Pacific Ocean, contaminated by leaking Fukushima!

I refer to the news report on July 23, of Radioactive wastewater from Fukushima power plant leaking into the Pacific ocean,  and I wonder if such contaminated water will eventually affect the lives of all those who live around the great ocean. Some questions need to be asked, and answers given:

• How far will the contaminated water travel from Fukushima? How dilute will the ocean need to be before the radiation will not pose any danger to those who are exposed directly and indirectly to it.
• Will the fish and other aquatic animals living in the Pacific Ocean be contaminated by it? Will eating of those fish cause cancer to the consumers? Will there be dangerous mutations of these animals exposed to the radiation?
  
• Can anything be done at all to prevent the contaminated water from reaching t he ocean? How long will the radiation 'stay' in the waters and affect our lives?

Are the various Governments trying to hide this fact from its citizens?

Who owns Malaysia, and toxic distrust....

Of course I knew what you meant, and I am not keen in debating the issue of "who came first".. Some say Prameswara died a Hindu or Buddhist? Why didn't he get up from his fat butt, and convert the whole nation at that time, and allow the Arab traders, and some Kutty guy from Chennai to 'do the damage'? Admiral Cheng Ho acknowledged the Muslim rule and authority when he arrived in Malacaa, he purportedly even gave away 'princesses' to the Sultans.. If we keep on 'fighting' who ''owns'' the country, remember, Australia is now owned by the Convicts UK, Anglo Saxons own Maori New Zealand, etc .. Taking it even further, all of us should claim ownership of Africa, as it seems the first human came  from that continent? Should the Red Indians claim back America? Obama shouldn't even be President, as he was 'imported'.. there should be a rational end to this bickering, and just because we are fed up with the corrupt BN govt it shouldn't mean we should not accept the Muslim 'lineage'... The Star says today, 'we can't move forward with suspicious minds' but I would think 'suspicious minds' is too mild a phrase to describe our relationships in this country; a better phrase would be 'toxic distrust'. When will we say, Yes we are different, but let's try to live together and accept one another. The Star also said "...The British magazine added: “More so than at independence, it is lamented, the different races learn in separate schools, eat separately, work separately and socialise separately. Some are asking: is there really such a thing as a Malaysian?” That was six years ago. How do we answer that now? ..."

The really sad thing about this country is that we cannot even eat and drink together. A lot of people can only eat halal food, quite a few cannot eat beef, even best friends who come to your house don't drink from your cups, because they maybe unclean, and drink only Yeo Hiap Seng Soya packet drinks, from straws?

In Iraq and Pakistan, Shiites and Sunnis kill each other even in mosques, so you can imagine how hard it is for us to unite the country...

Finally, it was shown conclusively in Discovery that the Irish went to America, long before Columbus. And why should Britain have any legitimate claim to Falklands, and China's claim to Spratley's is a big joke! Even an island 80km from Sabah is claimed by China...

Besieged by Crime, and We can't do anything about it...

PJ Community Alert

26 Jun 2013 (Wed) ~ 1 PM
SS1, PJ
Smash Grab Robbery
Suspects: 6 men on 3 motorbikes

shared by Jiun Yih

Place: SS1 playground
Time: 26/6, about 1pm

a single lady driver in a Proton Satria was robbed in broad daylight at the small playground diagonal from your house. During her lunch break, this lady drove & parked her car at the small playground, 6 men in 3 motorbikes followed her & smashed 3 of her car windows. They also ripped off her necklace. The police has come & taken her away to the station. Do take care.

Lady was def spotted then followed by the gangsters..always keep a lookout ppl...stay safe

---------->> Read on below

In addition to the case above that I have extracted from my FB page, which just happened this afternoon, my wife's friend just called her {4 pm}and reported a more brazen robbery. She stays at an upscale Condominium at the beginning of Jalan Klang Lama, adjoining the Fed Highway, an apartment that is guarded by Nepalese security Guards and CCTVs and RESTRICTED card access, even to the Car park. This afternoon as she was waiting in the lobby for someone, a lady rushed out of the lift, covered in blood, asking for help from the guards. It seems she just came back from withdrawing just RM1000 from the bank, and she drove her car up the restricted card access carpark of the condominium. As she parked her car, another car smashed through the barricades, and robbed in hazy daylight!! She lost cash and her condo keys, etc. But what is real scary is the bare face attempts of the robbers, with no hint of fear of getting caught at all..

Are we Malaysians, especially those living in KL going to live through life in this way? Is KL now more dangerous to live than Bolivia, Mexico, Brasil, and Colombia?

Real reasons for dirty habits

When I first read your Editorial titled, 'A glaring lack of enforcement of existing laws' , I felt it was futile to respond to your statement "All three issues were unrelated except by one thing: a glaring lack of enforcement of existing laws and regulations" but when I read further the angry complaint by ' USJ business operators [who are] up in arms over indiscriminate garbage dumping behind their shops', I am of the view that The Star has been barking up the wrong tree, in its efforts to raise awareness on the dirty habits of Malaysians.

As the USJ business operators reported, and I quote, " We saw them throwing rubbish such as domestic waste and their unwanted furniture such as old mattresses and broken chairs. I once told off a group of foreign workers who dumped rubbish in the back lane and now I think they are doing it at night to escape detection." it is not TOTALLY the fault of enforcement officers and local Councils that the nation is in such dire straits regarding its filthy problem and the growing menace of leptospirosis. Foreign workers and residents work and stay in cramped conditions and come from countries where most of them had lived in abject poverty and where proper hygiene has never been emphasized. 

I remember an incident related to me by my brother in Muar, who had observed a Caucasian 'back packer' wondering in his residential area, holding an empty soft drink can, trying to look for a rubbish bin on the streets, and finding none. He, the tourist, did NOT throw the can anywhere. Now compare this with foreign workers who walk home through the backlanes of my residential area, holding plastic bags of teh tarik. Where do you think they threw the empty bags? Yes, into the drains, on the grass verge. Walk around any residential area after the weekend, and you will inevitably find empty beer cans and whiskey bottles lying on the road sides.

Of course it's not only the foreign workers that have this selfish habit, we Malaysians are guilty of this too. Even schoolchildren happily throw stuff out of school buses, all the time.

So, can enforcement really put a dent on this scourge? Not really, not until we, Malaysians and foreigners feel 'ownership' of the land that we set foot on.

Instead of trying to blame everyone else for the mess we are in, we should try to look at ourselves, deeply

 Real reasons for dirty habits

Religious Bigotry in Malaysia

Reading this letter from Austin Gonzales,>>Is Bishop Paul Tan being insensitive and callous? it would seem to me that our politics has taken a turn for the worse, and has reached the sorry state, where religious bigotry is not the sole preserve of Ibrahim Ali and his PERKASA boss and cohorts! What a sad day this is for Malaysia! There is now, no more "shades of grey", just black and white; if you are white, then I am black. Politicians, and even the citizenry have now resorted to the mindset, "Nothing you do can be right, only all the things that I do are infallible"

The GE13 will turn out to be our "Venezuelan Spring",...... think about it....... :(

"Remember that Joseph and Mary had to travel by donkey for days to reach Bethlehem to register for the census but they did not complain...."

Why argue over polling day?

Abominable Taxi Service at KLIA

The letter, "Long taxi wait must stop" must be at least the third time this issue has been addressed by the public in a week. The fact that The Star has also seen fit to give so much space and time for a single issue reflects on the seriousness of the problem, and is even urging the Government to try to solve it fast.

The Government must really take a long hard look at this problem from 'apolitical' eyes, and must consider implementing a fair commercial system to address the problem of inefficient taxi services, badly maintained vehicles, and arrogant and rude taxi drivers. It must dismantle the present system of mollycoddling taxi owners and crony capitalists, and open the service to competition and to abolish the present monopolistic policies.

In KLIA, we have a first Class International airport, but must we tolerate a third class taxi service? How did we measure the 'transformation' that has reported regularly, when it is clear from the many complaints that the public has made, there is no improvement at all?

Are the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Tourism and PEMANDU not embarrassed in the slightest way?

For the public who travel frequently abroad, the budget and premier taxi service at KLIA is a clear example of the Government "cakap tak serupa bikin"....

Foreigners giving Bukit Bintang a trashy image

This letter Foreigners giving Bukit Bintang a trashy image written by Mimi Chih, is just a continuation of the sorry story of how foreigners and aliens, most of them here illegally, have literally taken over the retail business from local Malaysians. Earlier we have read about similar conditions existing in Klang and Kota Raya, and now, it's no surprise, the Golden Mile of business, Bukit Bintang has been "colonised".

In those earlier letters that we have written, and it bears repeating here, are the issues raised by the writer, to quote:

• Even we, being Malaysians, were stunned to see that all these foreigners were openly working in Malaysia.
  
• I doubt they have work permits.
• What is the Immigration Department doing? Surely, the director-general is aware of this.
  
• What is DBKL doing?

Why are we talking about the country making impressive progress through transformation programs when we can't even protect our small businesses and retail trade that is literally being "outsourced" without even leaving our shores.!