DO YOU REMEMBER THIS (CLICK HERE).
In a dont-know-how-to-describe-it turn of events both Shamsul Saad and Brian have been released from Police custody and they have both returned home. I spoke with Shamsul briefly just now (before 11 PM). He is fine. I believe they were released about 7 pm.
He said he did not have to post any bail. Obviously no charges were filed against them. So they were treated to Police hospitality for 24 hours.
Lets go back in history. On 10th September 2008 there was an allegation in a ketuanan newspaper that YB Theresa Kok had been involved in a complaint/petition asking a mosque in Puchong/Kinrara to reduce the volume of the azan. Theresa Kok denied making such a request.
Too late. Two days later YB Theresa Kok was arrested under the ISA (which had not yet been abolished at that time). She was arrested under Section 73(1) of the ISA 1960. That was the age of Umnosaurus Patheticus. The Minister of Home Affairs then was Chrome Dome (picture here).
Then seven days later, on 19 September 2008 YB Theresa Kok was released, just like that, and told to go home. She had been treated to free hospitality for seven days.
Welcome home Shamsul and Brian.
M-----’s i.......on ministry strangles the press
John Berthelsen
Aug 7
Orwell would be proud
Since the 2020 onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ministry of C------ns and its executive arm, the C-------ns and M-----edia C------ion, have metastasized into one of Asia’s largest state information control agencies, raising concerns among civil libertarians and press protection organizations that it is using government largess to coopt the free press that was given birth after the 2018 fall of the corrupt and controlling B...n that had run the country for six decades.
The ministry itself is headed by F---i F----l, a former actor and writer appointed by ... when coalition came into power. The M..C is headed by businessman ..., the current executive vice chairman of the ... property conglomerate and politically well connected. He is considered by many to be the real power in the ministry.
A litigation-happy administrator, ..’s dual role as a high-ranking corporate tycoon and a powerful government regulator has drawn widespread but hushed criticism and legal battles. ... and the M..C he heads pursued Australian gadfly and critic Murray Hunter into Thailand, where he resides, engineering his arrest by Thai authorities on charges of criminal defamation and kicking off an outcry from international press protection organizations about the use of his power to curtail criticism. The charges were later withdrawn. On August 5, .... collected another scalp when the Court ordered a former senator, to pay him 275,000 in two defamation suits and 75,000 in costs.
Multiplying mandates
Together, both F.... and .... control the enforcement mandate over online content, cybersecurity and social media platforms, which have multiplied into such vehicles as regulatory frameworks for social media services and vastly scaled-up internal spending/procurement thresholds…
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I received the following message last nite:
Thats all the info I have for now. I have been checking the local media but I cannot find any mention of this case. I believe Threads has said something about the same.
There is a YouTube video here with Siti Kasim, Shamsul and Bryan in a car - I think on their way to meet the Police. Click the link: https://youtu.be/sRDDdQANiOs?si=EYyhOs0g8EZxLk2w
Christians may be interested to read this.
JESUS MAKING BIRDS FROM CLAY
In Christianity the story of a five-year-old Jesus making birds from clay and bringing them to life appears in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, not in the canonical New Testament.
In that account: Jesus is described as playing by a stream on the Sabbath. He fashions twelve sparrows (or birds, depending on the translation) out of clay. When criticized for making these figures on the Sabbath, he claps his hands and tells the birds to fly away. The clay birds come to life and fly off.
Infancy Gospel of Thomas
2:1 "This child Jesus, when he was five years old, was playing at the ford of a stream. He gathered the flowing waters into pools and made them clear by his word."
2:2 "Then he made soft clay and fashioned from it twelve sparrows."
2:3 "It was the Sabbath when Jesus did these things. Many other children were playing with him."
2:4–5 "A certain Jew saw what Jesus was doing and reported it to Joseph, saying, 'Your child has taken clay and made twelve birds on the Sabbath.' Joseph came and rebuked him. But Jesus clapped his hands and said to the sparrows, 'Go!' And the sparrows flew away, chirping."
The early Church did not include the Infancy Gospel of Thomas in the New Testament because it was:
Written significantly later than the apostolic period.
Not considered to have apostolic authorship.
Not widely accepted for public reading in churches.
Regarded by many early Christian leaders as lacking the authority of the four canonical Gospels.
There is a similar story about Jesus in Surah 3:49 and Surah 5:110 in the Quran:
Qur'an 3:49 partial (أَنِّي أَخْلُقُ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلطِّينِ كَهَيْـَٔةِ ٱلطَّيْرِ فَأَنفُخُ فِيهِ فَيَكُونُ طَيْرًۢا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ) translation (Sahih International): I design for you from clay like the form of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird by permission of Allah . . .
Qur'an 5:110 partial وَإِذْ تَخْلُقُ مِنَ ٱلطِّينِ كَهَيْـَٔةِ ٱلطَّيْرِ بِإِذْنِى فَتَنفُخُ فِيهَا فَتَكُونُ طَيْرًۢا بِإِذْنِى ۖ translation (Sahih International): .. and when you designed from clay like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission.."
They are going nuts over the war in Ukraine. Alexander Mercouris says there are rumours that the British will send troops to fight in Ukraine. The British did say they are ready to send troops AFTER a ceasefire is declared.
The UK Ministry of Defence announced in July 2026 that the force is ready to deploy once hostilities end, and that exercises are being conducted to prepare for that eventuality.
Playing safe, like the 14 British Challenger tanks. They stayed away from combat but got destroyed anyway.
Did you know that the British Army has about 20,000–30,000 deployable troops.
This is less than ONE THIRD the 90,000 seating capacity of Wembley Stadium. And these folks want to fight the Russians who have a TWO million strong, combat proven Army, having fought for almost FIVE years in Ukraine.
Drone warfare has not helped Ukraine much - simply because you cannot destroy a country the size of Russia which covers 1/8 of the world's surface area and covers EIGHT time zones - by using drones that carry 75 kg of explosives. And only 1% of Ukrainian drones reach their targets. For every drone strike about 99 other drones get shot down.
A string of Defense Ministers and Army Chiefs have also been fired.
Defense Ministers fired:
Army Chiefs have also been fired
When Army Chiefs and Defense Ministers are fired in rapid succession it means they dont know what they are doing.
The war in Ukraine is coming to some conclusion - in Russia's favour and on the battlefield. Kharkiv and Sumy will most likely fall before the year end. The ports of Odessa are completely cut off and there are no ship movements in and out of Odessa. Ukraine is now landlocked. They have no access to the Black Sea.
The Russians are really ramping up their operations in Ukraine. The Russian FAB bombs (gravity bombs with guidance kits attached) are creating havoc on the frontlines. Russia has dropped over 8,000 of these FAB bombs which caused massive destruction on the ground.
Ok here is the hilarious part. The jokes.
Zelenskiyy just concluded his failed 40 day operation to 'force Russia to its knees'. Well Odessa is cut off while Sumy and Kharkiv are about to fall.
Here is a joke - the EU now want to force a ceasefire on Russia. Upon their terms. Again the losing side wants to impose a ceasefire on the winning side. That is just not going to happen. The EU is now divided and split on the Ukraine war. About half of them want to make a separate peace with Russia.
In the meantime TWO MILLION Ukrainians have died - as a result of this British war against Russia and Germany. The real target is Germany.
Vladimir Putin and Russia will go down in history as master strategists in planning and executing this war to defeat multiple opponents.
1. The Nazis in Ukraine have been defeated. (By the way the Nazi Azov Battalion has just been disbanded - so they say).
2. NATO has been completely humiliated. NATO weapons have proven to be of substandard quality. Russia completely dominates the skies over Ukraine and the famed Patriot air defense systems have been destroyed by Russian strikes.
3. The EU has been defeated and they too are now split over Russia, the sanctions and the Ukraine war.
The Russian war strategy has been to destroy warmaking capacity first. Not to take territory. In other words when Russian troops charge up a hill they do not wish to take the hill. They seek and destroy Ukraine troops and equipment and then withdraw. This strategy has worked extremely well. NATO, EU and Ukraine's capacity to sustain this war in terms of manpower, weapons and equipment, money and funding have all been seriously curtailed.
Plus the Russians have indeed captured huge parts of Ukraine - but at a slow and grinding pace. Mr Putin's ultimate target (apart from security guarantees over Ukraine) is the restoration of full and complete economic, trade and social ties with the West. All sanctions must be lifted, all frozen assets must be unfrozen, all air links re-established. Russia has full access to SWIFT (though they do not need it anymore), all arrest warrants issued by the foolish ICC must be abolished. Everything must return to normal. Then Russia will cede some of the vast territory it has captured.
Ukraine former army chief General Zaluzhny who is now the Ukraine ambassador to the UK has been criticising president Zelenskiyy over the war. Zaluzhny says there is absolutely no need for Ukraine to join NATO - the No 1 sticking point with the Russians. Zaluzhny correctly says that NATO's shelf life has ended. Ten years from now NATO may not exist.
NATO has failed to protect Ukraine in this war. Ukraine has lost over TWO MILLION dead, its airforce has been destroyed and its army has been wiped out. Russia holds about a third (or more) of its territory. Vast areas of Ukraine have been destroyed. Parts of the capital city Kiev are a wasteland. NATO's weapons are simply no match for the Russian weapons. Zaluzhny says it will take 12 years for NATO to catch up with Russia. So why the hell should Ukraine join NATO - asks Zaluzhny.
There will be a conclusion to all this soon. Mr Putin has achieved his military objectives. Next he will achieve his political objectives.
YoY 2025 means same period last year. This is Eric's super charged three minute video.
Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 54,000 for the first time in its history. Market is up. All is good in the real world. Oil prices also crashed again - they hit US75.33 per barrel.
The best news is old news. Gold prices have been crashing for the past six months. See the chart below. Gold hit almost US$4000 per ounce yesterday - from a super high of around US5,300 around March 2026.
Of all the price indicators for the good health of the world economy the price of gold says plenty of things. Gold is the ultimate capture of real value in this entire world. And gold always precedes most other price movements. When gold goes up, the prices of most other things go up. When gold goes down the prices of most other things also goes down.
As you can see the price of gold began going down SIX MONTHS ago. Gold captures flight capital or worried money. When conditions around the world are uncertain, people buy gold. Gold is deemed less risky, more secure. But when things look good around the world, people will take more risks. Start new businesses etc. For which they must sell gold. And buy equity (buy shares lah). So during good times, gold prices should drop and share prices and equity prices should move up.
Mula sekali terima kasih dan tahniah kepada pengundi Johor yang telah tendang keluar penipu dan otak lembu Pakatan Harapan.
I see a split in the vote. UMNO won big - they won 36 out of the 37 State seats they contested or 97% because of local Johor sentiment. I dont think UMNO can repeat this outside Johor. Lets see what happens in Negeri Sembilan.
The PH on the other hand got wiped out because of national sentiment. People do not like them for all their rubbish and bullshit in Putrajaya. The same sentiment that got them kicked out in Sabah.
PKR - PKR contested 20 seats but only won 1 seat. Or 5% of the grade. Total failure. This party is now officially dead. All the good people including Wan Azizah Wan Ismail have left the scene. Only the idiots remain.
DAP - DAP got kicked out 8-0 in Sabah. Complete shutout. Before that the PH got their asses kicked in the SIX state elections. Now they got kicked out again in Johor. They contested 16 seats and won only 6 seats or 35% of the marks. That is a FAIL grade - below 50%. This is the THIRD TIME they got kicked out. Believe me the PH are going to get kicked out in the General Elections.
This is the SECOND TIME the DAP has screwed up. They made it into the Federal gomen in 2018. But they screwed up big time. Then they got their second chance in 2022. Tell me, how many political parties get a second chance in under FOUR years to form the Federal gomen? But they have screwed up again. I must say the Chinese politicians and their supporters are only good at talking big. And of course helping the property developers. Developers Action Party or DAP. As a political movement to move an entire society forward they fail. To put it mildly these folks are quite stupid. There is no need to say much else about this bunch of idiots.
PARTY WON VS CONTESTED %
UMNO 36 of 37 97%
MCA 8 of 15 53%
MIC 4 of 4 100%
PKR 1 of 20 5%
DAP 6 of 17 35%
PAS 0 of 11
BERSATU 0 of 16
BERSAMA 0 of 15
MUDA 0 of 4
Notes: BN fielded 37 UMNO, 15 MCA and 4 MIC candidates, covering all 56 seats.
PH allocated its seats as 20 PKR, 19 Amanah and 17 DAP.
PN's allocation was 22 Bersatu and 12 PAS.
PAS, Bersatu and Bersama failed to win any seats.
Bersatu got totally wiped out. They contested 16 seats and lost all. This is the result of Bersatu splitting and throwing out Hamzah Zainuddin from the party. Hamzah has substantial support and ability. It was a mistake for Bersatu to have thrown him out. Tan Sri Muhyiddin should just quit from leading the party but its too late now. There is no one capable to take over the party. Plus in Malaysia party leaders simply do not quit their party posts even when they get kicked out by the voters. (Except for Najib in 2018).
Bersama - Rafizi Ramli's first outing in Johor was a disaster. They contested 15 seats and won 0. Rafizi does not fully understand the right 'formuler'. Rafizi's economic ideas (that nasi lemak machine, his retail business program) are nightmares. The guy does not quite understand business or economics. In Johor they fielded candidates who 'applied for the job' online. This was a first - and disastrous.
Here is the formuler : the party must develop a solid national agenda. That shall be its national identity. All Malaysians should be made aware of the party's national agenda. Even in State elections. But down at the State level, you always pick candidates from the State level. They must know the local terrain and the local people must know them. You cannot pick candidates from Online applications.
But what is Bersama's national agenda? Well even if they have one - they got kicked out 15 - 0. And please stop talking big. Tak ada apa pun cakap besar pasal apa? Friday podcasts for three hours?? Even the unemployed jobless guys do not have three hours to listen to you lah. Formuler tak betul. Where is your agenda for the people? Abolish the tolls, abolish the Sedition Act, abolish the APs, get rid of the gila babi import duties and taxes on motor vehicles. Liberalise the banking industry fully. 100%. Abolish that rice import monopoly. Abolish all monopolies and oligopolies. Can or cannot? Please answer yes or no.
Muda - They won one seat. Youth does not sell well. In the United States of America the most liberal and perhaps most egalitarian society in the world it is rare for youth to get elected. Even in super liberal California, even the youngest voters respect experience, achievement and solid platforms. This means older candidates. Generally a 50 or even 60 year old with a good track record, experience and knowledge stands a better chance than a novice 25 year old. There are exceptions but maturity and experience are extremely important. In Malaysia the age factor in candidates is even more important. The voters want to see experienced and generally older candidates. If they are well educated all the better. It is difficult to go against this trend.
Here is the oil price chart (West Texas) for the past 30 days.
Despite all the ongoing Hormuz bullshit, in the past 30 days West Texas crude has gone from US$90 per barrel down to US$68 per barrel to yesterday's US$71 per barrel. These prices are relatively low. Oil is not likely to hit US$100 - maybe never.
In 2024 Saudi Arabia cancelled capacity expansion to 13 million barrels per day.
1 million bpd of future capacity was cancelled. Saudi's present capacity ≈ 12 million bpd. But actual production ≈ 9 million bpd. Shortfall ≈ 3 million bpd
But here is the real threat on the horizon. It is called Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) and it is Made in China. It does not need cooling water, no danger of Fukushima or Chernobyl accidents, it can be built small and modular (possibly in 12-18 months by the Chinese) and it runs on super abundant thorium - which is a waste product from many mining operations. China has enough Thorium to last them 20,000 years or more.
Here are two videos you must watch. Maximum 15 minutes. You can double the speed on YouTube.
The Chinese are planning to build ultra large container ships powered by thorium molten salt reactors.
It will be the end of bunker fuel for Chinese container ships. And 250,000 tonne giants will lower transport costs from the Port of Shanghai to Los Angeles. Pinduoduo will give 50% discounts.
The Chinese already have a prototype TMSR up and running since 2023. It is rated at 2MW thermal and is located in Gansu in the Gobi Desert. See picture.
They are already planning a 10 MW or larger TMSR plant by 2030 - only FOUR years away. I estimate that in another six years after that (2036) the Chinese will have these TMSR plants popping up all over China.
Now here comes the scary part. Below here is the projection for Chinese consumption of fossil fuels over the next FIVE years. I have shown this chart not too long ago. Even without TMSR reactors, Chinese oil consumption is already slowing down. The chart shows that from 2027 - 28 onwards Chinese consumption of fossil fuels will start decreasing. China has invested heavily in solar energy, wind energy, hydro and other renewables. Plus their entire motor vehicle industry is switching to EV - which is more energy efficient.
So guess what is going to happen when the Chinese begin building TMSR reactors on a larger scale throughout China - after 2030.
This picture should give you an idea.
Non Muslims can read this. Some general knowledge. Out of the 114 surahs or chapters in the Quran, chapter 36 is called Surah Yasin. This chapter has much significance because it is often recited during special occasions especially at funerals and when people visit the graves of their dearly departed. It is often recited as a prayer at the graves of the dead people.
However with the appearance of Salafism there is debate because the Salafis do not practise the reciting of the Surah Yasin at funerals or at the graves of dead people.
Of course the vast majority of non-Arab Muslims do not understand Arabic and so they do not understand what they are reciting in Arabic.
Here are a few verses from Surah Yasin (36:60-64) with English translation.
Surah Yasin (36:60-64)
60 وَأَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ يَٰبَنِيٓ ءَادَمَ أَن لَّا تَعْبُدُوا۟ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ
61 وَأَنِ ٱعْبُدُونِى ۚ هَٰذَا صِرَٰطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ
62 وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّۭا كَثِيرًا ۖ أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ
63 هَٰذِهِۦ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِى كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ
64 ٱصْلَوْهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ
Here is the English translation (36:60-64)
60 Did I not enjoin upon you, O children of Adam, that you not worship Satan—indeed, he is to you a clear enemy?
61 And that you worship only Me? This is a straight path.
52 And he had already led astray from among you much of creation, so did you not use reason?
63 This is the Hellfire which you were promised.
64 Enter it today because you disbelieved.
This is part of the recitation at funerals and at the graves of the dearly departed.