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[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@ctindale “I have spoken to Asian leaders who say the same thing privately”

We have “Western leaders”, like Trump, Biden, Kier, Ursula & others, who spout utter lies.

Why should anyone believe your words?

[@ @anthraxxxx]

Final message from a woman who was suffering from cancer

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@tohwz @Xeer @SingaporeAir Then more so it is not SIA’s pasal (matter).

With the ongoing crackdown on illegal immigrants (especially Latinos) I guess the ground service shops in NYC’s JFK & Newark airports are shorthanded.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@Amarillion82 @AndyBxxx @SenRickScott See Career section: https://t.co/T4qMaTE2WM

Note he used the 5th Amendment many times.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@archeohistories https://t.co/FasxQuU22h

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@CarlZha Anhui Museum’s Pan Yuliang paintings collection: https://t.co/oEzwWHo5Xt

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@CarlZha Anhui Museum’s Pan Yuliang paintings collection: https://t.co/oEzwWHo5Xt

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@Xeer @SingaporeAir Ya, fair.

But if you want real results, push the button where it matters - SATS.

Obviously SATS handling of the ground cleaning service is wanting.

Let’s all who read your post raise this awareness with SATS. Their mgmt needs some prodding.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@zhil_arf Great commentary.

Now one can truly admire how the CPC is not only able to hold China together, but to also make it progress evenly at such a breakneck pace.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@DRTnky @SingaporeAir https://t.co/QYNw40gqH7

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@Xeer @SingaporeAir I think there’s a need to apportion blame correctly.

If you experience poor inflight service from the crews then SIA shld answer for it.

But dirty seats and food wrappers are cleaning crew issues.

If the flight is from Changi then SATS is the culprit.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@zaidibrahim Dato,

All these years, you are like a lalang, swaying where the wind blows.

For readers of his post, see this commentary from Siti Kasim. Malaysia needs to have more honest folks like her:

[Siti Kasim @sitikasim]

Mahathir Mohamad has been using this narrative for decades: that Malays are perpetually under threat, and only Malay political unity can “save” the country. But the reality in 2026 is far more complicated — and far less dramatic — than the apocalyptic picture he paints.

Malaysia is not “slipping from Malay hands.” Malays still dominate every major pillar of state power: the civil service, police, military, monarchy, Islamic institutions, and the vast majority of political leadership. The Prime Minister himself is Malay. To suggest Malays are on the verge of extinction politically is simply not grounded in reality.

What has actually failed is not “Malay unity” — but the old politics of fear.

For years, leaders across the political spectrum sold the idea that Malays must unite against non-Malays, liberals, secularists, DAP, the West, or whoever the enemy of the week was. But younger Malaysians increasingly care about governance, corruption, wages, education, healthcare, and cost of living — not endless racial paranoia.

Ironically, Mahathir himself helped create the political culture he now laments. During his long years in power, UMNO-era patronage politics enriched elites while many ordinary Malays remained economically insecure. Huge scandals, cronyism, weakened institutions, and race-based dependency politics did not strengthen the Malays in the long run — they weakened public trust.

His statement also reveals a troubling mindset: that the country belongs to one race. Malaysia does not “belong” exclusively to Malays, Chinese, Indians, Orang Asli, Sabahans, or Sarawakians. It belongs to all citizens. The Constitution already protects Malay special position, Islam, the monarchy, and Bahasa Melayu. Those safeguards are not disappearing tomorrow because Malays are politically divided.

The bigger danger to Malaysia is not the lack of Malay unity. It is the constant weaponisation of ethnic fear to protect political relevance.

A mature nation cannot keep functioning on existential panic every election cycle. If Malay politics keeps revolving around “we are under siege,” instead of fixing corruption, education, productivity, brain drain, and institutional decay, then the community risks becoming trapped in permanent insecurity despite holding immense political power.

Mahathir’s statement sounds less like a national warning and more like the frustration of an old political era losing its grip on public imagination.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@GodfreeTrh @SCMPNews SCMP has Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde personality.

Some articles pro China.

Some articles anti China.

Maybe the Central government should have a chat with its Editors?

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@jalilword And not just the PUB.

LTA, the town councils, etc, etc…

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@jalilword Brother, excellent example! 👏

What you have described show the efficacy of the PUB feedback system.

Beyond what you interacted with there is whole breath & depth of things that need to work. Starting with the workforce in PUB that is motivated to keep it humming smoothly.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@jalilword @wlleelee Malaysians of all creeds deserve better, all the way from 1957 onward.

[James Chin @jameschin110]

Mahathir did not fail to unite the Malays despite this social media post. In fact, he deliberately engineered the racial fractures that now define it. As Malaysia’s longest-serving PM (twice in fact), Mahathir did not merely inherit a multi-ethnic society with existing tensions; he systematically weaponised race and religion to consolidate Malay political dominance and personal power.
Through the aggressive expansion of race-based benefits and quota, the promotion of “Ketuanan Melayu” as state ideology, and relentless propaganda that portrayed non-Malays (especially Chinese and Indians) as economic threats and cultural outsiders, Mahathir embedded racial thinking deep into the Malay psyche. He didn’t build national unity but he successfully he built a siege mentality. Every policy, every speech, every UMNO general assembly was calibrated to remind Malays that they were under constant threat and that only uncompromising Malay supremacy could protect them.
The bitter irony today is that Mahathir’s “success” has become the source of Malay political fragmentation. He planted racial supremacy so effectively that ordinary Malays now consume it as oxygen. This has produced two irreconcilable camps: the hard-core supremacists who demand full Islamisation and the total marginalisation of non-Malays. The second camp still insists on Malay political leadership but prefers a softer, less overtly hostile version. Both camps are direct offspring of Mahathir’s decades-long project.
The old unifying “Malay cause” he cultivated has splintered precisely because racial entitlement became the only acceptable political language. Malays are no longer arguing over policy — they are competing over who is the more authentic defender of race and religion.

That is Mahathir’s true legacy.

When the ageing Mahathir now laments the lack of Malay unity or sheds tears over the divisions in his community, it is pure crocodile tears. This is the same man who spent 24 years in office deliberately destroying the foundations of any genuine multiracial Malaysian identity. He replaced it with a zero-sum racial competition.
Healing these divisions may now be impossible precisely because Mahathir was so successful. He didn’t just divide Malays from non-Malays. He made racial grievance the central organising principle of Malay politics. Future generations will inherit a country where race is not a historical fact to be managed, but a perpetual political weapon, all by design.
Mahathir did not fail. He won exactly the Malaysia he set out to create.

#Malaysia #Truth #RealPolitics #Mahathir

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@JoshWalkos Great revelatory speech by Sørensen on the stench of hidden collusion between pharmas and regulators.

Capitalism at work.

[Chiku+Durians 🍉 @DuriansForever]

@HohoChan657 @commiepommie @WarrenVsCCP Yeaaaaaahhhh, I bet Israel is pissed.

This won’t happen again.

Next time it will be 🇮🇱

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Quite simply, there is evidence to support every word that this man is saying about Western politics and the political strategies of Western governments...