Burma: updates from sources on the inside

[ymu]

Burmese public internet access is now cut and news is slow to get to the borders and out via external phone signals from China/Thailand/India.

Blog and indymedia reports linked below (similar content, same author); both include links to the best resistance news sources and the latest situation - they will be updated as news comes through.

http://thinkwell-daz.blogspot.com/
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007...?c=on#comments

The Embassies in Burma can help by making WIFI access freely available to all. Please e-mail/phone to request their help and pester Foreign/State Offices at home. Thanks.

[Mayor M. Barry]

[ ] Oil Present
[ ] In Europe or Western Hemisphere
[ ] Headquarters for online poker sites
[ ] Ally in "War on Terror"

[ymu]

[x] Big well-armed regional powers
[x] Regional powers own the US debt and can destroy the West overnight with no need for war
[x] No chance of USuk getting it's greedy hands on the spoils

[bobman0330]

[ QUOTE ]
[ ] Oil Present
[ ] In Europe or Western Hemisphere
[ ] Headquarters for online poker sites
[ ] Ally in "War on Terror"

[/ QUOTE ]

You are aware that the Bush administration has been at the forefront of efforts to apply diplomatic pressure to Myanmar, right?

[ymu]

Plenty of oil though - even if they don't sell it to you lot. European protests are centred on Total Oil stations.

[ymu]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ ] Oil Present
[ ] In Europe or Western Hemisphere
[ ] Headquarters for online poker sites
[ ] Ally in "War on Terror"

[/ QUOTE ]

You are aware that the Bush administration has been at the forefront of efforts to apply diplomatic pressure to Myanmar, right?

[/ QUOTE ]

LOL!!!

Just exactly what influence do you think your jumped-up little spendthrift nation has? China and India could send you back to the stone ages just by cutting off the money supply. No troops needed.

Laura did a fine job - the first political figure in the West to link in China and the Olympics to the crisis, and her analysis was good. But your naive belief in a corrupt undemocratic autocrat is naive beyond belief.

[wtfsvi]

? I don't think he said that the US has tremendous influence over Burma. What he said was quite correct I think.

[bobman0330]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ ] Oil Present
[ ] In Europe or Western Hemisphere
[ ] Headquarters for online poker sites
[ ] Ally in "War on Terror"

[/ QUOTE ]

You are aware that the Bush administration has been at the forefront of efforts to apply diplomatic pressure to Myanmar, right?

[/ QUOTE ]

LOL!!!

Just exactly what influence do you think your jumped-up little spendthrift nation has? China and India could send you back to the stone ages just by cutting off the money supply. No troops needed.

Laura did a fine job - the first political figure in the West to link in China and the Olympics to the crisis, and her analysis was good. But your naive belief in a corrupt undemocratic autocrat is naive beyond belief.

[/ QUOTE ]

Laura? You are correct in mentioning that China and India are the key factors in this situation, and their refusal to pressure the Myanmar regime has contributed enormously to its longevity.

[iron81]

[ QUOTE ]
Just exactly what influence do you think your jumped-up little spendthrift nation has?

[/ QUOTE ]
We buy some pretty impressive toys with that money:



Also, when you talk about "cutting off the money supply", you're talking about destroying the global economy. Its economic mutually assured destruction.

[Coco]

It's the United State's ridiculous foreign policy. BOOOOOOOO!!! USA is EEEEEEVIL!!!!1!