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The following stories may fire your imagination, pique your interest. Some say 1MDB is Malaysia's Sovereign Wealth fund; to others they asked what wealth fund when its total capitalization is just One million ringgit? But, then again, if you think you can look down on the pet idea of the Malaysian prime minister, think again. His idea has the potential of turning the now world famous - or shall we say, infamous - 1Malaysia Development Berhad into a giant corporation you can ever imagine - even bigger than Bill Gate's Microsoft! At least, it could be, if the original course is stayed. It was supposed to inspire Malaysians to think big besides advance growth, according to its slogans screaming out of giant bill boards throughout the country. 'Backed' by the finance ministry who owns it - which means money will never be the problem - it can only succeed. But..it didn't. It failed! That's why it may have piqued many people's curiosity. How can a company flush with cash and can borrow any amount (billions) anytime could fail? Well, this may be in line with your thinking. People have seen since its inception - I mean after its name was changed in 1999 from Trengganu Investment Authority (TIA) to the present - it hasn't done any business! I have used present tense deliberately. It hasn't done any business yet. I mean if you are in business you need to make profit or find ways to make profit. Or close shop. Oh, I had heard about their filings of tax returns and hiring of a couple of internationally known auditors to sign off on their balance sheets; but these concerned only the company's borrowings and interests to be paid. Two massive bonds were issued to the tune of $7 billions. To buy up power plants. Again I want to say if you are in business to make money even investing in independent Power Plants, it should be done with the view to making a profit. The decision may be long term or short term, it doesn't matter, it has to make money, or no deal. May be they have done the right thing. Maybe luck was not on their side. Still, the amount is staggering. I didn't know having or managing so much money can be a problem! But many - especially the Malays - have not given up hope yet. Yes, may be the durians are just ripening; may be they need time and may fall soon!
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Malaysia is supposed to be on its way to becoming a developed nation, by the year 2020. Will she make it (in less than five years -tick-tuck, tick-tuck)? There is no doubt the year 2020 is coming whether the country is ready or not, and if that will be the only requirement then Malaysia will attain that developed nation status on schedule. There is a question, though, Will Malaysia, or Malaysians, for that matter, be ready for that status as far as their affluence, quality of life's concern? Currently Malaysia's GNI per capita stood at US$10060. According to the World Bank high income economies are those with GNI per capita of US$12,745. And until Malaysians earn much more to be there, the developed nation status may not be achieved even by the year 2020. The futility of declaring a country a high income country when it's not, achieves nothing. May be even counter-productive; it lulls the country into false sense of success and premature celebration. Don't forget China reportedly overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy, but in actual fact China's citizens' ca pita income is a fraction of the incomes of the Japanese who earn $37,000. Chinese incomes range from $13,000. China's gross domestic product, taken as a whole, may beat Japan's, but in term of quality of life, and GNI per capita income, the criteria for a developed nation status, China still has a lot of catching up to do. That's why China still qualifies as recipient of Japan's economic aid meant for developing countries. Comparing with the Chinese per capita domestic product, Malaysia is even worse off. Unless the government bucks up and rushes to create more wealth for its citizens, the Vision 2020 dream may remain just that ..a dream.
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Keith Maurice Ellison Congressman-elect (D-MN) Would Have A Hard Time Convincing voters of The Fifth District of Minnesota To Elect Him Had He Not Paraded Himself As A Christian Checked.
By David Lang
Have Americans come to term with Rep. Ellison being a Muslim but not quite? Have you ever asked him point-blank, who is he? Of course, you won't ask him if he's a Muslim as his name suggests he's a Christian? It would be interesting to hear from him personally (from the horse's mouth, if you will), what is religion, that's, if you finally decide to give way to your curiosity. Checked.
Do you believe he will answer the question, or back away as usual? Checked.
According to Fox News report today, Rep. Ellison - who is fighting to be DNC chairman - strictly avoided to talk about his past. At first he agreed to be interviewed by phone but later when the time came, reneged on his promise. He gave no reason for not talking about his past or who he is. Checked.
Nothing unusual, or surprising there. Rep. Ellison, I believe, would never reveal who he really is if he could help it. For his success so far from being an unknown Muslim Congressman to now challenging the DNC chair - was largely due to the opaqueness of his behavior. I believe he believed if he presents himself as a Muslim when he's campaigning for office as people's representative he's afraid he would be rejected (especially now that the majority of Muslims have been identified as likely terrorists whose sole aim as Muslims was to convert or kill infidels). Checked.
I hate to call Rep. Ellison - whose full name once was Keith Maurice Ellison when he was an African-American Christian - a deceiver but..sorry for saying this, that's what he seems to be. A deceiver. Yes, you heard me, a deceiver! Checked.
I came to know about this Muslim convert for a long time. I knew about his passion about promoting the greatness of Islam - like what President Obama had been vowing - with the aim to gradually take over America and turn it into a Muslims country with sharia law; about his opaque way to achieve that agenda by not using Muslim name such as Mohammad or Mohamed which is most popular among Muslims; about his crying like a baby at Republican Rep. Steve King's public hearing on Muslim CAIR's role in working with the Muslim Brotherhood to undermine America from within; about his being a very conservative Muslim who seemed to be prepared to even die for his religion but at the same time he chose to parade himself as a Christian - meaning he's ashamed to be a Muslim, or known as a Muslim. Is he? Was he, past tense? Checked.
I shudder to think what was his intention in wanting to be the DNC chairman? Checked.
I read in Fox News report today referring to him as Rep. Ellison; without the his first name Keith (Maurice) which was the usual case back in those years. What did it mean the removal of his first name? Was it a typo? I hope so. I am quite happy that he had removed the name Keith from his full name; if, say, that was his intention, not a typo. Checked.
But then again, I heard people say MSM are siding with the Democrats; Rep. Keith Maurice Ellison is a Democrat. If he asked them to omit Keith Maurice from his full name, they will. There's no doubt about that. Let's wait and see. Checked.
I hope Congress will introduce a law to ban Muslim politicians from parading themselves as Christians to deceive American voters. Checked.
Still, I am still not hundred percent satisfied that he continued to mislead the American voters that he and another of his kind, Andre Carson, were not Muslims! They are. And in cahoots with the Muslim Brotherhood or Sisterhood to silently work to transform America - like what President Obama had been doing for years.Checked.
Years ago I became aware of this Congressman's design to cheat the American voters into voting for him by not using Muslim names. And I had been turning out articles after articles, mostly on MSNBC Newsvine.com to expose him. Checked.
Lest I am misunderstood, I have no problem with Keith Maurice Ellison or any Muslims in America, for that matter, becoming a Congressmen or senators. My beef was with his parading himself as a Christian when he is not! Checked.
With his passion for his Islamic religion to the extent of emotional break down at a public hearing by Rep. Peter King, and was widely known (and derided) on social media as a man shedding crocodile tears - expect him to protest as emotionally against being not allowed to use Muslim names - if there's such a ban! Checked.
If he's so passionate about being a Muslim, he should not hide the fact that he's a Muslim like a plaque; be a man and face the voters as who he really is: a Muslim man, and see if he could win. As it's, he should not be proud of his achievement as it came through fraud called deception. Checked.
He of course, could argue that he was well-known as a Muslim Congressman. That maybe so, but when facing his voters they could think that Keith name is a Christian name. In Muslim majority countries like Indonesia or Malaysia, he won't last a month! They (religious authorities and Muslims in the streets) will hound him and accuse him of trying to convert other Muslims and will be punished severely. Checked.
He could count himself lucky that he's (parading as Christian) in America, and get away with it. President-elect Trump should work to have a legislation passed in Congress and the Senate houses to ban Muslims parading as phony Christians to deceive voters. If they think they are good enough to be a Congressman or Senator, why hide their Muslim names behind Christianity? Checked.
Even if in the US there is no law outlawing using one's original name after embracing Islam, only surname should continue to be used, not first name which is a Christian name such as John or Keith. When John embraces Islam he will be given a Mohamed or Faisal or Abdul name. Checked.
We don't know, Keith Maurice Ellison never reveals, what his Muslim name is. Whatever name he's given, or he himself chose, when he became a Muslim - please use it! Checked.
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