As we are already underneath a onslaught of a UMNO/BN promotion machine in a weeks leading up to a 13th General Election, a little nugget has popped up which reminds us of a characteristics as well as attributes of a incoming government.
If we stop in 2008 UMNO/BN began acquiring a services of really costly general public relations consultants together with APCO as well as FBC. In both cases a contracts were exposed as well as in a future canceled. But not after much ink as well as video fasten had been spilled upon ad hominem attacks upon Anwar Ibrahim, a opposition, while blindly extolling a greatness of PM Najib Razak. These articles were portrayed as 'journalism' but they were in actuality anything but.
This complete failure was expertly exposed by SarawakReport.com hereand here.
One of a people during a core of this scandal as well as abuse of supervision energy was a American Joshua Trevino. In January Josh Trevino filed a report with a United States Department of Justice underneath a Foreign Agents Registration Unit. Any American you do work upon behalf of a unfamiliar supervision or politicians has to proactively register these activities with a Department of Justice.
Trevino's January filing is below.
In it we see as well as are reminded of a couple of engaging things.
1. Trevino was working upon behalf of a Prime Minister's office through a companies APCO Worldwide (Washington DC), FBC Media (London, right away defunct) as well as a David All Group (Washington DC, right away defunct, a employees engrossed in to APCO worldwide).
2. Trevino is no longer you do work for a Malaysian supervision since during a really least a 3rd quarter of 2012
3. Trevino perceived payments totaling $ 389,724.70 from May 2008 through Apr 2011 for a blogs he posted during MalaysiaMatters.com (now defunct) as well as MalaysiaMonitor.com (also defunct) as well as efforts to place alternative perspective pieces in US media.
4. Trevino additionally was paid to revisit Malaysia in 2008 as well as to attend a 3rd International Conference upon a Muslim World as well as a West as partial of his activities related to MalaysiaMatters.com
5. Josh Trevino was a conduit through which payments were made in 2010 to 10 a single more hired writers who published blogs as well as articles in a United Sates often aggressive Anwar Ibrahim as well as a Malaysian opposition. These amounts totaled $ 130,950.
These people included
Brad Jackson (received $ 24,700) who published articles aggressive Anwar Ibrahim during a regressive blog RedState.
Ben Domenech (received $ 36,000) who published articles aggressive Anwar Ibrahim as well as his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail during a regressive blog RedState together with this oneand this one upon a Huffington Post.
Claire Berlinski (received $ 6,750) who published essays aggressive Anwar Ibrahim during a regressive blog Ricochet.com here.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld (received $ 30,000) who published essays during FamilySecurityMatters.org aggressive Anwar Ibrahim an Georgetown Universityhe! re; a contributing editor as well as executive of a New York City formed American Center for Democracy as well as a single of a pass proponents of Islamophobia-fear in America.
Seth Mandel (received $ 5,500) who viciously pounded Anwar Ibrahim during FrontPageMagazine, a National Review, Daily Caller as well as alternative regressive blogs.
Chuck DeVore (received $ 3,000) former member of California State Assembly who ran for a US Senate in 2010 as well as mislaid in a Republican primary. Currently functions during a regressive Think Tank. He sent out emails andpublishedessays aggressive Anwar Ibrahim as well as was debunked here.
Rachel Motte (received $ 9,500) who pounded Anwar Ibrahim often during a right away gone blog called a New Ledger. One of her essays was so outrageous which she had to remove it when she was threatened with a law suit by a former US Ambassador for a libelous statements. (see my blog here). Rachel additionally posted during a Daily Caller as well as alternative regressive sites.
Christopher Badeaux (received $ 11,000)
David Brown (received $ 2,500)
Kevin Holtsberry (received $ 2,000)
Let us repeat. All of these people were paid BY THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT to publish essays which praised a Malaysian supervision as well as pounded Anwar Ibrahim in AMERICAN MEDIA as well as make it crop up similar to they were independent, UNBIASED writers. This is a crack of journalistic integrity during RedState, Huffington Post as well as every alternative opening which carried thesefrivolousessays.
This additionally reflects a ethics of he Malaysian supervision as well as a believe which it can throw a couple of million dollars to paper over a large corruption taking place underneath a purview simply byslingingsome mud during a political opponents.
Furth! ermore, a irony of a promotion is amazing. In Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim is regularly pounded as being a Jewish representative as well as american agent. However in many of these articles a paid writers attack him for being a terrorist sympathizer, an representative of thenefariousMuslim brotherhood as well as as well as frontman for in advance Islam who hides at a back of a facade of assuage Islam.
Trevino himself has turn a aim of some ridicule. He was about to stick on a staff of a Guardian when information about his writing-for-hireactivitieswas revealed to a British paper, which soon canceled his contract.
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