Wheeler Dealer Sultans?
It is not enough to do the right thing: leaders must be seen to do the right thing and even the perception of conflict must be avoided ….
It is not enough to do the right thing: leaders must be seen to do the right thing and even the perception of conflict must be avoided ….
The former King of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan presides over impoverished people but exhibits considerable wealth. Now the UK is gossiping at how he is also accused by his former wife of leaving her to bring up his son in the kind of poverty experienced by so many of his subjects…..
Two consecutive election results have made clear the majority of Malaysians want an end to political corruption and reform. The PAS party have rejected this request on both occasions and indulged in the orgy of plunder under the unelected coup administrations of Muhyiddin and Ismail Sabri. They have no right to claim ‘moral’ superiority whilst criticising others…….
Rishi Sunak promised “Integrity, professionalism and accountability” after the sleeze under Boris Johnson and chaos from Liz Truss. However, the party’s newest appointment shows positions of influence are still for sale with peerages in the pipeline ……
The old guard of GPS Sarawak are well represented in the new administration as a reward for their belated support for the new government. In every case their vast wealth and business interests look certain to block attempts to reform the corrupted practices that made them rich in the first place…….
First Najib and then Taib hired Israel based APCO, and then its allied FBC Media from Texas, to attack and defame Anwar and later Sarawak Report. Next, Bell Pottinger was hired in London. Then, Jho Low funded a massive western media operation to attack SR over 1MDB (and Najib chucked money at RPK). Now, the online attacks have begun again but this time they appear paid by China – or Jho Low again? Meet ‘Tony Cartalucci’ aka ‘Brian Joseph Thomas Berletic’ the Thai based ‘vlogger’ with a mission to destroy….
Sarawak Report has been harassed and faced aggressive litigation from numerous London law firms and KL copy cats over the past decade, generally acting for crooks and kleptocrats. This week the UK government and the UK Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority issued stern warnings to law firms and promised to tighten the law against such actions…..
The Agong deserves to be keep well out of this and to remain untarnished – he should leave the parties to slug it out on the floor of parliament not behind closed doors at the palace with his name dragged in.
He just needs to give each of them their turn in order of their precedence in the popular vote.
It is not the first time that the party-hopping PN Chairman, Mahiaddin, has been found ‘economical with the truth’ in presenting alleged SDs to the Palace showing MPs’ support. This practice should end….
Tonight people in Sarawak have been asking each other why did Abang Johari display such eager and ready support for PN and PAS’s Hadi Awang, for whom Muhyiddin is now second fiddle?…..
It has been noted that November 19th is designated International Toilet Day as well as Malaysia’s Election Day. It is becoming increasingly apparent that many of Malaysia’s top politicians may themselves be flushed away in the monsoon rains……
Once again the sub-text is ‘anything but Anwar’ and once again the game-plan that has emerged will be to encourage an abuse of the role of the monarch in the election process….
The colour-coding is the opposite but the similarities between Malaysia and the recent US elections look very compelling…..
Jaws dropped today as a High Court judge in Kuala Lumpur refused to allow prosecutors to freeze the return of assets, which he said were not in his mind sufficiently proven to have been stolen, pending the appeal that has been brought against that judgement….
Top army veteran calls out ‘bogus’ tendering process over RM8 billion aircraft and RM400 million drone contracts and claims they are ready to sign off to preferred (more expensive) bidders the day after the election…….