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Malaysia Bans The Color Yellow As Protests Swell Into The Hundreds Of Thousands
The anti-government protests that swept through the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday continued unabated on Sunday after tens of thousands of demonstrators camped in the streets overnight.
Emboldened by the presence of influential former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, protesters chanced being confronted with water cannons and tear gas, which police used to disperse crowds at previous Bersih rallies.
As we detailed on Saturday, calls for the ouster of Prime Minister Najib Razak have grown louder in recent months after the government appeared to be obstructing an investigation into how more than $600 million in funds from a Goldman-backed development bank ended up in Najib’s personal bank account. Mahathir Mohamad, who many say still hasn’t accepted the fact that he hasn’t been Prime Minister since 2003, has called for a no-confidence vote and insists that the man he handpicked to govern "has to go."
Estimates of Sunday’s crowd varied slightly depending on who you listen to. Police, for instance, say the gathering attracted around 20,000 protesters while Bersih insists the number was closer to 300,000.
Whatever the number, it was large enough to cause the police to move tonight’s Independence Eve celebrations from Kuala Lumpur’s Merdeka Square to a location outside the city, Bloomberg said, citing local officials.
As for Najib, the premier blasted the protesters in comments made to the media on Sunday. "What is 20,000? We can gather hundreds of thousands. The rest of the Malaysian population is with the government."
Perhaps, but that too could change should the country plunge further into financial crisis. As we've documented extensively (here and here, for instance), a plunging currency, falling FX reserves, and a collapsing stock market threaten to push Malaysia over the edge and many fear a repeat of the capital controls the country introduced to stem the 1997/98 crisis may be just around the corner.
And the punchline - because there's always a punchline - the government has banned the color yellow...

Source: Malaysia Ministry of Home Affairs
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For those interested in the backstory, we have included it below
1MDB was set up by Najib six years ago and has been the subject of intense scrutiny for borrowing $11 billion to fund questionable acquisitions. $6.5 billion of that debt came from three bond deals underwritten by Goldman, whose Southeast Asia chairman Tim Leissner is married to hip hop mogul Russell Simmons’ ex-wife Kimora Lee who, in turn, is good friends with Najib’s controversial wife Rosmah Manso.
You really cannot make this stuff up.
What Goldman did, apparently, is arrange for three private placements, one for $3 billion and two for $1.75 billion each back in 2013 and 2012, respectively. Goldman bought the bonds for its own book at 90 cents on the dollar with plans to sell them later at a profit (more here from FT). Somewhere in all of this, $700 million allegedly landed in Najib’s bank account and the going theory is that 1MDB is simply a slush fund.
So you can see why some folks are upset, especially considering Rosmah has a habit of having, how shall we say, rich people problems, like being gouged $400 for a home visit by a personal hairstylist. Here’s The New York Times with more on the protests:
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Malaysia defied police orders on Saturday, massing in the capital in a display of anger at the government of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has been accused of corruption involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
The demonstration in central Kuala Lumpur, which has been planned for weeks, has been declared illegal by the Malaysian police, and the government on Friday went as far as to pass a decree banning the yellow clothing worn by the antigovernment protesters.
But the demonstrators, who represent a broad coalition of civic organizations in Malaysia, including prominent lawyers, asserted their right to protest on Saturday.
The government has acknowledged that Mr. Najib received the money in 2013 and said it was a donation from undisclosed Arab royalty.
One group of protesters on Saturday carried the image of a giant check in the amount of 2.6 billion ringgit, with a sign that read, “You really think we are stupid?”
The group organizing the protest goes by the name Bersih, which means clean in Malay.
Calls for Mr. Najib to resign have come both from within his party, which is divided, and from the opposition. One junior member of Mr. Najib’s party, the United Malays National Organization, filed a lawsuit against Mr. Najib on Friday asking for details of how the money was spent.
Of course the most prominent voice calling for Najib’s ouster is that of the former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. "I don’t believe it is a donation. I don’t believe anybody would give [that much], whether an Arab, or anybody," he says.
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Better if they had banned Goldman instead
Another colored revolution instigated by the western elites.
Goldman gets all the credit as in Greece. Doing God's work made Blankfein a billionaire while Gandhi a pauper.
Mass Protests Sweep Malaysian Capital As Anger At Goldman-Backed Slush Fund Boils Overhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-29/mass-protests-sweep-malaysian-c...
Greek Debt Crisis: How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debthttp://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis-how-goldman...
Moar lampposts biachez...
And the US sponsored replacement will be even more corrupt - but in a good way, our way.
I'm just mad about saffron.
25 dollars is a donation. $600 million is the mother of all bribes. Makes the Clintons look like a Salvation Army Santa.
"Nice country you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it." Goldman Sachs has people that can speak this sentence in over 100 languages.
It's no surprised Arabs and Muzlims own half of London, the expensive half.
If it's a shady big money deal 99% of the time Goldman is involved.
Hansel- he's so hot right now......
Mahathir? $600 Million is peanuts compared to what he and his family stole so something not right here. Perhaps he was cut out of his share of what had been agreed? No honor amongst thieves....
Exactly....they tell them either take the money and let us move in...or not take the money and we are still moving in.
Bersih's boss Maria Chin Abdulla admits, the organisation is funded by US tax payers and George Soros, go figure.
http://limsiansee.blogspot.com/2015/07/little-white-lies-and-bersih.html
The NED receives an annual appropriation from the U.S. budget ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
Exactly. Wake up, sheeple. You are being played again. How many times can they run this stupid 'coloured shirts' playbook before some damn pattern recognition kicks in?
(From 3 days ago) Malaysia, Thailand seek to use their currencies in trade, investment:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/27/malaysia-thailand-agreement-id...
So Soros and his reeking front groups uncover their government corruption scandal du jour, conveniently arranged ahead of time by Gollum Sacks and waiting on ice for just such an occasion, to stir up stupid sheep and install a USD-friendly puppet.
Christ, it's infuriating how obvious they can be, using the exact same pattern over and over again, and STILL sheep fall for their populist publicised corruption-du-jour and refuse to look below the surface.
It's about the dying dollar, boys. Always is. All these stupid 'colour revolutions' are. Get a damn clue.
And not just Goldman Sachs (who of course arranged this little setup), but also the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and every other Soros front group must be purged out of every country they infest, hopefully including the United States. And Soros desperately needs a wakeup call from some righteous government's electric chair.
Tyler: Your coverage needs to dig much deeper on this. Can you at least mention who's funding this protest, be a teensy bit skeptical as to how it started, or even hint that maybe there's more to the motivation than a sudden uprising of sheep from the couch, alluva sudden just hella indignant over government corruption? (Because government corruption is so unusual, after all, that of course it naturally sparks 'spontaneous' protests attended by thousands wearing colour co-ordinated clothes...?!?) You're repeating without question a story from the NEW YORK TIMES for chrissake. That alone should tell you something's wrong with this report. Quit being so damn EASY to fool.
> Tyler: Your coverage needs to dig much deeper on this.
I completely agree.
I am also wondering what speculative positions connected to Malaysia Soros and Goldman Sachs have.
NED: Board of Directors, Robert B. Zoellick, Mark S. Ordan
Goldman Sachs is evil. We need to exterminate those fucking cockaroaches.
Bersih means "clean" in Malay. Rather fitting.
Where did the $700 million figure come from? It was fed by one of the opposition leaders to the WSJ and everybody (even ZH it seems) regurgitates it as truth. In actual fact, it appears that about $680 million was transferred in from an account associated with a UAE company and about $650 million transfered back to that company a short while later. So the amount actually ending up in the PMs account was about $30 million.
Still $700 million sounds so much more dramatic than $30 million.
http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/08/pms-anonymous-donation-was-transfer...
I see. Yes, they shouldn't be upset if it was just $30 million!/sarc off
Which confuses you - the law banking or the mechanics of money laundering?
He was paid (received) USD 680,999,986.00.
He closed the account 5 months later. On the day that he closed the account, he wired out USD 650,000,000 using the same BANK that had sent the funds earlier, do you have some proof that he no longer has access to those funds?.
UAE is the Switzerland of that part of the world. Just one big pile of untraceable money and no questions asked ever.
Malaysians should have known that speaking truth to power has consequences. Your planes may disappear and you may have a bloody uprising:
US Sponsored Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012. Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children Statement by Professor Francis Boyle, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunalhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/us-sponsored-genocide-against-iraq-1990-201...
They also had one for Operation Cast Lead, so that's a double dare.
any country dog shit dumb enough to adopt Islam deserves the worst that goldman can give.
Malaysia screwed up and in classic political fashion, proceed to do the worst thing possible. They have to suppress the people because their ego's won't permit them to say "We fucked up" and they can't blame GS since they might want fuck up again......
Not true- I know people over there.
Besides, we should ban red here. That will prevent bloodshed.
<<Another colored revolution instigated by the western elites.>>
Publicus: of course it is. Zero Hedge readers (and Tyler too) need to get a clue. This story is the usual spin from the New York Times, North America's worst warmonger of record, who is as usual acting as Soros's mouthpiece. Corrupt Malaysian government should have known that once bought by Soros and Goldman, if you don't stay bought you get overthrown.
(Same as any government patsy stupid enough to take a bribe from the Sachs mafia. Sachs and Soros never forget, and that bribe you just took WILL be used to enslave you now and betray you later. They are never your friends. Why anyone, even a stupid corrupt criminal like Razak, lets this mob step into their office without shooting them down immediately is beyond me. You'd think even Razak would have known who these squidlings are. What a fucking patsy.)
Keep using our USD junk currency, or we'll inflict a colour on you:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/27/malaysia-thailand-agreement-id...
After they took down airplanes and helicopters now they want to take down the government
Re. Another color revolution. I don't think so, because this guy, who is with the opposition, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, is no Soros fan-boy.
And by banned, we mean burned every employee alive in the public square as a lesson to the others.
JUst make one yellow guillotine....that'll resolve it
Ki mora Lee is hot, but that last pic makes me think she has been eating too good.
Maybe putting on the pounds from taking in excessive Anglo and African shlong dogs.
She looks like The famous Pattaya tranny Emma
It's right there in the name: LIESner.
Anyone who pees yellow is an anti-govt terrorist too.
Backlash against light skinned bankers?
Finally some good news, people are starting to get it. They are not sleeping well now.
too bad americans are so useless. they had 30 trillion dollars stolen from them and said thank you.
Our media won't report it, so it never happened. If you have trouble with that then learn something about who controls American media. TL;DR: the same people who control the flow of money and the focus of our Federal gonerment also control the media. This is 100% locked in.
A quick search for a live stream tells me Al Jazeera has one...but it's blocked from viewing in 'Murika.
Freedom!
http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/
Lloyd Blankfein is a global financial despot who gets rich by causing ruin and chaos wherever he goes.
I'm so proud of my boy!
Use a VPN to get around censorship.
The amount of news repression is just astounding these days...just ask any average person on the street.
S/
Anything on Live Leak?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a83_1440949502
Is Bersih a Soros front group?
Thanks, Freddie. Reassuring to see that a precious few are awake around here.
Since Thailand is also making noises about ditching the USD junk currency, it'll be Thailand with the fucking coloured shirts next. Oh, wait, it already was:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/thailand-government-prepares-war-of-terror-...
But the colour of the shirts was red, those times, except when they were yellow too! Gee, they keep changing colours, I guess that's what's messing up the pattern recognition around here. That, or people's short memories.
They've already used red shirts, TWICE, and yellow shirts, exact same playbook, people:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/07/us-thailandelection-idUSTRE756...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13294268
And yes, that was all about the currency too. It ALWAYS IS. The stupid sheep are NOT simply indignant over omigawsh corrupt government. They are being STIRRED up, and this kind of shallow publicity is part of it.
They tried this same thing with orange in Ukraine:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/color-revolutions-ukraine-vs-thailand-what-...
Oh, and let's not forget the yellow umbrellas in Hong Kong, which of course was all about the currency (altho sheeps were told 'democracy' of course!):
http://www.globalresearch.ca/hong-kongs-umbrellas-are-made-in-usa/5409780
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-a-guide-...
The colour usually isn't blue or green, because those are too calming and just not fiery and angry enough! The Soros marketing creeps have figured out that if there is one thing that can rally and unite the brain-dead peasantry, it's coloured clothing and accessories. Easy to remember, easy to associate, REALLY easy to market and make a fast buck off a government overthrow by such criminal, warmongering publicisers as the New York Times. Get yer ribbons and shirts! Get yer umbrellas! This is another by-the-playbook 'colour revolution', peasants. Wake up and smell the stink of Soros.
mahatir mohamed is the anti zionazi guy who is soundly hated by the status quo who happen to be zionazis.
Another guy who hates Zionazis and did something about it.
http://news.yahoo.com/white-supremacist-admits-three-kansas-murders-seek...
Ok, I'll play: wasn't it those damn, dirty Jews who invented the color yellow?
I blame them. And so should you.
Sarcasm works when its intelligent. You just sound retarded.
At the risk of tooting my own horn, I'd say my comment was par for the course, with the truther-types around here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/us/politics/06clinton.html?pagewanted=...
Former President Bill Clinton visited Malaysia on Friday to deliver his first paid speech since his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, was selected Monday by President-elect Barack Obama to be secretary of state.
Mr. Clinton spoke before nearly 3,000 people in Kuala Lumpur at the invitation of Vinod Sekhar, a Malaysian businessman whose foundation paid Mr. Clinton $200,000, according to several people with knowledge of the fee. The figure is on the lower end of the scale that Mr. Clinton usually commands for his speeches.
“You should be proud of this man,” Mr. Clinton told the audience, pointing at Mr. Sekhar, the 40-year-old chief executive of the Petra Group, a privately held rubber technology company.
But several angry investors in Britain and Malaysia say they disagree with the former president’s glowing assessment of Mr. Sekhar, whose company has suffered a rough few weeks.
“I believe he is using Bill Clinton — this is what he does,” said Abdul Azim Zabidi, a former board member of the Petra Group who claims Mr. Sekhar broke numerous promises to him and still owes him $100,000. “He just wants to get new investors.”
Another investor, the actor Bruce Willis, recently settled a lawsuit with Petra over the return of $900,000. The company called it a “misunderstanding.”
And this week, after a 10-year partnership, a member of the Malaysian royal family quit as Petra’s chairman, saying he was tired of the many “surprises” during his affiliation with the company.
“Enough is enough,” the former chairman said.
Mr. Sekhar declined to comment. A spokesman for the Petra Group, Andrew Murray-Watson, said that Mr. Zabidi’s assertion that he was still owed money was “utter rubbish,” and that the Clinton event was held as a memorial for Mr. Sekhar’s late father, a scientist who invented an environmentally sound way to recycle tires.
“The idea that Vinod organized this event purely for public relations purposes is frankly ludicrous, and insulting to the memory of his father,” Mr. Murray-Watson said.
Officials with the Obama transition team said they did not vet Mr. Sekhar’s background before Mr. Clinton’s speech. The speech was one of the last Mr. Clinton will deliver without being reviewed by a State Department ethics panel, a requirement he has agreed to follow if Mrs. Clinton is confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state. Mr. Clinton also agreed to have his fees from business dealings and foreign speeches reviewed by the White House Counsel’s Office, if necessary.
When Mrs. Clinton emerged as the leading contender for secretary of state, questions were raised about whether she could work as the nation’s chief diplomat while Mr. Clinton continued to pursue his global business dealings and foreign speechmaking. In a bid to erase worries about conflicts of interest, the former president agreed to every request made by the Obama transition team.
“If she is going to be secretary of state, and I operate globally and I have people who contribute to these efforts globally,” Mr. Clinton told CNN this week, “I think that it’s important to make it totally transparent.”
Since leaving the White House, Mr. Clinton has traveled the world fighting AIDS, malaria and other maladies. Since its formation in 1997, the Clinton Foundation has raised more than $500 million to build a presidential library and finance charitable programs.
This week, he hosted the Clinton Global Initiative Asia meeting in Hong Kong. It will be the last such meeting for some time; under the terms of his agreement with the Obama transition team, Mr. Clinton agreed to no longer host those meetings overseas.
His decision to accept the invitation of Mr. Sekhar, who has made contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative, surprised several Petra Group investors, who say Mr. Sekhar was using his association with Mr. Clinton to attract new investment. It was Mr. Clinton’s first visit to Malaysia.
Well that fucking figures.
Both Hillrey AND Bill are despots, with their daughter (possibly some Webb Hubbell mixrd in there) married to a gOldman sAchs banker! If both of these sociopathic slobs wind up as potus that really says something.
Here is the end of that article... I would follow the clinton trail to Malaysia.
...Although Mr. Murray-Watson acknowledged that the company had had a difficult few weeks, he said its future was bright.
“Petra Group companies are trading well in a difficult economic environment,” he said, pointing to “a recently signed, groundbreaking deal with Timberland” to make shoe soles out of recycled materials manufactured by the company.
The Petra Group, he said, “is set for record global growth over the next 12 months.”
Mr. Clinton promoted the Petra Group’s new deal on Friday, telling the audience, “One of the biggest rubber shoes and boots manufacturers, Timberland, is replacing the soles of its shoes it makes with this man’s green rubber technology.”
Mr. Clinton often praises companies that pay him to speak. In 2001, he received $125,000 from an Illinois management consulting company called International Profit Associates. It was later revealed that the Illinois attorney general was investigating accusations of deceptive marketing tactics by the company.
After a start-up Web search site named Accoona donated $700,000 worth of stock to his foundation, Mr. Clinton praised the company at a corporate event in December 2004.
“I hope you all get rich,” he told Accoona executives, “but, remember, you are doing something good for humanity as well.”
Alex Yong contributed reporting from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Peter Baker from Chicago.
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After IPO problems, Accoona shuttered their doors on October 5, 2008.[1]
International Profit Associates to Pay $8 Million for Sexual Harassment of Eighty-Two Womenhttp://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/3-28-11a.cfm
Yeah both Klintons are benevolent philanthopists. The steady stream of scandals and debauchery spanning at least 4 decades is a combo of "witch-hunt" and misundertandings.
My $900 Nike Extreme Airheads were made in Malaysia. The soles aren't green rubber though, they're salmon.
1oz Silver American Eagle just €13 @ EurGold
https://www.eurgold.eu/silver/american-eagle-1oz-silver-coin-1-dollar-le...
Eurgold:
What a shit turd outfit hawking its product on this forum. Are you guys giving anything to the Tylers for your theft of advertizing space?
Fucking ticks & lice you are....
Tylers when you are banning this EuroGold guys account, you should look at his upvotes. He has two up votes on both his posts.
1 will be from the EurGold account, the other will be him on his regular account. Since Zerohedge is made using Drupal, I know you can see the up voters as an administrator.
Ban hammer his n00b ass on both accounts :)
1oz Silver American Eagle just €13 @ EurGold
https://www.eurgold.eu/silver/american-eagle-1oz-silver-coin-1-dollar-le...
= $16.35 or thereabouts -
11 % premium
Such a Deal
/s
Tylers when you are banning this EuroGold guys account, you should look at his upvotes. He has two up votes on both his posts.
1 will be from the EurGold account, the other will be him on his regular account. Since Zerohedge is made using Drupal, I know you can see the up voters as an administrator.
Ban hammer his n00b ass on both accounts :)
Q: if you're an American walking down a street, what am I when I stand in front a a urinal?
A: European.
This is why they do not want the peasants to have guns. 30,000 protestors without weapons = 0 change.
I want to agree with you, but evidence suggests otherwise. Lots of guns in the U.S. --> Still no change. Just more peasants killing each other and being killed by the police.
But officer this shirt is not Yellow......ITS GOLD !!!!
what do the Fed, ECB, Greece, 1MDB, Greg Smith, Raj Rajaratnam, Fab TOurre, CDO's, dark pools, WS bailout ALL have in common?
GOLDMAN SACHS
someone put a stake thru it, Warren Buffet included
The Goldman Revolution. Outstanding, now if only the sheep in America wake up.
Hmmm...far too many "poppies" for that, I'm afraid.
I'm colorblind mr. policeman, my t-shirt looked off white to me.
Lemon, Canary, Jaundice...
Its only abuse of power if people dont shut up and let them
Yellow, the color of gold. Banned? Yeah, that's a shocker. ;-)
Yipppeeeee. 100,000s of thousands coming for you Mr. Blankfein. Bankster you have no where to hide. Sooner or later your ass is getting hauled into a prison.
... or nailed to a cross.
Coldplay fans can pick up their Molotov Cocktails at headquarters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY
You will never see this in america. Fuck the msm.
--- I blame the fed for this double post ---
You should always believe what your government says - afterall, they're looking out for you AND for pete's sake - NEVER wear yellow before Labor Day. Damn.
Gold in Sacks
Smart kid
Misunderstood
A coincidence
Thanks
Short seller
An inevitabe reversal. A crony capitalist system that has fed on the poisons from China's export economy that is now well known to have been fed on steroids. Of course, along with this mirage, the snake oils peddled by GS & Others under the EM GROWTH Label are found to be toxic. It does not matter to the little People in Malaysia or in such places, they have never shared the good times. Remarkably, there are still so many dreamers still providing the markets for the toxic waste...Preys still plentiful ?
The cabals are there
Cabals want oil
Cabals own America & the US dollar paid NGOs can muster huge crowds in any country
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watch it, the future will be like that in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon etc.
A military dictator is coming soon
very soon