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Virtually Speaking with Chris Mooney

Our next installment of the Virtually Speaking interview series takes place tomorrow night, at 6pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern.  Chris Moony will come by to discuss his new book, Storm Worlds. Or at least,...

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Millions Fleeing 155mph winds, 18ft Storm Surge in Bangladesh

Top category 4 Cyclone Sidr is beginning to strike the Ganges delta of Bangladesh. A mountain of water is being driven by 155 mph plus supertyphoon strength winds through the funnel that is the Bay of...

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Tonight! Virtually Speaking with Chris Mooney

Our next installment of the Virtually Speaking interview series takes place TONIGHT, at 6pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern.  Chris Mooney will come by to discuss his new book, Storm Worlds. Or at least, that...

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Cyclone? What cyclone?

The  death toll in Bangladesh from Cyclone Sidr -- the sort of natural disaster that is expected to become more common due, to among other factors, global climate change -- has exceeded 2000, and...

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Myanmar cyclone, Katrina, People in Glass Houses...w/Poll

The. Chutzpah. Is. Unbelievable.: In a press conference yesterday, Laura Bush took the Myanmar junta to task for failing to prepare its citizens for the recent cyclone (est. death toll: 10,000) and for...

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NO POLITICS, PLEASE, WE'RE DYING

. MYANMAR DISASTER UPDATE: "PLEASE HELP" RARE APPEAL TO OUTSIDE WORLD BY BURMESE JUNTA Super-Hurricane Kills Thousands Tens of thousands dead. Hundreds of thousands homeless. Millions hungry, as the...

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(Video) Laura Bush's Insensitive Press Conference on Myanmar

Yesterday Laura Bush was at the White House giving a press conference on the tragedy in Myanmar. Everything appears on the level until the very end when the focus shifts to the details of Jenna's...

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Myanmar Cyclone 22,000 dead and rising.

This is not a political diary.  This is a humanitarian diary.    In this political day, I wanted to pause and think of all the people dead and displaced in this huge disaster.

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Myanmar: Deus In Adjutorium Meum Intende

Matins. Lauds. Prime. Terce. Sext. Nones. Vespers. Compline.  Eight times a day, people all over the world stop to chant or pray the Liturgy of the Hours.  "Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall...

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Is Bush purposely goading Myanmar into rejecting our aid?

I mentioned in a previous post on my blog Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis that the First Lady's severe condemnation of the Myanmar government mixed in with the offer for aid yesterday surely seemed bent on...

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22,000

I'm sure everyone on this site, like myself, was anxiously watching the polls, awaiting the results from Lake County, tabulating percentages and hoping for the best tonigh. In the end, it appears the...

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80,000 DEAD IN MYANMAR CYCLONE

. HOW YOU CAN HELP LIST OF AGENCIES' AND NGOs' WEBSITES FOR ONLINE DONATIONS Plus Links To Background On Each Organization AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK Burma death toll 'likely to hit 80,000' "An...

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Money Bomb: Burma

This morning many of us are celebrating a very good night for Obama. On the other side of the world it is a very bad morning. In Myanmar (Burma) this morning brings news of 60,000 - 80,000 people dead....

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Catastrophe to Celebration ...

Not everything is the Bush White House's fault. Not everything.   In this case, not fully their fault, but the contrast is too striking to go without comment. The White House sent Laura Bush out to...

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Who Cares?

Yes, we are thrilled that our long and increasingly ugly primary process is drawing to a close, and that the prospect of a unified and strong Democratic party is increasingly possible and likely. We...

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Possibly better way to help Burma's cyclone victims

Even though I've been a regular visitor here, I've never posted my own diary. However, as I see a lot of people wanting to help and the traditional way of helping (red cross, doctors without borders...

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Phony of the Day: Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday on the crisis in Myanmar, calling on the government there to allow more foreign aid workers into the country: "This is not a matter of politics, this is a...

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Ways to help the People of Burma

The deadly Cyclone Nargis has devastated Rangoon and other parts of Burma (Mynemar). Reports today say that some aid is entering the country (though U.S. flights are still being refused). A friend who...

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HOW TO TARGET DONATIONS TO BURMA AID ON THE GROUND NOW

. MYANMAR JUNTA DIDDLES WHILE BURMESE DIE IF EVER THERE WERE A CASE FOR REGIME CHANGE . . . Generals Intent Upon Profiting From Disaster The Myanmar Junta refuse to allow foreign aid workers in,...

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military action against Burmese generals?

I worry that Burma is not getting the attention it deserves, between the primaries and Jenna's wedding. If there ever was a case for regime change, the military junta in Burma is it. I can't believe...

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