Kembara ke Cambodia/Petronas sebarkan syiar Islam di Thailand

Setelah beberapa hari perjalanan dari KL ke Kunming, China, akhirnya kami ke Cambodia setelah gagal untuk masuk bersama kenderaan kami di sempadan China, Boten/Mohan. Walau bagaimanapun kami dapat membuktikan bahawa tidak mustahil untuk menyeberang ke negara ASEAN bahkan ke negara China dalam masa 2 hari . Kegagalan kami untuk masuk ke China adalah kerana informasi tidak tepat yg diberikan oleh kedutaaan China berkenaan visa kereta.

Salah satu yang menarik adalah semasa perjalanan kami dari Sukothai ke sempadan Myanmar di Tak dimana setelah sekian lama kami di Thai kami tidak singgahpun ke stesyen Petronas untuk menjakankan solat. Apa yagn kami pelajari kali ini adalah cara Petronas menegakkan syariah Islam.


Di station minyak di Thailand ada raung solat untuk orang Islam dan makanannya di pastikan halal.Syabas Petronas kerana kami agak banggakan dengan prinsip kamu. Walaupun harga minyak agak mahal.berbanding dengan stesyen yang lain.


Kami juga sempat masuk ke Poipet Cambodia dan amat kagumi dengan pencapaian rakyat Cambodia bila di bandingkan dengan Laos.
Di Seam  reap pula sepanjang perjalanan ada masjid dan juga restoren Islam. Dan ini diketahui oleh pemandu2 teksi.

Di sebalik runtuhan Angkor Wat, restoren Islam dan masjid di daerah Seam Reap menjadi tumpuan kami sebagai umat Islam dan Melayu.bila masuk waktu solat dan makan.Kami sempat solat di masjid al makruf dan restoren Islam semasa perjalanan kami ke Siem Reap.

Esuk kami akan ke Angkor Wat.....Lepas tu mungkin ke phom penh. Apapun kami hanya merancang mengikut pada keadaan semasa.

kes LYNAS-Pembangkang tipu Rakyat:"Much Ado about Nothing"? Bacalah ulasan bebas dari National Geographic

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself"- Franklin D Roosevelt.

Saya terpanggil oleh rakan blogger kita, APA, untuk membuat penyelidikan berkenaan isu LYNAS. Saya ada diberikan tempuh hari dokumen berkenaan dengan isu LYNAS dan galian yang dipanggil oleh "RARE EARTHS". Kononnya tugas saya adalah untuk mentalaah dokumen ini. Pening jugak nak faham maklumlah dah lama tinggalkan subjek Chemistry, walaupun dapat A tapi latarbelakang teknikal ini boleh tahan tinggi jugak untuk orang di jalanan hendak memaham subjek. Maka tertanya saya, adakah mereka yang membuat demonstrasi di Kuantan hari itu terdiri dari mereka yang benar-benar faham akan definisi atau adakah mereka tahu makna sebenarnya "RARE EARTHS".

Sedang saya belik  punya belik dokument itu dalam bilik air, teringat pulak saya tentang keluaran majalah National Geographic (NATGEO) baru-baru ini. Kebetulan pula edisi bulan ini ada menyentuh perihal logam (ya, logam - bukan semuanya radio aktifpun ) "RARE EARTHS". Maka sebelum saya mengulaskan dengan lebih lanjut lagi, maka eluk juga kita melihat sedikit pandangan bebas dari penulis Tim Folger bagi artikel "Rare Earth Elements: The Secrets of Everything".
Apa yang boleh saya simpulkan adalah pengeluar terbesar logam ini adalah China. Kita tahu bahawa China adalah satu powerhouse kuasa ekonomi baru di dunia. Dengan 'tentera' tenaga pekerja (army of workers) yang dianggarkan dalam linkungan 400Juta, maka ini telah cukup untuk memberi China daya saingan yang hebat kepada dunia Barat dan Jepun.  Kita juga tahu bahawa Hong Kong dan Taiwan adalah rakan ekonomi perniagaan untuk barangan elektronik dan penglibatan mereka dalam industri ini telah merisaukan negara Jepun dari sudut elektronik ketenteraan (military electronics). Kita pun sudah dengar bagaimana China telah mengambil tindakan unilateral dalam konflik Spratly dan Parcel Islands di laut China Selatan yang di rebut bersama dengan Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia dan Phillipines.

Kenapa saya sentuh isu tentera ini kerana Rare Earth Elements banyak di gunakan dalam pembuatan elektronik pertahanan dan China adalah pembekal Rare Earth Elements terbesar di dunia.

Menurut dari artikel NatGeo itu kebanyakan alatan teknologi memerlukan elemen Rare Earth ini, umpamanya Smartphone, engin HIJAU hybrid,alat dril berkuasa tinggi.

"They're actually metals, and they aren't really rare; they're just scattered. " - Nat Geo

Sebenarnya, rare earth ini bukan lah semuanya radio active materials, kebanyakkannya hanyalah logam dan radiasi yang di berikan adalah sama atau kurang seperti radiasi yang dikeluarkan dari tanah dibelakang rumah.

Yang menjadi kerisauan di dunia bukan lah tahap radiasi tetapi ketahapan pengeluaran yang agak tinngi dari China kerana disebabkan keperluan negara China untuk bersaing dalam industri teknologi tinggi.

"Rare earth mines often also contain radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium." - Nat Geo

Saya tidak tahu samada Rare Earth yang dikeluarkan oleh LYNAS ini termasuk uranium atau thorium tetapi apa yang diberitahu perkilangan yang di kendalikan bersama oleh pengusaha Australia in sudah mengikuti dari piawaian dunia selain dari ia memberi peluang pekerjaan di masyarakat setempat.

Sebelum saya akhiri, saya berpendapat, mereka-mereka yang berdemonstrasi tempuh hari hanyalah oleh mereka2 yang tidak ada pengetahuan dan latarbelakan mencukupi dan nampaknya demo jalanan ini "Indah Khabar dari rupa" atau hanya takut dengan bayang2, atau "Much Ado about Nothing". (Maaf, saya tengah cari peribahasa dalam Bahasa Melayu yang betul.)

Kalau anda ingin tahu lebih lanjut lagi baca lah disini satu artikel dari National Geographic, artikel sama yang saya baca, tetapi  dalam bentuk digital.

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By Tim Folger


Photograph by Nick Mann

Most of us would be hard-pressed to locate Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, or Guangdong on a map. Yet many of the high-tech devices we depend on—cell phones, laptops, and hundreds of others—would not exist without an obscure group of elements mined, sometimes illegally, in those three and other regions of China.



Rare earths, as the elements are called, were discovered beginning in the late 18th century as oxidized minerals—hence "earths." They're actually metals, and they aren't really rare; they're just scattered. A handful of dirt from your backyard would probably contain a smidgen, maybe a few parts per million. The rarest rare earth is nearly 200 times more abundant than gold. But deposits large and concentrated enough to be worth mining are indeed rare.



The list of things that contain rare earths is almost endless. Magnets made with them are much more powerful than conventional magnets and weigh less; that's one reason so many electronic devices have gotten so small. Rare earths are also essential to a host of green machines, including hybrid cars and wind turbines. The battery in a single Toyota Prius contains more than 20 pounds of the rare earth element lanthanum; the magnet in a large wind turbine may contain 500 pounds or more of neodymium. The U.S. military needs rare earths for night-vision goggles, cruise missiles, and other weapons.



"They're all around you," says Karl Gschneidner, a senior metallurgist with the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, who has studied rare earth elements for more than 50 years. "The phosphors in your TV—the red color comes from an element called europium. The catalytic converter on your exhaust system contains cerium and lanthanum. They're hidden unless you know about them, so most people never worried about them as long as they could keep buying them."



Now a lot of people are worried.



China, which supplies 97 percent of the world's rare earth needs, rattled global markets in the fall of 2010 when it cut off shipments to Japan for a month during a diplomatic dispute. Over the next decade China is expected to steadily reduce rare earth exports in order to protect the supplies of its own rapidly growing industries, which already consume about 60 percent of the rare earths produced in the country. Fears of future shortages have sent prices soaring. Dysprosium, used in computer hard drives, now sells for $212 a pound, up from $6.77 eight years ago. Over just two months last summer, prices on cerium jumped more than 450 percent. World demand will probably exceed supply before the end of 2011, says Mark A. Smith, president and CEO of Molycorp, an American company that reopened a rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California, last year.



"We're in a supply crunch right now, and it's a pretty severe one," says Smith. "This year the demand will be 55,000 to 60,000 tons outside of China, and everyone's best guess right now is that China will be exporting about 24,000 tons of material. We'll survive because of industry inventories and government stockpiles, but I think 2011 will be a very, very critical year in terms of supply and demand."

The demand shows no signs of abating. In 2015 the world's industries are forecast to consume an estimated 185,000 tons of rare earths, 50 percent more than the total for 2010. So with China holding tightly to its reserves, where will the rest of the world get the elements that have become so vital to modern technology?




Although China currently monopolizes rare earth mining, other countries have deposits too. China has 48 percent of the world's reserves; the United States has 13 percent. Russia, Australia, and Canada have substantial deposits as well. Until the 1980s, the United States led the world in rare earth production, thanks largely to the Mountain Pass mine."There was a time we were producing 20,000 tons a year when the market was 30,000 tons," says Smith. "So we were 60-plus percent of the world's market."



American dominance ended in the mid 1980s. China, which for decades had been developing the technology for separating rare earths (not easy to do because they're chemically so similar), entered the world market with a roar. With government support, cheap labor, and lax or nonexistent environmental regulations, its rare earth industries undercut all competitors. The Mountain Pass mine closed in 2002, and Baotou, a city in Inner Mongolia (an autonomous region of China), became the world's new rare earth capital. Baotou's mines hold about 80 percent of China's rare earths, says Chen Zhanheng, director of the academic department of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths in Beijing. But Baotou has paid a steep price for its supremacy. Some of the most environmentally benign and high-tech products turn out to have very dirty origins indeed.



Rare earth mines often also contain radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium. Villagers near Baotou reportedly have been relocated because their water and crops have been contaminated with mining wastes. Every year the mines near Baotou produce about ten million tons of wastewater, much of it either highly acidic or radioactive, and nearly all of it untreated. Chen maintains that the Chinese government is making an effort to clean up the industry.



"The government has already made strict regulations to protect the environment and weed out the backward techniques, equipment, and products," Chen wrote in an email. "Those factories without abilities of environmental protection will be closed or merged with bigger companies."



The Chinese government may eventually be able to regulate the large rare earth mining industry around Baotou. But some of the smaller mines in southern China will be more difficult to control—because they're operating outside the law to begin with. Violent criminal gangs run dozens of heavily polluting—and profitable—rare earth mines in Jiangxi and Guangdong Provinces. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, has reported that criminals smuggled 20,000 tons of rare earths from the country in 2008, nearly a third of the total rare earth exports for that year. If you own a smart phone or a flat-screen television, it may contain contraband rare earths from southern China.



"People don't understand how totally corrupt the system in China is, with local party people aiding and abetting criminals in a very substantial way," says Alan Crawley, CEO of Pacific Ores Metals & Chemicals, a trading company in Hong Kong. Crawley speaks from experience. One of his colleagues was murdered 11 years ago by Guangdong gangsters. "The Hong Kong police can't do anything," he says. "The killers fled back to the mainland."



The world is now scrambling to find other sources of supply; the development of rare earth mines in the U.S., Australia, Russia, and other countries may eventually cut into the smugglers' business. Molycorp intends to produce 3,000 to 5,000 tons of rare earths from stockpiled ore at its Mountain Pass mine this year and has big expansion plans. "The current U.S. demand is somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 tons per year," says Smith. "In principle, Mountain Pass could eventually make the United States independent in rare earths." According to Chen, China's present dominance of the market is not in its own long-term interests. "This situation is obviously not sustainable," he noted, "for China's rare earth industry and for the world's high-tech industry."


Sumber: National Geography

BERSIH 2.0 is just a cover up of dirty tactics by the Oppositionists moving voters into areas like AMPANG and TERATAI. from Chinese surplus Bukit Bintang

"Attack is the best form of Defense". So they quote.

For many years and umpteen number of elections, the opposition has been saying this and that, of phantom voters.

But to say this again despite winning many seats in the last GE and the by-elections that led them controlling fives states, seem to be really ridiculous, and only serves to show the stupidity and the moral bottom of the opposition leaders. But much more, it shows how dumb the followers of these parties, especially PAS, who promise to turn out 50000 of its members, for the illegal demonstrations come 9 July 2011.

Knowing that the chairman organizing the illegal demonstration is a lawyer actively representing the Bar Council, the rakyat needs to know the role of the Bar Council who is supposed not to permit lawyers displaying such behaviour which goes beyond the law, otherwise our legal system will also be at stake. This is a basic foundation of anarchy;  when the lawyers themselves that represent the Bar Council that was supposed to lead by example to the lawyers, are themselves propagating lawlessness. This is definitely a gross CBT and the quality of lawyers, in terms of moral and greediness.

Shouldn't the lawyers be looking for the loopholes in our laws that will help the common people, like the basic legal fees which are so exorbitant that the fees are not within reach of the common people but only to those that can afford it. Mr Karpal Singh is one. He is said to be greasing his wheel chair for the occasion.

There are so many loopholes but yet these lawyers are not so eager to look into it. Most of these lawyers are ethically belong to certain group, which had themselves benefited from many years of affirmative actions propagated by the current Federal Government.

There are many who said that these organized demonstration is like a pre-emptive strike for the oppositions or opportunists, like the 'vote-cheating' YB Khassim of DUN Lembah Jaya and a female rep from DAP, T. Cock, who is actively helping the incumbent of Teratai, in migrating the surplus number of Chinese voters from Parliment Bukit Bintang to the constituency and about 1000 Chinese voters into Bukit Antarabangsa.

YB Khassim is said to be actively migrating the Indonesian Red Card holders, with the help from those who are PAS sympathizers within the Federal Governed SPR election machinery, with the sole objective of turning the red ICs to blue ones; and then later throw the blame on UMNO. Very smart indeed. Or is it very un-Islamic and very wrong.

With these reasons, one can question if the act of BERSIH 2.0 is just another pre-emptive strike by the Opposition using the Bar Council and foreign funds to shift the blame of dirty tactics to UMNO and BN whilst they themselves are UNCLEAN and UNETHICAL themselves? Shame of you. You should know that in Malaysia if you meet a snake and a Bar Concillor, the advise is, you should shoo (or shoot?) the later. Remember what one prominent statesman used to say,

"You should hang the lawyers"

The following YouTube demonstrates the basic concept for pre-emptive strategy:

Bradshaw Foundation: Bukti orang-orang Melayu juga mempopulasikan INDIA bukan sahaja China

Pengetahuaan yang saya perolehi adalah dari perkongsian maklumat dengan seorang proffessor dari Universiti of Pittsburgh, USA,
Saya telah ditunjukkan satu website yang mengaji perjalanan Manusia dari Afrika ke seluruh dunia.
Kajian ini telah menverifikasikan kajian HUGO, bahawa orang-orang Melayu bukan sahaja mempopulasikan benua kecil China, kaum ini juga telah mempopulaskan benua kecil India setelah semua keturunan migrasi Manusia dari Afrika terhapus akibat tiupan debu gunung berapi Gunung Toba.
Saya simpulkan kajian itu dengan screenshot yang saya petik dari portal itu.

1. Circa 85000-75000 tahun lalu: Perhijrahan dari Afrika-ke-SriLanka dan Indonesia

Sumber: http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

2. 75000 Tahun dahulu Mt Toba melutup. Manusia di India hapus. .

 

3. 74000-65000 Orang Melayu kemudian memrepopulasikan benua India dan selepas China

4.Dari India manusia seterusnya berhijrah ke Benua Eropah, China Jauh dan Amerika.

Akibat seks songsang, masyarakat purba POMPEII dimusnahkan oleh ALLAH.

Sesiapa yang berpeluang untuk melawat POMPEII mulalah dengan.lawatan ke gunung Vesuvius yang terletak megah disekitar bandaraya NAPOLI.

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POMPEII terletak diantara NAPOLI dan SORRENTO, satu bandar pelancungan, yang cantik dan bersih berbanding dengan NAPOLI.
NAPOLI walaupun salah bandaraya yang agak besar dan semestinya kita ingat bahawa bandar ini akan memberi impresi masyarakat progresif, namun pandangan itu amat meleset, kerana apa yang didapati adalh sebuah bandar yang amat kotor. Sehingga lapangan terbang pun tidak terurus dan ternyata putung2 rokok bertaburan seperti kita di Malaysia.. Kalau LEE KUAN YEW ke NAPOLI beliau pasti kena heart attack.
Saya akan cerita perihal NAPOLI dan SORRENTO di lain posting nanti.
Kota Lama POMPEII (POMPEII SCAVI atau POMPEII RUINS) adalah bekas tapak arkiologi yang amat luas dan mengambil masa antara 3-4 jam untuk melawat dan mengenali intipati masyarakat POMPEII ketika itu.
Antara yang menarik ialah struktur toko2 atau kedai2 runcit amat tidak jauh berbeza dengan kedai2 runcit kecil moden. Yang mesti lihat dan kalau tidak lihat tidak sah lawatan anda ialah bergambar dengan mayat2 yang bergelimpangan di timbus oleh lelahar gunung berapi. Yang masih ketara adalah tulang kaki yang masih terlekat di badan dan tidak terbakar menjadi abu.
Juga yang menarik adalah sebuah rumah perlacuran(?) atau rumah dimana mereka bertukar pasangan untuk kegiatan seks sumbang. Disekitar rumah perlacuran/rumah asmara ini terdapat berbagai lukisan2 seperti Karma Sutra yang bagaikan ensiklopedia seks bagi pengunjung2.
Apa yang juga diceritakan oleh masyarakat moden bukan sekadar menukar isteri dan suami sahaja, tetapi ada yang bertukarkan anak perempuan dan lelaki untuk melakukan kegiatan orgy. Kegiatan ini amat popular antara masyarakat POMPEII sehingga Raja ROM pun tidak dapat melarang.

Maka ALLAH telah melaknatkan bangsa ini dengan ledakan gunung berapi yang hanya disasarkan ke negara kecil POMPEII.

Jadi tidak lah mustahil sekiranya, kalau kita biarkan mana-mana pemimpin menjalankan kegiatan seks songsang tanpa tentangan kita, satu hari nanti tidak hairanlah kalau Gunung Tahan atau Gunung Jerai pun boleh tiba2 meletup.

Anda boleh seterusnya baca tentang POMPEII selanjutnya:

Pompeii 
The history and art of the city
Article added on March 1, 2006
A short history of the city of Pompeii
  Pompeii was once a flourishing port city overlooking the Sarno river valley. The origins of the town are unclear, but the oldest report date back to the end of the 7th century BC. It was a multicultural city with native, Etruscan and Greek influences.

At the end of the 5th century BC, the Samnite tribes came down from the mountains of Samnio and Irpinia and settled in the area of what is today known as the province of Campania (fertile plain), with Nuceria as its capital; today's regional capital is the city of Naples.

When Rome expanded towards southern Italy from 343 to 290 BC through a mix of alliances and military campaigns, Pompeii became an ally (socia) of the Roman political system (res publica). However, in 90 and 89 BC, the population of Pompeii and other cities rebelled, demanding equal social and political rights from Rome. Pompeii was besieged by Roman troops led by P. Cornelius Sulla and finally surrendered. It became a Roman colony named Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum in 80 BC.

As a colony, Pompeii continued to flourish, especially under the reigns of the emperors of Octavian Augustus (from 27 BC to 14 AD) and Tiberius (from 14 AD to 37 AD). In 62, a violent earthquake struck the entire Vesuvian area. Reconstruction was not finished when on August 24, 79 AD the city of Pompeii was buried under ash and rock.

The city was only rediscovered in the 16th century. The exploration of the site only began in 1748 under the reign of the King of Naples Charles III of Bourbon. Today, some 3/4 of the 66 ha of the city of Pompeii have been excavated, whereas in nearby Erolano 2/3 of the city still lay under the ground of the present day city.

Pompeii was covered by some 6m of ashes and rock, killing some 20,000 people, whereas in nearby Ercolano some 5,000 people died in the days following under a 20 meter high pyroclastic mudslide caused by the volcanic eruption; over the years, the material was transformed into an impressive 20m wall of tuff covering the site.


A few of the many sites to visit in Pompeii

Among the many valuable archaeological sites to visit in the Pompeii, one has to mention the Temple of Venus. The goddess Venus was the protectress of Lucius Cornelius Sulla as well as of the city of Pompeii. The Temple of Venus was built on the western edge of the city's hill during the early part of the Sullan colony in 80 BC.

Another outstanding site are the Suburban baths. Built from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AC on an artificial terrace facing the sea, they feature richly decorated bathing rooms. The Suburban baths include a warm indoor pool and a small cold pool with painted walls ending in a niche with a waterfall supplied by an imitation cave, decorated with a mosaic depicting the Roman God Mars and cherub angels. The cold room (frigidarium) is decorated with stucco squares. The dressing room features 16 panels with erotic scenes, including one with two women engaging in Lesbian sex, unique in Roman painting.

The Forum baths were built after 80 BC, following the layout of the larger Stabian baths: the men's and women's sections are separated and located on the sides of the furnaces. The dressing room (apodyterium) is followed by the cold bathing room (frigidarium), the warm room (tepidarium) and the hot room (caldarium). The Forum baths also feature a porticoed palaestra, which can be entered from Via del Foro or the men's dressing room. The warm room was heated by a large bronze brazier.

With its 2970 square meters, the House of the Faun is the largest house in Pompeii. It was built by an unknown wealthy owner over a previous dwelling in the early 2nd century BC. Its mosaic threshold is now on display at the Museum of Archaeology of the City of Naples. In the atrium's low basin (impluvium) stands a bronze statue of the faun (the original is exhibited in Naples). Between two porticoed gardens is the exedra, the core of the house, with Corinthian columns, stuccoed, painted capitals and an outstanding mosaic (exhibited in Naples' Museum of Archaeology) depicting the victory of Alexander the Great over Darius, the King of Persia.

Another famous site is the Lupanare, built in the city's final days. Lupa is the Latin word for prostitute. The Lupanare was Pompeii's only brothel specifically designed for this purpose, and the largest of the some 25 brothels of the city; the other brothels were simply single rooms or part of the top floor of a shop. The stone beds at the Lupanare were covered by mattresses. The walls were decorated with paintings depicting different erotic positions. The prostitutes were slaves, mostly of Greek and Oriental origin.

Pompeii's Great Theatre was built in the 2nd century BC. It could hold some 5000 spectators. Among the works performed here were popular farces in the Oscan language, plays, mimes and pantomimes with dancing and music. The Small Theatre was built around 80 BC, in the early years of the Sullan colony. According to inscriptions, it had a roof and was probably used for musical performances and poetry readings.

The Temple of Isis testifies to the fact that Egyptian divinities were venerated by the Romans too. It was built at the 2nd century BC and rebuilt immediately after the earthquake in 62 AD by N. Popidius Ampliatus, who gave credit to his son Celsinus to advance the latter's political career. Statues of Anubis and Harpokrates greeted the visitors near the entrance of the temple. A fenced area with a water basin was used for purification rites (purgatorium).

In addition to the archaeological sites of Pompeii and Ercolano, don't miss to visit the Museum of Archaeology of the City of Naples, where most of the finds of Pompeii and Ercolano are exhibited.


Source: http://www.cosmopolis.ch