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2008-05-07 Southeast Asia

US diplomat: 100,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone

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Posted by tu3031 2008-05-07 14:37|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 HMMMMM, Asia-Pacific "Earth Changes" + Guam.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-07 19:20|| 2008-05-07 19:20|| Front Page Top

#2 12.8 million more too go too the military. don't give em shit

Posted by sinse 2008-05-07 20:58|| 2008-05-07 20:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been to Burma three times - it is a land time forgot. There will never be a true accounting of the missing and dead and the junta doesn't care. I suspect they are withholding aid so they can figure out how to a) keep journalists out and b) how to siphon off as much of it as possible. Bet the ChiComms are delivering stuff though.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2008-05-07 21:00|| 2008-05-07 21:00|| Front Page Top

#4 BLOOMBERG > MYANMAR DISASTER RESPONSE [read - lack of same] MAY STOKE BACKLASH AGZ MILITARY RULERS. Popul already suffering from high food prices, etc.

OTOH, RUMORMILLNEWS > EVENTS IN HUMAN/WORLD HISTORY LINKED TO SOLAR FLUCTUATIONS. Lack of SUNSPOT ACTIVITY [Cycle "24"?] = NO FOOD = NO ECON-PRODUC ACTIVITIES = MASS MIGRATIONS, WAR(S) CONFLICT(S) and INVASION(S), INTRIGUES AND OTHER MAYHEMS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-07 21:44|| 2008-05-07 21:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Does China regularly send aid when disaster strikes? I don't recall any help for Indonesia after the tsunami, or for Pakistan, or for the regular disasters that have become "climate" in Africa.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-07 21:48|| 2008-05-07 21:48|| Front Page Top

#6 trailing wife: It's in Chinese interests to do so in this case, just as they aid the North Koreans. Myanmar is their back door. Remember the Burma Road.

Posted by Pete Stanley 2008-05-07 22:29|| 2008-05-07 22:29|| Front Page Top

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