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Books | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Most of the contents of this blog on Malaysian politics are columns that have already appeared on. Malaysiakini.com, and some also. In the hard-copy books. Ad Nauseam: Confusions of an advertising man. Mad about Malaysia,. Even madder about Malaysia,. Missing Malaysia and 1Malaysia.con,. All of which are available from bookstores around Malaysia and from online retailer www.gerakbudaya.com. Xenophobes are all mixed-up. Good-enough would be great. First Brexit, next BNexit.
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Happy whatever New Year! | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Bad-hair and bad-heir days. →. February 21, 2015 · 5:35 am. Happy whatever New Year! Even among alleged experts in Chinese astrology, opinion appears to be a bit woolly as to whether 2015 is the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram. But whatever, here’s wishing a hearty Gong Xi Fa Cai to all my fellow creatures of goodwill, and as beastly a year as possible to all those of ill-will. Is running an editorial that is stridently critical of the Malaysian regime. The rampant greed of the...
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Hidup, Kita Lawan! | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Najib’s insanity defence. →. March 28, 2015 · 2:02 am. Hidup, Kita Lawan! Though the Kita Lawan (We Fight) public rallies have been quite small so far, at least they have provided a ray of hope to those of us who believe Malaysia can be cured of the rot of the Umno/BN regime. And the more people that this gang of crooks punishes for participating in these protests against it, the more promising that their fellows will be inspired to take to the streets. And the revolutionaries of Franc...
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Maliesia revisited. | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. BN’s wash and spin cycles. No justice. →. February 14, 2015 · 4:06 am. Of all the almost 400 columns I have written for. The one that I recall as receiving the most critical reader comments was my 14 July 2010 effort entitled What about Maliesia? Many apparently misread it as a gratuitous slur on the good name of Malaysia, when on the contrary it was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to make the blindingly obvious point that Umno/BN had given the nation a bad name. And Umno/BN’s perversion of ...
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Suffer, suckers! | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Hidup, Kita Lawan! March 21, 2015 · 10:42 pm. As you may or may not recall, I wrote a column last week entitled ‘Always April Fools’ in an attempt to make the all-too-obvious point that the Umno/BN ‘government’ is not only a joke at the expense of ‘ordinary’ Malaysians, but, to add insult to injury, openly laughs in their faces if they complain. But I must have expressed myself badly, because by no means everybody got the point. And in any case I’m not about to laugh at slight errors i...
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Dean Johns Ad Lib | Political faction and friction in (mostly) Malaysia. | Page 2
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Newer posts →. June 9, 2016 · 6:15 am. One of the many evils of political spin is that, like all forms of lying, it casts a pall of suspicion over the very language(s) we rely on for communication with each other by robbing previously respectable words of their true meanings. The most obvious current example from my point of view being the word ‘innovation’, which is being mercilessly used to weave webs of lies in both Australia and Malaysia. Speaking at the Yayasan Sime Darby Young In...
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Pota? Ptui! | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Najib’s insanity defence. War legends and lies. →. April 11, 2015 · 2:38 pm. It’s not just pitiful but outright spitiful the way Malaysians are being taken for yet another ride with this so-called Prevention of Terrorism Act. And now this gang of crooks has replaced the ISA with the equally pernicious and unconstitutional Pota on the pretence of protecting Malaysians against ‘threats’ by Islamic State. Yet this spitiful apology for a prime minister was just this week not only presiding...
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No justice. | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Happy whatever New Year! February 15, 2015 · 9:09 am. There is clearly no such thing as natural justice. Most creatures are condemned to living under the law of the jungle, in which might is right and only the fittest, fattest, fastest or fiercest survive. And in any case life inevitably ends in a death sentence. Maybe the Almighty rightly considers that Mahathir needs much more time to repent before he faces the heavenly court. And possibly also that in the meantime his continued ...
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Bad-hair and bad-heir days. | Dean Johns Ad Lib
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Dean Johns Ad Lib. Happy whatever New Year! Always April fools. →. February 28, 2015 · 5:38 am. Bad-hair and bad-heir days. These days it seems that karma is getting ever-closer to catching up with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his. Certainly Rosmah signified that she and her fellow Bakti members consider themselves a cut above the common herd, with her statement that the GST will advantage people like us who do not sew their own clothes or do their own hair. And, in case her revelation that she p...
