On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:37:36 -0700 (PDT), James <James.Russell.Brownwood@gmail.com Hi BaldEagle and noname Dot At Home and other SCB readers, I have never said to be American or not. I only have said that I am from the West and that I am a human rights activist. My nationality and place of dwelling are not important. My background, Christian, human and knowing what freedom is, is. I have explained this many times, but I can imagine that some (new) readers may have missed it. I have never...

June 21, 2009 Letters to the Editor Dear sirs: As foul as it is to engage in the reprehensible and malignant, it is just as low to be aware of them and not acknowledge it. Any system run by crookedness and criminality inevitably relies on deceit to continue. They can never reveal the truth about themselves to those they seek to rape. Inasmuch as they depend on lies to operate, however, they must resort to techniques based on non-truth. Among other things, they cannot count on inherent validity i...

WHEN CYCLONE NARGIS came roaring into Burma's Irrawaddy Delta last May 2, 138,000 people died, hundreds of thousands were left homeless and destitute, and the world saw the human rights horrors that the people of Burma confront under a rogue military junta. A year later, that regime remains in place. The Obama administration should press harder for change. The junta's reaction to Nargis was appalling. Corrupt, paranoid generals wasted weeks rebuffing humanitarian aid from US Navy ships offshore,...

Note: I would certainly include a virulent pandemic of any kind into this "Mega-disaster" warning. In my opinion a pandemic under the right conditions would probably kill exponentially more people than an tsunami, earthquake, or flood, because by definition, it isn't localized. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-un-disaster-risks,1,7765953.story UN report: Rampant growth of world's urban slums increasing risk of 'megadisasters' BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer 6:59 AM PD...

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:23:35 -0700 (PDT), mogyothwar <zizawar@globalnet.co.uk HERE IS THE NEWS. Wed Apr 29, 10:23 am ET YANGON (AFP) – The party of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday set stiff conditions for taking part in elections planned for 2010 by the ruling junta, including the release of the detained icon. The National League for Democracy (NLD) issued a statement after a two- day meeting in Yangon to decide on its stance ahead of the polls, which critics have de...

On Sun, 24 May 2009 04:26:29 -0700 (PDT), Zomi for Federalization and Democratization of Burma <SoeMyatThu@gmail.com ==== The Lady, a 'Fool' and a Crazy Dictator By AUNG ZAW Friday, May 15, 2009 Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer, Kyi Win, is an angry man. His client is now in jail as a result of a madcap escapade by the American intruder John William Yettaw. “Everyone is very angry with this wretched American,” said Kyi Win. “He is the cause of all these problems. He's a fool.” While creatin...