Zombie Economics. Devil's advocate no. 8.

1. I have to say this. It's uncomplimentary of the PM. But who cares. I am not PKR so mdm SUA can't issue any show cause letter. I am a Malaysian.

2. Who doesn't want to see Malaysia regress to a kleptocratric state again 

3. Previously under 1mdb,now maybe under bestinet or nexG? 

4. Some people heap accolades on anvar ebraheem. He's the best FM and the bestest economic manager of our country. Blah blah . 

5. I beg to differ, politely sir 

6. Any economist, not only I, will dispute his or his people's claims about good financial governance. 

7. I have my version of the K-percent rule as regards budget deficit and tax refund arrears . 

8. These 2 versions shatter the myth and the hollow claims on good financial governance. 

9. I found the answer given by 'Tom Selleck' Amir Hamzah, the 2nd FM not convincing at all, when Rafizi raised the matter . 

10. Our deficit to my mind should be set around 4% of our GDP. 

11. That's fine and dandy. Except our GDP is not our true GDP and therefore our deficit is not our true deficit. 

12. But because we have included tax refund arrears as revenue in our national accounts aka budget, we have a spurious budget . 

13. Assume the true income is 100b. But because we have included tax refund arrears as realized income, our spurious budget becomes say, 150b. 

14. 4% of 100b is 4b while 4% of 150b is 6b . Hey presto, we have a deficit of 6b . 

15. We borrow to meet the deficit. But we tell people, don't worry-the incremental compared to that incurred by previous administrations is less. 

16. About the incrementals, these are of interest to a academicians in colleges and those busybodies who like to split hairs. 

17 . The majority of people don't give a rats ass of attention to the incremental . All the know the public debt is 1.3 trillion. What are doing to decrease it substantively ? 

18. The point is you can't. Not as long as you include refund arrears in our GDP. 20,30b. 

19. A spurious GDP will lead to a spurious deficit. 

20. This is where a spurious deficit gets interesting. It can be the hotbed for nefarious and mendacious activities by nefarious bureaucratic brahmins. 

21. The spurious deficit can hide these rapacious activities. 

22. It can be used to find bailouts, fund wasteful projects, provide cheap loans to crony companies. And the PM getting no wiser about it. 

23. We can't discount the possibility of these bureaucratic brahmins skimming from the top. 

24. It proves what Milton Friedman says, we are excellent at spending OPM. 

25. Therefore my concern of the deficit isn't confined to it just being an exotic subject shattering the myth of claims of good financial governance. 

26. But more concerned as to the deficit being used to conceal corruption activities by bureaucratic brahmins and politicians. 

27. Aspire to wholly exclude tax refund arrears in the GDP or keep it the barest minimum. Aspire also to achieve a true deficit 

28. I am not holding this back- but I suspect our GDP and our deficit are heavily doctored by bureaucratic brahmins and creative bean counters. 

29. These dishonest people are running circles around our PM who's more interested in reading novels by Vaclav Havel and Gabriel Garcia 

30. The other component of good financial governance is managing the tax refund arrears. 

31. Keep it to the minimum say 2 or 3b instead of 10b and above. An impregnated tax refund areas would only shatter the claims of good financial governance, Sir!

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Correcting a comedy of stupidities. Devil's advocate series no 7.

1. When in January 2026, the AG decided on a DNAA on wak47, it caused a furor among law abiding citizens of Malaysia.

2. The court has already decided that this is case in which a defense is required. In legal jargon, there is a prima facie case. 

3. This is case that is valid against the whole world. Ownership of the case is the state's. 

4. It's no longer ownership between private parties such as the case involving the health minister an a convicted certain kleptocrat in chief. 

5. In the DNAA case, the prosecution is to be carried out by the state 

6. It is not opened to the AGC to discontinue with the case without the concurrence of the court. 

7. The court may not agree or affirmed the 'proposal 'from the AG. 

8. The court has the final authority to decide to continue with a case in a prima facie status has been found . 

9. By deciding to discontinue the case without the concurrence of the court, the AG and the AGC have misapprioprated that authority from the court . 

10. In common language,that is insolence and contempt of court 

11. Contempt in the form of not only in words but also in conduct. 

12. For snatching and robbing and usurping the authority of the court alone, the AG must be punished appropriately. 

13. The AG said he wished to discontinue the case as more evidence and information is required. But a prima facie case has already been found 

14. The judge then should have stopped the AGs incompetence then 

15. Wasn't that an open admission of incompetence and lack of meticulousness on the part of the AG? 

16. That confirms my belief that some lawyers and judges are like eggs which come in various grades . 

17. Grades A to C where C is the lousiest. 

18. This is a comedy of stupidities. The first round of stupidity was committed by the AGC. It was further fortified by the carelessness of the judge then. By countenancing the 1st round of imbecility. 

19. Therefore, in my opinion the bar council's objection to the application of DNAA by the AG is correct. 

20. It is asking the court to reinstate the 47 charges and to declare the application for DNAA as null and void. 

21. It's also asking the court to slap an act of mandamus on the part of the AG 

22. An act of mandamus, if I remember correctly is asking the AG to act according to specific articles of various statutes. What these are,the clever lawyers will know la . 

23. If an act of mandamus is applied for, doesn't that mean the AG has violated some provisions in appropriate statues? 

24. Is that misfeasance or non feasance? The tuan Pegu can answer that . 

25. Since when can the AGC, an inferior body in relation to the court unilaterally decide to grant a DNAA? 

26. It also seems to suggest that what manner of legal action is chosen varies with the stature of the person of interest? 

27. Is the DNAA chosen because the person is the DPM? 

28. Isn't it true, that the court recognizes only a litigant and no DPM, tan Sri, Dato Seri etc? 

29. In applying to the court for various remedies, the Bar Council must remain stout and steely resolved. 

30. It must not capitulate to the objections of various Malay supremacists. 

31. Some say the actions of the bar council is an attempt to frustrate the DPM in various ways 

32. To criminalize him, to discredit him , envious of him etc. Worse, the bar council's action is anti Malay. 

33. I am especially annoyed when some idiots say, because the judges and bar council's members are non malays, they will never give justice to Malays. 

34. Idiots will say that. They don't understand the meaning of fair play and professionalism. 

35. I believe, in a body like the bar council, professionalism and fair play will prevail.

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Reformasi is not sloganeering or doing batik painting or songket weaving . It's the surgical overthrow of defunct political cultures.

1. At the end of PKR convention. In Johor, the PM shouted the customary slogans.

2. Reformasi, lawan tetap lawan, membujur lalu melintang patah. 

3. As pak pandir modern would usually say, wow! 

4. In an earlier article , I said conversation. Because I think that it was just that- a talk cock session. 

5. The convention was more dominated by Rajinikanth Ramanan outpouring of diatribes against a person not there. 

6. The sloganeering was chorused by PKR leaders, where it befits them. 

7. We could see people like Mr Ramanan, makcik fadlina and herr fahmi there at the front row. 

8. It dawned upon many of us, that reformasi is not sloganeering, but the doing of it. 

9. Especially now, as reformasi is dwarfed by korapsi, kolusi and kebasi. 

10. And safety netting of Azam Baki. 

11. Are we seeing the ramananisation of PKR? 

12. The DAP and AMANAH have an interest in what's happening to PKR 

13. They supported Anwar but not to see PKR political culture,watered down by an ex mic saboteur. 

14. Anwar is responsible not only to PKR but also to his loyal stakeholders, DAP and AMANAH 

15. It's clear that the doing part of reformasi is more important. 

16. It's evidently clear that reformasi is not sloganeering or chorusing about it. 

17. It's not like doing batik painting, songket weaving, drinking teh tarik or eating pasembur, singing Kuch Kuch HOTA hai. It must never be so temperate, so bourgeois politely so leisurely and celebratory. 

18. It must be the the surgical removal of all previous political cultures. 

19. And that requires a firm leadership, the very requirement lectured by notorious Azam Baki. 

20. Which reminded me of what Lee Kuan Yew said after sorting out the SIA pilots issue. 

21. He said, that whoever rules Singapore must have that iron in him. 

22. Translated in our case, means whoever rules Malaysia must have that iron in him. 

23. Therefore those in attendance of the Johor talk cock session, if you approach reformasi with no reformasi state of mind, might as well stay home. 

24. Do your husband and wifely duties.

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Counter Reformasi and the perpetuation of mediocrity.

1. Education should be a priority to which reformasi ought to be applied.

2. Accordingly, the person in charge of education must be bold, determined, highly resolved and astute

3. One hundred years ago, the great Malay thinker, Zaaba stated that the road for salvation, economic progress for Malays especially must be education

4. He stated that Malay poverty in terms of wealth and money honey, is known to all .

5. But more dangerous and perilous of the type of poverty holding back malays especially, is the poverty in the treasury of internal values, necessary for success.

6. For the Malay Muslim, doesn't the Quran say that God will not change the lot of one race, if they do not first change what's within themselves?

7. Educational parity is achieved by cultivating within themselves a treasury of succession values

8. They are not achieved by NEP-eing the educational structure.

9. This is the reformasi I would look at rather than asking pupils to wear jalur gemilang badges costing 8 million ringgit .

10. If I were a pupil, I would wear a badge with a young rose Chan on the badge. That badge would be well looked after .

11. If we continue with the NEP engineering of our education, we would just be continuing the system laid down by UMNO and implemented by cavemen Malay supremacists.

12. In that vein, I am appalled when madam secretary of PKR saying , we are not ready for meritocracy.

13. We are ready for it, when hell freezes over isn't it? If not now, when? When you were in power, you were just warming your bum right ?

14. Therefore when you are screaming reformasi, think of how to apply it to our education system

15. When you scream reformasi, think of overthrowing the status quo. You lawan antiquated thinking. You membujur lalu melintang patah the counter reformasist.

16. It's change or more of the same!

17. The education minister has excellent base material to work with.

18. The Malays are descendants of Abraham, their DNA is older than that of the Chinese and indians, they taught the Romans shipbuilding, inspired Egyptians about pyramids, taught the Chinese how to fly, inspired the Chinese how to make yee sang ...the list has yet to be completed.

19. It's impossible for a race with these superman qualities not to cultivate the necessary internal values to succeed. It's impossible for them to require NEP educational engineering.

20. Or the things mentioned in 18, are elements of a vanity project hawked around by a few loco academicians in the interest of the herrenrasse/master race?

21. An unreformed educational structure has made our education system a conduit and easy passage for the rise of mediocre talents.

22. In general, an unreformed educational system has reduced the quality of the national talent pool .

23. Shouting reformasi and other slogans will not rectify the wrongs of our education system .

24. Anthony loke, secgen of DAP better brace himself to hearing harrowing tales of deserving non Malay malaysians being crowded out by less deserving Malay malaysians.

25. Meanwhile, rose Chan will continue with her striptease routines in the celestial world.

26. Hey, it's not that I have an 'obsession' with rose Chan. But in the 70s, rose Chan was more popular than tun Razak around UM campus.

27. In the FEA for example, where the students there were less inhibitive, many will thank Rose for helping them to reach puberty early.

28. In the Arts Faculty, the sexual exuberance of the students there, was more restrained.

29. It was because of the presence of PBMUM and PMIUM led by one anvar ebraheem.

30. That name sounds uncannily close to the name of our PM. Wonder who the mamak padukang is?

31. Maybe Hishammuddin Rais of UMSU can tell us.

32. Don't expect any earth shattering reforms from our education minister. It's no change but more of the same

33. To people accustomed to institutional discrimination, equality is discrimination.

34. To people accustomed to living under a sub par PPC( production possibilty curve) that is the normal.

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The kerfuffle at the Johor PKR conversation . Devil's advocate series no 4

1. I am sorry I don't understand who the government is fighting against.

2. I don't give a shit about who Ramanan poured venom to,as it is an internal party matter 

3. But at the end of PKR gatherings there will be the customary shouts of reformasi reformasi, lawan tetap lawan 

4. First of all many of thé the PKR bozos have zero inkling of what reformasi is. 

5. It must entail the overthrow of the status quo. Must entail the doing away with business as usual culture. Must entail the overthrow of defunct practices of the previous regimes . 

6. Otherwise it will be like what James carville warned - no change but more of the same.

7. Reformasi is not about standing up, hands raising, fists clenching and shouting the customary slogans, feeling satiated. 

8. You think this is a sex session ka? 

9. Reformasi is not like having climaxes hearing the supreme leader speaks, having teh tarik or eating pasembuk from padang kota . 

10. It can never be so carnival like , so celebratory. 

11. It must be it's just business to overthrow the old status quo 

12. If you don't have the reformasi state of mind, you'd better stay home doing your husbandly and wifely duties 

13. We are going to hear of the same and harrowing tales post SPM and stpm results 

14. Many deserving non Malay students will not be able to get places in medic, accounting, engineering etc 

15. Their places have been taken up by less deserving Malays alongside the deserving Malays. 

16. This education engineering is necessary it is claimed by the Malay supremacists, to correct the educational imbalance . 

17. We will face the usual stories of non malays, many of them poor, but because they are caught up by the NEP dragnet of NEP educational engineering will never smell places in matriculation or get into courses, everyone knows they deserve. 

18. Then, political parties will create a ruckus but UPU will say, it follows objective guidelines. 

19. Parents of these rejected students will scrounge everywhere, borrow from ah longs to finance their children's education at private colleges 

20. The education minister will show up at students registration day, feeling moved, will buy luggage for poor students from kampungs. 

21. The sycophantic social media people will proclaim we have such a caring education minister. 

22. But all she can show us, are sock eye salmon eyes. 

23. Rather than clenching fists and chorusing reformasi reformasi, carry out real reformasi in education. 

24. At the Johor PKR conversation, I am not interested in the storm created by 'Rajinikanth' Ramanan and his apple polishing of the supreme leader, but more interested at the ending of the speech of the president 

25. Shouts of reformasi and lawan tetap lawan and membujur lalu, melintang patah, carry what meaning to the chorus team, the PKR hoi poloi especially it's leaders in front?

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Balancing things up. Rafizi v the PKR media troopers. Devil's advocate no 3.

1. At the moment, I am indifferent as to the kerfuffle between Rafizi ramli and many PKR second echelon leaders. I suspend my judgement for the time being.

2. Let's say at the moment, I am eclectic;, i.e. listened to all views. 

3. But when I see 10 people walloping 1 fellow, I cannot tahan. 

4. Call it lopsided mental bullying .I have to come to the rescue to restore balance. Left like that je, it's unfair . 

5. Further, call it the natural propensity to help out the underdog. 

6. Mr Rafizi or loh Pixi is a formidable debater. Except he can't be defending against 10.people at once. 

7. There appears to be an orchestrated blitzkrieg on Rafizi. 

8. Suddenly nondescript PKR cabang heads seem to be directed in calling Rafizi to leave PKR. 

9. And everybody seems to sing in unison, that Rafizi is a failed leader. 

10. Even the defunct faekah, who hardly anyone remembers has been given a political mouth to mouth resuscitation, comes out from the political backwaters to piously proclaim that what Rafizi is going through is kifarah. 

11. Suddenly the peasants who are hardly religious now wear the kopiah and chime in kifarah, Farah,rah.,... 

12. But pray tell, what are the elements of the kifarah? 

13. Rafizi has been making continuous expose' appreciated by right thinking Malaysians. He quits his minister ship. The investigations on the ARM deal is a bloody waste of taxpayers money and will just be a wild goose chase. 

14. So what is the kifarah are we talking about? 

15. As to the PKR boys getting their 5 minutes fame wouldn't it be better if they ask PKR to sack Rafizi who is losing hair battling the PKR machine? 

16. Many of you ganging up on 1 fellow, suggests there are hidden hands directing the blitzkrieg. 

17. This is an 'unvaliant' conduct on your part. Indeed it's villainous. 

18. But there's nothing new about the conduct of these NEP beneficiaries. 

19. Accustomed to being given handicaps, they expect to be given the same when battling Rafizi the riot Ramli. 

20. Rafizi has only the internet to come across while they have all the media industry . 

21. Just like the beneficiaries of the NEP, they can't battle Rafizi on a level playing field but must have their handicaps 

22. It is out of a sense of fair play that I have to balance things up.

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Not quite a Joseph Goebbels. Devil's advocate series no 2.

1. I have heard this argument so many times. When you were in power, why didn't you stop it?

2. This is an inane argument, infantile and small boyish.

3. In order to skip responsibility, present party will heap blame on previous administrations for the non feasance or deliberate misfeasance

4. So I heard the current administration spokesman , Herr fahmi F stated that the activities of Victor Chin were know by previous administrations but they didn't stop them.

5. He then asked pompously, why didn't they?

6. Well, because the sky is so high. The enforcement people were busy patronizing places offering TCM and manhood massat. That's why.

7. Herr oberleutenant fahmi, we are interested to know what you who are in power now is doing and going to do.

8. Things not done by previous administrations, are water under the bridge . We too don't rest on past laurels.

9. If you do the childish thing of blame placing, the same act will be haunting you later

10. One day, people will ask, when you were in power why not do X or Y?

11. And talking about not doing things, you haven't done many important things, Herr fahmi. Under the ministry of which you are in charge.

12. FB contents on the internet are inundated with gay lifestyles . Men on men which is revolting.

13. Men cavorting with men, caressing and rubbing bodies, kissing each other etc

14. Why is the communication ministry not censoring these?

15. Is the ministry trying to make gay lifestyles the new normal?

16. Instead the Ministry under your watch is quick to censor legitimate dissent. Which you can debunk.

17. Previous administrations did not allow the spread of such filth.

18. This bourgeois liberalism is superseded only by your steadfastness in making sure every strand of hair on your head is in place and by your fondness in riding grandfather bicycle in the office.

19. You havent done enough to ease racial tensions. They are on the rise. Malay Muslim extremists take the law into own hands . Destroy and demish kovils. Later churches, temples toa pekongs

20. Chinese extremists say defiantly,let's rear pigs in Malay areas. Indian gangsters roam around with chains a d other weapons terrorizing everybody

21. You will realize that fostering social cohesion is not a song and dance routine on TV.

22. Many more substantive programs need to be done ,not just dance and song routines.

23. We are no where near the muhibbah culture of the 70s.

24. You are not politically astute enough to exploit elements that can overthrow the status quo.

25. He would be considered as politically astute if he were to do documentaries on src and 1mdb as well on the scourge of corruption.

26. Not only would that destroy the political culture of UMNO but would also demolish the mythified narratives of a certain kleptocrat-in- chief.

27. In a karma like setting, people will ask, bila lu ada kuasa, apa lu bikin, boh? Title.

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