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Myanmar cyclone kills at least 22,000; toll still rising -- 41,000 missing - The Black Hole discussion forum
Over 20,000 are dead thus far, according to official estimates and the number could climb substantially higher as more than 40,000 missing are accounted for slowly in the mostly primitive nation run by a backward military junta.
This could begin to approach the sorts of numbers we saw die in the Boxing Day Tsunami....and the response from the West could be a crucial factor in keeping those still at risk, alive and safe from further harm
This is an opportunity to prove our good will to people in a nation with a considerable Muslim population as well....
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Such a horrific event.
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Indeed. The sheer loss of life is incomprehensible and from a storm with such relatively modest wind speeds!
It was the incredible size and power of the storm, with a very broad area of hurricane force winds, as well as the angle of attack which produced an extremely intense storm surge....inundating whole communities, including one township that lost 10,000 people and almost everyone else is missing
Just boggles the mind.
I have always been awestruck by the might and unstoppable beauty of intense hurricanes, being a New Englander we get them but only when they are the extreme end of their life cycle as hurricane force storms it's very rare that we get a true "killer" up here.
Obviously, this is one of those nightmare scenarios that hurricane aficionados are always warning the world about -- it doesn't take super intense winds, in fact it doesn't even need to be hurricane force!
Storm surge and other water phenomena are what do 95% of the killing.
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More than 1 million are now homeless and they're saying that the death toll is upwards of 100,000.
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Ya know ... as cold and heartless as this will sound ..
I ... just ... don't ...
Give ... a ... shit ....
Any more ... I don't ...
It's a culling of the herd ....
Algorians should be ectastic for the reduction of humans carbon foot print ....
Darwinsim ... luck of the draw shit happens ....
Feces occurs ... Juntas For Humanity ...
Gives Jimmy "Mr. Malaise" Carter something to do when he's not feeding aid to Hamas ...
100,000 moosies can't vote Obama Hussien via absentee ballot ....
The UN demands $700Million while sitting on $2.12 BILLION in food aid ....
I don't care any more ...
Honest .... I simply don't give a shit ...
They hate US ...
That's what the world and the leftists tell US ....
They hate US ....
OK ... we HEAR YOU ....
Good luck ... fare thee well ...
Bon voyage .... bien venidos ....
Run faster next time taaaa ...
Cya ... later ...
NOT MY AMERICAN FUCKIN PROBLEM ANYMORE ....
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What a terrible nightmare
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While I *still* don't care about all this THIS just pisses me off ...
And I mean right off the scale ....
Propagandizing your own people's misery amid a massive disaster for your own fuckin political gain ...
This isn't a military junta ruling Myanmar ...
It's a wing of the DNC ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354885,00.html
Myanmar Junta Use Brazen Propaganda in Post-Cyclone Referendum Aimed at Solidifying Control
Saturday, May 10, 2008
YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign.
In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed.
Human rights organizations and dissident groups have bitterly accused the junta of neglecting disaster victims in going ahead with the vote, which seeks public approval of a new constitution.
The referendum came just one week after Cyclone Nargis pounded the Irrawaddy delta, leaving more than 65,000 people dead or missing.
Nearly 2 million others were left homeless or in need of food, shelter and medicine.
Aye Aye Mar, a 36-year-old homemaker, looked frightened when asked if she thought anyone would vote against the referendum.
"One vote of 'No' will not make a difference," she whispered, her eyes darting around to see if anyone was watching.
Then she raised her voice to declare: "I'm saying 'Yes' to the constitution."
Though international aid has started to trickle in with two more planes organized by the U.N.
World Food Program landing at Yangon's airport Saturday almost all foreign relief workers have been barred entry into the isolated nation.
The junta says it wants to hand out all donated supplies on its own.
Long lines formed in front of government centers, where minuscule rations of rice and oil were being distributed.
Elsewhere, people clustered on roadsides hoping for handouts.
The words "Help us!" were written in chalk on the side of one home.
"Please, don't wait too long," said Ma Thein Htwe, 49, who waited with dozens of other women and children at a monastery in Kungyangon for her ration of rice.
Ko Zaw Min, 27, said not enough aid was reaching his community.
Each family was given just over a pound a day.
"I want to build my home where it used to stand, in the field over there," said the farmer, who lost his 9-year-old son and a 1-month-old baby in the disaster.
"But I have nothing."
Despite international appeals to postpone the constitutional referendum, voting began Saturday in all but the hardest hit parts of the country.
As lines formed, state-run television continuously ran images of top generals including junta leader, Senior Gen.
Than Shwe, handing out boxes of aid at elaborate ceremonies.
"We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on the side of aid shipments from Asia, saying this was a gift from them and then distributing it in their region," said Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, which campaigns for human rights and democracy in the country.
"It is not going to areas where it is most in need," he said in London.
It has been 18 years since the last poll, and many people had no idea how to vote.
Some asked each other or officials, "Where do I go?" or "What do I do?" as they walked into curtained booths to cast their ballots.
Myanmar has been ruled by military regimes since 1962.
The current junta seized power in 1988, throwing out the country's last constitution.
The referendum seeks public approval of a new one, which the generals say will be followed in 2010 by a general election.
Both votes are elements of what the junta calls its "roadmap to democracy."
But the proposed constitution guarantees 25 percent of parliamentary seats to the military and allows the president to hand over all power to the military in a state of emergency elements critics say defy the junta's professed commitment to democracy.
It also would bar Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of the country's pro-democracy movement, from public office.
The military refused to honor the results of the 1990 general election won by her National League for Democracy party.
Some 27 million of the country's 57 million people were eligible to vote, although balloting was delayed for two weeks in the areas hardest hit by the May 3 cyclone.
For many it was hard to think of anything but the storm that tore apart so many lives.
State media say 23,335 people died and 37,019 are missing from Cyclone Nargis.
International aid organizations say the death toll could climb to more than 100,000 as conditions worsen.
Heavy rain forecast in the next week was certain to exacerbate the misery.
Despite obstacles put in place by the military junta, some aid was arriving.
The United Nations has sent several planes and trucks loaded with relief supplies, even though the junta took over its first two air shipments.
Aid flown in Saturday on flights organized by the WFP was quickly released to the agency described as "good news" by spokesman Marcus Prior in Bangkok, Thailand.
The military rulers also have agreed to let a U.S.
Cargo plane bring in supplies on Monday, but foreign disaster experts were still being barred entry.
The U.N.
Refugee agency said it sent its first aid convoy by land into Myanmar on Saturday and began airlifting 110 tons of shelter supplies from its warehouse in Dubai.
Two trucks carrying more than 20 tons of tents and plastic sheets for some 10,000 cyclone victims crossed into the country from northwestern Thailand, said the U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees.
"This convoy marks a positive step in an aid effort so far marked by challenges and constraints," said Raymond Hall, UNHCR's representative in Thailand.
"We hope it opens up a possible corridor to allow more international aid to reach the cyclone victims."
A total of 23 international agencies were providing aid to people in the devastated areas, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N.
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
But a large number of organizations still were awaiting government clearance for more aid shipments, staff and transport.
"It's a race against the clock," Byrs said.
"If the humanitarian aid does not get into the country on a larger scale, there's the risk of a second catastrophe," she said, adding that people could die from hunger and diseases.
Health experts have warned there was a great risk of diarrhea and cholera spreading because of the lack of clean drinking water and sanitation.
Children, including those orphaned by the storm, face some of the greatest risks.
"The fact that there are people we still haven't gotten to is very distressing to all of us.
We don't know how many that is," Tim Costello, president of the aid agency World Vision-Australia, said by telephone from Myanmar's largest city, Yangon.
"The people are all exposed to the elements, and they are very, very vulnerable."
In the badly hit town of Labutta, family members were forced to use rusty sewing needles to close wounds at a hospital where no doctors or supplies were visible.
One man lay dying from a lack of care after his foot was cut off in the cyclone.
On the outskirts of Labutta, 12 people were crammed into one tent pitched on a rice field.
They were the only survivors from the village of Pain Na Kon and had fruitlessly searched Labutta for family members.
"We are family now.
We are from the same place.
We are together," said U Nyo, one of the survivors, his eyes red from tears and fatigue.
"We need food. There isn't enough space in the town so we decided to stay here."
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I'm pretty much at the point where....you don't want the help?
Fine. Next!
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What "next" ... I'm sick of hearing how the world hates US ...
Fuck em all ... if you want our help then you can ask ...
Enough volunteering to save the bitches of the 3rd world ....
I'm not giving shit to anyone anymore ...
If you want our help then ask ....
We'll take it up in committee and get back to you ....
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Just handover the $700Million to the UN and stop moaning like a little girly, the USA played a big part in the creation of the UN..!
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