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May 11, 2008

250,000 deads will be the price for Burma's eventual freedom from the evil generals?

MILITARY-RULED Burma, among the globe's poorest and most authoritarian nations, is reeling from a natural disaster of such magnitude that both the people's suffering and political aftershocks are certain to persist long after the last emergency aid has been doled out.

As bloated bodies are counted and survivors face disease and hunger in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, dramatic scenarios are foreseen in a country that has changed little since an army coup 46 years ago.

These range from a revolt led by disenchanted army officers to the specter of the entrenched, xenophobic junta allowing thousands more to perish rather than risk its grip on power by opening gates to the outside world.

"If a split in the Burmese military between reformist and hard-line elements doesn't occur now, it will never occur," said Donald M Seekins, a Burma expert at Okinawa's Meio University.

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#1
May 11, 2008
 
This is not an option this is the pyscho's
from the World Community and CFR on another invasion.

Is It Time to Invade Burma?By ROMESH RATNESAR
Sun May 11, 10:30 AM ET

The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the inaccessibility of the stricken areas and the poor state of Burma's infrastructure and health systems mean that number is sure to rise. With as many as 1 million people still at risk, it is conceivable that the death toll will, within days, approach that of the entire number of civilians killed in the genocide in Darfur.

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So what is the world doing about it? Not much. The military regime that runs Burma initially signaled it would accept outside relief, but has imposed so many conditions on those who would actually deliver it that barely a trickle has made it through. Aid workers have been held at airports. U.N. food shipments have been seized. U.S. naval ships packed with food and medicine idle in the Gulf of Thailand, waiting for an all-clear that may never come.

Let the Military in Burma do away with the leaders
Again this lays at the feet of Suu Kyi who has watched her people die. She is not a leader

“Are the martinis ready yet?”

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May 11, 2008
 
All the junta leaders and their kids will look like fat little Buddhas when this all ends. A depraved paranoic regime that has just foisted a referendum on the people legitimizing the junta's rights to rule de facto.
A very sad situation.
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May 11, 2008
 

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I heard on the news today that the their embasy in Thiland has aid workers lined up to get visas... but its a national holiday in Burma this weekend. So the embassy staff is taking a 4 day holiday. Their people are dying and they are taking a holiday.

It's pretty obvious what is going on here. The gov of Burma wants those people dead... nature is doing for them what their Army did not finish.

And if anyone tries to go in there, China has its Army ready to fight them off.

Nice going Burma and China.... your leaders are monsters.
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May 11, 2008
 
North Korea and Burma are the satellite rogue states of China marching steadily towards building an enormous empire world have never yet seen.

With 2 billion population by 2030, it will surpass Ancient Roman Empire, Recent British Empire, or even The Current American Empire.

As long as the people of world are buying cheap Chinese made products, that Long March towards global domination will be unchecked.

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May 11, 2008
 
Hla Moe wrote:
North Korea and Burma are the satellite rogue states of China marching steadily towards building an enormous empire world have never yet seen.
With 2 billion population by 2030, it will surpass Ancient Roman Empire, Recent British Empire, or even The Current American Empire.
As long as the people of world are buying cheap Chinese made products, that Long March towards global domination will be unchecked.
What sustains life?
Water and thereafter food.
Most of Asia has water that is so polluted that no amount of purification will make any difference.
Food?
China is already outsourcing for grains and other stuff from other countries.
The idea that they will dominate is interesting, but not likely.
Without pure potable water they are toast. Without pure water, all the fish farming is toast.
Without an adequate supply of water at home their agraian society withers. They already are trying to pump water from the south to the north.
The potable water issue applies as well to India, Malasia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and others.
Water and food will be the root of the next great conflict, as it already is in drought stricken parts of Africa.
And what is clear as well, is that those that are have nots will have rioting, the water and food will not get to the oppressed, and the oppressors will attempt some sort of bizarre ransom from the world community...much like what North Korea has done.
Much of this is part of the Mayan prophesy of 2012...it's just coming a little sooner than prophesized.
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May 12, 2008
 
too droll to troll wrote:
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What sustains life?
Water and thereafter food.
Most of Asia has water that is so polluted that no amount of purification will make any difference.
Food?
China is already outsourcing for grains and other stuff from other countries.
The idea that they will dominate is interesting, but not likely.
Without pure potable water they are toast. Without pure water, all the fish farming is toast.
Without an adequate supply of water at home their agraian society withers. They already are trying to pump water from the south to the north.
The potable water issue applies as well to India, Malasia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and others.
Water and food will be the root of the next great conflict, as it already is in drought stricken parts of Africa.
And what is clear as well, is that those that are have nots will have rioting, the water and food will not get to the oppressed, and the oppressors will attempt some sort of bizarre ransom from the world community...much like what North Korea has done.
Much of this is part of the Mayan prophesy of 2012...it's just coming a little sooner than prophesized.
Thanks for the history lesson now pack your bags and go home with all your other countrymen and fight for your country. All you news pundits
with brave words. If it wsa not for the ethnics
which you all so despise you would have no country to defend. Stop begging the world only to come to the western nations and become
staunch socialists
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May 12, 2008
 
Hla Moe wrote:
North Korea and Burma are the satellite rogue states of China marching steadily towards building an enormous empire world have never yet seen.
With 2 billion population by 2030, it will surpass Ancient Roman Empire, Recent British Empire, or even The Current American Empire.
As long as the people of world are buying cheap Chinese made products, that Long March towards global domination will be unchecked.
This was meant for your post not the other

Thanks for the history lesson now pack your bags and go home with all your other countrymen and fight for your country. All you news pundits
with brave words. If it wsa not for the ethnics
which you all so despise you would have no country to defend. Stop begging the world only to come to the western nations and become
staunch socialists

“Are the martinis ready yet?”

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May 12, 2008
 
Phony commies wrote:
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Thanks for the history lesson now pack your bags and go home with all your other countrymen and fight for your country. All you news pundits
with brave words. If it wsa not for the ethnics
which you all so despise you would have no country to defend. Stop begging the world only to come to the western nations and become
staunch socialists
Apology accepted.

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#11
May 13, 2008
 
hey hey, guess what? America's got her own problems....I could give a shit less about Burma, Myanmar or whatever they are callin it these days. I think 48 percent of New Orleans is still uninhabitable...Dont send my tax money to Myanmar, send it to Lousiana..
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