Look, I'm not in favor of ANYONE suffering in this world (except maybe evil globalist scum who are ruining this world), but the SELECTIVITY with which FOREIGN "enemies" are bashed while ALLIED NEGLECT and CRIMES are IGNORED is what bothers me.
So I stand with all suffering people; however, I also point the finger of blame at the horrible AmeriKan MSM!
Type "Burma" into my blog search and see what you get, folks!!!!
"Haunted wasteland saps spirits, lives after cyclone; A delta of death remains in Burma" by Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune | August 26, 2008
BANGKOK - Nearly four months after the cyclone, the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma is a flat, dark expanse of ruin populated by dazed survivors, unburied bodies and visions of wandering, moaning ghosts.
The region seems to have avoided mass starvation and epidemic, and people are rebuilding their precarious lives in this vast and often flooded marshland where the margin between survival and death has always been thin.
See: Burma Not So Bad
Within that thin margin, recent visitors say, many of the survivors seem to have lost their spark of life, and some of the dead seem not yet to have disappeared as they haunt the minds of those they left behind.
"There is a weariness in people's eyes here," said a photographer who has been chronicling the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which struck on May 3. He spoke on condition of anonymity because access to the region is forbidden to foreign journalists. "There's a lost feeling that you get," he said. "People are physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. Some of them don't have the strength to start over."
Katrina.
After an international furor over the government's refusal to admit foreign relief workers, a tightly controlled system has been put in place, and aid is reaching much of the area, where the United Nations says 2.4 million people were affected. The cyclone left 138,000 people dead or missing and 800,000 homeless, according to UN figures, after tremendous winds and a storm surge that resembled a tsunami.
I notice the numbers climbing now; what is with the Zionist MSM anyway!!!?
It leveled most of the fragile thatch homes in its path, uprooted trees, swept away the livestock and fishing boats that provided a livelihood and polluted many rice fields with salt. For those fields that survived, this year's planting season has now passed, and experts say it may be more than a year before many people see their next decent harvest.
Although some houses are being rebuilt and some fields are being worked, the delta remains a vista of ruin and debris, where human and animal bones and the last decomposing bodies still cluster at the edges of waterways. Fantastical tales circulate among the survivors, the photographer said, weaving a tapestry of stories from this world and the next.
There is the tale of the boy who survived by clinging to the back of a crocodile, and the story of the boatload of people stranded at low tide who sat waiting on the silt for the water to rise, surrounded by stranded corpses. There is the story of the mother who was reunited with her baby after it was swept away in a washtub, and the story of the woman who gave birth as the cyclone hit and pulled her baby from the water by its umbilical cord.
And there are the stories of wandering ghosts, whose cries for help can be heard at night in haunted places that no villager dares to enter. Among these phantoms and traumas, international relief workers have become the survivors' lifeline, delivering aid to all but the most remote parts of the delta.
I know it must only be me, but I am detecting a tinge of Zionist-controlled, western racism here in my AmeriKan War Daily.
It's always the same old thing, whether it be the Africans, Asians, or Muslims, you know, the superstitious primitives, etc, etc. Not like Americans or Jews don't believe and observe some pretty fucked up things, right?
And HERE COME the INTERNATIONAL GLOBALISTS to SAVE THEM!!
Well, I've had enopufgh of that shit, too!!!!
More than 1,800 visas have been issued to these workers, aid officials say, though access to the hard-hit delta is slowed by an ever-more-complicated process of permissions and paperwork.
By now, most survivors have received aid, said Andrew Kirkwood, country director for the aid group Save the Children. "But very few people have received enough assistance to get them through the next three months, and almost no one has received enough assistance to enable them to rebuild their lives."
Ka-tri-NA!! PERI-ODE!!!!
He said the reconstruction of schools, clinics and other infrastructure, which should be well underway by now, still lagged because of delays in delivering basic emergency assistance.
The xenophobic military junta that holds Burma in its grip prevented large-scale foreign aid deliveries for the first three crucial weeks after the cyclone, then loosened its controls only gradually and partially. It never did allow US and French naval vessels to bring in tons of aid and equipment.
At this point, whether true or not -- and I doubt MSM more every day -- I'm just sick of it. Sick of the Zionist-controlled bashing while ISRAEL'S CONDUCT is IGNORED!!!
Btw, the U.S. turned down all aid offers, so fuck off, jewpress!!!!
But despite the early demands from around the world that the Burmese government permit open deliveries of aid, the United Nations says that nearly half the assistance pledged by foreign donors has yet to appear. Recently it said it had received $339 million in international donations, a shortfall of $300 million.
Yeah, West is ALWAYS GOOD at BREAKING PROMISES!!!
But you remember the accusation, I mean, the original announcement, right?
Ask Richard Jewell, the Atlanta Olympic bomber -- NOT!
Oh, and they are talking MILLIONS in AID when we got TRILLIONS and BILLIONS for WARS, BANKS, ISRAEL!!!
Think about that before you take the MSM bashing of Burma to heart!
But life has always been bitter for the people of the Irrawaddy Delta, with 8 out of 10 families living in poverty even before the cyclone, according to Save the Children. "They live on a thin line, every day of every year of every decade," the photographer said. "And that is what they are doing now. They just keep going, day by day by day."
As we all do....
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Now, compare that coverage with AmeriKa's recent bout with Ma Nature (wtf, anyway? God don't like us invading lands and killing millions?):
TALLAHASSEE - The remnants of Tropical Storm Fay spread over a wide swath of the South yesterday, bringing heavy rain and wind from Georgia to Louisiana that many hoped would help land parched for months by drought conditions.
Floridians, meanwhile, continued to mop up flood waters created by the storm that stuck around for a week and made an historic four landfalls, dumping more than 30 inches of rain along the central Atlantic coast.
In Georgia, farmers began assessing damage to crops. The storm's high wind and torrential rain seemed to take the heaviest toll on Georgia's $128 million pecan crop, especially in southern counties along the Florida line, according to preliminary assessments. Pecan grower Tom Stone's well-tended orchards were in shambles.
"I was devastated," he said after surveying the damage. "We've lost 50 percent of the crop. We knew we were going to get a little rain, but we didn't know we were going to get all this wind and rain together."
There go the food prices again!
The tropical blast also toppled corn stalks throughout southern Georgia and blew some tobacco leaves off their stalks. The moist conditions also make cotton plants vulnerable to a disease known as boll rot. "If we don't dry out . . . the cotton is going to be impacted a lot more than it is right now," said Deron Rehberg, extension coordinator in Grady County.
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And if I thought the coverage was bad on America, these people get it worse. They starving and suffering, and then get piled on -- all while MSM mostly ignores (because we supported dictators and coups).
"New storm, Gustav, strengthens quickly
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly yesterday in the Caribbean on a path to hit the country's denuded southern coast as a hurricane before moving on to Cuba, the Bahamas, and Florida. Reports yesterday afternoon from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicated that top sustained winds had already reached nearly 60 miles per hour as Gustav moved northwest, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Floods and landslides were possible across Haiti's southern peninsula, and the forecasts suggested the eye could pass very closely to Port-au-Prince, home to nearly 3 million people (AP)."
Haven't they suffered enough, for God's sakes?
Haiti such a wonderful story, too, beating Napolean's troops for independence in 1804!!
