And now... for a wee bit of GOOD NEWS... from 60 Minutes!

This made my day... wiped away the bitter taste of reading news reports of Mahathir's demented and desperate attempts to cling like a dying Tyrannosaurus rex to fast fading power and political influence.

Thank you Derek, thank you, Shanthini, for alerting me to this uplifting 60-Minute report.

30-minute overview of a looming disaster called Lynas

Gilbert Almeida poses some intelligent questions with distractingly theatrical affectation - while Fuziah Salleh is entirely credible and convincing with her clear, concise responses. This feisty level-headed MP for Kuantan is one of the brightest silver linings in the dark and ominous Lynas cloud that hangs over the people Pahang.

This 30-minute interview presents an excellent summary and overview of the atrocious Lynas rare refinery project. Another hideous long-term curse brought upon Malaysians by the morally deformed Umno/BN regime.

Bruno Manser, the Ghost That Walks in Sarawak...

Bruno Manser, a real-life Toruk Makto
to the endangered Penan tribe

Well-connected friends in Sarawak whisper that a massive bounty was placed on Bruno Manser's head more than 12 years ago. The money was put up by several logging companies linked to Chief Minister Taib Mahmud who hated Manser's guts. Some say the reward for Manser's head was at least RM1 million.

Bruno has been missing since May 2000, the last time anyone heard from the larger-than-life Swiss artist who transformed himself into a Rambo against the destruction of Borneo's precious rainforests and inspired the Penan to resist the systematic ethnocide perpetrated against them by Taib's corrupt regime.

The valiant spirit of Bruno Manser lives on as the foundation he inaugurated in Switzerland to continue his important mission. I salute this wholly admirable hero who dedicated his life to battling a voracious and vampiric political and corporate dynasty hellbent on destroying an entire ancient ecosystem.

Thanks to the Bruno Manser Foundation, the world can see what is actually happening behind the tight security surrounding the accursed Bakun Dam - demented brainchild of Daim Zainuddin and Mahathir Mohamad...

Members of the Ukit tribe forced to live in floating houses as the waters rise

They were offered a barren resetttlement site and because they refused to budge,
received no compensation

Hanging on to a bleak existence, battling against despair

Thousands of drowned trees along the periphery of the man-made lake

Apart from the trees, how many other magnificent lifeforms have been killed by Bakun Dam?

Yet another ill-conceived, wasteful and unnecessary mega-project from BN

READ THE FULL TRAGIC STORY HERE.

This is what I call world-class journalism... Thanks, Kiera!

Will Malaysians Get Cancer for Your iPhone or Prius?

I went to the site of a notorious rare-earth refinery - and investigated plans for a new one - to find out.

By Kiera Butler | Mon Feb. 13, 2012

Greetings from Malaysia! I'm here working on a reporting project about 17 elements at the bottom of the periodic table known as the rare earths, which are key to manufacturing all kinds of cutting-edge technology—from smartphones and laptops to wind turbines and hybrid-car motors to defense technology, including tank engines, radar and sonar systems, and navigation systems in smart bombs. For the last few decades, China controlled the world's market for rare earths, producing about 97 percent of the global supply. But in late 2010, China cut its exports by 35 percent to keep the valuable metals for its own manufacturers. The prices of rare earths shot up, and almost immediately mining outfits in other countries began cropping up.

One of the biggest to come on the scene is Lynas, an Australian company. Although the company will mine its materials in Australia, it hopes to build its refinery in Malaysia. It was granted a temporary license to operate last month; the company says that once it is up and running, it will be able to supply a fifth of the world's rare earths. If all goes according to plan, Lynas rare earths could soon be found in flat-screen televisions at your neighborhood Best Buy and Priuses at your local car dealership.

Since rare earths occur naturally with the radioactive elements thorium and uranium, safety is a major concern with using them. Engineers have expressed reservations about the safety of the Lynas refinery's design, as the New York Times has reported. Some Malaysians suspect that Lynas is choosing to refine in Malaysia in order to sidestep more stringent environmental regulations at home.

I've been traveling around with Lee Tan, an unflappable environmental consultant who grew up in Kuantan and now lives in Australia. This year, Lee has spent most of her spare time working to stop the refinery from opening. "My mom lives in Kuantan, and my brothers and sisters were thinking about retiring there," she says. "Now, they're not so sure."

You can't blame them for their concerns: Malaysia has hosted a rare-earth refinery before, with some painful results. From 1979-92, the Japanese company Mitsubishi ran a plant called Asia Rare Earth, where it processed the materials it needed to sell electronics to markets all over the world. In the years since, nearby villagers have seen birth defects and eight cases of childhood leukemia. Mitsubishi is still dealing with the mess; the New York Times called it "the largest radiation cleanup yet in the rare earth industry."

[READ THE FULL STORY HERE.]

Kiera Butler is the articles editor at Mother Jones.

Nothing like some good music to blow away bad politics...

Last month I invested in an affordable new Divoom digital sound system (designed in Singapore, manufactured in China) that packs more punchy bass than anyone would expect. It's been very therapeutic, to say the least. After reading two or three local news items, I tend to get so pissed off or depressed, the only remedy is to put on some high-energy mp3s downloaded from YouTube via this nifty free website. It only takes a jiffy... and now my music archive has expanded extensively. Just sharing some of my medicine with anyone who might need it... put on your headphones or wait till the neighbors are out!

Thank you, YouTube, for making so much good stuff available to so many. You certainly do humanity much greater service than any government I can think of!

In Response to the lovely Lisa Lee (updated)

Early one morning three years ago, a very charming blogger left the following comment on my blog after I had gone to bed. She made some pertinent statements about Malaysian politics that prompted me to respond at length. I feel this exchange deserves to be upgraded to a blogpost in its own right rather than left in the comments section... (thanks for inspiring this post, Lisa :-)...

Lisa Lee said on Jan 17, 2009 @ 4:32 AM MYT:

Honestly, I do wonder if BN will ever lose control? Because the livelihood of many will be affected. Peace and harmony is my hope for Malaysia.

The thought of BN losing may impact so many people and for this reason, I hope peace prevails. Desperation sets in and who knows what may happen.

Having said that, I hope that Pakatan Rakyat would be a strong cohesive Opposition. Maybe not take over in this sitting but next election, consolidate their hold in Malaysia.

I do hope that Malaysia will be like USA (Democrats vs Republicans) and England (Labor vs Conservative) - in a sense that we will have a strong two party system to have the check and balance there.

Can you share your views on this? I like to learn from you. TQ :)

My dear Lisa,

Imagine you're a princess adopted as a baby by pirates who slaughtered your parents, ransacked the palace, and set themselves up as the new government of the land. They spared your life because you were cute and harmless and posed no threat to them (even pirates must have some vague memory of almost-forgotten human feelings). In fact, the pirate king saw that you were destined to blossom into a true beauty and fancied he could acquire royal status by marrying you once you were of age.

In other words, you grew up knowing no other authority apart from this band of brigands who began to dress quite well and were soon able to pass themselves off as "respectable folk." Nobody dared inform you who your real parents were and as time passed you came to regard the pirate king as a beloved uncle and trusted him implicitly. After all, he did possess a sort of rakish charm and was actually quite a clever chap (though some might call it "rat cunning"). He told you stories about how he had heroically rescued you from the evil clutches of an ogre and now you owed your life to him and were duty-bound to wed him.

One day, walking through a forest, you chance upon a humble cottage and out of curiosity decide to find out who lives there. As you approach the cottage, the front door swings open and a smiling old man steps out to offer you a cup of tea. You accept and soon find yourself engaged in deep conversation with this mysterious hermit of the woods, who reveals the truth of what happened to the land when you were just a newly born.

The old man shares with you a secret that forever changes your destiny. He was the loyal adviser to your biological parents, the King and Queen of this land, who were cruelly murdered by the marauders. He managed to escape the massacre and fled to the forest along with a handful of others who have long awaited the day you were old enough to rule the land as the rightful Queen. For years this band of survivors have lived in hidden caves, dreaming of the day when they would be strong enough to reclaim the land and liberate it from pirate dominion. He concludes by asking you if you are ready to take your place as the leader of these true patriots who desire to see the end of pirate misrule and justice restored.


Now, this is your current dilemma, Lisa. Having known no other form of government apart from the piratic (and parasitic), can you remember what true leadership is all about? Pull the wool from your eyes and you will see that for decades the Barisan Nasional has attracted mostly those who seek to aggrandize and enrich themselves at the expense of the land and of the people. They care little for the sufferings of the common folk and even less for the health and well-being of the land itself, having inherited the rapacious tendencies of their pirate ancestors who understood only rape, pillage and plunder.


In the name of greed, these self-serving parasites continue to destroy the landscape through mining, logging and insensitive "development." They support those who share their own destructively uncreative urges - namely, ruthless businessmen with megalomaniacal tendencies - while suppressing, through barbaric and repressive laws, all those who desire to see the wealth of the land equally and wisely shared.

In effect, dear Lisa, the simplistic scenario I have outlined is a parable for the sort of misgovernance we have been subject to on this planet for countless generations - a top-heavy Humpty-Dumpty sort of power structure wherein the most aggressive and unprincipled amass the greatest amount of wealth and then proceed to hijack the processes of government via almost absolute control of the mass media, education and financial systems, even religious institutions (I mean especially!).

However, the time has come for those who truly love the land - and I mean Planet Earth - to reclaim our sovereign power as conscious individuals, liberating ourselves from generations of inherited robotism (living our lives according to factory defaults) and fatalism (believing it is our lot to suffer in this "vale of tears").

We must think globally (nay, universally) and act locally. So in Malaysia our foremost duty as true patriots is to remove Barisan Nasional completely from power - because they have abused the power entrusted them for too many generations.

In the most basic terms, BN must not retain control of the police force, the national purse, and the mass media. Those are the mechanisms by which they have ruled us through fear and greed - a powerful combination of intimidation and bribery. Any population subject to such misgovernance eventually becomes infantilized, demoralized, and dehumanized.

Ultimately, we shall be turned into a nation of human robots while our energy and spirit are vampirically depleted by an elite cabal of demonically possessed humans devoid of compassion and empathy... UNLESS we succeed in booting out these piratic and parasitic entities and replacing them with open-minded, open-hearted leaders who genuinely believe that being a public servant means precisely that - you serve the public, not private interests!

There isn't a single individual in Umno/BN I can name as somebody I love, respect and trust.

On the other hand, there are many in the various component parties of Pakatan Rakyat I wholeheartedly applaud and support in their candidacy to lead and govern. Among these I would unhesitatingly name Anwar Ibrahim, Wan Azizah, Mat Sabu, Azmin Ali, Syed Husin Ali, Sivarasa Rasiah, Tian Chua, Chegu Bard, Elizabeth Wong, Khalid Ibrahim, Guan Eng and Kit Siang, Karpal Singh, Teresa Kok, Teo Nie Ching, Charles Santiago, Tony Pua, Hannah Yeoh, Tok Guru Nik Aziz, Abdul Hadi Awang, Husam Musa, Mohammad Nizar, Mohd Prasad Hanif, Dr Nasir Hashim, Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, and S. Arutchelvan (I may have omitted a few others but these are the ones that immediately spring to mind).

Apart from the professional politicians, we now have the Barisan Rakyat - a loose coalition of public intellectuals and true patriots led by none other than Raja Petra Kamarudin consisting of popular figures (mostly bloggers and columnists) like Haris Ibrahim, Bernard Khoo, Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, Art Harun and Azmi Sharom; and politically aware citizens like Vijay Kumar Murugavell, Duke Cheng, Ee Chia, Danny Chua, Boom and Rodi, and countless others (including myself). And, don't forget, there are outstanding political figures like Zaid Ibrahim and Din Merican who will certainly play a significant role in reshaping the new Malaysia once the country is free of this stubborn and debilitating disease called BN.

Lisa, the only people who will be terribly upset when BN loses control of the police and Petronas are an overfed coterie of fat-cat capitalists who have enjoyed more than 30 years of monopolistic access to the nation's resources and established huge empires based on political patronage. The competent managers amongst them will be able to adapt and continue doing well under a new government - so long as they genuinely serve the public good. Those who have corruptly made their money as crony rent-seekers will either be allowed to retire in comfort (if they donate a fair portion of their ill-gotten gains to charity) or face a therapeutic spell in prison.


When Pakatan Rakyat takes over as government, it will not exactly be a one-party management. Since Anwar invited DAP and PAS to join PKR as equal partners, there will effectively be at least three different political ideologies - many more if you include a few independent parties from Sabah and Sarawak, plus the remains of Gerakan and PPP - working together (preferably in perfect harmony and hopefully with minimal friction) towards one common goal - the rescue of Malaysia from the economic and ethical doldrums and the creation of a healthy national ethos in which every citizen regardless of skin color, culinary preferences and creed can at last feel a sense of belonging - and therefore a sense of authentic pride.

It remains to be seen whether Umno will survive as the Opposition. Without its reactionary and dangerous Ketuanan Melayu agenda - and suddenly deprived of the chance to carry on robbing the nation - these descendants of pirates will almost surely disintegrate as a political party. Those individuals amongst them with any intelligence and ability whatsoever will swiftly realize that the horse is DEAD - kaput, finito, expired - and proceed on foot till they reach the next oasis where they will rest and reassess their lives and, insyallah, come to their senses and become decent human beings.

No, Lisa, we don't want Malaysia to become like America or Britain where the illusion of democracy, not the real thing, prevails. We don't want a Tweedledum and Tweedledee type of two-party system (like the Donkey and Elephant parties or the Tories and Whigs). In fact, we don't want to be obsessed with government and politics any longer than we need!

What we want is a clean, efficient administration that will work quietly and with minimal histrionics to ensure that everyday life just keeps getting easier and pleasanter for more and more of the population. Ultimately, the government of a country ought to be just like the plumbing in your house - we don't want to be distracted by it or even notice it. A properly designed plumbing system carries out its functions unobtrusively, without complaint, and with negligible maintenance problems. Indeed, the plumbing in a well-built house ought to last at least a hundred years!


With government out of the way and internalized, we will at long last become a nation of self-governing individuals with nothing to stop us from each fulfilling our true destinies as free citizens and achieving our maximum potential as evolving humans.

And, take my word for it, Lisa dear. It's NOT going to take another two generations. Perhaps two terms under a new, enlightened government!

[First posted 17 January 2009]

Every prophet is despised and persecuted in his own land

Portrait of an intellectual fugitive

Look at this young man's face closely. Hamza Kashgari is only 23, way too young to die - but some clerics in Saudi Arabia are demanding that he be put to death.

What did Hamza do? As far as I know from reading a bit of background on him, his only crime is that he can think and feel.

Hamza worked as a columnist for al-Bilad, a Saudi Arabian daily, but was fired at the end of 2011 for refusing to conform to orthodox views.

Mabahith, the Saudi Arabian secret police, had Hamza on their radar when the Arab Spring started and young thinkers in Saudi Arabia were inspired to organize public forums in support of the people's freedom movement blossoming around the planet. Hamza was part of this eruption of youthful optimism, this promise of genuine transformation, this glimpse of a new world free from the shackles of cruel tradition.

Sheikh Nasser al-Omar: shedding crocodile tears

Sheikh Nasser al-Omar, an influential cleric, wept on TV while demanding the young man's execution for apostasy. What a pathetic performance, using sentimentality to camouflage ruthlessness; playing the unpopular role of Public Inquisitor and at the same time hoping to be loved!

We have seen too many reptiles in human  guise heading too many cruel and bloodthirsty institutions - too many hanging judges who kiss their wives and mothers when they return home from work, and hug their children. And yet they relentlessly continue their gruesome work - sentencing to death other people's wives and mothers, and other people's children.

Look at this Sheikh's face closely. What do you see? I see a closet pervert, an evil priest who secretly enjoys ripping throbbing hearts from sacrificial virgins and calling it religious devotion; a covert pedophile or pederast who would publicly condemn others for homosexuality. I may be wrong, of course. Sheikh Nasser may once have thought and felt the same way as Hamza Kashgari - but, lacking the nerve to be a public rebel, he opted for a safe career as an establishment cleric. In so choosing he became an accomplice of profound evil - just as the Vatican was complicit in the tyranny of Hitler's Third Reich, and all who continue to endorse the Barisan Nasional are complicit in institutionalized corruption.

Every messiah was labeled a rebel and heretic

Look closely again at this young rebel's face. What do you see? I see a poet's deep and sensitive intelligence, an idealist and defender of justice, freedom and truth.

I see a young Kahlil Gibran... or a Jesus... or another Muhammad. It isn't so difficult to see those qualities in his eyes. I also see the anger of a young man who has seen right through the greed, the hypocrisy, and the brutality of an utterly corrupt power structure which uses religion to subdue and control the masses by keeping them ignorant and superstitious.

What got Hamza Kashgari into trouble with the Saudi Arabian government was a series of gentle, contemplative but indiscreet tweets he posted on 5 February 2012, the prophet Muhammad's birthday...

“On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you’ve always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you,” he wrote in one tweet.

“On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more,” he wrote in a second.

“On your birthday, I shall not bow to you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me. I shall speak to you as a friend, no more,” he concluded in a third.

The late great Lebanese poet, Kahlil Gibran

These sentiments are to me entirely reasonable and they represent the way any intelligent young person brought up in any religious tradition might be expected to think, once they begin to question the roots of their own faith. Is that a crime punishable by death? Is it even a crime to ponder the irony of deifying long-dead prophets whilst exploiting, enslaving and exterminating living human beings?

Apparently, in Saudi Arabia, it is. Which, to any sane and reasonable person, is symptomatic of a virulent form of psychopathology. A mind virus, no less. Such outrageous manifestations of patriarchal tyranny can only be described as atavistic, reactionary, absolutely barbaric. I would consider it the moral duty of every sane and reasonable human being to oppose this abhorrent form of institutionalized evil, and to ensure that any political regime espousing such cruel and antiquated laws be overthrown without delay.

Tragically, Hamza Kashgari's flight to freedom included a stopover in Kuala Lumpur - where he was arrested by the Malaysian authorities and handed over with unholy haste to Saudi Arabian law enforcement agents - despite a timely court injunction against his deportation obtained by his local lawyers.

In bowing to pressure from the Saudi Arabian government, Malaysia's home minister has revealed himself to be shamelessly spineless and lacking in any compassion or nobility whatsoever.

Malaysia, as a sovereign nation, has every right to refuse to be complicit in such grotesque barbarity. The fact that it acted against Hamza Kashgari without hesitation just to appease Saudi Arabia puts the Najib regime in the worst possible light. That's right, folks, it's all about the money.... again! Saudi Arabia has massive investments in Malaysia, particularly in the colossal Iskandar development project.

Considering the Barisan Nasional's abysmal track record in human rights, it would have run against their grain to defend intellectual freedom against the heavy-handed, jack-booted encroachment of international power politics.

Will America remain silent in the face of such outlandish tyranny? Most certainly, considering its equally abysmal track record in geopolitics. After all, Saudi Arabia is a valued trading partner and favorite ally of the influential oil families.

Hamza Kashgari's young life hangs in the balance. Whether or not it is spared, he has already won his place in history. The Arab Spring will shortly activate in Saudi Arabia, the world capital of tyranny.

Fadiah Nadwa Fikri,
Hamza's brave & beautiful defender

I feel profound admiration and gratitude for Lawyers for Liberty, particularly Fadiah Nadwah Fikri, who has valiantly taken on Hamza Kashgari's case. LFL's courage and dedication represent the silver lining on an extremely dark cloud hanging over our bleak national karma.

This is why I would never choose a career in television

A VALENTINE'S DAY AFFIRMATION

As a hologram of Prime Creator I have easy, natural access to all that Life has to offer, without struggle. So it is!

As Divine Love manifest I have the power to dispel darkness, doubt and misunderstanding wherever I go, bringing joy and clarity and enlightenment to all around me. So it is!

I choose to serve my Core Self through utmost compassion, loving allowance and readiness to forgive. All that exists, exists within my Greater Being. Until and unless I love myself completely, I will not know love at all. So it is!

Haris Ibrahim ~ Cutting Through The Crap

I like Haris Ibrahim. More than that, I admire this man's guts and his innate integrity, lucidity, and nobility. He is undoubtedly a true patriot whose love for his homeland compels him to take a firm stand on behalf of social justice, freedom, and truth.

Umno/BN stands in the way of social justice, freedom, and truth. So Haris Ibrahim is cutting straight through the crap and gunning for meaningful regime change. He chooses to remain non-partisan. Someone has to keep an eye on how Pakatan Rakyat performs when they take over the reins of power. But Haris knows we have no other alternative at this juncture apart from ensuring that Pakatan Rakyat forms the next government.

The People's Government. That's what Ketuanan Rakyat means. Ministers will be constantly reminded that they are public servants - not privateers and profiteers.

More power to you, Haris, and thank you.

Hearing you speak reassures me that there are enough good people with heart and brains, waiting in the wings to restore the health, wealth and longevity of this beautiful and blessed land called Malaysia.

We hear you.

Specially Dedicated to all Umno Cybertroopers... who else?

While sitting in front of your computer watching Umno/BN implode and disintegrate, here's something to entertain and inspire you. Yes, just like the filler programs TV stations broadcast on election night while you're waiting for the results to come trickling in. Who knows, some of the BN ministers who suddenly find themselves jobless after GE13 may turn out to be closet musicians - now they have so much time on their hands...

HERE'S THE ORIGINAL "HANDS SOLO"... MAY THE FARTS BE WITH YOU!


His name is Gerry (Jerry) Phillips and he has been playing songs on his hands for 40 years. This is Jerry's interpretation of Dragonforce, Through the Fire and Flames.

JERRY PHILLIPS PLAYS HENRY MANCINI'S 'PINK PANTHER' THEME:


Jerry Phillips: "This goes out to all my nieces and nephews in Australia and New Zealand (yes, you too, Elliott!) Merry Christmas! I love all of you (yes, you too, Elliott!) I used a digitech whammy pedal and a boss digital delay pedal on this song."

Fart of The Bumblebee by Jerry Phillips.

THE THEME FROM ROCKY:


Jerry Phillips: "My wife, Queen Elizabeth, wanted me to play this song. so, happy sweetest day honey! I used a digitech whammy pedal, a boss auto wah, and a boss digital sustain pedal."

JERRY PHILLIPS AND THE FAMOUS 007 THEME:


Jerry Phillips: "My mission (if i choose to accept it) is to stop Ernst Blowfart and his organization S.P.H.I.N.C.T.E.R. from gassing the world! I used a digitech whammy pedal, a boss metal zone pedal and a boss digital delay pedal on this song."

DAVE BRUBECK'S TAKE FIVE:


Jerry Phillips: "This song put jazz on the charts. It's always been a favorite of mine. a very hard song to play on any instrument because of the 5/4 time signature. I used a digitech whammy pedal on this song."

A TUTORIAL ON HANDFART TECHNIQUES BY JERRY PHILLIPS:



OTHER "MANUALISTS" OF NOTE...


Christopher Grubb does the overture from Star Wars.


Grubb performs the Marine Corps Hymn as a tribute to American Imperialism.


Bruce Gaston accompanies himself on Love Me Tender.

[First published 6 April 2008. Thanks to Richard Lau for alerting me to this astonishing phenomenon :-)]

Malaysia needs a prime minister with balls.

"Back to basics, man!"

Hasan Ali's Favorite Cowboy Story

A very successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife.

She was a very good-looking woman, and determined to keep the ranch but knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad in the newspaper for a ranch hand.

Two men applied for the job. One was gay and the other a drunk.

She thought long and hard about it, and when no one else applied she decided to hire the gay guy, figuring it would be safer to have him around the house than the drunk.

He proved to be a hard worker who put in long hours every day and knew a lot about ranching.

For weeks, the two of them worked, and the ranch was doing very well. Then one day, the rancher's widow said to the hired hand, "You've done a really good job, and the ranch looks great. You should go into town and kick up your heels."

The hired hand readily agreed and went into town one Saturday night. One o'clock came, however, and he didn't return. Two o'clock and no hired hand. He returned around two-thirty, and upon entering the house he found the rancher's widow sitting by the fireplace with a glass of wine, waiting for him.

She quietly called him over to her. "Unbutton my blouse and take it off," she said. Trembling, he did as she directed. "Now take off my boots." He did as she asked, ever so slowly. "Now take off my socks." He removed each gently and placed them neatly by her boots. "Now take off my skirt." He slowly unbuttoned it, constantly watching her eyes in the fire light. "Now take off my bra." Again, with trembling hands, he did as he was told and dropped it to the floor. "Now," she said, "take off my panties." By the light of the fire, he slowly pulled them down and off.

Then she looked at him and said, "If you ever wear my clothes into town again, you're fired."

[Forwarded by a friend]

YESHU SPEAKS AGAIN

And, so be it, my beloved children,

yea, verily, say I unto you, each of you, everyone of you, each body, every person,

all peoples,

Love I you greatly indeed,

and in you I am so pleased that you have come upon, at long last,

the true sense of your own worthiness as an individual

that you have begun to value yourself, and the beauty, and the difference,

and even the majesty of your own individuality, for it is your individuality that makes you royal, whether you have money or not, for your difference is precious, and your individual individuality is the integrity of the beauty and the immortality of your very soul, for there are no two souls alike, even as there are no two snowflakes alike, yea, not a flower, not a bee, not a blessed bird, not even a tree,

for every thing that exists, exists on the template of its individuality, and therefore,

there is only one,

only one, only one, and you are that one, and every-one is that one, and everyBODY is only one,

only one,

that is what individuality is all about, and that is your uniqueness,

in that you even exist at all.

And because you exist in your uniqueness that perhaps you've forgotten to celebrate, or perhaps even notice, well notice it now, you are unique, even if you are a twin, or a triplet, and any number thereof,

If you are real, and not a clone, then there is only one of you, that is already unto forever,

and in that, you are of ULTIMATE VALUE, because of your difference, and in the light of your own individual individuality, and of your own choices as to how you dress, and how you express yourself,

but always respect yourself,

for you deserve respect,

and when you truly respect yourself

(and that just means that you love being the individual that you are),

that is self respect, and that self I assure you is already

"without end"

and you must have that self that is you that is individual that is now as you read my words,

Congratulations!

It's a two-sided equation:

You 've got to have A Self that YOU can LOVE without end, so that you can match The Love that is flowing to you "Love Without End" indeed, so that you can connect your own heart once again,

first to yourself, so that you can

LOVE YOURSELF BEYOND ALL OF YOUR PREVIOUS LIMITS

AND DOGMAS, AND CREEDS, AND PHILOSOPHIES,

and, then, trust yourself to give yourself what you want as well as what you need,

and in that, so will your heart open, and so will your love expand, "Love Without End" indeed.

In the expansion of your love as you learn once again to express your love to yourself

as one of the many forms of your own self expression,

then your love will begin to flow once again within the circuitry that you have reconnected

by just simply loving yourself more and more every day,

and loving how you express yourself

that is unlike any other self expression,

and as you do that you will grow strong,

both in your body and in your psychology,

and in your own self perception,

once again clear that you can see beyond your own shadows to see,

quite literally see,

the true jewel that you are,

ONE OF A KIND,

and therein, priceless,

and then you won't let yourself be bought or sold on the market place of seducers,

ever again,

for really there are no seducers, because EVERYBODY IS LIFE ITSELF,

and that is THE WHOLE PICTURE,

and that is the biggest picture there has ever been or ever will be.

And yep, you bet God is real,

just as real as Love,

but some people have gone beyond that conceptual name to realize

that there really is a vast and perhaps even un-nameable primordial, and prime,

and primary, and primal, and pure absolute intelligence from which we all are made

...and who cares about names?

Many times, as one of my old teachers once said to me,

"Names are often but fools' tags."

And isn't that the truth,

for when you can realize that you are already bigger than any name

you could ever give yourself because you too are made of that vast primal and primordial, prime, pure, and primary intelligence, then you'll get the cosmic joke and really start to Laugh,

and you'll realize that all of the teachings have been real all along the way,

although many times different,

and even "seemingly" in opposition to one or the other, or even one unto the other,

but, teachings, and teachers, and husbands and wives, and sweet partners, and lovers,

and beloved precious innocent children, and their dads, and their moms, and their uncles and aunts,

and wonderful little Jewish girls, and all girls and all boys too,

regardless of their race, or color or creed,

indeed,

LIFE ITSELF,

every person, everyBODY

quite simply is

A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY OF LIFE ITSELF

ONE OF A KIND

YOU, JUST LIKE YOU ARE, AND JUST LIKE YOU WILL BECOME IN EVERY MOMENT

AND JUST LIKE YOU HAVE ALWAYS, AND IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS EVER BEEN OR EVER WILL BE,

and when you remember that,

you will remember that

YOU ARE ALREADY WITHOUT END,

and therein,

LOVE THYSELF UNTO LIFE INDEED!

FOR

You are Life

and

You are The Way,

and

You are your own Truth in every moment you live and breathe,

so trust yourself, and be your own authority in your life,

and just being responsible for your self begins the process of taking back all of the authority you gave away anywhere along the way to anyone or to any belief system or to any dogma or to any creed, so relax,

and just start to be in a very simple way completely responsible to and for yourself as a single

and as a simple individual, and let that start with how you dress yourself, and how you look, but not for anyone other than the joy of your own heart and individual self expression, and then everyone will love you,

and you will realize that if they don't, it's just because they haven't learned to love themselves

as an individual as much as you have, quite yet, and then you can forgive them for their misunderstanding of you, and judge them not, even when they judge you,

because now

YOU KNOW

and what you know is yourself, and

THE LOVE OF SELF,

which is not greedy, but all encompassing, and which is never in lack,

but all encompassing, and that you are most completely innocent already, and not guilty,

and never will be guilty, for original sin is the greatest of all lies,

and we won't go into that now, who cares,

however,

YOU ARE INNOCENT and NOT GUILTY

and "judgment day....has done come and gone HONEY!"

because "the new wine" is a sweet new wine, and not distilled from old sour grapes,

Templar Knights, or anyone else's sour grapes.

As I said,

YOU, each of you as an individual IS LIFE ITSELF,

expressing yourself as Life in the little picture as a simple and single individual human being,

AND THAT'S JUST GREAT!

As a matter of fact....that is YOUR GREATNESS!.....YOUR DIFFERENCE IS YOUR GREATNESS;

your greatness is not based on ancient knowledge, or even ancient-of-days knowledge,

YOUR GREATNESS ALREADY EXISTS

before all of your seeking, and beyond all of your seeking,

and is always, and in all ways and in every way with you, even now, as you!

Sweet, Sweet, Love,

Oh, has it come, has it come, likened unto A Dove,

or has it come, likened unto a great Eagle indeed, or perhaps even a sweet Doe,

perhaps it has come with a bird or a bee, perhaps it comes in the leaf of every tree,

for when existence loves itself unto Life once again, so will the leaves of every tree

so speak unto thee once again, Love I you greatly indeed, and shade I thee from the sun

upon a hot day, and feed thee with the nuts that fall upon the sweet and hallowed ground,

and Love prevails, and it breaks all of the spells of comparison, and of too much greed and holiness, and it breaks most of all the spell of your "negative self-judgment" that your mind has convinced yourself is real and true, but you know the mind, sometimes, it just makes things up that aren't true...

so, listen to your mind, but trust your heart

and your own divine worthiness to exist at all as an individual

THE INDIVIDUAL THAT YOU ARE THIS VERY MOMENT,

and then, you are truly free, to love yourself, and to be the best you that you can be for yourself,

first and foremost, then everyone you meet anywhere along the way will see in you that it really is ok, and possible, and you won't get punished for just loving yourself without end,

in a responsible way,

and in a real way, and in a sincere way,

so that when you shop, you really shop for beauty, the beauty that will show the individual beauty that you are, woman or man, or anyBODY in-between that would so always attune to "bringing forth the beauty, and the handsome-ness, and the individual difference in beauty"

and then, it begins to happen, and every person, and every individual begins to bloom like beautiful and individual flowers, no two ever alike, and then, The Great Garden begins to be filled with beautiful individual human beings who love themselves/yourselves,

and who trust themselves/yourselves in the love of themselves/yourselves,

and trusting themselves/yourselves as individuals to be their/your own path,

and their/your own way,

and to move in goodness, for a sweet change, and in sweetness for a good change,

and then, simply step off the old and ancient wheel of all those bi-polar swings of polarity

right into the middle way, and the middle path

which is simply

YOUR OWN HEART

and when you really begin to

LISTEN TO YOUR OWN HEART AS AN INDIVIDUAL

then your heart will tell you the truth:

YOU ARE INNOCENT AND YOU ARE NOT GUILTY.

YOU ARE WORTHY OF BEING LOVED, AND YOU ARE BEING LOVED IN THAT THESE WORDS

COULD BE WRITTEN AT ALL,

and

YOU ARE WORTHY OF LOVING YOURSELF.

THE OLD TEACHINGS OF SELF DENIAL ARE A LIE.

THEY HAVE KEPT YOU AT WAR AND IN TOO MANY CYCLES OF NEGATIVE SELF JUDGMENT,

for far too long already.

So

kick up your sweet heels, and realize that it really is OK, and even Of The Essence,

and therefore, Essential for you to love yourself as an individual in every expression of yourself,

and every time you express yourself, so that you measure up to your own standards that you set for yourself, and always know that no one could set standards for you, because after all, they aren't you,

so, each BODY is individual, even as each SOUL is individual, and even though you are all "spirit"

and "consciousness" and even great and vast "consciousness" vast intelligence itself,

well,

It's OK to love yourself without end, and in that, read all the books that are about goodness,

and kindness, and giving, and forgiving, for every person is a real "teacher" and what they have to teach, and what you have to teach anyone in their/your presence is what they/you know

as "an individual human body, and human being"

simply by being themselves/yourselves,

so everyBODY contains different wisdom, of course, because everyBODY

has a slightly different experience all along the way in one's own individual life,

SO EVERY BODY IS A TEACHER,

AND EVERY ONE TOO!

ONE TOO!.....sounds like a dance step doesn't it,

AND IT'S THE DANCE OF LIFE ITSELF,

so,

LOVE YOURSELF,

FOR YOU ARE LIFE, AND IN LOVING YOURSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL SO WILL YOU COME UNTO GREATER LIFE, AND AS YOU COME UNTO GREATER LIFE,

SO WILL YOU LOVE LIFE IN A GREATER WAY,

simply by starting to love yourself in a greater way than you have ever done before,

and remember that your very greatness is as simple as your individuality and your unique difference,

and then, every door will open for you,

and you will open doors, quite naturally for each other, and particularly for my dear old folks

who sometimes need a helping hand with their groceries, but don't frighten them,

just love them,

for

The Old Folks,

they are the last who hold the living wisdom of the days when sweetness, and goodness,

and trust were just natural,

so ask them to tell you their stories,

for

LOVING YOURSELF WITHOUT END,

means loving the old folks, for some of you are old folks, even now as you read,

You GO! Old Folks!

You Rock!

Love I you greatly indeed,

and all of these youngsters who are reading my words,

are having a good laugh now, just like you, because they are catching up now on old times,

by listening to your stories, as their hearts open to you, and your hearts open to them,

and the young and the old stand side by side,

in the sweetness of maturity, and old age, and even adolescence,

all coming together as a matter of heart, in sweet and dear families, all over the world,

just in the natural simplicity of good families, and even bad families

that

JUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

And then, it becomes so easy to see that every family, and every family line,

across all cultures, and beyond any culture, for all cultures are all inclusive of family,

and that all families are members of the larger cosmic, and even infinite family,

THE FAMILY OF LIFE ITSELF,

of which you are infinitely small, and infinitely large, at the same time

in that you exist or ever have, and I quite assure you, will continue to exist as yourself

unto forever, and that's just how valuable every single person really is,

I'm just reminding you to

REMEMBER

that,

and set yourself free from the realities that you have created and co-created in the pain, and in the anguish of not loving your own individuality, and step through the door of your own heart

into the next dimensional experience of

LOVING YOURSELF INTO LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY.

That is a 4th dimensional understanding,

and remember that the heart is number 4,

either going up, or coming down, in your chakras,

Green, Green, Evergreen,

and that number 4 is a great door,

going up or coming down,

as you come into yourself, and your core once again,

INTO YOUR OWN HEART,

and you will celebrate once again that you LIVE, and that you are LIFE

and you will sing once again, the song of thine own true heart,

and that sweet song will be the self expression of thyself, unto thyself, for thyself,

in every moment, and then,

simply and naturally

LOVE HAS ALEADY PREVAILED,

LOVE WITHOUT END,

indeed,

for this is the very beginning of

THE NEXT GRAND ADVENTURE

and that is,

quite simply

YOU LOVING YOURSELF IN AN UNLIMITED AND RESPONSIBLE WAY.

And then, there is no "way", but the way that you allow yourself to be,

and if that way is

LOVE OF THYSELF,

then, by the nature of that equation, you will as well love all others

without hesitation, and without doubt, and without delay,

and then, you will be in a new time zone, as well as having a great and a really good time

in every moment of your sweet lives.

And you will have come then upon

THE PEACE THAT PASSES ALL PREVIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING,

and that peace is based upon your

WHOLENESS ONCE AGAIN AS AN INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEING

where your Difference is Paramount, indeed, where your Difference is the very basis

of your Greatness as an individual, and then all of "the misunderstanding of holiness"

juxtaposed to wholeness itself, will be forgiven, simply as a 3D misunderstanding,

and all of those mighty lies will just dissolve naturally as you love yourselves,

for that is

THE LOVE OF CHRIST,

indeed,

and much beyond that as well,

for

IN YOUR OWN HEART SO DOES LIFE AND ALL EXISTENCE SO ALREADY EXIST,

and all saints, and all sinners, and all good and all bad, and all of all existence,

because your heart connects with both your soul, and your genetic, which of course

is in your sweet body, so you have all of the records of every experience within the wholeness

of existence itself, so when you still your mind, and listen to your

HEART,

your

HEART

will tell you the stories of all existence, and it will tell you, through the vehicle of your soul and genetic

all of your individual stories all along the way,

and then you will know that already

YOU HAVE LOVED YOURSELF WITHOUT END,

or you wouldn't have been a part of the human experience at all, for it's all about

the experience you've had here, as well as there, and even unto omnipresent everywhere.

So,

LISTEN to your Heart,

and also realize that LISTEN is also SILENT even as HEART is EARTH and EARTH is HEART,

and then, you've come all the way

HOME

to your core self, and your core individuality once again,

and then you are free.

Love I you greatly indeed,

Your Brother and Your Friend

+

Yeshu

13 October 2005

My eternal brother and friend in June 2006

Are Lynas and Umno/BN merely insensitive... or ABSOLUTELY INSANE?

Serious flooding during the recent monsoon season in the immediate vicinity of the
nearly-completed Lynas rare earth refinery in Gebeng, Pahang

Key contractor pulled out of Lynas plant due to safety concerns, says NYT
By Shannon Teoh | The Malaysian Insider
February 01, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 – A Dutch chemical firm refused to supply crucial resins for Lynas Corp’s controversial RM2.5 billion rare earth plant in Kuantan due to safety concerns, according to the New York Times.

The influential newspaper cited engineers working for the Australian miner at the Gebeng industrial zone site and internal company e-mails as saying that AkzoNobel withdrew after it was told that the fibreglass liners using its resin would be installed in concrete-walled tanks that have a problem with rising dampness in the floors and cracks in the walls.

Proposed Lynas rare earth refinery flooded
on 13 January 2012 (courtesy of SMSL)

“AkzoNobel had been in discussions about the problem of rising dampness, but only became aware of the cracks this autumn,” the daily reported.

The resins were to be used to glue together dozens of fibreglass liners for concrete-walled tanks the size of double-decker buses where hundreds of tons of rare earths with low levels of radiation will be mixed with extremely corrosive acids at more than 93 degrees Celcius.

The company had said early last year it would supply chemicals for the Lynas project, which has raised fears of radiation pollution among local residents and environmentalists, only if it were certain that it would be safe.

LAMP waste water discharge point flooded  
in December 2011 after two days of heavy rain (SMSL)

In a report last June, the NYT had said that there were critical flaws in the design of the refinery, including the installation of the watertight fibreglass liners.

It said that memos showed Lynas pressed a Malaysian contractor, Cradotex, to proceed with the installation of watertight fibreglass liners designed for the containment tanks without fixing the moisture problem and with limited fixes to the walls.

“These issues have the potential to cause the plant’s critical failure in operation,” Peter Wan, the general manager of Cradotex, said in a June 20 memo obtained by the newspaper.

“More critically, the toxic, corrosive and radioactive nature of the materials being leached in these tanks, should they leak, will most definitely create a contamination issue."

[Read the full story here.]

Are Lynas and Umno/BN utterly insane? The rare earth refinery is located in a flood-prone zone!

Regardless of who forms the next government... LYNAS MUST GO! WE THE PEOPLE OF MALAYSIA SAY SO!

I wholeheartedly salute all those who have persevered in the citizens' campaign against the proposed Lynas rare earth refinery in Gebeng, near Kuantan - especially Fuziah Salleh (who first raised the issue in parliament), Tan Bun Teet (chairman of Save Malaysia Stop Lynas) and Bang Seet Ping (organizing secretary of Himpunan Hijau 2.0). On 26 February 2012, lend your support and make your stand. Lynas knows it cannot operate in a hostile environment but is stubbornly pushing on with the project because it has already invested untold amounts of money, greasing certain people's palms to fast-track their lethal and ruinous project (which was granted an unprecedented 12-year tax holiday by the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry!)



Lynas wants to dump wastes on island off Pahang
Koh Jun Lin | Malaysiakini
10:38AM Jan 27, 2012

Australian company Lynas Corporation, which intends to open its rare earth materials refining plant in Gebeng, near Kuantan, soon, wants radioactive solid wastes from the plant to be dumped on an uninhabited island off the coast of Pahang.

Alternatively, the wastes may be disposed off in an area where there is no development, said Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh, who has been campaigning against the rare earth plant.

These proposals are contained in Lynas’ waste management plans, which were on public display until yesterday, said Fuziah (left), who is a PKR vice-president.

“They say that they have not identified the location of the Permanent Disposal Facility (PDF), but they are considering a few options.

One option is an island off the coast of Pahang that is uninhabited,” she said when contacted.

The PDF is intended for the plant’s solid waste stream, which is classified as radioactive wastes.

The other two waste streams also contain radioactive materials, but have not been classified as radioactive and Lynas intends to recycle and commercialise these.

However, Fuziah said, the location of the island has not been determined because the idea “is still being considered.”

‘Radioactive materials can leach into the sea’

Voicing her strong opposition to the proposal, Fauziah yesterday handed over a written submission to the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) in Kuantan.

“This must never be allowed as the materials from the PDF can leach into the sea,” her submission states.

“Considering that radionuclides have a half-life of 14 billion years, it is feared that the leachate will harm marine life a few hundred years down the road.”

As for the alternative, she told Malaysiakini, “Basically, it will have to be in the jungle. But you don’t even know... there will come a day when the future generations want to develop that land”.

The government, Fuziah added, should follow the examples of other countries, where waste disposal facilities are the responsibility of the state. This especially so, because Lynas only plans to be in Malaysia for about 20 years.

Outspoken Kuantan MP and PKR vice-president Fuziah Salleh has been spearheading
the campaign to stop Lynas before anyone even heard about this sneaky project

Press conference in Kuantan on 26 January 2012 after handing over a 4-page joint memorandum
by the Stop Lynas Coalition and Save Malaysia Stop Lynas to the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB)
and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry (MOSTI)