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Aid Workers Turned Away
The junta is willing to receive aid but not aid workers. One relief flight was turned away because it contained "an unauthorized media group." They will have lives on their conscience for this.
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CNN: Rotting corpses pile up
While the junta fiddles. Aid workers need to be allowed access.
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Burma Slow to Recover; Torch climbs Everest
Five days after the storm, Burma's main city of Rangoon is paralyzed and lacks basic services, but the death toll there was small, 400 or so, compared with the Irrawaddy Delta. Food, water, and other necessities are desperately needed on the delta, which was slammed by the incoming storm, and aid teams are stuck waiting in Thailand for permission to cross the border.
Meanwhile, with very little fanfare outside the Chinese media echo-chamber, the torch summits Everest.
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Videos from U.S. Campaign for Burma
We're a week into the month of daily videos from celebs such as Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Silverman, and Eddie Izzard on Burma from the U.S. Campaign for Burma. Go to their website to see them all so far, and to read updates on the disastrous cyclone.
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Angry Young Chinese Students, and Woeser
Should've linked to this earlier but Konchog at Dreaming of Danzan Ravjaa has a great post on feeling sympathy for the young Chinese people who are vigorously defending their country from what they see as unfair attacks from abroad. Some good mythbusting info on the office of the Dalai Lama among other things in there too.
And Danny Fisher linked to a Washington Post article on the Tibetan writer Woeser, who was profiled in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere some months ago. She bravely lives and writes in Beijing, along with her husband, the activist Wang Lixiong.
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Torch expected to climb Everest soon; Radiohead
What a shame.
Radiohead staged a Tibet protest of their own in Florida, on the first day of their tour.
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Burma Death Toll: 80,000?
The numbers for this terrible tragedy keep rising. Lack of media access means we really don't have a clear idea of what's happening there. All we know is that there is intense misery and suffering, and more to come. It seems clear the government was not prepared and the people were not warned.
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Death Toll Rises Again from Storm in Burma; Karmapa visit; Beijing Accuses TYC of Terror Ties
More than 22,000. The junta allows aid to trickle in.
The Karmapa's visit to the U.S. is coming up. His schedule is on this site. At Tricycle we're obligated to mention the controversy over who is the 17th Karmapa, and that there are duelling Karmapas, but this site, which of course has an agenda, says it's a non-issue. It is true that the Karmapa who is coming to the U.S. has a bigger following here, which may explain why he is coming.
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Death Toll Could Reach 10,000
Remember that the 2004 storm killed over almost 200,000 -- not to minimize this one, but to remember how very deadly these storms can be, as we crowd the shorelines and play havoc with the environment.
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Buddhist Holidays
I came across a gathering (the Lotus Lantern Parade) in celebration of the Buddha's birthday yesterday in New York's Union Square (quite the Buddhist hotspot lately) and it made me think how scattered holidays are in western Buddhism. Maybe westerners don't want them, having secularized the holidays of their cradle religions. But it seems to play into the worries Clark Strand expressed over the future of the dharma in America. Pardon the crummy cellphone picture.
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The Pity of War
Unreleased photographs from Hiroshima. Taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, these images were found on a roll fo film in a cave outside the city by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who served in the occupation forces.
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4,000 dead from Burma storm
The more we hear the worse this terrible tragedy gets. People need clean water, fuel, and food, but the junta, especially with its constitutional referendum coming up, will resist letting foreign aid agencies in.
Witnesses said the government was slow to address the disaster, and exile groups said some residents had told them they were angry about the weak response of the military, which just nine months ago carried out a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations led by monks.
"This is what people I have contacted complain about," said Aung Zaw, editor of the Thailand-based exile magazine Irrawaddy. "These people were so active in September killing the monks, but where are they now?"
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Aung Zaw of Irrawaddy Magazine said that groups of monks joined residents in clearing the streets, but that in one case they had been prevented from leaving their monastery by armed police.
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The Cheap Food Era is Over
The death toll from the cyclone in Burma: 200? 351?
World food crisis: Asian food banks reach record low.
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Storm Hits Burma
Burma is one of Asia's poorest countries and storms like these always hurt the poor most.
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Dalai Lama's Envoys Head to China
The talks will be "informal" and their visit will be "brief".
Update: The torch in Hong Kong.
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Environmental Conundrum
By now it's commonplace to take about biofuels driving up the price of food (though some say this effect is overstated since food prices are rising all across the board) and encouraging deforestation. Similarly, the price of silicon is dropping, which means cheaper solar energy -- But silicon production creates large amounts of very toxic waste.
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