Yeah this was pretty bad, I hope the help they are getting now will maybe make things a little better for the people living there. Also though it pisses me off that Al Gore says this is a result from global warming. I mean any bad thing that happens now gets turned into an effect of global warming.

what? :|

apparently cyclones can be easily warned against up to 48 hours before they hit. The military government is afraid that if foreign aid gets in, their corruption and poor human rights will be brought to light for all the world to see, and they are really only making that worse by making it hard for aid to get into the country.

I think I heard it on the news a little while ago. I was surprised with the number of deaths.

Wow, that's one whopper of a storm. Our nation needs to be more concerned with what goes on in the world, not just events that happen in the US, or neighboring countries. I'm a little embarrassed this is the first time I've heard about this.

Although it does seem that Dubbya is making an attempt to help them, but their military doesn't want us to help. America as usual tries to step in and be the world policesdfd... ha, as I was typing this, word just spread around the office as my coworker just came back from lunch and heard about it... I guess today is the "America finds out about the cyclone" day... how many days late?

Anyways I'm no good at expressing political thoughts and views, so I'll just shut up and link to this video:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?vid eoId=81800&videoChannel=1

It's really lame how the US has a carrier group in the area that was conducting an aid relief excercise, and had all of the supplies ready to go even before the cyclone hit, and yet the idiot generals are far too scared shitless of losing power to let the US send aid in.

woah i fell sorry for the people who always get this kind of weather

holy shit, I hope our guys didnt get hit down there. and I hope whoevers missing would find help, when exacly did the cyclone hit anyways?

I heard that France are threatening some sort of military action if the governement don't accept aid.

That won't really help the situation much...

I live in Thailand and we're next to Burma. I've just heard the news recently as well. I'm not sure anyone knows this yet but allthough the media from the military junta in Burma claims the death toll is at around twenty thousands the report from AFP says that the toll is actually up to eighty thousands or more.

This is why I don't watch the news anymore... They only report tragedies.

Although this reminds me of a massive earthquake that hit Turkey a while back. Myanmar should be much better off than them, because I think Myanmar actually has allies and foreign relations. Hopefully they are able to clear out the dead before the airborne diseases start to spread... thats what hurt Turkey the most I think.

Also, as far as global warming goes, this year was record snowfall and snow pack in most places around the US. Also Al Gore did NOT win the nobel peace prize, the 40 or so scientists he represents won the peace prize. Al Gore had nothing to do with it.

Six days to respond with a relief effort? I'll be honest and say I don't know the time or effort it requires to provide help to devastated countries, but what took so long?

Wikipedia (my main source of information on subjects) said the reported fatalities is 63,500 but could be in the 100,000s. That's just unimaginable. Before hearing about this, I didn't know Burma existed.

The govenment is condemning it's own people...

That is terrible.

i heard that because of this, thousands of people are starting an uproar/riot to destroy the government
hopefully, it wont happen

Thats fucking huge.

This was all over the papers today. Apparently, the Burmese leader is only giving $250,000 in aid to help his own people, whereas a few years ago he spent 25 MILLION on his daughter's wedding. Crazy =/

I'm pretty sure they're going to get worse. Not just Mayanmar, but worldwide.
I hope most of the people missing make it long enough to hold out and join their families. But I guess it's just wishful thinking...

How come I wasnt told about this :o

I saw it on TV a couple of times, and the situation is awful. Some news channels say that there can be more than 50.000 people dead/missing.

It's unbelievable. Even their geography changed, the country "shrunk" in it's size due to the cyclone. I can't believe things like that are possible...

Well, let's hope that they accept international help. Brazil mentioned something about sending people to help them.

This isn't sounding good:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
news/article1143691.ece

That is quite the storm.

I've been talking about it with my class. We read about hurricanes, then went to weather websites and looked at sattelite images.

I'm SO not ready for hurricane season here.

How horrible. What sucks even more, the government doesn't even help.

So, I guess all government everywhere is piss-crazy. It's a terrible thing when this stuff happens. Does the government even realize what help we can do if we send troops over there? Look what happened to New Orleans, sure hundreds died, but hundreds more might've died, had it not been for us. Why can't the government just take their asses out of their ears and realize what is happening to their people and let us in? D:

My god, that's terrible! I send my love to Myanmar...

I find it even more ironic how the Myanmar government asked the UN for help, but yet they are resistant to help.

From what I have been reading on Wikipedia, their people are frustrated with the lack of a warning system about the cyclone, and they are blaming their junta government for the cyclone and the mass flooding. There are no measures to deal with the corpses that are appearing on the streets, as they are just being abandoned, which is bringing up the issue of the spread of diseases.

This isn't much of a suprise for me, since I have been reading up on Burma's human rights violations, and evidence that is suggesting that a genocide is occuring on the Karen minority. This has me convinced that their government is probably not willing to help their people.

OMG ! That's horrible, i hope the ONU do something about it...

When I heard this disaster on the news I was just amazed and shocked to see that the government of Myanmar wouldn't let the U.S. help aid them and even the government isn't even helping their own people out. I am so glad I live in the US where the government isn't a bitch. Hopefully the Myanmar gov will let the US aid the people of Myanmar.

I thought you were planning to dirrect us to donate to a relief fund.

Wo, sounds very suspicious on their governments part. Maybe their hiding something?

I read the news, first they said hundreds died, then thousands, then tens of thousands, then hunreds of thousands, now they say it may be near a million. That's a lot of peopl . . .

Together we watch the news in apathy, only making ourselves look like we care so that we don't look like assholes in each other's eyes, and perhaps we throw money at them to make sure everybody in doubt can see what humanitarians we are.

120-150 MPH is nothing compared to us, we revolve around our own ego at an infinite speed, and the damage we do to others is devastating.

Im studying this in my Geography class
Apparently the military authorities were barring aid and relief at one stage
Idiots.

The other day I was thinking "I remember that tsunami several years back that killed tons of people, I wonder if something like that will happen again, its been long enough"

Be careful what you wish for!

:(

the country doesnt even want help o.O

It's just going to be another way to blame global warming to get money. We're already being told that we're all going to die within 10 years and thats got most of us guzzling out money, hopefully people will realize that this is propaganda. People in my social class usually say that the people in Russia were stupid for falling for Stalin's lies, but they obviously can't look at themselves.
Hey it'd really like if you could youtube/google the Bothchild's family and give me your prespective on the matter because it really seems to make sense.

Damn..that really sucks.
I hope things work out well over there.
Nature just isn't very nice, sometimes. That's when I feel like burning trees.
And then I realize that wouldn't help anything.

Wtf? SIX DAYS!?
That is a HELL of a long time. What the hell is wrong with their government? Do they want their people do die?
Overthrowing it does sound like a nice idea. Of course, not now..that would make matters much worse.

Well, I happen to live in Florida and know a thing or two about hurricaines. Let me just say it sucks, and that their government needs to suck it up and let foreign help in. I mean, without any of the aid we get down here from the state and country after hurricaines, we'd be screwed every other year. And as far as the global warming increasing hurricaines: those major hurricaines were back in 2005, and we've had two relatively mild seasons since, so there's so many holes in that story that it looks like swiss cheese.

"120-150 MPH"

jesus christ.. thats huge...Yes it is quite sad but the world is over populated already... so therese the silver lining to that i suppose..

too early?

pizza and cookie dough for all!

The situation has gotten worse. Because the Burman government is seizing relief materiel, the UN is starting to back off.

I think the Military government of Myanmar wants to make it appear as though they're not dependant on other countries, which is why they won't accept any help. That's not uncommon for countries under dictatorship rule.

It's just a damn delusion. Even stronger, more stable countries need help during crises like these. The fact the Burmese government doesn't want to compromise the illusion of its total independence of the world is a clear sign that they don't give a shit about their people.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

i actually hope they dont lead an uprising, for if they do, than the government won't allow anyone into the nation until they calm down. going in by force would mean war, and it also violates the U.N. treaty

cool pic man

lmao

I know, it's terrible. Just terrible. hey Wade man, I got an amazing suggestion which EVERY NG USER would love if it was carried through, if I send you a PM will you pay attention to it?

You have time to make post about cyclones, but not about playing GTA4 with us :(

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I know, I just heard about that a day or so ago. What's ridiculous about it is that the government isn't letting foreign people to go in there to help. They're barely even accepting foreign aid. And the government of Myanmar isn't doing anything to help. Somebody's gotta talk some sense into Myanmar's government and tell them to allow more aid for the city.

That's a shame

well another 22000 bite the dust.

Lol looks like boob

I suggest bombing their governments, and helping those folks. We do have more than just one tank, right?

Apparantly they dont want help from the U.S.....

Fuck em!! We don't even help our own any more!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHA

120-150 MPH? We get that wind a few times a week!

And guess what!their government made sure no one can help them they signed papers its because the people protested against them so they pretty much say FUCK YOU STARVE!
Heres a section on it on current tv, enjoy. >.>
http://current.com/search/search.do?i ndexName=en_us&renderer=jsp&q =Myanmar+Crisis&x=6&y=13

I made a powerpoint about Burma (Myanmar) for my Geography Project, so this is kinda' "personal" for me because I know a lot about the people and its history now. So I pray for all who are affected and devastated by the storm.