Elementary pak tani maths. Tales by an unknown blogger no. 58

1. Padi farmers know some maths. Maybe they don't know of the sophisticated maths. Their maths, denominated in money terms they sure know.

2. Let's call this Pak tani maths. Mat sabu should learn this maths. When he announced the new floor price at 1500, it's clear he's deficient in pak tani maths. His officers advising him are not clever either

3. The Pak Tani 1 ton is 800kg not 1000kg. That's because the mills deduct 200kg considered bad padi- broken rice,bugs , fungus etc.

4. At 1300 floor price or 1.3 per kg, the farmer getsb1040 per pak tani ton. He gets 50 sen subsidy per kg. That's 400. His total income is 1440.

5. Hence at a floor price of 1300, the farmer gets an extra 140. That includes the subsidy per kg.

6. At the floor price of 1500, he gets 1.5 x 800=1200. Plus the subsidy of 400, he gets 1600.

7. How come at floor price of 1300, he gets an extra 140 but at the floor price of 1500, he gets 100?

8. Tablay itu maciam, tamby dei

9. That means at the floor price of 1500 announced by thicky mat shabu2, much of the gain goes to the mills. Don't care Chinese or Malay owned .

10. That means, you must choose a floor price, where more of the gains go the farmers. Obviously little thought goes to setting the floor price of 1500. Boloh!

11. The floor price must be between 1600 to 1800.in order to help farmers.

12. Besides choosing the right floor price, field officers at MOA must actually go down to the padi fields and think of ways to raise farmers income.

13. In the meantime, mat shabu2 and MOA officers must learn some pak tani maths!

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The claim of defending people is actually a ruse to control them. Tales by an unknown blogger no. 57

1. It was reported that the political secretary of the 9th PM was found with 150m. Found by sprm . It was also reported that sprm obtained a remand order to detain 4 officers of the 9th PM.

2. But you can be sure that right wing Malay groups and UMNO surrogates and 5th columnists , will pooh poohed the report. Malays have special rights. That include the rights to steal. The rights to be pardoned. Rights to serve jail time at the house.

3. Long live Malay Uber allies! Hidup! Hidup ! Hidup UMNO!

4. UMNO has taught the masses, the UMNO hoi polloi , this following chant.

5. Kalau tak membelit, bukan India. Kalau tak menipu bukan cina. Everywhere,within the Malay community, this chant is continuously repeated.

6. Except, UMNO left out an important line..kalau tak rasuah bukan UMNO!

7. The complete chant should read. Kalau tak membelit bukan India, kalau tak menipu bukan cina AND kalau tak rasuah bukan UMNO! The chant should be the anthem sung in schools throughout.

8. Last time, I made the mistake of writing the chant as follows. Kalau tak membelit bukan India kalau tak menipu bukan cina AND kalau tak rasuah bukan melayu.

9. It should correctly be:- kalau tak membelit bukan India, kalau tak menipu bukan cina, kalau tak rasuah bukan melayu UMNO.

10. Not all malays are corrupt , only UMNO Malays. We must make that distinction. We must distinguish it.

11. We must not allow this kind of stereotypical compartmentalization to go on unchecked. Every race has it's fair share of snakers , swindlers and corrupt people. Except UMNO, in trying to divert attention from itself, overplay the sins of other people. Corruption among UMNO people is 2nd nature.

12. That is one of the principal reasons why all law abiding citizens of this country should and must reject UMNO. The party is synonymous with corruption.

13. It's claim of fighting for race, religion and country and King is all hogwash. The truth is UMNO seeks to control the Malay masses through these antiquated slogans.

14. UMNOs sloganeering and shouting of agama bangsa dan negara, really is a ruse to control the Malay masses. By shouting these slogans, reciprocated by blind support and obedience from malays, allow UMNO to loot and pillage the country.

15. Needless to say, the officers of Ismail sabri will claim they are doing exactly these. Yes, looting and pillaging in the name of bangsa agama dan tanah air.

16. We have been looking for the enemy and the enemy is UMNO. The cyberspace is replete with UMNO fifth columnists.

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The case of disappearing local rice. The sorokers and the hoarders. Tales by an unknown blogger. No. 56

1. Allow me to speak on 2 issues regarding our rice problem. one is so obvious, but I made the error of not discussing it early on. The 2nd, I have touched briefly and now I wish to amplify a bit.

2. The first reason,the obvious reason why local rice disappeared, is because the rice is hidden, sorok and stockpiled. Monied people must have sorok it.

3. Sorok is now the dirty 5 letter word, replacing the dirty 4 letter word many of us adults are accustomed to and like to do.

4. Some people say some people sorok the addendum. Well, some people sorok the beras. Sheriff mat sabu should look into this matter. Maybe sleep over at a chosen kilang padi .

5. Who are these fuckers, er pardon me, I mean sorokers? If guilty , jail them, pardon them or have them house arrested. Especially if they are bumiputeras who have special rights kan?

6. Perhaps, it's wak jahid. He had tons of rice stashed in godowns in Bagan latok..nah it can't be. Perhaps it's mat shabu2 - hiding them in kota raja or in Kedah. Can't be- hes stupid but not that stupid.

7. After a frolicsome and gladsome process of elimination, we come to the usual suspects.

8. The ' sorokers ' could be the suppliers of inputs, moneyed padi farmers especially the absentee landlords , the pengilang padi, middlemen conglomerates, retailers and even the monopoly importer or the DAP.( Hehe)

9. Check these people thoroughly. Leave no stones unturned. Hunt them as you do the siput gondang.

10. The moneyed farmers, especially the absentee land owners hoard the padi maybe out of spite because they couldn't marry some stubborn daimsels. Arrest them, circumcise them a 2nd time so as to douse their friskiness. Down boy, down !

11. Why should we have 1 importer only? We can't compare imported and domestic price. It's not comparing apples to apples.

12. But if we have several importers, we can compare imported prices among them. We can compare apples to apples. The price of imported rice can be cheaper.

13. The price of imported rice may still be dearer than local rice because of the tariff and tax elements on the former. But the price of imported rice may be cheaper than if the price is set by 1 bloody importer.

14. Overall there is more rice in the country. Then let the pockets determine which rice the people want to consume . Those with deeper pockets may wish to consume imported price. But for me the sekinchan rice tastes better than basmati.

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Lahuma, Jeha and the rice saga. Tales by an unknown blogger no 55

1. Mat Sabu said stiff punishment awaits farmers who repack local rice as imported rice. As though they care 2 hoots about what he said . They just want extra money and will likely do it. Desperate times require desperate measures. Confound what Mat Sabu, the minister with the cat fish lips says.

2. Instead of announcing of measures to solve the main problem-the disappearance of local rice, the chap spoke about a piece of legislation.

3. That's typical of a bloke who has no inkling how to solve the problem, spoke of something which is distracting.

4. As though , speaking about a piece of legislation gives the impression that he is doing something major about the problem. It's collateral only.

5. Oi, mat sabu, what you are really doing is protecting the rice importer. As of now the monopolistic bernas. Assuring it, that the imported price will not be disturbed. Guaranteeing the abnormal profits .

6. From there, bernas can possibly donate 10%, 30 to 40m. Then people will say- how philanthropic. Bernas, the moopolist is superbly run by a type M.

7. The right wingers will all clap their hands in gleeful approbation. Hurrah, belts off, pants down .dicks out , ready for a jolly good time!

8. What you did , angers the lahuma and jeha of the padi growing community. In case you forget, lahuma and jeha are the 2 main characters of shahnon Ahmad's novel, ranjau disepanjang jalan.

9. What measures mat sabu has taken, or rather not taken , the padi farmers will end up like lahuma and jeha, dead!

10. The fate of lahuma and jeha is of course too dramatic and too severe..our farmers nowadays are ready and willing to adapt and adopt new technologies if they are cheap enough and taught on how to use them.

11. Are new and cheap technologies withheld from farmers, monopolistic suppliers are interested to sell expensive technologies only. And field officers are not willing to go to sites?

12. The salvation to the rice impasse, I repeat, I repeat must entail the following :-

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• Restructure the supply chain. Liberalise the market. Reorganize nafas, dismantle the deep state, reorganize Mardi etc.
• Introduce primary productivity enhancing technology.
• Instead of subsidies, make easy and cheap credit available to farmers.
• Maybe land ownership reforms

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• Relook at the ownership of padi mills.
• Allow mills to sell direct to retailers
• Eliminate the middlemen conglomerates.

15. Dismantle the monopoly on rice imports. Liberalise the import market. Everybody capable can import rice. If beras is superbly run, it need not fear competition .

16. Finally, what to do with mat shabu2? The PM does not be burdened with morality issues ( Nietzsche slave morality), sentimentality, romanticism , bourgeois values etc, retire mat shabu2. The pm needs the same resolve to retire some other duds in the cabinet . Wak47 for instance.

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The game some people play. Tales by an unknown blogger. No. 54.

1. The mp from maran is pissed off. He feels his self esteem is besmirched. That's because a letter from the sultan of pahang' referring to an alleged addendum, was ignored. He comes from pahang. He feels slighted .

2. Others, upon hearing this did the proverbial pouring fuel over fire . Didn't this mean that the action of the sultan is like pleading the courts, to accept his letter as definitive .

3. We must see the game these people are playing. Being in the opposition, they will use every opportunity to disparage, demean and condemn the PM and his government. The conduct of the opposition, is therefore expected.

4. We mustn't take it as too alarming but must regard it as no skin off our noses.

5. The fate and status of the letter from the pahang sultans office, signed by the chamberlain on a stationery of the same office has not been determined. Yet is already read, as forcing the sultan to 'beg' merayu the courts to accept the validity of his letter.

6. Treating the letter in such cavalier manner and forcing the sultan to behave below his ' majesty' amounts to being disloyal. Those who are disloyal are the PM and his government. That's how the opposition sees it

7. Those who are disloyal to the king or sultans get impaled. That is, if you live under absolute monarchies. Or suffer some other forms of horrible punishments.

8. The opposition would like that happening to the PM but as of now would settle if the pm and his government resign en bloc.

9. So behind that pompous declaration of fealty and loyalty, was just an intention to weaponise the disloyalty issue .

10 . The intention, was really to demonize the PM and discredit him .

11. I say man, don't be a sanctimonious bastard..boasting the treatment of your sultan has brought you shame and has disparaged your self esteem.

12. The mp from maran and others like him are fabricating their story around something that is not certain yet. The sultan of pahang' s letter and the erroneous and mischievous reading on how the letter is treated. How it's treated is considered disloyal. We don't agree.

13. How the letter is perceived to be treated and it's subsequent unilateral interpretation, shouldn't be treated as more, ie as reflection of disloyalty. On the other hand, boasting about being loyal is just an exercise of ego inflation and self promotion.

14. Punishment for being disloyal, these people say, is impale/sula. If we are living under absolute monarchy of which we are not . That kind of barbaric punishment is also aped by UMNO people .

15. But we didn't see UMNO leaders , especially those in the cabinet , rebutting such a view. Which means the UMNO leaders agreed with the opposition and defied the principle of collective responsibility. By convention, if you disagree with the stand of the cabinet, you resign. Ada berani?

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Understanding the beras Imbroglio. Tales by an unknown blogger. No 53.

1. Fuyooh, the PM has announced that Syed mokhtar has agreed to give 30m to padi farmers. The right wing groups and other Malay supremacists are quick to point to the benevolence of a Malay potentate. Hurrah!

2. Forgive my sarcasm and cynicism. I really salute and appreciate the 30m. Given. It's damn a lot of money. To a person like me, to get 100 ringgit is already difficult.

3. What we probably don't know is, that 30m is 10% of the abnormal profits Syed mokhtar makes in a month! Also, what does he get in return? A guarantee that he gets to retain the monopoly over rice imports? Unobstructed Access to the pm and other sweetheart deals?

4. Imagine if tuan Syed mokhtar teams up with other potentates and start giving out money,what do we have? A plutocracy!

5. Combined with those who have amassed political power , we have a combination between plutocracy and oligarchy.

6. The triumphant and celebratory announcement by the PM, can herald the coming of plutocratic oligarchy.

7. With many doltish characters in the government we have a kakistocracy plutocratic oligarchy. Like the pekan people say, waber!

8. Or, poh pale aok'! Waber kite wok!

9. Even if the floor price for our padi farmers is raised to 1800, the rice issue is not a mic drop!

10. This business of throwing and dropping of mics is the Hallmark of mat shabu2. When he does that he thrills the crowd .

11. The crowd acclaimed, hebak abang mat. Macam pok ya concoday(Concorde). Hok kawin budok ttino 17 tahun. Bau badan pun belum begheh!

12. You all have heard of Murphy's law right? Work expands so as to fill the time available.

13. In our case, the price of inputs increase as opportunity expands. The opportunity is the increase in the floor price. The suppliers of inputs will surely increase the price of inputs given the rise in the floor price

14. What happens then? Eventually, the cost of inputs will eat up into the new floor price of 1500 and farmers will again ask for new floor price. This will be a vicious cycle.

15. Let's not talk of productivity as a resultant. Ie as in how many tons per acre or hectare

16. Instead let's talk about the beginning - what are the immediate factors that cause how much we produce per size of a farm.

17. We will then talk about the inputs going into padi production. Things like the quality of seeds, the herbicides, the pesticides, farm equipments like portable pumps, hoses, planting equipments, tilling machinery,right up to the end story like harvesting machines, dehusking machines and maybe as in some countries, portable milling machines. Most of these machines don't run on mat sabu's saliva. They run on diesel. We have to talk about diesel then.

18. The labour part is a given. Mending bunds, pumping water, planting seeds, applying herbicides and pesticides etc. Malay farmers work as hard as the sekinchan farmers. Except perhaps the sekinchan farmers have better supporting facilities.

19. So don't go around saying Malay farmers are lazy. At noon under the blazing sun they might be pumping water, even manually scooping the water with buckets because the pumps are not working or leaking . Don't tell them to pull out the rumput and lalang perhaps because the herbicides the farmers buy are not effective.

20. The MOA people seems so besotted and sayang sangat the monopolistic suppliers of inputs. They appear to be overly protective. We never hear nafas being asked to donate 30-40b to padi farmers despite making billions over the years

21. So asking Syed mokhtar to donate millions and asking maybe others too, is actually a fire fighting strategy

22. It's not a triumphant strategy and a celebration of Malay philanthropy.

23. Try liberalise the inputs supply market. Padi farmers can buy from the free market. For instance, why reserve a few areas for nafas. Why call tenders if at all? Just give contracts to nafas. Don't dupe the public of showing being above board and playing fair.

24. Wasn't nafas embroiled in the 1. 8b Baja supply? On top of that, there is a 1.2b variation order?

25. Have we asked, who approved the VO? Must be the top officers at MOA, mof and maybe technical endorsement from Mardi.

26. This confirms the existence of the ' deep state' within the MOA. Ie the collusion between top officers and business.

27. Possibly many get angpows,go for holidays while some get their frequent,'massat services' and make happy days .

28. The floor price has been increased from 1300 to 1500. Some 15%. Good.

29. But what happens if the input suppliers also increase their price by some percentage points? Wouldn't that eat into the newly triumphantly declared floor price? Saayya!

30. Which means, you don't sort out the beras Imbroglio without 'destroying' the monopolistic supplies chain .

31. Just who are the officers and economists who advised the agricultural minister and the PM? Did they get their degrees from capcay universities?

32. How much will the plants/mills charge the famers. They have their own cost elements to look after. Diesel, equipments, spare parts, lubricants, consumables etc. Now that the floor price has increased, they may want to increase their processing charges too.

33. The combination of higher prices by input suppliers and plants will eat into the increased floor price. Raising the floor price to 1500 comes to naught. Next year the farmers will ask for another raise. Tablay into macam, la tamby dei!

34. Let us say, the mills charge 300 per ton. The price per ton ex plant, own collection is 1800. Delivered 1900 per ton.

35. The government sets a controlled price of 3000 ex retail points. This enables retailers sell rice at 30 per 10kg.

36. Between the plants and retail points, there's a spread of 1100 to 1200.per ton. Let's assume, retailers make 200 per ton.

37. Who makes between 900 to 1000 per ton? Why, the middlemen conglomerates of course!

38. Where's the incentive for farmers to produce more beras putih? The additional income they earned will go to input suppliers and plants. Farmers will be subjected to a variant of the backward bending supply curve of labour .

39..so, agriculture minister tuan, you won't solve the beras issue by piecemeal methods and adopt a fire fighting strategy. Study the rice industry as a whole.

40. And just because bernas is owned by the great Malay Syed m, you described as a superbly managed outfit owned by a great philanthropy ..don't touch! My middle finger is up. It's a bloody monopoly la!

41. Next I hope to write something about felda . Writing about an entity for which I am familiar with.

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What a tangled web we weave..if we first practise to deceive. Part 1. Tales by an unknown blogger no 52.

1. One of the memorable quotes by Franz fanon which I remember is o body, make me always a man who questions. Something like that .

2. Only I forgot whether it was said in ' the wretched of the Earth' or ' black faces, white mask' . It does not matter .

3. Asking questions, thinking critically and independently is our first line of defense preventing us from being sucked into the vortex of collective stupidity.

4. Suspending critical and independent thinking makes otherwise intelligent people being herded into blinding uniformity.

5. It leads them to dumbing obedience, fearful obeisance and servile concurrence.

6. It makes people believe in false narratives, propaganda, conspiracy theories and outright lies.

7. Thinking critically and independently is not only a sufficient but necessary precondition to defend us from being sucked into the whirlpool of collective stupidity; shielding us from believing in lies, conspiracy theories, fake news and false narratives.

8. So, my body, make me always a man who asks questions.

9. The social media is nowadays inundated with bigotry and false narratives. I propose to debunk some of these .

10. I predicted the closure of the kilang padi in Perlis will become a combustible issue.

11. It has become one. There are already allegations that the Malay farmers toil the under the sun, fat Chinese cartels are making money.

12. Do we stop and asked we questions? Are these runaway statements true or false?

13. Are the middlemen conglomerates all Chinese? Or are most of them consist of Malays? Why don't we ask the gomen to publish a list of these middlemen conglomerates?

14. Looks like I have to write another full article on the beras imbroglio. 15.we ask what are the immediate actions needed to

(a) to address immediately the rising price of the cost elements in the cost of production and

(b) elevating the welfare of padi farmers. Not talked about, seemingly appearing intelligent, the mumbo jumbo thing about long term productivity. Productivity is a long term resultant, babe. It does not occur overnight!

16. We will leave the beras issue just now and ask critically about the incessant calls asking the PM to step down now?

17.what is the basis for asking Anwar to resign before GE? On account of his alleged failure to defend Islam as pas sees Islam?

18. Or the pm musr resign because he has failed to ask Hannah Yeoh to leave the government? Or because the PM has allowed the DAP to interfere in the affairs of Islam? What to do with a great number of Malay Muslims who themselves are unhappy as to how Islam is being managed by half past six Jakim and it's equally inept Ustaz minister?

19. If we unravel the theatrics behind this point, it's nothing than vindictiveness and hate speech.

20. Not to mention that much political capital can be made using religion to condemn the PM. Malays , upon hearing of alleged threats to Islam,are easily herded into blind rage.

21. And let me remind readers, that speaking on pas platform, do not make these people holier than thou chaps . aren't lying, deceiving people, using religion for it's benefit, defaming people -all are 2nd nature to these ecclesiastical warlords? The people condemning the PM on religious issues could be that group too .

22. The PM must resign because he is alleged to have allowed the DAP controlled the government?

23. Be real la sikit..use our brains. Wouldn't that means we are assuming that the malays in cabinet and in government are duds and are muted? That they can't dispute if the DAP comes out with disagreeable suggestions?

23. That mean

24. These false story tellers want us to reach a ridiculous stage believing that if we appoint non Malay ministers especially from the DAP, they must have sinister designs on the Malays.

25. Wouldn't the false story tellers actually revealing their xenophobic and racial supremacy instincts?

26. If we suspend our critical thinking, we would be sucked into collective stupidity and start believing the false narratives hawkered by these storey tellers

27. So what is the basis asking the pm to quit? Because a few barking mongrels don't like his person?

28. Is the PM suffering from incapacitating ailments? Has he voluntarily resign as Dr Mahathir did? We're there any successful vote of no confidence? No, were there? We must hold on the idea, that the only legal means to change a government, is through a GE not some wet dreams of a coup.

29. Ever wonder why UMNO has never been part of any vote of no confidence? Because UMNO has no balls. It knows that if it loses in any vote of no confidence, UMNO will be out of the government. It can't afford that. Absolutely!

30. Out of government means out of power. Out of power, UMNO fades into oblivion. Being in power is it's raison de tetre , it's life blood. UMNO is lost without power, it does not know to be in opposition.

31. So it's cling to power by any means necessary. Even if it has to prostitute itself.

32. It's in UMNOs interest, if more people suspend their critical thinking. It can only rule over dumb masses.

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