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Really, it comes as no surprise that the last king, who has now returned to his throne in Pahang state, from which Najib hails and holds the Pekan seat, would so stupidly agree to release Najib. I am not in the habit of mincing my words. Najib's old man, Abdul Razak (who presided over state-sponsored racism fostered by the astonishingly racist New Economic Policy, along with the vile racist Mahathir Mohamad, will be spinning like a top in his grave that his son has turned out to be one without a shred of decency, far less principles, and who brought untold ignominy to his entire family. With his enormously ugly and overbearing wife Rosmah (there, I said it!), they will forever be known as morally bankrupt -- personally and in terms of their totally discredited Islamic devoutness. It questions just what Islamic values are delivered to Malays like Najib and his corrupt cronies, most of whom will probably escape facing justice. the last king has set a dangerous and stupid precedent. Malaysia's most hideously criminally-minded couple robbed the people of Malaysia -- including all Malay-Moslems -- royally blind, and the king and the pardons board of morons -- as they can only be called -- personally and collectively bear the responsibility for unleashing more rottenness in the fabric of Malaysia's so-called society, otherwise so mindlessly, so unintelligently called 'rakyat'. But only in totally blinkered Malaysia where education across the board has the value of the depositories of Malaysian toilets.

What comes when Najib plays kingmaker will not be political stability but chaos. He will not be able to unite the deeply fractious nature of heinously corrupt and selfish Malay parties. Not one of them. Not even Anwar Ibrahim's PKR, which long ago lost the K -- Keadilan (justice) in PKR -- to the Malaysian jamban (toilet). The judicial system is weaked by the decision of the last king and the pardons board

and, under the tutelage of Najib and the hopelessly incompetent and untruthful Anwar, will return to its former glory of being a tool of Malay state power and the return to Malay despotism and autocratic rule. The rule of law that so many were pedaling so unthinkingly since 2018 will rear the ugly old head of rule by law. It's a matter of time. This is one way Najib and Anwar will desperately seek to keep a lid on the very likelihood of Malay internecine warfare not for the soul of the "nation" -- it has never had a soul -- but for structural power, control of the country's -- not "nations" -- purse-strings for self-aggrandizement of Malay "invested interests". The jockeying isn't about to begin; it began quite a while ago, soon after the spineless Anwar Ibrahim took over the reins in the false name of "reformasi" and "democracy". Anwar Ibrahim lied to the people, especially the incredibly gullible urban Malays, Indians and Chinese -- especially the 'politically desperate' Chinese -- with a straight face.

The economy is destined to take a big hit. The Philippines was one time known as Southeast Asia's basket-case with an economy that was being plundered left, right and centre by dictator and despot Marcos, his wife and their cronies. Just as Indonesia was under Soeharto, his family and their cronies. Malaysia could easily become the region's basket-case economy after Burma when -- not if -- manic corruption is resurrected to the levels seen since the beginning of Mahathirism, who isn't the founder of "modern Malaysia" but the father of racism, corruption lies and division. Najib followed in Mahathir's footsteps and, thinking he was infallible, given he was the son of political royalty -- my foot) -- openly and brazenly allowed his greed and stupidity to rape Malaysia for his own, his wife's and his family's despicable gratification. Najib and Rosmah are despicable Moslems who sold Islam down the river as they did Malaysia that they'd ruled like sultanate-age Malay despots and autocrats.

Rafizi Ramli, the economy minister, can spin all he wants about how gung-ho the Malaysian economy, how it's going to bring 'tiger economy' prosperity to Malaysia but the tide will turn very sour once the political risks are totaled by foreign multinational firms and Chinese conglomerates for the economy. All business investment MOUs will be re-thought, even revised, if they do not flee Malaysia altogether. The capital flight that has been underway is not laughing matter but Rafizi and finance minister and the trade minister might be laughing through the other side of their faces before long. If disinvestment in Malaysia is on the cards, the greater the capital flight and the worse the 'brain drain' and out-migration, especially the Chinese (China isn't an option for them as that economy is drowning in its broken economic model; somebody should have told Emperor Xi models like his have short and disastrous life-spans, that he could have taken lessons from his region and elsewhere. Ahh, the greed and the corruption of the Chinese capitalist class.)

Does the jailbird Najib's freedom from prison mean Zahid Hamidi, another Malay-Moslem crook who sold Islam and Malays and 'his country' down the river will not see another day in court, will never see the four walls of a prison? Probably, not plausibly. But what will this mean for Umno and its leadership? Umno is sunk, has been sunk for years, and will likely die a cold, deserved death for being a corrupt party of corrupt Malay leaders, liars, racists, bigots and criminals. Hamidi's days are numbered as Umno head-huncho now that najib is being released. But Najib will not revive Umno. John Bertelsen is probably correct in suggesting Anwar Ibrahim -- despite his denials, i.e. blatant lies for not playing a part in Najib's freedom -- will go into bat for Anwar when Anwar has so miserably failed, in spite of his attempt to play the populist in the worst possible guide, to win broad-based Malay suppoprt for him, personally, and for his so-called Unity coalition of what I will called low-life Tossers and Scumbags and the idiocy of his Madani ideological hoodwink.

The other interesting question, then, is what happens to Taliban PAS, to Perikatan (Pengkianat) Nasional, to the next-to-useless Bersatu?

All in time. But it won't be all sparkling gold. Guaranteed.

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When the Madani regime tells the media and the people not to jump to conclusions over Najib's release from prison, you can -- reading between the lines of such remarks over a long time -- that Najib's release looks certain. If Najib keeps hogging the headlines, Anwar may as well resort to selling peanuts by the kerb. He has been losing traction and he's likely to lose even more of it as the time nears to his Najib's release. All the noise at Malaysia's Bar Council membership and in and around Kuala Lumpur is fixed on the Great Najib Escape. One would have thought it would be in Anwar political interest to speak up and speak out against Najib's release. But then he is a weak politician, a spineless dude, who is afraid he may lose his Umno sidekick Hamidi on whose succor he has been relying to maintain the Madani regime. My guess is that Anwar and the Madani regime will start practicing more opacity, just as Umno had practiced it during its long reign. After all, Anwar learnt from Umno when he allowed himself to be coerced by his master Mahathir to join that party from ABIM in the 1980s. How long will be Anwar's reign?

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