Unfortunately academic journal subscriptions are (rather unfairly) priced pretty steeply. Universities will put some barriers to unaffiliated people getting access (at least online) and individual subscriptions are steep. I’m not sure how ANU’s library would work, but in my old library at Cornell anyone could walk in and access the resources via a computer in the building.
Of course, you could always email the author of the article (which, re: the above post #23, is me. My email is aj2520 -at- columbia.edu) and they are usually happy to give interested parties a pdf copy.
We live in a world that is full of radiation as it is.
In fact the average human has 4400bq of radioactivity within our system at a almost constant rate (from the decay of naturally occuring radioactive isotopes of various minerals)
Radio-ACTIVITY is only a part of the measure of how radio-ACTIVE a material is. Consider this : potassium-40 is only considered to be radio-ACTIVE if it exceeds the radio-ACTIVITY of 100 Bq /g while thorium-232 is radioa-ACTIVE when its radio-activity exceeds 1 Bq / g.
The level of damage the radiation can inflict is the true measure of whether it is radioactive or not.
Remember also the real damage is when thorium dust, radon and lead , all by-products of thorium decay gets into our body. Then the damage is multiplied a 1000 fold.
….. a lot of AELB propaganda thrash deleted ……
Radium decays to eventially become the toxic gas known as Radon-220, however in the case of LAMP the amount generated over any peroid is going to be significantly lesser than what is already present in the environment
-this is scientific fact, if you want to dispute it go ahead
How can I dispute something that is blatantly false. The amount of radon gas in any particular locality is different.
Besides radon that result from thorium-232 decay chain is very short-lived unlike the radon from uranium which last a lot longer. The real harm comes from lead microscopic particles that will travel far and wide over the water and sky of gebeng. This was what happened in bukit merah.
“The argument that was put forward to the Malaysian public was nothing but Political Propaganda.” ….k.howel
Isn’t this a wee bit convenient ? So many technical and scientific evidences were presented and yet none of it saw the light of day in our newspapers or radio or television.
If you want evidence of harm of such a refinery you only have to look no further than Bukit merah in malaysia. The citizens had been cheated of their health and well-being by a government that neither exhibit compassion nor sensitivity.
This was the rare earth plant that AELB claimed to be safe and even fudged data to support it. Their lies were exposed in court when mitsubishi itself presented their own findings.
Political propaganda ? You have been fed too much thrash from the government propaganda machine.
it is not true that IAEA had given their approval. They had imposed 11 conditions to be fulfilled. How many of these had been met ? None that I know of.
Two very vital conditions was the technical know-how and capability of AELB and the second was the requirement of a permanent disposal plan.
The fact that IAEA questioned our own regulatory capabilities is nothing short of seriously disconcerting.
The disposal plan that was finally submitted was kept secret.
Given such complicity of our regulatory authorities with LYNAS does one really need to stretch one’s imagination ?
Pls kindly see following vdo and distribute to our people who really need that system. I don’t hv connection to that field.Thks a lot for ur kind co-operation and sorry for my interruption.
This is probably a question for my local university librarian, but how does someone like me, not affiliated with a university get access to these gated academic journals? Is there an ANU library membership option that would allow online access to articles like the one in this post?
There are at least 1/2 dozen CBOs of purely Kayin effort, in the delta alone, that the administration/military is relying on to accomplish the business of rebuilding and continuing assistance to the Nargis victims.
There are also well know Kayin initiated providing medical services teams to numerous corners of rural region that are actively supported by this military regime for years.
These are the example of “a common destiny” accepted among Kayin and Bamar.
Unless absolutely ignorant the West must be aware of these joint undertaking that will invariably promote reconciliation and unify brothers.
Yet every time Kayin fate is described, have to be KNU vs Tamadaw, or related example of unending enduring animosity.
It’s laughable that Australians are Asians, or should even aspire to be. We’re 10 hours flights from anywhere for a start, and our western liberal-democratic cultural, social and political structures are a world apart from anything in Asia.
Has Gillard actually asked Asians how they feel about Australians calling themselves as such? She will find their answers discouraging.
Asian nations are well along the path to developing workable systems that appear to be resembling our own, at least in part. Perhaps they will end up with solutions that straddle both traditions, and which are unique to them. Until then, Australia is best advised to stand off a touch, make the best of the economic opportunities where it can, and set an example of a typical western system that Asians can borrow from as they see fit.
“overlooking the massive mismanagement of the past 65-odd years is disingenuous and inaccurate.”
Numerous posts detailed in New Mandala concerning Ne Win and subsequent government culpability exist what has not been discussed enough, for obvious reason is West culpability.
Every Myanmar government policy has undeniably been reaction/response to the West attitude.
Until the West respond correctly to the benefit of the citizenry within the government will continue to react for it own benefit.
I would caution against using loaded labels like ‘religious extremism’ in this particular case. Yes, there is an element of taking advantage of conscientious Muslim consumers to justify rampant consumerism and over-saturated markets of ‘spiritual’ goods. Consider this an unavoidable result of mass mall and consumer culture more generally. Do you go to shopping malls every weekend? Do you buy things that add pizzazz to your social status (like that brand new smart phone?). Halal products pretty do much the same thing with regards to adding social meaning to goods.
Interesting report, so basically companies produce products with some claim to halal (someone was probably paid) which then presumably gives them greater market penetration into Islamic cultures as consumers perceive they get up a little rise on their version of buying a stairway to heaven. Pathetic but entirely predictable, human stupidity is generally accentuated by religious extremism but but never limited by it.
Thailand has chronic, smouldering and violent Buddhist- Muslim coexistence in the South used by politicians every now and then to score points like Thaksin did. But that pattern is different from the Burmese and Sri Lanka ones.
Sri Lanka has always had violent suppression of Buddhism by other religion with total massacres so that the monks are very close to warring sponsoring Kings and they themselves are normally assertive (very un-Buddhist attitude), an attribute current day Burmese monks admire and covet. Their current Buddhism came back from Burma and Thailand after their one was wiped out. Hence such virulence in LTTE final days and the Sinhalese majority has not blinked an eyelid to this day.
Burma never had any violence in their land for religion in history. But Buddhism was taken with blood from Mon and the the second most sacred Pagoda, Maha Myat Muni was taken forcefully with blood from the Arakanese.
Until Khin Nyunt used religion successfully to split the most formidable and powerful KNU, for the general population the religious discrimination was confined to few extremists. Like the Sangha who pressured U Nu to declare Buddhism as the National religion.
That discrimination is indeed fostered and promoted by the Sit-tut since successfully. And it found fertile ground in mostly ignorant, captive populace with rising tide of chauvinism. Ne Win and Khin Nyunt being Chinese may make them promote Burmese nationalism more intensely and successfully as in Corsican Napolean of Italian decent, Macedonian Radovan Karadzic of Bosnia and Bavarian Hitler.
So what Burma needs now is not harking back to older,older times but to get the populace simply to understand the value of humanity and shameful chauvinism as there now is the opportunity.
It is important for people to understand that wiping out the highly advanced Thaton Civilization by the killing prowess of four “Lu Swan Gaung” was shameful one not to be proud of just like those “Unifying Kings” and their troops laying waste to current eastern states of India and Northern Thailand committing untold misery to the populace.
It is interesting such attitude is seen among the people who are now at liberty to learn and understand the simple value of human decency and fairness.
Rather than a problem of colonialism or religion, the current problem of Burmese chauvinism which is the root of all evils in Burma at the moment is that of ignorance, arrogance and absence of true metta.
Only wider leaning,self soul searching and observation of true Buddhism or similar attributes of any other religions can cure it.
Unfortunately that is in store is to take out loans to be of servile and indentured to foreign powers and build things- ports, factories, roads, rails, buildings, etc. while taking away the liberty and property of majority populace forcefully as seen everyday now for “Development”.
Future looks simply bleak. At once shining and bleak.
Over here at The Border Consortium, we’ve recently released our annual survey of displacement and poverty in South East Burma/Myanmar. This year’s report includes 27 maps representing contested areas, economic development projects, displacement and a series of poverty indicators. The full report is available from http://www.tbbc.org/resources/resources.htm#idps and the maps are available as separate files from http://www.tbbc.org/idps/maproom.htm
plan B and Aung Moe. Arrogant, oppressive, pea-brained militarism is alive and thriving in Buddhist cultures in the 21st century with no need for any contribution from colonialism. Just look at Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka.
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Thank you. I will do that.
The power of spirits
Unfortunately academic journal subscriptions are (rather unfairly) priced pretty steeply. Universities will put some barriers to unaffiliated people getting access (at least online) and individual subscriptions are steep. I’m not sure how ANU’s library would work, but in my old library at Cornell anyone could walk in and access the resources via a computer in the building.
Of course, you could always email the author of the article (which, re: the above post #23, is me. My email is aj2520 -at- columbia.edu) and they are usually happy to give interested parties a pdf copy.
Lynas – with love from Perth!
We live in a world that is full of radiation as it is.
In fact the average human has 4400bq of radioactivity within our system at a almost constant rate (from the decay of naturally occuring radioactive isotopes of various minerals)
Radio-ACTIVITY is only a part of the measure of how radio-ACTIVE a material is. Consider this : potassium-40 is only considered to be radio-ACTIVE if it exceeds the radio-ACTIVITY of 100 Bq /g while thorium-232 is radioa-ACTIVE when its radio-activity exceeds 1 Bq / g.
The level of damage the radiation can inflict is the true measure of whether it is radioactive or not.
Remember also the real damage is when thorium dust, radon and lead , all by-products of thorium decay gets into our body. Then the damage is multiplied a 1000 fold.
….. a lot of AELB propaganda thrash deleted ……
Radium decays to eventially become the toxic gas known as Radon-220, however in the case of LAMP the amount generated over any peroid is going to be significantly lesser than what is already present in the environment
-this is scientific fact, if you want to dispute it go ahead
How can I dispute something that is blatantly false. The amount of radon gas in any particular locality is different.
Besides radon that result from thorium-232 decay chain is very short-lived unlike the radon from uranium which last a lot longer. The real harm comes from lead microscopic particles that will travel far and wide over the water and sky of gebeng. This was what happened in bukit merah.
Lynas – with love from Perth!
“The argument that was put forward to the Malaysian public was nothing but Political Propaganda.” ….k.howel
Isn’t this a wee bit convenient ? So many technical and scientific evidences were presented and yet none of it saw the light of day in our newspapers or radio or television.
If you want evidence of harm of such a refinery you only have to look no further than Bukit merah in malaysia. The citizens had been cheated of their health and well-being by a government that neither exhibit compassion nor sensitivity.
This was the rare earth plant that AELB claimed to be safe and even fudged data to support it. Their lies were exposed in court when mitsubishi itself presented their own findings.
Political propaganda ? You have been fed too much thrash from the government propaganda machine.
Lynas – with love from Perth!
K.Howell,
it is not true that IAEA had given their approval. They had imposed 11 conditions to be fulfilled. How many of these had been met ? None that I know of.
Two very vital conditions was the technical know-how and capability of AELB and the second was the requirement of a permanent disposal plan.
The fact that IAEA questioned our own regulatory capabilities is nothing short of seriously disconcerting.
The disposal plan that was finally submitted was kept secret.
Given such complicity of our regulatory authorities with LYNAS does one really need to stretch one’s imagination ?
Lost in Asia?
That’s sage advice.
But may be off a little bit.
Sole idea is to get “resources” my be even some labour and consumer market for necessary dumping.
Imitating Yanks is always on the Aussie Psyche.
Not really getting together as you have in mind.
Irrawaddy water and Ne Win’s gold trees
Also this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWqDurunnK8&feature=related.
Irrawaddy water and Ne Win’s gold trees
Dear U Ba Oo,
Pls kindly see following vdo and distribute to our people who really need that system. I don’t hv connection to that field.Thks a lot for ur kind co-operation and sorry for my interruption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXDzih-j41M&feature=related
The power of spirits
This is probably a question for my local university librarian, but how does someone like me, not affiliated with a university get access to these gated academic journals? Is there an ANU library membership option that would allow online access to articles like the one in this post?
Civil war and Naypyidaw
Nich
There are at least 1/2 dozen CBOs of purely Kayin effort, in the delta alone, that the administration/military is relying on to accomplish the business of rebuilding and continuing assistance to the Nargis victims.
There are also well know Kayin initiated providing medical services teams to numerous corners of rural region that are actively supported by this military regime for years.
These are the example of “a common destiny” accepted among Kayin and Bamar.
Unless absolutely ignorant the West must be aware of these joint undertaking that will invariably promote reconciliation and unify brothers.
Yet every time Kayin fate is described, have to be KNU vs Tamadaw, or related example of unending enduring animosity.
Lost in Asia?
It’s laughable that Australians are Asians, or should even aspire to be. We’re 10 hours flights from anywhere for a start, and our western liberal-democratic cultural, social and political structures are a world apart from anything in Asia.
Has Gillard actually asked Asians how they feel about Australians calling themselves as such? She will find their answers discouraging.
Asian nations are well along the path to developing workable systems that appear to be resembling our own, at least in part. Perhaps they will end up with solutions that straddle both traditions, and which are unique to them. Until then, Australia is best advised to stand off a touch, make the best of the economic opportunities where it can, and set an example of a typical western system that Asians can borrow from as they see fit.
Will Karen State go to war again?
“overlooking the massive mismanagement of the past 65-odd years is disingenuous and inaccurate.”
Numerous posts detailed in New Mandala concerning Ne Win and subsequent government culpability exist what has not been discussed enough, for obvious reason is West culpability.
Every Myanmar government policy has undeniably been reaction/response to the West attitude.
Until the West respond correctly to the benefit of the citizenry within the government will continue to react for it own benefit.
Malaysia’s commodified Islam
islam or islamic has become a brand just like any other products.
Malaysia’s commodified Islam
Mr Damage,
I would caution against using loaded labels like ‘religious extremism’ in this particular case. Yes, there is an element of taking advantage of conscientious Muslim consumers to justify rampant consumerism and over-saturated markets of ‘spiritual’ goods. Consider this an unavoidable result of mass mall and consumer culture more generally. Do you go to shopping malls every weekend? Do you buy things that add pizzazz to your social status (like that brand new smart phone?). Halal products pretty do much the same thing with regards to adding social meaning to goods.
Malaysia and Singapore Update 2012 videos
Clive Kessler had argued that UMNO is on its last legs at the Malaysia and Singapore Update 2012.
Those interested in his analysis can read them in the two articles linked below:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/why-i-have-nothing-much-to-say-at-the-moment-part-1-clive-kessler/
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/why-i-have-nothing-much-to-say-at-the-moment-part-2-clive-kessler/
Malaysia’s commodified Islam
Interesting report, so basically companies produce products with some claim to halal (someone was probably paid) which then presumably gives them greater market penetration into Islamic cultures as consumers perceive they get up a little rise on their version of buying a stairway to heaven. Pathetic but entirely predictable, human stupidity is generally accentuated by religious extremism but but never limited by it.
Will Karen State go to war again?
Thailand has chronic, smouldering and violent Buddhist- Muslim coexistence in the South used by politicians every now and then to score points like Thaksin did. But that pattern is different from the Burmese and Sri Lanka ones.
Sri Lanka has always had violent suppression of Buddhism by other religion with total massacres so that the monks are very close to warring sponsoring Kings and they themselves are normally assertive (very un-Buddhist attitude), an attribute current day Burmese monks admire and covet. Their current Buddhism came back from Burma and Thailand after their one was wiped out. Hence such virulence in LTTE final days and the Sinhalese majority has not blinked an eyelid to this day.
Burma never had any violence in their land for religion in history. But Buddhism was taken with blood from Mon and the the second most sacred Pagoda, Maha Myat Muni was taken forcefully with blood from the Arakanese.
Until Khin Nyunt used religion successfully to split the most formidable and powerful KNU, for the general population the religious discrimination was confined to few extremists. Like the Sangha who pressured U Nu to declare Buddhism as the National religion.
That discrimination is indeed fostered and promoted by the Sit-tut since successfully. And it found fertile ground in mostly ignorant, captive populace with rising tide of chauvinism. Ne Win and Khin Nyunt being Chinese may make them promote Burmese nationalism more intensely and successfully as in Corsican Napolean of Italian decent, Macedonian Radovan Karadzic of Bosnia and Bavarian Hitler.
So what Burma needs now is not harking back to older,older times but to get the populace simply to understand the value of humanity and shameful chauvinism as there now is the opportunity.
It is important for people to understand that wiping out the highly advanced Thaton Civilization by the killing prowess of four “Lu Swan Gaung” was shameful one not to be proud of just like those “Unifying Kings” and their troops laying waste to current eastern states of India and Northern Thailand committing untold misery to the populace.
It is interesting such attitude is seen among the people who are now at liberty to learn and understand the simple value of human decency and fairness.
Rather than a problem of colonialism or religion, the current problem of Burmese chauvinism which is the root of all evils in Burma at the moment is that of ignorance, arrogance and absence of true metta.
Only wider leaning,self soul searching and observation of true Buddhism or similar attributes of any other religions can cure it.
Unfortunately that is in store is to take out loans to be of servile and indentured to foreign powers and build things- ports, factories, roads, rails, buildings, etc. while taking away the liberty and property of majority populace forcefully as seen everyday now for “Development”.
Future looks simply bleak. At once shining and bleak.
Will Karen State go to war again?
As an aside, not being a military historian, that unspeakably cruel 4-cuts was learned from the British who used it well during Konfrontasi in Malaya.
Myanmar’s new political geography
Over here at The Border Consortium, we’ve recently released our annual survey of displacement and poverty in South East Burma/Myanmar. This year’s report includes 27 maps representing contested areas, economic development projects, displacement and a series of poverty indicators. The full report is available from http://www.tbbc.org/resources/resources.htm#idps and the maps are available as separate files from http://www.tbbc.org/idps/maproom.htm
Will Karen State go to war again?
plan B and Aung Moe. Arrogant, oppressive, pea-brained militarism is alive and thriving in Buddhist cultures in the 21st century with no need for any contribution from colonialism. Just look at Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka.