Mahathir Mohamad's Blog

1MDB

1. UMNO telah mengadakan majlis penerangan tertutup yang dihadiri oleh sebahagian dari Ketua-Ketua Bahagian pada 8 Mac. Keputusan majlis mengikut akhbar ialah menyokong penuh Presiden parti.

2. Tidak diketahui tentang penjelasan oleh Presiden berkenaan kontroversi 1MDB, yang sedang dibincang dengan meluas oleh rakyat. Bahawa perkara ini dibawa oleh parti lawan, justeru itu ia adalah fitnah belaka tidak mencukupi untuk rakyat menolak tuduhan-tuduhan berkenaan 1MDB.
3. Rakyat masih tidak puas...

SANCTIONS

SANCTIONS

1. At a forum in UKM recently, Dr Chandra Muzaffar raised the matter of sanctions in international affairs and suggested that sanction is war by other means. Therefore it should be made a crime and that the campaign to make war a crime should include sanctions.2. I fully agree with Dr Muzaffar that sanction is a crime.

3. In the past, during the numerous wars of the European nations, one of the most effective weapons was the siege. This consisted of cutting off communication of a city...

SOMETHING ROTTEN

1. Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet remarked that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Perhaps from the complaints being made by Malaysians about Malaysia one might say there is something rotten in the state of Malaysia.

2. Many of these complaints reach me. I hope I am permitted to detail them here in my blog. People can decide whether things are rotten or not.

3. Some people complain that the Government seem unwilling to pay them for work done for the Government. There would always...

DEMONISING

1. I am surprised at the report in The Star that some bloggers are attacking the critics of 1MDB. I am surprised not at the bloggers doing this. I have known about their activities for some time now.

2. These bloggers were once the critics of the Government. But for some greatly unknown reason they have changed. I had noticed this change.

3. But I accept their right to criticise me. I am therefore not surprised at their change of direction.

4. What surprises me is the report on this by The Star....

WEALTH AUDIT

1. We were poor before. In those days we talked of millions of Ringgit. Now we are much richer and we talk of billions of Ringgit. It is difficult to comprehend what billions of Ringgit mean. Even when a few millions are lost we hardly notice it.

2. I read in the paper someone suggesting that Government should have an external auditor so that there would be more credibility in the eyes of the public.

3. I think it is a good idea. But it should be extended to other Government agencies, includin...

WESTERN JUSTICE / PERKASA

1. I am against war. I am against killing people. I don’t think it is Islamic. So I join the French people in mourning the death of twelve members of the staff of Charlie Hebdo.

2. I condemn the killings. But I condemn also the killing of Iraqis, Afghans, Arabs etc. They did not do anything to harm the soldiers, or their families. At least the babies, the children, the sick and the old had done nothing to deserve being killed. But they were killed. Nobody demonstrated in sympathy with their f...

POLITIK KELUARGA

1. Saya amat tertarik dengan penjelasan oleh Mohd Puad Zarkashi bahawa tidak mungkin amalan atau budaya politik dinasti dalam UMNO mudah berlaku.

2. Sebabnya ialah undang-undang tubuh UMNO sudah dipinda supaya bukan perwakilan ke mesyuarat agong yang tidak ramai yang akan memilih, tetapi 146,000 perwakilan ke mesyuarat bahagian yang akan memilih.

3. Bahagian bukan sama besar. Ada yang sepuluh kali ganda lebih besar daripada yang lain.

4. Yang diambil kira bukan jumlah perwakilan yang mengundi se...

SYUKUR Bhg 2

18. Mereka yang ingin menyertai UMNO perlu faham sejarah dan matlamat perjuangan UMNO. Jika mereka dapati perjuangan ini bertentangan dengan prinsip perjuangan diri sendiri, adalah lebih baik jika mereka berada di luar UMNO.

19. Walaupun demikian ini tidak bermakna UMNO beku dan jumud, bahawa perjuangannya sudah ketinggalan zaman, tidak relevan lagi.

20. Asas perjuangan untuk memberi tempat kepada orang Melayu di negara yang mereka bersetuju berkongsi dengan bangsa-bangsa lain tidak perlu diuba...

SYUKUR Bhg 1

1. Saya bersyukur kerana kesedaran yang ditunjuk oleh orang Melayu terhadap nasib mereka. Terdapat tanda-tanda yang Melayu UMNO sudah sedar akan perlunya UMNO di perbaharui. UMNO sudah nyatakan kesanggupan untuk menerima ahli baru walaupun ini akan mengancam kedudukan ahli lama. Tanpa ahli baru, terutama yang lebih muda UMNO akan susut jumlah keahlian kerana yang tua tetap menjadi lemah dan akhirnya kembali ke Rahmatullah.

2. Tetapi bukan sahaja yang muda yang diperlukan, yang berbakat, berkeb...

LOCATING CRASHED AIRPLANE

I would like to convey my condolences to all families of passengers and crew on board Air Asia Indonesia flight QZ8501

1. Flight International magazine dated 14 – 20 Oct 2014 carries an article entitled, “Searching for Answers.” Together is a small picture with MH 370 written on some material. (See here for story)

2. The article relates about “Another rift in the competitive landscape between Airbus and Boeing.” It seems that while Airbus is ready to move forward with a deployable flight data a...