Despite the fact that Indian convicts didn't make their presence felt in Kedah, the sight of numerous rubber trees lining the sides of the dual carriageway leading into Sungai Petani soon reminds me of Indian migrant contribution in the advancement of the agricultural sector in this country.

His pain, his pride, his longing for home — all of it seared into my mind. It made me wonder about our own histories here in Malaya: who were the ones who toiled, who wept and who built the land we inherited? From slavery to indenture: How the empire built Malaya’s workforce.

When the British Empire abolished slavery in 1833 through the Slavery Abolition Act, it freed bodies but not its hunger for cheap labour. The empire’s vast machinery still needed hands to mine tin, clear jungles, plant tropical crops and lay railways across its colonies.

In Malaya, where the local Malay population largely remained tied to village life, the British turned to large-scale imported labour from India and China — a system less visible than slavery, yet no less binding.

South Indian Tamils arrived through kangani recruitment, bound by contracts that promised meagre pay and tied them to planters through debt and dependency. In the mines, thousands of Chinese “coolies” toiled under the tropical sun, drawn or deceived into hard labour by brokers from Guangdong and Fujian.

The indentured labour system became the British Empire’s moral camouflage — slavery by another name, dressed in the language of contracts. It kept the estates productive, the mines humming, and the treasury full. The British divided labour by race: Indians for plantations, Chinese for mines and trade, and Malays for rural administration — an order that sustained both profit and control.

From these movements of people and toil arose modern Malaya — its railways, towns, and industries built on the backs of those who came not as conquerors, but as survivors. Their sweat and sorrow seeded the multicultural nation we now call home.

What the Taliban unleashed was not just punishment, but a system of horror designed to break a nation, and its scars are still spreading today. In today's video we look at The HORRORS of Taliban's Execution Methods. Barbarism and savagery at it's finest. 7th century thinking meets the modern world. 

Taliban have just indoctrinated a crime syndicate using the pretense of moral superiority while using intimidation and threats for control. These are godless criminal minds with zero regard for human life. This is what they do to their own people... imagine what they do to non moslems (no capitals on purpose)... Despicable savages.

Charlamagne Tha God and major media figures broke ranks with the Democrat machine in real time. The same media that spent years building a unified anti-Trump narrative is now pointing the finger directly at the party they helped protect. Democrats built this media machine to shield their every scandal. 

Now that machine is turning on them because they know — when a shooter's manifesto quotes Democrat talking points, there's no spin left. The ALMIGHTY FAMILY gets the receipts first. Watch the full breakdown: who said what, when they said it, and why this moment could reshape the 2026 political landscape forever. No agenda, no narrative — just receipts.

Where a gunman allegedly targeted President Donald Trump and members of his administration. Cole Allen, 31, is accused of opening fire inside the Washington Hilton after rushing past a security checkpoint while armed with multiple weapons. He was taken into custody at the scene and is now facing three federal charges, including one count of attempted assassination against President Donald Trump. 

The Acting US Attorney General, Todd Blanche, announced that the Department of Justice filed three federal charges against Allen: One count of attempted assassination against President Trump; punishable by up to life in prison One count of interstate transportation of a firearm to commit a felony; punishable by up to 10 years in prison One count of discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence; punishable by a mandatory minimum of 10 years to a maximum of life

As his manifesto makes abundantly clear, he is very much one of them, and so we see nothing of what we would be seeing if, say, a would-be assassin of some leftist had turned out to be a MAGA hat-wearing patriot. In that case, the media would be saying, all day every day, how dangerous the ideas that motivated the shooter really were, and calling for legislation and programs to stamp them out once and for all.

With Cole Allen, however, it’s a vastly different story.

By now, the whole world has weighed in on the tense tête-à-tête between Trump and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, who used Allen’s manifesto to challenge the president on some of the left’s most hysterical and baseless claims that he is a “pedophile” and a “rapist.” The fact that a would-be killer was making these charges did not deter O’Donnell for one second. It was as if she had been challenging Trump on the political theory of Lee Harvey Oswald. And that was by no means all.

O’Donnell also asked Trump: “The other thing in the manifesto that I think is worth looking at in terms of determining his motive is he had been staying at the hotel since Friday. He checked in, he said he had cased the place, and he wrote, ‘What the hell is the Secret Service doing?’ And he wrote this quote, ‘I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every ten feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got is nothing.’ He wrote, ‘Like, this level of incompetence is insane.’ Sir, you have already had two attempted –”

Contrary to O’Donnell’s preamble, this passage had nothing whatsoever to do with Allen’s motive. That motive was obvious: Allen hated Trump because he had imbibed the left’s talking points, and wanted him dead. The competence or lack thereof of the Secret Service had nothing to do with it. O’Donnell was reading Allen’s words and challenging Trump about them as if the assassin were a security expert.

Even that wasn’t all. O’Donnell told Trump that Allen “had social media accounts that had anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric…. Well, he had a lot of anti-Christian rhetoric. He had– he was part of a group called the Wide Awakes. He had attended a No Kings protest in California.” She followed this up with “What did security tell you about what may have been his motives?,” as if his motives weren’t clear from what she had just said. This led to Trump discussing the No Kings protests.

There is more.

Low Zi Yu-Noraqilah Maisarah Ramdan pulled off a huge upset against world No 7 duo Rin Iwanaga-Kie Nakanishi in the final Group B match of the Uber Cup Finals 2026 between Malaysia and Japan yesterday. (Bernama pic)

Not against the world No 7 pair. Not on a stage this big. Not at 15 and 18. But belief, it turned out, did not care about rankings. On a tense night at the Uber Cup, Malaysia may have lost the tie but in those final, breathless moments, something far more significant took shape.

Low Zi Yu and Noraqilah Maisarah Ramdan arrived as underdogs, ranked No 143 in the world and playing on a stage that typically belongs to experience. Across the net stood Japan’s world No 7 pairing of Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi: established, composed, expected to deliver. The script was clear. Until it wasn’t.

Zi Yu, tall and steady beyond her 15 years, and the pint-sized but fearless 18-year-old Noraqilah refused to follow it. They took the opening game 21-17, lost the second 12-21, and found themselves staring at defeat at 19-16 in the decider. That was where the match should have ended. Instead, it sharpened. One point. Then another. Then another. Five straight points.

It's about time criminals are being prosecuted! This latest attempt is a desperate action of Obama. He's done. Obama should loose his Presidential retirement for sure ,the divider in chief never the one to bring American citizens together !!! Why didn't President Obama go away and shut up, as other Presidents before him did? Sounds like treason and I believe Obama wanted hanging to still be the punishment because he thought he was going to hang 45. I guess he never read the book of Ester.

Cole Thomas Allen

For almost a decade now, the Left has reified the idea that 1. Trump is “literally Hitler” and 2. that harming him is justified—Gavin Newsom and Robert De Niro talked about hitting Trump in the mouth. Shakespeare in the Park substituted Caesar for a Trump look-alike. Anthony Bourdain said he’d poison him. 

And that lowers the bar. And that means people like Cole Tomas Allen come out of the woodwork, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” They arrested the President of the United States of America 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, spied on his campaign, sabotaged his first term, jailed his supporters, raided his private residence, censored him, gagged him, tried to bankrupt him, and attempted to remove him from state ballots. 

When all of that failed, they tried to assassinate him not once but four times. And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for them to save democracy - Jason D. Meister. No other President of the United States has done as much to drain the Swamp and stop the corruption. Perhaps these issues are not mutually exclusive.

Malaysiakini : COMMENT | You hear about a burglary in the neighbourhood. Three days later, you learn that four houses in the area had been broken into within a week. The occupants file police reports.

Weeks pass. Nothing changes. No updates, no progress. Fear settles in like a second shadow. Now imagine you have a skill - making videos that people actually watch.

BluePanther4725 : This Anwar's Madani government has lost all its principles and direction. It's time to ditch Anwar, his cronies and UMNO in GE16. Bring back the true PKR and PH!

OBSERVER from Space : Thank you brother Nades for writing this article... Another black cloud in this country.. Had to reach the Court of Appeal to straighten the lower courts on a straight forward matter ....so much unwarranted anxiety, money and time wasted...

darmakochi : "The law does not ask whether citizens are safe; it asks whether officials are annoyed." Very well said. Looks like our officials must be having very thin face that is selectively offended when it is pointed out that they are doing their expected duty in a given situation.

COMMENT | Seri Kembangan assemblyperson Wong Siew Ki is in the crosshairs of PAS because she dares to make policy suggestions that are an economic advantage to the people of Selangor.

This is not about defying the Selangor sultan but rather PAS’ intention to weaken the policy-making processes of democratically elected leaders.

The only reason why PAS continues this strategy is that it is enabled by the pusillanimous tactics of Madani, which is based on two important points: the first is to bully by proxy non-Malay political operatives, and the second is to bolster the religious and racial bona fides of a so-called unity government, which basically means unity for the majority.

Headhunter : "Meanwhile, so-called “Malay first” politicians pay lip service to the institutions but stir up opposition against them when it suits their purposes." 

Exactly. This has long been the approach of Malay politicians from both sides of the political divide whenever it benefits them. Non-Malays know that saying anything against the king and sultans is political suicide. In fact, they are generally respectful and supportive of the royal institution. 

Johor is a good example where the non-Malays are very respectful and proud of being royal subjects of the state. It’s parties like PAS that dare to throw stones at the royal institution and get away with it.

EmEmKay : Thayaparan rightly calls out the hypocrisy in our politics: when it is useful, everyone rushes to “uphold” the monarchy, but when royal decisions are inconvenient, the same actors look for ways to sidestep or challenge them. 

Dragging the rulers into partisan battles not only erodes the dignity of the institution, it also undermines the spirit of constitutional democracy. If political leaders truly respect the monarchy and the Federal Constitution, that respect must be shown consistently in both victory and defeat, not weaponised selectively to cling to or capture power.

OBSERVER from Space : Excellent article Commander ! But wasted upon nincompoops..may righteousness sweep away these hypocrites..

Understanding the regional laws and cultural contexts is crucial when discussing these penalties. In this video, we delve into the details of these punishments, aiming to offer a comprehensive perspective on the subject. Join us as we explore fifteen of the worst punishments in Saudi Arabia. I don't see this about devotion, I see it about control and corruption. Although we live in a time of technology, some countries are still living in the stonege.

In this powerful and unflinching monologue, Douglas Murray exposes how Sadiq Khan has spent nearly a decade turning ordinary British people into strangers in their own capital. From banning the word “Christmas” while lighting up the West End in Islamic green, to calling 150,000 peaceful Brits “far-right” and “Nazis”. 

Murray reveals the shocking double standards, the deliberate cultural replacement, and the betrayal of London’s historic identity. Why was Sadiq Khan knighted while crime soared and working-class Londoners were punished? Why the silence on October 7th but instant condemnation when Jewish ambulances were attacked? This is the video the establishment doesn’t want you to watch.

Is this the moment that changes everything? Is Obama finally being held accountable for the weaponization of government? Watch as Trump unleashes with unfiltered fury, connects the dots, and demands justice for one of the biggest political scandals in American history. 

America needs the truth to come out and guilty people held accountable. I’m so thankful for Chelsea Gabbard cash Patel and the whole staff that President Trump has chosen as his helpers and I’m so glad for a vice president also JD Vance.

But rather than addressing the scandal head-on, prominent Chinese Muslim convert and social media personality Firdaus Wong Wai Hung has responded with a flurry of posts pointing fingers at illegal Hindu temples, accusing non-Muslims of hypocrisy, and essentially demanding that Malaysians pick a side. 

The question worth asking is: why? What Firdaus is doing has a name — whataboutism — and it is one of the oldest deflection tactics in the book. By insisting that the Kuil Haram issue deserves equal outrage, he is constructing a false dilemma, implying that Malaysians are somehow incapable of holding two separate scandals in their minds at once. The zakat issue is not a zero-sum game. 

Scrutinising misappropriated religious funds and scrutinising illegal structures on public land are not mutually exclusive demands — and the fact that someone is working so hard to make them feel that way should tell you something. 

There is also something deeply uncomfortable about watching Firdaus — a Chinese man who has built an entire public identity around defending the Muslim community — scramble to protect people who, in the very same breath, tell him to go back to China. It raises a harder question about loyalty, identity, and what it costs a person to maintain a persona that the community he serves will never fully accept.

KTLA's Sara Welch and Lindsey Pena report on April 25, 2026.

Name one honest politician who does NOT drink, only the piss heads have been honest ( Malaysian Context)

"We've got all the information we need. We're working with our prosecutors at the DOJ under (Acting) Attorney General Todd Blanche and we're going to be making arrests. 

It's coming and I promise you it's coming soon," Patel told Fox. "We have the information that backs President Trump's claims but because it's an ongoing prosecution and investigation, I can't get ahead of the DOJ and the President," Patel said.

Why the Polish Winged Hussars were history’s ultimate badasses

Europe is invaded. It's tragic to say the least. We need this kind of politicians in Sweden. Well said, Jihad is as dangerous and destructive as Communism. Remember the spin that Jihad is inner struggle, which was pure bunkum and BS. 

Communism is happening in Canada. Keep strong Poland !! Europe is not being invaded they are letting this happen on purpose ! Remember that those are recorded rapes, governments are protecting their "doctors and engineers" better than their own people.

A still frame from the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls, which portrayed eye witnessed events from the Armenian Genocide, including raped, naked, and crucified Christian girls.

Because one cannot remember what one does not know, here is a summary of that tragic event which transpired during World War I (1914-1918):

From 1915 to 1917 the Young Turk regime in the Ottoman Empire carried out a systematic, premeditated, centrally planned genocide against the Armenian people…. More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. 

A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century. At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. 

Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.

The evidence is, indeed, overwhelming. As far back as 1920, U.S. Senate Resolution 316 heard eyewitness testimony concerning the “[m]utilation, violation, torture, and death [which] have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful Armenian valleys, and the traveler in that region is seldom free from the evidence of this most colossal crime of all the ages.”

In her memoir, Ravished Armenia, Aurora Mardiganian described how she was raped and thrown into a harem (in keeping with Islam’s rules of war). Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were discarded after being defiled, she managed to escape. In the city of Malatia, she saw 16 Christian girls crucified: “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross,” Aurora wrote, “spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.” (Such scenes were portrayed in the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls.)

Often overlooked, however, is that this was less a genocide of Armenians and more a genocide of Christians. Thus, the opening sentence of House Resolution 296, which passed on the hundredth anniversary of the genocide (2019), correctly mentions “the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians.”

That last word—“Christians”—is key to understanding this tragic chapter of history: Christianity is what all of those otherwise diverse peoples had in common, and therefore it—not nationality, ethnicity, territory, or grievances—was the ultimate determining factor concerning who the Turks would and would not “purge.”

As one Armenian studies professor asked, “If it [the Armenian Genocide] was a feud between Turks and Armenians, what explains the genocide carried out by Turkey against the Christian Assyrians at the same time?”

According to another professor, Joseph Yacoub, author of Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, the “policy of ethnic cleansing was stirred up by pan-Islamism and religious fanaticism. Christians were considered infidels (kafir). The call to Jihad … was part of the plan” to “combine and sweep over the lands of Christians and to exterminate them.” Several key documents, including a Syriac one from 1920, confirm that “there was an Ottoman plan to exterminate Turkey’s Christians.”

Yacoub recounts many “atrocities carried out by Turks and Kurds from town to town and from village to village without exception.” In one instance, Turks, Kurds, and other Sunni Muslims selected “eighteen of the most beautiful young girls” and hauled them into a local church, “where they were stripped naked and violated in turn on top of the Holy Gospel.” An eyewitness recalled that the “outrages” committed against “even children” were “so horrible that one recoils; it makes the flesh creep.”

The genocide is often conflated with the Armenians because many more of them than other Christians were killed—causing them to be the face of the genocide. According to generally accepted figures, the Turks massacred 1.5 million Armenians, 750,000 Greeks, and 300,000 Assyrians. In fact, relative to their numbers, more Assyrians—half of their total population of 600,000—were massacred.

Because all of these genocidal atrocities occurred during WWI, some, especially Turkey, argue that they were, ultimately, a reflection of just that—war, in all its death-dealing destruction.

War was a factor, but only because it offered the Turks the necessary cover to do what they had apparently long wanted to do.

After describing the massacres as an “administrative holocaust,” Winston Churchill observed that “The opportunity [WWI] presented itself for clearing Turkish soil of a Christian race.” Or, in the unequivocal words of Talaat Pasha, the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire during the genocide:

Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention…. The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.

As a reflection of how thorough the genocide was, Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and personal witness of the atrocities, attested that “I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this.” He added that what the Turks were doing was “a carefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race.”

In other writings, Morgenthau also made it clear that the ultimate target of the genocide was Christians:

Will the outrageous terrorizing, the cruel torturing, the driving of women into the harems, the debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at eighty cents each, the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the deportation to, and starvation in, the deserts of other hundreds of thousands, the destruction of hundreds of villages and cities, will the willful execution of this whole devilish scheme to annihilate the Armenian, Greek and Syrian [or Assyrian] Christians of Turkey—will all this go unpunished?

Not only has it gone unpunished; NATO ally Turkey has been accused of resuming the genocide against the very descendants of those whom the Turks nearly exterminated over a century ago—namely Armenians and Assyrians.

Also the cause of the Trump Derangement Syndrome In Malaysia

John Brenan is a Muslim

Most of the Democrats were unmitigated liars. Joe Biden did not win the elections, it was stolen orchestrated by the nigger Barrack Obama. If he became the President they will all end up in prison for treason. 

Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel will ensure this. This analysis utilizes an Investigative Oversight Model, cross-referencing declassified DNI memos with previous HPSCI (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) testimony. We prioritize primary source data from DNI.gov, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and Congress.gov. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center. I did an entire video. This is the NGO, much like BLM, much like so many other fake NGO. If you ever see that acronym NGO, just know that fraud is not that far away. But the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American history, President Trump says, has been charged with fraud. 

This is another Democrat hoax along with Act Blue and many others. These are all facts. If it is true, the 2020 presidential election should be permanently wiped from the books and be no further force or effect.

Suicidal Empathy

Human rights. What utter rubbish. Where are the rights for British women and girls. I have never hated a government like I do this one. This poor lady should be able to sue the British government and the Home Office for enabling this to happen So should every female who is assaulted by illegal immigrants. Human rights, should only count for humans, not monsters. We think of ourselves as civilised, they see us weak. If that poor girl had used pepper spray against them, she'd be in prison now. What does this government use for brains? We should sue this government for putting all our lives in danger.

Greta looks like she escaped from a Shrek movie! I can guarantee you that none of those sexual advances were made towards Greta ! Looking at greta thunberg I think she would be safe from any sexual impropriety. I believe this young woman had been used and exploited by adults for a political and sexual agenda at a very young age. The worst allegation was thinking she’s sexual.

We break down why this isn't radicalism, but core teaching, and why our non-discriminatory migration program is importing a culture antithetical to Western values. From sex slavery to the destruction of free speech, this isn't personal – it's civilizational. We need a values-based migration policy before Australia becomes like every other 90% Muslim nation.

"The views of any political party or individual should not be play ed up into a social issue, let alone a racial and religious issue. Malaysia is a plural society with many races and religions," Tiong (above) said in a statement today. The minister explained that the event is a carefully planned urban tourism project carried out under close supervision, and not an “uncontrolled” or “disorderly” event as described by its critics.

He described the objections raised by certain parties as exaggerated and could potentially mislead the public. Tiong said the event organisers never promoted anything contrary to Malaysia's social values. Instead, the festival promotes the country's cultural diversity, including its food, and traditional arts and crafts. Tiong also rebutted the critics' focus on interactions between different genders.

World Citizen : Apalah, ini tak boleh, itu tak boleh. What kind of cringes are these people! This kind of festivals are good to promote KL and Malaysia. We are not Afghanistan lah hoi. If you don’t like it, don’t attend and don’t even bother with anything. 

Just stay home ok! Millions of Malaysians like it. About road closures, this happens during late night to early morning, so what is the problem here Mr. PKR? By the way, PAS, you will get a lot of non Malays votes next GE. Keep up with your nonsense.

apanama is back : It looks like once these two fellows had been brainwashed and indoctrinated, both confirmed to be zombified. That is why they spewed nonsense such as: 

1) "At a time when the world is witnessing mass killings, oppression, and prolonged suffering in West Asia, specifically in Palestine, holding a large-scale entertainment event like this is a betrayal of humanity and the solidarity of the ummah." 

What an idiotic statement. If there is war, we stop entertainment. If you do not want to join, keep away. You can join the West Asia and keep fighting while I celebrate back here. The world does not stop rotating due to conflict somewhere. 

2)" Anwar also stressed that large-scale entertainment events running late into the night do not take into account the sensitivities of Islam as the religion of the Federation above is another 'bangang' statement, twisting the religion of the Federation's own agenda. PKR need to be kicked out since it tries to be more PAS than PAS itself.

Well done German police I wish that all Westen police would treat all such Islamists the same way, including westeners who act out th same way.. I live in Florida and our Governor just passed a law that makes it illegal for ANY law ( specifically Sharia law) to supersede American law. I can understand German. 

Those two elderly women were confronting that guy with the Palestinian flag with what Hamas did to Israeli women children on the Oct 2023 attack. These women have also lived long enough to see what happeneds to people mentally like their own parents who went through a war as children. It leaves lasting scars.

She also expressed regret that various parties, including former politicians, had politicised the issue. Malaysiakini is also reproducing Wong's original Bahasa Malaysia speech text for transparency:

“Seri Kembangan menjunjung kasih atas keprihatinan Tuanku terhadap kesejahteraan rakyat Selangor tanpa mengira kaum, agama dan budaya, serta terhadap kelestarian alam sekitar. Seri Kembangan bersetuju bahawa sebarang aktiviti industri atau penternakan tidak boleh dikompromi sekiranya menyebabkan pencemaran alam sekitar.

“Namun demikian, Seri Kembangan berpandangan bahawa Selangor sebagai negeri peneraju tidak seharusnya mengelak daripada cabaran. Sebaliknya, kita perlu mencari penyelesaian yang lebih moden dan mampan. Mengenai isu penternakan babi dalam titah ucapan, Seri Kembangan memohon ampun Tuanku, menyembah bahawa isu ini juga menyentuh hak kesamarataan warganegara yang terjamin di bawah Perkara 8(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

“Penternakan babi tidak seharusnya dibezakan daripada penternakan haiwan yang lain. Risiko pencemaran, aspek kebersihan serta kesihatan dalam penternakan babi adalah sama seperti yang dihadapi oleh penternakan haiwan lain. Namun begitu, amat dukacitanya, seperti yang dibangkitkan dalam titah ucapan Tuanku, isu penternakan babi telah dijadikan sebagai isu politik dan dimainkan oleh pelbagai pihak, termasuk bekas ahli politik di luar sana.

“Sehubungan itu, Seri Kembangan memohon pertimbangan agar diberikan ruang kepada kerajaan dan para pelabur untuk meneroka sistem penternakan tertutup dan moden, termasuk konsep ‘zero discharge’ melalui teknologi kitar semula sisa kepada biogas dan tenaga elektrik. Sistem ini telah terbukti berjaya di negeri-negeri lain, dan Selangor tidak seharusnya ketinggalan.

“Tambahan pula, kebergantungan sepenuhnya kepada import bagi sumber makanan adalah berisiko dalam jangka panjang.”

ZamZam : Perhaps PAS should take over Selangor and then run it the way Kelantan is run. Where all their young men have no jobs and only spend time racing their bikes around the airport.

On the Other Hand : Can any form of invalid decree be treated as law? The Federal Constitution clearly places boundaries on the matters that fall under Royal ambit. 

Everything else is out of their purview, and hence any so-called decree is void of legal power, and should rightfully be ignored. There is nothing to negotiate.

Doubtful : Aiyah.. No amount of explanation (no matter how reasonable) will get thru to the thick skull of these racists, bigots and ketuanan type la... They have already been indoctrinated by the old man for decades....

Average citizen : PAS is forever trying to intimidate non Malay State Assembly Members by playing up racial and religious issues. They are always hitting below the belt and ungentlemanly riding roughshod over the legitimate rights of others. 

All for the sake of winning the votes of the racial extremists. Let’s hope the moderate and enlightened Malays will not give PAS their votes. Just compare the lack of progress of the states ruled by PAS with those by the Unity Government! It will be doomsday for all if they were to take over the Federal Government!

Coward : How can it be "lost" in translation when the speech she made was in Malay and get detractors are supposed said to be only able to understand in that language. 

It's either they deliberately cherry pick the part of her speech that they want to create a commotion about and ignore them rest that they cannot make a song and a dance on, or they cannot understand her perfect BM. You go figure which one it is

Goh Keng Swee

The whole truth is that on a July afternoon in 1965, I sat across from Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, a man I had known since our student days, and I said words that Lee Kuan Yew had not authorised me to say. I told Razak the best thing would be to call it quits. That we should go our separate ways. Lee had sent me to negotiate a looser federation. A softer arrangement. More autonomy for Singapore within Malaysia.

I never raised it. Not once. From the first meeting, I went for the clean break. Because I knew, with a certainty that sat in my bones and would not leave, that a looser arrangement was a slower death. And I would rather have the surgery than the disease. I kept a file on these negotiations. Handwritten notes. Cabinet papers. Records of every conversation. I called it Albatross.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬.

The name comes from Coleridge. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳. A sailor kills an albatross and is forced to wear the dead bird around his neck as penance. Malaysia was the albatross. The great expectations that we foolishly had.  

Singapore Military the early years

That Malaysia would bring prosperity, a common market, peace, harmony. We were quickly disillusioned and it became an albatross round our necks. Very sad. But instructive episode in our political education. I had had enough of Malaysia. I just wanted to get out. I could see no future in it. The political cost was dreadful and the economic benefits did not exist.

So I cut the bird from our neck. Without permission. Lee found out in 1994. Nearly thirty years later.

He was writing his memoirs and he reviewed the Albatross documents and he realised that I had never pressed Razak for the looser rearrangement he had asked me to pursue. I had, from the start, gone for a clean break.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦, 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬.

I was born in Malacca in 1918. Peranakan family. My father managed a rubber plantation. My mother came from the family that produced Tan Cheng Lock and his son Tan Siew Sin, who would later become my lifelong political opponent and, to my lasting irritation, my cousin. We moved to Singapore when I was two. I grew up on the Pasir Panjang rubber estate. My family spoke English and Malay at home. Church services on Sunday in Malay.

I went to Anglo Chinese School. Then Raffles College, where I met Hon Sui Sen. Later, in London, at the School of Economics, I met the other men who would shape the future. Razak was one of them. So were Lee Kuan Yew and Toh Chin Chye. After the war, I went to the London School of Economics.

Earned a doctorate. Returned to Singapore as a civil servant in the Social Welfare Department. That is where I learned what poverty looks like. Not in a textbook. In a file. In a face. In the gap between what a government promises and what it delivers.

That gap made me a politician.

𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭.

When the PAP won the election and I became Singapore's first Finance Minister, the treasury was projecting a $14 million deficit. Businessmen thought the end of the world had arrived. The stock market collapsed. Capital fled. Several people left the country.

I cut civil service salaries. Do you understand what that means? The very people who had just elected us, the people who worked for the government, the people whose support we needed to survive, I cut their pay.

Because the alternative was bankruptcy. By December, I delivered a surplus. One million dollars. It was not much. But it was black ink instead of red. And it told the world that this government would not spend its way to prosperity.

That was my first lesson in what leadership actually costs. It costs the thing that is most convenient to keep.

𝐆𝐨𝐡'𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲.

In 1962, I started the development of the Jurong industrial estate on the western end of the island. It was a swamp. Let me be precise. It was mud and mangrove and standing water and mosquitoes and the kind of ground that engineers look at and say "not here."

I said here. I said build factories on this swamp. Lay roads. Run power. Bring water. And then convince multinational corporations, who could invest anywhere in the world, to put their money in the mud on the edge of an island that might not exist as a country next year.

They called it Goh's Folly. The cynics. The civil servants. The men who had never built anything and therefore knew exactly why nothing could be built.

Goh's Folly. I said once, "The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake." By 1968, Jurong had 300 factories and 21,000 workers. By 1976, it had 650 factories and had become the backbone of Singapore's industrialisation.

Nobody calls it Goh's Folly anymore. They call it Jurong. And every Singaporean who has a job in manufacturing, in petrochemicals, in precision engineering, in the industrial economy that feeds this country?

Standing on ground that was once a swamp that nobody wanted. Except me.

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦.

Now let me tell you about the room. In mid July 1965, I sat with Razak in Kuala Lumpur. Also present were Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's Minister for Home Affairs. The context was this.

Singapore had been part of Malaysia for two years. In those two years, there had been two race riots. Communal violence incited by extremists on both sides. The federal government's finance minister, my cousin Tan Siew Sin, had threatened to raise Singapore's revenue contribution from 40 to 60 percent. UMNO leaders had told me, to my face, that Lee Kuan Yew should step down as Prime Minister and that I should replace him.

They wanted a Singapore they could control. I wanted a Singapore that was free. I told Razak: the best thing would be to call it quits.

Razak did not disagree. The Tunku had already been thinking the same thing. He had written to Razak from London, where he was recovering from shingles, about the possibility of "hiving off" Singapore. So the conversation was not whether. It was how. The discussions were conducted in absolute secrecy.

Toh Chin Chye and Rajaratnam, two of our most senior leaders, were not told. Not until 7 August. Two days before separation. When Lee summoned them to Kuala Lumpur and showed them the documents. They were devastated. They refused to sign.

It took a personal letter from the Tunku himself, stating that there was "absolutely no other way," to convince them. That is the part they do not teach you in school. That on the night before Singapore became a country, two of its founding fathers were sitting in a room, reading a letter from the man who was expelling them, and weeping.

𝟗 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓.

Singapore separated from Malaysia. Lee wept on television. I did not weep. I will tell you why. Not because I was harder than him. Not because I felt less.

Because I had already done the grieving. I had grieved the merger months before, in hotel rooms and meeting rooms and in the back of cars driving between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. By the time it was announced, I had already moved past the loss and into the problem.

The problem was this. We were now a country of two million people with no army, no hinterland, no natural resources, and a neighbour across the causeway who had just told us they did not want us.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭.

I became Minister for Interior and Defence. There was no Singapore Armed Forces. There were a few battalions and a volunteer corps and the withdrawing shadow of the British military, which had been our shield for a century and was now packing its bags. I had to build an army from nothing.

Not in ten years. Not in five. Now. On 13 March 1967, I introduced the National Service Amendment Bill. It passed the next day. Compulsory conscription for every able bodied male citizen aged eighteen. Every son. Every family.

I understood the weight of that. I was not a man who made decisions lightly. I read Clausewitz and Sun Tzu and Liddell Hart. I subscribed to military journals. I studied Israel, a country smaller than ours that had built a citizen army out of necessity and survived. But understanding the theory does not soften the reality. The reality is that you are telling every mother in the country that her eighteen year old son now belongs, for two years, to the state. That is not a policy.

That is a covenant. And the only thing that justifies it is survival.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭.

The Economic Development Board. 1961. The Development Bank of Singapore. 1968. You know it as DBS. The Monetary Authority of Singapore. 1971. I laid the policies that produced a stable Singapore dollar and preserved the purchasing power of every citizen.

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. 1981. A sovereign wealth fund to invest the reserves. It was unprecedented for a non commodity economy to have one. I did not care about precedent. I cared about the future. But here is what people do not expect from me.

Sentosa. 1968. The Jurong Bird Park. 1971. The Singapore Zoo. 1973. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra. I built these because one evening, early in the 1970s, I looked at what we had created and I felt something I did not expect.

Emptiness. We had the factories. We had the army. We had the banks and the reserves and the institutions. But we had not given our people a reason to walk slowly. To sit. To watch a bird. To listen to music that had no economic purpose. A nation that only works and never lives is not a nation.

It is a factory. So I built the things that made a country worth living in. Not because they were efficient. Because they were necessary.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝.

I will tell you something now that I never said publicly. The Albatross file was not just about Malaysia. It was about me. The albatross in Coleridge's poem is a burden the sailor carries as penance for what he has done. He killed something beautiful, something that had brought his ship good winds, and the crew made him wear the corpse around his neck. The albatross in Coleridge's poem is a burden the sailor carries as penance for what he has done. He killed something beautiful, something that had brought his ship good winds, and the crew made him wear the corpse around his neck.

I killed the merger.

The merger was supposed to bring Singapore prosperity. A common market. A hinterland. A future within something larger than ourselves. I killed it because I could see that it was already dead. That what we were wearing around our necks was not a living partnership but a rotting carcass that would drag us under.

But killing it meant accepting that we were alone. Two million people on a dot. No army. No resources. No guarantee that the water from Johor would keep flowing. No guarantee that Indonesia would not invade. No guarantee that the economy I was trying to build on a swamp would survive its first decade. I carried that.

Every day. Every decision. Every time I stood in front of a microphone or sat across from a foreign investor or signed a paper that committed the country to another gamble. The albatross was not Malaysia. The albatross was the knowledge that I had bet an entire nation on my own judgment. Without permission. Without consensus. Without the certainty that I was right. And Goh Keng Swee carried it until the day he died.

𝟏𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎.

Goh Keng Swee died at age 91. Lee Kuan Yew's son, Lee Hsien Loong, said at my funeral: "A whole generation of Singaporeans has grown up enjoying the fruits of growth and prosperity, because one of our ablest sons decided to fight for Singapore's independence, progress and future." Those are generous words. But the word I hold closest is one he did not say.

𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴. In December 2025, the Albatross File was finally declassified and published. The handwritten notes. The cabinet papers. The records of conversations that decided the fate of a nation.

Lee Hsien Loong said at the launch: "For those who lived through those times, each step was uncertain, each negotiation harrowing, each decision wrenching. Neither our founding leaders nor the people they led could be certain Singapore would survive, let alone thrive. It was, and still is, a miracle." A miracle.

That is a kind word for the result of a decision made by a man sitting across from his old college friend, in a room in Kuala Lumpur, saying words he had not been told to say. I stepped down from politics in 1984. They gave me the Order of Temasek the following year. But the heaviest thing I ever wore was not a medal.

It was a bird. And I wore it gladly. Because the alternative was to let it hang around the neck of an entire nation. Most Singaporeans know Lee Kuan Yew cried on television when Singapore separated from Malaysia. Almost none of them know that the man who made that separation happen was sitting beside him, dry eyed, carrying a secret file called Albatross.

Goh Keng Swee did not cry because he had already mourned. He had mourned the merger in private, in meeting rooms and hotel corridors, long before the cameras switched on. And by the time it was announced, he had already moved past grief and into the work. That is what it looks like when someone makes the hard call nobody else will make.

You do not get to grieve publicly. You do not get to hesitate. You do not get to say "I was told to do this." You make the decision. You carry the weight. You accept that if you are wrong, history will remember you as the man who broke a country apart. And if you are right, history will call it a miracle and credit someone else.

Goh Keng Swee built your economy on a swamp. He built your army from nothing. He built your banks, your reserves, your industrial base, your zoo, your symphony orchestra. And he separated your country from a federation that was strangling it, without permission, without consensus, without certainty.

Here is the question he leaves behind. What is the decision you are avoiding because you are waiting for permission? The call that everyone around you knows needs to be made, but nobody will make because the cost of being wrong is too visible and the reward of being right will be claimed by someone else.

What is your albatross? The thing that is hanging around your neck, dragging you down, that everyone agrees is a problem but nobody will cut loose because cutting it loose means accepting that you are alone with the consequences.

Goh Keng Swee cut it.

He carried the weight.

And a country flew.

𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒄𝒕. It is whether to act alone.