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Auntie Maine May 11 2008, 08:08 PM Post #61
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Bloated bodies litter Myanmar, forgotten after the cyclone


ON THE PYAPON RIVER, Myanmar - As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water.

But with little aid getting through to desperate cyclone survivors, the dead have largely been forgotten — left to decay where the brackish waters carried them or waiting to be pulled out to sea by the rising tides.

"The first few we saw, we were all very shocked," said U Pinyatale, a monk from the area who has prayed for the dead. "After a while, there were just too many."

More than 50 bodies can be spotted in just three hours on the river. Many have turned white as they float entwined in mangrove trees, where they remain lodged. The smell of dead fish permeates the humid air as dozens of small boats ferrying roofing supplies and rice navigate around the corpses, but no one seems to notice.

"In some areas there are 5,000 bodies in waterways, stuck in fields and in the trees," said Craig Strathern, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city. "We've got a combination of seriously traumatized people themselves who are concentrating on their basic survival."

Cyclone Nargis left nearly 62,000 people dead or missing. The U.N. estimates at least 1.5 million have been severely affected in the military-run country, with many of them still struggling to receive rations of food and clean water.

Body removal remains difficult because some of the worst-hit areas are located in remote villages crisscrossed by a spider web of rivers and canals. Another big setback revolves around the ruling junta's refusal to open the door to international aid workers, forcing agencies operating in Myanmar to rely on their limited local staff members for all relief work.

The situation differs greatly from the 2004 Asian tsunami, which killed nearly 230,000 people. In worst-hit Banda Aceh, Indonesia, bodies were a top priority early on, driven largely by Muslim tradition that calls for burying the dead within the first day. Corpses were dumped in mass graves as big as football fields, with aid workers, soldiers and volunteers all working together.

During the same crisis in Phuket, Thailand, emphasis also was placed on ensuring bodies were taken to refrigerated areas where they were kept for identification.

"What's often overlooked is the fact that people do want to find the dead and give them a proper burial, and it's important," said Eric Stover, lead author of a critical report published last year about Myanmar's broken health system.

"What happens with those relatives or those who survive, they can also go into this kind of limbo world thinking their (family members) are dead but not actually knowing until they have the funeral."

Bodies are cremated or buried in different parts of Myanmar. It is essential for Buddhist monks to chant and pray for the dead on the first day. The funeral typically occurs on day three, and on the seventh day a religious ceremony is held where prayers and chants continue to ensure the soul moves on. Otherwise, wandering ghosts can remain.

The monk, Pinyatale, said some people simply want the bodies to be sucked out to sea because they believe if someone touches them, that person will be cursed with bad luck and haunted by the unsettled spirit.

"People are scared. Some people hear voices from the river at night: 'Help me! Help me!'" he said. "But when people walk to the river, there is nothing there."

The carcasses of dead livestock, such as buffalo, also have not been removed from areas in the low-lying delta where entire villages were leveled by the May 3 storm, which packed 120-mph winds and 12-foot-high storm surges from the sea.

Stover, from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, said the military is often best at helping identify bodies in massive natural disasters because they are trained to do so for war. But he said his contacts who have visited the worst-hit areas say they have seen no soldiers helping to remove corpses.

"There may be cases were neighbors came back and because of the tidal surge, the bodies were dispersed," he said. "It's gonna be difficult. That's the real crisis here."


I mean seriously.What is wrong with that government? :jesse
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Jane May 11 2008, 09:06 PM Post #62
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I know it's just unbelievable.

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China quake kills 3,000-5,000 in one county
7.8 temblor topples multiple schools in Sichuan province, injures thousands


BEIJING, China - A powerful earthquake in southwest China has killed up to 5,000 people and left as many as 10,000 injured, state media said, as hundreds of children remained trapped in at least eight collapsed schools.

The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in Beichuan county of mountainous Sichuan province alone after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region during the early afternoon on Monday, Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government.

Beichuan’s population is 161,000, meaning about one in 10 residents were killed or injured in the quake. The county is a part of Mianyang city, and about 100 miles from the provincial capital, Chengdu.

The death toll was expected to rise sharply as authorities and rescue teams made contact with the worst-hit areas of Sichuan, where phone lines have been cut off since the quake struck.

It is now night in the affected area, hampering rescue efforts.

The quake had toppled at least eight schools and left hundreds of students and teachers trapped, state media said. There also were reports of several factories collapsing in the quake.

About 900 teenagers were buried in the rubble of a collapsed three-story school building in the Sichuan city of Dujiangyan.

Local villagers had already helped dozens of students out of the ruins and five cranes were excavating at the site as anxious parents looked on, Xinhua said.

Students cry out for help
“Some buried teenagers were struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help,” the agency said.

Another seven schools had been felled by the quake, state media reported.

Five children were confirmed dead and 120 injured after buildings at two primary schools in rural parts of Chongqing municipality collapsed. Nineteen students and teachers were still buried, Xinhua said.

At least 45 had died in the provincial capital, Chengdu, Xinhua said, citing an official with the local seismological bureau. Another 600 people were injured, 58 of them critically, in the sprawling city of 10 million.

State television showed footage of Chengdu residents, where the airport and railway station were closed, crowded in the streets looking relatively unscathed.

The quake’s epicenter was in the nearby county of Wenchuan and its force caused buildings to sway across China and as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok.

Mountainous Wenchuan has a population of about 100,000 people.

Buildings were toppled in at least six counties near the epicenter, Xinhua said.

Olympic stadium undamaged
In Beijing and Shanghai, office workers poured into the streets as the tremor hit. In the capital, which will host the summer Olympics in August, there was no visible damage and the showpiece Bird’s Nest stadium was unscathed, the project’s engineer told Xinhua.

But in Sichuan, phone lines in Wenchuan were down and a website for the region’s Aba prefecture said the quake had cut several major highways and communications were down in 11 counties.

Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Chengdu and President Hu Jintao ordered an “all-out” rescue effort, Xinhua reported.

Thousands of army troops and paramilitary People’s Armed Police carrying medical supplies were also headed to the region, state television said. But a landslide had blocked a mountain road leading to Wenchuan, preventing troops from reaching the scene, state radio said.

Xinhua said there was no immediate impact to the Three Gorges Dam project, the weight of whose massive reservoir, hundreds of kilometers from Chengdu, experts have said could increase the risk of tremors.

A source at the biggest refinery in western China, Lanzhou, said the plant also appeared unaffected by the quake.

Hanoi, Bangkok feel quake
The U.S. Geological Survey described it as "a dangerous earthquake" given its proximity to densely populated areas.

"I would say the best characterization at this point is that it's a dangerous earthquake," said Bruce Presgrave, a geophysicist at the USGS in Colorado. "The entire area is a densely populated part of China. There are lots of people exposed to potentially damaging ground shaking."

In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast, buildings swayed when the quake hit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.

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whats up with these earthquakes and cyclones and scariness?
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its gods wrath jules!!! the end of times!! :priest
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:priest pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths, amen :priest
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Death toll in China earthquake up to nearly 9,000
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Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Sichuan province's Beichuan county after the quake, raising fears the overall death toll could increase sharply.

State media said a chemical plant in Shifang city had cratered, burying hundreds of people and spilling more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia from the site.
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it just keeps getting worse!

I bet it was Slusho that spilt!
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Man fined for buckling in beer, leaving kid loose

Police 'shocked and appalled' after Australian leaves 5-year-old on car floor

updated 7:58 a.m. CT, Tues., May. 13, 2008

DARWIN, Australia - An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was “shocked and appalled” when he pulled over the unregistered car Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can beer case was strapped in between two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, but on the car’s floor.

“The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained,” Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

“I haven’t ever seen something like this before,” he said. “This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child.”

The driver was fined 750 Australian dollars — about $710 — for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a safety belt.

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Israel Museum puts Dead Sea scroll on rare display

By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago

JERUSALEM - One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem this week — more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment.

The museum decided to put the scroll back on show for three months as part of Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations.

The priceless manuscript, written by a Judean scribe around 120 B.C., was in a long glass case Tuesday, its neat rows of Hebrew letters distinct and legible. President Bush, visiting Israel this week for the anniversary celebration, will be one of the first to view it.

The Isaiah manuscript was the only complete biblical book discovered among the Dead Sea scrolls, one of the great archaeological finds of the 20th century. The ancient documents, which include fragments of the books of the Old Testament and treatises on communal living and apocalyptic war, have shed important light on Judaism and the origins of Christianity.

The Book of Isaiah is traditionally attributed to a prophet who lived in the 8th century B.C.

In the book, he calls for repentance, warns of impending doom, and — in one of the most famous passages ever written — offers an idyllic vision of the future: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Curator Adolfo Roitman called the Isaiah manuscript the "gem of the Dead Sea scrolls." It is "one of the most important treasures of the Jewish nation, if not the most important," he added.

A far smaller fragment of another Dead Sea scroll will be on display at the Jerusalem convention center where Bush will be speaking along with other dignitaries.

The segment, also rarely shown, contains the text of Psalm 133, which reads: "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."




"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." :rocks
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I saw fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls when they toured them in a museum here about ten years ago.

Couldn't find anything written about me, they must keep those ones locked in a vault. :chuckle
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I saw fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls when they toured them in a museum here about ten years ago.

Couldn't find anything written about me, they must keep those ones locked in a vault. :chuckle

[size=14]LOL!!![/size]
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From my hopefully very near future french three way couple at Ohlalamag.com:

With Moldova's police providing protective cover, armed gay bashers attacked a bus of participants bound for a march in Chisinau. It is the second year in a row that the march had to be canceled as a result of violence. Victims say authorities are aiding and abetting by allowing the gay bashing to take place.

The attackers included hundreds of people from extremist groups and members of the neo-fascist movement ‘New Right’ victims within the bus tried to call the police nine times but were ignored and left to their own fate.

The 60 gay pride participants were trapped in the bus for almost an hour. The crowds then forced the bus doors open and demanded that the victims had to destroy all of their march materials in order to be allowed to leave the bus safely. The materials included banners asking for anti-discrimination law and tolerance, as well as rainbow balloons which were pierced to the jubilant victory screams of the crowd. source

I obsoletely applaud and admire the courage of those 60 brave participants in such an hostile environment. Those people are the one who makes me proud to be who I am today. And it is a long way for them to be able to enjoy the life and the liberty some of us have in other parts of the world.
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I just dont get the hate.

I mean if you flaunt it and makeout in public and grope I can see why.

I hate when anyone does that shit. Gay or straight. Save that for at home.

Those gay bashers need to get a fucking hobby. Like actually fucking. ANYTHING. Stop hatin on the gays.
Go hate on people who have sex with animals. Now that deserves a bash or two. Poor animals.
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Is it bad when I think of Moldova I think of Eastern Europe and thus big eastern european white cocks? :ha

It's true! Eastern European men have big cocks! All the ones in gay porn do!
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Man fined for buckling in beer, leaving kid loose

Police 'shocked and appalled' after Australian leaves 5-year-old on car floor

updated 7:58 a.m. CT, Tues., May. 13, 2008

DARWIN, Australia - An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was “shocked and appalled” when he pulled over the unregistered car Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can beer case was strapped in between two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, but on the car’s floor.

“The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained,” Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

“I haven’t ever seen something like this before,” he said. “This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child.”

The driver was fined 750 Australian dollars — about $710 — for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a safety belt.

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what is even more appalling that that father did that, but that two adults allowed it! They sat in the backseat with the beer strapped between them! :faint
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