I wouldn't mind so much if most of the crap they printed wasn't agenda-pushing lies; however, that being the case....
"Floods kill 130, drive thousands from homes in Southeast Asia" by Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune | August 18, 2008
HANOI - Torrential rains and overflowing rivers have created some of the worst flooding in decades to Vietnam and its neighbors, flooding cities and farmlands in five nations.
At least 130 people were killed, dozens were missing and thousands were driven from their homes in northern Vietnam, and hundreds of tourists were forced to flee the resort area of Sapa.
Flooding has also hit parts of Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos as well as Burma, where waters rose in the Irrawaddy Delta. The delta region is still recovering from a cyclone that left 38,000 people dead or missing in May.
According to the official press in Burma, the floods affected much of the country, including the main city, Rangoon, as well as Mandalay in the center and the Karen and Mon states in the southeast.
In Vientiane, the capital of Laos, officials said the Mekong River had brought the worst flooding in memory, rising to nearly 45 feet above its lowest level in the dry season. The high water in Vientiane broke a record set in 1966 and overflowed a levee that was built after that flood.
Mudslides also cut the main road from Vientiane to the ancient capital of Luang Prabang, a city of temples and monasteries where the Mekong waters also rose.
In parts of northeastern Thailand, officials said the Mekong had reached its highest level in 30 years, inundating farmlands and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people in three provinces along the river, which divides Thailand from Laos.
Officials said the high water was caused by heavy downpours in southern China, Laos, and Thailand. As the high waters of the Mekong moved downstream, Cambodia and eastern Thailand prepared for major floods and officials warned residents in some areas to move to higher ground along with their livestock.
In Vietnam's southern Mekong delta, where the 2,700-mile river flows into the sea, forecasters said that rising waters had reached a critical level two weeks earlier than last year and that worse flooding lay ahead.
In northern Vietnam, the government said floodwaters peaked at close to their record levels of 1968. Military helicopters brought supplies to stranded residents and airlifted hundreds of Vietnamese and foreign tourists from Lao Cai, on the border with China.--more--"
With all that misery, do you think the Zionist racists at the Boston Globe might have some compassion?
Nope!
"Begging won't save Burma
August 18, 2008
THE UNITED Nations can be an irreplaceable forum for diplomacy and a provider of humanitarian assistance.
You gotta love the globalist spin, don't you?
But this parliament of Nations has repeatedly failed to live up to its responsibility to protect populations from criminal regimes.
Exhibit A: ISRAEL and PALESTINE!!!!! See: Israel's Immunity
Nowhere has that failure been more flagrant than in Burma, where a vicious military junta continues to deceive and defy the world body.
This kind of racism and selectivity is what is driving me away from these shit sellers.
I already stopped buying and reading the New York Times.
You are next, Globe.
The junta's disregard for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy for Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, will be at center stage this week, when Gambari visits that sad land.
Israel, Palestine, assholes.
As in his previous visits, Gambari can be expected to implore the same generals who callously turned away offers of relief for cyclone victims last spring to release political prisoners and bring about a reconciliation with the National League for Democracy, the overwhelming winner of the last free elections held in Burma, in 1990.
That's a CIA front, folks! Push, push, push that agenda.
Type "Burma" into my blog search for more.
But Gambari's mission is not merely to beg junta leaders for goodwill gestures. His mandate from the UN General Assembly lists two clear and measurable "indicators of achievement" for the year 2008. One is to obtain the release of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest - and of other political prisoners from prison. The second is to bring about "reopening of the offices of the National League for Democracy throughout the country."
Ahem: Aung San Suu Kyi is Burmese for CIA
Which is why the agenda-pushing press is demonizing Burma and pushing the agenda.
If Gambari fails to fulfill this mandate, he should explain why. The UN should then seek more effective means of protecting citizens of Burma from a regime that murders and rapes its own people and conscripts more child soldiers than any other country. In place of fruitless dialogue, the UN will have to explore an arms embargo, banking sanctions, and serious pressure from Burma's Asian neighbors."
But when it comes to the NaZionist monsters of Iz-ray-HELL, the Burma-bashing BG suddenly becomes blind.
