Malaysians ought not to blame Longhouse folk for the culture of money politics. The federal government has propped up a kleptocratic local dictatorship for decades in return for Sarawak’s oil. It has not lifted a finger against corruption in the state, gross gerrymandering and the violation of election rules by the local thugocracy who think rules simply don’t apply to them…..
If Sarawakians could look beyond the GPS bullying and the bribes to vote for PKR and the opposition’s ‘Welfare & Healthcare’ manifestoes the remaining resources of their beleaguered state could be channelled into making them comfortable like the people of Brunei, instead of being subjugated by greedy outsiders in their own lands for a few ringgit and some cigarettes ……
Once again kleptocrat outsiders appear to have been caught plundering the resources of Sarawak’s native communities …….
The hasty decision by GPS to ditch the Emergency and hold the election just days before a swathe of new young educated voters will be mandated onto the electoral register will kill people in Sarawak. It is a price GPS are plainly prepared to pay for their own political advantage. What more do we need to know about them?…..
Yet another perverse decision by the Agong has been made to ditch the State of Emergency he called earlier, to facilitate a snap election in Sarawak to avoid young voters. This despite rising deaths and before booster jabs can be rolled out. So what do Sarawakian lives matter to Governor Taib and this regime who want to keep hold of power and stolen riches? They just gave everyone their answer……
If anyone still had doubts as to whether the GPS state government cares less about saving people from Covid than retaining office then the manoeuvring of the past few days will have removed them. Thankfully, the blatant shamelessness of the self-serving heartlessness of this State Government has finally provoked some royal figures to successfully demand an end to attempts to foist a snap election on the battered people of Sarawak …..
The timber-raiding Yaw family of Samling may have met with frustration over their plans to trash protected forest in Selangor this month, however who is helping the Penan so far to keep their bulldozers out of their Baram Peace Park, designated as a protected area only last year by the Malaysian government and ITTO?…..
The sensational reversal of Selangor’s outrageous decision to de-gazette remaining protected forest should give hope to Malaysians that popular opinion can hold sway at a time when power and wealth have been abused to over-turn the last federal election …..
Having first signed off the Kuala Langat Forest Reserve to a shell company owned by the Sultan himself the Selangor MB and his government have now allowed the project to be acquired by a notorious Sarawak timber company with a global record of malpractice and abuse. Sarawak’s natives can be the first to warn the people of Selangor what they have coming to them from Samling …..
An appalling log-jam has destroyed swathes of the Rajang River basin, caused by timber cleared from the area due to be inundated by the Baleh Dam. However, according to themselves, neither the contractors SEB nor the state bodies and GPS politicians who have issued timber licenses hold the slightest responsibility for the so far undisclosed logging operations that caused the disaster. Instead, they are putting the blame on shifting cultivation by native communities……
Those responsible for this global tragedy are a handful of weak, corrupted politicians working for a timber mafia who are stripping the planet bare. The latest Baleh log-jam is testimony to the scale and shoddiness of their destructive activity – and the danger that puts Sarawak people in ……
With the support of the State Government companies like Samling have destroyed the lands of indigenous communities and left them utterly impoverished. Now the company is threatening legal action to prevent them protesting over its latest attempts to snatch remaining timber in the full knowledge such communities cannot afford to defend themselves in court …….
“”After the signing , they are very very happy and they said OK we are taking you across to Malaysia”
– Where?
“To KL and then Sibu”
– Who did you meet?
“The owner of the company Mr Dato Kie Wong Yik”
– He was happy?
“Very very happy….”
It would not do for the pot to be calling the kettle black in the matters of nepotism and patronage in an exposed position such as this…….
At RM99 a half litre bottle (more than thirty times the price of pure orange juice) Azzahra’s ‘PIO’ juice drink may be out of reach for most, but it received a hefty BEEP grant before starting to make some stunning claims…..
What Lies Behind The Secretive Shoot-out at the Sarawak’s first family’s firm?….
LKWKKH was set up as compensation for forest communities 40 years ago – so where’s the money? According to auditors millions were invested through Taib family companies and less than 1% went to native projects……..
Warning ‘VIOLENT CONTENT’ but you should view it ……
Researchers say that poorly planned and executed tree planting schemes (see the spindly trees opposite) are actually doing more harm than good, But allowing areas of forest to naturally regenerate is cheaper and can create up to 40 times more potential for carbon storage than plantations….
Billionaire trust fund boy, Abu Bekir Taib, is back in action seeking to cash in his freebie tracks of land handed to him by his Dad before anyone can stop him………
Malaysia needs to lose its reputation as one of the world’s most corrupted countries before it finally descends into the status of a failed state. It must begin by returning to the open tendering principle established before the present coup administration snatched office……..
David Marsden had better things to do than interface with forest communities which Samling have claimed welcomed them to cut down their Baram homelands……
In a state where around half the population still lacks basic utilities, even through the state government licensed the plunder of rich timber and lands in the name of modernisation, the lavish lifestyle of the Minister responsible has been raising eyebrows……
The extraordinary parade of two ‘anonymous’ businessmen Datuks, arrested by the MACC in Sarawak, speaks volumes about the warfare that has broken out within the PN coup coalition as it struggles with its majority of zero …..
It is not the MPs who have declared their assets who are the richest in Sarawak and indeed Malaysia. It is those who continue to refuse to do so in defiance of the law. All of them belong to the new PN Coup Coalition….
