Eyeing issues on 1MDB Malaysia episode 9

The Third Force

On the 7th of February 2007, HSBC Holdings became the world’s first financial institution to announce colossal losses owing to the unprecedented number of subprime mortgages it had written. The announcement came less than five months after the bank triggered its first ever profit warning by making public the closure of its Arizona and South Carolina based Decision One Mortgage unit

Then the world’s third largest bank in terms of net asset worth, the British multinational attributed these losses to a spike in delinquencies by homeowners who, according to the bank, couldn’t cope with adjustments to their mortgage interest rates. The announcement opened a floodgate of reactions and criticism by investors who were overwhelmed that a bank reputed for its stringent assessment protocols and rigorous standards of performance could have succumbed to such a high rate of defaults.

In a bid to defend the bank, a group of analysts from Dealogic (refer part eight, link below) claimed to trace most delinquencies to people affected by the decline in manufacturing throughout the US. However, documents my team sighted revealed that not only did the bank approve mortgages in neighbourhoods that were destitute of economic activity, those who were granted loans didn’t even come close to meeting the minimum criteria set by the bank.

Years later, on the 5th of February 2016, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman announced that the bank had been fined USD470m (£325m) for its role in “abusive mortgage practices.” What Schneiderman failed to mention, however, was the billions the bank made through systemic fraud schemes that assisted billionaires, arms dealers, terrorists and drug lords from around the world spirit out dirty money from the Mideast.

Most of that wealth was secretly channelled to anonymous entities based in Panama and the British Virgin Islands that were linked to world renowned billionaire George Soros. Comprising largely of hedge funds, these entities converted most of the ill-gotten wealth into fixed assets in the United States (US) and used those assets as ‘security’ to purchase bonds through the secondary mortgage market.

Because of this, many investment banks across the US began snapping up a large portion of HSBC’s mortgage debt and used the mortgage as backup to issue a large number of bonds. Through this scheme, HSBC was able to pull all its dirty money into legitimate assets without anyone suspecting anything.

The net result was the creation of a housing bubble that soared property prices all across the US, including prices of assets purchased by the hedge funds. In order to inflate that bubble, Soros got the funds to keep on purchasing bonds despite some of them being ridiculously priced. You’re reading all of this for the first time ever in Malaysia Today.

How it all began

When HSBC first announced losses, its Chief Executive, Michael Geoghegan, promised investors that “everything was under control,” that “things would not deteriorate any further.” However, the situation was not as contained as Geoghegan had implied.

My team discovered a trove of documents that revealed how Geoghegan’s team had approved mortgage lending to persons who were already in default with financial institutions. It puzzled my team that HSBC signed these people up anyway. The fact that they numbered in the thousands struck off the possibility that the bank had erred in its judgement or factored in guarantees from third party individuals.

Then, an activity log we stumbled upon revealed that the bank had organised massive promotional tours between the fourth quarter of 2004 and the first quarter of 2005. It shocked my team that the tours were specifically targeted at people from downtrodden communities in rural townships. A separate trove of documents showed clearly how these people were conned into refinancing their homes through adjustable-rate mortgage schemes.

To lure this group, banking officials spoke only of the cash homeowners would receive should they refinance their homes. They deliberately neglected to explain that the mortgages would ‘reset’ after two years at double the interest rate. As a result, many were caught off-guard when interests began to soar late in 2006.

Squeezed for cash, those affected sought recourse to the bank as their mortgages lapsed into defaults. Rather than work out a rescue package, HSBC began serving these people eviction notices, knowing well in advance that they could not afford the legal fees required to trigger lawsuits against the bank.

Seeing no alternative, a large group of defaulters began filing petitions against the bank through interest groups that had links running deep through Washington. When Geoghegan came to know of this, he secretly instructed his subordinates to bulldoze through foreclosure documents without the need to properly review paperwork. By mid 2007, millions of Americans found themselves being chased out of their homes without ever being offered a recourse by the bank.

None of what happened ever made it to the media simply because the bank conspired with US authorities and Soros to keep such information from the public. Basically, not even the CEO of your local bank knows any of this because much of what the analysts reported was fabricated, the same way Clare Rewcastle Brown of the Sarawak Report fabricates stories against 1MDB.

To what extent was Soros responsible for the crisis?

While HSBC may have been responsible for creating a housing bubble, it was not alone in the scheme of things. When prices of property began to soar, a large number of financial institutions got greedy and began writing an unrealistic number of low quality (subprime) mortgages. They were able to do this because a large number of investment banks were willing to purchase those mortgages.

Among institutions that dived into the subprime mortgage scene were JPMorgan Chase & Co (JP) and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc (Goldman), two of America’s foremost financial institutions by net asset worth (refer part eight). Barclays became the second British multinational after HSBC to enter the scene, while The Bear Stearns Companies (Stearns), Inc became the first New York based financial institution to set up hedge funds just for the purpose.

The funds – the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund (SCF) and the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leveraged Fund (SC-SCF) – were inspired by the bank’s then chairman, James E. Cayne, though many are unaware that it was Soros who got Cayne to set the funds up in 2004.

Stearns acted as an investment bank and snapped up a large chunk of mortgage debt from several financial institutions. Using these mortgages as backup, Stearns went on to issue bonds (securities) and sold them to its own funds and to institutions that were enticed by the booming property market. On the surface, there seemed to be no cause for concern as everything appeared legal and orderly.

However, unbeknown to many, Soros secretly channelled ill-gotten wealth from companies linked to HSBC into the SC-SCF and the SCF. Both the funds went on to convert that wealth into fixed assets through developers linked to Stearns. As the housing bubble ballooned, so did the prices of the assets and the confidence with which the two funds stocked up on bonds through the secondary mortgage market.

Two years later, Soros got the chair and cofounder of The Carlyle Group (Carlyle), Daniel A. D’Aniello, to follow suit by establishing the Carlyle Capital Corporation (CCC), yet another hedge fund that appeared to have an insatiable appetite for subprime mortgages. Like Stearns, the CCC helped Soros pull millions and millions of dollars from Panama and the BVI into legitimate assets through the US financial system.

Now, Soros was not alone. He was assisted by Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius, the current non-executive director of the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC. Marcus joined Barclays on the 1st of September 2006 as its non-executive director and succeeded Matthew Barrett as chairman from the 1st of January 2007.

By then, Marcus had already grown some deep roots within the banking fraternity through his father in-law, Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild. Edmund was a well-placed English financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. As far as Edmund was concerned, no major decision that concerned investments into hedge or wealth funds could be made by any member of the clan without Marcus’ consent.

Despite him wielding a non-executive position in Barclays, Marcus often got what he wanted owing to his ties with the Rothschilds. At the height of the housing bubble, Soros got Marcus to agree on the establishment of a secondary network of offshore entities that would channel more wealth through the CCC and the Stearns’ funds.

The more wealth these funds got, the more they invested in the booming property market. Marcus convinced Barclays’ top executives to dive into the mortgage market. Because of him, Barclays was able to free a lot of its capital and went on to issue subprime mortgages like there was no tomorrow.

The plan seemed so foolproof that neither Soros nor Marcus foresaw what came after. Days before HSBC triggered its first profit warning, the duo got word that the bank had cheated existing homeowners and loan defaulters into mortgage schemes they could never have afforded. Both Soros and Marcus knew that shit was about to hit the fan.

In June 2007, Soros watched in horror as the Stearns’ funds recorded off-the-chart losses and were forced to dump assets. Trouble spread through Wall Street as JP, Goldman and Citigroup began loaning tons of money to the SC-SCF and the SCF to contain the housing bubble. But that only compounded to losses on all fronts as the bubble suffered a total collapse some time in July 2007.

The market suffered a “complete evaporation of liquidity” and plunged the banking sector into chaos. The problem spread worldwide when currencies became the subject of speculation and experienced sudden and volatile price movements. The 2007 financial crisis had begun, sparking a general run of investor withdrawals due to the worsening financial climate.

Many journalists and academicians vindicated Soros of blame by pointing their fingers at HSBC. But had it not been for Marcus and Soros, millions of Americans would never have lost their homes, while hundreds and thousands of Asians would never have been let off by American multinationals based in the region.

And yes, you’re reading this for the first time ever in Malaysia Today.

Eyeing issues on 1MDB Malaysia episode 8

The Third Force

On the 18th of December 2015, a group of analysts based in the United Kingdom (UK) reported that JP Morgan Chase & Co. (or JP) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (or Goldman), two of America’s foremost financial institutions by net asset worth, came in first and a close second respectively in a global rating system that measured the performance of financial institutions based on fees collected.

According to these analysts, both JP and Goldman had dominated the global securities scene by underwriting massive amounts of debt instruments for various government owned entities. My team discovered that JP alone had underwritten more than USD4 billion in green and sustainability themed bonds and arranged capital worth approximately USD2 billion for renewable energy in the United States (US) alone.

However, it struck us as weird that these analysts blacked out information that pertained to certain corporations JP had done business with. One might have thought that to be the least critical of information the bank would have wanted concealed. Whatever little information we stumbled upon told us something was wrong, that the analysts were hiding something from the general public.

Upon further inspection, we discovered that most corporations doing business with JP were linked directly to the US government, or more accurately, the Obama administration. Some of this information was classified and deemed a matter of national security. However, documents we sighted revealed that the analysts did not want the world to know how JP was the vehicle through which the Obama administration raised tons and tons of capital through massive debt instruments guaranteed at “anomalous rates.”

Yet, the media cast its spotlight on Goldman since 2013 for underwriting bonds worth billions of dollars for 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a sovereign wealth fund wholly owned by the government of Malaysia. They accused banking insiders of conspiring with the Malaysian government to guarantee bonds at rates they described were “astonishingly anomalous.”

A 9th of May 2013 posting by Bloomberg read as follows:

“In the first quarter, New York-based Goldman reported a 36 percent increase in investment banking fees, including a 69 percent rise in fixed-income underwriting revenue. Fees across the industry gained 17 percent, according to a report by Alison Williams, a Bloomberg Industries investment banking analyst.

“1MDB and Goldman are coming under increased scrutiny after the fund sold $3 billion of 4.4 percent, 10-year notes privately on March 19. The sale was hurried because it required a government letter of support, said the person familiar with the process.”

That was on JP.

A quick check by my team revealed that Bloomberg had almost nothing on JP other than some positive insights and performance data. Not once did Bloomberg state the “fixed-income underwriting revenue” or the “percentage increase in investment banking fees” the bank recorded between the years 2013 and 2016 in a single article. When it came to Goldman, there were a bunch of reports for the first quarter of 2015 alone that presented these figures at astonishingly high rates.

Yes, the heat was on 1MDB, and for very sinister reasons. Today, we’re about to discover that reason and figure out how it relates to the global media conspiracy to sabotage 1MDB. As we go along and through an article due by the month end, we will uncover a massively convoluted and multifaceted conspiracy by a laundry list of prominent people to mislead the Malaysian government and to siphon funds from 1MDB.

Mahathir and the conspiracy to implicate Goldman Sachs

In 2012, 1MDB found that it did not have the funds to complete the purchase of two power plants it needed to realise its power ambitions. In order to raise capital for the purchase, two of its subsidiaries – 1MDB Energy Limited and 1MDB Energy (Langat) Limited – issued bonds worth USD1.75 billion each that were jointly guaranteed by the wealth fund and an Abu Dhabi owned Investment Company, the International Petroleum Investment Company, or IPIC.

It’s a little like taking a loan. Only in this case, the money is not issued by a bank, but raised through the sale of bonds (or debt instruments) to willing buyers (investors) upon the promise of an interest on the face value of the bonds. But the end result is quite the same – 1MDB effectively took a ‘loan’ and was obligated to pay an interest on that ‘loan’.

The bank that helped 1MDB sell the bonds to potential investors was none other than Goldman, which guaranteed that the bonds would be sold for no less than a minimum price set by the bank itself. That guarantee amounted to the ‘act’ of underwriting the bonds, in that Goldman agreed to absorb risks arising from the possibility that it would not be able to find enough purchasers to buy the bonds.

In the event the bonds could not be sold, Goldman would either have had to hold those bonds on their books or sell them below the minimum price and suffer losses. But none of that happened. Instead, Goldman was able to rake in profit owing to the sale of those bonds along with some others issued in 2013 at prices higher than the preset minimum.

Now, such dealings are commonplace in the world of banking and isn’t something anyone needs to shout about. Besides, the actual fee charged by any bank underwriting a bond is subject to an agreement exclusive to the bank and the issuer of the bond. Considering that Goldman had committed to potential contingent risks, it was at liberty to rate those risks by evaluating 1MDB’s financial health and its ability to service interests.

I hope you got all of that clear.

Now, when the media (Bloomberg, WSJ and The Guardian in particular) spoke of Goldman’s revenue, it did so by announcing that the bank had raked in earnings worth a certain percentage of the face value of the bonds. That percentage ranged anywhere from 7.7 percent to 9.1 percent, depending on which portal you logged on to and the day you logged on to that portal.

In other words, the media was simply messing with your minds. At times, it reported revenue by accounting only proceeds from the sale of bonds. At other times, it clumped together net profits generated through the sale of bonds and the fees collected for underwriting services provided. In neither instance did the media deliver us the truth.

Yes, the media has been lying to you all this while.

Both Bloomberg and WSJ implied that Goldman had dissipated half its proceeds through offshore entities, a portion of which ended up in Najib’s accounts. Now, I have sighted enough material and evidence to tell you with conviction that all of what the media reported, including that which was reported by Sarawak Report, was fabricated in ways that made it seem as if 1MDB had conspired with unnamed Goldman insiders to receive kickbacks from the sale of the bonds.

The media was not alone. It was assisted by analysts, politicians and journalists who possessed enough information to showcase the bank’s actual earnings to the fourth decimal. That information is currently being withheld to drag investigations into Goldman and 1MDB until such a time that Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak is forced to step down as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Among those who conspired to conceal similar evidence from authorities are former premier Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, former deputy premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Sarawak Report Chief Editor Clare Rewcastle Brown, Malaysia Chronicle Chief Editor Tian Chua and Malaysian Member of Parliament, Tony Pua.

Now, if you’re thinking that Muhyiddin is Mahathir’s choice candidate for the post of Prime Minister, you’re dead wrong. That person is none other than Mahathir himself, who entered into an agreement my team stumbled upon last Thursday, the 22nd of December 2016. Accordingly, Mahathir promised George Soros that he would supplant Najib as Prime Minister in the event the ruling Barisan Nasional loses the 2017 general election.

And believe me, I speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. One sure way to establish the validity of this information is for Mahathir to trigger a lawsuit against me if he thinks I am lying. Both of us could then meet in court and let all hell break loose until the sun comes up and we see who is left standing.

What other lies did the media and the analysts spew?

For the past three years or so, JP has been the bank with the largest-growing-investment-banking fees worldwide. Last year alone, it chalked up quite a huge profit through the sale of bonds it underwrote for the US government. These gains were not inclusive of fees it charged the Obama administration and accounted only for the sale of government bonds.

The remaining of JP’s recorded earnings since 2013 was derived through equity financing, mergers, acquisitions, and syndicated loans. Goldman never came close to JP and barely made it to the second spot last year regardless the rating system employed.

But the media has been saying something entirely different. In 2013, several news channels declared Goldman to be the securities firm with “the largest-growing-investment-banking fees.” Not only was that an outright lie, it amounted to a deliberate attempt by the media to impress upon the people that Goldman had benefitted immensely from the Malaysian government through the sale of 1MDB bonds.

Yes, not many are aware that the conspiracy to put the spotlight on Goldman began in 2013 itself – sometime after the 13th Malaysian general election. A prominent Malaysian politician was the first person approached to participate in the conspiracy. If what I am told is true, that person is none other than Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, the former deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.

So who were the analysts, and what did they have to do with Soros and the world media?

The people who rated JP and Goldman were from Dealogic, a financial markets platform headquartered in London that offers integrated content and analytical services to financial institutions worldwide. Established in 1983, the company was the brainchild of Sir Peter Ogden, a Soros associate the media keeps referring to as a multimillionaire.

However, not only is Ogden worth billions, it was he who helped found Computacenter, UK’s fastest growing independent company worth a staggering three billion British pounds. Ogden’s links run deep with both Soros and Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius, the non-executive director of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It was Marcus who insisted that Ms. Rewcastle be roped into Soros’ team to lead the Malaysia chapter of the media campaign against 1MDB.

On the 5th of November 2014, The Carlyle Group (Carlyle) snapped up more than 50 percent of Dealogic’s shares for a meagre USD700 million. Overseeing the purchase was Carlyle’s chairman, Daniel A. D’Aniello, who founded the company together with two of his associates on Soros’ advice.

At the time of acquisition, D’Aniello sought advice from JP Morgan, the same bank that conspired with former British premier Tony Blair to leak confidential information that pertained to 1MDB and its dealings with the Mideast. In a quid pro quo arrangement not known to many, D’Aniello agreed to absorb one of JP’s employees into Carlyle as the company’s deputy president.

That employee was Michael Cavanagh, who served under JP’s Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon for more than two decades. Some months after the acquisition, it was revealed that Cavanagh was promised USD26.1 million in stock and USD 5 million in cash bonus despite being a fresh face in the company. A year later, Cavanagh raised many eyebrows when he quit Carlyle after receiving all that wealth.

Unbeknown to many, the person who arranged Cavanagh’s multimillion dollar walk through Carlyle was none other than Tony Blair, a staunch Dimon associate. In 2008, Dimon appointed Blair as JP’s advisor, a role that earned the former British premier two million pounds a year without him having to enter office on a regular basis. It was through Blair’s association with Dimon and Cavanagh that the former British premier first got to know of 1MDB’s dealings with the Mideast.

Cavanagh’s brief stint with Carlyle and the company’s acquisition of Dealogic left an information trail that told analysts everything they needed to know about 1MDB. Cavanagh was there to assist Dealogic crunch figures in ways that toned down JP’s performance and to conceal evidence the public did not need to know.

And yes, he was there to make it seem as if Goldman had struck the jackpot through its dealings with 1MDB. Could that be the reason why he was paid a sum of money Carlyle veterans could only dream of earning?

Eyeing issues on 1MDB Malaysia episode 7

The Third Force

Talk about 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), and the names Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Bloomberg, the New York Times (NYT) and The Guardian immediately come to mind. These are but a few of the many news channels that have been persistent with attacks against the sovereign wealth fund, to a point that Malaysians now perceive 1MDB to be something of an embarrassment to the nation.

So what do we do?

Well, one way to go about it is for the government to employ able journalists to reverse that perception. And I’m talking about the smart ones, guys who are willing to spend countless hours to dig the truth up and to venture into areas other than their fields of expertise.

But it’s not going to be easy. Not because it is impossible to find journalists with skills to wage powerful and effective truth-campaigns, but because the currency of persuasion is no longer the truth. Today, no amount of honest reporting could possibly undo the harm George Soros caused this nation through fake reporting and media propaganda.

And I’m referring to the world media collectively here, the one currently in Soros’ grip. If you aren’t already aware, it is he who decides the kind of stuff that gets into the mainstream media and shapes perception. That is to say, it is the Soros version of ‘truth’ that ultimately floods the internet and is delivered through your mobiles as ‘breaking stories’.

Most of these ‘truths’ are taken as gospel by our readers and is thought to reflect the general ‘worldview’. I am told by elders here that the general perception among locals has changed very little since the days of occupation. To the average Malaysian, the Westerner is ‘better cultured’ and endemically inclined towards reason and sensibility. He or she is better behaved and accustomed to politics of equity and justice.

Soros is aware of all this, as is Clare Rewcastle Brown, the Chief Editor of Sarawak Report. However, Ms. Rewcastle also knows that the ink of perception is far more difficult to erase than is the ink of reason and sensibility. She knows better than anyone that the more the westerner funnels untruths into the Malaysian conscience, the more the Malaysian worships the untruth and regards it the truth.

The fake news conspiracy

The damage caused by the world media has been severe. So severe, the general narrative on 1MDB is now reduced to something quite dismal, and in most cases, outright depressing. Adding to that depression is the fact that most editorials are found dense with financial jargon and heavily accented English. I get the feeling that one would need to be an expert in economics just to understand what is being said by Bloomberg and WSJ.

And I kid you not. Just take a quick glance at any one edition by these dailies. When it comes to 1MDB, you’ll find yourself pausing at every other sentence dealing with money trails, bond deals, debt instruments and whatnot. It’s almost as if these articles were targeted at foreign investors or financial analysts who were well versed with complex economic terms. But really, this is not the case.

On the contrary, these articles were designed to impress upon Malaysians that 1MDB is just too corrupt, that no one author could possibly furnish narratives in simple or concise forms. Writers are abiding by the principle that the more complicated an article, the less likely a reader would stop to think. They believe that the denser an article is with complex financial terms, the more likely our guys would find the article credible.

Yes, they are aware of the flawed Malaysian intellect.

So it wouldn’t matter to WSJ or Bloomberg if their articles spanned thousands of words or bore untruths to the highest of degrees. What matters most is the tone in which their articles are narrated. To them, an article must deliver the impression of conspiracy without a reader ever having to go line by line, word by word.

Such is the extent of the world media conspiracy against 1MDB that one can only imagine if there is information left out there that is honest and correct. And even if there is, such information is likely buried beneath a heap of junk that Soros gets the media to pile on a weekly basis just to make sure a reader would never find the truth he or she desires.

And I’m not making this up.

Once an article bearing a truth has broken the internet to a sufficient degree, Soros assigns his team of writers – mainly from the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) – to say something to the contrary. Of course, his team ensures that the most crucial of ‘search terms’ contained within the original article is retained and reinserted into the new publications.

The end result is a seemingly endless stream of publications pitching ‘new evidences’ every other week. Soros is assisted by a group of analysts based in the UK – who I will talk about more in an article due this Christmas – to manipulate information in ways that generate new ‘evidences’. With all the ‘evidence’ being poured into the internet, it is a wonder if you will ever stumble upon truths by relying on the World Wide Web as your source of information.

Enter Clare Rewcastle Brown

Soros knew from day one that the media conspiracy would not work without someone who knew the Malaysian mindset well. It is for that reason, above all else, that he got former British premier Tony Blair to rope Clare Rewcastle Brown into his team to focus on the Malaysian audience. He knew Ms. Rewcastle was right for the job because Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius told him so.

Now, Marcus is one name that will be of significance in articles to come after this. Suffice to say, he is currently a non-executive director with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the same BBC that both Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew Brown, were once associated with. It is through this association that the three got acquainted with one another some years back.

Marcus knew just how persuasive and well-expressed Ms. Rewcastle could get. In 2011, the Sarawak Report Chief Editor was engaged in a vendetta of sorts against a former Chief Minister of Sarawak, Tun Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud. It was through Ms. Rewcastle’s articles that Marcus saw how effective she was in funnelling doubt into the minds of a people against the established order.

That is another reason why he needed Soros to rope her in. To secure a commitment, Blair’s team promised to latch her husband, Andrew Brown, to the coattails of some well placed officials in China who held jurisdiction in the nuclear industry. Soros acquiesced to the offer but made it clear that 1MDB needed slapping down before Andrew could hope to cash in on the deal.

Soros didn’t regret his decision. Ms. Rewcastle proved to be the right choice to lead the Malaysia chapter of the world media campaign. Soros discovered that the Sarawak Report Chief Editor knew a thing or two about the Malaysian conscience. She knew that the Malaysian ‘thing’ was all about gossip and hearsay, not the nitty-gritty details as to who sold what bonds, when and where.

Equipped with such knowledge, Ms. Rewcastle did away with most of the complicated jargon you’d find in Bloomberg and WSJ articles and filled the gaps with tales of how Najib curried favours from the Arabs. It’s a wonder she didn’t tell us the one about 1MDB CEOs climbing Mount Sinai to sign a multibillion dollar deal with God Himself.

Because of her, a large number of Malaysians now believe that the country is going bankrupt, that Najib and his family are crooks of the highest order. Because of her also, the majority of Malaysians will never be able to tell you exactly how much money was ‘stolen’ from 1MDB, or for that matter, if the money was stolen at all.

But all of that is about to change.

By this Christmas, Malaysians will get their first glimpse into a conspiracy by a laundry list of prominent people to siphon funds from 1MDB. By the end of the month, people subscribing to Malaysia Today as their ‘truth channel’ will know for sure just what happened to the money the Emiratis alleged was never paid to them by the Malaysian wealth fund.

But I think Ms. Rewcasrle already has an idea about what I’m about to reveal. Not only does she know what happened to the ‘stolen’ 1MDB funds, she is in touch with the people who conspired to mislead the Malaysian government. Not only that, she herself conspired with the media and a group of Mideast businessmen to withhold evidence from the London Court of International Arbitration, evidence that would immediately have cleared 1MDB of wrongdoing.

Likewise, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch conspired with a team of Malaysian saboteurs and the FBI to conceal evidence in a bid to implicate an unnamed Malaysian official of wrongdoing. Ms. Rewcastle claims that the unnamed official is none other than the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak. However, both Ms. Rewcastle and Lynch may have conspired to conceal evidence that would immediately have cleared Najib from the burden of guilt.

Yes, there is a lot Ms. Rewcastle kept from us.

Seriously, I am beginning to think of myself as the Grinch who will steal Christmas from Ms. Rewcastle this year. I’ll have her know that I’ll be tipping my glass of Champaign in her honour on the 25th of the month, thinking of her as a mouse whose tail is caught under my paw…

Eyeing issues on 1MDB Malaysia episode 6

The Third Force

An international syndicate of saboteurs led by world renowned billionaire George Soros went on the offensive last Thursday, the 8th of December 2016, as Malaysia Today persisted in hosting a series of hard-hitting articles that made public their devious agenda. The articles have laid bare, for the first time ever, details pertaining to a decades-old complicity to impose a remote form of jurisdiction over Southeast Asian economies (links to relevant articles below).

Written by me and currently in its fifth instalment, the series has thus far taken the wraps off a massively convoluted and multifaceted complicity involving key individuals, establishments, institutions and agencies, both local and foreign, to cripple the Malaysian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Thrid Force-MT

But that is not all. Two weeks ago, Malaysians were shocked to learn that a former British premier had a big hand in the scheme of things and is the reason the world media is now focused on a federal owned local entity. It was the first time ever that Malaysians got to know of Tony Blair’s complicity with Soros to sabotage 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a sovereign wealth fund wholly owned by the government of Malaysia.

Not only is Blair involved, he is currently the brains behind a Soros led media collective that has pledged some form of a vendetta against 1MDB. What surprised Malaysians most was the revelation of yet another complicity, this time between Blair and Clare Rewcastle Brown, the sister in-law of former British premier Gordon Brown, to sabotage 1MDB and all dealings pertaining to the wealth fund and its attendant concerns with several Mideast entities.

The revelation infuriated Ms. Rewcastle so much that she came right out the very next day to rebuke my claims. But her 29th of November 2016 attempt at a rebuke was anything but a rebuke, or for that matter, a rebuttal. At first glance, it would seem quite unbecoming of a former BBC reporter to forget that a rebuttal would only be a rebuttal if it served to oppose or refute arguments it was intended to oppose. But if you’re thinking it was an oversight on Ms. Rewcastle’s part, you’re dead wrong.

On the contrary, it is a perfect example of how she confuses her audiences with each article she pens. Most, if not all her posts may appear factual or intended to advance a specific point, but are in fact miles from the truth and derived off conjectures, hearsay and circumstantial evidence. And that’s how it usually is with fake news channels run by fake journalists who shepherd their audiences down the garden path.

Ms. Rewcastle understands better than anybody that in journalism a writer may easily get away with murder if he or she were as fluent and as persuasive as her, enough to weave untruths through a selection of truths and turn them into breaking stories. And that’s just what she does – she puts together fabrications in ways that would sensationalise an otherwise meaningless plot or story, making it appear substantive enough to warrant attention or concern.

But that isn’t how I function. For instance, when I tell you that both Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew Brown, were once involved in a financial scandal that rocked the British government and had to do with her brother in-law, Gordon Brown, it isn’t a mere allegation or figment of my wild imagination. Rather, it is the absolute truth and nothing but the truth, with no conjectures or hearsay weaved into my narrative to make sensational my story or make hills out of moles.

With that assurance, I can tell you exactly how both Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew, ended up being paid taxpayer money worth 6,577 British pounds between the years 2004 and 2006. The money was paid by Gordon, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to arrange for cleaning services for his Westminster flat. Now, I assure you that I will be back with a very detailed account of the scandal at a much later date once I am done with this series, anticipated to span some 20 parts or more.

Suffice to say, the scandal was deemed by some in the British House of Commons as a deliberate act of criminal malfeasance on Gordon’s part and an abuse of position by a public official to receive gratification. Ms. Rewcastle took the heat off herself and her husband by gallantly defending Gordon, saying, “He definitely needed a cleaner when in London, and it was part of his expenses entitlement.”

Clare-Andrew

She insisted that her brother in-law was “extremely scrupulous and conscientious in these matters,” calling the negative publicity her husband received “pretty damn unfair.” Yes, to Ms. Rewcastle, it is “pretty damn unfair” when her own husband is implicated in a conspiracy to siphon taxpayer’s money through a family member holding office. She believes herself and her husband to be “victims of circumstance,” but calls me a liar when I speak of a complicity that may have turned Najib and his family into “victims of circumstance.”

Can you imagine this lady?

Now, this is the same lady who runs Sarawak Report, a fake news channel masquerading as a “Media Courthouse” of sorts to provision Malaysians with recourse to justice. Her editorials are so far off tangent, the only thing I perceive in them is the sad excuse of a human being whose moral scruples are scattered and smothered in ambiguity. And it is this ambiguity that shrouds the Sarawak Report, a portal that claims to be on the path of righteousness but in fact concealed from Malaysians the financial scandal both Ms. Rewcastle and her husband were once embroiled in.

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Ironic, isn’t it?

What is even more ironic, is the fact that her 29th of November 2016 attempt at a rebuttal was eerily coincidental with an editorial featured by Malaysia Chronicle – another fake news channel run by Tian Chua and his mistress – implying that I had been paid by Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of the Prime Minister, to come up with a series of exposes against her (Ms. Rewcastle) and the media collective.

Tell me, isn’t it somewhat queer how Ms. Rewcastle seems to dissociate herself from Tian Chua and yet seems to roll all her fabrications out in tandem with those by Malaysia Chronicle? How are Malaysians not to believe that both Ms. Rewcastle and Tian Chua (and perhaps, his mistress) were complicit to run the gamut of conspiracy against me?

As if the allegation by Malaysia Chronicles did not have enough crap in it to go around for the week, last Thursday, a John Berthelsen of the Asia Sentinel joined in the fray by implying that I was a paid ‘hit-man’, this time, using funds the Prime Minister had siphoned from 1MDB. That must make me a helluva rich man then – getting paid by the Prime Minister’s wife and through funds siphoned off 1MDB. It’s a wonder that I have yet to write an article alleging that the Pope was involved in a conspiracy to destroy 1MDB and Najib. With that kind of money, I don’t mind telling you it was Ms. Rewcastle who parted the Red Sea, not Moses.

Yes, Ms. Rewcastle and her team will say anything under the sun – and I mean anything – as long as it serves to discredit me or anyone who attempts to defend Najib or 1MDB. Next, she’ll tell you that I am being funded by the Pope himself, after which she would probably get the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to spin a report claiming that I had been funded by the Ayatollahs.

Just to be sure, John Berthelsen was once a correspondent with the Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ), the very ASWJ that former Malaysian premier Dr. Mahathir Mohammad had censured in 1986 for posting a series of articles that were critical of his administration. The articles, authored by Berthelsen together with his then colleague, Raphael Pura, implied that the Mahathir administration had housed officials who engaged in financial transactions that were fraudulent in nature.

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The reports, which did not please Mahathir one bit, prompted the revocation of Berthelsen’s work permit along with that of Rapheal. The New York Times (NYT) was quick to censure Mahathir for what it claimed was the grand old man’s role in destroying press freedom in Malaysia. In a 30th of September 1986 release, the paper quoted a Leonard R. Sussman as saying that the climate for press freedom in the whole region had deteriorated.

Sussman, a known Soros advocate, was then the executive director of Freedom House, a so-called independent organisation in Manhattan that monitors human rights issues. Many officials who served under the Freedom banner were quick to censure reports that so much as threw hints of Soros’ involvement with drug cartels or terrorist organisations to fund media. Yet, they seemed free with their criticisms against Mahathir and regularly accused his administration of being oppressive and against the spirit of press freedom.

Berthelsen is a known Sussman associate. Like Sussman, he, too, was very loud against the Mahathir administration for stifling press freedom in Malaysia. On the 17th of December 2009, he accused Mahathir of deliberately holding up copies of an authoritative biography that was critical of the latter’s 22 years in office. The biography, the Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times, was conceived through a book that was written by the late Barry Wain, a former correspondent with the AWSJ who was himself based in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.

Wain, perhaps the closest of Soros’ associates linked to the AWSJ, was said to have been tasked by the billionaire magnate to work on the biography. It is highly suspect that Wain was paid by Soros to mould the biography in a way that made Mahathir out to be a dictator who would go on witch hunts to identify his detractors and have them punished and ostracised. Back then, Soros despised Mahathir for the latter’s anti-Semitic bias that infuriated the Khazarian elites.

Like Wain, many a writer and columnist had benefited immensely through Soros, whose funds and foundations were said to have channelled millions to editors, reporters and correspondents linked to the NYT and the AWSJ. Some of Soros’ associates with the NYT included columnist Paul Krugman, Editor Andrew Mark Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize winner Judith Miller and Chief Executive Editor, Dean Baquet. Back in the day, the focus of Soros’ attacks was Mahathir. Today, both Mahathir and Berthelsen are on a page with Soros and Tony Blair to destroy Najib and the ruling Barisan Nasional.

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Following his stint with AWSJ, Berthelsen went on to assume a directorial position at the Dresdner Bank AG, a financial corporation that was once among Germany’s largest and known to enjoy a close relationship with JP Morgan & Co. Now, this is the same JP Morgan whose officials I accused of being complicit with Blair to leak out confidential information that pertained to 1MDB and its dealings with several Mideast entities.

In 2006, Berthelsen left the Dresdner Bank AG to assist A. Lin Neumann and two others establish the Asia Sentinel, a web based news portal focused on the Asian audience. A former chief editor with The Standard newspaper in Hong Kong, Neumann was previously associated with the Committee to Protect Journalists in Asia and was a former editor with the Joong Ang Daily in Seoul.

Not only is Neumann a staunch Soros advocate, he is a close associate of jailed opposition leader Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim and assisted the sacked deputy premier wage a vendetta against the Mahathir administration. On the 30th of November 1999, Neumann, then complicit with former United States (US) vice president Albert Arnold Al Gore to inflame reformasi movements in Jakarta, accused Mahathir of winning the then just held Malaysian general election by using his power to “stifle dissent and muzzle mainstream media.”

Neumann seems to have cut himself off Najib’s radar, but is said to be working from behind the curtains to assist both Ms. Rewcastle and Berthelsen in their pursuits against the ruling Barisan Nasional. Through Asia Sentinel, Berthelsen has been complicit with the Sarawak Report chief editor and Tian Chua to blacken Najib’s name and that of his immediate family members.

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If what I am told is true, Berthelsen still keeps a cordial relationship with members of the banking fraternity through a nexus linking him to Soros and the Morgan house. Given that Asia Sentinel is assisted by Soros with funds channelled through Anwar and Ms. Rewcastle, it is highly suspect that the billionaire magnate is making a last ditch attempt to prevent me from delving deeper into a complicity involving Blair and former officials from JP Morgan to sabotage 1MDB and its dealings with the Saudi based Mubadala Development Company PJSC and the Abu Dhabi based PetroSaudi International.

But that is not all.

It was brought to my attention last Friday by a close friend of mine that the Berthelsen rebuke bore traits that were signature to Ms. Rewcastle, who, together with her husband, was responsible for setting up the Sarawak Report early in 2010. The portal is currently being funded by team Mahathir and is said to have received an enormous sum of money from persons associated with Blair.

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If indeed the Asia Sentinel rebuke was the doing of Ms. Rewcastle, she has every reason to fear me, as I continue to peel the masks she and her accomplices hide under strip by strip, stitch by stitch. In the process, I’ll prove to you that the only thing she has on her mind is to dissuade the Chinese from furthering their energy ambitions in Malaysia, which basically is the central thrust of the Sarawak Report campaign.

Yes, all she wants is to launch a career for her own husband with the Chinese in the business of renewable energy exploration and production. And that’s not far off what Blair wants, which is to advance his own energy ambitions with China in relation to Mubadala and PetroSaudi, two entities that have his name listed as principal advisor (refer part four). As for Mahathir, he just wants to pave the way for his son to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia by the year 2021.

If anything, it appears that I may have come in Ms. Rewcastle’s and Blair’s way and am the reason the global conspiracy to sabotage 1MDB may have hit a snag the duo may never be able to recover from.

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The Third Force

In 1969, world renowned billionaire George Soros founded the Double Eagle Fund, a limited partnership of high risk takers who were known to hedge their positions with ridiculously priced futures contracts. If that seems a mouthful to you, then look at it this way – Soros started a partnership wherein which he convinced traders to purchase stock he didn’t already own at a later date through pricing agreements that didn’t make sense. He was able to do that as he had a ‘track record’ for being able to predict futures prices accurately.

But the remarkable accuracy with which Soros priced the futures contracts wasn’t by virtue of foresight. He simply had friends high up in media who would trigger panic selling at the right moment by rolling out gloomy market forecasts that weren’t reflective of circumstances. With these manoeuvres, Red Eagle quickly went on to establish benchmarks in the hedge fund industry, some of which have remained unparalleled to this day.

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The company was owned by Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, a New York based investment bank the billionaire magnate was then the vice-chairman of. Soros took the fund off with USD4 million worth of investor capital, 250, 000 of which reportedly belonged to him. In an attempt to escape federal regulations, he was sure to set the company up as an offshore entity on the island of Cura&ccedil in the Netherlands Antilles. He made absolutely sure none of its directors were American nationals.

The modus operandi became a signature attribute in many of his subsequent ventures. For instance, in 1970, when he set up the Soros Management Fund (which later came to be known as the Soros Fund), he literally filled every position in the company with well accredited investors who were anything but Americans. Today, the fund has on its board a highly influential group of Swiss and Italian financiers who are in one way or the other linked to the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.

And we’re talking some highly notorious and cryptic financial predators here – figures representing Swiss banking entities that are littered with a history of assisting terrorists and syndicated criminals launder proceeds from the sale of drugs. Back in the 70’s, these entities possessed records to show that the Rothschilds were in fact the single largest group of investors with the fund in terms of investment worth.

Available literature on Soros or the Rothschilds will not tell you any of this, nor does it reveal the kind of people who secretly run Quantum, a pool of hedge fund operators Soros founded together with his assistant, Jim Rogers, in 1973. All it says is that the billionaire magnate advices the group through the Soros Fund, which in turn, functions as the principal investment manager for the group and some of its attendant concerns. But all of that is on paper.

The truth is, not only does Soros ‘own’ each company parked under the group through trust instruments, he engages in extremely convoluted cross-holding schemes spanning continents, making it virtually impossible to trace the ownership of any one company involved with his funds. It is for this reason, among others, that no one has been able to detect that the ‘real guys’ helping him run Quantum from behind the satin-laced curtains of deceit are the very same people running the Soros Fund and currently, companies linked to the Open Societies Foundation (OSF).

The Soros Empire

Unbeknown to many, both the OSF and Soros’ fund had secretly funded a cabal of ‘political assassins’ and media ‘hit-men’ since early last year, hands that were hired to assist former Malaysian premier Dr. Mahathir Mohammad launch a spite filled media campaign against 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a sovereign wealth fund wholly owned by the government of Malaysia. My sources seem to think that some managers within the Caymans based Quantum Partners LP, a limited partnership company that is the flagship of the Quantum Business Empire, were complicit with Soros in realising the scheme.

The Soros-Blair-Rewcastle conspiracy to destroy Khadem Al Qubaisi

Soros’ ‘hitmen’ weren’t the only hands hired to wreck havoc on the Malaysian conscience. Some time in December 2014, Mahathir chaired a high profile roundtable in London to discuss plans to overthrow Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The meeting was attended by Tun Daim Zainuddin and some of Malaysia’s foremost capitalists, who were at the time complicit with Mahathir to destroy Najib. If what I am told is true, then, one of the capitalists who attended the meeting, Dato’ Justin Leong, is on team Mahathir to this very day.

The London meeting worked out the financing required to turn Mahathir’s devious scheme into reality. I am told, those involved had agreed on RM2 billion as the sum required to trigger a world media campaign against Najib and to grease the palms of some forty to fifty Members of the Malaysian Parliament from across the political divide.

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By then, Mahathir and his team had long sealed an agreement of sorts with Clare Rewcastle Brown, the sister-in-law of former British premier Gordon Brown, to run the gamut of conspiracy against Najib and 1MDB through Sarawak Report, a fake news channel that was run by Ms. Rewcastle and dictated upon by her husband, Andrew Brown.

The agreement came two months after people linked to a former British premier, Tony Blair, were said to have offered Ms. Rewcastle a glimpse into information that pertained to 1MDB and all its dealings with several Mideast entities. Soros, who put Blair’s people up to the idea, had wanted Ms. Rewcastle to turn Sarawak Report into a medium to jolt Chinese and Mideast investors out of their partnership agreements with 1MDB.

Jumbled in Blair’s stack of information were details to an agreement between 1MDB and the Abu Dhabi based International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) to guarantee obligations (principal and associated interests) by two of the Malaysian fund’s subsidiaries, 1MDB Energy Limited and 1MDB Energy (Langat) Limited. The obligations related to bonds worth USD3.5 billion that the subsidiaries had issued to raise the funds needed for the acquisition of two independent power producers (IPPs), Tanjong Energy Holdings Sdn Bhd and Genting Sanyen Power Sdn Bhd.

The manner in which 1MDB muscled its way into power generation compounded to Ms. Rewcastle’s husband’s frustrations. If you recall, I had detailed in a previous article (part four, link below) events that led to the setting up of Sarawak Report. In the article, I mentioned specifically how Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew, were particularly perturbed with the multi-billion dollar agreement that the State Grid Development Corporation of China (SGCC) had entered into with 1MDB to develop three hydro-electric facilities in Sarawak. Andrew wanted his wife to use Sarawak Report to funnel into the minds of the Chinese the idea that the Malaysian government was prone to engage in shady business tactics.

If what I am told is true, both Blair and Soros intended to implicate Khadem Al Qubaisi, the Managing Director of IPIC, as a key figure in an alleged scam to siphon millions and millions from 1MDB to finance the purchase of some luxury assets in the United States (US). Through information he received from banking officials and dignitaries from Mideast entities he was the advisor of, Blair was able to pry into Qubaisi’s dealings with corporate middlemen in the business of energy exploration and production.

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Both Blair and Soros were not pleased with partnership agreements worth RM18 billion that Qubaisi had sealed with 1MDB on the 12th of March 2013. Qubaisi, who was at the time the Managing Director of IPIC, sealed the agreements in his capacity as the Chairman of Aabar Investments PJS (Aabar), a subsidiary of IPIC that was fully owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. Blair needed Ms. Rewcastle to blacken Qubaisi’s name in order to sour relations between Aabar and 1MDB.

In other words, Qubaisi simply was the fall guy.

Most of the top secret information in team Blair’s possession were channelled by former banking officials from JP Morgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., two established financial institutions based in the US. JP Morgan had in one way or another facilitated some transfers for 1MDB and most of its attendant concerns, while Goldman Sachs was said to have underwritten USD6.5 billion in bond deals for 1MDB. Both the banks were privy to dealings that had gone on between 1MDB and several Mideast entities. Persons who were suspected to have leaked the information to Blair will be revealed in an upcoming article.

Apart from the banks, Blair had also sourced some highly confidential information from officials and dignitaries who were linked to two Mideast entities – PetroSaudi International Ltd, a Saudi based oil and gas exploration and production company, and Mubadala Development Company PJSC, a sovereign wealth fund wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. Both PetroSaudi and Mubadala had separately entered into multi-billion dollar collaborative agreements with 1MDB while the Malaysian fund was yet in its infancy (refer part four).

Through the Rothschilds and the bankers who work for him, Soros has some serious tentacles sprawling all the way through American and British intelligence agencies, the CIA included. Several insiders from the British agencies seemed to know for sure that Mahathir was about to launch a series of scathing attacks against Najib in a bid to force a resignation from the latter. Equipped with such knowledge, Soros made it a condition that Ms. Rewcastle was to work together with Mahathir to sabotage 1MDB and to demonise Najib.

It dawned upon the billionaire magnet that if Mahathir’s people were to succeed Najib, the international conspiracy to sabotage 1MDB would go unnoticed, after which Soros would launch another campaign to oust team Mahathir in favour of a team that was led by jailed opposition leader Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim. To facilitate the mission, he began injecting funds worth some millions into the piggy banks of third party groups associated with Mahathir. The transfers were said to have occurred around the time the former premier entered into an agreement with Ms. Rewcastle to launch a spite-campaign against 1MDB, Najib and members of the Prime Minister’s immediate family.

Sources reveal that team Rewcastle (comprising Ms. Rewcastle, her husband and some of the latter’s associates) did in fact receive funds to run Sarawak Report, known to churn out fabrications and slander against several Malaysian dignitaries, most notable among them being the former Chief Minister of Sarawak, Tun Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud. Some of the funds were said have been sourced through team Blair, while others seemed to originate from team Mahathir. It may well be that some of Soros’ funds had ended with team Rewcastle in a roundabout way.

In addition to the above millions, Soros had also shelled out funds worth a million ringgit in the form of ‘grants’ and ‘donations’ on the pretext of financing research into “the indoctrination of a civil and inclusive society.” The funds were channelled through a few professional bodies, interest groups and government-linked agencies that were sprawling with tentacles originating from camp Mahathir.

Interestingly, these funds came atop some additional millions that are said to have flowed through the aforementioned third party groups into the coffers of some NGOs that had participated either directly or from beneath the shadows in the protest that took place in central Kuala Lumpur on the 19th of November 2016.

According to the Malaysian mainstream, the protest was orchestrated by a Maria Chin Abdullah, the chairperson of Bersih 2.0 and the executive director of Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower). But the truth is, not only did Mahathir and his associate, believed to be Matthias Chang, have a hand in the planning of the rally, they consorted with various Chinese and Christian associations and two groups of hardliner Muslim NGO’s to trigger bloodshed during the Saturday demonstration.

Just to be sure, some of the aforementioned funds had originated from the Soros Fund, while the grants and donations were sourced through the New York based OSF (Open Societies Foundation), an international network of civil societies and academies purportedly dedicated to building vibrant and tolerant societies “whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.” But not many are aware that the OSF has for years harboured a secret agenda to legalise the sale of drugs the world over and had even funded ISIS and the subsequent migrant crisis which spread around the world.

And these are the kinds of people that Mahathir, Maria Chin Abdullah, Anwar Ibrahim, Dato’ Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan, Matthias Chang, Datin Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Tony Pua, Tian Chua, Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan, Dato Ezam Mohd Nor, the Malaysian Bar Council, former officials from the Malaysian Anti Corruption Agency (MACC), former and current officials from Bank Negara (BNM) and former officials with the Attorney General’s chambers have knowingly or unknowingly associated with.

But how did Mahathir manage to get the world media to participate?

Through Soros, of course.

The billionaire magnate owns significant holdings in all the major-league media channels and offers grants and donations to world news outlets that are willing to do to his bidding. In some cases, editors and journalists working for a news channel receive payments to deliver editorials in ways he deems fit.

That basically accounts for the almost complete blackout by the world media of the consent decree that Soros signed in a United States District Court over a Securities and Exchange Commission case involving stock manipulation. Soros was fined USD75,000 by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission for holding positions “in excess of speculative limits.” Many of you are not aware of the story simply because it was never reported by the mainstream media.

This is the same mainstream media that tells us how Soros has never received money from drug cartels or engaged in any form of criminal activity. But the truth is, he sets up most of his operations offshore, in zones that are known to be conducive for money laundering activity. A CIA Facebook posting described the Netherlands Antilles where Quantum is situated as “a transhipment point for South American drugs bound for the US and Europe, money-laundering centre.” This, too, is conveniently blacked out by the media.

Then, there is the fact that Soros had purchased a major stake in one of Columbia’s biggest banks at a time when the Drug Enforcement Administration released a study titled Columbian Economic Reform: the Impact on Drug Money Laundering within the Columbian Economy. The study revealed how major drug kingpins were pulling illicit drug revenue into legitimate businesses by taking advantage of the liberalised Columbian economy. You’re reading it for the first time here.

In other news, a Soros grant was once channelled to a Linda Evans, who former US president Bill Clinton pardoned for her involvement in the Weather Underground terrorist group. The group was responsible for a 1991 robbery in which three murders were committed and a series of bombings were executed. Members of the group were also responsible for the bombing of the US Capitol in November 1983. You were told of the murders and the bombings, but not of the grant that Soros had channelled to Linda Evans.

And neither did the media ever tell you of Soros’ approval for the unrestricted distribution of drugs to street children on the pretext of “preventing an outbreak of disease.” His funds have secretly financed politicians in the US and the UK who supported the legalisation of marijuana and who were supportive of the unrestricted sale of non-prescription drugs. Most news channels, the New York Times and Washington Post included, skate over the fact that the OSF played a major role in US policy-making in a bid to legalise the sale of marijuana.

Yes, what Soros aspires for is a docile world majority that is hooked on drugs and easy to control. And while the sale of marijuana is legalised, he makes the bucks, which in turn, helps finance most of his media campaigns against various world governments. Some of the funds were turned into grants and donations that ended with various media personalities and news channels.

Among the many news channels, establishments and personalities that were ‘silenced’ through Soros’ ‘donations’ and/or patronage are the MediaChannel.org, Media Access Project, CBS News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, BBC, Dan Rather (CBS Evening News), Judith Miller (New York Times), Professor Mark Crispin Miller at New York University, Eric Alterman (whose mentor, I.F. Stone, was a KGB and Stalinist paid agent) of The Nation, Orvile Schell of the Los Angeles Times, the Independent Media Institute, the Centre of Investigative Reporting, Charles Lewis (former CBS News producer and head of Centre for Public Integrity), Danny Schecter, Fund for Investigative Journalism, and several investigative reporters and editors with various news networks.

That basically constitutes the controlling segment to the world media collective that channels ‘truths’ into the Malaysian mainstream and the internet. And just so that you know, Soros personally ‘owns’ The Guardian, a British national daily purportedly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, and lays terms on what may or may not be published. Incidentally, it was The Guardian that once published a breaking story on the so-called 1MDB conspiracy titled 1MDB: the Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Financial Scandal.

And let us not forget Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius, the so-called senior non-executive director of the BB’s board, the very news corporation that both Ms. Rewcastle and her husband were once associated with. Marcus is wed to Katherine de Rothschild, the daughter of Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, a well-placed English financier and member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. Through the Rothschilds association with the BBC, Soros wields some form of control over material that is aired by the news corporation.

I am told, it was Marcus who insisted that Soros get in touch with Ms. Rewcastle, whose guts the billionaire financier hates to this day. It is because of this hatred that Soros did not want to approach the Sarawak Report chief editor himself, which basically explains why it was Blair’s people who went to her instead. Then, late in November 2014, Soros was approached by a Mahathir associate to assist in launching a world media campaign to destroy Najib and 1MDB.