Small guy, big ego
The Chief Minister is not used to criticism as well as stamps identical to an angry child in a face of it. This is a good weakness, since it equates to which wrongs have been not put right as well as flattering broadside can have him a laughing stock.
This week his Press Secretary, Amin Sahmat, got in to a terrible spin perplexing to explain a cancelling of a once regular post-cabinet press conferences, as reported in a Borneo Post.
First Sahmat claimed which there had never been such press conferences, so it was wrong for all a newspapers to inform which these had right away been cancelled. But, afterwards almost in a same breath, he pronounced which a reason a press conferences (which had never been held) had been cancelled was since reporters had proposed asking a wrong questions!.
He explained:
"The media member who covered a meetings prior to this were found to have not asked questions privately to what was discussed during a cupboard meeting, though instead they asked about other topics". [Amin SahmatBorneo Post 21/01]
The offending other topics, of course, were all a headlines which has come out about Taib as well as his family's outrageous wealth. How did a Chief Minister come by so many companies as well as acquire so much state land, when his central state salary is comfortable, though modest?
Because this emanate has spin headlines everyw! here els e, a local reporters could hardly not ask him about it. Other cupboard counts have been rendered pretty trivial as well as uninteresting by some-more aged with a outrageous crime which has been exposed during a heart of supervision in Sarawak!
But, Taib cannot answer these questions. So, he has cancelled a conferences. Anyone can see such an movement is a sign of weakness, not strength.
After all, a impulse a statesman can no longer answer a questions which everybody is asking, is a impulse which statesman should resign!
Just have it up!
Purchased broadside - Taib during a launch of nonetheless an additional 'report' full of paid for regard - Inside Sarawak
But Taib is such an aged as well as deluded dictator, which he thinks he can only have up his own version of events as well as no a single will notice.
The Chief Minister already controls all a newspapers in Sarawak, possibly directly by his family tenure (Sarawak Tribune) or his business partners (Borneo Post).These papers' categorical job is no longer to inform a news, though to fawn over a aged man's dull round of every day events (from right away upon excluding Cabinet meetings).
But Taib has left a step further to boost his own version of reality, by commissioning a flood of PR as well as supposed 'investor guides', which have been really promotions dressed up as genuine reports as well as analysis.
TheOxford Business Groupis a single such outfit, having published a 'Country Report' upon Sarawak in October. We have alr! eady exp osed this as 0 some-more than a bought as well as paid for book of praise.
Barcelona based Investvine is an additional identical set up, which is clearly perplexing to get a piece of a movement (and lots of Sarawak's taxation money) by starting up with a same business model of removing politicians to compensate them to produce flattering 'investor guides'.
Investvine productions - imploring Middle East investors to put their income in depraved Malaysia!
Their initial inform was upon Malaysia (Najib is only as dependant to purchased praise) as well as their second onSarawak. Once again both Najib as well as Taib have been profitable out millions of ringgit of taxpayers income employing a same PR outfits to release press releases as well as reports to regard their activities.
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So, what of a seeking potion universe of these publications, which Taib presumably keeps by his bedside to reassure himself which everybody thinks well of him?
Investvine is part of Taib's anticipation drive to raise tens of billions of dollars from a Arab universe to deposit in his grand skeleton for SCORE, which aims to spin a centre of Sarawak in to an 'industrial zone', making some-more income for his own family as well as no a single much else.
Take a look during what Investvine's fat 'investor guide' called Inside Sarawak informs us about Taib's 'brilliant' son Abu Bekir. The whole essay is a destroyed try to transparent a patently unworthy when it comes to all a perks as well as privileges as well as positions which this none-too-clever immature male has been offered.
The try to white-wash all a crime involving a graduation of Taib's so! n is so clumsy which it undermines a own role by highlighting all a issues which a people of Sarawak have been so sick of. Try this example:
"As a key figure in 3 vital companies in Sarawak, Dato Sri MahmudAbuBekirTaib has to wear many hats. He is authority of Sarawak Cable Berhad, group emissary authority of Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) as well as additionally a shareholder in Titanium Management Sdn Bhd.These 3 positions have been enough to place him among a high-profile business leaders in a state. But Dato Sri Mahmud has an additional claim to celebrity he is a eldest son of a state's Chief Minister, Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud. However, a political blue-blood pedigree is circumstantial as far as he is concerned"![Inside Sarawak]
Who else is starting to judge it circumstantial? By perplexing to have excuses for such obvious nepotism a Taibs have been laughably drawing further attention to a matter as well as they aren't credible anyone, except maybe themselves. While a flattering nonsense about 'blue blood' only exposes a ridiculous love of flattery!
Re-writing history. Abu Bekir's privileges as well as shortcomings have been written up identical to personal triumphs!
From 'Dear Business Leader' to 'Dear Leader'?
The flattering essay shortly becomes even some-more revelatory. Because 'Inside Sarawak' creates transparent what we have all suspected, which is which Abu Bekir will shortly be mysteriously selected 'by a people of Sarawak' to stand in a protected BN constituency, so he can hope for to take over from his Daddy:
Dato Sri Mahmud has reportedly pronounced which he ! might en ter politics. He is among a favourites to reinstate his younger hermit Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib, for a Kota Samarahan council chair in a ubiquitous election."I have regularly thought governing body to be really interesting. we merely helped 'in a background' in a past. Now we feel which we can minister some-more directly to a people".
In actuality younger hermit Sulaiman has been starting to uncover his face in Parliament over in KL for a initial time in years, so it seems he might not be so willing to hand over his neglected chair after all! But, if it has been pronounced in Investvine's 'Inside Sarawak', afterwards we can be sure which Taib has sanctioned a statement.
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Sarawak Report's own inside information is in actuality which Abu Bekir will be given Mukah by his Daddy as well as which a Kota Samarahan chair is in rsther than programmed for his favoured cousin Ahmad Ibrahim, son ofIbrahim Mahmud(illegal recipient of many lands as well as favours from his hermit Taib).
We can expect some-more fireworks from Najib if this is a case, since a UMNO PM has already had prolonged battles with a Chief Minister about his attempts to fill practically all Sarawak's State as well as Parliamentary seats with tighten members of his own family!
What about Titanium Management ?
Nevertheless, if Abu Bekir is to be presented as a good success as a office worker as he moves in to politics, there have been positively a little vivid failures to be c! ontended with. The Taib resolution it seems has been to get 'Inside Sarawak' to re-write history turning his son's famous failures in to triumphs!
The many notorious affair was when Abu Bekir's newly proposed company Titanium Management was given a outrageous contract to build bridges by his father, despite a 0 experience or capability of his son in this field.
Everyone in Sarawak knows which a project was a disaster. Abu Bekir did not nearly finish a all bridges which had been assigned as well as his costs over-ran scandalously, forcing a State Parliament to almost stand in a payment.
But, this is how Investvine writes up a sorry story:
One of his initial projects after joining Titanium Management was to rebuild dozens of bridges originally put up by his father some-more than 30 years ago. They managed to finish a job during a cost much less than expected."We were concerned about replacing those bridges, especially with a new palm oil estates where a trucks were removing bigger as well as a aged bridges struggled to take a increased load," pronounced Dato Sri Mahmud. "We built them during a cheaper price."
Who do a Taib's consider they have been kidding?!
While an aged male retreats in to his anticipation world, refusing to speak to even his own newspapers as well as commissioning publications which speak solid nonsense, a people of Sarawak should consider prolonged as well as tough about how to have a many of their opportunities of a coming election. - Sarawak Report
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