SATURDAY LITE CARTOONS

Thank you to some of our readers who sent me the following cartoons / images for today's SATURDAY LITE CARTOONS column.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OIL PRICE CRASHING - HARGA MINYAK DUNIA JATUH MERUDUM. BENUA ASIA TENGGALAM MACAM MANA?

 

 

Ok everyone dengar baik-baik ok.  The oil prices are crashing again. Yesterday 12th Dec 2025 West Texas Intermediate went down to US$57 per barrel. 

 

Below US$70 per barrel is already squeezing oil profits. Below US$60 per barrel will put many oil producers in the red or close to red. 

• Why are oil prices crashing? 
• Iranian oil is sanctioned. 
• Russian oil is sanctioned. 
• Venezuelan oil is sanctioned. 

• These are among the Top Five oil producing countries in the world. 
• Their oil exports have been sanctioned. 
• Yet world oil prices are  dropping. 

What will happen when Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil starts to flow freely again? 
Surely the oil prices will crash even more. 
What about Benua Asia Tenggalam? 
When will harga minyak go down in the Benua Asia Tenggalam? 

DR M WAS NO MORE THE PRIME MINISTER LAH

 

 

• (Dec 11, 2025) AG withdrew appeal against acquittal of Rosmah 
• current AG made decision to withdraw appeal  
• Ruling out political motivations in latest development 

• AGC decided not to appeal Rosmahʼs acquittal as "no prospect of conviction" 
• prosecution cannot prove case beyond reasonable doubt 
• because some witnesses passed away, others gone untraceable 

Rosmah charged 2018 during PH admin (2018 to 2020). 

Dr Wan Azizah was deputy prime minister at the time

 

 

MY COMMENTS: Rosmah charged in 2018 (Dr M was PM)
acquitted by High Court in Dec 2024 (Dr M no more PM)
Dec 11, 2025 prosecution dropped appeal (Dr M no more PM) 

ANOTHER VICTIM WHO WAS L1W@TTED

 

OSTB: Someone else wrote this. I just received it this morning. It is another individual who was a strong supporter of the Rear Admiral for a very long time. But now he realises he has been L1W@TTED aka betrayed. I think in the whole country the number of people who were not fooled by the Rear Admiral can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And I am one of them. What can I say except 'I told you so'. Ok here is what the writer says:

• “I Faced Tear Gas in 1998 – Today I Say: ENOUGH. 
• "He Betrayed Every Promise” 
• I protested since 98, endured tear gas & water cannons 
• but now I urge Malaysians to be more critical, because the words ring hollow. 

• Unfulfilled pledges, U-turns, and backtracks betrayed our trust. 
• Promise: Repeal Sedition Act to protect free speech. 
• Reality: They weaponized it against critics. 
• This colonial relic vowed to be scrapped is now tool for silencing dissent. 
• Promise: Scrap Printing Presses and Publications Act for press freedom. 
• U-turn: says it's "essential" and used it to seize books. 
• still censors like the old regime. 
• How can we trust someone who backtracks on liberty? 
• Promise: Review Communications & Multimedia Act to end online censorship. Backtrack: Blocked news sites critical of the govt. 
• preaches democracy abroad but muzzles media at home. 
• This betrayal erodes our rights 
• Promise: Separate PM & FM roles for accountability. 
• Reality: clings to both, ignoring manifesto. 
• this power grab exposes ego over ethics. 
• Malaysians, don't let one man hoard control, demand real checks 
• Promise: Lower petrol prices to ease living costs. 
• Backtrack: Deemed "unfeasible" now. 
• Families struggle with hikes while jets around globally. 
• excuses ring false – Malaysians can't afford more economic woes
• Reconsider the failed steward. 
• Promise: Cancel PTPTN student loans in stages for the "lost generation." 
• Reality: Backpedaled, leaving youth buried in debt. 
• education reforms? empty words. 
• Our kids' futures hang in the balance 
• don't reelect leaders who abandon them. 
• Promise: Ruthless anti-corruption drive. 
• U-turn: Dropped 47 charges (DNAA) against ally. 
• Once railed against cronyism – now enables it. 
• This stench of favoritism demands accountability at the polls. 
• Promise: Justice for 1MDB scandal. 
• Backtrack: Reduced Bossku's sentence. 
• "clean govt" pledge? Shattered by leniency for the corrupt elite. 
• Malaysians lost billions – we can't forgive this betrayal. 
• Vote to restore integrity. 
• Promise: Abolish cartels & cut tolls to tackle cost of living. 
• Reality: Prices soar, tolls persist amid inflation & tax hikes. 
• July 2025 protests screamed "Turun" for good reason. 
• inaction hits families hardest – demand delivery next GE. 
• Promise: Freedom of Information Act for transparency. 
• Unfulfilled: No progress, assets not properly declared. 
• anti-corruption vows? Hollow as ever. 
• Secrecy breeds abuse. Malaysians, reclaim your right to know 
• Promise: Scholarships & career systems for B40 youth. 
• Backtrack: Opportunities stagnant, inequality widens. 
• ignores the vulnerable he claimed to champion. 
• Our youth deserve action, not excuses 
• Promise: National Health Service Commission. 
• Unfulfilled: Contract doctors protest, mental health ignored. 
• health pledges? Delayed indefinitely. Lives are at stake. 
• Don't trust a promise-breaker. 
• Promise: Childcare subsidies & end period poverty for women. 
• Reality: Gender inequality persists, no subsidies rolled out. 
• empowerment talk? Empty. Women bear the brunt 
• rally for leaders who deliver, not deceive. 
• Promise: Strengthen Sabah/Sarawak land rights via tribunal. 
• U-turn: Customary lands disputed, no tribunal. 
• East Malaysians feel betrayed again. 
• federalism? Selective. 
• Promise: Climate Change Act & marine protections. 
• Unfulfilled: Environment sidelined amid haze & pollution. 
• green pledges? Forgotten. Our heritage erodes. 
• Choose sustainability over stagnation 
• litany of broken promises proves just another power-clinger. 
• For Malaysia's well-being, reject this charade in the next GE. 
• Prioritize progress over personality. 
• Is there anything else I missed?

OSTB: Its never too late. Or rather, better late than never. To the writer of this article and his friends, here is something that you and your friends can do. There are many wrongs that are still being committed. Keep track of them. Keep track of who is involved. And expose them early. Before things get worse.  

FOUR YEARS FOR TAX RETURNS !! JUST KICK THEM OUT. KICK THEM OUT.

 

 KICK THEM OUT !!

 

 

 

 

 

• I received this just now. 
• Dont know who wrote it. 
• But the message is spot on.

  

• Stop Delaying Rakyat’s Overpaid Tax – Return Every Sen, It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Money!
• Enough is enough.
• Your latest "grand gesture" – declaring a measly RM4 billion for tax refunds this December – is like tossing breadcrumbs to a starving crowd while feasting on the loaf yourself.
• Why just RM4 billion? What is RM4 billion when your shiny new "Kota" project is slated to cost exactly that – RM4 billion
• Stop stealing the rakyat's money.
• Stop spending what isn't rightfully yours on pet projects and foreign handouts.
• And for heaven's sake, stop punishing the very SMEs and hardworking Malaysians who are the backbone of this economy, contributing billions in taxes only to be choked further by your delays.
• Why cap it at RM4 billion at all? Why not declare you'll return every single sen owed?
• And while you're at it, why never disclose how much in total is currently held hostage by LHDN?
• Earning a living in Malaysia is already brutal – inflation biting, costs soaring, global headwinds – so why strangle us even more?
• These overpaid taxes are the rakyat's lifeline: cash flow for businesses to pay wages, buy stock, or just survive.
• Yet you treat them like your personal piggy bank.
• Tax refunds do not require “allocation” at all. They are not expenditure. They are not a government handout.
• They are the immediate return of money that was never the government’s in the first place.
• Yet for three years running, the Finance Ministry has been treating overpaid taxes exactly like a secret slush fund?
• The Four-Year Instalment Scam: A National Insult
• Tax agents are now openly laughing – bitterly – at LHDN’s latest innovation: the four-year refund repayment plan. Thannees Tax Consulting Services revealed the official schedule on 30 June 2025:
• Year 1 → 5 %
• Year 2 → 10 %
• Year 3 → 10 %
• Year 4 → remaining 65 %
• So if you’re owed RM400,000 (a real case from a struggling SME), LHDN graciously sends you RM20,000 and tells you to come back in 2029 for the rest.
• And no, you cannot offset the RM380,000 balance against your current-year tax liability.
• You must keep paying fresh taxes in full while the government earns interest on your money.
• Imagine owing LHDN RM400,000 and telling them: I’ll pay RM20,000 this year, another RM40,000 next year, and the balance in 2029?
• Late payment by taxpayer? Automatic 10% penalty + 5% after 60 days. Compounded. Can reach 40% plus 5% annual interest.
• Late payment by LHDN? Zero penalty, zero interest.
• One law for the rakyat. No law for the government.
• If the country is so broke that it cannot repay its own citizens’ overpaid taxes immediately, how does it have spare hundreds of millions for foreign causes?
• The answer is simple: because your money is easier to steal than to raise new debt or cut wasteful spending.
• You can wire RM200 million to Palestine in days, but a kopitiam uncle waits years for his RM50,000?
• It takes the USA just 3 weeks for most refunds. 
• Australia and Canada? 2 weeks. 
• Singapore? A brisk 10 days.
• Yet Malaysia needs more than 4 years?
• What’s the excuse?
• Inefficient systems? Understaffed LHDN? 
• Or just plain unwillingness to part with the "float" that pads your books?
• Other nations treat refunds as rights – automatic, swift, with interest if delayed. 
• Here, it’s a privilege doled out like alms.
• Return every sen. 
• Pay interest for every day of delay. 
• Abolish the insulting four-year instalment plan.
• Publish the full backlog figure and commit to clearing it – no caps, no excuses. 
• Stop delaying the rakyat’s overpaid tax.
• It’s not your grandfather’s money. 
• It’s not a slush fund. 
• It’s our hard earned money – earned through sweat, risk, and resilience.

 

MY COMMENTS: Never forget that we are a democracy. There is a super easy method to effect change and solve our problems. Go to the polls and KICK THEM OUT.

 

 

THURSDAY ROUND UP: PANDEMIK AMANG SEKSUAL GENG LEBAI

I am starting a new THURSDAY column -  THURSDAY ROUND UP: PANDEMIK AMANG SEKSUAL GENG LEBAI. There are so many cases. It is a pandemic. Here are three recent ones:

 

KES NO. 1  GURU AGAMA DI TAWAU 

 

 

KES NO. 2  Mudir madrasah terlibat 21 kes amang seksual di Melaka

• berdepan pertuduhan ke-21 kes amang seksual di Melaka
• AYER KEROH – mudir madrasah Tumpat, Kelantan 
• pertuduhan ke-21 amang seksual dan persetubuhan luar tabii 
• terhadap pelajar lelaki berusia 16 tahun di Mahkamah Sesyen di sini 

 

KES NO. 3 Rogol kanak-kanak, penceramah bebas dipenjara 15 tahun dan disebat

Bernama 18/09/2025

KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang penceramah bebas dijatuhi hukuman penjara 15 tahun dan tiga sebatan oleh Mahkamah Sesyen di sini hari ini selepas didapati bersalah merogol dan melakukan amang seksual fizikal terhadap seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia 13 tahun, empat tahun lepas.

POLITICIANS TAKE NOTE. PODCAST: HOW TO WIN A 2/3 MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT

Ok folks this is a two hour walkabout. But do listen to Sam and me discussing Sabah and what should be next. We do have an interesting list of 'Things to do' for the politicians if they want to win the next general elections. Politicians take note.