{"id":11634,"date":"2015-08-30T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2015-08-30T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:06:54","slug":"malaysia-bans-the-color-yellow-as-protests-swell-into-the-hundreds-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11634","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Bans The Color Yellow As Protests Swell Into The Hundreds Of Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-08-30\/malaysia-bans-color-yellow-protests-swell-hundreds-thousands\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysia Bans The Color Yellow As Protests Swell Into The Hundreds Of Thousands<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/MalaysiaProtestsSunday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/MalaysiaProtestsSunday_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-08-29\/mass-protests-sweep-malaysian-capital-anger-goldman-backed-slush-fund-boils-over\">detailed on Saturday<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>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\u2019s personal bank account.<\/strong>Mahathir Mohamad, who many say still hasn\u2019t accepted the fact that he hasn\u2019t been Prime Minister since 2003, has called for a no-confidence vote and insists that the man he handpicked to govern &#8220;has to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Estimates of Sunday\u2019s crowd varied\u00a0<em>slightly<\/em>\u00a0depending on who you listen to. Police, for instance, say the gathering attracted around 20,000 protesters while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2015\/08\/29\/world\/asia\/ap-as-malaysia-rally.html\">Bersih insists<\/a>\u00a0the number was closer to 300,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/MalaysiaProtestsSunday2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/MalaysiaProtestsSunday2_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/MalaysiaProtestsSunday3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/MalaysiaProtestsSunday3_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1769,2293,8562,1445,7511,657,4318],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corruption","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-mahathis-mohamad","tag-malaysia","tag-najib-razak","tag-protests","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11635,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/11635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}