Thursday, June 27, 2013

Big plans under way to beautify the oldest parts of KL



Beautification is food that perishes and it is NEVER a valid reason for undertaking construction work and so it is a waste of money (excuse for siphoning money) and those involved or think beautification is a justified reason for action are headed for insanity.
The correct reasons for undertaking construction are for repair, upgrade or to add new facilities or amenities.
It is not an accident he described plans as ‘big’ rather than small or medium but it is to stir, to boast or make much.
The person who is happy with himself does not need beauty in the environment, beauty in his food or anything, he is contented and if you are discontented, you need beautification in your house or city then your happiness is insecure, shallow and leads to unhappiness or bad aftertaste.
AND SO A PERSON WITH HEIGHTENED DISCERNMENT KNOWS WHAT IS STATED IS DELUDED, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, A WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY TO LINE POCKETS WHILST THE FOOLISH MAN MAY SCOFF AT IT WITHOUT KNOWING THE REASON WHY.
YOU DO NOT NEED A BEAUTIFUL CITY TO BE HAPPY AND IF YOUR HAPPINESS IS DEPENDENT ON BEAUTY IT IS NOT SECURE, SHALLOW AND LEAD TO WOE LATER.
What is said is senseless, has demerit not merit and it reflects acceptance of falsity and delusion that people in the world accept such statement as valid.
If you open your mouth, tell others something that is certain not uncertain, whilst the Fed could end bond buying in 2014, it could also continue buying so what is the news or information, it is much ado about nothing that is controlled insanity that ends in insanity and leaves recipients in uncertainty. Even if the Fed is 99% certain to end buying you should not say it if you want to avoid suffering.
The Buddha never said he could pass away in three months’ time or he is 99.9% sure he will pass away in 3 months’ time.
IF YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH, MAKE SURE YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH OR YOU ARE EXPOSING YOURSELF TO SUFFERING DUE. ‘COULD END BOND BUYING IN 2014’ IS NOT SPEAKING THE TRUTH, WISHY WASHY AND YOU WOULD BE WISE TO REMAIN SILENT AND SAVE YOURSELF SOME ENERGY FOR FEAR OF MISLEADING OTHERS WHAT TURNED OUT NOT TRUE.
MCA road show on transformation
If your transformation is genuine you never need to let others know, tell others, go on a road show to inform others but if your transformation is to impress others rather than genuine then a road show is critical, important.
It reflects that ordinary people’s actions are all for show, not true that they must be seen to be doing rather than do the right thing without wanting others to see.
A ROADSHOW COSTS MONEY AND EFFORT THAT COULD BE BETTER SPENT TRANSFORMING YOURSELF BUT THEN IF YOUR TRANSFORMATION IS INTENDED TO IMPRESS OTHERS THEN THE ROAD SHOW IS CRITICAL. THIS IS CONTROLLED INSANITY THAT ENDS IN INSANITY.
Freedom of speech is an abiding delusion of humans. There is no such thing as freedom of speech but you will be judged by every careless word you say.
Respect is a matter of stirred force not reason and you have no freedom of speech but whatever you say must be the truth and does not harm or attack others otherwise the repayment in suffering is horrendous.
ANYONE WHO ASKS OTHERS TO RESPECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS DELUDED AND PUTTING HIS OR HEAD ON THE CHOPPING BOARD.
YOU ARE NOT FREE TO SPEAK BUT YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK THE TRUTH AND WHAT IS GOOD. RESPECT IS NOT A MATTER OF MEANING BUT BLIND STIRRED HARMFUL FORCE.
Speech can be very valuable or costly but it is never free:
Speech can be very valuable in that right speech that benefits others, gives them insight that leads them out of suffering confers great rewards, great future everlasting happiness and eternal life.
Speech can be very costly in that even a trifling evil spoken (calling your brother ‘you fool’) misdeed can send you to hell. Telling lies, harming others with speech (speech with style always harms others, bombard them with unnecessary force prolonging, changing speed and loudness) will cost you dearly in terms of ultimate insanity and even eternal punishment.
Speech is NEVER free but always has cost and so the wise person speaks only sparingly when necessary.
Speech is always suffering because it requires the use of force that is dangerous, blind harmful.
True speech still requires using force according to a plan.
Rehashed styled false speech requires retrieval from recordings, additional force to prolong syllables, change speed and loudness PLUS force to resist what is being said, styled speech always require considerable additional force in self resistance.
If a person’s speech is false or without knowing it is true, he must speak according to a plan that consigns him, mandates him to be a robot and that is a very expensive and painful price to pay for falsity.
IF A PERSON’S SPEECH IS FALSE OR WITHOUT KNOWING, HE MUST COMMIT HIMSELF TO BE A REHASHING ROBOT, IT STIRS SELF RESISTANCE THAT LEADS TO STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND SCATTERS HIS CONCENTRATION, HE FACES CERTAIN INSANITY LATER.
HOW CAN YOU SAY SPEECH IS FREE WHEN ALL THE MADNESSES (MAD PERCEPTION, MAD LOGIC, MAD EMOTIONS, MAD ROTE BEHAVIOUR, MAD MEMORY, MAD STRESS, MAD RESTLESSNESS, MAD DAZE) AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT ARE THE TERRIBLE PRICE FOR WRONG SPEECH?
AND SO WHOEVER ADVOCATES FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WHO THINKS YOU ARE FREE TO SAY AS YOU WISH IS GUILTY OF SPEAKING FALSELY AND SERIOUSLY MISLEADING OTHERS WITH KARMA AND SUFFERING DUE.
Global markets for shares, bonds and commodities fall and the dollar rises after the US central bank signals it may scale back stimulus later this year
Most of the money the Fed prints is to repay (bailout) bondholders and these are rich people. Poor people do not hold bonds. And these people bailed out are not going to return their money to the system and so the system remains impoverished. What these people do is lend their money to Asian nations and companies in search of returns and countries like Indonesia and Thailand (including Malaysia?) have been taking advantage to borrow which means their recent prosperity (that may be misspent) is based debt at cheap rates which may be coming to an end.
BAILED OUT BONDHOLDERS CHANNEL THEIR PRINTED MONEY INTO VARIOUS AVENUES FOR PROFIT LIKE SHARE MARKET, PROPERTY, COMMODITIES AND BONDS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND COMPANIES LIKE APPLE BUT THIS MAY DRY UP IF THE FED STOPS PRINTING MONEY TO BAIL OUT BONDHOLDERS.
Serious credit squeeze in China:
Credit Tightens in China as Central Bank Takes a Hard Line
By NEIL GOUGH and DAVID BARBOZA
HONG KONG — China’s financial system is in the throes of a cash squeeze as the government tries to restructure the economy and punish speculators, with interbank lending rates spiking on Thursday and bank-to-bank borrowing nearly stalled.
China’s interbank and money market rates have soared over the last two weeks, and banks and other financial institutions are afraid of lending to one another. Without that lending, an economy can quickly stultify. Those in need of short-term cash, or liquidity, must pay dearly or risk default.
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has refused to provide large amounts of additional cash to the credit market. Analysts say the government is holding off for a reason: it is trying to reshape the economy while reducing its future role. The bank is not independent, unlike many other central banks, and reports to the State Council.
A huge shadow banking operation has emerged in China in recent years, with smaller banks and trust companies borrowing from bigger state-run banks and relending that money at high interest rates to private companies and property developers, a practice that fuels speculation.
Pressuring speculators is a risky strategy for the Chinese government, which is also grappling with a slowing economy. Many borrowers may have a harder time paying back their loans, and analysts fear the losses could ripple through the banking system.
“The central bank wants to accelerate reform,” said Zhu Haibin, an economist at JPMorgan Chase. “They want to give the market a lesson: you need to manage your risk and not rely on the central bank.”
Mr. Zhu and other economists say restructuring the economy, which has grown addicted to easy money, could be perilous for another reason. The decision could reduce lending and slow growth too quickly.
The worst case, absent intervention by policy makers, would be defaults at lenders with the most exposure and shakiest balance sheets. The damage could spread to other banks, setting off runs on deposits by ordinary Chinese. In the near term, markets will probably continue to be rattled, especially shares in financial institutions.
That was certainly the fear on Thursday around the globe. “China’s interbank market is basically frozen — much like credit markets froze in the United States right after Lehman failed,” said Patrick Chovanec, managing director and chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management. “Rates are being quoted, but no transactions are taking place.”
Stock markets across greater China fell Thursday on news of the liquidity situation and a disappointing survey on manufacturing. The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong dropped 2.9 percent, and the Shanghai composite index fell 2.8 percent.
The combination of slower economic expansion and the liquidity squeeze offers one of the biggest challenges yet to the newly installed leadership in Beijing.
Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who took office in March, has said he plans changes that will promote sustainable growth, as opposed to relying on the easy credit from state-controlled banks that helped the country rebound since the 2008 financial crisis.
“While the economy faces up to many difficulties and challenges, we must promote financial reform in an orderly way to better serve economic restructuring,” China’s State Council said in a statement Wednesday after a meeting presided by Mr. Li, according to Xinhua, the state-run news agency.
The interest rate that Chinese banks must pay to borrow money from one another surged overnight to a record high of 13.44 percent Thursday, according to official daily rates set by the National Interbank Funding Center in Shanghai. That was up from 7.66 percent on Wednesday and less than 4 percent last month.
China’s policy makers have an arsenal of options at their disposal to inject more money into the financial system, including open market operations — trading in securities to control interest rates or liquidity — or, more drastically, freeing up some of the trillions of renminbi that banks are required to keep on reserve with the central bank.
In the past, when China’s economy hits a rough patch, the government usually steps in, forcing state-run banks to pump liquidity into the market, even though there was a risk it could drive up asset prices.
If the central bank’s inaction toward the deepening liquidity squeeze is a form of financial brinkmanship, some analysts see it as aimed at reining in smaller banks that had been tapping the interbank market as a source of low-cost funds for their investment in higher-yielding bonds, or for off-balance-sheet activities.
Ting Lu, China economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said on Thursday in a research note that although the surge in interbank lending rates could have its desired effect on reckless lenders, “it will undoubtedly disrupt both the financial markets and the real economy if the liquidity squeeze lasts too long.”
China’s economy has been showing signs of a slowdown in recent months. Economists at HSBC joined counterparts at several other banks on Wednesday in cutting growth forecasts for the Chinese economy this year.
On Thursday, a preliminary survey of factory purchasing managers in June suggested that output in China had fallen to its lowest level in nine months, as manufacturers cut production in response to slackened demand both at home and overseas.
The preliminary purchasing managers’ index, published by HSBC and compiled by Markit, dropped to 48.3 points in the first three weeks of June, its lowest level since September and down from a final figure of 49.2 in May. A reading above 50 indicates growth, and anything below signals contraction.
“Beijing prefers to use reforms rather than stimulus to sustain growth,” said Qu Hongbin, HSBC’s chief economist for China, in a statement accompanying the survey results. “While reforms can boost long-term growth, they will have a limited impact in the short term.”
The rise in interbank rates began two weeks ago, before China went on a three-day national holiday. Banks typically face higher demand for cash before public holidays, and the initial uptick in rates was not seen as abnormal.
But as the situation worsened, the central bank refrained from injecting new money into the system. Benchmark seven-day repurchase rates, another measure of borrowing costs, briefly soared as high as 25 percent on Thursday, up from 8.5 percent on Wednesday, before closing at 11.2 percent.
Credit dependent economies always end in disaster:
Economies dependent on credit or debt to grow and prosper are built on quicksand and will collapse, it can be postponed again and again but the longer it is postponed the more terrible the outcome and so it may be that China will be the last major domino to fall and this will bring forth even greater hardship.
Why China is clamping down on credit:
It may not be China has seen the light, turned a new leaf but the cancer has become too widespread to ignore, disaster is looming and too late has the brakes been finally slammed on and now the economy may or will go into a tailspin.
CHINA’S HANDS MAY BE FORCED LIKE BRAKES BEING SLAMMED HARD AS AN OBSTACLE IS SEEN TOO LATE AND NOW THE ECONOMY MAY GO INTO A TAILSPIN.
Suddenly no more iPhones and tablets from China:
If China collapses under a credit crunch then suddenly, like drug addicts deprived, the world will find it no longer has iPhones, iPads and a whole range of cheap goods made in China, it will have to make do without their beloved toys and cheap overconsumption.
The final insult:
For years, decades, the capitalists and their bankers and political cronies have plundered the system and the people’s savings in banks have been wiped out by reckless bankers in search of maximal returns and the capitalists keep lending back their money to governments via bonds or treasuries or gilts so that they can keep earning back money from the system to become ever more bloated. Further capitalists like Soros and Goldman Sachs invade the commodity (eg oil) markets, even currency markets like sharks making fat profits at the expense of the system eg you pay more for oil and if your currency is devalued, Soros pockets billions.
The bankers are not punished for the misdeeds but their companies (Goldman Sachs was converted into a commercial bank so that it could receive federal aid) bailed out and bankers were given golden parachutes for shitting all over the place and when it comes to money printing to save the system, the lion share of the printed money is handed to capitalists holding bonds, the masses have taken over the debts of the bondholders.
YOU THINK YOU ARE A CITIZEN WITH WONDERFUL RIGHTS BUT YOU ARE A PROSTITUTE WITH POLITICIANS AND THEIR CRONIES AS PIMPS WHO DO WHAT THEY WISH WITH YOU AND WHEN THEY MAKE A BIG MESS OF THE PLACE THEY HAND OVER THE SHIT FOR YOU TO HANDLE.
Pension blow for millions as £48billion is wiped off share values
PENSION FUNDS lost billions of pounds yesterday as share prices around the world plummeted.
It is dangerous, wrong and false to assume that because the share prices are so much you are worth so much and yet it is how this world sees things and works.
You cannot extrapolate wealth from asset prices (shares, property) which are always illusionary. Money does not grow on trees, the system does not instantly become richer and poorer by billions due to the gyrations of asset prices and the wealth was never there in the first place.
THE £48 BILLION WIPED OFF BY FALLING SHARES WERE NEVER THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND YOU ARE NAÏVE, GULLIBLE TO EVEN THINK IT WAS THERE. MONEY DOES NOT SO EASILY GROW ON TREES.
The rebranding of Singapore:
It wasn’t that long ago that Singaporeans humbly acknowledged themselves as ‘a nation of shopkeepers’ and now they think they are ultra-modern sophisticates, hi-tech and know-alls. It is a form of communal shared delusion, an illusion abetted by a mirage of affluence a massive property bubble (that can burst, is not invincible) and spanking new amenities has brainwashed.
Brand is entirely about style not substance and so beneath the veneer of modernity and sophistication lurk a primitive mentality without true understanding.
SINGAPORE HAS REBRANDED ITSELF FROM A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS TO MODERN SOPHISTICATED CUTTING EDGE CITY STATE BUT THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM MANY ACTORS WHO HAD IMPOVERISHED WORKMEN ROOTS WHO THINK THEY HAVE BECOME MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE BY THE FANCY CLOTHES THEY NOW WEAR WHEN THE CLOTHES ARE ALL ABOUT STYLE, ABOUT SHOW AND IT IS EMPTY UNDERNEATH.
Timing makes you a slave not master:
There are many activities people participate in which timing is very important eg playing an instrument in an orchestra or singing in a choir or hitting a tennis ball or badminton or marching as a group in which they must time their actions with others, with the arriving ball, etc. This makes the person a robot to the object that they time themselves to.
Thus the tennis player may think he is a master of tennis but he is a well rehearsed slave who must time his shots to meet the ball at the right moment. It is the ball and not you that determines the shot amongst possibilities that you must quickly decide to execute and when to execute it and you are a slave of the tennis ball not the master of the tennis ball as you wrongly understand.
PEOPLE ARE THRILLED (A MATTER OF STIRRED BLIND FORCE) AT THEIR MASTERY OF TENNIS WHEN THEY ARE A SLAVE, IT IS THE ARRIVING BALL THAT DETERMINES WHAT SHOT YOU MUST MAKE AND WHEN TO MAKE IT IN ORDER TO WIN A POINT OR KEEP IT IN PLAY. AND SO EVERY TIME YOU PLAY TENNIS YOU ARE CONSIGNING YOURSELF, AFFIRMING YOURSELF TO BE A DEDICATED ROBOT THAT WILL END IN INSANITY AND TORMENT FOR YOU.
The Buddha said he was formerly the Father:
Whenever the aeon was contracting, I went to the realm of Streaming Radiance. Whenever the aeon was expanding, I reappeared in an empty Brahma-abode. There I was the Great Brahman, the Unconquered Conqueror, All-seeing, & Wielder of Power.
Even though the Buddha had been an animal many times he was excellent, exceptionally good even as an animal and in the above statement as in other places, the Buddha is saying he had been the Father for seven times in the past.
The UK has tapped fibre-optic cables that carry global communications and gathering vast amounts of data, the Guardian reports.
For national defence to defuse future attacks is not a valid reason for tapping private information, it is wrong and a form of stealing and so whether you know it is wrong or not, whether you are doing it because it is your job you are liable for punishment and future suffering.
This is an universal law, to do something bad or wrong to defend yourself is also wrong or leads to debt and suffering.
And so it is the price of partaking, involvement in this world is horrendous, the Buddha said ordinary people have suffering as vast as an ocean to repay.
IT IS NOT THAT IT IS ILLEGAL, THE LAW FORBIDS IT THAT IT IS WRONG TO TAP INFORMATION BUT IT IS BECAUSE IT IS STEALING, STEALTH THAT IT IS WRONG.
If you charge him with spying then you imply spying is illegal and wrong and so how come he is wrong spying but you are right spying?
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD AND BAD SPYING, ALL SPYING IS BAD AND SO YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR SPYING AND PERSECUTING OTHERS. SNOWDEN MAY NOT BE SPYING BUT THE US WAS DEFINITELY SPYING, SECRETLY STEALING INFORMATION.
Concern but for what?

Does the drying-up of lending between banks in China presage a financial crisis, following five years of massive credit and investment growth? And for investors, is China a bigger source of concern than the end of massive money creation by the US Fed?
It is not that people in this world are not concerned, they are very concerned, very anxious, but for the wrong or perishable things and they will perish with their perishable concerns.
There are many who will be anxious, concerned about credit developments in China but they are concerned for their material wellbeing or prosperity that is a wrong concern.
In the same way many are concerned even obsessed by their physical health, the foods they eat, their assets, the image they project to others and because these are false, meaningless, emotion or force driven concerns, they are suffering and lead to perishing even eternally.
The Fed’s next move:
If the US economy is strong as a result of the Fed’s interventions or tinkering then it is strong not on merit, not on true good hard work but strong based on false actions without work being done and this is never good but leads to disaster later on.
THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF STRONG ECONOMIES, ONE IS BASED ON MERIT, IT IS BY HARD WORK, SAVINGS OR ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH OR RESERVES THAT AN ECONOMY IS STRONG AND THERE IS THE FALSELY STRONG ECONOMY MIRED IN DEBT, DEVOID OF SAVINGS (BANKRUPT) DEPENDENT ON THE FALSE CHEATING TINKERING OF GOVERNORS (PRINT MORE MONEY, LOWER INTEREST RATES). THE LATTER IS AN ECONOMY ON STEROIDS OR DRUGS THAT WILL END IN COLLAPSE, DISASTER.
JOHOR BARU: Most pharmacies here have run out of face masks with some even posting up signs telling customers that the item was not available.
Faced with smog or haze or bird flu the standard fear or blind force driven reaction is to don a face mask.
Has anyone done objective tests to show these flimsy masks are efficacious in filtering out smog, haze and viruses?
WITHOUT KNOWING IT IS EFFECTIVE, IF YOU DON A MASK THINKING IT WILL PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST STIR RESISTANCE THAT LEADS TO STRESS AND CONDITIONS YOU TO DO THINGS WITH RAISED SELF RESISTANCE THAT DETAINS YOU IN STRESS.
THE WISE PERSON WILL ONLY DO OR SAY THINGS HE KNOWS IS TRUE OR EFFECTIVE, IF IT IS NOT EFFECTIVE OR WITHOUT KNOWING HE DOES NOT DO IT.
THE SMOKE PARTICLES AND VIRUSES ARE TOO FINE TO BE CAUGHT BY THE MESH OF MASKS AND SO IT IS MOSTLY IF NOT ENTIRELY FOR SHOW, FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT AND THAT IS MAD.
MALACCA: Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said there is no necessity for the Selangor government to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of electoral fraud and election regulation violations in the state during the 13th general election (GE13).
The reaction is actually an indication of guilt because if there was no fraud, you knew you did nothing wrong, you will welcome an inquiry that will clear your name, but if there was wrongdoing then you would like to stop others from poking their noses into events.
The need for inquiry is objective not subjective:
Whether there is a need for a polls inquiry is objective not subjective. If there have been credible allegations of serious wrongdoing then it is within the rights of the Selangor government to conduct an investigation and thus there is karma to be repaid as suffering for anyone to tell others not to do what they have a right or correct to do.
IF YOUR CALL TO AVOID INQUIRY TENDS TO COVER UP WRONGDOING, YOU ARE ASKING FOR PUNISHMENT.
The nature of toughness:
People talk about toughness and people in this world are tough, very tough, but do they understand what they are talking about, ‘toughness’.
Toughness is the ability of a person to withstand suffering even to strong levels inflicted either by self internally or by others externally. It is about stirring one’s force to oppose and hold at bay or resist the force that is causing suffering either by self and others.
TOUGHNESS IS ABOUT THE ABILITY OF A PERSON TO RESIST AND WITHSTAND SUFFERING OR PAIN EITHER CAUSED BY SELF OR OTHERS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL PAIN.
THUS TO BE TOUGH, YOU MUST HAVE A STRONG WELL RAISED FORCE OR SELF RESISTANCE THAT LEADS TO STRESS. A PERSON CAN ONLY BE TOUGH IF HIS FORCE OF SELF RESISTANCE IS STRONG AND ACTIVE AND SO THERE MUST BE SELF RESISTANCE ACCOMPANYING WHATEVER THE TOUGH PERSON DOES AND NO MATTER HOW TOUGH THEY ARE, STRESS TORMENTS THEM, THE TOUGHER THEY ARE THE MORE INTENSE THEIR STRESS THAT WILL ULTIMATELY RUN OUT OF CONTROL AND THEY GO BESERK WITH HOMICIDAL OR SUICIDAL VOLITION.
WITHOUT ACTIVE SELF RESISTANCE A PERSON CANNOT BE TOUGH AND THE ADMISSION OF TOUGHNESS IS AN ADMISSION THERE IS SELF RESISTANCE PRESENT IN THE ACTIONS AND SPEECH OF THAT PERSON.
Without active resistance you cannot be tough:
If a person’s force of resistance is not active he cannot be tough.
A sane being, beings with true understanding do not possess active resistance, their resistance is inert and if you want to go to heaven you must switch off your resistance.
WITHOUT AN ACTIVE FORCE OF RESISTANCE, A PERSON CANNOT BE TOUGH AND AN ACTIVE FORCE OF RESISTANCE IS ALWAYS MAD, UNNECESSARY AND SUFFERING AND LEADS TO STRESS IN WHATEVER THE PERSON SAYS OR DOES.
IT IS UNNECESSARY AND HARMFUL NOT GOOD TO HAVE A CONSTANTLY ACTIVE FORCE OF RESISTANCE (THAT RENDERS A PERSON TOUGH), IT IS UNNATURAL, SUFFERING NOW AND LEADS TO SUFFERING EVEN ETERNALLY. EVEN MANY FEMALES ARE TOUGH AS NAILS, FOR THOSE WHO SEE CORRECTLY.
Toughness is the goat’s not sheep’s answer to suffering:
The answer of the goat or tough person to suffering is to summon force to resist and fight the source of the suffering and that is the wrong blind suicidal instrument.
The wise person examines with reason to discover the causes of his suffering and he refrains from exposing or causing the suffering in the future.
ALL SUFFERING HAVE CAUSES AND THE CORRECT ANSWER TO SUFFERING IS TO DISCOVER THEIR CAUSES AND NEVER ALLOW THEM TO ARISE, NOT TO SUMMON BLIND HARMFUL FORCE TO FIGHT, SUPPRESS IN ORDER FOR YOU TO CONTINUE YOUR ENTERPRISES THAT KEEP CHURNING UP MORE SUFFERING.
A GOAT IS TOUGH, TRUE SHEEP ARE NEVER TOUGH AND IF YOU ARE TOUGH AND YOU ARE A GOAT THEN YOUR DESTINATION IS ETERNAL SUFFERING.
You can languish in the deepest of hells for even many billions of years according to the Buddha, do you think you can have your sentence commuted or reduced? Once you have committed yourself to millions of years in the furnace of hell there is no going back and so it is not good but evil these reduction of sentences that would have karma for those responsible, for judges who preside over them.
IT IS EVIL NOT GOOD TO REDUCE JAIL SENTENCES AND THOSE WHO PRESIDE OVER SUCH REDUCTION HAVE KARMA NOT MERIT. EVEN IF THE PERSON IS VERY SICK OR GOING TO DIE IS NOT REASON TO RELEASE HIM EARLY.
What Snowden did is correct never wrong:
Unless what Snowden exposed was fabricated, if what he exposed was true it is always correct never wrong and it reflects absence of true understanding in this world that nobody realizes this.
The US denied wrongdoing and so if what Snowden exposed was the truth and the US did no wrong, it is mad to prosecute him and there will be painful karma for those who want to convict him.
If what the US did is bad then it is never wrong but correct to expose wrongdoing and it is wrong with karma attached to hide wrongdoing.
ANYONE WHO EXPOSES WRONGDOING IS NEVER DOING WRONG.
ANYONE WHO HIDES, ASSISTS IN HIDING WRONGDOING IS ALWAYS COMPLICIT, GUILTY OF ABETTING EVIL THAT HAS KARMA TO BE REPAID AS FUTURE SUFFERING AND SO ALL THOSE WHO CONDEMN SNOWDEN AND ACCUSE HIM OF WRONGDOING IS ON THE SIDE OF FALSITY, EVIL AND ARE HEAPING FUTURE WOE.
THERE ARE MANY WHO HAVE VOICED DEFENCE OF SNOWDEN YET HOW MANY IF ANY UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER? THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER THAT IS OBJECTIVE, APPLIES TO EVERYONE IS THAT SNOWDEN’S ACTION IF IT IS NOT FABRICATED, EXPOSES WHAT THE US WAS SECRETLY DOING IS ALWAYS CORRECT, NEVER WRONG. IF THERE IS WRONGDOING, ANYONE WHO EXPOSES THE WRONGDOING IS NEVER WRONG BUT CORRECT.
Not to understand is always suffering and dangerous:
If a person does not truly understand things happening, it is always suffering because he must be perplexed & stressed (his self resistance raised) and it is dangerous because he is at risk of being tricked.
A person who truly understands things happening, is free of perplexity and distress, he is not in danger of being deceived. Thus in the hullabaloo about Snowden, he knows without perplexity and stress the truth of the matter and that is he did no wrong exposing the truth and those who seek to prosecute him are unjust, evil and heading for punishment.
16:50 UK time, Thursday, 13 June 2013
For China, Edward Snowden's sudden arrival in Hong Kong brings both a gift and a dilemma, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas.
When something happens, the calculating person, the person who has been well programmed automatically starts looking at implications, at the pros and cons and this is always false, never true and leads to suffering and insanity.
Nowadays when things happen, I perceive but I am not provoked to think. You need to think to delve into the implications of Snowden for China which is always a fabrication for those who are well programmed to calculate they think is so realistic when it is artificial, fantasy.
EVERYTHING HAPPENING PROVOKES ORDINARY PEOPLE TO THINK AND BEING CALCULATING THEY LOOK INTO THE PROS AND CONS THAT THEY DO NOT REALIZE ARE ARTIFICIAL, FIGMENTS OF THEIR ‘FERTILE’ IMAGINATION THAN WHAT ACTUALLY OCCURS. NOWADAYS I AM NOT PROVOKED TO THINK BY THINGS I SEE AND READ.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged the nation to be psychologically prepared for a prolonged period of haze due to the dry season and monsoon winds.
How does one psychologically prepare for a prolonged period of haze and is it of any use? Does one become resigned (despondent) or never give in, fight till the end?
Politicians are well programmed to proffer advice or solutions for everything under the sun and so even when faced with checkmate they proffer the silly solution be prepared psychologically. How on earth does one prepare psychologically and if it does not work, is useless then it is controlled insanity, make belief that ends in insanity.
IF WHAT YOU SAY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, IT IS NOT INCONSEQUENTIAL BUT SERIOUS, IT IS THE WAY TO TOTAL SILLINESS AND THAT IS MAD.
Big companies likely to be blamed for haze:
If I were to hazard a guess it would be the recent influx of big companies with massive clearing in search of fabulous wealth of palm oil who are to blame for the haze from Sumatra and Borneo rather than the smallholders.
Such hazes were not so much the problem in the past and it is in recent years that they have become even a health problem and this is has coincided with well documented investment in forest clearing and oil palm plantations in Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan and Sumatra with Malaysian and Singaporean companies proffering their expertise to massively rapidly transform the landscape.
IF ANYTHING, THE INFLUX OF BIG COMPANIES WITH MASSIVE CLEARANCE OF LAND AND PLANTING OF OIL PALM ARE TO BLAME FOR THE HEALTH ENDANGERING HAZES AND WHILST THESE COMPANIES MAY BE MALAYSIAN OR SINGAPOREAN, THE PROFITS THEY MAKE DO NOT BELONG TO MALAYSIANS AND SINGAPOREANS.
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has urged the Natural Resources and Environment Minister to look into a mechanism to demand compensation from Indonesia for the damage caused by the haze.
All the money in the world cannot compensate from the health damages of the haze except if you are a mercenary, money is what matters to you and you are willing to trade anything for money.
The important thing is to put to a stop the burning that is the cause of the haze, not look for getting compensation which is about wanting to punish others and being money minded.
Snowden correct and courageous:
Snowden’s action is not just correct but it is courageous because he exposes himself to a lot of potential suffering eg forfeiture of freedom, physical punishment and jailing if extradited. His fame is more notorious than admired by ordinary people and so unless he is a fool, he is courageous, exposing himself to a lot of loss (of freedom) and potential suffering by speaking out.
Understanding the karma of the Snowden matter:
The Buddha said the great man is not entangled and Snowden is entangled in that he works unwholesomely for an intelligence gathering company and he exposes their wrongdoing.
One should not be entangled if one wants to escape suffering and to work for intelligence and to expose their misdeeds is to be entangled.
His action in exposing the hidden, secret misdeeds is always correct never wrong, to abet, to conceal wrongdoing is always wrong. If you say the US did no wrong then he exposed the truth that the US did no wrong so why is the US so upset? Partly it is because the US has been exposed, ‘outed’ in modern phraseology. His action is courageous because he exposes himself to retaliation even death for ‘treason’, many Americans will hate him.
ONE SHOULD NOT BE ENTANGLED IF ONE WANTS TO ESCAPE SUFFERING AND SNOWDEN IS ENTANGLED.
SNOWDEN’S ACTION IN EXPOSING WHAT IS TRUE OR WRONGDOING IS NEVER WRONG AND COURAGEOUS.
Big money rather than smallholders the cause of haze:
Anecdotally according to reporters who visited Pekan Baru in Sumatra, large swaths of land have been cleared off jungle for plantation and you need money and connections to establish plantations there and it seemed a lot of the land has been bought.
It should be possible to pinpoint by satellite where the sources of fires are and so who are responsible for the burning and it is likely to reflect the precedent in Sarawak where natives have been deprived of their lands which have been cleared massively for oil palm plantations.
YOU NEED TO BE VERY RICH AND HAVE POLITICAL CONNECTIONS TO BUY LARGE PIECES OF JUNGLE TO CONVERT TO OIL PALM ESTATES IN SARAWAK AND THESE ARE LIKELY TO BE CULPRIT FOR BURNING WHICH IS A CHEAP AND EASY WAY TO COMPLETE CLEARANCE WITHOUT CONCERN FOR THE WELFARE OF OTHERS.
IF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SARAWAK (LARGE SCALE CONVERSION OF LAND TO OIL PALM) IS A PRECEDENT, IT WILL NOT BE AMISS TO BUDDING GET RICH CAPITALISTS EVERYWHERE TO COPY THE SAME MODUS OPERANDI IN SUMATRA AND KALIMANTAN. OF COURSE THEY WOULD DENY RESPONSIBILITY AND BLAME IT ON PRIMITIVE NATIVES AND GULLIBLE PEOPLE CHOKING IN THE HAZE WOULD BUY THEIR STORY SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENTS.
KUALA LUMPUR: The economy could suffer due to the haze currently polluting some parts of the country, says an economist.
People are suffering and all they think about is money, the impact on the economy.
It is not whether there is serious impact or not on the economy that is the matter and such people will calculate themselves to eternal woe and insanity. All they think about is money, money, money. If there is impact on the economy it means swift action, no impact means go to sleep?
KUALA LUMPUR: There isn’t enough cloud to induce rain, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim.
This measure costs money and so it is not to be undertaken without knowing it is effective.
Fine smoke particles are unlikely to be washed out of the air as demonstrated in 1997 when after rains, the air remained hazy. Maybe coarse smoke particles may be washed out.
IN ORDER TO REMOVE FINE SMOKE IT NEEDS TO BE FIRST CHARGED BY PASSING THROUGH HIGH VOLTAGE WIRES AND THEN THE CHARGED SMOKE PARTICLES CAN BE TRAPPED BY NEXT PASSING THROUGH OPPOSITELY CHARGED PLATES TO WHICH THEY WILL STICK TO.
THUS SEEDING CLOUDS TO MAKE RAIN IS UNLIKELY TO BE EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COSTS MUCH MONEY.
ONCE THE SMOKE IS IN THE AIR IT IS DIFFICULT TO REMOVE IT.
WITHOUT KNOWING IT WORKS AND YOU DO IT YOU MUST STIR RESISTANCE THAT LEADS TO STRESS AND OFTEN PEOPLE DO THINGS NOT BECAUSE IT WORKS BUT AS AN EXCUSE TO MAKE MONEY OR IF YOU ARE A POLITICIAN, TO SHOW YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WHEN YOU ARE BEFUDDLED, CLUELESS, GRASPING AT STRAWS.
Rain works but only at the source of the smoke:
Rain works but only at the source of the smoke and once the smoke is airborne, it is difficult and costly to remove. Smoke particles are not charged and need to be charged to be removed using electrical attraction and there is no source to charge and remove the charged smoke by electrical attraction in rain.
JUST BECAUSE RAIN WORKS BY DOUSING OUT THE SOURCE OF SMOKE DOES NOT MEAN IT WILL WORK WASHING THE SMOKE OUT OF THE AIR. IT IS DANGEROUS FALSE LOGIC.
Suffering is like the haze:
Suffering is like the haze, if you don’t enjoy haze and it is killing you slowly then the right thing to do is to stop it at the source rather than fight even tenaciously to remove the smoke once it is airborne.
ONCE SMOKE IS AIRBORNE IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO REMOVE AND IN NORMAL COURSE THE SMOKE IS DILUTED, BLOWN AWAY TO BE ANOTHER’S PROBLEM.
SUFFERING IS LIKE HAZE, ONCE IT IS ESTABLISHED IT IS DIFFICULT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR HEEDLESS DELUDED BEINGS TO REMOVE EVEN THOUGH IT CAUSES THEM MUCH UNNECESSARY AND INTENSELY FELT GRIEF.
THE THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT SUFFERING IS THAT IT MUST BE STOPPED AT ITS SOURCE, NEVER ALLOWED TO ESTABLISH ITSELF OR GO AIRBORNE WHEN IT IS TOO LATE AND WILL OVERWHELM THE FOOL.
THE ROOT OF SUFFERING IS STYLE, THE SENSELESS CONSTANT USE OF FORCE TO STRETCH (SYLLABLES), CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
WITHOUT STOPPING STYLE YOU ARE FOOL, IT IS FRUITLESS VEXATION TO STOP OR AVOID SUFFERING AND DEATH.
Do you think big plantation owners are angels?
Do you think big plantation owners are angels, scrupulous in their environmental management and would not indulge in mass burning to rid their cleared land of cleared vegetation?
If they were scrupulous people they would not have ventured into the plantation business that entails mass destruction, ruin of the ecology.
And if they would ruthlessly clear jungle and replace them with plantation, what more that they would refrain from the easy and cheap way out by burning?
The mass scale of the haze reflects the mass scale of the burning and only rich powerful plantation owners have the clout to produce mass dense haze.
Is this spinning statue cursed?
MUSEUM bosses are spooked after a time-lapse video shows an ancient Egyptian statue turning in circles in a display case. All. By. Itself.
Just because it appears to be haunted, to move in perfect circles on its own does not mean it is haunted.
IT REFLECTS THE LACK OF TRUE UNDERSTANDING AND FALSE LOGIC THAT PEOPLE REFER TO A HAUNTED STATUE AS CURSED. JUST BECAUSE IT IS HAUNTED DOES NOT MEAN IT IS CURSED.
The air you breathe is not Malaysian:
The haze clearly demonstrates the smoke you inhale is not Malaysian but Sumatran and so the air you breathe you think is Malaysian is not Malaysian. New York’s atmospheric lead pollution from car exhausts is found in Greenland.
The Buddha said all is not self, people identify themselves as Malaysian and are proud of it but the air you breathe does not belong to Malaysia but came all the way from Sumatra and so you are deluded and that is the way to hell or the animal womb.
Biodiesel and the oil speculator’s karma:
It is because oil speculators have pushed the price of oil so high that biodiesel is viable or profitable and so many have jumped on the bandwagon of oil palm plantations that has resulted in the rape of forests and the burning to clear them and so the karma for so much suffering can be laid at the feet of oil speculators that you refute to your chagrin when you burn in hell as God destroys your soul.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE KARMA AND SUFFERING DUE OIL SPECULATORS WHO CAUSE CONSUMERS TO PAY EXCESSIVELY FOR OIL AND TRIGGER A LOT OF WOE EG ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HAZE AS FORESTS GET DESTROYED TO GET ON THE BIODIESEL GET RICH QUICK WAGON.
IN THE SAME WAY IT IS BECAUSE THE US PAYS WITH USD IT DOES NOT EARN THAT CHINA IS WEALTHY ENOUGH TO BUY LOTS OF SOYA BEANS THAT CAUSES THE AMAZON TO BE DESTROYED TO PRODUCE SOYA BEANS. IF THE US DID NOT PRINT USD IT DID NOT EARN, CHINA WOULD BE MUCH POORER AND WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BUY SO MUCH SOYA BEANS FROM BRAZIL AND THE AMAZON WOULD REMAIN INTACT.
WHOEVER MAKES AN ACQUISITION IN THIS WORLD IS A FOOL HEADING FOR SUFFERING SAID THE BUDDHA THAT YOU IGNORE TO YOUR FUTURE SUFFERING THAT FAR EXCEEDS YOUR DARKEST NIGHTMARES.
Why facemasks don’t work against haze or viruses:
If facemasks are effective in filtering out the haze, then you would not have to resort to elaborate high voltage charging of the smoke particles and using charged plates to repel and trap the particles or elaborate industrial strength filters.
Car air filters are not filters for smoke but dust which are much bigger particles and industrial masks even if they filter out odours (as in medical forensic masks) or spray paint (paint aerosols may still be much bigger particles) may still fall short.
VIRUSES ARE EVEN SMALLER THAN SMOKE PARTICLES.
IF SIMPLE MASKS CAN FILTER OUT SMOKE THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR INDUSTRIAL AIR FILTERS THAT REQUIRE HIGH VOLTAGE CHARGING OF SMOKE PARTICLES AND THEN REPULSION AND ATTRACTION OF THOSE CHARGED PARTICLES PASSING BETWEEN CHARGED PLATES. EVEN SUCH EXTRACTION OF SMOKE BY CHARGE IS NOT TOTALLY EFFECTIVE AND REQUIRES MANY CYCLES TO RELATIVELY CLEANSE THE AIR OF SMOKE.
EVEN INDUSTRIAL FACE MASKS FOR FILTERING ODOURS AND PAINT MAY FALL SHORT IN FILTERING OUT SMOKE.
If something does not work and you put on the mask thinking it works or hoping it works you must stir resistance as you do it and that leads to stress and conditions you to resist whatever you say or do that traps you in stress, this is worse than suffering the harm of haze.
THERE ARE SOME REALITIES OR TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE YOU MUST FACE EG WHATEVER IS AN ARISING THING DOES NOT LAST FOREVER AND YOU WILL DIE AND THERE IS NOTHING MUCH YOU CAN DO ABOUT THE HAZE EXCEPT EMPLOY HIGH POTENTIAL DEVICES TO CHARGE AND REMOVE THE CHARGED SMOKE BY ATTRACTION PLATES. EVEN THIS WORKS BY REPEATED CYCLES OF PASSING OVER THE AIR INTO THE FILTER.
Thus all those who ‘make a killing’ selling face masks like hot cakes are themselves dicing with insanity if they pretend it works and recommend it to others not because they know it works but to make money.
Desperation is not a valid reason for action:
You could say you don a face mask because you are in trouble and desperate to do something to save your dear life but desperation is not only not a valid reason for doing something (wear face mask) it is delivering yourself to death and suffering because it trains you to do things by stirred blind force that will one day kill you.
IF DESPERATION IS THE REASON YOU PUT ON A FACE MASK IT MEANS STIRRED BLIND FORCE IS THE DANGEROUS BASIS FOR ACTION AND IT IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS TO BASE ACTION ON STIRRED BLIND FORCE THAT WILL ONE DAY KILL YOU AND CONSIGN YOU TO ETERNAL SUFFERING AND DEATH. BETTER TO CALMLY FACE SUFFERING AND DEATH AND HEAD FOR SAFETY, HEAVEN AFTER DEATH THAN DESPERATELY CLUTCH AT STRAWS AND FALL INTO HELL.
You must always base actions on calm clear reason:
If you treasure your life and wish to avoid endless suffering and death you must TRAIN yourself to always base your actions and speech on calm clear reason and to refrain from acting or speaking when your mind is stirred or agitated or disturbed.
The Buddha said spill a drop from a pot brimful of oil balanced on your head even if someone pushed you and straightaway your head will be cut off and so if you are induced to base your actions on stirred emotion, on agitation or confusion you are doomed for suffering.
BBC reporter suggests burgeoning oil palm estates are culprit:
Asian mega-smog's smoky source in Sumatra
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, Sumatra
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from the smouldering remains of an Indonesian forest
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I don't know what I was expecting, but it was certainly something spectacular.
Given the volume of smog that has been spewed across Singapore and Malaysia in the last few days, it would have to be something big.
But after eight hours driving along terrible roads, with even worse traffic, I was starting to doubt my own sanity.
"Where can all this smoke be coming from if there are no fires?"
In fact we had seen fires, or at least their aftermath. Dozens of them, little blackened patches of land, some just a few square meters.
In my mind there was no way such weedy fires could have caused the "mega smog".
Then just before sunset, somewhere north of the city of Dumai we found it: mile after mile of charred blackened land, the smoke still rising, the earth still hot underfoot.
A motorcyclist rides past a truck burnt by fires from burning palm oil plantations, in Indonesia's Riau province (June 24, 2013)Sumatra is the new frontier for palm oil producers
A gust of wind, and the flames leaped up again from smouldering tree stumps. The air was thick, acrid and unbreathable.
But even here anyone expecting to see spectacular forest fires would be disappointed.
The truth is these are not really forest fires at all. The forest has already been cut for timber.
This is land clearance by fire, classic slash and burn, but on a much larger scale.
Blame game
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Who is doing it? Certainly not anyone I spoke to.
Everybody here knows it is illegal and controversial, so everyone blames someone else.
The farmers blame the oil palm corporations. The corporations blame the farmers.
But the truth is everyone is doing it. Burning is a way of life in Sumatra.
One local woman, whose house has been damaged by the fires, was disarmingly honest about what goes on.
"The farmers burn the forest all the time," she said. "They burn it so the land can be planted.
"The trouble is this time, because of the very dry weather and high winds, the fires have got out of control."
Just 20 or 30 years ago, eastern Sumatra was covered by a huge swamp forest. Today there is barely any left.
Muslim students wearing masks walk in the haze-hit Dumai, on Indonesia's Riau province (23 June)Sumatra's towns and cities are also affected by the haze
Industrial irony
Instead, on our eight-hour drive from Pekanbaru to Dumai the forest has been replaced entirely by a massive monoculture: mile after mile after mile of oil palm plantation.
It is a huge industry: the oil is in high demand from the food industry, cosmetics, even for biofuel. Now there's an irony.
Indonesia is now the word's biggest producer of palm oil, more than 20 million tonnes per year. And Sumatra is its new frontier.
The people who have come here, both the corporations and the farmers, are looking for new land to open up.
There is little romance about the loss of the rainforest, or its wildlife.
It is all about money. Greed and conservation have never made good bedfellows.
Shifting winds blowing smog to KL than Singapore:
Apparently the center of the blazes are at Dumai north of Pekan Baru and shifting winds means KL is now the recipient of the smog more than Singapore.
Sumatran peat fires very difficult to douse:
BBC reporter suggests the fires are used to clear vast area of land to plant oil palm and big companies are more to blame. The land was formerly swamp which have peat or organic material underneath like in Sepang Malaysia and once these underground peat have been ignited they smoulder long after and produce copious acrid smoke and are difficult to douse.
VAST AMOUNTS OF ORGANIC MATERIAL OR PEAT EXISTS UNDERGROUND IN SWAMP AREAS OF SUMATRA THAT HAVE BEEN RAVAGED FOR THE SAKE OF HUGE OIL PALM PLANTATIONS AND THIS PEAT CAN BE IGNITED BY EVEN MINOR SURFACE BURNING AND ONCE BURNING THEY PRODUCE COPIOUS SMOKE AND ARE DIFFICULT TO DOUSE OFF, NEED HEAVY PROLONGED RAIN TO DOUSE.
THUS ALL THIS TALK ABOUT CLOUD SEEDING BY INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES ARE MOSTLY FOR SHOW, UNLIKELY TO WORK, ONCE PEAT SWAMPS BURN YOU NEED HEAVY RAIN TO PUT OFF AND THE IMPORTANT THING IS NOT TO IGNITE THEM.
Not just smog but copious greenhouse gases are released:
Not just cancer and respiratory distress causing smog is released but greenhouse gases like CO2, methane are released in copious amounts by the smouldering underground peat fires and this will hasten the demise of mankind through global warming.
IT IS VIRTUALLY SUICIDAL TO DISTURB PEAT SWAMPS IN THE NAME OF GREED TO PLANT OIL PALM. ONCE DENUDED OF COVERAGE THE PEAT ARE SUBJECT TO DRYING, EASILY IGNITED TO PRODUCE FIRES WITH LITTLE FLAMES BUT LOTS OF SMOKE COMING FROM UNDERGROUND AND THEY ALSO RELEASE COPIOUS GREEN HOUSE GASES THAT HASTEN MANKIND’S DEMISE. PEAT FIRES ARE NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO EXTINGUISH AND NEED SOAKING RAIN TO PUT OUT.
Expect a long haze because it is peat fire:
Because it is a peat fire that is largely underground and smoulders and is hard to extinguish you can expect an extended haze, there is little Indonesian authorities or anybody can do unless heavy rain falls.
To mankind it is a matter of clearing swamps to plant oil palm but it is like stirring a hornets’ nest because the peat underlying becomes a deadly source of smog and greenhouse gases.
FOR ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS AND HAS TRUE LOGIC, THE FACT THAT IT IS A PEAT FIRE THAT IS DIFFICULT TO DOUSE AND THIS IS A DRY SEASON, IT MEANS THE HAZE IS GOING TO PERSIST, FLARING UP AND SUBSIDING A BIT UNTIL THE BIG RAINS DOUSE IT OUT FOR ANOTHER YEAR.
MANKIND HAS STIRRED A HORNETS’ NEST CLEARING SWAMPS TO PLANT OIL PALM AND THIS SMOG AND GLOBAL WARMING WILL HAUNT MANKIND EVEN FOR A LONG TIME.
With peat, even small fires can create havoc:
Because it is a peat fire, even if primitive people or plantations start small fires, should those fires ignite the underlying peat they will run out of control to produce catastrophic smog.
IT IS THE MOVE TO PLANT OIL PALM MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CLEARING VAST TRACTS OF JUNGLE WITH UNDERLYING PEAT.
AND NOW THAT IT IS CLEARED AND THE PEAT DRIED OUT, IT IS LIKE MASSIVE WIDESPREAD UNDERGROUND TINDER THAT CAN CAUSE MASSIVE SMOG EVEN IF SOMEONE STARTS A SMALL FIRE THAT RUNS OUT OF CONTROL SOMEWHERE THAT IGNITES THE PEAT.
IT MAY NOT NECESSARILY NEED MASS BURNING TO CAUSE WIDESPREAD SMOG, JUST A SMALL FIRE THAT IGNITES THE PEAT CAN CREATE HAVOC THAT IS HARD IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP IN THE DRY SPELL.
BECAUSE IT IS PEAT, JUST A SMALL FIRE CAN CREATE HAVOC THAT SPREADS AND IS DIFFICULT TO STOP.
Peat produces more smoke than fire:
Because it is underground and poorly oxygenated, peat fires tend to produce more smoke than fire. If it was an open air fire more CO2 and less smog will be produced but because it is peat and underground, less fire and more smoke is generated.
THE CLEARING OF SWAMP WITH UNDERLYING PEAT IS LIKE A CURSE MANKIND HAS SET UPON HIMSELF FOR COLLECTIVE RECKLESSNESS AND GREED.
So who is to blame for the smog?
Peat fires produce a lot of smoke but little fire because they are underground and there is lots of peat in the cleared swamps of Sumatra.
The blame for the smog is the ORIGINAL clearing of swamps to plant oil palm that exposes a lot of peat and dried them out so that now they become a very dangerous annual fire and smog hazard that can be sparked by even small fires whether by smallholders or plantations.
ONCE EXPOSED THE MASSIVE DRIED PEAT BECOMES AN ANNUAL TINDERBOX WAITING TO BE IGNITED EVEN BY SMALL SCATTERED FIRES AND ONCE STARTED THEY PRODUCE MUCH MORE SMOKE THAN FIRE AND THEY ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO STOP BECAUSE THEY ARE UNDERGROUND AND SPREAD UNDERGROUND RATHER THAN SURFACE.
From an annual source of oxygen to annual source of smog:
Thus the verdant former swamps of Sumatra are converted by mankind’s wanton greed from an annual source of ‘fresh’ oxygen to an annual source of hazardous smog that would be hard to eradicate.
IN THE PAST, BREATHABLE OXYGEN ENAMATED FROM THE SWAMPS OF SUMATRA TOWARDS MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE, NOW THIS ANNUAL SUPPLY OF OXYGEN IS REPLACED BY SUFFOCATING SMOG, ‘THANKS’ TO MANKIND’S GREED.
It reflects mankind’s dense delusion that he even contemplates spending as an avenue to richness.
You never spend yourself to richness but poorness.
You spend a lot and are still rich if you have other sources of income that makes you rich even as you spend or if your spending is an investment on products that will earn more income.
SPENDING ON CONSUMPTION IS A WASTE OF MONEY THAT MAKES YOU POORER AND THE ONLY WAY A PERSON CAN SPEND AND YET BE RICHER IS IF HE HAS OTHER SOURCES OF INCOME THAT OUTSTRIPS HIS SPENDING AND THIS IS NOT SPENDING THAT MAKES HIM RICHER BUT OTHER INCOMES THAT MAKE HIM RICHER. IF HE SPENDS HIS MONEY ON THINGS THAT GIVE RETURNS GREATER THAN WHAT HE SPENT THEN IT WOULD MAKE HIM RICHER BUT A LOT OF CONSUMPTION EG ON IPHONES, CARS, LUXURY HOUSES AND OFFICES WILL NOT GIVE INCOME MORE THAN HE SPENT.
What they call spending to riches:
You can only spend yourself to riches (actually debt perceived as riches) based on borrowing, even repeated cycles of borrowing and re-depositing the same borrowed money until debts many times the wealth of the system happens and it totters on the verge of collapse.
Apparently a lot of the foreign money as the result of Fed reckless purchases of bonds flowed to China where it fuelled speculative spending and with the announcement the Fed is stopping printing, foreign money is exiting and this forces China to tighten.
I read that many Korean households are in serious debt trouble as a result of spending big on various things like property.
SPENDING TO RICHES IS A DANGEROUS ILLUSION CREATED BY BORROWING MONEY TO SPEND THAT BOOSTS THE ECONOMY AND THIS BORROWED MONEY CAN BE RECYCLED, LENT AND REDEPOSITED AND LENT EVEN MANY TIMES CREATING WEALTH OR DEBT BUBBLE THAT IS MANY TIMES THE WEALTH OF THE SYSTEM.
PEOPLE SEE CREDIT (BORROWING) FUELED AFFLUENCE AS WEALTH BUT FOR ONE WHO SEES CORRECTLY IT IS DEBT THAT GETS MORE MONSTROUS AND DANGEROUS. 
America too is spending itself to riches:
America printing USD instead of earning USD to fund its purchases from the world too is a form of keep spending causing ballooning debt to ‘riches’.
Americans are full of credit card and mortgage debts from spending to riches.
Many local governments in the US are in serious debt, insolvent from spending to riches.
Many even multinational companies are full of debts, dependent on refinancing to survive because they spend themselves to riches.
Debt and asset price inflation essential to spending to riches:
In order to spend to riches you need to borrow to increase your spending power and there must be asset price inflation that fosters the illusion you are getting richer.
To give more firepower to your spending you must borrow, lower interest rates to boost borrowing and there must be considerable asset price inflation of property and shares fuelled by the debt driven spending to give the illusion of spending to riches.
IN ORDER TO SPEND TO RICHES IT MUST BE BOOSTED BY BORROWING TO GIVE SPENDING MORE FIREPOWER AND MORE MONEY CHASING ASSETS GIVE RISE TO ASSET (PROPERTY) PRICE RISES THAT GIVES A SEMBLANCE OF WEALTH.
THUS SINGAPORE APPEARS VERY WEALTHY BECAUSE PROPERTY PRICES ARE VERY HIGH AND THIS SPURS PEOPLE TO SPEND MORE BY BORROWING MORE ON THE PERCEPTION THEY ARE NOW VERY RICH.
ASSET PRICE INFLATION IS NOT TRUE BUT A MIRAGE OF WEALTH.
SPENDING TO RICHES IS ALWAYS AN ILLUSION NEVER GENUINE AND IT IS CREATED BY A MUTUALLY REINFORCING SPENDING BASED ON BORROWING AND ASSET (PROPERTY) PRICE INFLATION GIVING A SEMBLANCE NOT TRUTH OF WEALTH.
Not necessarily the rain that clears the smog:
Unexpected substantial rain has fallen in Sri Damansara and it is still hazy through the rain. It is fallacious to assume it is the rain that washes away the smog, it may wash away larger particles but it may be the winds accompanying the rain that blows away the haze plus the cooling effect of the rain that alleviates.
IT MAY NOT BE SO MUCH THE RAIN BUT THE ACCOMPANYING WIND THAT BLOWS AWAY THE SMOG. HOWEVER AFTER SIZEABLE RAIN IT IS STILL HAZY.
Peat may be like a mosquito coil:
Peat may be like an underground mosquito coil, once lighted it glows and produces smoke but little or no fire and if it spreads underground it may be more difficult to detect and douse.
Why big companies are principal cause of the haze:
If it is true that smouldering dried peat is the perennial intractable dry season cause of haze then it is big companies with vast plantations that are the major even entire causes of the haze that blankets the region in suffocating toxic haze.
By their own admission big companies say 20% of the land they develop are given to locals and without their financial muscle, locals may not even be able to develop that 20% themselves and thus big companies are the major players in the oil palm industry and they may facilitate smallholders who would otherwise not have developed their smallholdings.
Oil palm plantations even when matured are the antithesis of the jungle that provides dense coverage and keeps the soil waterlogged even in the dry season because palms are spaced wide apart and the soil deliberately well drained to keep it dry and this provide an optimal condition for the sun to dry the soil and peat and the intentional drainage channels to promote health of palms ensure the water is drained away rather than retained and this is a recipe for ignited peat fires that smoulder and spread to cause additional fires far away.
WITH PEAT FIRES, YOU DO NOT NEED RECKLESS WIDESPREAD ANNUAL BURNING TO CAUSE MASSIVE SMOG BECAUSE EVEN CARELESS ISOLATED SMALL FIRES THAT RUN OUT OF CONTROL CAN IGNITE THE PEAT LIKE A MOSQUITO COIL AND IT THEN SPREADS INSIDIOUSLY TO IGNITE OTHER FIRES SOME DISTANCE AWAY UNTIL THE WHOLE LANDSCAPE BECOME AN INFERNO OR HELL OF FIRE AND SMOKE.
OIL PALM PLANTATIONS ARE THE ANTITHESIS OF JUNGLES WHOSE DENSE FOILAGE SHIELDS THE SOIL FROM THE DRYING SUN AND IT TRAPS EVEN WATERLOGS THE SOIL EVEN IN THE DRY SEASON. BY CONTRAST EVEN WHEN MATURE OIL PALMS ARE SPACED OUT AND THERE ARE DRAINAGE CHANNELS TO REMOVE WATER SO THAT THE SOIL IS EXPOSED TO THE DRYING SUN AND ANY MOISTURE IS DRAINED AWAY PROVIDING THE CRUCIAL CONDITIONS FOR PERENNIAL SMOG AND HAZE.
MAJOR COMPANIES MAY DENY CULPABILITY AND THINK THEY ARE SCRUPULOUS BUT IT MAY BE PARTLY DELUSION BECAUSE THEY BEAR HEAVY KARMA AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR DESTROYING VAST TRACKS OF SWAMPY LANDS EXPOSING UNDERLYING PEAT TO DRYING AND BURNING.
Widespread jungle clearance for oil palm in Sabah and Sarawak:
Natives are being forcibly evicted and vast tracts of forests cleared to plant oil palm in Sabah and Sarawak and anyone who thinks oil palm estates are an adequate replacement for jungles is deluded.
OIL PALM ESTATES CAN NEVER ADEQUATELY SUBSTITUTE FOR THE JUNGLES THAT ARE RECKLESSLY CUT DOWN BECAUSE OIL PALM ESTATES HAVE WELL SPACED TREES AND WELL DRAINED GROUND THAT MEANS THE SOIL IS EXPOSED TO DRYING AND MORE FLOODING WILL OCCUR BECAUSE THE RAIN IS NOT TRAPPED BUT FLOWS SWIFTLY TO RIVERS WHICH THEN OVERFLOW AND DAMAGE. AND IF THERE IS PEAT UNDERLYING (LIKELY) THEN IT IS LIKE DISTURBING A HORNET’S NEST THAT RETURNS ANNUALLY TO HAUNT THE PEOPLE.
IT IS BIG COMPANIES IN GREEDY SEARCH OF WEALTH THAT DESTROYS AND IT IS THE MASSES WHO SUFFER THE HAZES AND FLOODS.
Why the Cameron Highlands is getting hotter:
The massive destruction of rain forest and their replacement with vegetable farms is not an adequate substitute, the rain forests trap much moisture that vegetable farms cannot and this may be a reason why the Camerons’ is now much warmer.
The proximate and original cause of haze:
Even if it is smallholders’ fires that set the whole place on fire and haze, the ultimate cause is the clearing of the land and exposing of the soil to drying plus deliberate drainage of the soil in the name of oil palm plantations that is the cause of the smog.
And feckless oil plantations conscious of negative publicity may secretly hand over their cleared vegetation to neighbouring smallholders to burn by proxy to escape culpability.
Oil palm estates also promote floods:
Because oil palm estates are engineered to drain water away to keep the trees free from waterlogging, it means water is rapidly channelled away from estates into rivers making them more prone to flooding, This may be an important reason why more severe floods occur in many parts of the country.
The karma of commercial development:
The government is proud to highlight to you its endless ‘great’ efforts to develop the country and give you an ever higher quality of life. Rather than good and incurs merit, it is evil and incurs karma to be repaid as suffering.
A lot of development is totally unnecessary and for profligate consumption so that capitalists can make oversized profits and so it is a form of exploitation and depletion/destruction of resources.
There is no need for such hasty massive destruction of forests to plant oil palm and it is driven by greed to get rich quick and then oil palm producers will go on promotion campaigns to find and advocate new uses for palm oil (eg biodiesel).
IT IS NOT THAT WE ARE STARVING THAT WE NEED SUCH MASSIVE OIL PALM CULTIVATION BUT IT IS GREED AND THEN THEY WILL TRY TO FIND MARKET FOR THEIR OIL, PROMOTE MORE USES OF OIL PALM THAT LEAD TO ALL KINDS OF ABUSIVE PRACTICES.
ANYONE WHO THINKS NOTHING OF DEVELOPMENT, THINKS IT IS GOOD IS DELUDED. IT DOES NOT MEET WITH GOD’S APPROVAL WHICH IS FOR FRUGALITY, CONTENTMENT RATHER THAN DESIRE AND DEMAND FOR EVER MORE MATERIAL GOODS THAT KEEPS THE PERSON BONDED TO THIS WORLD OF DEATH AND SUFFERING.
IT IS BECAUSE OF THE HIGHER STANDARDS OF LIVING THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT PROVIDES THAT YOU BECOME ATTACHED TO YOUR LIVES HERE TO DIE AND RETURN HERE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND SO IT IS NOT GOOD BUT EVIL TO DEVELOP MATERIALLY RATHER THAN SPIRITUALLY.
Whoever promotes material or economic welfare is asking for karma:
Better you starve to death in destitution and go to heaven then you live fat as a pig in cosy comfort and languish in hell thereafter.
Anyone who advocates material welfare, to enjoy and make comfortable your life here is on the side of suffering and death and setting himself up for suffering not happiness after he dies. The Buddha advocates renunciation and Jesus said you should deny yourself and so anyone who dallies with this world, has found his life here, wants to feather his bed here has found death and suffering he thinks is life and happiness.
IF YOU THINK NOTHING OR IT IS GOOD TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL WELLBEING YOU ARE DELUDED BECAUSE IT IS THE PATH TO RUIN, TO ETERNAL SUFFERING AND DEATH AND A RETURN HERE.
Many developments not necessary and not good for anyone:
Oil palm estates are not even good for its developers because it brings terrible karma for them for the harm to the environment. It is not good for the people because it brings floods and haze that suffocates and it is not good for the environment in that it destroys habitats, kills many animals and plants.
NOT EVEN FOR THE DEVELOPERS ARE DEVELOPMENTS GOOD BECAUSE THEY ARE INCURRING TERRIBLE KARMA TO BE REPAID BY SUFFERING AND DEVELOPMENTS ARE UNNECESSARY AND ACTUALLY HARM THE PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. A GLUT OF OIL PALM PROMOTES EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION LEADING TO OBESITY AND THAT IS NOT GOOD.
Haze is just as bad after yesterday’s downpour:
The haze is just as bad today after yesterday’s unexpected downpour and getting out into the open even briefly from the air condition of my place, the air hits me, I immediately sense the disagreeable quality and difficulty in breathing.
IT IS NOT RAIN HERE THAT WILL CLEAR THE HAZE BUT RAIN IN THE SOURCE OF HAZE THAT WILL CLEAR IT AND IT MUST BE HEAVY ENOUGH TO DOUSE THE PEAT FIRES.
THIS HAZE HAS SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARDS BUT ORDINARY PEOPLE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
Thousands of hectares of crops in Dumai burnt:
He said that 1,000ha of pineapple farms and thousands of hectares of estates (in Dumai) had been razed, causing huge loses to smallholders.
It is unlikely far farmers deliberately burnt their crops and so these hectares of destroyed crops may reflect burning run out of control or it may be the land they were planted is laden with peat (as reporters mentioned) and small fires lit may spread via the peat to engulf everything else including crops.
Would farmers carelessly burn down their dear crops year after year?
Would you burn down your house year after year or after having been burnt once you would be much more careful, yet still you get burnt?
IT IS UNLIKELY SUMATRAN FARMERS HAD NOT LEARNT LESSONS FROM THE PAST AND DO NOT MIND HAVING THEIR CROPS DESTROYED BUT THE BLAZES MUST BE DESPITE THEIR EFFORTS TO PREVENT. THE REASON IS BECAUSE OF THE HAZARDOUS PEAT UNDERLYING THEIR CROPS.
THUS THE FACT THAT THE HAZE IS A PERRENIAL PROBLEM INDICATES THERE IS A TINDERBOX, PEAT IN THE LAND THAT MAKES IT VULNERABLE TO OUT OF CONTROL BLAZES.
Peat converts isolated careless burning into regional disasters:
Even if slash and burn featured in the regional burning disaster it must be despite precautions because nobody likes his crops to be burnt down to suffer big losses.
Thus it must be because slash and burn in some areas have spread out of control far and wide defeating efforts to restrict or put it out because the presence of peat defeats whatever efforts locals can muster to douse it out.
UNLESS PEOPLE ENJOY SEEING THEIR CROPS BURNT, SLASH AND BURN CAN RESULT IN SUCH REGIONAL DISASTER BECAUSE THEY SPREAD FROM BURNT AREAS OUT OF CONTROL AND SUCH SPREAD IS BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF PEAT THAT IS EASILY FLAMMABLE AND HARD TO DOUSE OFF.
My air purifier still works after 15 years:
I decided to try my dormant made in Canada console air purifier and it still works, I noticed the plates and wires are coated with thick fine soot.
There are two types of purifiers, one uses paper filters, mine works by charging the smoke and then using electrostatic plates to remove the dust.
Breathing better with air purifier:
I sense I breathe easier with the five seasons purifier. Many commercial air purifiers may not work, they do not really clean the air of smoke and so if you buy ordinary branded air cleaners like those made by Toshiba, Panasonic they may be useless. You need filters that can remove very small airborne particles and I think electrostatic filtration may be the cheapest only means.
Breathe less live longer better:
Smokers should not be bothered by the haze because they routinely administer themselves smoke and toxins far greater than the haze.
You can breathe essentially or you can breathe excessive more than actually required just as you can eat excessively. The reason you need to breathe is to intake oxygen and expel toxic waste CO2 but the air inhaled contains all sorts of poisonous pollutants like the current smog and so if you inhale minimally you will get less toxins, suffer less now and later as a result of lung damage and live longer happier.
But the breathing of ordinary people is beyond their control, it is automated, programmed, unconscious, way in excess of what is actually required.
The breathing of ordinary people is mindlessly rehashed automatically whilst they are occupied with the narrow affairs of the day, it has a substance and style of prolonging, changing speed and strength, they (greedily, emotionally) inhale more deeply and frequently than actually essential and thus inhale more atmospheric poisons to suffer more and die earlier. Emotions eg anxiety or fear and excitement intensify their breathing and this is always wasteful, increases inhalation and poison administration. Further they do a lot of useless, unnecessary work like dancing, exercise, singing, sports that mandate much higher breathing which thus increase their intake of atmospheric poisons.
A person who has no style and is mindful breathes unhurriedly, mindfully for the minimum amount. He consciously draws in a breath at constant speed and strength without prolonging at a sedate not rapid rate and he does not indulge in unnecessary activities like singing, dancing and sports that increases considerable his breathing needs nor is his breathing increased by stirred emotions (excitement, fear).
THE BREATHING OF ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE UNCONSCIOUS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL AND FAR MORE THAN ACTUALLY NEEDED AND SO THEY DRAW IN MORE ATMOSPHERIC TOXINS AND HAZE, SUFFER MORE NOW AND LATER. THERE IS A STYLE IN PROLONGING, CHANGING SPEED AND STRENGTH IN THEIR BREATHING THAT IS MORE RAPID AND DEEPER THAN NECESSARY, IN ADDITION THEIR BREATHING IS INCREASED EVEN CONSIDERABLY BY EXCITEMENT, ANXIETY AND THEY DO A LOT OF UNNESSARY WORK THAT RAISES THEIR BREATHING NEEDS AND SO THEY WILL BURN OUT FASTER.
SMOKERS SHOULD NOT BOTHER ABOUT THE HAZE, THEIR SMOKING HARMS THEM FAR WORSE THAN THE HAZE.