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Share your thoughts on the deadly cyclone in Myanmar and its aftermath.
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Tim Heinemann of Laguna Beach does work in Burma/Mayanmar and was there during the cyclone. He is there now and continues to help the people with contacts in Thailand . Please check His website and blog and contact him directly via WIN:
http://www.worldwide-impact-now.org/
http://www.blog.worldwide-impact-now.org/
His wife is praying for his safety along with our Christian Science Society members in San Juan Capistrano and throughout the world. (csinsanjuancapistrano.com )
The Burma disaster is worthy of prayerful and financial support. It shows that dictators cannot stop caring hearts.
2. The Burmese government only to be blamed for their dying people. The U.N. is doing their best to secure any huminitarian reliefs to their country, but if their government refuses to accept help from the world, so be it, let them die slowly.
3. Personally, I think the Bush people are just happy to have something look worse than Katrina, though when you know the resources our nation has compared with Myanmar/Burma's. And I can see how the regime, after such talk from the Bush family, thought that relief efforts could form a spearhead for regime change.
4. ... Where's the justice? How can one elevate the suffering of the Burmese over the victims of Saddam's multi-decade tyranny? The hypocrisy is sickening. Submitted by: J Vincett. 5:16 PM PDT, May 9, 2008 It's not hypocrisy. It's chauvinistic knee-jerk Pavlovian idiotic response that has been ingrained in the racist masses. Hypocrisy is calling the response from a third-world country inadequate, with much of New Orleans still in devastation and the US refugees still choking from formaldehyde in FEMA's gas chambers.
5. "The Burmese government does not have the aircraft or the infrastructure to deliver the aid. Neither does the UN. The US does. Time is of the essence. The US can coordinate massive movement of food and material and set up hospitals. They can also set ships offshore and treated victims there. The effectiveness was shown after the 2004 tsunami. Submitted by: Kelly M. Bray 10:43 AM PDT, May 10, 2008" Wow I must have blinked because I didn't see any of this during Katrina. Impressive claims, dubious results --- just like those lose weight ads.
6. "After the situation improves, the military leaders should be tried at the Hague Court of International Justice for crimes against humanity. .... Submitted by: tara 6:07 PM PDT, May 10, 2008" Unfortunately there's a long line at the International Court. The Myanmarese generals have to wait until Bush is processed for various unjustified invasions and hundreds of thousands of deaths that ensued.
7. Some might be covertly planning to topple the Burmese military government with rumors like ‘Americans are coming!!! Americans are coming’ when they see the U.S, France, Britain navy warships, the buzzing military aircrafts and helicopters. (One of its earlier dynasties collapsed due to rumors that its enemy troops Sagaw Karens were coming to the capital.) In Mae Saout, Thailand, “thousands of Burmese exiles and refugees were excited when they saw a US helicopter flying above them on Saturday…” (Gordon Lubold, U.S. helicopters cause stir in Thai town on Burma border, Yahoo News, Washington, D.C, May 12, 2008, 4:00 a.m.)
8. According to the official accounts -- as of 12:07 p.m. New York Time, May 12, 2008 – 33,000 people died and 29,770 people are missing. (An increase in the number of deaths from the earlier accounts and decrease in the number of the missing indicate that some 5,000 people unaccounted for earlier have been found dead. No more change (or gap) in the number of deaths and the missing indicates that most of the storm-hit areas have been covered and accounted for.)
9. Just who are you NYEINC??? Could you be one of the the Generals???? I sure would'nt want to be in your shoes when your times up!!!!!!!!! Cardog
10. It's sad that UN, an organization that represents the whole world can't or won't do anything to help the dying people of Myanmar while making excuses such as the generals didn't give them the permission to do anything.One could only ask what kind of operations it is doing. This organization is supposed to represent the whole world. I really want to ask the question "does the whole world give indifference to the suffering of the burmese or the whole world just fears a bunch of dictators? What is it? If the loss of over 100,000 burmese life does not compel the United Nations, a world body, to act in this information age, what does? KB
Submitted by: Carolyn in San Diego
2. The Burmese government only to be blamed for their dying people. The U.N. is doing their best to secure any huminitarian reliefs to their country, but if their government refuses to accept help from the world, so be it, let them die slowly.
Submitted by: L.A. Watcher
3. Personally, I think the Bush people are just happy to have something look worse than Katrina, though when you know the resources our nation has compared with Myanmar/Burma's. And I can see how the regime, after such talk from the Bush family, thought that relief efforts could form a spearhead for regime change.
Submitted by: Bill Lenner
4. ... Where's the justice? How can one elevate the suffering of the Burmese over the victims of Saddam's multi-decade tyranny? The hypocrisy is sickening. Submitted by: J Vincett. 5:16 PM PDT, May 9, 2008 It's not hypocrisy. It's chauvinistic knee-jerk Pavlovian idiotic response that has been ingrained in the racist masses. Hypocrisy is calling the response from a third-world country inadequate, with much of New Orleans still in devastation and the US refugees still choking from formaldehyde in FEMA's gas chambers.
Submitted by: Administrator at the Hague
5. "The Burmese government does not have the aircraft or the infrastructure to deliver the aid. Neither does the UN. The US does. Time is of the essence. The US can coordinate massive movement of food and material and set up hospitals. They can also set ships offshore and treated victims there. The effectiveness was shown after the 2004 tsunami. Submitted by: Kelly M. Bray 10:43 AM PDT, May 10, 2008" Wow I must have blinked because I didn't see any of this during Katrina. Impressive claims, dubious results --- just like those lose weight ads.
Submitted by: Administrator at the Hague
6. "After the situation improves, the military leaders should be tried at the Hague Court of International Justice for crimes against humanity. .... Submitted by: tara 6:07 PM PDT, May 10, 2008" Unfortunately there's a long line at the International Court. The Myanmarese generals have to wait until Bush is processed for various unjustified invasions and hundreds of thousands of deaths that ensued.
Submitted by: Administrator at The Hague
7. Some might be covertly planning to topple the Burmese military government with rumors like ‘Americans are coming!!! Americans are coming’ when they see the U.S, France, Britain navy warships, the buzzing military aircrafts and helicopters. (One of its earlier dynasties collapsed due to rumors that its enemy troops Sagaw Karens were coming to the capital.) In Mae Saout, Thailand, “thousands of Burmese exiles and refugees were excited when they saw a US helicopter flying above them on Saturday…” (Gordon Lubold, U.S. helicopters cause stir in Thai town on Burma border, Yahoo News, Washington, D.C, May 12, 2008, 4:00 a.m.)
Submitted by: nyeinc
8. According to the official accounts -- as of 12:07 p.m. New York Time, May 12, 2008 – 33,000 people died and 29,770 people are missing. (An increase in the number of deaths from the earlier accounts and decrease in the number of the missing indicate that some 5,000 people unaccounted for earlier have been found dead. No more change (or gap) in the number of deaths and the missing indicates that most of the storm-hit areas have been covered and accounted for.)
Submitted by: nyeinc
9. Just who are you NYEINC??? Could you be one of the the Generals???? I sure would'nt want to be in your shoes when your times up!!!!!!!!! Cardog
Submitted by: cardog
10. It's sad that UN, an organization that represents the whole world can't or won't do anything to help the dying people of Myanmar while making excuses such as the generals didn't give them the permission to do anything.One could only ask what kind of operations it is doing. This organization is supposed to represent the whole world. I really want to ask the question "does the whole world give indifference to the suffering of the burmese or the whole world just fears a bunch of dictators? What is it? If the loss of over 100,000 burmese life does not compel the United Nations, a world body, to act in this information age, what does? KB
Submitted by: khar