| So the Myanmar Junta is taking all the food in the wake of the cyclone disaster is anyone surprised? And what is going to happen next? Now that the Burmese people will suffer even more than they have already. The secretive generals in charge are taking all the supplies flown in from the UN and from the few countries allowed in - and now the food is going to stop.I recall the sham of Iraq's Oil for Food program and how that program was being abused by the then Iraqi government. Wasn't that one of the reasons for invading? So where is the UN security force or the Coalition of the Willing ready
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| A train full of people has derailed today killing at least 58 people and injuring 120. The overnight express was going from Karachi to Lahore when 15 of it's 17 carriages derailed near Mehrabpur. 40 of the injured are in critical condition and there are still strapped people in the carriages.
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| Raw video of a recent Oregon landslide. I'm sure you all know how I feel about these things: It's your own fault. Clear-cutting forests, did you think that wouldn't have any impact? Read the rest and see the video over at the home of AngryJed:http://angryjed.blogspot.com/2007/12/oregon-landslide-thats-what-you-get-for.html
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| People of South Korea struggle to clean up the worst oil spill in the history of their country. 35 miles of coastline has already been blacked by oil, killing the wild life and devastating communities that rely on fishing and tourism.The spill was the result of a collision of a tanker with a barge. About 10,000 tons of oil spilled from the tanked Hebei Spirit. The clean up will take as long as 2 months.
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| At least 60 people have been killed and 100 are missing after a bridge collapsed while it was under construction in southern Vietnam. The disaster happened after scaffolding on some parts of the bridge, came apart early on Wednesday. About 250 engineers and workers were on site at the time. "They are still pulling out bodies from the rubble, I could hear the screams," a worker told Reuters news agency. The deputy head of the Can Tho police, Le Viet Hung , said rescue teams were digging through the rubble in search of survivors. "It was total chaos. It sounded like a huge explosion.
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| The eye of a deadly powerful Category Five storm has struck Mexico, the US National Hurricane Centre has said. Dean has already struck Guadeloupe Hurricane Dean has begun to lash Mexico's Caribbean coast, with heavy rain and howling winds battering beach resorts where thousands of tourists are huddling in shelters."It is a hugely destructive storm - you don't see Category Five hurricanes every day," said Sky News weather presenter Isobel Lang."In the next couple of hours the coast north of Belize will feel its full force, while the holiday resort of Cancun will experience
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| On April 26 21 years ago the worst nuclear power accident in history occured. The accident consisted of an explosion at the plant and subsequent radioctive contamination of the surrounding area. The power plant was located near Pripyat, Ukraine.It resulted in evacuation and resettlement of over 336 000 people. How many are still dying from radiation received back then is unknown. Here is a movie about the Chernobyl Disaster. I should warn you it's as depressive as impressive.
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| MYTH: THE LARGER THE TORNADO, THE STRONGERFACT: A thin funnel cloud called a "rope" tornado might not look as devastating as some of the massive, computer-generated tornadoes seen in the movies, but don't be fooled. A tornado's size and shape does not signal its strength. Some rope tornadoes can wreak F5 levels of damage, whereas some extremely wide twisters - called "wedge" tornadoes - only reach F0, the weakest level on the Fujita Scale. MYTH: OPENING WINDOWS WILL MINIMIZE DESTRUCTIONFACT: Although authorities once encouraged people to open windows to equalize air pressure,
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| Tornadoes start as offshoots of thunderstorms but can end up as devastating forces in their own right, carving a path of destruction scores of miles long and more than a mile wide. #5The "Gainesville Tornado" was actually a pair of tornadoes that converged April 6, 1936, in Gainesville, Georgia. The F4-rated twisters killed 203 people and injured 1,600, and destroyed four city blocks and 750 houses. Shown here, past the train tracks, are some of the buildings in the north Georgia town that were damaged by the tornado. #4The
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