Horrible Hilary, earthquake slam into US

Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Hillary Clinton just gave away Left’s playbook for censorship and oppression (MSN)

Van Duzen River, California, cliffs crash and create tsunami

Tropical Storm Hilary: Roads flooded in Baja California

(KHOU 11) Aug. 20, 2023: Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall on the Baja California peninsula, flooding roads as seen here in  Mulegé, Baja California, Mexico.

Hurriquake: Coincidental hurricane-quake

Baja California (left), part of Mexico (right).

(WQ) Baja California (Mexico) got it first then Hilary slammed into Alta California (USA), striking San Diego and Imperial County, doing particular damage to one of the gayest communities in the country besides San Francisco, Fire Island, West Hollywood, and New York -- Palm Springs. There are no rivers in the desert only depressions from former rivers called arroyos or washes. These flood and destroy everything in their smooth or rocky path, taking out the railroad 89 years ago. It has been that long since such a storm arrived in SoCal. An earthquake on the fault seen today in Ojai, Ventura County, California happened 89 years ago. Coincidence? Sure, why not? It's not as if the government has their hands on technology that is capable of creating earthquakes...unless this man is to be believed. Others have said there are also lasers or HAARP transmission stations positioned in the U.S. that are able to guide the path of hurricanes (typhoons, cyclones, massive swirling storms the mainstream media claim are completely unpredictable, which they would be unpredictable if humans are able to interfere and drive them to do maximum damage or avoid major population centers).

(Shawn Ryan Clips) Scientist drops bombshell: US has

earthquake-making and other technologies in Antartica

Tropical Storm Hilary Live Coverage

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Suu Kyi to decide Burma's political future

Aung San Suu Kyi's party to decide Myanmar political comeback

RANGOON (AFP) - The opposition party of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to announce its return to the official political arena on Friday after years of marginalization by ruling [totalitarian] generals.

Senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) are to gather in Rangoon to decide whether to re-register as a political party, after boycotting elections last year -- the first to be held in Burma for 20 years.

• US Campaign for Burma
  
• AUDIO: Burma to Chair ASEAN (The World.org)
• Burma calls for sanctions to be lifted (WSJ), which explains why the military is making a show of treating Suu Kyi well.

Democracy in Burma? The US military would sooner force our version of democracy on Afghanistan through the barrel of a gun -- as Family Guy's Stewie and Private Brian find.

The NLD won a landslide victory in polls in 1990 but the win was never recognized by the then-ruling [military dictatorship] junta.

The party refused to take part in last November's vote mainly because of rules that would have forced it to expel imprisoned members. Suu Kyi was under house arrest at the time.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has spent most of the last two decades in detention, was released a few days after the polls and now appears to be planning an entrance to the mainstream political process.

"On the whole I think the great majority of our people will go in for re-registration," 66-year-old Suu Kyi told the BBC on Thursday. More

Kim and the Kardashians for Burma

Latest on Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake

(NewsyVideos) By Tracy Pfeiffer with anchors Chance Seales. "Asia is on edge after another earthquake hit the southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known by its former name of Burma. ABC has more." ABC Anchor Juju Chang: "It measured 6.8, shaking across hundreds of miles. So far more than 70 people have died, but the toll is expected to rise. Hundreds of homes, Buddhist monasteries, and government buildings have been damaged." The quake occurred in what's known as the "Golden Triangle," a region where Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand border one another. As a result, shaking and aftershocks were felt in these countries as well as China and Vietnam. An article from the BBC says, even though the Burmese government has released information about the death toll and injuries, it might be some time before the rest of the world gets an accurate picture of the damage. "Burma is ill prepared to deal with natural disasters. ... Communication systems and infrastructure are poor and the military government, still in charge until the handover to a new civilian-led administration, tends to limit the flow of information." And a writer for TIME notes, the current government has a history of questionable crises responses. "During the last natural disaster to hit Burma -- Cyclone Nargis in 2008 -- the government was criticized for placing state security over humanitarian concerns... During the 1980s, a large section of the city of Mandalay was destroyed by fire, but news did not reach the outside world until a Western journalist traveled there nearly five years later." But a writer for Christian Science Monitor focuses on the potential economic impact of the quake and says, financial consequences will be limited. "...[A]side from agriculture and limited tourism, the only other industry of note in the so-called Golden Triangle is opium, and that has been in decline for more than a decade. What remains of the drug industry serves Asia... Illegal though it may be, the industry would feel the same effect as legitimate manufacturers would." A volunteer on the ground tells Sydney Morning Herald, "unhappy information" will likely come out of the rural areas of Myanmar as the recovery progresses.

Fresh Burma aid appeal after Cyclone

Fresh Burma aid appeal two years on from Cyclone Nargis
Reconstruction in the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta has been very slow. Two years after a devastating cyclone hit Burma, the aid agency Oxfam has appealed for more aid, as international funding pledges remain unfulfilled. Oxfam said that two years into a three-year appeal, only about a quarter of the money needed had been promised. With the monsoon season approaching in Burma, shelter and agriculture were priorities, it said. Cyclone Nargis killed about 140,000 people and severely affected the lives of another 2.5 million. After an international outcry, Burma's military government eventually opened up to foreign aid - but now Oxfam says that aid is falling short and putting its achievements at risk. More>>

UN chief hails release of Burma dissidents

UN Chief Ban ki-Moon and Burmese dictator General Than Shwe

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — UN chief Ban Ki-moon welcomed Friday the release of a batch of political prisoners in Burma (Myanmar) but urged the junta to free those still being held, including democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

"The Secretary-General welcomes the release of a limited number of political prisoners as part of a larger amnesty," Ban's spokes-woman Michele Montas said. Earlier Friday, Myanmar author-ities freed two journalists who helped victims of last year's Cyclone Nargis and released several opposition activists as part of an amnesty for more than 7,000 prisoners, according to witnesses.

One of the freed journalists was Eint Khaing Oo, 28, who was arrested in 2008. This year she became the first recipient of an award set up in memory of a Japanese video reporter who was killed in monk-led protests in 2007 [during the Saffron Revolution]. More>>

Burma rejects foreign criticism

Jonathan Head (BBC South East Asia correspondent)

(Above) Burma's hardline generals form dictatorship that has put Suu Kyi on trial. (Right) the trial has drawn international condemnation leading to worldwide protests.

• Burmese pythons invade Florida

The Burmese government has rejected foreign criticism of the charges against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as interference from abroad.

Speaking at a meeting of EU and South East Asian ministers in Cambodia, the deputy fo-reign minister insisted that her trial was not a human rights issue. US President Obama has called Ms. Suu Kyi's hearing a "show trial."

The regional group ASEAN recently warned Burma that its honor and credibility were at stake. The trial entered its ninth day on Thursday, with more testimony from the American who swam to Ms. Suu Kyi's house. More>>

• Inside Burma's Insein prison
• Photojournal: One family's struggle
• Did the cyclone change Burma's junta?
• Capturing Burma protests on film

Interactive map: Life in some of the areas worst-hit by last year's cyclone