Recently, major media outlets have been disseminating heaps of news, pictures and "secretly" filmed videos about Burma. The videos show throngs of saffron-robed monks streaming the streets and sometimes stampeding when attacked by the police.
At the first glance, the media is trying to paint the situation as a call for democracy and liberating from a repressive government and an outcry against skyrocketing prices, particularly fuels.
However, there are some facts about Burma, its geopolitical position in the Southeast Asia and its rich resources that make us pause for a while and look at the situation from another angle.
Burma has a population of fifty million and the land is as big as Texas. Around 70% of people income is gobbled up by price of food. The country is the second producer of narcotics after Afghanistan.
Lets chart some of the "significant" features of Burma to see that there are some opaque and ulterior agendas behind the reports and pictures aired "mostly" by CNN.
1- Eighty percent of oil for China's thriving economy is carried through Straits of Malacca. This sea route is the shortest one for oil from West Africa and Persian Gulf to China seas.
2- This strategic Straits links Indian and Pacific Ocean and more than half of the oil tankers in the world pass through this route.
3- More than 12 million barrels of oil is transited in supertankers through this route daily.
4- Since September 11, 2003, Pentagon has been scrambling to militarize this region under the pretext of battling terrorism. US established an airbase Indonesia. It also would give Pentagon the chance to control this energy supply route and the sea lanes from Persian Gulf to the South China seas. Under the excuse of aiding Tsunami-hit areas, US Navy moved into a base on the Gulf of Siam in Thailand. US Navy also built Ream base in Cambodia and an intelligent facility is being built on Cambodian Island.
5- Cambodia, Thailand and Burma are the " String of Pears" for China.
6- There are also huge deposits of natural resources in Burma: 5 trillion cubic feet of gas reserve in Yanda and a third of this amount in another area, Yetagun.
7- When the first alarms went off for China that Pentagon was trying to militarize the region, it started to secure some footholds to counter US control over the Strait of Malaca. This route is vital for China, as who controls the oil route controls China's energy flow.
8- US State department has recruited and trained key opposition leaders from anti-government organizations in Burma. It has injected an amount of 2.5 million annually into an organization called National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
9- NED is a US government sponsored entity whose activities are designed to support US foreign policy objectives, doing what the CIA did during Cold War, fostering "non-violent" regime change in Burma.
10- The key figure behind and US friendly regime change in the Gene Sharp, founder of Albert Einstein Institution. This group is funded by NED to foster US-friendly regime change in key places of the world.
There are a number of other "significant features" of this region that grip the mind, making us stop and say doesn't this Saffron Revolution bear similarities to "Orange Revolution" of Ukraine and "Rose Revolution" of Georgia?
Behind all the "sincere calls" for democracy and freedom spread by the Media, there are malevolent efforts for hegemony and a battle for control in a specific part of the world.
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Where the flying fishes play...
la dee da dee da."
Does anyone care about a country that changed its name from Burma to Meow Mix?
The poor Burmese do.
Bastille...while what happened there when the French people had enough of the largesse at their expense was bloody and violent, it DID make the monarchs sit up and take notice that democracy is what people everywhere really do want...
I'm a peaceful guy, but our growing US federal debt which is shrinking the dollar as our illegitmate White House occuper preps his Golden Taxpayer-Funded Parachute so he can hide out in Paraguay, has ME feeling pretty damn angsty lately... [OHMY]
The sooner we assemble on the National Mall and demand an outright END to legalized bribery is the sooner we can take our country back and make it into a more peaceful giant.... [SMILE][THUMBUP]
Let's take Bastille Day up a notch and into the peaceful and more effective mode..let's same the a$$holes in Washington into banning bribery or let's vote the retreadt retrds outta their friggin' publicly-paid-for cushy jobs...
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