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Menteri Luar YB Mohd Hassan Jangan Terlibat Kes Palestin Bunuh Palestin

 

This news first came out in February 2025:

 

 

 

Today I saw this report.

My Comments :

So the Palestinian prisoners are coming to town. Where will they be housed? At whose expense?

The Foreign Minister Mohd Hassan is quoted by Free Malaysia Today as saying 'some of the Palestinian prisoners had been detained by Israel without trial for 20 years'. 

I would advise the Foreign Minister to be careful with statement like these. 

As an example "Yahya Sinwar was convicted by Israel in 1988 for his role in the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israeli authorities. Reports indicate that he was personally involved in or ordered the execution of at least four suspected collaborators within Hamas’ ranks.   Sinwar was a founding member of Hamas' internal security apparatus, known as Majd, which was responsible for identifying and eliminating suspected collaborators".

These 20 year detainees (with or without trial) usually involve serious cases like murder and killing people. Including Palestinians killing Palestinians.

The Middle East is a very complicated place. They are pretty screwed up. For example the Hamas will shoot and kill on sight their fellow Palestinians from the PA or Palestinian Authority. Because the PA is made up of Al Fatah - who are enemies of Hamas. 

For the past few months there has been serious fighting and killing between Palestinian factions in the West Bank. Here is some news from Jan 2025.

 

So be careful.  My advise is do not get involved with people who have committed murder, including murder against their own kind.   Do not bring murderers and killers to our country.

You are quoted by FMT as saying "Wisma Putra is finalising the matter and will send a team to Palestine to assess those who wished to be selected for relocation to Malaysia".

Did you really say this or are you being misquoted by the Press? How can you send a team to Palestine when the Israelis control all access to Gaza?

And these prisoners are NOT being held in Gaza. These Palestinian prisoners have not been released by Israel yet. I assume they are being held in jail inside Israel.  And the Israelis will not allow Malaysia any access to the prisoners inside their jails. We do not have diplomatic relations with Israel.

So how are your officers going to get access to them in the first place?

The earlier report (above) said that some of the Palestinians have been released into Egyptian custody and are being held (in detention) by Egypt !!  I dont know how far this is true.  In such event the Egyptians may not give you the option of choosing or rejecting the prisoners. 

Other than Qatar none of the Arab countries are taking any of these Palestinian prisoners. Not Saudi Arabia, not Syria, not UAE or Algeria etc. How come? Even Qatar is doubtful - Donald Trump is watching them carefully.

Remember the Malay wisdom " kera di hutan di susukan, anak di rumah kelaparan".

Hujah Tidak Ada Lojik. Dulu Dr Mahathir Sebut Orang Melayu Tak Tahu Niaga. Proton Fail, Kedai Roti 'Loaf' Pun Bungkus.

 

Sila dengar video ringkas ini dulu.

 

Apa yang Dr Mahathir sebut memang tidak ada lojik sikit pun. Terutama sekali business logic. Memang tidak ada.  

Saya guna sedikit contoh untuk jelaskan isu 'rescue' dan mengguna 'DANA AWAM' atau taxpayers funds untuk 'rescue' atau 'bailout'.

Katakanlah terdapat sebuah kampong dengan 100 biji rumah tangga, tiap satu rumah mempunyai seorang ayah atau suami sebagai ketua rumah. Dan setiap 100 rumah tangga ini terlibat pelbagai niaga, ladang, bisnes, pertanian dsbnya. Kilang roti, ladang ayam, kebun buah-buahan, restoran pelbagai.

Dan kampong ini mengurus segala urusan mereka dengan sendiri. Pimpinan kampong termasuk Jawatankuasa Kerja Kampong (JKK) di ketuai seorang Ketua Kampong. Setiap tahun semua 100 rumah tangga dalam kampong ini bayar cukai 26% yang Dr Mahathir sebut itu kepada JKK.  Dengan sumbangan cukai 26% oleh 100 buah rumah tangga tadi maka kampong ini mampu buat jalan tar, sediakan klinik kesihatan, buat sekolah tadika, perbaiki parit dan longkang, upah dua tiga pengawal keselamatan dsbnya. Jadi kebajikan penduduk kampong dan potensi kemajuan kampong pun dalam keadaan baik.

Tiba-tiba bisnes yang diuruskan oleh dua biji rumah tangga  dalam kampong ini mengalami masalah besar. Satu daripadanya bernama Pratan. Pratan ini membuat kereta dengan tiga roda sahaja dengan harga jualan RM17,000. Mereka yakin kereta tiga roda itu boleh berjaya. 

Tapi sebenarnya penduduk kampong lebih minat beli kereta Nissan Sunny yang pada masa itu harganya RM17,000 juga. Tapi syarikat Pratan juga adalah kesayangan Ketua Kampong, yang setuju untuk meletakkan cukai impot, duti, eksais, AP dan entah apa lagi cukai atas kereta Nissan Sunny yang akibatkan  harganya melompat naik jadi RM33,000. 

Maka ramai orang kampong yang hidup mereka susah juga terpaksa beli kereta Pratan tiga roda tadi. Pratan pun jadi kaya. Lepas itu syarikat Pratan jadi tamak dan menaikkan harga kereta tiga roda mereka menjadi RM23,000. Orang kampong terpaksa beli juga. 

Maka CEO, pekerja dan pegawai syarikat Pratan jadi gemuk buncit - sebab mereka boleh untung lebih walaupun menjual kereta tiga roda sahaja. Mereka boleh cuti overseas, hisap cigar buatan Cuba, beli rumah mewah dsbnya.  

Tapi mereka tidak sedar beberapa bahaya besar. Mereka jadi gemuk buncit tanpa perlu bekerja keras. Buat kereta tiga roda pun boleh untung besar. Selagi Ketua Kampong sayangi syarikat mereka dan kekalkan cukai yang tinggi terhadap kereta Nissan Sunny dan semua jenis kereta lain maka kereta tiga roda mereka boleh dapat untung lebih tanpa mereka perlu bersaing atau bekerja keras. 

Anak bini mereka pun heran melihat bapak makin buncit, boleh hisap cigar tanpa perlu bekerja keras. Jadi bila ibu tanya kepada anak, anak itu menjawab 'Esok bila Along dah besar Along nak jadi buncit macam ayah'.  Maka generasi kedua pun tidak belajar untuk bekerja keras atau belajar cara-cara untuk bersaing. Yang perlu hanya kasih sayang Ketua Kampong dengan perjuangan untuk 'agama, bangsa' dan entah apa.

Tetapi bahaya yang paling besar lagi ialah semua penduduk kampong terpaksa memikul beban kerugian kewangan yang besar. Patutnya mereka boleh beli kereta Nissan Sunny dengan harga RM17,000 sahaja. Kereta buatan Jepun kualiti dunia, murah dan selesa.  Tetapi oleh kerana Ketua Kampong begitu sayangi kereta tiga roda Pratan, maka mereka terpaksa bayar RM33,000 untuk beli kereta Nissan. Hampir dua kali ganda harga dulu. 

Atau mereka boleh beli kereta tiga roda Pratan sahaja. Bagi mereka yang beli Nissan Sunny juga mereka terpaksa bayar hampir dua kali ganda bayaran bulanan. Maka tiap bulan tak cukup duit bayar sewa, tak cukup bayar duit sekolah, bayar duit dapur dsbnya. Hidup mereka susah. Beli kereta tiga roda pula berlaku banyak kemalangan, kecederaan atau kehilangan nyawa. 

Lepas itu syarikat Pratan mengalami kerugian pula. Mereka telah bangunkan kilang paling besar dengan kos yang begitu tinggi. Mereka terpaksa beli semua keperluan kilang itu dari luar. Enjin kereta, acuan buat pintu dan body kereta semuanya dibeli dari luar. Jadi walaupun diberi 'protection' cukai tinggi tetapi masih mengalami kerugian besar.

Syarikat yang satu lagi yang rugi besar nama dia Sapu Lah. Al kisah syarikat ini lebih mudah. Boss-boss syarikat itu mengambil gaji dan pelbagai elaun yang lumayan gila. Sampai berpuluh juta Ringgit setahun. Dan mereka juga terlibat 'over expansion' dengan terlalu pantas dengan mengguna duit pinjam. Jadi bila berlaku kemelesetan ekonomi, bila ekonomi dunia goncang sedikit mereka tersungkur terus. Seppuku. End of story.  Mereka tidak ada duit untuk bayar hutang hardware supplier RM70,000 pun.

Akhir sekali Ketua Kampong mengambil keputusan. Dia mahu juga 'rescue' kedua syarikat itu - Pratan dan Sapu Lah. Dengan mengambil duit cukai 26% sumbangan tahunan orang kampong tadi. Jadi berjuta-juta Ringgit duit orang kampong 'lesap macam asap' - untuk melanjutkan nyawa dua syarikat yang bermasalah itu. 

Maka mulalah mimpi ngeri yang baru. Orang kampong mula ditimpa siksaan 'tiga kali cukai' (three times taxation).

Mula sekali mereka kena bayar cukai 26% setahun. Itu kali pertama.

Kemudian bila jalan tar berlopak, JKK tak cukup duit repair jalan. Bila titi atas parit patah pun tidak cukup duit untuk diganti. Motor dan basikal tak boleh merentas. Tandas rosak di sekolah atau di klinik kesihatan pun tidak cukup duit untuk dibaiki semula. Inilah siksaan kena dua kali cukai. You paid 26% cukai but you do not get what you paid for. Maka kerosakan jalan akan kekal rosak, kelinik kesihatan tak cukup ubat, tak cukup duit bayar gaji pengawal keselamatan.

Cukai kali ketiga ialah apabila Ketua Kampong ambil cukai tahunan bayaran orang kampong untuk rescue dua buah syarikat  yang akan bersaing dengan bisnes orang kampong itu juga. Contohnya cukai yang dibayar oleh orang kampong diguna untuk rescue syarikat Pratan yang akan bersaing (secara tidak adil dan cara tidak sama rata) dengan semua syarikat penjual kenderaan jenis lain di kampong itu. 

Jadi orang kampong sudah bekerja keras. Mereka bangun pagi, gosok gigi, minum kopi, hantar anak ke sekolah, hantar suami pergi kerja, suami bekerja keras, jaga bisnes, jaga ladang untuk mencari makan. Dan setiap tahun 26% daripada hasil usaha mereka dituai oleh Ketua Kampong dan JKK. Lepas itu Ketua Kampong ambil sebahagian daripada duit mereka dan diberi kepada orang kesayangannya untuk bersaing niaga dengan orang kampong juga. 

I take your money from you then I give your money to someone else to compete against you.  And put you out of business.

Inilah maksudnya orang kampong dibeban cukai tiga kali. 
Three times taxation. 

Orang kampong rugi tiga kali.  
Tidak lama nanti hayat hidup kampong ini akan terjejas.

 

Tapi syarikat Pratan pula akan kekal dengan kereta tiga rodanya.
Sapu Lah tidak akan dipercayai oleh rakan-rakan dalam ecosystem perniagaan mereka. 
Vendor akan segan, client baru akan segan, banker akan segan. 
Who wants to do business with them?

Nothing was achieved.  

• 'Lives in a dream..'
• 'Who is it for..'
• 'A sermon that no one will hear.."
• 'No one comes near ..'
• 'In the night when there's nobody there..'
• 'No one was saved..'
  
• 'What does he care..' 
• 'All the lonely people..'

 

 

WOI ANTHONY LOKE WHERE IS THE FIRE?

A good friend of mine just sent me this video clip. Anthony Loke and friends are cooking up a storm. My friend asked 'Where is the fire?" (Actually he said a few more things including the word 'fake'). See the video for your self.

 

So I did a screenshot to see if there was a fire. Here is the screenshot.

 

 

I still could not see any fire. So I did a zoom shot. Here it is.

I cant see any gas tank or a gas tube. And I cant see any fire either.  

At home I can make coffee without fire. Dissolve instant coffee powder in hot water. Add milk (maybe some sugar) and then stir vigorously with a teaspoon. If the water is hot enough the coffee still comes out ok. Otherwise I stick the whole thing in the microwave and zap it for 60 seconds. You get nice, hot coffee. No need fire.

Stirring up bubur lambuk can be a hazardous profession. PermaduMalaysia blog says that  (bekas penggaul bubur lambuk menjelang pilihan raya di Permatang Pauh) lost the elections.
 

p.s. do you see a giant microwave in the picture?
 

ANOTHER BALOCH ATTACK - 90 PAK ARMY KILLED

Just six days after the train hijack in Balochistan the Baloch Liberation Army has carried out a bombing attack against a convoy of eight buses filled with soldiers of the Pakistani Army inside Balochistan. The Baloch claim that 90 Pakistani military personnel were killed. The Pakistani Army has denied the claims and say only 10 were killed. Here is a brief video.

 

Reports say that the weapons used in these attacks include American made implying that they have come from across the border from Afghanistan. When the US hastily left Afghanistan in 2021 they left behind about US$70 billion worth of weaponry. 

The Afghan Taliban are kissing cousins with the Pakistan Taliban who are now working very closely with the Baloch Liberation Army against a common enemy the Pakistani Army. The Pakistani Army really have their hands full dealing with the Afghans, the Pakistani Taliban and now the Baloch. 

Their eastern frontier with Hindu India seems to be the most peaceful border for Pakistan. Serious trouble is brewing on their western side.

Making things really worse for Pakistan is the new Trump administration in Washington which has cut off all aid to almost all the former American lackey countries around the world (except Egypt and Israel). The Americans used to pour hundreds of millions of US Dollars into Pakistan  every year. That has now disappeared. 

Pakistan now has no money to do much. There is no way they are going to find the money to fund a hot war against the Pakistani Taliban in Khyber Pakhtunhwa, against the Afghan Taliban and the Baloch Liberation Army - all at the same time.

The Baloch in particular seem to be aware of the almost bankrupt status of the Pakistani government. Hence they are stepping up their attacks. The Baloch want independence and this seems to be the time to press for it.

Among the complaints of the Baloch is that despite 77 years of independence too many of their homes in Balochistan have no tap water or electricity, something unheard of in other parts of Pakistan.  This sounds like a serious attitude problem, too common from Myanmar to Morocco.

 

The Pakistani Rupee is now at almost 280 to the US Dollar. As you can see in the five year chart above the currency is simply crashing.

All the education, the schooling can come to nought when the attitude is very poor.  Religion is too often the cancer instead of the cure.  

Lets see where this goes. It does not look good.

FRIDAY NOTES (27/12/2024) FROM THE QURAN : THE SUNNATULLAH DOES NOT CHANGE

Non-Muslims can skip this. But it is really very brief. Two minutes reading max.

Today I tried something new. I have begun using Chat GPT for some of my research and writing. Chat GPT is the AI Search engine. But you have to double check it very carefully.

Today for this Friday column I typed in "Sunnatullah verses in the Quran" and within seconds the following popped up. 

I had to do plenty editing because Chat GPT threw up verses which did not mention the word Sunnatullah.   And then Chat GPT tried to explain that those verses were also part of the concept of Sunnatullah.  

To me that is stretching things too far. If the word that I am searching for (eg sunnatullah) is NOT found in that verse then dont say it is. It will only lead to unnecessary argument.

The Chat GPT AI is just a Search tool.  It does not think for itself. It merely sources what others have said about a topic and strings it together.   It is not free of 'garbage in and garbage out'. Especially about religious topics.  So I have to read and edit the material.

In the Quran, the term "Sunnatullah" (سنة الله) or 'sunnah of Allah'  often implies the natural laws that govern the universe. The "Sunnah of Allah" refers to the principles by which Allah manages His creation.

Here are two verses in the Quran where the concept of 'Sunnatullah' (the way or law of Allah) is mentioned:

1. Surah Al-Ahzab (33:62)  - "This is the way of Allah (سنة الله), which has occurred in the past. And you will never find in the way of Allah (سنة الله) any change." -  Translation (Sahih International).

This verse speaks of the unchanging nature of the principles that govern the world which remain constant. It cannot change.

2. Surah Al-Fath (48:23) -  "Such has been the practice of Allah already with those who have passed away. And you will never find in the practice of Allah any change" -  Translation (Sahih International).

This verse reinforces the idea that Allah’s methods or laws are consistent across time and cannot be changed.  After the sun sets, we go to sleep at night with great confidence that the sun will rise again tomorrow morning.

What all this means is that after coming into being and everything in the universe has been set in order, the Creation cannot change haphazardly. If there is change, and most certainly there is change (like the seasons change from spring, summer, fall and winter) it will happen according to the Laws of the Universe.

But things like these cannot happen :

 

Elephants walk on the ground and there is no Superman. Flying elephants and Superman are domains of the imagination.

CHINESE FREIGHT TRAIN POPS ANOTHER SURPRISE - 6TH GENERATION JET.

 

China has done it again. Now China introduces some new science, some new technology and its manifestation - some new industrial product almost every other week. Otherwise known as Made in China. This week the aviation industry is buzzing with China's 'introduction' of a really unimaginable 6th generation fighter-bomber aircraft. The plane flew in the open and someone captured it on video. The aviation geeks are going wild. 

The plane is huge. It has no name yet. It is about 60 feet wide. That is three terrace houses wide. The length is slightly over 60 feet as well. And the plane has THREE engines in a row - unheard of before.  And listen to this - there are TWO air intakes on the sides and a THIRD air intake on top of the plane. 

Here is a quickie on what is a 6th generation fighter jet, and then a short video that shows the actual plane flying in the air. 

Key components of 6th generation technology are:

• Stealth: More advanced, multi-spectrum stealth technologies.
• Autonomy: Significant integration of AI and potentially uncrewed operations.
• Sensors: Enhanced sensor fusion and interconnected data-sharing between platforms.
• Propulsion: More efficient, advanced engines for sustained supersonic flight and better fuel economy.
• Weapons: Potential for directed energy weapons (lasers) and hypersonic munitions.
• EW & Cyber: Enhanced electronic warfare and cyber capabilities.
• Operations: Crewed or optionally-crewed missions with potential for fully autonomous flights.
• Range and Endurance: Improved operational range, longer loiter times, and better mission endurance.

Here is a short video. 

 

Conclusion : No other country in the world can even come close to what the Chinese have flown in the sky. The plane is already flying and has been captured on video. They will fine tune the hardware and the manufacturing processes. They will also load up the electronics arrays, the weapons systems, the AI etc.

Here is my prediction - in say five years this plane will become outdated. The Chinese follow this philosophy - the latest model in operation now, the next upgrade already at advanced design or prototype stage and the third generation on the drawing boards.  The Chinese philosophy is to continuously improve.

Recall what I posted earlier about Chinese EVs taking over the world automotive market.  Since my post Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi have announced that they are merging. Mitsondasan? Honisubishi? 

Its too late.