POWER TO THE PENAN

THE BRAVE AND HONOURABLE PENAN

Hundreds of Penan armed with spears and blowpipes have set up new blockades deep in the Borneo jungles, escalating their campaign against logging and palm oil plantations.

The Penan, indigenous people from Malaysia's state of Sarawak, manned a blockade and displayed banners and held spears and blowpipies to challenge vehicles from timber and plantation companies in Long Nen.

POWER TO THE PENAN!

This land is their land, the indigenous people, such as the Panan and other native tribes, should be commended and honoured for their determination and steadfastness in standing up for their inalienable fundamental human rights.

Mr Jok Jau Evong from Friends of the Earth in Sarawak, was reported as saying:

“This is the last chance for them to protect their territory. If they don't succeed, there will be no life for them, no chance for them to survive.”

Mr Alah Beling, headman of Long Belok settlement, which is a cluster of wooden huts which are home to 298 people and are reachable only by a long suspension bridge, near where one of the barricades has been built, reportedly said:

"The forest was once our supermarket, but now it's hard to find food, the wild boar have gone".

To read a full news report, dated 23.08.2009, on this issue please click HERE

and HERE for a belated, (24.08.2009) but more detailed, report from the Star Malaysia.

Deus et natua non faciunt frusta

God and nature do not work together in vain

Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane

Dam Sarawak

Does Sarawak still have an all powerful White [Haired] Raja?


These videos of 101 East from Al Jazeera English are candid and revealing, judge for yourself, here they are.

PART ONE




and is PART TWO, an interview with James Masing, listen and learn!!!!



You can see the original sources and all the comments about the videos: HERE & HERE

Quid novi?


What's new?



O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum!


An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf!

All of Malaysia is Not for Sale, including Sarawak

This country belongs to its RAKYAT, not political parties!

Poster and footnote thanks to mob1900



"Politicians love visible beneficiaries and invisible victims."



- Dr. Walter Williams on WABC-AM 31 October 2003

"When will the world wake up and realize that most politicians, especially in the poorest countries of the world, are nothing more than glorified gangsters who view government as simply a fiercely-guarded monopoly on every form of compulsion and extortion to be perpetrated in a specific geographical area?

Why do you think the largest amounts of 'foreign aid' extracted from the gullible diplomats of wealthier countries wind up in those politicians' pockets or Swiss bank accounts, despite all the virtuous-sounding rhetoric?"

-Bert Rand

POSCO eyes Sarawak, watch out for air and water pollution, destruction of the natural environment and loss of flora and fauna

Will this be yet another nail in Sarawak's coffin?

Some are undoubtedly going to get even richer if this plan by Pohang Iron and Steel Company, of South Korean is allowed to proceed will-nilly.

See this recent news report taken from the international marine publication ‘Fairplay’.

"Now POSCO eyes Sarawak

THE WORLD’S third-largest steel producer, POSCO of South Korea, is keenly eyeing the vast economic potential of the eastern Malaysian state of Sarawak, now that the company’s Vietnam plans have come to grief.

South Korea’s ambassador to Malaysia Yang Bong Ryull told the Bernama News Agency:

“POSCO is showing big interest in Sarawak.” Yang was briefing reporters after attending a briefing by senior Sarawak Energy officials in Kuching.

Vietnam government-owned shipbuilder Vinashin recently decided to withdraw from a deal with POSCO for a $3.5Bn integrated steel mill plant.

But POSCO has reportedly submitted a feasibility study to build a different steel plant in central Vietnam. Korean sources close to POSCO said that it awaits Vietnamese government approval for a plant with first-phase production of 1.8M tonnes of steel a year."

Patria est communis omnium parens

- Our native land is the common parent of us all.