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This video continues the up close and personal between Australians and Malaysians on the Lynas issue.
It is by Namewee who has already ruffled the feathers of the Malaysian government and especially right wing Malays with his brash music.
Namewee is obviously targeting Lynas but he may be also wrongly targeting Australians. He may have missed the fact that many Australians such as Ryan are supportive that the Lynas project in Malaysia should be cancelled.
Nevertheless, the anger that Malaysians have against this project and Lynas could find itself slowly manifesting against Australia.
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1 David Yew-Choong KAM // Mar 1, 2012 at 1:18 am
Personally, my son and I like the song, from a creative angle as well as the catch lyrics!
(And by the way, ANYONE and EVERYONE who’s been familiar with Namewee knows he’s a creative genius, has a tad of a genetically encoded REBEL spirit in all his creations; hence, it’s like telling Einstein he’s smart).
Now, to address the specific issue that this video has been a FAILURE as it has failed to isolate /pin point the issue of Anti-Lynas and NOT lumping in the Anti-Australian issue as well,
I have this to say:
You can’t STOP human emotions
You can’t HELP but feel in a particular way
Hey, if you feel strongly about Made in China products, you simply want to buy LOCAL OZ products, right?
You won’t want to visit China that often, or go and inhale the polluted mist that engulf Shanghai, would you?
Hence, the very act of LUMPING together issues is not new – our MINDS simply REACT in such a way after many attempts of PAST CONDITIONING!
The factors that we need to take into account WHY Namewee has chosen to do this may be various:
a) Maybe he is trying to promote himself
b) Maybe he is trying to promote his film
c) Maybe he is GENUINELY and sincerely trying to HELP Malaysians, and you can sense the PRIDE and PROTECTIONISTIC nature in him as he babble on about Lynas getting OUT of Malaysia
We can’t elicit the true motive, unless we get to know him better!
As mature audience, and as mature Australians – we’ve just GOT to take this with a pinch of salt, through the lense of creativity and a release of pent up ANTI-LYNAS emotions (with a lumpy unhappiness-about-Australia thrown in as well), a 2-in-1 approach!
To me, it reflects the market sentiments of a a MARKET DRIVEN EMOTION and MARKET DRIVEN AMYGDALA hijack that typifies human reactions to a specific issue!
Where do we go from here?
Getting UPSET and launch a counter attack?
Hmmm, that is going to be very un-Australian (but, there is a slim possibility)
Getting some Media spot light? Possible too.
I think the BIGGEST BANG for BUCk GOOD that can emerge out of this Namewee Anti-Lynas video would be a deeper and more intense PUBLIC AWARENESS of the green issue that Kuantan-nites are gravely facing RIGHT NOW!
Whilst we are taking, chatting on email – it’s like the photographer who took the photo of the African child besides a vulture!
We cannot be mere ‘ACT COOL” people
We need to be ACTION driven
Do what we can, with what we HAVE
for MAXIMIZE GOOD for the present and future generations!
SAVE Malaysia
STOP Lynas
20,000 protestors form H.20 have spoken (as seen in Namewee vide0)
That represents the feelings of 22 millions of Malaysians
INCLUDING MSYELF.
Until that day – I pray, wish and work with eveyrone else, the gentlemen Australians who don’t wish Lynas to set foot in Malaysia
to ACTUALIZE this reality!
David Kam,
Perth, Western Australia.
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2 Stu Pat // Mar 1, 2012 at 11:38 am
Are you kidding me…you forgot one thing “POLITICAL MOTIVATION!!” Dont let the truth stand in the way of a good politically motivated STORY!!
The opposition party have been proven to falsify the facts for their own political gain…preying on the nievety of helpless followers..
Lynas poses no threat to Malaysia or Kuantan
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3 James Bailey // Mar 1, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Namewee is a Rebel but surely not Einstein. Have not found anyone yet on all the blogs about Lynas who has any understanding of what 1 bequerel of radiation per gram means which is the amount the final waste of the Lynas plant would produce. Some people in Western Australia have built their homes on land that carries naturally much more radiation than that.
Eight people were reported by the Malaysian ministry of Health having come down with leukemia around the former Mitsubishi rare earths plant which I agree was a dirty plant of poor design but for a population that dense, eight cases of leukemia is within the norm for the population worldwide.
The thorium at the Lynas plant would be so diluted that even in the final stages of separation the emissions would be at the maximum 6 bequerels which does not come even close to the Malaysian AELB standard of 0.51 microsieverts/hour. See the Malaysia AELB Website which shows a great staff working to monitor the land emissions of the Lynas plant. The Malaysia AELB has high standards. The land itself has a radiation measurement of 0.25 microsieverts/hour which is the natural ground radiation which is half already of what Malaysia allows. Microsievert means a millionth of a sievert! The radioactivity that the workers at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant suffered was 1 sievert/hour which is 4 million times the natural radiation of the ground in Kuantan. Everyone is so scared of everything and do not trust in what they do not understand. Some people are ignorant because they do not study while others simply ignore studying. I trust the Malaysian AELB.
When eating one banana, we swallow 15 Bq of radiation which is 250% higher than the Lynas worst case scenario of 6 Bq per gram.
All our food and everything around us naturally contains radiation. The major natural source of radioactivity in plant tissue is potassium, which in nature contains 0.0117% of the unstable isotope potassium-40. This isotope decays with a half-life of about 1.25 billion years and the activity of natural potassium is about 31 Bq/g — meaning that, in one gram of the element, about 31 atoms will decay per second. Plants naturally contain other radioactive isotopes, such as carbon-14, but their contribution to the total activity is much smaller. Since a typical banana contains about half a gram of potassium, it will have an activity of roughly 15 Bq.
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4 Greg Lopez // Mar 1, 2012 at 11:10 pm
@ James Bailey #3
I think you have fingered the key issue. Its trust.
Malaysians do not trust their government any more.
Malaysians do not trust their institutions and the workings of the government.
From the point of view of many Malaysians, this project was rushed. The Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) had raised objections. A New York Times article noted that one of the main contractors withdrew from the project because of safety concerns.
The government fast-tracked this project, despite significant public protest with state government shifting blame, and regulators giving mixed signals.
The Malaysian government responded by requesting the IAEA to conduct a review of the Lynas project and concluded:
It was too late. Despite the fact that an internationally recognised body gave an assurance that the project is safe, pending some remedial actions, many Malaysians just don’t trust anything the government says.
What is astonishing to me is why the government remains committed to this project, despite the widespread protest and the likelihood that this will become a major election issue.
How bizarre?
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5 Sam Deedes // Mar 2, 2012 at 10:57 pm
It looks like this Lynas project could get very ugly.
http://en.rsf.org/malaisie-two-journalists-set-upon-during-02-03-2012,41978.html
There’s a UK comedy sketch (I think from “The League of Gentlemen”) where a young whizz kid enthusiastically describes to his elderly aunt his latest high powered hedge fund money making scheme in the City. After listening patiently and politely to her nephew’s rant she says: “That’s lovely, dear…but how does it help?”
“How does it help?” is a touchstone question which should be asked far more often of many initiatives. If it is asked of the Namewee video the answer should probably be “Not very much.”
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6 Greg Lopez // Mar 22, 2012 at 3:16 pm
It appears that the evidence relating to whether the Lynas operations posses a serious danger to human health has not been resolved.
This press statement addressed to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, from the Save Malaysia Stop Lynas civil society coalition once again draws attention to the fact that the Lynas plant is a health hazard among many other issue:
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7 hahahah // Mar 23, 2012 at 12:38 am
reply to james bailey comment about the mitsubishi plant,wtf!!!malaysia government reported to have 8 victims?!!!where is the source do u get this from?then u should go to visit that place and interviewed each people who has been staying there even before the misubitshi planted there.not just 8 victims has been reported having leukimia,it involved those ppl who have been living there reported have the radiation like what we can see from japan..kids born with two heads,no arms and even incomplete part of the baby which born by those who lives there!come on!who the hell are you presenting the fucking twisted fact over here!with the statistics that is no scientifically proven and i dont think people would actually care to hear those numbers that u put overt here!
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