leissner to immoral and colossal theft of Malaysian public funds
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals on Thursday, 8 November 2018, 7:30 am
I have asked the Sarawak Pakatan Harapan Chairman and Sarawak State Assembly Leader, Chong Chien Jen whether the Sarawak State Assembly could be the first State Assembly in Malaysia to condemn 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal following the damning guilty plea of former Goldman Sachs banker Timothy Leissner to immoral and colossal theft of Malaysian public funds.
Chong will discuss with the Sarawak Chief Minister Abang Johari Abang Openg on the possibility of the Sarawak State Assembly taking the lead for all State Assemblies in Malaysia to condemn the heinous corruption, criminal breach of trust and money-laundering crimes committed in the 1MDB scandal, which involved tens of billions of ringgit of funds of Sarawakians and Malaysians. Read the rest of this entry »
