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| Diesel Smuggling In Johor More Than RM1.0M A Day Posted: 29 Dec 2012 11:56 PM PST I hope you all remember this story I wrote on October 29, 2012 : Ismail Sabri Wake Up : RM1.0M A Day Lost In Diesel Smuggling Some of you (maybe part of the corrupted people behind the smuggling rings) wrote and said how can RM1.0 million worth of diesel be smuggled out every day from Johor? Well just read this from The Star today :
Neighbouring country? Now which country would that be? Poland? Transylvania? Lithuania? Here is a picture of the Mongolian registered vessel.  Well first of all Mongolia is a landlocked country. There are no seaports in Mongolia. But this vessel is registered in Mongolia. Cool. Secondly 200,000 litres of diesel cannot be worth RM3.6 million. That works out to RM18.0 per litre. The Star must do better fact checking. Subsidised diesel is selling at RM1.80 per litre in Malaysia. That makes this boat load worth RM360,000 at subsidised prices. In Singapore diesel sells for about RM4.00 per liter. That makes this boatload worth RM800,000 in Singapore. This is just one boat load. But folks surely this cannot be the only boatload being smuggled "to neighbouring countries" everyday. Suspicious lorry tankers were transferring diesel to this boat in Teluk Sengat. Surely there must be a general manager, a logistics manager, a paymaster, cashier, bank account holders, money transfer guys, the shipping agents, ship owners, the shipping forwarders, suppliers of the smuggled diesel etc who must all be involved before they can load up 200,000 litres of diesel on a ship at a jetty in Teluk Sengat? Katakanlah everyday there are FIVE boatloads leaving Johor, that is easily 1.0 million LITRES of diesel. That is worth RM4.0 million in Singapore already - per day. I wrote about this on October 29th, 2012. Today is 30th December 2012 - two months have passed before we read of this ship being detained. So how many boatloads of diesel have been smuggled out from Johor since October? Even if just ONE boat load a day x 200k litres x 60 days x RM4.00 per litre = RM48.0 Million in two months. If there are THREE boatloads a day, that adds up to RM144.0 Million in two months. If there are FIVE boatloads a day being smuggled out, that is RM240.0 Million in two months. That is a lot of money. A lot of payoffs. Diesel smuggling in Johor is rampant. It has become an industry. Everyone from top to bottom must be involved (and be paid off) if this scale of smuggling can still go on. I am surprised that it is the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency that made this seizure. Where is the Jabatan Kastam? Where is Ismail Sabri? Hang yang jadi Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri. Syabas to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. Hopefully they will wrap up this diesel smuggling business. |
| The Poyo Coming Home To Roost In Sudan Posted: 29 Dec 2012 05:00 PM PST Someone commented why I keep highlighting all these negative stories about the Arab countries that are collapsing. I keep highlighting them because they keep happening - they are really under great duress. And I see similarities between what is causing their collapse and the situation in our country. This following news about Sudan is adapted from Middle East sources.
How long does it take for milk to go bad? It takes only a few hours if left exposed at room temperature. McDonald's fries are quite indestructible - they can last a few days (or weeks). I once discovered a full packet of cheese under the front seat of the car. It had been there for a couple of weeks and it did not go bad at all. This is not good ok because we dont know what they put in the fries and cheese that keeps them from going bad. It is not natural. Fortunately if the milk goes sour or the cheese turns bad it is not a crisis issue for everyday you and me. Just buy another carton of milk or buy some more cheese. How long does it take for a country to go bad? How long does it take for a country to do good? It takes about 20 to 40 years for things to go terribly wrong. The downward spiral of Sudan began in the late 1970s. In 1982 when I was a student in the US, there was an 'Islamic students' gathering (I used to hang out with the religious freaks at that time). A guy by the name of Hassan Thurabi came to talk. He was part of the jihadist opposition in Sudan. Through coup d'etats etc Hassan Thurabi came to power in the Sudan in 1989. Long before that he was already very influential with his jihadist beliefs. In 1979 he was made the Minister of Justice. (In 1983 strongman Gaafar Numeiry imposed the sharia in Sudan. That sealed their fate.) But it was Thurabi who was very influential in introducing the sharia and the general "religionisation" of society like wearing the tudung for women and so on. I asked him a question about how should an Islamic country handle non-Muslim minorities? He was dismissive of the question and said 'we can give them some rights'. He actually gestured with his wrists in a dismissive manner. This was in 1982. I can still remember it like yesterday. Hassan Thurabi went back to cause major chaos in Sudan. He expanded his religion of hatred. He spent much time highlighting differences between the Muslims and others in Sudan. Not only was Sudan divided between muslim and christian, there were also Arab Muslims (the ruling classes) and the African Muslims (former slaves of the Arabs). The tool for causing even larger divisions in society was the sharia - or the Sudan version of sharia. Hassan Thurabi looked at non Muslims with his dismissive "we can give them some rights". In his world view, his fellow human beings were unequal simply because of the religion they believed. Making it worse was that the Sudan was already divided into Arab, African, Muslim, christian, animist, tribal and other divisions. Then two things happened. The first thing was that the sharia did not help the Sudanese improve their lot in life. They still had to buy their underwear from China. They remain as unproductive as ever. They are not scientifically or technologically advanced and neither are they a very modern people. The Sudanese Muslims willingly (and some less willingly) accepted more and more religious restrictions imposed on their society. This is not unlike what the PAS has achieved in Kelantan or what has been done in our Government schools in Malaysia. In no time Sudan became a failed state and its people who were already poor became even poorer. This is despite Sudan being an oil producing country. They burnt off their oil wealth. Subsidy here, subsidy there, pay three to four times market price for Gomen projects, undertook silly Gomen projects, the connected became rich, the productivity did not go up enough. Now the oil money has gone and judgement day has come to the Sudan. The second thing that happened was that the Christian minority in the south had had enough of the bullying by the jihadists in the north. So they got up, organised themselves and kicked the butts of the northerners. There was civil war. So last year the Sudan was split into Muslim majority Sudan and the new independent christian majority South Sudan with a population of about nine million people. The division is also along tribal lines because Sudanese belonged to tribes from before christianity or Islam came to their country to mess them up. The catch is 3/4 of the oil wealth is in the South Sudan. The north is therefore in deep trouble. As we speak, they are sliding down day by day. Subsidies have been cut, fuel and food prices are rising, their Gomen has got no money for the budget, they still need to buy their underwear from China, they still think they are going to heaven, they still think they are God's chosen, they still think their version of sharia will lead the way and light up the world. They are in really deep stuff. The serious damage to Sudan was done in about 20 years between say 1980 and 2000. It takes time for a country to turn sour or go bad. It takes a continuous series of wrong policies, a prolonged belief in illogical, irrational religious rules, a long period of enforcing nonsensical religious laws which do not work, creating more and more hatreds in society between Muslims and non-Muslims, creating more ridiculous restrictions on Muslims (especially women) and chasing after some strange 11th century arab culture has taken Sudan into the trash dump. Poyo in slang Malay means sombong or proud. It is now coming home to roost in the Sudan. Between the two, the country to watch now is the South Sudan. Firstly they have the oil wealth. They have made English their only official language. Their schools and education system will be in English. (The north speaks Arabic). This will give South Sudan a jump start over the north. If they get their act together the South Sudan should see much progress in the next 10 to 20 years. Plus the South Sudan does not have sharia. No tudung for their women, no this haram, that haram, this tak boleh, that tak boleh, semua tak boleh. Will the world miss Sudan? Is the Sudan relevant to the world around them? Other than the oil resources, I dont think so. Please look around your house. Do you see any technology products or value added products Made in Sudan? I dont think so. If an alien space ship came out of the sky and sucked up all the Sudanese into the sky, how many people are going to miss them? What I am trying to say is they are not relevant to other human beings. They make themselves irelevant. And now their country is headed for real trouble. People have no jobs, no economy and no food to eat. If only they could eat sharia for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But that too is not possible. I believe this can happen to Malaysia. We are also burning oil money. We give out subsidies and more subsidies. We have the GLCs burning money, spending huge amounts of our limited resources pursuing less value added, non technology businesses. We have the cronies. Lets get back to time. Are we headed the same way? How long will it take Malaysia to reach a point of no retrun? The tipping point. Religious intolerance is increasing in the people. Too much hate filled religion in the education system has messed up the minds of millions. They even get angry if you say 'Merry Christmas' to the christians. And we are still largely uncompetitive. Without the umbrella - nothing much works. We too buy our underwear from China. The 'Islam' variety is still elusive. What if the oil money runs out? Or the oil money is not enough? Sudan is perhaps a mirror - reflecting what can be. |
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