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  http://lynnsamuels.typepad.com/lynn_samuels/2008/05/12000-de...
  203 days ago in LYNN SAMUELS · Authority: 2

  12,000 DEAD, 30,000 BURIED IN CHINA QUAKE DEBRIS
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  In Case You Were Wondering...

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  204 days ago in Moron Pundit · Authority: 24

  China isn't quite a first world country yet no matter what their leaders would have you believe: Rescuers struggled this morning to reach victims of the devastating earthquake that killed thousands of people in central China and trapped thousands more in the rubble of collapsed schools, factories, hospitals and homes. Road, rail, air and phone links to the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude shock were cut, hampering relief efforts and the flow of information on the scale of the catastrophe. Some Chinese troops were marching up to 100 miles through the night to reach affected areas. When we have major earthquakes in major metropolitan areas, our death tolls are rarely over 100. I'd say China is still closer to Iran's level of development. Update The confirmed death toll is now nearly 4,000 with tens of thousands still buried. How terrifying. Hopefully they will show up the Burmese junta and allow aid workers into the country. I have to say I'm not very hopeful because as late as last night the government would only admit a few hundred casualties.
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  News Summary

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  203 days ago in karim74 · Authority: 5

  » Unsubscribe / Delivery Options » Get Mobile Delivery May 13, 2008 | Morning Edition Top Stories 30,000 Buried In China Quake Debris Nearly 12,000 Confirmed Dead; Aftershocks, Crumbled Infrastructure Hinder Rescuers Bush Admin. "Silent" On Iraq Corruption Florida Wildfires Scar More Than 50 Homes Myanmar Lets In More U.S. Aid, No Experts CBS News Programs CBS News Investigates Leading Dr.: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study CBS News Exclusive: Former Head Of NIH Says Government Too Quick To Dismiss Possible Link Early Show: Shallow Shocked She Won "Survivor" ! Early Show: Extraordinary People ShowBuzz: TV Reality TV: Archuleta's Dad Booted From Rehearsals U.S. » More U.S. Down Economy Denting Baby Boomer Future Survey: Middle-Aged Americans Borrowing Money From Family, Cutting Funding To Retirement 2008's Tornado Toll Deadliest In A Decade U.S. Drops Charges Against "20th Hijacker" Foam Cos. Offer $30M Over Nightclub Fire World » More World Cease-Fire Fails To Pacify Sadr City Hospital Officials Say 11 Killed, 19 Wounded In 2 Days Of Clashes With Shiite Militants Ex-Pakistan PM Pulls Party From Cabinet Preliminary Divorce Decree For McCartney U.S. Aid Reaches Myanmar; Death Toll Rises Politics » More Politics Clinton Eyes W.Va. Win; Obama Looks Ahead Clinton Should Secure Big Victory Tuesday In West Virginia, But Results Unlikely To Have Meaningful Impact Against Obama Away From Obama's Crowds, Racist Moments McCain Breaks With Bush On Climate Change Obama In W.Va. With Eye To November Health » More Health Leading Dr.: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study CBS News Exclusive: Former Head Of NIH Says Government Too Quick To Dismiss Possible Link New Drug Reverses Dentists' Anesthesia Number Of Disabled U.S. Veterans Rising Figuring Out What's In Your Food SciTech » More SciTech Wind Energy Gets A Lift In New Report Government Report Says Turbines Could Be On Par With Nuclear As Energy Source By 2030 Congress Divided On Energy Plan Figuring Out What's In Your Food Bet! ter Dirt Key To Solving Food Crisis Business » More Business Cablevision Buys Newsday For $650 Million Acquires NY-Based Newspaper From Tribune, Beating Out Bids By News Corp. And Daily News Toyota Says New U.S. Auto Plant Delayed Tax Rebate Wrinkle Excludes Some Americans Expensive Gas: Good For The Bike Business Strange » More Strange Police: Drunk Tuxedo-clad Man Took Mower For Ride Police Say Tuxedo-clad Man Took Lawn Mower Out For A Spin While Intoxicated Utah Father And Son Graduate Law School Together Southwest Passenger Cited For Cell Phone Chatter Iowa Man Charged With Throwing Candy At Police Entertainment » More Entertainment "Dancing" Star Yamaguchi Back On Top Olympic Skater Scores Highest On Semi-Final Night South Pacific: Strong Tony Contender Terrell Owens Guests On Flavor Flav Sitcom R. Kelly Trial: Fans Not Likely Jurors Opinion » More Opinion Dusk On Earth The Nation: The Planet Has Reached Its Tipping Point, And It's Time For A Hail Mary Pass Are Republicans Gloomy For Good Reason? Obama's Biggest Media Challenge: McCain Remembering What Mom Taught Us Top Videos » More Videos Autism Linked To Vaccines? (3:05) Massive Earthquake Rocks China (3:11) Misery Continues In Myanmar (2:09) Tornado Blows Town Asunder (2:23) Clinton Continues Campaigning (1:53) Storm Experts Look For Answers (2:10) Top Photos » More Photos Celebrity Circuit Photos Of The Day Weekend Twisters "Sex" Is Back Quake Shakes China Jenna's Big Day Latest Blog Posts » More Blogs HorseraceMcCain, MoveOn Unveil New Ads McCain Stakes Out Middle Ground On Climate Change Read More Couric & Co.Bush Won't Make Gas Prices Forecast In CBS News Interview, President Declines To Make Prediction Read More From The RoadClinton Jabs West Virginians On '00 and '04 Election Votes Campaigning in W.V. today Read More Most Viewed Stories1. The Preacher's Wife 2. China Quake Death Toll Rises To 10,000 3. Epilepsy Site Hacked With Seizure Images 4. Obama In W.Va. With Eye To November 5. Leading Dr.: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study Videos1. Massive Earthquake Rocks China (3:11) 2. Autism Linked To Vaccines? (3:05) 3. Misery Continues In Myanmar (2:09) 4. Tornado Blows Town Asunder (2:23) 5. The Price Of Bananas (12:56)<! /a> Photos1. Celebrity Circuit 2. Jenna's Big Day 3. Here Come The Brides 4. Quake Shakes China 5. Weekend Twisters Contact: Email Administrator, CBSNews.com, 524 W. 57th St., Room 514/1, New York, NY, 10019 ©MMVIII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. To unsubscribe or change your subscription options, click here. »Help »Advertise »Terms of Service »Privacy Policy
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  Prayers for the desperate

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  203 days ago in Yeah, right ... · Authority: 16

  Here are the latest mind-numbing figures on the recent natural disasters. (CBS stories here: China and Myanmar/Burma ) Myanmar/Burma cyclone: 62,000-100,000 dead or missing, 2 million needing aid China earthquake: 12,000 dead, 10,000 still buried, unknown numbers needing aid Side-by-side with these headlines, CBS tells us that this is the deadliest tornado season in 10 years, with about 100 dead. While I have full sympathy for those affected by the tornados, those storms cannot compare with what is happening in Burma and China. I sometimes wonder how we can be so unaffected by massive tragedies like this. Are Oriental lives less important than American lives? Please pray that God will open the door wide for aid into Burma. Pray that He will have mercy on all those who survived and need help in both areas. Pray that He will let Christian aid workers into both areas, to spread the desperately-needed hope of Jesus Christ, along with meeting the needs of the body.
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  China Quake: 10000 Dead, 10000 Buried

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  203 days ago in mimblr.com · Authority: 9

  China Quake: 10000 Dead, 10000 Buried May 13th, 2008 (CBS/AP) With about 12,000 people already confirmed dead, China’s state media said Tuesday that another 10,000 were still buried under rubble in a city near the epicenter of the massive earthquake that struck the day before. The official Xinhua News Agency said that local officials in Mianzhu said the people “remain buried,” a day after a 7.9-magnitude quake. They gave no other details. Mianzhu is 60 miles from the quake’s epicenter of Wenchuan. It took rescue workers until Tuesday to reach Mianzhu. The estimate that 10,000 people remained buried there came soon after a group of 1,300 troops reached the city. Disaster Response Director Wang Zhengyao said at a news conference Tuesday that 11,921 people had died so far from the earthquake. Across China’s central Sichuan province, thousands of rescuers frantically dug through massive piles of rubble in hopes of finding survivors. They did so at great risk to themselves, as aftershocks with magnitudes as great as 6.0 on the Richter scale continued to jolt the region. Also hampering the rescue effort were bad weather, and transport and communications infrastructures left in tatters by the quake. The powerful temblor toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday. It was the country’s worst quake in three decades. The quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing and could be felt as far away as Vietnam. CBS News reporter Celia Hatton in Beijing reported that China’s communist leaders quickly vowed to launch an all-out recovery effort. As Tuesday dawned, rescuers were frantically searching for more survivors, but rain was compounding the difficulty. Premier Wen Jiabao, who flew to the region, said rain was forecast for the next several days. The government was pouring in troops to aid in the disaster recovery. Xinhua said 16,000 were in the area and 34,000 more were en route. cbsnews.com Tags: xinhua
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  Cina: countdown per salvare i terremotati

  http://blog.panorama.it/mondo/2008/05/13/cina-countodown-per...
  203 days ago in Panorama.it - Mondo · Authority: 143

  Da Hong Kong Guarda la GALLERY Continua a salire, in Cina, il bilancio delle vittime del terremoto che ha colpito la provincia occidentale del Sichuan. Per il momento la stima ufficiale resta ferma a 12.000 vittime, ma ci si aspetta un tragico aggiornamento dal momento che i 1.300 soldati che hanno raggiunto la località di Wenchuan, epicentro del sisma, nella speranza di liberare dalle macerie qualche cittadino ancora in vita, hanno stimato la presenza di ben 18.645 persone nella città di Mianyang, vicina all’epicentro, rimasti sepolti da massi e detriti. 3,629 sono già morte secondo quanto riferisce la Bbc. Ancora difficili da quantificare i danni materiali provocati dalle scosse di ieri, e non è stato confermato se la forte scossa di assestamento registrata questa mattina (8.10 ora italiana) a Chengdu, capoluogo del Sichuan (scala richter 6.1), abbia fatto crollare nuove strutture. Intanto si diffonde il panico per il ritardo nei soccorsi: molti abitanti dei paesi circostanti si stanno spostando proprio a Chengdu nella speranza di trovare lì acqua, elettricità, e altri generi di prima necessità. 50 mila soldati. Le operazioni di soccorso che impegnano 50mila uomini dell’Esercito di Liberazione Popolare, affiancati da agenti della Polizia Armata del Popolo e da volontari, sono coordinate da Chengdu dal premier Wen Jiabao in persona. La maggior parte delle località colpite dal sisma è rimasta isolata, e fino a ieri non sono state raggiunte poiché maltempo e scarsa visibilità hanno impedito l’atterraggio degli elicotteri dell’esercito. Oggi, lo Stato Maggiore ha dato l’ordine di far intervenire quanti più paracadutisti possibili per portare cibo, medicine e tende ai feriti. Il loro intervento è però reso difficile dalla pioggia battente che ha di fatto reso impraticabili gran parte delle strade. Ancora il governo sta cercando di trovare un modo per installare basi di comunicazione satellitare ripristinando così i contatti tra le diverse provincie anche per coordinare meglio gli aiuti. La Cina e il mondo. Il Governo di Pechino - che ha detto sì agli aiuti, ma non ancora all’arrivo del personale umanitario - ha ringraziato tutti i membri della comunità internazionale che hanno espresso la propria disponibilità ad inviare aiuti alla Repubblica Popolare. Tra questi la Commissione Europea, gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia, ma l’unico Paese che già da ieri aveva radunato squadre di soccorso, elicotteri e altre unità di crisi in modo che fossero pronte ad intervenire non appena la Cina avesse richiesto ufficialmente assistenza è il Giappone: l’ennesimo segnale di distensione tra le due potenze inviato nell’arco di pochi giorni. Guarda il video-servizio E la fiaccola olimpica… Sempre in mattinata, Pechino ha diffuso un comunicato in cui afferma che il percorso della fiaccola olimpica - attesa proprio nel Sichuan dal 13 al 19 giugno - non verrà né deviato né rallentato dal terremoto, con l’intento di dimostrare, ancora una volta, che la Cina è una grande potenza, in grado di far fronte a qualunque tipo di emergenza. A sua volta il comitato organizzatore ha dichiarato che la cerimonia del percorso - che non cambierà - sarà comunque resa più sobria meno per rispetto verso le vittime del terremoto. 四川地震 (Terremoto nello Sichuan)

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