BREAKING / CAUGHT SPEECHLESS, CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN PUTS AMBIGA ON THE SPOT, LASHES OUT MORE INSIDIOUS CLAIMS AS DEFENCE

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IN an interesting twist, the Editor-in-Chief of Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown names former Bar Council President, Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan as her key witness.

She also made more bold claims, which she claims she can corroborate with solid evidence. 

There are several dimensions to this development, one of which is her primary defence of the statement as having been made in good faith, as a matter of public interest. By naming Ambiga as her witness, she intends to prove that the verbal claim made during her conversations with the said witness is sufficient to be published in her capacity as a political commentator.

By citing 'serious harm' as another aspect of her defence, she is also adding to this first dimension a claim that this case is invalid due to the fact that there had been no serious financial loss to the individual.

She is also attempting to extricate herself from this mess by claiming that she never specifically meant the person of MP Abdul Hadi Awang, President of the Islamist PAS Party - former member of Pakatan Rakyat the former incarnation of the political coalition proclaimed by Clare as her choice for the Malaysian rakyat.

Thus, there remains a possibility that she may get away with the 'public interest' defence, as subsection 4 of article 4 of the act in reference - the Defamation Act of 2013 - provides that, "In determining whether it was reasonable for the defendant to believe that publishing the statement complained of was in the public interest, the court must make such allowance for editorial judgement as it considers appropriate".

In other words, the presiding Judge will consider and allow for a degree of "editorial judgment as it considers appropriate". 

This very appropriateness is key in her defence, and she needs to prove that she is not a malicious party with objectives other than merely being a "political commentator".

One way that this can be determined is to see whether the claims that Clare Rewcastle Brown had recently entered as her counter defence can actually be proven beyond any reasonable doubt - with the proper documentation. 

These claims include that RM200 million had made it into the bank account of a PAS Deputy President Nasharudin Mat Isa, and that some of these monies had also contributed to enabling some PAS members in "acquiring new cars, new properties, and new wives", and that the documentation that she had entered would suffice to prove her case.

If she can unequivocally prove this, then the day may go to her, but if she cannot provide sufficient or even any unadulterated 'evidence' to support her case, then she certainly runs the risk of proving her malicious intent in making purposefully inaccurate and false claims based on hearsay, in order to influence the political course of a Sovereign nation.

In court, it is no longer "a matter of public interest", but rather a matter of provable claims - and Clare is risking being caught trying to use the court to play her own brand of propaganda politics by making a mirror image claim against her adversary while she is actually doing it herself.

Against the backdrop of her previously failed attempt at throwing accusations against the Malaysian Judiciary, we await with mouth agape at the boldness of her claim and await the myriad interesting ways she will come up with either to absolve herself, or dig her own grave ever deeper. 

By naming Ambiga, she is confirming that she is in collusion with a figure that had long been associated with her work on a Malaysian 'regime change', and had also admitted to receiving a large sum of money from the Soros-founded Open Society Foundation.

To the claim that she never mentioned Abdul Hadi by name, but only made references as to monies that had "entered the accounts of top PAS leaders", Abdul Hadi may win this argument due to his capacity as the President of PAS, and thus reputationally has the most to lose due to the perception that he would have had the control in doling out such a huge amount of alleged bribe. All RM90 million of them. 

As for the "serious harm" defence, the law specifically spelt out that, "A statement is not defamatory unless its publication has caused or is likely to cause serious harm to the reputation of the claimant," which is to say that reputation loss is at the centre of what the Judge would consider in this case, however, as stressed in part 2 of this definition, that "harm to the reputation of a body that trades for profit is not 'serious harm' unless it has caused or is likely to cause the body serious financial loss," meaning to say that 'serious harm' in this case is dependent on the currency that is gained in the reputation. 

In other words, for a business, their currency is money, and thus financial loss is required to to constitute 'serious harm', but for a politician, the currency would be the loss of support.

The emphasis on the phrase "is likely" is worth noting, because an actual loss in the number of support is not expected to be necessary, merely the possibility of it happening should suffice.

As a coup de grâce, Clare is attempting to compel Abdul Hadi Awang into entering his defence following her 'bombshell' of a counter-claim. It remains to be seen if the Judge would allow such a defence as being sufficient to compel the claimant to provide said defence.

This particular defence includes a claim that commentators such as Malaysia Today and blogger Raggy Jessy/The Third Force (RJ/TTF) are propaganda machines under instructions both by PM Najib and Abdul Hadi himself, setup in order to influence the court's decisions.

In her world, everyone who disagrees with her, or knows that she is up to no good would be branded a propagandist, and not herself. 

It is her bogus Sarawak Report - ipso facto - that is nothing but propaganda, not the other way around, precisely to present to the Judge that she is the victim instead of the victimiser. 

We hope that the presiding Judge would be wise enough to discern this fact, and that Abdul Hadi is able to stress this point as well.

And that is pretty much the crux of the matter: that a Judge, especially in the age of electronic media, would be trained not to be affected by the possibility of external media influence, and that she firstly needs to prove as to how she arrived at the conclusion that PM Najib and Abdul Hadi had their hands in controlling what MT and RJ/TTF publish instead of being mere political commentators themselves, however offensive their language or writings seem to her own warped out sense of what's right and what's wrong, before compelling that Abdul Hadi prove his innocence.

That is the long and short of what we can surmise thus far. An interesting development, certainly. 

Now, we await the courtroom action unless something new comes up - as things usually do in cases such as these.

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2. RELATED: SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION, SAYS REPORT

3. RELATED: CLARE: HADI, NAJIB COLLUDING TO EXPLOIT LONDON CASE PROCEEDING

4. RELATED: HADI WILL HAVE TO FILE DEFENCE TO CLARE'S CLAIM, SAYS LAWYER

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'RM90M FOR PAS': S'WAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI

Clare (left) and Ambiga, who is named as the former's source.
Photo: Malaysiakini

Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has named former Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan as part of her defence with regard to a defamation suit filed against her by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang. 

Rewcastle-Brown claimed she had spoken to Ambiga in July 2016 on matters related to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, 1MDB and PAS [continues in subscription].

(''RM90m for PAS': S'wak Report Editor Names Ambiga as Source.' – Malaysiakini, October 30, 2017)

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1. 'RM90M FOR PAS': S'WAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE

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3. RELATED: CLARE: HADI, NAJIB COLLUDING TO EXPLOIT LONDON CASE PROCEEDING

4. RELATED: HADI WILL HAVE TO FILE DEFENCE TO CLARE'S CLAIM, SAYS LAWYER

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RELATED: SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION, SAYS REPORT

REPORTED BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT

Clare at a Bersih Rally in London, clearly campaigning for the Opposition party using a civil rights event as a cover. The Bersih movement admitted to having received money from George Soros' Open Society Foundation to exact 'regime change' in Malaysia.
Photo: The Malaysian Insight

SARAWAK Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has named former Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan as a source of information for alleging that top leaders in PAS had received money from Prime Minister Najib Razak, Malaysiakini reported today.

According to the report, Rewcastle-Brown said she spoke to the former Bersih chairman in July 2016 regarding Najib, 1MDB and PAS.

"Ambiga had told the defendant that her sources, whom she said were reliable, had estimated the amount that had been paid was around RM90 million," said Rewcastle-Brown in her court filing dated October 11.

The court documents were filed in relation to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's defamation suit against Rewcastle-Brown in April this year.

Hadi claimed that he had been defamed in a Sarawak Report article entitled "As Najib denies all over 1MDB let's not forget his many other criminal connections" that was published on August 6, 2016.

The article suggested that money was in exchange for PAS support for Barisan Nasional.

Rewcastle-Brown said she published parts of her conversation with Ambiga in good faith as a political commentary on a matter of public interest, the report said.

The Sarawak Report editor said her statements were not directed at Hadi and any other individuals personally.

The filing also told the court Najib allegedly transferred more than RM200 million to former PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa since 2014, to fund a particular PAS faction.

Rewcastle-Brown said former party leader and other top PAS officials had bought cars, properties or took new wives. She provided a long list of luxury vehicles bought by them.

('Sarawak Report Editor Names Ambigs as Source of Information, Says Report.' – The Malaysian Insight, October 30, 2017)

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1. '90M FOR PAS': S'WAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE

2. RELATED: SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION, SAYS REPORT

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4. RELATED: HADI WILL HAVE TO FILE DEFENCE TO CLARE'S CLAIM, SAYS LAWYER

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RELATED: CLARE: HADI, NAJIB COLLUDING TO EXPLOIT LONDON CASE PROCEEDING

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

Abdul Hadi Awang (right) is accused to collude with PM Najib to use Malaysia Today and The Third Force as an attempt to influence court decision.
Photo: FMT

PETALING JAYA, OCTOBER 30, 2017 – 

Clare Rewcastle Brown claims PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has colluded with Najib Razak or his agents to exploit the London court proceedings as part of their propaganda effort to exonerate the prime minister. 

In her counter-claim in response to Hadi’s defamation suit, the whistleblower website editor said they want to discredit her and Sarawak Report in its justified campaign that Najib be removed from office and be brought to justice for his alleged corrupt and criminal conduct. 

In court papers sighted by FMT, Clare said Hadi, whether by himself or his agents, had been party to the publication of a series of articles, viciously or racially abusing, defaming and harassing her on the Third Force and Malaysia Today websites. 

In a counter-claim filed on October 11, she said these publications amounted to harassment and she wanted the court to award her damages for severe stress, anxiety and distress caused to her and an injunction restraining Hadi from further harassment. 

Lawyer SN Nair had said Clare would stand to obtain costs and damages if the court dismissed Hadi’s suit and allowed the counter-claim. 

Hadi filed his suit at the London High Court in April following an article she wrote on Aug 6 last year. 

Sarawak Report ran an eight-paragraph article in which it claimed RM90 million was “reckoned” to have entered the accounts of top PAS leaders to woo them into supporting Umno and Barisan Nasional. 

Clare, in her defence to Hadi’s suit, said the PAS leader was not named or identified as being the object on any statement in the article. 

She said allowing Hadi’s cause of action as the person referred to in the article would be disproportionate, unnecessary and unjustified interference and inhibition of her and the public right to freedom of expression, especially in the discussion of political matters. 

Clare said Section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 required that it be proved that the publication of the statement complained of had caused serious harm to Hadi’s reputation. 

She denies that such harm had been caused to Hadi. 

Clare said Hadi filed the claim not to protect his image but for the illegitimate purpose of protecting the reputation and advancing the political purpose of PAS and his political ally, Najib. 

She said the statements in the article were a matter of public interest, namely on corrupt and criminal history and activity, conduct and influence of the government, the political and judicial process in Malaysia and whether Najib was fit to hold public office. 

Clare said she would prove that Hadi knowingly allowed PAS to be compromised and corrupted and the democratic process to be undermined by senior party personnel. 

She said these officials accepted and personally benefited from enormous secret payments from Najib to undermine and withdraw the party from the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition. 

She said Hadi ‘s claim for damages and any injunction should also be dismissed.

('Clare: Hadi, Najib Colluding to Exploit London Case Proceeding.' – Free Malaysia Today, October 30, 2017)

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1. '90M FOR PAS': S'WAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE

2. RELATED: SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR NAMES AMBIGA AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION, SAYS REPORT

3. RELATED: CLARE: HADI, NAJIB COLLUDING TO EXPLOIT LONDON CASE PROCEEDING

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RELATED: HADI WILL HAVE TO FILE DEFENCE TO CLARE'S CLAIM, SAYS LAWYER

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

Lawyer SN Nair claims that Hadi now needs to enter his defence against Clare's as yet unsubstantiated counter claim.
Photo: Free Malaysia Today

PETALING JAYA, OCTOBER 30, 2017 – 

Abdul Hadi Awang has to file his defence to absolve the prime minister of accusations in response to Clare Rewcastle Brown’s claims that the PAS president has conspired with Najib Razak or his agents to exploit a court case in London, a lawyer said. 

SN Nair said this must be done within a stipulated time as provided under the English court rules. 

“Failure to do this will amount to Clare obtaining a judgement in her favour,” the lawyer told FMT. 

Nair said he believed Hadi’s lawyers in London would rebut the counter-claim due to the serious allegations made. 

He said this in response to the Sarawak Report editor who filed the counter-claim and defence to Hadi’s defamation suit filed in April. 

In her counter-claim, the whistleblower website editor said they want to discredit her and Sarawak Report in its “justified campaign” that Najib be removed from office and be brought to justice for his alleged corrupt and criminal conduct. 

In court papers sighted by FMT, Clare said Hadi, whether by himself or his agents, had been party to the publication of a series of articles, viciously or racially abusing, defaming and harassing her on the Third Force and Malaysia Today websites. 

[Clare can sue these parties and prove in court that they are actually doing all these things to her, and if she has a strong case, she should sue to prove this claim first before expecting the court to simply accept it as fact, just on her say so. The quality of her 'evidence' is yet to be evaluated, but judging by what had transpired regarding her claims against the Malaysian judiciary being also in collusion with PM Najib and Abdul Hadi, we feel that this claim may go the same way as well. This is of course, up to the Judge to consider.]

In the counter-claim filed on October 11, she said these publications amounted to harassment. 

In it, she has implicated Najib in the financial scandal of state investor 1MDB, the Scorpene submarine deal and the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu, the prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy, endemic corruption and money politics in the 2013 general election. 

Clare has also listed out at least 10 senior PAS officials from the ulama group who have been beneficiaries of money sourced from 1MDB. 

Hadi filed his suit at the London High Court following an article she wrote on August 6 last year. 

Sarawak Report ran an eight-paragraph article in which it claimed RM90 million was “reckoned” to have entered the accounts of top PAS leaders to woo them into supporting Umno and Barisan Nasional. 

Clare, in her defence to Hadi’s suit, said the PAS leader was not named or identified in any statement in the article. 

She said Hadi’s suit was an infringement of her right and the public’s right to freedom of expression, especially in the discussion of political matters. 

Clare said Hadi filed the claim not to protect his image but for the illegitimate purpose of protecting the reputation and advancing the political purpose of PAS and his political ally, Najib. 

She said the statements in the article were a matter of public interest. 

Nair said Hadi and Clare could also opt to strike out each other’s claim after their defence had been filed. 

“But it must be filed before the trial commences,” he said, adding that it would interesting to see which personalities would give evidence.

('Hadi Will Have to File Defence to Clare's Claim, Says Lawyer.' – Free Malaysia Today, October 30, 2017)

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EDITORIAL / UNMASKING THE REAL LUKAS STRAUMANN AND THE BRUNO MANSER FONDS: PART II - BOGUS SCIENCE, BOGUS VALUES AND HIDDEN AGENDA

IN the last editorial, we had written on BMF and its notoriously belligerent director, Lukas Straumann and examined how they have been caught whitewashing the misdeeds of Swiss Nazi chemical companies while unfairly and distortedly attacking Sarawak with a degree of vehemence that would have been more appropriate when directed at the Nazis - new and old - much closer to home.

In this instalment, the NINE QUESTIONS Panel examines the faulty and sinisterly dangerous worldwiew that the operators of the Bruno Manser Fonds hold fast to. We also explore the twisted 'science' behind the existence of this shadowy organization, the suspicious fundings of which has been verifiably substantiated and covered by the good people at Corruption Watchers.

The Panel will also scrutinise current issues surrounding the subject of the nomads, and compare the many different groups to shed light on the issue concerning the Penan natives of Sarawak and we will show how the people at Bruno Manser Fonds are misleading and even maliciously using the Penans to advance their self-serving and suspicious cause.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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-PART II-

"Over 90% of Sarawak's rainforests were logged."

– Bruno Manser Fonds

THUS goes the oft-repeated mantra favoured by Bruno Manser Fonds and their close - but equally bogus - affiliate, Sarawak Report. Depending on their mood, they will also use the contradictory line of, "Only 5% of forest cover left", just to lend their agenda an air of alarming urgency that is best focussed on other, more realistically urgent locations around the world*. 

Over time, they have refined this claim to include the word "primary", when they realised that their original claim cannot be substantiated by any acceptable method whatsoever. 

STATIC STATISTICS

The other problem with this whimsical claim is precisely because in the decades since this claim had first been made - since the late 1980s to the early 1990s - their statistics had barely changed from the same old tired general accusation, and thus we can conclude that the original accusation was made from a blatantly biased estimation and thus designed to cause maximum damage despite ground evidence to the contrary.

Thanks to modern technology, we are now better able to discern with little room for doubt that the claims made by BMF and their well-meaning but mislead affiliates (except for Sarawak Report, whom we are adamantly sure is one maliciously unrepentant organisation, with the zeal of a biased and hateful fanatic) are far from accurate.

This zeal is best encapsulated in Bruno Manser's own, albeit gravely false proclamation made in February of 2000 that, "[through] his logging license policies, Taib Mahmud is personally responsible for the destruction of nearly all Sarawak rainforests in one generation."

GOOGLE EARTH TIMELAPSE RELEASED

A few days ago, Google Earth had released their latest innovation, which is a timelapse of satellite photographs composited over the period of 32 years (1984-2016).

Satellite shot of Sarawak in 1984.
Screenshot: Google Earth Timelapse

Satellite shot of Sarawak in 2016.

Screenshot: Google Earth Timelapse

Looking closer to the situation using objective data, the interactive map furnished by Global Forest Watch tells another starkly different story than the tired old "90% gone, 5% left" jingle, that makes neither logical nor mathematical sense.

In this 2016 rendering of the Global Forest Watch interactive map, forest cover loss is clearly less than 40% to 50%. Furthermore, if only 5% was left, or as Mr Manser would prefer to term it as "nearly all" is gone, then wouldn't Sarawak be left with absolutely no forest cover in the 16 years that the ridiculous pronouncement was first made? Evidently, these campaigners are not interested in the truth, but merely using false data to advance their hidden political/commercial agenda.
Screenshot: Global Forest Watch

Just a cursory view would tell the observer that there is still way more than merely 5% forest cover over Sarawak, and certainly, even the primary rainforests are still largely intact.

Given that Mr Manser had made such a boldly apocalyptic pronouncement way back at the turn of the millennium, the sixteen years that had passed would have seen Sarawak with absolutely no forest cover by today, especially presuming that they were correct in saying that all this is due to then-Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud's "indiscriminate policies".

CURRENT / BLOGGER RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE PRESSES THE ATTACK AGAINST CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN, SILENCE FROM BROWN

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WITH ever mounting evidence verified by a reputable UK publication - The Telegraph previously did an extensive exposé about the Browns' alleged propensity for passing the buck to the common people in favour of allegedly alleviating their own pockets when it suits them - Raggie Jessy of the blog The Third Force is back to tell us about this lurid, yet suppressed (at least by Sarawak Report) piece of relatively recent history that is too blatant too ignore.

The fact that the whole episode went unpunished justifies the repeated retelling of it to as wide an audience as possible.

Also, the fact that one of the members of the Brown clan is currently and actively slandering Malaysians in every angle that she can frame her bogus stories from - chiefly of which is the anti-corruption angle - serves to factualise the abject and unbridled hypocrisy that is clearly being displayed by this self-appointed crusading 'journalist'.

Or a "half-past-six" journalist in Malaysian parlance.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: IN THE LATEST SALVO BY RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE, CLARE BROWN'S ALREADY SEMI-EXPOSED SKIRT IS LIFTED FOR ALL AND SUNDRY TO SEE

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CLARE BROWN AND THE RM110 MILLION EXPENSES SCANDAL THAT ROCKED BRITISH PARLIAMENT

In Malaysia, Gordon would have been investigated by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM), MACC, the Attorney General’s chambers and Bank Negara (BNM) just the way Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak was. Yet, he got off scot free in the UK despite paying members of his immediate family with hard-earned taxpayer-money just to clean his Westminster flat!

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE

On the 4^th of November 2009, at 6.48 GMT, Sean Noonan of the Stratfor Global Intelligence team sent an email concerning cuts in expenses that were imposed upon British lawmakers. In the email, Noonan referred to a report that spoke of questionable claims made by British Members of Parliament (MPs), leaked to The Telegraph by an unidentified government official.

Noonan was referring to the United Kingdom (UK) Parliamentary Expenses Scandal (PES), a major blow to the premiership of Gordon Brown that violently rocked the British House of Commons. In May 2009, Gordon came under intense scrutiny both by the media and the British parliament following revelations that he used taxpayers’ money to pay his wife (Sarah Brown), brother (Andrew Brown) and sister in-law (Clare Rewcastle Brown) to manage his housekeeping.

Noonan’s mail came months after his colleague, Lauren Goodrich, pointed out in another email that the crisis had cost Gordon at the polls and was bound to bring his premiership to an end. And she was right – amid public outrage over the scandal and the lack of commitment towards criminal prosecutions (which did eventually take place in 2010), support for Gordon’s Labour party took its worst beating ever in a century during the local elections held on the 4^th of June 2009 for all of UK’s 27 County Councils.

On the 8^th of May that year, The Telegraph shocked the nation when it spread the entire list of MPs and their expenses claims in print (see also screenshot below). The findings by the British daily – which, for the record, were legit and never challenged by Gordon – included details of a house swap arrangement that allowed the then premier to transfer his claims under the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA).

CURRENT / IN THE LATEST SALVO BY RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE, CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S ALREADY SEMI-EXPOSED SKIRT IS LIFTED EVER HIGHER FOR ALL AND SUNDRY TO SEE

IN what seems to be developing into a very public and acidic spat between two giants of electronic media, Raggie Jessy or The Third Force fires another blow to the Sarawak Report camp with the revelation of Clare Rewcastle Brown's murky, yet suppressed past.

For those who have sighted this aspect of her past life, it is worth a revisit. For those who hasn't, enjoy the revelation, in the well-crafted flowing style that The Third Force is known for by now. 

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: MP'S EXPENSES: HOW BROWN AND HIS CABINET EXPLOIT EXPENSES SYSTEM
3. RELATED: MP'S EXPENSES: GORDON BROWN'S HOUSE SWAP THAT LET HIM CLAIM THOUSANDS
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EVIDENCE SURFACES THAT CLARE BROWN AND HUBBY STOLE TAXPAYERS' MONEY

The scandal was deemed by 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”.

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE via MALAYSIA TODAY

The Third Force (TTF) is a propaganda blog, says Clare Rewcastle Brown.

According to the Chief Editor of Sarawak Report, TTF “is not a news portal, but a habitually libellous propaganda blog that shouldn’t have been cited by any newspaper.” Ironically, this lady chose to air her fury via Free Malaysia Today (FMT), a Nelson Fernandez run portal that received RM12 million from John Soh between the years 2009 and 2014.

Even more ironical is the fact that the article was written by a Nawar Firdaws, an FMT columnist who was seen intimately dancing with the DAP’s Zairil Christopher in several photos at a drinking hole in the Hartamas area. Despite repeated claims by bloggers and freelance writers of the illicit love affair, FMT and the DAP remained tight lipped about the whole thing and went so far as to censor reports that even so much as mentioned Zairil’s name for several days.

'Apparently, the hand holding incident involving Zairil Christopher of DAP and FMT's Nawar Firdaws took place in Kuching - SeaDemon.' 

– TTF

Now, doesn’t this go a long way to show just how credibly and morally unsound FMT is? And is it just a coincidence that Nawar, having been accused of flirting with someone known to be a Lim Kit Siang apologist and stooge, was Ms. Rewcastle’s choice of a ‘journalist’ to take pot-shots at TTF? 

But then, it is not as if the FMT editorial came as a ‘huge surprise’ to me. 

After all, it takes one fake news portal to know another, which explains just why FMT religiously features claims made by Sarawak Report, including the infamous one where Ms. Rewcastle ‘mocked’ PAS president Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi Awang for failing to sue her. 

The said article, published by FMT on the 8^th of April 2017, quoted the disgraced British journalist as saying that PAS failed to sue her despite threatening to do so. The Sarawak Report chief editor was referring to a letter of demand that Hadi’s United Kingdom (UK) lawyers issued her portal on the 13^th of December 2016. 

“They threatened to sue me within a week if I didn’t do lots of things in mid-December… but didn’t,” she said. 

But she may have spoken too soon. 

Nineteen days after that cocky and sarcastic jibe, Hadi got his lawyers to file a defamation suit against her and Sarawak Report at a High Court in London. The suit pertained allegations made by Sarawak Report that the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, had solicited political favours from Hadi by offering the latter a RM90 million bribe. 

Ideally, the suit should have been the ‘chance of a lifetime’ for Ms. Rewcastle to prove what she had been saying all along, that the Prime Minister of Malaysia was criminally perverse and morally corrupt, enough to offer bribes just to tighten his grip on government. Instead, she failed to offer the London Court even a shred of the “smoking gun evidence” she claimed to possess despite being given months to do so. 

And that’s not all. 

This lady, who “personifies herself to be the defender of truth and justice,” even had the cheek to tell the presiding judge that she ignored past letters sent by Hadi’s lawyers as none of the others she received ended in court battles. She made that bold yet reckless claim during a Case Management hearing on the 6th of August 2017 that was called to decide the amount Hadi needed to deposit with the court as security. 

Now isn’t that tantamount to telling the judge that you’re a habitual delinquent?

And yet, she labelled my portal a “habitually libellous propaganda blog” that the mainstream media should keep a ten-foot pole distance from. Tell me, who is this white piece of trash to dictate terms to the Malaysian mainstream media? How can anyone trust a lady who conspired with her own husband to defraud British taxpayers of their hard-earned money between the years 2004 and 2006? 

'You read right - Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew Brown, were accused of receiving thousands in taxpayer money between the years 2004 and 2006 just to 'clean' the then British premier's Westminster flat.' 

– TTF

And that, my friends, is not fake news, but the legitimate findings of the British House of Commons as reported by The Telegraph on 8^th of May 2009 (screen capture below). The British daily implied that the then Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, had abused his position in power by “paying his brother” using taxpayer money “for cleaning services at his private flat at Westminter.”

MP'S EXPENSES: HOW BROWN AND HIS CABINET EXPLOIT EXPENSES SYSTEM
Gordon Brown and his most senior ministers are facing questions over their use of parliamentary expenses after the Daily Telegraph revealed details their claims. – The Daily Telegraph, May 8, 2009 

And just in case you are wondering who Gordon’s brother is, think no further – he is none other than Andrew Brown, Ms. Rewcastle’s partner in wedlock. According to the daily, receipts submitted by Gordon to the Parliamentary authorities disclosed that between 2004 and 2006, he paid Andrew £6,577 (worth some £21,000 by today’s standards) over 26 months just to clean his flat!

And if that isn’t enough evidence to convince you just how corrupt the Browns are, following is the cut-and-dry proof (also reproduced below) that will tell you the kind of trash this white spin-master of a journalist is: 

FOCUS / REVISITING HADI AWANG'S COURTROOM VICTORY AGAINST THE MIGHTY DAILY MIRROR; HADI IS CURRENTLY SUING CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN AND SARAWAK REPORT

MANY commenters had forgotten that YB Abdul Hadi Awang, MP is no stranger to the British legal system, and in fact have had a successful outing in the UK, using the same lawyer he is currently retaining. 

A good general always knows to stick to the same dark horse that wins the race, and YB Abdul Hadi Awang is looking ever the confident commander after winning his case in 2007.

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2. RELATED: ABDUL HADI AWANG - AN APOLOGY

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LEADING MALAYSIAN POLITICIAN WINS LIBEL COMPLAINT AGAINST DAILY MIRROR OVER FALSE TERRORISM ALLEGATIONS

The Defendant has explained that the photograph was published in error by the newspaper, and that it was intended to refer to a completely different person, the suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist Mr Abdul Hadi Al Iraqi. Mr Hadi Awang has no connection whatsoever with that person. The article has caused Mr Hadi Awang great embarrassment and distress.

CARTER-RUCK PRESS RELEASE

19 October 2007 

The Daily Mirror today apologised in the High Court to Mr Abdul Hadi Awang, a well-known Malaysian politician and an eminent Muslim scholar, over false allegations that he was, among other things, the Al Qaeda “number 3” and that he was being held in Guantanamo Bay.

BREAKING / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN TALKS BACK ABOUT HER CASE IN LONDON

THE NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest Clare Rewcastle Brown's strange attempt at a sorry excuse for a media spin to dig herself out of the hole she is digging herself ever deeper into.

Below, we will reproduce her response to the recent news concerning her alleged failure to submit her defence before the 4.00 pm deadline on August 30, 2017.

The NINE QUESTIONS Panel will interject the article with comments shown in grey.

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SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR TIGHT-LIPPED ON DEFENCE AGAINST HADI'S SUIT

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“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter.” However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI via MALAYSIA CHRONICLE

Whistleblower site Sarawak Report’s editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown is tight-lipped regarding her defence against PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s defamation suit against her.

“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter,” she told Malaysiakini today via email when queried on the matter, following reports purporting that she failed to file her defence on time. [The NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest the contradictory nature of this statement of reservation from commenting, which is immediately followed by the comment she supposedly wasn't intending to make. This is typical of the forked nature of any conversations involving Clare Brown.]

On August 31, New Straits Times (NST) quoted a blog claiming that Rewcastle-Brown had failed to file her defence by 4pm on August 30 (UK time) and that this is supposedly a violation of an August 2 court order.

The blog reportedly claimed that Rewcastle-Brown’s lawyers would likely file for an extension in October, but the failure would cause alarm to Pakatan Harapan politicians who had demonised Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak based on her reports.

However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.

“There are very real concerns about the release and then deliberate distortion of information relating to the standard management of this case for political propaganda purposes in Malaysia, with the clear purpose of giving false impressions, even before the response to Mr Hadi’s claims have been laid before the court,” she added. 

She also noted that NST had quoted the blog claiming that US sources had purportedly confirmed that Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad had been channelling “millions” into her bank account to topple Najib.

“This is an extremely serious, libellous and wholly untrue accusation of the sort that I have become used to from various anonymous and unattributed fringe blogs, but rarely from an authored article in a mainstream newspaper. Frankly, I am shocked,” she said of the allegation. [Better to be at the fringe than to be a fraud. At this point in the article, we wonder why aren't these statements made through Clare Rewcastle Brown's lawyers, just as she said that they will be handling "this matter" - whether that means in terms of making public statements, or the case matter itself. Either way, it is even stranger still why does Clare Brown refuse to confirm - whether through Sarawak Report, her media friends, or even through her lawyers - that her defence was entered within the stipulated time? A simple statement to that effect would dispel and avoid any unnecessary doubt without actually revealing the contents of the defence. But we are seeing nothing of the sort. We are inclined to believe that Raggie Jessy/The Third Force is telling the truth concerning Clare's alleged failure to provide her defence to the court until she or her lawyer can issue an unequivocal confirmation of the timely submission of her defence. Until that happens, she sounds like she is diverting the matter into another conspiracy theory to preoccupy whatever fanbase she may have left so that they will remain loyal to the end, and perhaps not demand that she return the donation money she gleefully fleeced from her supporters knowing full well that she is fraudulent - Clare Rewcastle Brown is welcome to sue us over this statement - if she dares.]

Hadi is suing Rewcastle-Brown over her allegations that he had received RM90 million.

('Sarawak Report Editor Tight-Lipped on Defence Against Hadi.' – Malaysiakini via Malaysia Chronicle, September 2, 2017)

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CONCLUSION

Clare Rewcastle Brown knows that she is making this public response out of desperation to convince the public that Sarawak Report truly is telling the truth, when the opposite is true.

As the clock ticks, this erratic and contradictory statement made without going through her lawyers shows that there is a severe disconnect between what she knows she should and shouldn't do, and what she ends up doing - and wrongly at that - out of desperation and panic.

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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The NINE QUESTIONS Blog will return with more facts.

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