Filed under: disinfo reporting | Tags: 7/7, 9/11, Benazir Bhutto, burma, Chinese earthquake, Cyclone Nargis, Katrina, Madrid, Tsunami
I have a habit of watching news stories early on. The earlier the better, methinks. A story goes through dozens of changes depending on who’s reporting what and the final, agreed-upon “official story” rarely resembles the first “facts on the ground”.
I’m talking about 9/11, 7/7, Madrid, Katrina, Benazir Bhutto, Tsunami, Cyclone Nargis, the Chinese earthquake and the second cyclone to hit Burma….(SFX: record needle *screeeeeeee*…..)
It’s true….earlier this week CNN announced:
The Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center said there is a good chance that “a significant tropical cyclone” will form within the next 24 hours and head across the Irrawaddy delta area…
The news of a second cyclone was not broadcast by Burma’s state-controlled media. But Rangoon residents picked up the news on foreign broadcasts and on the Internet.
And apparently the Burmese (the lucky ones with radios, tv’s and net access, that is…) aren’t hearing about the impending “second wave of death”, because the news from foreign broadcasts have all but dried up. (if you find anything, send it my way…).
It seems that Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, has pulled a superman-esque move by going to negotiate with the Burmese military junta and, has not only talked some sense into them…he seems to have stopped the storm as well. You have to admit, it took some balls of steel on the part of the Thai PM to fly in Burma as a fresh cyclone was heading in from the coast just to get visas for NGO’s. But, when Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej warned that “hardship would prevail if assistance isn’t accepted”, well…neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Of course, it’s absurd to think that any nation would send its own Commander-in-Chief right into harm’s way.
Samak visited a government relief center in Rangoon and told reporters after returning to Bangkok that the junta has given him the “guarantee” that there are no disease outbreaks and no starvation among the cyclone survivors.
“They have their own team to cope with the situation,” Samak said, citing Burma Prime Minister Lt. Gen. Thein Sein. “From what I have seen I am impressed with their management.”
Oh….so….no second cyclone in 24 hours? Phew! That’s a good day’s work. Still, you’d think that news outfits might follow-up on the weather forecast that was spelling such doom and gloom. Or perhaps you wouldn’t think about news outfits needing to do follow-ups….that’s a depressing thought…
But what of Burma? What of Burma’s need to open it’s doors to foreign military humanitarian aid on its own soil? Why won’t their military dictators let our military start their work?? Are they crazy? I mean…they just got wiped out by one cyclone and another just….like….missed them by *this much*!!
Call me crazy, but I’m sure the military in Burma know a crap-load more than I do about weather modification.
Weather modification?! Are *you* nuts??
Well, Jimmy Carter’s own National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (and now Obama’s advisor on national security issues) said in 1970:
“Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised… [T]echniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.”
Talk about being a “rainmaker”…
