On May 31, 2:49Â pm, CharlesLiu
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>>> On May 30, 2:52Â pm, bmo...@
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>>> On May 30, 10:25Â am, rst0wxyz
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>>>> Burma's ruling junta lashed out Thursday at aid donors who promised
>>>> millions of dollars for cyclone relief, saying survivors didn't need
>>>> "bars of chocolate."
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>>>> State-run media criticized donors for only pledging up to $150 million
>>>> - a far cry from the $11 billion the junta said it needed to rebuild.
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>>>> The Myanma Ahlin newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said cyclone
>>>> victims from the hardest-hit areas could get by without foreign
>>>> handouts.
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>>>> "People from the Irrawaddy Delta can survive on their own, even
>>>> without bars of chocolate donated by the international community," it
>>>> said, adding they can live on "fresh vegetables that grow wild in the
>>>> fields and on protein-rich fish from the rivers."
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>>>> The reference to chocolate bars appeared to be metaphorical. No aid
>>>> agency is known to be distributing them, and they would not be
>>>> practical in the country's tropical heat. Paul Risley of the U.N.'s
>>>> World Food Program, which is directing the effort for emergency food
>>>> supplies, said his agency provides rice, ready-to-eat meals of rice
>>>> and beans, and high-energy biscuits.
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>>>> The newspaper commentary also slammed an unnamed monetary institution,
>>>> saying its refusal to help cyclone survivors was "an act of
>>>> inhumanity."
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>>>> World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub said last week that the
>>>> bank will not extend any financial aid or loans to Burma because it
>>>> has not paid its debts for a decade.
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>>>> The article said the same countries that criticized Burma, also known
>>>> as Myanmar, for not opening its door to aid workers were being stingy
>>>> with relief aid. It appeared to single out the United States without
>>>> naming it.
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>>>> "There is one big nation that extended economic sanctions on Myanmar
>>>> even before it was known that a powerful cyclone was going to strike
>>>> Myanmar," it said.
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>>>> Despite the blistering rhetoric, the United Nations reported that
>>>> dozens of visas had been approved for international relief workers to
>>>> enter the country. It said more foreigners were also being allowed
>>>> into the delta, which had been off-limits to Westerners since the
>>>> storm left 1.5 million homeless.
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>>>> It was an apparent sign that the isolationist government planned to
>>>> keep its promise to allow in humanitarian workers from all countries.
>>>> The last 45 pending visas were granted to U.N. staffers, while Save
>>>> the Children, Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF have sent more than
>>>> 14 workers in recent days into the delta region, a U.N. statement
>>>> said.
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>>>> Japan, which has so far donated $13 million in aid, sent a 23-member
>>>> medical team to the country Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said in
>>>> Tokyo.
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>>>> This article appeared on page A - 12 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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>>> Of course the bit about donors sending chocolate bars is not true. The
>>> junta is once again trying to hide their own indifference and
>>> incompetence by blasting the people who are trying to help them. They
>>> are trying to fool us but few are fooled.
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>> Come on, Bill Moore, chocolate IS part of America. Â Ever since WWII,
>> chocolate was and has been part of our gift to every country, every
>> kid knows it.
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> And what BO Mo there don't know is Bush jhunta did the exact same
> thing - refusing aid workers, turn away food, demand money, good we
> see as "priority", not what's in the interest of Katrina victims:
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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_details_US_refusals_of_foreign_0...
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> US government turned down offers of help from across the globe in the
> wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling one diplomat "human assistance of
> any kind is not on our priorities list."
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> "Human assistance of any kind is not on our priorities list ... It's
> all about goods, not people, at this point."
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> So here, Bush jhunta also want the stuff at their choosing, without
> admitting foreign aid workers.
So who was offering chocolate to Katrina victims? You're trying to
change the subject again, Honest Charles.
> Double standeards galore...
I don't believe I had made a comment about the Katrina situation,
Honest Charles. Though I'd be willing to discuss it with someone who
didn't have such a big chip on his shoulder. A lot of what you say is
dishonest and deceptive. You're pretty much useless when it comes to
having a real discussion. You're all mouth and no brain.
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