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| Tommy Thomas says PAS helped him keep AG job, after Dr M asked him to resign |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-31-2021, 01:01 PM - Forum: Politics
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Tommy Thomas says PAS helped him keep AG job, after Dr M asked him to resign the next day in 2018
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 — Tan Sri Tommy Thomas has reportedly said that PAS may have helped him stay as attorney general, instead of resigning the next day after his appointment in June 2018 to the country’s top legal post.
News portal Malaysiakini cited the full prologue of Thomas’ book My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, after the book was released and made available to the public yesterday.
Previously in reports of an excerpt of the prologue released by the memoir’s seller Gerakbudaya, Thomas had suggested that he could have been the attorney general for just a single day, due to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s concern about the “scale and magnitude of the Malay opposition” to his appointment.
Thomas had said he was “utterly astounded” that Dr Mahathir had wanted him to resign the next day, after the prime minister told him in June 2018 that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong had assented to his appointment as attorney general.
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| Fox Outfoxed? - Former AG's Explosive Memoir Blames Dr M For The Implosion Of Pakatan |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-31-2021, 12:15 PM - Forum: Politics
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The former Attorney General, who resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan administration in March, has kept his counsel till now about what he observed at the heart of government as the coalition collapsed.
At the climax of an about to be published memoir, spanning his career as a reforming barrister in Malaysia, he reveals a series of previously unknown facts that shed crucial light on the significance of those events.
The chapter, which Tommy Thomas says it pained him to write given his overall respect for the former prime minister, details why in his analysis Dr Mahathir holds the greatest responsibility for the implosion of what had been a stable government.
Quote:“I have found these paragraphs difficult to write. It pains me to be critical of the Prime Minister who had appointed me, and stood by me over twenty months despite massive attacks from the majority race. But posterity will judge harshly the three decisions that Tun Dr. Mahathir took on Monday, 24th February 2020.”
In the largely dispassionate tone that characterises his narrative that nonetheless touches on many of the most emotional and dramatic moments in Malaysian history, Thomas brings a legal perspective as to where in his view Mahathir misstepped.
As AG at the time he had a unique insight.
The first surprise (or “utter shock” as Thomas describes it) came when a friend texted him at 1.30pm on Monday 24th February, the day after the so-called Sheraton Move, to say that Mahathir had submitted a letter of resignation to the King.
He immediately visited the PM’s private office to discover it was true. Until that point, says Thomas, he had been ‘bullish’ about the antics of the relative handful of defectors.
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| Muhyiddin’s problem is lack of available talent, says ex-Umno man |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-31-2021, 10:17 AM - Forum: Politics
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Tawfik Ismail
PETALING JAYA: The call for “Malay unity” is the only motivation behind Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s administration, according to former Umno politician Tawfik Ismail.
He said the core problem faced by Muhyiddin is the lack of talent available to him in the coalition government that he leads.
“What is the manifesto that motivates this government? So far the public sees the motivation is “Malay Unity”,” he told FMT in an interview.
Tawfik said the state of politics after the “Sheraton Move” in February last year had splintered Malay support further and divided Umno, with progressive Malays becoming increasingly concerned over the running of the country.
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| Uncle Hashim tells how discrimination made him leave Malaysia |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-31-2021, 10:08 AM - Forum: Local News
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PETALING JAYA: Two instances of favouritism by Malaysian authorities convinced Hashim Abdul Rahman to migrate to Australia half a century ago. He never returned, save for occasional visits and instead rose to prominence in Australia, becoming known as Uncle Hashim.
Last week, he received one of Australia’s highest honours, the Order of Australia Medal, for his services to the Muslim community and setting up halal certification.
Hashim said his heart never left the country, even though he had to give up Malaysian citizenship as an Australian public servant, and also to better represent Malaysians in Australia.
Reflecting on why he never returned, he said that family obligations and the favouritism that had gone against him helped make the choice clear.
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| Dzulkefly sounds alarm, warns of disaster if more frontliners not employed soon |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-30-2021, 05:19 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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PETALING JAYA: Selangor Task Force Covid-19 (STFC) chairman Dzulkefly Ahmad has sounded the alarm, saying that any further delay by the authorities to hire more frontliners will see the number of Covid-19 cases “skyrocketing”.
He said having more frontliners means faster testing and training, and the sooner the authorities did that, the better it would be to contain the spread of the pandemic.
“Selangor will suffer the most if we take it slow,” the former health minister said in a statement.
“Any further delay means we’ll only be tracking the virus reactively and watch transmissions skyrocket.”
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| Pejuang must get PH’s blessing to use Amanah logo, says Mahfuz |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-30-2021, 03:56 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Amanah vice-president Mahfuz Omar says his party’s logo cannot be used by Pejuang in the 15th general election (GE15) unless they obtain Pakatan Harapan’s agreement.
This comes after Pejuang pro tem deputy president Marzuki Yahya said the party may consider contesting in GE15 using the Amanah logo if it continued to face problems in its application for registration.
Mahfuz maintained that Amanah was still a part of PH, which meant that any use of the party’s logo needed to be decided by the coalition.
“For example, in the last elections, we agreed to contest under the PKR banner. After we won the elections, we used PH’s logo to contest in by-elections. So our principle is clear — only one logo should be used (by all parties),” he told FMT.
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| Marjorie Taylor Greene: Democrat to move to get away from controversial Republican |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-30-2021, 12:32 PM - Forum: Politics
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A Democratic congresswoman says she is moving her office on Capitol Hill for safety reasons after being "berated" by a controversial Republican colleague.
Democrat Cori Bush said Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene targeted her in a Congressional office building.
Ms Bush accused Ms Greene, who has dismissed school shootings as "false flags", of coming up from behind her, "loud and unmasked".
Ms Greene has accused her Democratic colleague of lying.
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| Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-30-2021, 12:17 PM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry
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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has won Sweden's Olof Palme human rights prize for 2020.
Organisers said the movement was honoured for promoting "peaceful civil disobedience against police brutality and racial violence" across the globe.
They noted that about 20 million people had taken part in Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the US alone, along with millions more around the world.
An online prize-giving ceremony is due to take place in Stockholm on Saturday.
The $100,000 (£73,000) annual prize commemorates Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister and prominent human rights advocate who was assassinated in Stockholm in 1986.
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| Bread supply short again? Massimo maker announces ‘temporary disruption’ |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-30-2021, 11:04 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment
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Bread supply short again? Massimo maker announces ‘temporary disruption’ at Klang factory due to Covid-19 rules
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 ― Consumers of Massimo Bread here may have to look for alternatives in the next few days as its manufacturer, The Italian Baker Sdn Bhd (TIB), has announced a temporary disruption to production at its factory in Klang, Selangor due to high Covid-19 cases in the district.
TIB said it is taking precautions to prevent the coronavirus from spreading in Klang.
“Due to heightened cases of Covid-19 cases in Klang district, The Italian Baker Sdn Bhd (TIB) wishes to inform that there has been some temporary disruption to our operations in our effort to implement additional precautionary and preventive measures in accordance with the procedures of the Klang Municipal Council (MPK) to mitigate the risk of infection in our plant,” it said in a Facebook posting yesterday.
It acknowledged that the disruption to its bread supply chain will affect some of its business partners and inconvenience consumers, but said “this is necessary in our effort to prevent and mitigate the risk of Covid-19 infection”.
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| Reddit rebellion is ‘another epic parabolic bubble’ that will burst |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-29-2021, 08:24 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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Reddit rebellion is ‘another epic parabolic bubble’ that will burst, investor Peter Boockvar warns
Investor Peter Boockvar is calling the Reddit rebellion “another epic parabolic bubble.”
In a research note out this week, he warns the mania into trades from GameStop to American Airlines will ultimately go bust.
“Let’s break down the investment strategy: Find the most shorted stocks, buy calls, write about it, buy the stocks and jam it higher,” the Bleakley Advisory Group chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Thursday.
The result: Prices significantly exceed the underlying value of the companies.
“They always end the same way, and that is a pop in that bubble and a crash right back to where the stock started from,” said Boockvar. “We’ve seen this in the history of markets. [In the] 1920s, they had these stock pools where people got together and manipulated stocks.”
He partly blames the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies for the spike in speculative activity. Boockvar acknowledges the Fed never intended to help investors get drunk on dangerous trades, but he sees a link between retail investors’ mass migration into the market and the speculative craze created on Reddit and other chat rooms.
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