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The author totally nailed it_*👍👍👏👏
*_An amazing article.
*USA*
"This is a lesson for the whole world. Open your economy and industries to US technologies and risk having your nation being held to ransom by a present or future US administration!"
*IS AMERICA JEALOUS OF CHINA?*
George King
George King has lived in the United States of America and China.
It is now very clear to everyone in the world that USA has no intention to allow any country to surpass her and she will use all tactics, evil or otherwise, to subjugate any one.
In the past, USA executed soft power to expound her reasonableness, projects that she cared about, human rights, freedom of the press; she wanted freedom and democracy for all and also the right of underdeveloped and developing countries to progress. This facade, held since WW II, was all brutally torn apart by Trump who had showed the real and ugly face of USA by his attacks and economic sanctions on allies and others.
Underneath this facade, even when she purportedly helped Japan and Germany with the Marshal plan, created the UN, World Bank, IMF, NATO, WTO etc, they were in fact instruments and tools of US control, for USA governance and companies.
When it became untenable to have gold as a standard to benchmark the value of her currency, she changed the standard and benchmarked the dollar against a commodity such as oil (energy) and thus made her currency “international”. An agreement was struck between the USA and Saudi Arabia that all oil transactions be denominated in dollars (the so-called petrodollars) and the dollar would then be re-circulated in the USA through the purchase of weapons, support 900+ military bases, and other investment.
This way, the USA can keep printing “paper” money without any kind of real asset such as “gold” to back up her dollar. In effect, she can go into deficit, spend without care (as she is in effect bankrolled by the world) but other countries cannot do so the same. This was clearly shown in the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and in Argentina.
Many countries tried to break away from this system by "de-dollarization" or to achieve advanced technology but all these countries were toppled by the CIA, direct military intervention or crippled economically such as Chile, Iran, Iraq, Japan etc.
When China rose spectacularly, the USA was blindsided because her rise was too fast.
In a short 40 years, she lifted more than half of her 1.4 billion people out of poverty without firing a bullet. This is unprecedented in human history.
She also advanced in high technology and was able to produce high speed trains, build huge infrastructures such as roads, railway networks, bridges. Electric cars, power plants. She sent men up to space and created internet giants like Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Huawei. She is now the second biggest economy in the world, encroaching to overtake USA as the biggest economy.
The USA is not jealous. She is frightened and nervous that her hegemony over the world in terms of politics, economic and governance will be toppled and therefore the USA is out to derail and stop China in any way she can. If peaceful means cannot stop China, I will not be surprised that the US will use military methods such as instigating a war of some kind like between Taiwan and China or dragging China into a North Korean War or a direct “limited” nuclear war.
Let's hope that better heads prevail and the USA does not act out of desperation. The resources of the world are bountiful enough to make all of us rich when properly utilized. There is no such thing as a "limited" nuclear war. It take only 10 or 20 nuclear detonations to create a nuclear winter and this planet will be doomed. Remember this is the only known planet that have “intelligent” life.
As I had lived in both China and USA, I can say that the ordinary Chinese wants to dance, make money, be with their family n have a stable life. In the same way as the ordinary Americans want to watch football, baseball, basketball , drink beer and watch TV.
However, the US ruling elite is aggressive in historical terms. The question here is about “America”, not “Americans” being jealous.
To put this is in perspective, below are some facts for you to ponder in which China is not a victim but a nation moving from undeveloped country of 1970s to now. Also you may want to read the US intelligentsia concept of "Project for the New Century ”to know the mindset of the US neocon mentality that led to the Iraq war.
Even without the USA market, Huawei surpassed Apple in smart phone sales, earning $ US100 plus billions last year. Even without the USA car market, China is now leading in electric car manufacturing. In space, even without any help, China put the rover on the far side of the moon and have their own space station. Independently, China has created their own supercomputers and accelerated their renewal energy industries.
Many US intellectuals convinced themselves that China cannot innovate, based on the Harvard Business School publication on March 2014, describing parallel control of CCP and the university ’s or business ’administration stifling creativity. Similar to the idiotic writing of Francis Fukuyama ’s“ End of History ”.
In fact, the USA cannot compete and is technologically in decline although she is ahead now. She wants to stop the rise of China by screaming that China is communist, authoritarian, evil and corrupt and that the USA is promoting democracy, freedom and rule of law.
*So let's examine the USA's premise:*
For any country ’s development, the proof of the pudding is in the eating i.e. what are the deliverables from China thus far?
a) *Rule of law* for who? Look at what is happening: A US President who does not dare to show his taxes, a Republican Party which discards the US constitution that they swore to uphold by not answering congress; he openly lied to his people, withdrew from an UN security council mandated agreement with Iran and then threatened and stopped other countries who wanted to trade with Iran, withdrew from a Climate Agreement that was signed by 120 nations and TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) signed by 12 nations and stopped the process of WTO by not appointing a judge for arbitration.
The USA only adopted the rule of law when it suited her interest and she will use economic sanctions on others to obey her position on the rule of law they like.
b) *Freedom* for whom? In the USA, real freedom is for the top 1 percent. The middle class and students are sliding into debt that they cannot pay in their lifetime. Even women n doctors there are slowly being criminalized and deprived of freedom of choice over their own bodily health.
When other countries (like Germany) who do not want to follow her lawlessness and want to trade with emerging markets like China or Russia (via Nord Stream II gas pipeline and against the Huawei ban) or Iran, they are threatened with sanctions because USA does not want these freedoms for these countries and companies. What right does the USA have to apply their laws on other countries and companies? If the USA wants to punish, then she should punish her own companies, not the companies and subsidiaries of other countries.
c) *Democracy* for whom? In Iran, the USA toppled a democratic government in 1953 under Moseddaq using CIA and now she want to provoke a war in order topple the Islamic government and make the Iranian people suffer.
The USA also illegally withheld Venezuela ’s wealth, such as repatriation of profit from her oil company and stopped Citibank which is holding her funds to pay for insulin for her people. It was rumoured that the USA also used cyber hacking to attack her electrical grid.
To punish a whole nation just because you do n’t like an Islamic government or any government is inhuman. If this is not an example of the evil of the USA, what is?
All people have a right to choose their own government, rightly or wrongly. No one demanded USA to change their regime when they toppled other governments using CIA. No one demanded the USA people to topple their government when they use “gun boat” and economic sanctions diplomacy in Venezuela and Iran in this 21st century.
Democracy is supposed to lift many out of poverty, give the people a voice for peaceful existence and not to be used as a pretext to fight “democracy and freedom” wars or create conflicts for your own political and economic interests.
The USA is very good at this type of “democracy and freedom wars”. Not all nations are Christian and they don't follow the Christian ethos which by the way, historically, is an ethos and culture that subjugated people using slavery, physical and cultural genocide of native people, divide and conquer tactics, racism and colonization.
China, India and Iran have their own thousands of years of ethos and culture and combined with other non Christian countries consist of more than 70% of the world population.
They do not believe the history or culture that the world's and human progress revolved around the bible or her unbelievable stories derived from Greek and Egyptian mythology. These stories caused havoc in Middle East and other l ands that had suffered greatly for hundreds of years under these pretext of colonial wars to “civilize” the natives.
At the present time, we know and have proof that a meritocratic communist country like China can also practice Capitalist type of economic system and able to distribute wealth much better than a so-called democratic country like the USA.
For example, China lifted 700 to 800 millions people out of poverty (more than twice the population of USA) in the last 40 years without firing a bullet to *enslave or subjugate another nation.* This is the essence of Socialism which is to *benefit the maximum number of ordinary citizens instead of just the 1% rich.* It is an epic achievement of historical proportion esp when you know that in 1970s China's GDP was dwarfed by the USA (China's $ USD1 billion vs the USA's hundreds of billions).
Am I saying what China achieved is the “be all and end all”.? Certainly not! China still has a long way to go to give her 1.4 billion people a decent livelihood (compared to USA of 300+ million people). But she is going to do it in accordance to the historical lessons she inherited and mould the governance to suit herself.
Till today, China does not have and universal healthcare system but neither does the USA! Can you imagine that !! Being in the same situation as China !! But China is targeting to rectify that and USA is trying to deny that to her citizens by getting rid of Obamacare.
Why can't the USA lift up her people out of poverty and homelessness and create great infrastructures such as roads, railways, airports, high speed trains, safe bridges, renewal energy etc with the wealth they had from 1970s till now? Where has all that USA wealth gone to? Why is it that China can do this from such a low GDP in 1970s till now and the USA can't? Where is the US creativity?
Why are the American people so docile and brainwashed that they are unable to see this great gap of deliverables by their government? Is anyone calling for a people ’s revolution in USA?
All the above mentioned infrastructures were done in China in the last 40 years and these are the proof of deliverables of China ’s governance.
No amount of fear mongering and disinformation on China can negate this kind of achievement. People are not stupid. They can see for themselves by just visiting China and that's why China wants to open up to showcase their achievement n let others judge their governance and compare .
India is envisaged to be next in line to lift her people up from poverty so long as her leadership is united. Hopefully, she will follow the direction of China (without necessarily following China's governance) and focus on the development of her people and not just stock markets or leaders' personal glorification. Also not to open her economy to such an extent for rabid and unruly Western exploitation like that was done to the USSR. We are eagerly watching if she can deliver and cheer her on with the hope that she is strong enough to resist Western / USA dictates against her when she wants to trade with Russia and China.
In short, we know evil n corruption when see it.
*Evil* is when the USA sanctions n strangles a whole nation and companies just because she lost the competition for technology and governance.
*Corruption* is when you buy influence to those that benefit you only.
*Authoritarianism* is when you put a gun at someone ’s head to ensure that your economic sanctions are obeyed and when you blatantly rip off international agreements and want to change them to your benefit like the WTO and force others to follow your rule of law.
No one respects that kind of rule of law.
The USA and the West always complain that China enforced technology transfer. This is not really correct.
Remember that when China joined the WTO in 2000, she was classified as a developing nation even till now. Under that category and playing by the rules of WTO, China can protect certain industries so that these industries can grow in her country.
The US said that Huawei telecom equipment has backdoors to spy for China but they could not show any proof. They are said to have stolen intellectual properties. However, we know for a fact that the USA spied on everyone including Germany's Angela Merkel (revealed by Edward Snowden) using Cisco equipment, Facebook, Google and Apple. Perhaps the USA wants to ban Huawei because they cannot spy through Huawei's products. On intellectual properties, Apple sued Samsung, Samsung sued Apple; it is normal in the tech world, so for Huawei to be embroiled in these are not uncommon.
By accident or by luck, China protected her internet based industries and disallowed Google and other internet based companies to enter their spheres. If she had opened to Google, China will not have Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei etc and all the present subsequent emerging industries esp AI and 5G. Also, had she opened up to Google, she would thus have invited in a “Trojan Horse”. Now, with Google banning her from using their OS, the Chinese internet industries would have been severely crippled.
This is a lesson for the whole world. Open your economy and industries to the USA technologies and risk having your nation being ransomed (by a present or future USA administration who is mad for personal, racial and seemingly fascist type of power and has no respect for international law) when you disagree with her policies or governance like buying gas or products from Russia or China or any country which USA wants to strangle like Iran and especially when the payment transaction are not in US dollars.
The USA / Trump at present is using the rule that if you lie loud, strong n long enough, you can get the US and other media to amplify your concern then the whole world will believe you.
Huawei n China showed their performance through facts and they followed the rule of law set up by the West to show their achievements. They did their hard work and spent money for the past 30 to 40 years on research on technology and development.
*China deserves to succeed!*
*USA*
"This is a lesson for the whole world. Open your economy and industries to US technologies and risk having your nation being held to ransom by a present or future US administration!"
*IS AMERICA JEALOUS OF CHINA?*
George King
George King has lived in the United States of America and China.
It is now very clear to everyone in the world that USA has no intention to allow any country to surpass her and she will use all tactics, evil or otherwise, to subjugate any one.
In the past, USA executed soft power to expound her reasonableness, projects that she cared about, human rights, freedom of the press; she wanted freedom and democracy for all and also the right of underdeveloped and developing countries to progress. This facade, held since WW II, was all brutally torn apart by Trump who had showed the real and ugly face of USA by his attacks and economic sanctions on allies and others.
Underneath this facade, even when she purportedly helped Japan and Germany with the Marshal plan, created the UN, World Bank, IMF, NATO, WTO etc, they were in fact instruments and tools of US control, for USA governance and companies.
When it became untenable to have gold as a standard to benchmark the value of her currency, she changed the standard and benchmarked the dollar against a commodity such as oil (energy) and thus made her currency “international”. An agreement was struck between the USA and Saudi Arabia that all oil transactions be denominated in dollars (the so-called petrodollars) and the dollar would then be re-circulated in the USA through the purchase of weapons, support 900+ military bases, and other investment.
This way, the USA can keep printing “paper” money without any kind of real asset such as “gold” to back up her dollar. In effect, she can go into deficit, spend without care (as she is in effect bankrolled by the world) but other countries cannot do so the same. This was clearly shown in the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and in Argentina.
Many countries tried to break away from this system by "de-dollarization" or to achieve advanced technology but all these countries were toppled by the CIA, direct military intervention or crippled economically such as Chile, Iran, Iraq, Japan etc.
When China rose spectacularly, the USA was blindsided because her rise was too fast.
In a short 40 years, she lifted more than half of her 1.4 billion people out of poverty without firing a bullet. This is unprecedented in human history.
She also advanced in high technology and was able to produce high speed trains, build huge infrastructures such as roads, railway networks, bridges. Electric cars, power plants. She sent men up to space and created internet giants like Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Huawei. She is now the second biggest economy in the world, encroaching to overtake USA as the biggest economy.
The USA is not jealous. She is frightened and nervous that her hegemony over the world in terms of politics, economic and governance will be toppled and therefore the USA is out to derail and stop China in any way she can. If peaceful means cannot stop China, I will not be surprised that the US will use military methods such as instigating a war of some kind like between Taiwan and China or dragging China into a North Korean War or a direct “limited” nuclear war.
Let's hope that better heads prevail and the USA does not act out of desperation. The resources of the world are bountiful enough to make all of us rich when properly utilized. There is no such thing as a "limited" nuclear war. It take only 10 or 20 nuclear detonations to create a nuclear winter and this planet will be doomed. Remember this is the only known planet that have “intelligent” life.
As I had lived in both China and USA, I can say that the ordinary Chinese wants to dance, make money, be with their family n have a stable life. In the same way as the ordinary Americans want to watch football, baseball, basketball , drink beer and watch TV.
However, the US ruling elite is aggressive in historical terms. The question here is about “America”, not “Americans” being jealous.
To put this is in perspective, below are some facts for you to ponder in which China is not a victim but a nation moving from undeveloped country of 1970s to now. Also you may want to read the US intelligentsia concept of "Project for the New Century ”to know the mindset of the US neocon mentality that led to the Iraq war.
Even without the USA market, Huawei surpassed Apple in smart phone sales, earning $ US100 plus billions last year. Even without the USA car market, China is now leading in electric car manufacturing. In space, even without any help, China put the rover on the far side of the moon and have their own space station. Independently, China has created their own supercomputers and accelerated their renewal energy industries.
Many US intellectuals convinced themselves that China cannot innovate, based on the Harvard Business School publication on March 2014, describing parallel control of CCP and the university ’s or business ’administration stifling creativity. Similar to the idiotic writing of Francis Fukuyama ’s“ End of History ”.
In fact, the USA cannot compete and is technologically in decline although she is ahead now. She wants to stop the rise of China by screaming that China is communist, authoritarian, evil and corrupt and that the USA is promoting democracy, freedom and rule of law.
*So let's examine the USA's premise:*
For any country ’s development, the proof of the pudding is in the eating i.e. what are the deliverables from China thus far?
a) *Rule of law* for who? Look at what is happening: A US President who does not dare to show his taxes, a Republican Party which discards the US constitution that they swore to uphold by not answering congress; he openly lied to his people, withdrew from an UN security council mandated agreement with Iran and then threatened and stopped other countries who wanted to trade with Iran, withdrew from a Climate Agreement that was signed by 120 nations and TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) signed by 12 nations and stopped the process of WTO by not appointing a judge for arbitration.
The USA only adopted the rule of law when it suited her interest and she will use economic sanctions on others to obey her position on the rule of law they like.
b) *Freedom* for whom? In the USA, real freedom is for the top 1 percent. The middle class and students are sliding into debt that they cannot pay in their lifetime. Even women n doctors there are slowly being criminalized and deprived of freedom of choice over their own bodily health.
When other countries (like Germany) who do not want to follow her lawlessness and want to trade with emerging markets like China or Russia (via Nord Stream II gas pipeline and against the Huawei ban) or Iran, they are threatened with sanctions because USA does not want these freedoms for these countries and companies. What right does the USA have to apply their laws on other countries and companies? If the USA wants to punish, then she should punish her own companies, not the companies and subsidiaries of other countries.
c) *Democracy* for whom? In Iran, the USA toppled a democratic government in 1953 under Moseddaq using CIA and now she want to provoke a war in order topple the Islamic government and make the Iranian people suffer.
The USA also illegally withheld Venezuela ’s wealth, such as repatriation of profit from her oil company and stopped Citibank which is holding her funds to pay for insulin for her people. It was rumoured that the USA also used cyber hacking to attack her electrical grid.
To punish a whole nation just because you do n’t like an Islamic government or any government is inhuman. If this is not an example of the evil of the USA, what is?
All people have a right to choose their own government, rightly or wrongly. No one demanded USA to change their regime when they toppled other governments using CIA. No one demanded the USA people to topple their government when they use “gun boat” and economic sanctions diplomacy in Venezuela and Iran in this 21st century.
Democracy is supposed to lift many out of poverty, give the people a voice for peaceful existence and not to be used as a pretext to fight “democracy and freedom” wars or create conflicts for your own political and economic interests.
The USA is very good at this type of “democracy and freedom wars”. Not all nations are Christian and they don't follow the Christian ethos which by the way, historically, is an ethos and culture that subjugated people using slavery, physical and cultural genocide of native people, divide and conquer tactics, racism and colonization.
China, India and Iran have their own thousands of years of ethos and culture and combined with other non Christian countries consist of more than 70% of the world population.
They do not believe the history or culture that the world's and human progress revolved around the bible or her unbelievable stories derived from Greek and Egyptian mythology. These stories caused havoc in Middle East and other l ands that had suffered greatly for hundreds of years under these pretext of colonial wars to “civilize” the natives.
At the present time, we know and have proof that a meritocratic communist country like China can also practice Capitalist type of economic system and able to distribute wealth much better than a so-called democratic country like the USA.
For example, China lifted 700 to 800 millions people out of poverty (more than twice the population of USA) in the last 40 years without firing a bullet to *enslave or subjugate another nation.* This is the essence of Socialism which is to *benefit the maximum number of ordinary citizens instead of just the 1% rich.* It is an epic achievement of historical proportion esp when you know that in 1970s China's GDP was dwarfed by the USA (China's $ USD1 billion vs the USA's hundreds of billions).
Am I saying what China achieved is the “be all and end all”.? Certainly not! China still has a long way to go to give her 1.4 billion people a decent livelihood (compared to USA of 300+ million people). But she is going to do it in accordance to the historical lessons she inherited and mould the governance to suit herself.
Till today, China does not have and universal healthcare system but neither does the USA! Can you imagine that !! Being in the same situation as China !! But China is targeting to rectify that and USA is trying to deny that to her citizens by getting rid of Obamacare.
Why can't the USA lift up her people out of poverty and homelessness and create great infrastructures such as roads, railways, airports, high speed trains, safe bridges, renewal energy etc with the wealth they had from 1970s till now? Where has all that USA wealth gone to? Why is it that China can do this from such a low GDP in 1970s till now and the USA can't? Where is the US creativity?
Why are the American people so docile and brainwashed that they are unable to see this great gap of deliverables by their government? Is anyone calling for a people ’s revolution in USA?
All the above mentioned infrastructures were done in China in the last 40 years and these are the proof of deliverables of China ’s governance.
No amount of fear mongering and disinformation on China can negate this kind of achievement. People are not stupid. They can see for themselves by just visiting China and that's why China wants to open up to showcase their achievement n let others judge their governance and compare .
India is envisaged to be next in line to lift her people up from poverty so long as her leadership is united. Hopefully, she will follow the direction of China (without necessarily following China's governance) and focus on the development of her people and not just stock markets or leaders' personal glorification. Also not to open her economy to such an extent for rabid and unruly Western exploitation like that was done to the USSR. We are eagerly watching if she can deliver and cheer her on with the hope that she is strong enough to resist Western / USA dictates against her when she wants to trade with Russia and China.
In short, we know evil n corruption when see it.
*Evil* is when the USA sanctions n strangles a whole nation and companies just because she lost the competition for technology and governance.
*Corruption* is when you buy influence to those that benefit you only.
*Authoritarianism* is when you put a gun at someone ’s head to ensure that your economic sanctions are obeyed and when you blatantly rip off international agreements and want to change them to your benefit like the WTO and force others to follow your rule of law.
No one respects that kind of rule of law.
The USA and the West always complain that China enforced technology transfer. This is not really correct.
Remember that when China joined the WTO in 2000, she was classified as a developing nation even till now. Under that category and playing by the rules of WTO, China can protect certain industries so that these industries can grow in her country.
The US said that Huawei telecom equipment has backdoors to spy for China but they could not show any proof. They are said to have stolen intellectual properties. However, we know for a fact that the USA spied on everyone including Germany's Angela Merkel (revealed by Edward Snowden) using Cisco equipment, Facebook, Google and Apple. Perhaps the USA wants to ban Huawei because they cannot spy through Huawei's products. On intellectual properties, Apple sued Samsung, Samsung sued Apple; it is normal in the tech world, so for Huawei to be embroiled in these are not uncommon.
By accident or by luck, China protected her internet based industries and disallowed Google and other internet based companies to enter their spheres. If she had opened to Google, China will not have Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei etc and all the present subsequent emerging industries esp AI and 5G. Also, had she opened up to Google, she would thus have invited in a “Trojan Horse”. Now, with Google banning her from using their OS, the Chinese internet industries would have been severely crippled.
This is a lesson for the whole world. Open your economy and industries to the USA technologies and risk having your nation being ransomed (by a present or future USA administration who is mad for personal, racial and seemingly fascist type of power and has no respect for international law) when you disagree with her policies or governance like buying gas or products from Russia or China or any country which USA wants to strangle like Iran and especially when the payment transaction are not in US dollars.
The USA / Trump at present is using the rule that if you lie loud, strong n long enough, you can get the US and other media to amplify your concern then the whole world will believe you.
Huawei n China showed their performance through facts and they followed the rule of law set up by the West to show their achievements. They did their hard work and spent money for the past 30 to 40 years on research on technology and development.
*China deserves to succeed!*
Monday, May 4, 2020
Replying some readers on the probability of World Governments NOT giving aid to workers and their voters.
Messages from readers
[05/05, 10:42] Raju JP: GDP may shrink 5% but it doesn’t mean we are all doomed
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2020/05/03/gdp-may-shrink-5-but-it-doesnt-mean-we-are-all-doomed/
[05/05, 10:44] Raju JP: Guna
Based on the above, governments can consider to provide universal basic income via monetisation of debt.
What is your opinion monetisation vs printing money?
[05/05, 10:54] Gunabalan.Esq: What is point of saving human lives from virus if they commit suicide or die of hunger?
[05/05, 10:56] Gunabalan.Esq: This is a WAR.
WAR against the Virus.
Country must be lead through wartime with responsible government.
Whether monetisation( jual asset) atau U.B.I. it matters not.
As no money means hunger and death.
٪%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
[05/05, 11:34] Tirath:
Sah, Semua nya OK!
Politicians and their managers have The Cash flow and necessary legal and physical protection.
The ordinary are slaves to the T10 masters.
Slaves are meant to be used and discarded when beyond their use before date.
Relax, universal or any other income other than from the slaves' own personal slogging is huh a tantalising thought, what if!
[05/05, 11:52] Tirath: Social media marketing is spinning a tale.
The more stupid the better and faster it spreads like a wild bush fire.
90% social media never even read the first full para. They either forward it or delete it. Do you have a spin doctor doctoring a twenty word spin on Universal Income?
When ready i shall be happy to share it.
[05/05, 11:42] Gunabalan.Esq: No need.
The internet is the perfect medium to sell ideas to the masses.
When the masses turn, ie demand, even the 1% knows better than to cross their demands
[05/05, 11:59] Gunabalan.Esq: Its already being done as you read this🐥
As it is, this pandemic is showing workers worldwide, how every Worker has been brutally divided into two classes:
This pandemic is an eye opener as well to Big Companies, who will take the opportunity to replace demanding, imperfect people with machines or artificial intelligence wherever possible.
The path is straight. The path is open.
It just needs seeing.
On the other hand, further extrapolation on my part indicates that if in the short term ( before a cure is found and given out to the world) governments DO NOT identify and help their voters in this crucial times....... as more time unravels the sheer amount of financially broken society members everywhere, real change in leaderships will look newly possible...... even in light of, the unprecedented measures the government has already taken to combat the crisis.
Thats when they will turn to AI and robotics in strength.
Its no longer a moot question.
Also, the effect of those conjured trillions of dollars to bail out businesses in USA, JAPAN, UK and the EURO will start to effect liquidity and currency base ( meaning: imported supply inflation locally will hurt more families ) which means it would cause further financial disruption for workers families world wide down the road.
( within about 2 years )....ie society would revolt.
Granted, that’s not what happened in the 1997 or 2008 financial crisis, when the government primarily rescued the banks — but this time the problem is world wide and its a supply chain disruption......a totally new beast. Not a demand problem as it was earlier.
So this crisis brings with it an opening for collective action.
Those people sitting in leadership roles have to be ready to counter this.
How it will work remains to be seen.
You see, Revolutions and Pitchforks aren’t effective against social-media algorithms, and GLcs and BIG COPRPORATES might not care if some large fraction of the population can’t buy its stuff, as long as the rest keeps buying more.
But if the 1% and the winners of the AI revolution want to avoid the business disruption of an actual revolution, they should be prepared to negotiate a new and very different deal starting now....for the workers and their families.
[05/05, 10:42] Raju JP: GDP may shrink 5% but it doesn’t mean we are all doomed
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2020/05/03/gdp-may-shrink-5-but-it-doesnt-mean-we-are-all-doomed/
[05/05, 10:44] Raju JP: Guna
Based on the above, governments can consider to provide universal basic income via monetisation of debt.
What is your opinion monetisation vs printing money?
[05/05, 10:54] Gunabalan.Esq: What is point of saving human lives from virus if they commit suicide or die of hunger?
[05/05, 10:56] Gunabalan.Esq: This is a WAR.
WAR against the Virus.
Country must be lead through wartime with responsible government.
Whether monetisation( jual asset) atau U.B.I. it matters not.
As no money means hunger and death.
٪%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
[05/05, 11:34] Tirath:
Sah, Semua nya OK!
Politicians and their managers have The Cash flow and necessary legal and physical protection.
The ordinary are slaves to the T10 masters.
Slaves are meant to be used and discarded when beyond their use before date.
Relax, universal or any other income other than from the slaves' own personal slogging is huh a tantalising thought, what if!
[05/05, 11:52] Tirath: Social media marketing is spinning a tale.
The more stupid the better and faster it spreads like a wild bush fire.
90% social media never even read the first full para. They either forward it or delete it. Do you have a spin doctor doctoring a twenty word spin on Universal Income?
When ready i shall be happy to share it.
[05/05, 11:42] Gunabalan.Esq: No need.
The internet is the perfect medium to sell ideas to the masses.
When the masses turn, ie demand, even the 1% knows better than to cross their demands
[05/05, 11:59] Gunabalan.Esq: Its already being done as you read this🐥
As it is, this pandemic is showing workers worldwide, how every Worker has been brutally divided into two classes:
- those whose employers protect them from the virus,
- and those who lose their jobs or their unemployment insurance if they refuse to labor under dangerous conditions.
This pandemic is an eye opener as well to Big Companies, who will take the opportunity to replace demanding, imperfect people with machines or artificial intelligence wherever possible.
The path is straight. The path is open.
It just needs seeing.
On the other hand, further extrapolation on my part indicates that if in the short term ( before a cure is found and given out to the world) governments DO NOT identify and help their voters in this crucial times....... as more time unravels the sheer amount of financially broken society members everywhere, real change in leaderships will look newly possible...... even in light of, the unprecedented measures the government has already taken to combat the crisis.
Thats when they will turn to AI and robotics in strength.
Its no longer a moot question.
Also, the effect of those conjured trillions of dollars to bail out businesses in USA, JAPAN, UK and the EURO will start to effect liquidity and currency base ( meaning: imported supply inflation locally will hurt more families ) which means it would cause further financial disruption for workers families world wide down the road.
( within about 2 years )....ie society would revolt.
Granted, that’s not what happened in the 1997 or 2008 financial crisis, when the government primarily rescued the banks — but this time the problem is world wide and its a supply chain disruption......a totally new beast. Not a demand problem as it was earlier.
So this crisis brings with it an opening for collective action.
Those people sitting in leadership roles have to be ready to counter this.
How it will work remains to be seen.
You see, Revolutions and Pitchforks aren’t effective against social-media algorithms, and GLcs and BIG COPRPORATES might not care if some large fraction of the population can’t buy its stuff, as long as the rest keeps buying more.
But if the 1% and the winners of the AI revolution want to avoid the business disruption of an actual revolution, they should be prepared to negotiate a new and very different deal starting now....for the workers and their families.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
About Rohingyas.....Written by Syed Akhbar Ali
here is some satire I received via WhatsApp :
Hukuman menyeberangi sempadan Negara.
1) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Korea Utara secara haram, anda akan dihukum 12 tahun kerja pecah batu.
2) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Iran secara haram, anda akan dipenjara 100%.
3) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Afghanistan secara haram, anda akan ditembak mati.
4) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Arab Saudi secara haram, anda akan dipancung pada hari Jumaat.
5) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Amerika Syarikat secara haram, anda akan dipenjarakan sebagai pengganas.
6) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan British secara haram, anda akan ditangkap, didakwa dan dihantar ke penjara.
7) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Malaysia secara haram, anda berpeluang tinggi untuk mendapat:
- Mykad sementara atau
-Status PR Penduduk Tetap atau
- kad UNHCR untuk cari kerja
- Lesen Memandu
- Tempahan Kerja
- boleh dapat Kad kredit
- boleh buka akaun di mana2 bank
- mendapat pendidikan percuma termasuk dalam bahasa anda (eg Myanmar)
- Penjagaan kesihatan dgn kos minimal
- jika anda wanita hamil boleh bersalin di hospital kerajaan
- boleh jadi tauke kedai runcit.
- boleh jadi bos bagi orang Melayu
- boleh beli rumah
- boleh beli tanah free hold
- boleh dapat keistimewaan Khas Bumiputera jika anda Islam, berbahasa Melayu dan mengamalkan adat Melayu
- akan dapat hak mengundi (jika ada Projek IC di kawasan anda)
- boleh kahwin wanita Melayu lebih daripada satu
- boleh guna nama isteri Melayu untuk pinjaman / bantuan bumiputera
- boleh buang isteri Melayu dan lari balik ke Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indon
- isteri Melayu akan tanggung pinjaman bumiputera
- akan dibela parti politik Melayu / Islam
- boleh sertai kumpulan pengganas Salafi / Wahabi / Abu Sayaf
My comments :
First lets talk about those UNHCR Cards. The UNHCR card entitles the holders to work in the country where they are refugees. I don't know how many thousands of these cards the UNHCR has issued to the Rohingyas in Malaysia. But doesn't that give the UNHCR almost sovereign type powers inside Malaysia?
I mean as a sovereign country we have our own laws, there are processes and procedures according to Malaysian law. Then comes the UNHCR and issues its own ID Cards which can override our own laws.
I am wondering - just how many Cards has the UNHCR issued in say the USA, UK or in Rumania and Poland? Rumania and Poland have made it crystal clear - NO Muslim refugees.
I don't think Rumania, Poland and some other countries in Europe will allow the UNHCR to even think about issuing these cards for refugees wishing to enter and work inside their countries.
But this is Malaysia.
The tidak apa attitude is supreme.
Plus Rohingyas are Muslims.
Plus the Rohingyas pay RM15,000 satu kepala to get here.
Jual bangsa, jual agama dan jual negara.
*****************************************************************************************
To backtrack into our recent history - this whole pendatang asing tanpa izin or PATI thing started with Dr Mahathir and the Dasar Ekonomi Baru FAILING TO MAKE the Malays competitive in the marketplace.
Yes folks - almost ALL the problems in this country derive from that most foolish and failed policy called the Dasar Ekonomi Baru.
Which gave rise to that 'can-never-go-away' political risk - UMNO could lose the Malay vote.
Fearing which Dr Mahathir had to accelerate the implementation of more and more of those "Cash is king" policies. Yes lah - Dr Mahathir was the great sifu who invented the 'Cash is king' policies.
For example in 1996 (?) Dr Mahathir so grandly pronounced "They are all my cronies". Sudah lupa kah? This was part of the Dasar Ekonomi Baru.
The Dasar Ekonomi Baru began in 1970 - one year after UMNO got their butts seriously kicked (by Malay voters) in the 1969 elections.
That was the year Dr Mahathir lost in the Malay majority parliamentary seat in Alor Setar, Kedah. The Malay voters kicked his butt too.
Malay politicians like Dr Mahathir know very well that despite Malays being in the majority, a split in the Malay vote could easily topple Malay political parties and hence Malay political dominance.
This is a constant fear of Malay based parties. It almost happened in 1969. Dr Mahathir was kicked out of Kota Setar. And in 2018 this fear came true on a grander scale. UMNO got kicked out by Malay voters themselves.
So to overcome the continuing failure of the Dasar Ekonomi Baru, the easiest remedy they figured out was more of the same ie "money would buy votes". Cash is king.
Without unending government crutches, without subsidies and without free money thrown at the Malay voters, UMNO and Dr Mahathir faced the constant threat of losing elections. Which still did happen from time to time.
From time to time UMNO lost Kelantan (for 30 years now), Sabah was lost to the Opposition, Kedah and Terengganu were lost, Penang was lost to the Gerakan (pre joining BN), UMNO would lose numerous by elections, Dr Mahathir lost his parliamentary seat in Alor Star. These were constant reminders. UMNO could lose.
And there was a growing threat from PAS. Inspite of the Dasar Ekonomi Baru the PAS kept enticing numbers of Malay voters who were getting fed up of not just being constantly poor but worse than that of being unachievers in their own country.
So UMNO political dominance needed more voters. More Muslim voters.
To achieve this, more non-Malay Muslims would need to be recognised as Malays and bumiputras. So that they too would enjoy the Dasar Ekonomi Baru "Malay" freebies. Who would refuse easy "Cash is king" privileges?
Making it easier to create 'new Malays' was the strange proviso in the Federal Constitution which defined the Malays not as a race but as a "political category".
The Constitution said
those who were Muslimhabitually spoke Malay and followed Malay custom were Malays.
Basically what this meant was that Aliyar Abdul Kader Mastan the Tamil instantly became a Malay.
Later the Abdullah Club (the "bin Abdullah" converts) would also edge closer to being Malays. They too would get "Cash is king" privileges. Just vote for UMNO.
This is when the mamaks, Indonesians, the Moros, the Rohingyas and now any and all Muslims became part of the plan. The belief was "Muslims would vote for UMNO". Or even if they did not vote for UMNO, Muslims would vote for Malay political dominance. Ergo more non Malay but Muslim voters had to be recruited.
In Penang - without the mamaks there would be no UMNO. Or PAS.
So of course almost all Penang mamaks instantly became Malay and bumiputra.
Then to recruit non Malay Muslim voters from beyond our shores - if a sufficient number of non Malaysians ie Indonesian and Filipino Muslims could be 'Blue IC'ed it would / could / maybe / insya allah add to UMNO's voter base.
Hence things like Projek IC in Sabah. I once had lunch with the Chief Minister who was the architect behind the Projek IC. He said, 'Syed we had to do it. I issued x0,000 ICs".
So in the late 70s and into the 80s the Indonesians first began to appear as street hawkers in Chow Kit where they were allowed to put up their tents in front of all the Chinese shops. They completely blocked off the Chinese shops and killed off Chinese business in Chow Kit. Nothing was done to get rid of them. It became part of the UMNO ketuanan policy.
I know that many of these Indons were given PR status in no time. Their children have been born and raised here as Malaysians. In Masjid India one such Indon family has given birth to daughters who have become doctors - studying for free all the way through university. All courtesy of UMNO's pro Muslim voters policy.
A long time ago three cute Indonesian girls walked into my kedai emas in Masjid India. They wanted to sell old gold jewellery. When we asked to check their IDs (our security measure) they all happily said "Kami ada IC, kami ada IC" and pulled out brand new Malaysian ICs.
(Having said that I must say that the Indonesians are a wonderful economic force, without them our economy will stop. Plus they have as much right to the Nusantara as the fish that swim in these seas. They were here first. And as Norman Fernandez has said in his article in the Malay Mail while begging is the national past time of the Rohingyas have you seen any Indonesian beggars anywhere? Of the 2.5 million or so Indons in the country, there is none of them who begs. All Indonesians work and they work very hard).
There is another group of acquired Muslim voters ie the Thai Malays or Melayu Pattani. But in reality they are Melayu Semenanjung. We cannot look at them as foreigners even if their nationality is Thai. In my opinion the Thai Malays were just "trapped" on the other side of the fence. I have said this before - whether we like it or not, whether we agree or not - one day there will be a reunification of the Thai Malays with Malaysia.
But the way things are going on in Malaysia, it may happen that the Thai Malays would prefer to stay in Thailand than be associated with Malaysia. Just like many Singapore Malays feel embarrassed to talk about Malaysia now. You never know. Anyway many Thai Malays are also Malaysian citizens. I really dont know who they vote for now - PAS, UMNO or anyone else. But they will vote for Malay political dominance too.
Fast forward - in 2008 after Abdullah Badawi lost the 2/3 Parliamentary majority the "pro Muslim voters" policy was accelerated again. Muslim votes became critical. More Muslims meant more votes for Malay political dominance, or so they thought.
So after 2008 ALL Muslims citizens were immediately recognised as Malays / bumiputeras etc. All mamak citizens anywhere in Malaysia became Melayu / bumiputera. Then Arabs, Afghans, Uzbeks, Moros, Chechnyas, Rohingyas, Pakistanis even Banglas became PR holders. Using the DEB's 'Cash is king' carrot it was hoped that more Muslim voters would help secure 'ketuanan UMNO and ketuanan Melayu'.
And by this time new "future Malays" had been identified from a far away place called Rakhine State or Arakan in Myanmar. The Rohingyas were welcomed. Soon there was talk about a Kampong Rohingya in Pekan.
The late Tan Sr Zam once told me 'Even if they are not Malays its ok, their children will grow up as Malays'.
The more the Dasar Ekonomi Baru was failing to move the Malays up, the more panicky UMNO became about losing the Malay vote. And the more "new Malay" voters who had to be recruited - from local non Malay Muslims, 'offshore' Muslims recruited from the Rohingyas, Cham Muslims from Cambodia (yes they are here as well, in small numbers), the Moros from Mindanao (Projek IC), Indonesians, Thai Muslims, some Banglas and some Afghans, plenty Pakistanis even some Chechnyans (I think they left).
It was simply a panic induced fear to crave for more Muslim voters.
To save ketuanan UMNO and ketuanan Melayu.
But this was a grossly mistaken and foolish fear.
Because it does not work.
Not only did it start causing its own ethnic problems (as is happening now with the 200,000 Rohingyas) but UMNO lost the GE14.
The majority of voters, including Malays and other Muslims, voted against UMNO and against 'ketuanan Melayu' ideas.
So this idea of "memperbanyakkan pengundi Melayu dan Islam untuk kekalkan kuasa politik Melayu dan Islam" does not work. It will never work. Do read on.
So the sequence of events was like this :
1. Firstly, not referring to any economic textbooks or rasional thinking to formulate the Dasar Ekonomi Baru. The Dasar Ekonomi Baru was not based on any economic theory. It was purely race based and designed to keep UMNO in power. It was designed to fail.
2. Hence most logically and most certainly the DEB failed to uplift the Malay economy. (Because minus a free market system how do you decide the all important "allocation of resources"? By colour of skin? Religion? Language?)
Hence 'Cash is king' was born.
And as a natural consequence, in zero time, the free money and subsidies made the Malays an even more non-competitive society. Even healthy Malays became wheel chair dependent Orang Kurang Upaya or OKU. I can tell you stories. An ex multi multi millionaire (who once owned a billion Ringgit bumiputra license business) almost turned dobi operator. I spoke him out of the dobi business because he was going to pay "Mecedi" prices for the washers and dryers. Apparently a dobi equipment seller had "convinced" him into doing laundry !!
3. The DEB failed. Hence Malays were constantly below par, poor and angry or at best unhappy. They also became more envious of the Chinese because from the 70s to the 80s to the 90s and into the 21st century the Chinese, Indians and others kept going forward, upward, going overseas, became international etc.
4. Minus sustained economic success and economic independence the Malay vote for UMNO / BN was always precarious. It could swing wildly - which it did from time to time. Few people realise that for decades in states like Kelantan and Kedah, the voting results have always been thin. In Kedah and Kelantan it was always a razor thin win for either UMNO or PAS. Then finally it happened - in 2018 the Malays kicked out UMNO.
The "lets increase the Muslim votes" experiment finally failed big time. Percayalah, it will never work.
5. But along the way something else crept in. The human traffickers picked up the scent of easy money. If UMNO wanted Rohingyas, someone had to bring them in. Plus the Rohingyas were prepared to pay RM15,000 satu kepala.
If Banglas are good policy someone had to organise the Banglas on an industrial scale. Hence that 1.5 million crony permits for the importation of Banglas. Can you multiply 1.5 million Banglas by say RM15,000 satu kepala? It makes the Rohingyas chicken feed.
Why allow the corrupt Immigration fellows to get a measly RM500 satu kepala at the Immigration checkpoints? Or RM50 satu kepala off the east coast of Sabah. Better organise things on an industrial scale, complete with foreign agents, logistics, boat operators, funding providers and the whole works. Industrial scale.
And that is how there are now 200,000 Rohingyas in the country.
They can be troublesome? Who cares?
If they can pay RM15,000 satu kepala they can create all the trouble they want.
Jadi tuan-tuan, punca segala masalah adalah Dasar Ekonomi Baru atau DEB.
Selama 50 tahun DEB itu tidak mengikut sebarang asas-asas teori ekonomi yang mana pun.
DEB itu tidak terjumpa dalam mana-mana buku teks ekonomi pun.
Orang yang tidak faham apa pun berkenaan ekonomi, bisnes atau kewangan tiba-tiba boleh terbentuk dasar "ekonomi" yang dikatakan boleh menyelesaikan masalah ekonomi, bisnes dan kewangan yang mereka tidak faham itu.
Dan ini telah berlangsung selama 50 TAHUN yang sudah - hanya sedikit selepas Zaman Batu berakhir. Di ganti pula dengan Zaman Jahiliyah Baru.
DEB itu adalah dasar politik.
Bukan dasar ekonomi.
Dasar politik yang dilaksanakan ikut perkauman.
We need a Dasar Ekonomi Betul (DEB).
We do not need a Dasar Ekonomi Bangang (DEB).
Get rid of the DEB and switch to a free market system.
The country and the Malays will take off.
Percayalah.
The Malays do not need Rohingya or Moro votes.
Tak payah jual bangsa, tak payah jual agama atau jual negara.
Percayalah
Hukuman menyeberangi sempadan Negara.
1) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Korea Utara secara haram, anda akan dihukum 12 tahun kerja pecah batu.
2) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Iran secara haram, anda akan dipenjara 100%.
3) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Afghanistan secara haram, anda akan ditembak mati.
4) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Arab Saudi secara haram, anda akan dipancung pada hari Jumaat.
5) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Amerika Syarikat secara haram, anda akan dipenjarakan sebagai pengganas.
6) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan British secara haram, anda akan ditangkap, didakwa dan dihantar ke penjara.
7) Jika anda menyeberangi sempadan Malaysia secara haram, anda berpeluang tinggi untuk mendapat:
- Mykad sementara atau
-Status PR Penduduk Tetap atau
- kad UNHCR untuk cari kerja
- Lesen Memandu
- Tempahan Kerja
- boleh dapat Kad kredit
- boleh buka akaun di mana2 bank
- mendapat pendidikan percuma termasuk dalam bahasa anda (eg Myanmar)
- Penjagaan kesihatan dgn kos minimal
- jika anda wanita hamil boleh bersalin di hospital kerajaan
- boleh jadi tauke kedai runcit.
- boleh jadi bos bagi orang Melayu
- boleh beli rumah
- boleh beli tanah free hold
- boleh dapat keistimewaan Khas Bumiputera jika anda Islam, berbahasa Melayu dan mengamalkan adat Melayu
- akan dapat hak mengundi (jika ada Projek IC di kawasan anda)
- boleh kahwin wanita Melayu lebih daripada satu
- boleh guna nama isteri Melayu untuk pinjaman / bantuan bumiputera
- boleh buang isteri Melayu dan lari balik ke Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indon
- isteri Melayu akan tanggung pinjaman bumiputera
- akan dibela parti politik Melayu / Islam
- boleh sertai kumpulan pengganas Salafi / Wahabi / Abu Sayaf
My comments :
First lets talk about those UNHCR Cards. The UNHCR card entitles the holders to work in the country where they are refugees. I don't know how many thousands of these cards the UNHCR has issued to the Rohingyas in Malaysia. But doesn't that give the UNHCR almost sovereign type powers inside Malaysia?
I mean as a sovereign country we have our own laws, there are processes and procedures according to Malaysian law. Then comes the UNHCR and issues its own ID Cards which can override our own laws.
I am wondering - just how many Cards has the UNHCR issued in say the USA, UK or in Rumania and Poland? Rumania and Poland have made it crystal clear - NO Muslim refugees.
I don't think Rumania, Poland and some other countries in Europe will allow the UNHCR to even think about issuing these cards for refugees wishing to enter and work inside their countries.
But this is Malaysia.
The tidak apa attitude is supreme.
Plus Rohingyas are Muslims.
Plus the Rohingyas pay RM15,000 satu kepala to get here.
Jual bangsa, jual agama dan jual negara.
*****************************************************************************************
To backtrack into our recent history - this whole pendatang asing tanpa izin or PATI thing started with Dr Mahathir and the Dasar Ekonomi Baru FAILING TO MAKE the Malays competitive in the marketplace.
Yes folks - almost ALL the problems in this country derive from that most foolish and failed policy called the Dasar Ekonomi Baru.
Which gave rise to that 'can-never-go-away' political risk - UMNO could lose the Malay vote.
Fearing which Dr Mahathir had to accelerate the implementation of more and more of those "Cash is king" policies. Yes lah - Dr Mahathir was the great sifu who invented the 'Cash is king' policies.
For example in 1996 (?) Dr Mahathir so grandly pronounced "They are all my cronies". Sudah lupa kah? This was part of the Dasar Ekonomi Baru.
The Dasar Ekonomi Baru began in 1970 - one year after UMNO got their butts seriously kicked (by Malay voters) in the 1969 elections.
That was the year Dr Mahathir lost in the Malay majority parliamentary seat in Alor Setar, Kedah. The Malay voters kicked his butt too.
Malay politicians like Dr Mahathir know very well that despite Malays being in the majority, a split in the Malay vote could easily topple Malay political parties and hence Malay political dominance.
This is a constant fear of Malay based parties. It almost happened in 1969. Dr Mahathir was kicked out of Kota Setar. And in 2018 this fear came true on a grander scale. UMNO got kicked out by Malay voters themselves.
So to overcome the continuing failure of the Dasar Ekonomi Baru, the easiest remedy they figured out was more of the same ie "money would buy votes". Cash is king.
Without unending government crutches, without subsidies and without free money thrown at the Malay voters, UMNO and Dr Mahathir faced the constant threat of losing elections. Which still did happen from time to time.
From time to time UMNO lost Kelantan (for 30 years now), Sabah was lost to the Opposition, Kedah and Terengganu were lost, Penang was lost to the Gerakan (pre joining BN), UMNO would lose numerous by elections, Dr Mahathir lost his parliamentary seat in Alor Star. These were constant reminders. UMNO could lose.
And there was a growing threat from PAS. Inspite of the Dasar Ekonomi Baru the PAS kept enticing numbers of Malay voters who were getting fed up of not just being constantly poor but worse than that of being unachievers in their own country.
So UMNO political dominance needed more voters. More Muslim voters.
To achieve this, more non-Malay Muslims would need to be recognised as Malays and bumiputras. So that they too would enjoy the Dasar Ekonomi Baru "Malay" freebies. Who would refuse easy "Cash is king" privileges?
Making it easier to create 'new Malays' was the strange proviso in the Federal Constitution which defined the Malays not as a race but as a "political category".
The Constitution said
those who were Muslimhabitually spoke Malay and followed Malay custom were Malays.
Basically what this meant was that Aliyar Abdul Kader Mastan the Tamil instantly became a Malay.
Later the Abdullah Club (the "bin Abdullah" converts) would also edge closer to being Malays. They too would get "Cash is king" privileges. Just vote for UMNO.
This is when the mamaks, Indonesians, the Moros, the Rohingyas and now any and all Muslims became part of the plan. The belief was "Muslims would vote for UMNO". Or even if they did not vote for UMNO, Muslims would vote for Malay political dominance. Ergo more non Malay but Muslim voters had to be recruited.
In Penang - without the mamaks there would be no UMNO. Or PAS.
So of course almost all Penang mamaks instantly became Malay and bumiputra.
Then to recruit non Malay Muslim voters from beyond our shores - if a sufficient number of non Malaysians ie Indonesian and Filipino Muslims could be 'Blue IC'ed it would / could / maybe / insya allah add to UMNO's voter base.
Hence things like Projek IC in Sabah. I once had lunch with the Chief Minister who was the architect behind the Projek IC. He said, 'Syed we had to do it. I issued x0,000 ICs".
So in the late 70s and into the 80s the Indonesians first began to appear as street hawkers in Chow Kit where they were allowed to put up their tents in front of all the Chinese shops. They completely blocked off the Chinese shops and killed off Chinese business in Chow Kit. Nothing was done to get rid of them. It became part of the UMNO ketuanan policy.
I know that many of these Indons were given PR status in no time. Their children have been born and raised here as Malaysians. In Masjid India one such Indon family has given birth to daughters who have become doctors - studying for free all the way through university. All courtesy of UMNO's pro Muslim voters policy.
A long time ago three cute Indonesian girls walked into my kedai emas in Masjid India. They wanted to sell old gold jewellery. When we asked to check their IDs (our security measure) they all happily said "Kami ada IC, kami ada IC" and pulled out brand new Malaysian ICs.
(Having said that I must say that the Indonesians are a wonderful economic force, without them our economy will stop. Plus they have as much right to the Nusantara as the fish that swim in these seas. They were here first. And as Norman Fernandez has said in his article in the Malay Mail while begging is the national past time of the Rohingyas have you seen any Indonesian beggars anywhere? Of the 2.5 million or so Indons in the country, there is none of them who begs. All Indonesians work and they work very hard).
There is another group of acquired Muslim voters ie the Thai Malays or Melayu Pattani. But in reality they are Melayu Semenanjung. We cannot look at them as foreigners even if their nationality is Thai. In my opinion the Thai Malays were just "trapped" on the other side of the fence. I have said this before - whether we like it or not, whether we agree or not - one day there will be a reunification of the Thai Malays with Malaysia.
But the way things are going on in Malaysia, it may happen that the Thai Malays would prefer to stay in Thailand than be associated with Malaysia. Just like many Singapore Malays feel embarrassed to talk about Malaysia now. You never know. Anyway many Thai Malays are also Malaysian citizens. I really dont know who they vote for now - PAS, UMNO or anyone else. But they will vote for Malay political dominance too.
Fast forward - in 2008 after Abdullah Badawi lost the 2/3 Parliamentary majority the "pro Muslim voters" policy was accelerated again. Muslim votes became critical. More Muslims meant more votes for Malay political dominance, or so they thought.
So after 2008 ALL Muslims citizens were immediately recognised as Malays / bumiputeras etc. All mamak citizens anywhere in Malaysia became Melayu / bumiputera. Then Arabs, Afghans, Uzbeks, Moros, Chechnyas, Rohingyas, Pakistanis even Banglas became PR holders. Using the DEB's 'Cash is king' carrot it was hoped that more Muslim voters would help secure 'ketuanan UMNO and ketuanan Melayu'.
And by this time new "future Malays" had been identified from a far away place called Rakhine State or Arakan in Myanmar. The Rohingyas were welcomed. Soon there was talk about a Kampong Rohingya in Pekan.
The late Tan Sr Zam once told me 'Even if they are not Malays its ok, their children will grow up as Malays'.
The more the Dasar Ekonomi Baru was failing to move the Malays up, the more panicky UMNO became about losing the Malay vote. And the more "new Malay" voters who had to be recruited - from local non Malay Muslims, 'offshore' Muslims recruited from the Rohingyas, Cham Muslims from Cambodia (yes they are here as well, in small numbers), the Moros from Mindanao (Projek IC), Indonesians, Thai Muslims, some Banglas and some Afghans, plenty Pakistanis even some Chechnyans (I think they left).
It was simply a panic induced fear to crave for more Muslim voters.
To save ketuanan UMNO and ketuanan Melayu.
But this was a grossly mistaken and foolish fear.
Because it does not work.
Not only did it start causing its own ethnic problems (as is happening now with the 200,000 Rohingyas) but UMNO lost the GE14.
The majority of voters, including Malays and other Muslims, voted against UMNO and against 'ketuanan Melayu' ideas.
So this idea of "memperbanyakkan pengundi Melayu dan Islam untuk kekalkan kuasa politik Melayu dan Islam" does not work. It will never work. Do read on.
So the sequence of events was like this :
1. Firstly, not referring to any economic textbooks or rasional thinking to formulate the Dasar Ekonomi Baru. The Dasar Ekonomi Baru was not based on any economic theory. It was purely race based and designed to keep UMNO in power. It was designed to fail.
2. Hence most logically and most certainly the DEB failed to uplift the Malay economy. (Because minus a free market system how do you decide the all important "allocation of resources"? By colour of skin? Religion? Language?)
Hence 'Cash is king' was born.
And as a natural consequence, in zero time, the free money and subsidies made the Malays an even more non-competitive society. Even healthy Malays became wheel chair dependent Orang Kurang Upaya or OKU. I can tell you stories. An ex multi multi millionaire (who once owned a billion Ringgit bumiputra license business) almost turned dobi operator. I spoke him out of the dobi business because he was going to pay "Mecedi" prices for the washers and dryers. Apparently a dobi equipment seller had "convinced" him into doing laundry !!
3. The DEB failed. Hence Malays were constantly below par, poor and angry or at best unhappy. They also became more envious of the Chinese because from the 70s to the 80s to the 90s and into the 21st century the Chinese, Indians and others kept going forward, upward, going overseas, became international etc.
4. Minus sustained economic success and economic independence the Malay vote for UMNO / BN was always precarious. It could swing wildly - which it did from time to time. Few people realise that for decades in states like Kelantan and Kedah, the voting results have always been thin. In Kedah and Kelantan it was always a razor thin win for either UMNO or PAS. Then finally it happened - in 2018 the Malays kicked out UMNO.
The "lets increase the Muslim votes" experiment finally failed big time. Percayalah, it will never work.
5. But along the way something else crept in. The human traffickers picked up the scent of easy money. If UMNO wanted Rohingyas, someone had to bring them in. Plus the Rohingyas were prepared to pay RM15,000 satu kepala.
If Banglas are good policy someone had to organise the Banglas on an industrial scale. Hence that 1.5 million crony permits for the importation of Banglas. Can you multiply 1.5 million Banglas by say RM15,000 satu kepala? It makes the Rohingyas chicken feed.
Why allow the corrupt Immigration fellows to get a measly RM500 satu kepala at the Immigration checkpoints? Or RM50 satu kepala off the east coast of Sabah. Better organise things on an industrial scale, complete with foreign agents, logistics, boat operators, funding providers and the whole works. Industrial scale.
And that is how there are now 200,000 Rohingyas in the country.
They can be troublesome? Who cares?
If they can pay RM15,000 satu kepala they can create all the trouble they want.
Jadi tuan-tuan, punca segala masalah adalah Dasar Ekonomi Baru atau DEB.
Selama 50 tahun DEB itu tidak mengikut sebarang asas-asas teori ekonomi yang mana pun.
DEB itu tidak terjumpa dalam mana-mana buku teks ekonomi pun.
Orang yang tidak faham apa pun berkenaan ekonomi, bisnes atau kewangan tiba-tiba boleh terbentuk dasar "ekonomi" yang dikatakan boleh menyelesaikan masalah ekonomi, bisnes dan kewangan yang mereka tidak faham itu.
Dan ini telah berlangsung selama 50 TAHUN yang sudah - hanya sedikit selepas Zaman Batu berakhir. Di ganti pula dengan Zaman Jahiliyah Baru.
DEB itu adalah dasar politik.
Bukan dasar ekonomi.
Dasar politik yang dilaksanakan ikut perkauman.
We need a Dasar Ekonomi Betul (DEB).
We do not need a Dasar Ekonomi Bangang (DEB).
Get rid of the DEB and switch to a free market system.
The country and the Malays will take off.
Percayalah.
The Malays do not need Rohingya or Moro votes.
Tak payah jual bangsa, tak payah jual agama atau jual negara.
Percayalah
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