Myanmar's cyclone survivors have insufficient fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the ruling military junta is accused of being too slow in letting aid groups into the country.
Help victims of the Myanmar cyclone
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The New Yorker
newyorker.comFound 3 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes, and 55 seconds agoIt now appears that as many as a hundred thousand Burmese might have perished in last weekend's cyclone. Burma used to be the world's largest exporter of rice; after decades of military misrule, it now has trouble feeding itself. If the rulers are isolated, indifferent, deluded, and brutal, tens or hundreds ...
The Columbus Dispatch
hosted.ap.orgFound 3 days, 30 minutes, and 20 seconds agoHe said he hopes this is the beginning of continued aid flowing into Myanmar from the United States, other nations and international relief agencies. "They're going to need our help for a long time," Johndroe said. The junta also violently crushed protests last year.
Australian Red Cross
redcross.org.auFound 2 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes, and 29 seconds agoMore than 19,000 Red Cross volunteers are working around the clock to reach and help those affected by Cyclone Nargis, which reports suggest has killed over 22,000 and displaced as many as one million more. To make a donation to the Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal you can make a secure online donation ...
Myanmar backtracks on aid flight, U.S. says
reuters.comFound 3 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 18 seconds agoNYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. 5 million people have been ''severely affected'' by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar, with the United States expressing outrage on Thursday at delays in allowing in. 5 million people affected by Myanmar storm"; var RTR_ArticleBlurb = "By Louis ...
Official: UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone - The Associated Press
ap.google.comFound 3 days, 5 hours, 47 minutes, and 7 seconds agoLos Angeles Times Official: UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone The Associated Press - 1 hour ago YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but US military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country's ...
UN aid flights to Burma under way
news.bbc.co.ukFound 3 days, 12 hours, 7 minutes, and 14 seconds agoThe first UN flights bringing relief to Burma's cyclone victims land, but the US says its aid is still blocked.
100,000 could be dead in Burma, diplomat says
guardian.co.ukFound 3 days, 8 hours, 47 minutes, and 47 seconds agoThe senior US diplomat in Burma today said more than 100,000 people could have been killed when Cycolne Nargis devastated the country. Shari Villarosa, who heads the US embassy in Rangoon, said 95% of buildings in the affected area could have been flattened by the storm, which struck five days ago. Seven ...
U.N. Aid Aircraft Reach Burma, Where Storm Toll Steadily Rises
washingtonpost.comFound 3 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes, and 41 seconds agoBANGKOK, May 8 -- Two U.N. transport planes loaded with cyclone relief supplies landed in Burma on Thursday, as international leaders heightened pressure on the country's secretive military government to fully embrace foreign help. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon tried unsuccessfully to telephone...
Fears rise over Burma aid delays
news.bbc.co.ukFound 2 days, 20 hours, 33 minutes, and 11 seconds agoConcerns grow over Burma's reluctance to accept foreign help, with vital food aid unable to enter the country.
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The first UN flights bringing relief to Burma's cyclone victims land, but the US says its aid is still blocked.
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The UN says its first plane loaded with food and supplies has landed in Myanmar.
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Follow the latest from Burma as the extent of the cyclone damage becomes clearer amid fears that the aftermath could prove more lethal than the storm
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The UN says it is disappointed at Burma's slow progress in allowing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone.
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Burma wants aid but is "not ready" for foreign experts, its foreign ministry says, as fears grow for cyclone survivors.
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Concerns grow over Burma's reluctance to accept foreign help, with vital food aid unable to enter the country.
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msnbc.msn.com
After snubbing a U.S. aid offer, Myanmar indicated Friday that it wants foreign relief to help recover from a devastating cyclone but not foreign workers.
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cnn.com
The United Nations and the Red Cross began distributing relief supplies Tuesday to people affected by the devastating cyclone that killed at least 22,000 people in Myanmar on Friday.
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Myanmar's cyclone survivors have insufficient fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the country's military junta continues to block access for aid groups.
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independent.co.uk
By the time the last of the daylight was slipping from the sky, it seemed as though every other home we were passing had been flattened. The road between Rangoon and Bogale, through the delta, marks a journey to the very heart of the destruction caused by the cyclone; damage that has left more than 22,400 ...
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The United Nations estimates 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid.
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edition.cnn.com
The United States is considering air-dropping aid to victims of the cyclone in Myanmar even without permission from the military government, a U.S. official said Thursday.
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news.com.au
FRANCE suggested invoking a UN "responsibility to protect" in cyclone-hit Burma to deliver aid without the military junta's approval, but its bid to make the Security Council take a stand was rebuffed today. "We are seeing at the United Nations if we can't implement the 'responsibility to protect', given ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
08 May 2008 02:33 pm
George Packer on the situation in Burma: Burma used to be the world's largest exporter of rice; after decades of military misrule, it now has trouble feeding itself. When I was there in February, I heard that some peasants were surviving on one meal a day, and a knowledgeable woman spoke of the conditions that might lead to famine. Now the danger is far more real-thousands of villagers have no food or water, and reports of hunger are widespread. So the already unimaginable death toll could increase considerably with starvation and disease.
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edcone.typepad.com
Governments worse than our own : "Aid shipments to storm-ravaged Burma remained largely stalled for
another day Thursday, awaiting approval from the government's military
junta despite a worsening humanitarian crisis that already has claimed
upwards of 100,000 lives."
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newsbusters.org
CNN has an article posted this AM about the on-going misery in Myanmar resulting from the recent cyclone that devastated the Irrawaddy delta and has left as many as 100,000 dead. The country's paranoid military dictatorship is hampering aid efforts, and as a result, is no doubt adding to the number of dead and injured. In writing about the U.S. forces in the area poised to help if the dictatorship will only allow international aid, CNN makes the following curious claim (in bold):
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confederateyankee.mu.nu
CNN has an article posted this AM about the on-going misery in Myanmar resulting from the recent cyclone that devastated the Irrawaddy delta and has left as many as 100,000 dead. The country's paranoid military dictatorship is hampering aid efforts, and as a result, is no doubt adding to the number of dead and injured.
In writing about the U.S. forces in the area poised to help if the dictatorship will only allow international aid, CNN makes the following curious claim (in bold):
The U.S has also been pushing for access, pledging $3.
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no-pasaran.blogspot.com
"Ignore the pygmy behind the curtain ."
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clubtroppo.com.au
With tens of thousands dead ( possibly a hundred thousand ) and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed, the disaster in Myanmar is approaching the scale of the December 2004 tsunami. The difference is that it's confined to one extremely poor country with particularly poor infrastructure. [Update: Ken Parish would rather call the country Burma, and recommends this discussion of the name issue.]
Aid agencies are working frantically to supply food, water, medication, tarpaulins and so on, to a million or so survivors of Cyclone Nargis who remain in desperate straits.
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americablog.com
This is another catastrophe of epic proportions where citizens are being failed by their government : Desperate survivors cried out for aid on Thursday nearly a week after Cyclone Nargis killed up to 100,000 people, as pressure piled up on Myanmar to throw its doors open to an international relief operation.
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scrambies.blogspot.com
Even though there's a food shortage and a humanitarian crisis in Burma , take a moment to enjoy this story . Dale Davis (not the former power forward for the Indiana Pacers), a 78-year-old, legally blind, World War II veteran in Alta, Iowa, bowled a 300 this past weekend in his league's rolloffs. It was the first ever 300 at Alta's Century Lanes.
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blogs.cgdev.org
Weak governance under a military dictatorship has made the aid response dangerously late
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problemchildbride.com
Here's a way to help . You've probably come across lots of portals to donation sites for this cyclone already but I figured one more couldn't hurt. Who knows, probably a portion of donations doesn't actually reach victims and goes on advertising and admin instead - maybe even an unacceptably large portion - but a fraction's better than nothing and all the charities represented here are very visible in the field and well-known.
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philanthropy.blogspot.com
It is hard, intellectually and emotionally, to simultaneously consider the relationships between the headlines. How do we think about all of these issues - global warming, food shortages, water crises, calamitous weather damage, political isolationism - and the ways they relate to each other? How can we separate out realistic strategies that take into account the complex systems in which both the problems emerge and the solutions must be implemented?
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US envoy says toll from Myanmar cyclone might reach 100,000 (AP)
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maddruid.com
[3] - YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's isolationist regime blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift urgently needed high-energy biscuits to survivors of a cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, U.N. officials said. [ Myanmar blocks U.N. airlift for cyclone victims . Associated Press via MSNBC. May 8 2008]
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bigblog.com
Burma eases cyclone relief access
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innocentdrinks.typepad.com
We sent some drinks over to Save The Children last week, and as part of their Save The Children week, they sold them and raised £400.
Save The Children have just launched an emergency appeal in response to the Burma cyclone . They've already got 500 people on the ground and tonnes and tonnes of food and other aid being delivered. So if you feel like donating your lunch money to some people who really need it, click here .
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paulburgin.blogspot.com
Doesn't it say something about a regime that, as well as having no respect for human rights, the democratic wishes of it's people and a contempt for international opinion, it is reluctant to receive unconditional help and support when it's people are suffering from the result of a cyclone hitting the country.
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awardtour.net
100,000 could be dead in Burma, diplomat says | guardian.co.uk . dear lord.
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markaelrod.net
Outside assistance has got to come more swiftly than the Burmese government is willing to allow to alleviate further suffering. United Nations relief flights are now starting to arrive in country but the UN World Food Program has stated that concern about the military siphoning off aid was one reason for the delay.
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d-day.blogspot.com
The military junta in Burma, fearful about their grip on power, is resisting international aid .
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daddiosdarkside.blogspot.com
While U.N planes have been cleared and have begun to deliver needed relief to the devastated area, U.S. aircraft are still banned.
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tnrambler.wordpress.com
In what has to be one the most hard-hearted and hard-headed moves in my lifetime, the military regime ruling Myanmar (formerly Burma) is doing everything in their power to throw roadblocks in the way of humanitarian aid to the areas devastated by Cyclone Nargis on May 2. Current U.N. reports estimate nearly 23,000 dead and nearly 42,000 missing. Even worse, reports indicate that due to a lack of clean water, dead bodies carrying disease and lack of food and shelter, the death toll could conceivably pass 100 thousand!
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kotp.blogspot.com
The government of Myanmar is still holding off on allowing large amounts of aid into the Yangon, even as the death toll is projected to be somewhere north of 100,000 ( source ). In particular, the government has yet to allow US assets into the country. Given that the United States has the greatest amount of resources needed for this kind of relief operation - for example, cargo planes (the gov is not allowing US transport planes to fly into the country) and our naval assets in the region, including the USS Essex , an amphibious assault ship with 1800 Marines, 23 transport helicopters and various landing craft - keeping us out is literally killing thousands of people.
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reformed-angler.blogspot.com
U.N. Suspends Myanmar Aid After Supplies Seized by Junta - New York Times
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survivalblog.com
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* Avaaz is raising funds for the International Burmese Monks Organization and related groups, which will transmit funds directly to monasteries in affected areas.
*A bogus constitutional referendum - read about it here and here , scheduled for May 10, is apparently going to proceed, though it will be postponed until May 24 in the most affected areas. Human Rights Watch is calling for its suspension and suggests the government is "blocking international aid efforts in part to keep foreigners out until the voting is over.
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acorn.nationalinterest.in
Indiaâs state-run Meteorological Department said it had alerted Burma two days before the cyclone struck. The departmentâs spokesman, B P Yadav told reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday: "Forty-eight hours in advance we informed the Burma weather department about the likely area of landfall as well as time and intensity of the cyclone." [ The Irrawaddy ]
"I've never seen an emergency situation such as this before," said Greg Beck, Asia regional director of the International Rescue Committee.
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frugalbastard.blogspot.com
Last night we made a donation to the Red Cross for their Myanmar Cyclone Appeal . It looks as though up to 100,000 people may die as a result (of the cyclone, not our donation). There's very little food or clean water, even at the best of times, but these guys in Myanmar have been wiped out by a three and a half metre (12 feet) tidal surge . These poor buggers require urgent assistance or disease is going to wipe out thousands more. Please give if you can. It's easy to do online.
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mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com
report); more news on the Myanmar tragedy ; and "Hackers try to cause seizures on epilepsy site" (damn hackers!)
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lawhawk.blogspot.com
A bird's eye view of the devastation - before and after photos of Burma . Another set of comparison photos is here .
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biblicalrecorder.org
A North Carolina Baptist Men's assessment team of two is on its way to Thailand to seek visas to enter devastated Myanmar .
read more ...
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CNN has an article posted this AM about the on-going misery in Myanmar resulting from the recent cyclone that devastated the Irrawaddy delta and has left as many as 100,000 dead. The country's paranoid military dictatorship is hampering aid efforts, and as a result, is no doubt adding to the number of dead and injured. In writing about the U.S. forces in the area poised to help if the dictatorship will only allow international aid, CNN makes the following curious claim (in bold): The U.S has also been pushing for access, pledging $3.
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The situation in Myanmar continues to deteriorate and the estimated death toll continues to rise.
In a turn of events that surprised nobody, Putin has been confirmed as Prime Minister of Russia.
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The situation in Myanmar continues to deteriorate and the estimated death toll continues to rise.
In a turn of events that surprised nobody, Putin has been confirmed as Prime Minister of Russia.
Good day for Kobe Bryant, who won the MVP and then went on to help the Lakers beat Utah for a 2-0 series lead. Open thread -- what's happening?
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While the junta fiddles . Aid workers need to be allowed access.
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dabetswe.wordpress.com
carry the weight from you?
Who will carry theirs?
* Note: Nar Kyee (read as Jee) Hmu means Hurt or Disappointment or Regret in Burmese. This poem is inspired by the recent Cyclone Nargis and its destruction on Burma that has killed about 50,000 people so far, with 2 million left homeless. Go to http://networkforgood.blogspot.com/2008/05/help-victims-of-myanmar-cyclone.html to help out. Or you can use Google Checkout to donate to UNICEF or Direct International Relief.
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exliontamer.wordpress.com
network for good has a list of links to charity organizations that are poised to assist the people of burma/myanmar. currently the death toll is well into the 5 digits and climbing, and over a million people are said to be displaced; in addition, rice-bearing croplands have been devastated, and starvation is a very real threat along with the predictable threats of exposure and disease.
other sites listing participating charity organizations:
Burma Campaign UK
updates to follow
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politicalroundtable.com
Fears rise over Burma aid delays
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The US says it has no permission yet for aid flights to cyclone-hit Burma despite earlier reports of eased access.
Read the full article (BBC News | World | UK Edition)
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livingwithjoy.wordpress.com
With the recent cyclone disaster Myanmar it seems like the whole world is mobilizing to help. There's a feeling of helplessness and confusion when the government won't allow aid in the country.
I was reading an article on CNN that had the following final paragraph:
World Vision, which has 500 aid workers in Myanmar, has provided aid in the country for more than 40 years. In a rare move, Myanmar's junta specifically asked World Vision to help provide aid to cyclone survivors.
While the rest of the world looks from the outside in, World Vision has been building connections and credibility or more than 40 years and are able to be there when needed most.
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hiwhy.com
Yahoo! / Reuters : U.S. "Outraged" by Myanmar's Response to Cyclone . The United Nations estimates 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid.
Compare and contrast: Katrina Response Sparks Outrage .
Here's another quote:
"It's clear that the government's ability to deal with the situation, which is catastrophic, is limited."
5 points if you guess correctly whether the person speaking was talking about the U.
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eddiebear.wordpress.com
Especially when it comes to aid for Burmese Cyclone Victims.
"We put the accent on the diplomatic efforts to convince the Burmese authorities that the best way to assist the population is to allow humanitarian organisations to work independently."
The spokesman said diplomatic pressure was being exerted by the main international donors, led by the United Nations.
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ac360.blogs.cnn.com
360° Correspondent
I know the military government of Myanmar is allowing some aid through, but why has it taken so long? Why deny your own people the help they need?
I understand there's a whole lotta bureaucracy and pride at play here, but is all that really so important when lives are at stake? Suck it up and accept the help; don't subject your people to further tragedy. The people of Myanmar need basic help right now, and it's available. What government -- or better yet, what person - in their right mind would deny their own people what they so clearly need?
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austinvegas.com
E.D. Hill of Fox news had a 5+ minute segment on a Texas woman, Sheyla Hershey , who enlarged her breasts eight times to the size of 34 FFF. Appropriately she is in Brazil's Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest breast implant, however, in a time when the more than 22,000 died and some say up to a million are homeless from a cyclone that has hit Myanmar , fierce battles are erupting in Lebanon with Hezbollah , the race for dem candidate could be coming to an end , Putin still has a hold on power after new president is named , the Olympics are still blazing on , and global warming is still shrinking the ice caps which will eventually kill much of the planet's inhabitants if they don't adapt to the climate change .
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mikesmusings.wordpress.com
Please pray for Myanmar as that country tries to recover from a devastating cyclone that hit earlier this week. A U.S. Diplomat estimates that the death toll may hit 100,000. Here's a recent CNN.com article .
Church member Rodney Dunning has a post on his blog that gives more details about this tragedy. He also suggests ways that we can help (especially regarding malaria).
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