Can Mahathir Defy Destiny?

Anwar’s PM prospects continue to wither on the vine

COMMENT | The latest gyrations of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the succession saga make abundantly clear that Anwar Ibrahim will not be the 8th PM of Malaysia.
Why?
Because Mahathir has shifted the goalposts – to Anwar’s self-induced disadvantage.
Prior to the latest twist in this long-running saga, the transition of power to Anwar, according to Mahathir, was to take place after the Apec meeting in Kuala Lumpur in November.
Mahathir, since taking office as Malaysia’s 7th premier in May 2018, has been saying ad infinitum ad nauseum that he will handover to Anwar.
When was a question that was hedged with ambiguity.
No Malaysian politician is so much the master of ambiguity as Dr M, purportedly a man of honour with whom it is wise to read the fine print.
There was no fine print to the verbal concordat that in January 2018 solidified the coming together of the newfangled Bersatu with the already solid DAP, the fractious but still formidable PKR, and the fledgling Amanah.
Barring a few sceptics, most of the then opposition-supporting voters believed that it was a coup for Pakatan Harapan to have Mahathir as supremo and Anwar as leader-in-waiting.
If Harapan won GE14, the understanding was Mahathir would be interim PM until Anwar was free of the legal trammels, via a royal pardon, that impeded his becoming the 8th PM of the country.
Now, after what the PM has disclosed to Malaya Post, Dr M says that Anwar must command majority support from Parliament to take over.
That was not in the unwritten concordat between Mahathir and the rest of what, in January 2018, was the Anwar-rooting rump of Pakatan Harapan, composed of DAP, Amanah and PKR.
But nobody can quarrel with the codicil that Dr M has just attached to the unwritten compact.
Sure, no one should be allowed to be prime minister of Malaysia without being able to command majority support in Parliament.
Presently, not only Anwar is unable to command majority support in Parliament, he has not the support of all 47 PKR MPs, the largest bloc of legislators in the Lower House.
Azmin Ali, deputy president of PKR, is said to lead a cabal of 15 MPs who when push comes to shove will not vote for Anwar for premier.
Instead, they would prefer their man for the post.
Anwar has long had difficulty retaining the support of lieutenants.
One by one they have left him over the years, either embittered by things he has done that were harmful to them or the party, or that he has allowed to be done to his (former) stalwarts and party by more recent and time-serving surrogates.
Azmin Ali is only the latest example in this procession of the embittered and frustrated.
Anwar cares little who attaches or leaves him: his solipsism betrays the veteran public figure’s inability to perceive realities outside his own ego.
As a consequence, only the mediocre, the servile and the time-serving stay with him; they can’t survive on their own.
All politicians have their share of ambition and ego; they cannot subsist without it.
The public only requires that however vaulting their ambition or teeming their ego, they develop a workable ethic that can rise above personal expediency and is based on the public interest.
PAS has announced that it will move in next month’s sitting of Parliament a motion of support for Dr M to complete a full term as premier.
It is in PAS’s interest – indeed it assures their temporary safety – to move the motion and watch it carry the floor.
It is certain to carry the House because no member of the ruling government will be courageous enough to baulk it, on the grounds for which it should be resisted, which is that the unwritten concordat of January 2018 envisaged that Mahathir’s premiership was to be an interim, not full-term, one.
But PAS was not a party to the concordat; Dr M was. The master ambiguist will say that if Parliament says I stay, who am I to gainsay.
TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for more than four decades.

Mahathir’s Deal of the Century OKAY

‘Deal of the century’ utterly unacceptable, will bring more conflict, says Dr M

MAHATHIR’S PACT WITH UMNO AND PAS IS OKAY BECAUSE IT IS IN MAHATHIR’S INTEREST AND HE WILL ENSURE NO CONFLICT.
WHAT IS NOT OKAY WITH THE RAKYAT WHO SACRIFICED FOR A CHANGE INSTEAD GOT BULLSHITTED BY MAHATHIR
AS LONG AS MAHATHIR DOES NOT RESIGN OR DIE TODAY, THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF MALAYSIA.
MALAYSIANS MUST SAVE MALAYSIA FROM MAHATHIR AND HIS OFFSET WAYS.
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Piece of SHIT

I CANNOT STAND THIS PIECE OF SHIT IN PKR AND AS MINISTER

Bring it on, Zuraida tells Saifuddin on his defamation suit against her

Zuraida tells Anwar she is taking leave from party positions

KARMA WILL SEE THE END OF THIS WHORE.
WHAT HAS SHE DONE FOR PKR AND AS MINISTER FOR THE RAKYAT?
PIECE OF SHIT IS LIKE HER BOSSEX AZMIN ALI.
GE 15 DO NOT VOTE FOR ZURAIDA AND AZMIN ALI TO TEACH THEM A LESSON.

What Daim said in 1986

TO BE IN CONTROL OF A NATION ONE HAS TO TAKE OVER THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE SAID DAIM IN 1986.
SO MAHATHIR AND DAIM DID JUST THAT.
THESE TWO RASCAL TOOK OVER THE SUPPLY OF RICE, FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN, ELECTRICITY, WATER, TOLL AND BANKS.
THAT IS WHY ANWAR CANNOT BE PRIME MINISTER AS LONG AS MAHATHIR AND DAIM ARE ALIVE.
12 January 1996
Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS) was privatised on 12 January 1996. 7 July 1994, LPN was incorporated as Syarikat Padiberas Nasional. Paddy Price Subsidy Scheme was implemented to raise farmers’ income, considering that rice farmers have the highest proverty incidence among the rural sector.
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THE 3 ACTUAL OWNERS OF BERNAS SINCE 1996 TILL TODAY.

Putrajaya urged to ease Bernas’ grip on rice market

A research fellow at Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies says 63.6% of the paddy and rice market is effectively under Bernas’ control. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: An agriculture expert has urged the government to liberalise the downstream paddy and rice value chain so as to loosen Bernas’ grip on the market.
Fatimah Mohamed Arshad, a research fellow at Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies, said 63.6% of the paddy and rice market was effectively under Bernas’ control.
Speaking to FMT, she noted that Bernas and its associates account for 48% of the total amount of paddy milled, which translates to 33.6% of the rice demand in Malaysia, and it is the sole importer of 30% of the country’s rice requirement.
Fatimah and her colleague Yeong Sheng Tey have written a research paper on the subject of Bernas’ virtual monopoly.
She said Bernas, as the sole importer, could impose policies such as short credit terms on companies relying on imported rice.
She also noted that Bernas also enjoyed a monopoly in rice stockpiling, a task given to it by the government in the name of food security. The stockpile it manages is distributed only during national emergencies.
Concerns have been raised by the Malaysian Vermicelli Manufacturers Association that Bernas was also gaining a monopoly over broken rice used in making fine noodles.
Fatimah noted that manufacturers under Bernas’ umbrella could sell their vermicelli at prices that are significantly lower than the prices charged by their competitors since they had the advantage of buying broken rice at cheaper rates.
She said this had resulted in a rise in the vermicelli production of Bernas and its associates and caused several unaffiliated manufacturers to close shop.
“If the distorted competition continues, vermicelli would become another Bernas monopoly market.”
Fatimah said Malaysia was not yet ready for total market liberation, but she urged the government to start the ball rolling by allowing competition in the import of rice.
She said this would minimise collusion between Bernas and its associates, such as in the forging of joint ventures to strengthen its paddy and rice procurement.
“This behaviour kills competition, strengthens Bernas’ market power and increases the barriers to entry into the rice business. This is proven by the non-existence of paddy-based and rice-based small and medium enterprises.”
Fatimah said there was a huge wealth divide between paddy farmers and Bernas, big millers and wholesalers. She noted that about 90% of paddy farmers belong to the Bottom 40 income group.
She said farmers should be given support and incentives to venture into value-added activities to improve their income and to deal a blow to monopolies and collusive activities.
Economist Barjoyai Bardai of Universiti Tun Abdul Razak agreed that the import of rice should be open to competition.
He also said the government should take over from Bernas such social obligations as the stockpiling of rice and the purchase of paddy from farmers at guaranteed prices because it was not feasible for the company to continue doing so, now that it has become a private corporation.

In Malaysia there is ONLY MAHATHIR’S LAW

No one above the law, govt says after attack on Syed Saddiq

WOW, WHEN IT COMES TO SYED SADDIQ, PM OFFICE CAN ISSUE A WARNING TO ALL MALAYSIANS.
IS IT BECAUSE OF SYED’S RELATIONSHIP WITH MAHATHIR’S GRANDDAUGHTER?
AIYOH  MAHATHIR, MANY MALAYSIANS ABIDE BY THE LAWS BUT NOT YOU.
YOU TWIST AND TURN AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY THAT SUITS YOU.
WHAT ABOUT RM90 MILLION BRIBE TO PAS WITH 1MDB’S MONEY?
WHY NO SOUND?
WHAT ABOUT RM400 MILLION BRIBE TO PAS RECENTLY FOR THEIR LEADERS TO BUY MB AND RM50,000 CASH ALLOWANCE?
AGAIN YOU GOT THE CHEEK TO SAY IT IS UP TO PAS HOW THEY SPEND THEIR MONEY.
HELLO KELANTAN IS THE POOREST STATE IN THE WHOLE OF MALAYSIA.
PEOPLE THERE ARE SUFFERING.  WHY YOU GOT NO CONSCIENCE?
THEN THERE IS THE ORIGINAL SEX VIDEO OF AZMIN ALI AND HAZIQ SUCKING EACH OTHER’S COCK WHICH WAS HANDED OVER TO IGP HAMID PERSONALLY RECENTLY.
WHY NO SOUND?
WHEN YOU RESTRUCTURE EVERY BIG PROJECTS TO YOUR CRONIES AND SONS, WHY YOU NEVER FOLLOW THE LAWS OF MALAYSIA. HELLO, AT THE END IS OUR ASSETS AND MONEY THAT YOU ARE GIVING AWAY FREE.
ME THINK YOU SUCK THIS TIME AND PEOPLE HAVE LOST INTEREST AND FAITH IN YOU.
EVERYDAY YOU SCREW US UPSIDE DOWN LIKE MALAYSIA BELONG TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND CRONIES ONLY.
ANWAR, LGE AND MAT SABU MAY BE AFRAID OF YOU BUT NOT 33 MILLION MALAYSIANS.
BY THE WAY WHERE DID THE DRUGS COMES FROM THAT ARE GIVEN TO YOUR BOYS IN BERSATU AND PKR?
KARMA IS A BLOODY THING WHEN IT COMES AND MALAYSIANS WILL WITNESS HOW SCREW UP YOUR BOYS ARE WHEN THEY ARE STONED EVERY EVENING AND NIGHT.
TODAY WITHOUT DRUGS THEY CANNOT PERFORM.
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