Chants of ‘Stop the Reclamation!’ ring out at Penang Youth Climate Strike

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Several dozen youths and activists gathered in Penang for a spirited 100-minute protest gathering in solidarity with the global Youth Strike for Climate protest.

The protest began at 5.10pm along busy Sungai Dua Road just outside the USM gate. Among the diverse crowd were youths, university students, a few lecturers, environmentalists, bicycle enthusiasts, veteran activists, international visitors to Penang – and even a barefooted poet.

Motorists and bus drivers honked in support, energising the crowd who had started off rather quietly. Full article on Airan website

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Song

Eating less meat is a surefire way to lower your carbon footprint. Beef and lamb are large sources of methane, a notorious global warming gas. Consider this: a single pound of beef takes over 5,000 gallons of water to generate. You don’t have to go vegan or vegetarian, but consider “Meatless Mondays” or abstaining whenever possible.

Konichiwa

Anil should encourage the readers to eat les meat si as tonprotect the earth.

Wei

what is one ton mee without the saliva inducing char siew….? one ton mee all the way, come what may..so said the kau beh kau bu joker…

tunglang

Talks like Shriek, sounds like Shriek, must be Shrieking!

rajraman666

I think so but his English a bit better.
People with multiple personality possible to change their voices.Won’t be suprised he the mask man.

rajraman.Only Anil can anwser who is he from IP address unless the multiple personality use multiple IP address.
Just ignore him Tunglang.Let him shriek all day long.

Shriek

We orso ignore tung land for his kau beh kau bu

Shriek

Try harder

Shriek

Try harder as you are mother of spinners

Wei

my kind very rarely eat beef or lamb….hehe

tunglang

People who really eat beef don’t spin or mock like you!

Shriek

Ah mohs are beefeaters so the yanks, Hans are spinners and mockers and south West Asians are angels?

rajraman666

Wei,
Which kind are you? Can gives in details since your “Kind” is rare

rajraman.Very curious about you kind.
Thank you Wei.

Shriek

Why not you Give details about yourself too?

Don Anamalai

Yes, eat less meat please. Moderation!
Today’s commercially bred animals like chicken and cows are fed with antibiotics and growth hormones – such chemicals will enter your body when you eat those animals!

Song

I was told … finger-licking ‘good’ chickens only bred for 21 days before slaughtered for frying. Growth hormones to speed up growth in 3 weeks?

tunglang

FYI. Some men who eat (fast food chicken) esp the chicken wings develop their breasts!
Hormonal cause effect?

Song

Hormones in the Cattle Industry

Milk Tea

Disagree! For every vegan, there are thousands times more newborn meat eaters per day. Should curb the huge population growth in some countries.
More humans = more carbon footprint.

Mah HS

Some religions do not allow family planning using condoms.

tunglang

Quietly, they held peaceful + mannered protests without resorting to uncivilised shriekings or malevolent he-he-he antics!
Syabas for more such protests!

Wei

hopefully they did not slow down disrupt traffic flow and public order. Busy road side is not place for such antics. there are better avenue. don’t yell, show some civility to go with your environmental high moral. o…perhaps some respect for democracy when majority want development with right balance of progress and conservation….hehe

Shriek

Hopefully no invite extremist and hateful view of kau beh kau bu.

Song

Earth Hour 2019 will be at 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm on
Saturday, 30 March.

Youth please switch off the air cond at least for that hour despite the hot weather, can or not?

Wei

only one hour? how can green fighter switch off only for one hour…should never touch that air conditioner…hehe

Song

Dr Mahathir said that Malaysian youths must understand that if they want more pay, they have to be more productive.

“If they are productive, they can have more pay, simply because they are productive through better education and training.

“But, simply because you are powerful, you have the union, you can go on strikes and destroy the whole economy.The end result is they will lose out,” he said.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/19/dr-m-to-employers-pay-workers-better-if-you-make-profits/#TKxwKHsRzXvBqPxO.99

Shriek

Like you kau beh kau bu

Shriek

But they kau beh kau bu

Milk Tea

Approving high end condo and reclamation land for high rise is their priority. People like Wei will tell them to not use car. He could not differentiate which is more harmful to the environment. A few cars or a man-made island (sands come from blowing up mountains) NOT VERY SMART.

Wei

ya…show us you can do without modern amenity and inventions that is harmful to the environment before you educate us about environment protection…if not you are just part of the system that contribute to the problem….hehe

Shriek

Sing land, hong land, and jap land orso not smart with man made islands too.

Song

Prices of houses in Penang have yet to go down despite the soft property market in the state.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/17/property-prices-stay-strong/

tunglang

Advice: Just don’t buy until prices crash down. Simple.

Wei

kau beh kau bu still thinking of buying…shouldn’t buy at all..don’t even think about it..

tunglang

Then don’t build & you can book a place in Tanjung Rambutan! There nobody cares how you he-he 24/7/365.
It’s a free market of supply & demand, idiot! Over build & burn your fingers.

Shriek

Now spinner talk free market. Spinner has free speech and developer cannot manufacture more?

Shriek

Tung land if no develop and build how to have tr for you?

Shriek

You yourself go and buy condo from developer. Developer build houses more modern, comfortable and most of cheaper than those in heritage area.

Wei

and he is so proud of his nephew ” doing great” in the construction industry….hehe

tunglang

Are you saying all developers are greedy? Pls check your brain for over spinning!

Shriek

See you are caught. You yourself and susu teh claim developers are greedy.

tunglang

Nobody object to building houses when it’s done not with greed of high price & when it’s not destroying the hills & environment. Dude!

Shriek

Tung land. Now you spin. Please tell your good friends especially susu teh

Shriek

Now spinning to say developers are okay. If anything suit you is okay. Angel

Song

How Burning Fossil Fuels Leads to Climate Change

Don Anamalai

Burning fossil has direct impact to climate change. But not sure how reclamation can impact weather or climate. Care to explain?

Song

Is This the End of the Automobile Industry?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-08-17/is-this-the-end-of-the-automobile-industry-video
In Germany—the birthplace of the modern automobile—carmakers are anticipating the day when people stop owning cars.

Sandy

Thank you Song for the educational video which I could share with my kids. Better be informed via education, not from protest.

Nvidia

The veganism fad might be the best thing to happen to human health since sanitation. Everyone who tries it or knows anyone who tries it will vividly understand that meat is essential for survival.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6812893/Eating-bones-brains-saved-Vegan-gave-plant-based-diet-killing-her.html

Mah HS

Is It Really Natural? The Truth About Humans and Eating Meat

https://www.peta.org/living/food/really-natural-truth-humans-eating-meat/

tunglang

Here’s one extreme Political Trader Party which thinks from the belly: ‘Dignity can be laid to rest over survival – it doesn’t put food on the table.’ Read: Yoursay: MCA can’t go it alone, it needs Umno https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/468539 My 2-cents: MCA feels proud to be back again as ‘macai’ on the call! To me it is as good as useless party which has no dignity whatsoever but the ‘hopefully’ back to addiction to ‘crumbs’ from UMNO even the beggars get better from the public. All its rhetorics are political salivas which smells like the dustbins. To the Chinese, this kind… Read more »

Milk Tea

More empty houses unoccupied, more ugly developments that tarnish the state of its beauty, more factories leaving, more taxes to pay. I call this as an assault and a big slap to Penangites like me. Keep selling those lands, keep building those condos, keep cutting those trees, keep on playing the victim race card to ignite anger among us.
DAP = Bunch … that want to rule everything.
Don’t delete my comment, Anil.

Shriek

Empty buses, ferries and only driver in cars tarnish and a slap to susu teh.

Wei

sounds very gelakan to me…hehe

tunglang

It’s all about Money! Money for state coffer from frenzied, unchecked, disintegrated, disaster-prone development in the name of financing the monstrous PTMP. Who cared since the 1st Botak Hill (off Bukit Gambier) was approved & then decried? by you know who! All the sandiwara antics of recalcitrants by both the CAT state gomen in cohort with some developers via Special Area Plans if not protested by NGOs & concerned Penangites would have been passed unnoticed & unilaterally declared as AOK-ed by then & now CM as silent-majority-approved! What’s there to spin like a Knee-Jerk that it sounds very Gelakan as… Read more »

Wei

hehe..there is no disaster …fearmonger

tunglang

You have mental issue laughing at serious problems???

Shriek

You orso have mental problem? Open your mouth also kau beh kau bu. I get mental problem from your kau beh kau bu.

Shriek

Yes money. Like you driving around looking for cheap one ton mee.

rajraman666

Milk tea,Why the guy always laugh at you?
Is something wrong with his mouth or his belly?

rajraman.Can you advised him to jump start his brain or check his belly properly.Do he high on laughing gas everyday?
By the way Anil still deleting comment? Are you Anil?
Why there no alert for follow up Comment Anil?
I tired to read everthing without follow up comment alert.

Wei

hehe…don’t worry, i am perfectly ok…o ya, do take care of your belly…your belly might help you think and reason, don’t just use it to store alcohol only…

rajraman666

I am a bit worry about you Wei.Since you said your brain is okay i take it as goodwill but do check up.

rajraman.By the way i eat 6 times a day.very little at a time.My belly well taken care.Not all Indian drinks alchohol idiot.I don’t take Alcohol,eat beef,mutton and pork.
If your brain ok,your check up okay then you are drunk.

Shriek

Lucky you can always eat and have soooo many times to eat. Lucky pg can cari makan any time.

Milk Tea

People with problems normally laugh at what they says.

rajraman666

You mean he have mental problem?

rajraman.No wonder Anil keep him to entertain in http://www.anilnetto.com
Anyway Anil – Thank you for the update comments via my email.
Hope you will talk about Malaysian problems rather than focusing too much on PENANG ONLY.Penang problems already cast in stone by the former Deity and his worshipper.Puppet CM now for the Deity.

Shriek

Why not you start the rolling Stone. No same kind as wei, tung land. Dirty Harry

Shriek

So all the comments raise by you are no problems as you do not laugh

tunglang

So you mean problems accompanied with laughs? Pls spin harder!!!

Shriek

Can’t you read yr good mate susu teh said it?

Shriek

So you and tung land no problem? Why kau beh kau bu? Please go and laugh at what you say to prove you do not have any problems.

tunglang

raj. LOL 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Wei

hehe…can’t help laughing at the stupidity of those moronic hater who kau beh kau bu every single day without end as if the whole world owe them a mountain and an ocean…..please lar..if you have mental problem, go see the psychiatrist lar..hehe

tunglang

he-he some more!!!

Shriek

Kau beh kau bu more!!

Shriek

If has mental problems how can he follow your advice to try harder? Unless you have mental problems too.

Shriek

As you say try harder unless you have mental problems and that is why you say try harder?

Wei

millions others support the creation of three beautiful island while at the same time give the ailing economy a vital boost , fund the transport master plan, providing jobs to millions of workers and indirectly lift the Government revenue so there will be more funding for these protesting university students and lecturer to enjoy…

Milk Tea

What kind of job for millions of worker?
FYI, 1 million is around 60% of Penang’s population.

Wei

ever heard of multiplier effect?…..maybe it’s time to educate yourself…hehe

Shriek

Is not a problem as you do not laugh

tunglang

Show proof of the millions, not spin like an idiot bluf!

Wei

hehe…when money flow, economy grow…I am about to ask you to google it up , but on second thought that is not environmental friendly as it consume electricity…er..maybe go ask the trees…

tunglang

The more you spin, the more idiot you seemed! Learn more from BossKu!

rajraman666

He talk from his belly buddy.
rajraman.How can he proof it.He pluck from the sky later and might gives you the figure in trillion.

tunglang

More like talk from his brown star!

Shriek

How can u disprove it? U pluck from the water?

Shriek

Conversely how you disprove it. If you can will make Malaysia proud. Noble prize in econ just as the previous prize claim there is multiplying effect

Shriek

Show proof there is no millions.

Shriek

Why not you orso show proof there is no multiplying effect?

Shriek

Show proof of no millions….

Mah HS

Penang says it monitors, acts against illegal waste dumping activities
https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/141887

Sadhu Maran

Can explain how reclamation affect climate change?

Shriek

Activity shows there jobs. People can eat 6 times a day. If no activity, no need to do check and audit account.

Black Mage

Asia is growing. Literally. From Malaysia to Dubai, luxury developments are rising on artificial islands and coastlines. Everybody wins – except the local sea life and the fishermen who depend on it.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/02/cities-from-the-sea-the-true-cost-of-reclaimed-land-asia-malaysia-penang-dubai

Shriek

New fishing methods. Man used to hunt. Now they rear even tigers and crocodiles. Man used to walk. Then comes bechah. Why no kau beh kau bu when peng land lang take buses, kapchais and destroy the livelihood of bechah riders? Now grab and uber orso robbing the taxis? When will be a demonstration?

tunglang

Everybody wins?
Then it must be better than Heaven! But I don’t see any.
One glaring example is HK where average earners stay in ‘chicken coop’ housing fit for animals just trying to win as you would say!

Shriek

Same as those stay in peng land island as compare to those on mainland. Taiping houses even bigger

rajraman666

Just happen to visit again one country for 4 days.The last i went i think 15 years ago. 15 years ago the beach was clean,the mountain is very cool but overdevopment by cutting hills and overbuild this place too hot. I spoke to few roadsite old lady and man who earn a living by selling nice mouth watering food but they told me over development make their life miserable.Less tourist less income for them. What left they told me more empty hotels,jobless youth,less income overall.Its more like desth town. rajraman.I cut short my holiday by hours there since i don’t… Read more »

Shriek

Pg been very good to you. Have $€€¥¥ to makan angin. You still eat 6 times a day there?

Shriek

15 years ago. No internet, no smart phone, can see old and young. Now if no job then can see old people. Young gone to bigger cities to look for better jobs. They are more educated. The older how to change job? They are farmers, or running small business.

rajraman666

Are you getting old and tired Anil?
In email alert the comment reply was there but went i click its takes almost 10 t0 20 minutes to appear in your blog the same reply.Even my reply to others not in sequence.

rajraman.I am old already Anil but my eye and brain very alert Anil.Delay telecast or your website hang?Even my posting doesn’t appear unless you have deleted.I know you 11 years ago.You don’t delete my comments or you are a change man now.

Mah HS

An illegal plastic dumpsite the size of six football fields has been uncovered in Machang Bubok, near Bukit Mertajam.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/20/only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/#1gRKpbEfw0Wxs0oq.99

Will our youth carry out their protest there?

Shriek

Why tung land and susu teh orso carry protest?

Shriek

Will susu milk, tung land and his amigos make noise?

Penang Waterfall Ranger

Youthful changers deserve to be charged up for their efforts. In future someone can sponsor them good food like banana leaves curries after the peaceful demonstration.

Can be from among these favourites :

http://penangfoodie.com/8-banana-leaf-restaurants-in-penang-that-are-so-good-you-cant-be-leaf-it/

tunglang

Cheng Beng is around the corner & graveyards get burnt!
No need guessing why the dried weeds in the graveyards esp in United Hokkien Cemeteries (Paya Terubong + Batu Lancang) get burn annually!
Voluntary combustion or a work of some irresponsible fire starters… ?
Bomba is too obliging to dose out these fires. Should slap a hefty fine (Rm50,000) for each fire before Cheng Beng.
The mindless burning is actually contributing to the present heat wave.

Mah HS

Just need to burn one piece of hell note of billion dollar denomination.

IT.Scheiss

All the best in your opposition to the three artificial islands and other “developments” in Penang. Meanwhile, down here, we have our own battles to fight against local authorities, which have been under a Pakatan state government since GE12, 2008. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2262002107153807&id=411551155532254 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2262943127059705&id=411551155532254 The above two commentaries above relate to further development in this issue in the article below. https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2018/12/18/residents-fear-another-highrise/ Last week, some of our residents submitted an objection to this proposed development to the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) and attended a press conference held by our ADUN Y.B. Rajiv Rishyakaran at the site. He had told us that he… Read more »

Shriek

Has more apartments so that more living along the mal_thai border can migrate to Pj just like you.