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Birth defects in China’s Shanxi province show the human price of coal.

TEN-year old Yilong is already a statistic.

Born at the centre of China’s coal industry, the boy is mentally handicapped and is unable to speak. He is one of many such children in Shanxi province, where coal has brought riches to a few, jobs for many, and environmental pollution that experts say has led to a high number of babies born with birth defects.

Experts say coal mining and processing has given Shanxi a rate of birth defects six times higher than China’s national average, which is already high by global standards.

“They looked normal when they were born.

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Ever wonder why are we, Sandakan citizen fighting so hard against the Coal Fired Power Plant? Take some time to read the Powerpoint slides/presentation to understand further.

Also, the Coal Fired Power Plant can be replaced with other alternatives eg: Solar and Wind Energy instead of coal that can destroy the nature of Sandakan!

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"Teach your children
what we have taught ours, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life;
he is merely a strand in it.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors;
we borrow it from our children."

Chief Seattle – A great leader of the Native American Suquamish Tribe

Brothers & Sisters,

I was saddened to read the latest news on Datuk Raymond Tan’s meeting with DPM Najib & Tenaga Chairman Leo Moggie (http://dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=61628) and the verbal diarohea of how the government is duty-bound to provide electricity to the people. They are diverting from the essentials – They were talking about alternative and ‘best’ sites instead of talking about alternative or best source of power.

I am of the opinion that some people have brains that has ceased to function after entering the kingdom called POLITICS. They talk and talk but never listen.

Whats happening is a result of electing arrogant and selfish politicians who are corrupted to the core. And there are some slaving servants who are are so hard-up wanting to earn their bread and butter that they will swear upon their mother’s grave that the government is right – sometimes even before they have heard all of it.

Sandakanians -  STAY UNITED! Your power lies in YOUR VOTE! Use it wisely the next time around.

Cheers,
SM Muthu

Take time to reflect on these meaningful quotes:

Remember in a democracy –

The people shouldn’t be afraid of their government, The government should be afraid of its people.

When a government starts telling the people whats right and wrong, the people are in great danger.

My observation and readings of history tells me that most bad governments are the result of too much power.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. Michael Bakunin

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