July 29, Bernama reported that Umno Youth will release a list of brands and international companies with operations in Malaysia that are known to be supporting the Israeli regime financially.
Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin said the movement Friday received an e-mail on an international coffee shop chain allegedly supporting Israel and sending funds to the zionist regime. He said if there was truth to the claim, the people must be told so they could make their own assessment whether they wanted to continue supporting the company which has a chain of shops in the country.
So, we'll have an Umno version of Schindler's List if its deputy youth chief had his way.
But after reading blogs by Aisehman and Rocky's Bru, I hope these Umnoputras are not shooting themselves on the head.
Let me tell you why.
1993's seven Oscar-Awards winner, Schindler's List, was initially banned for viewing in Malaysia because of its theme that portrays the true story of Czech-born Oskar Schindler, a glorious but greedy Austrian-German businessman who tried to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labour.
However, Schindler ended up penniless by becoming an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he felt compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Eventually, he created a list of over 1,100 Jews -- hence Schindler's List -- whom he saved from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg, a Jew and a multiple award-winning film auteur.
In Malaysia of 1993, when it was initially banned, we had Anwar Ibrahim, dubbed Umno's Renaissance Man at that time, reversed the ban of the film by ordering a few cuts of several graphic segments. However, the movie was ultimately not distributed in Malaysia as Spielberg would only sanction its screening in its entirety.
And history also has it that Anwar has since fallen from mainstream politics and people rarely talk about Malaysia's renaissance man nowadays.
The Jewish Connection
Thirteen years later, Khairy has no doubt, with the help of Jalan Riong spin-doctors, risen as Umno's future who would reform the party and the larger Malaysia. The latest we have read from the mainstream media -- the information channel that the Prime Minister asked us to rely on -- is that the son-in-law has now declared total war on the Israeli Jews.
This 30-year-old shareholder of ECM-Libra, now enlarged to ECM-Libra Avenue Berhad, also asked Malaysians "whether they wanted to continue supporting the coffee company -- which allegedly supports Israel financially by sending funds to the zionist regime -- which has a chain of shops in the country".
If you follow the trail, this budak is actually asking Malaysians if they wanted to continue supporting ECM-Libra, which has since 'swallowed' the larger Avenue Capital Resources, the GLC that Pantai Holdings Berhad has significant stakes in.
Though the ECM-Libra/Avenue 'merger' was completed in June 2006, the Public Audit Committee (PAC) of the Parliament is instituting an investigation on the ECM-Libra/Avenue deal on August 10.
Now, the delicate issue to Umno Youth's Schindler's List is the allegation that Pantai Holdings also has dubious links to substantial Jewish interests.
The lightning rod takes the form of significant stakes Pantai Holdings currently has in ECM-Libra Avenue, while Pantai's controlling shareholder and parent company, Parkway Holdings of Singapore, has divested its shares significantly to a known Zionist financier in the United States.
Zionist financier Richard Blum (picture left) and Jewish lobbyist Dianne Feinstein, dubbed Di-Fi
From information culled from the public domain, Singapore's Parkway Holdings has sold a major part of its shareholdings, as at March 2006, to American Richard Blum, a known Zionist financier.
Go ask any Americans knowledgeable in partisan politics, and they will tell you Blum's wife is US Senator Dianne Feinstein, dubbed Di-Fi, who is widely known to be a fierce Jewish lobbyist.
There are more corporate trails to this, elsewhere in this blog entry.
In the equation, as a subsidiary to Singapore's Parkway, Malaysia's Pantai contributes significant revenues -- including profit-and-loss derived from its shareholding in ECM-Libra Avenue -- to parent company Parkway; and Parkway, in turn, shares profits and dividends with the significant Jewish investors from the US..
If Parkway is the gravy train to enrich Zionist coffers, our Pantai will be a luxury coach that runs along the same rail-track, sapping elixir coming from ECM-Libra Avenue as its strategic investor.
While legally the conscience may be clear, morally and ethically, we need a convincing explanation for all this.
The Khairy-ECM-Libra-Avenue Capital Resource-Pantai Nexus
Closer to to home, you need look no further than Bursa Malaysia for the finger prints.
In Point 22 of the condensed consolidated income statement, the quarterly report, for the financial period ended June 30, 2006 of Pantai Holdings Berhad released through Bursa Malaysia on July 26, 2006, it is stated that the Singapore-owned company is effectively a significant stakeholder in ECM-Libra Avenue Berhad.
However, Pantai Holdings Bhd's net profit fell 38% to RM27.06 million in the 12-month period ended June 30, 2006 from RM43.54 million previously, and it attributed it mainly due to "the reorganisation and merger exercise of Avenue Capital Resources Bhd (ACRB) that was completed in June 2006.
As a result, Pantai declared a fourth interim dividend of 2% less tax totalling about RM6.7 million. The Edge Financial Daily, on July 27, also reported based on the disclosure to Bursa Malaysia, that the merger between ECM Libra Bhd and Avenue Capital Resources, Pantai booked an impairment loss of RM23.4 million and a subsequent net loss of RM12.98 million in the fourth quarter ended June 30.
Look into this PDF (1.7Mb), you will see Pantai saying its investment in Avenue Capital Resources had been reclassified to other investments and no longer deemed to be an associated company.
In other words, until further notice of equity disposal, Pantai will continue to own significant shares in the merged entity of the ECM-Libra/Avenue Capital Resource, who is also partly-owned by the Umno Youth deputy chief.
The Pantai-Parkway Singapore Nexus
As at September 20, 2005, Pantai Holdings Berhad, which also holds strategic control of Fomema's medical database of immigrant workers in Malaysia, became a subsidiary of Parkway Holdings Singapore. The acquisition of the controlling stake in Pantai was announced on this date. See PDF evidence.
The Parkway acquisition of the Pantai stakes was conducted via the holdings company's subsidiary Parkway Heathcare Group Pte Ltd via a new subsidiary Swiss Zone Sdn Bhd. For the record, Swiss Zone was incorporated in Malaysia for a paid-up capital of RM2.00. See PDF evidence.
On September 13, 2005, Parkway announced that Swiss Zone has purchased 35 million shares of RM1.00 each for the capital of Pantai Holdings, representing approximately 8.80% of the issued and paid up capital of Pantai, in an off-market transaction.
On the other hand, Swiss Zone has also entered into a share sale agreement with Malaysian Lim Tong Yong @ Lim Tong Yaim, to purchase from the latter 89.7 million ordinary shares of RM1.00 each in the capital of Pantai, representing approximately 22.54% of the issued and paid up capital in Pantai, and 24.3 million warrants 2006/2007 issued by Pantai, representing roughly 36.27% of the outstanding warrants issued by Pantai.
In other words, as at September 20, 2005, Parkway has amassed an aggregate of 124.7 million shares in the capital of Pantai, representing rough 31.34% of the issued and paid-up capital of the Malaysian company. This is in addition to the 24.3 million warrants 2006/2007 issued by Pantai, representing roughly 36.27% of the outstanding warrants issued by Pantai.
The acquisition cost Swiss Zone RM311.58 million paid entirely in cash.
The Parkway-Blum Nexus
It is noted that as at March 2, 2006, shareholding interests in Parkway linked to Zionist financier Richard Blum totalled 624 million shares.
SOURCE: Parkway Holdings website
According to disclosure published on Parkway website, Blum Capital Partners, L.P. -- of which Richard Blum is the chairman -- controlled 208,107,988 deemed shareholdings in Parkway, while Blum G.A. III, LLC has an additional 208,107,988 deemed shareholdings and the third trunch of 208,107,988 deemed shareholdings in Parkway were held via Blum Investment Partners, Inc.
Famous last words
In the final analysis, looking at the intricate web sourrounding Parkway Holdings, that links it to Jewish interests as shareholders, and its controlling stake in Pantai Holdings and its indirect shareholdings in the enlarged ECM-Libra Avenue Berhad -- which Khairy Jamaluddin co-owns, not to mention Kalimullah Masheerul Hassan as its significant shareholder -- it might not be smart afterall for Umno Youth to go ahead with its proposed Malaysian version of the analogical Schindler's List.
Looking at the facts, Umno's supposed reincarnation of the Renaissance Man may be shooting himself on the head.
Why not, instead, we join the world community in ending the current killings of Labanonese and Jewish civilians -- caused by the warring Israel and Hezbollah militancy -- through the voices of genuine humanitarian compassion?
Why not we look at this globalised world in a different light. A lot of foreign investments in Malaysia have created job opportunities for our people, helping our domestic economy to grow. It may boomerang on ourselves if we start witch-hunting for the corporate links to their global umbilical cords.
In this age of global economy, what good does it serve by getting Malaysians on a ride of navel-gazing?
Today, July 28, Dr Mahathir goes trail-blazing in Kelantan, with a relatively 
