MYNAMAR 4000 PLUS DEAD

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

NOW WE ARE CLOSE TO THE TRIBULATION WHEN THIS MANY DIE IN THIS HURRICANE (CYCLONE)(CATAGORY 4).ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT RICE IS IN ISRAEL PRESURRING ISRAEL TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM AND NOW AT LEAST 15,000PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN MYNAMAR. I HATE TO BE AMERICA THIS YEAR WHEN THE HURRICANE SEASON STARTS. YOU CAN'T FORCE ISRAELIS OFF THEIR LAND AND NOT EXPECT DISASTER TO OCCUR BIGTIME.

3RD UPDATE OF DAY.

Myanmar Cyclone Death Toll Crosses 15000 MAY 6,08

(RTTNews) - The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar has crossed 15000, according to media reports quoting official sources Monday evening. While the UN agencies and other international aid organizations have geared up for emergency disaster relief for the country despite a cold shoulder from the junta, state media reports Monday confirmed that Myanmar's military regime intended to go ahead with a referendum on May 10.Tropical Cyclone Nargis, which has raged the length and breadth of Myanmar on Friday and Saturday, killed nearly 15000 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power cuts.Yangon and Irrawaddy are the worst-hit regions. The casualties in Irrawaddy division's Bogalay alone are feared to have gone beyond 10,000, the Xinhua reported.Earlier, state media put the death toll at 3,969. About 3,000 people are also reported to be missing.The government has declared the regions of Yangon, Bago, Irawaddy, Kayin and Mon as disaster zones.

Winds of speeds reaching 190km/h have damaged telephone systems while rainstorms have washed away roads, reports said.The UN and international aid agencies have sent assessment teams to the worst-hit areas, ahead of receiving any formal request from the junta.
Meanwhile, a government statement carried by state-run media said, The referendum is only a few days away, and the people are eagerly looking forward to voting.contact editorial@rttnews.com ,2008 RealTimeTraders.com, Inc.

Almost 4,000 die in cyclone in Myanmar; Toll could hit 10,000 6 minutes ago MAY 5,08

YANGON, Myanmar - Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday. Foreign Minister Nyan Win told foreign diplomats at a briefing that the death toll could rise to more than 10,000, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was held behind closed doors.Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, early Saturday with winds of up to 120 mph, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.Myanmar's ruling junta, which has spurned the international community for decades, appealed for aid on Monday. But the U.S. State Department said Myanmar's government had not granted permission for a Disaster Assistance Response Team into the country.Laura Blank, spokeswoman for World Vision, said two assessment teams have been sent to the hardest hit areas to determine the most urgent needs.

This is probably the most devastating natural disaster in Southeast Asia since the tsunami, Blank said, referring to the 2004 disaster that killed around 230,000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations. There are a lot of important needs, but the most important is clean water.
Myanmar's government had previously put the death toll countrywide at 351 before increasing it Monday to 3,939.The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital, Naypyitaw, said that 2,879 more people are unaccounted for in a single town, Bogalay, in the country's low-lying Irrawaddy River delta area where the storm wreaked the most havoc.Our staff has heard that in eight townships, over 95 percent of the land has been severely affected, Pamela Sitko, World Vision's communication relief manager for the Asia-Pacific region, told The Associated Press from Bangkok.The situation in the countryside remained unclear because of poor communications and roads left impassable by the storm.Widespread destruction is obviously making it more difficult to get aid to people who need it most, said Michael Annear, regional disaster management coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross in Bangkok.At a Monday meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of U.N. and international aid agencies, Myanmar's foreign ministry officials said they welcomed international humanitarian assistance and urgently need roofing materials, plastic sheets and temporary tents, medicine, water purifying tablets, blankets and mosquito nets.In Washington, the State Department said the U.S. Embassy in Yangon had authorized an emergency contribution of $250,000 to help with relief efforts.

We have a DART team that is standing by and ready to go into Burma to help try to assess needs there, deputy spokesman Tom Casey told reporters. As of this moment, the Burmese government has not given them permission, however, to go into the country so that is a barrier to us being able to move forward.Myanmar Red volunteers already were distributing some basic items, said Matthew Cochrane at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' Geneva headquarters.The World Food Program has pre-positioned 500 tons of food in Yangon and plans to bring in more relief supplies, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.U.N. agencies were working with the Red Cross and other organizations to see how it can help those affected by the cyclone. UNICEF spokeswoman Veronique Taveau said the U.N. children's agency alone has five teams assessing the situation in the country.The cyclone blew roofs off hospitals and schools and cut electricity in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon. Older citizens said they had never seen the city of some 6.5 million so devastated in their lifetimes.

With the city's already unstable electricity supply virtually nonfunctional, citizens lined up to buy candles, which doubled in price, and water since lack of electricity-driven pumps left most households dry. Some walked to the city's lakes to wash. Hotels and richer families were using private generators but only sparingly, given the soaring price of fuel. Many stayed away from their jobs, either because they could not find transportation or because they had to seek food and shelter for their families. Without my daily earning, just survival has become a big problem for us, said Tin Hla, who normally repairs umbrellas at a roadside stand. With his home destroyed by the storm, Tin Hla said he has had to place his family of five into one of the monasteries that have offered temporary shelter to those left homeless. His entire morning was taken up with looking for water and some food to buy, ending up with three chicken eggs that cost double the normal price. Despite the havoc wreaked by the cyclone across wide swaths of the country, the government indicated that a referendum on the country's draft constitution would proceed as planned on May 10. It's only a few days left before the coming referendum and people are eager to cast their vote, the state-owned newspaper Myanma Ahlin said Monday.

At the meeting with diplomats, Relief Minister Maj. Gen. Maung Maung Swe said the vote could be postponed by a few days in the worst-affected areas. However, the foreign minister intervened to say the matter would be decided by the official referendum commission. Pro-democracy groups in the country and many international critics have branded the proposed constitution as merely a tool for the military's continued grip on power. Should the junta be seen as failing disaster victims, voters who already blame the regime for ruining the economy and crushing democracy could take out their frustrations at the ballot box. Associated Press writers Carley Petesch in New York and Alexander G. Higgins and Eliane Engeler in Geneva contributed to this report.

IF THERE IS OVER 10,000 DEAD HERE, JUST THINK IN THE FUTURE WHEN THE RUSSIA-MUSLIM-ARABS MARCH TO ISRAEL AND 85% OR 5/6TH OF THEM GET DESTROYED AND IT TAKES EVERY AVAILABLE ISRAELI 7 MONTHS TO BURY THEM ALL. HOW MANY WILL DIE IN THAT WAVE 1 OF WW3, WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE.

Cyclone death toll nears 4,000 in Myanmar, state radio says MAY 5,08

YANGON, Myanmar - A state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar has risen to nearly 4,000. The radio station said Monday that almost 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town.The government had previously put the death toll countrywide from Saturday's Cyclone Nargis at 351.The storm has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and without clean drinking water, a U.N. official has said.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Residents of Myanmar's largest city were plunged into a primitive existence Monday, using candles instead of electricity, lining up to buy shrinking supplies of water and hacking their way through streets blocked by trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350.Neighboring Thailand announced it would fly in the first planeload of emergency assistance Tuesday requested by the Myanmar government, easing fears that the ruling junta would reject international aid.Older citizens said they had never seen Yangon, a city of some 6.5 million, so devastated in their lifetimes.With the city's already unstable electricity supply virtually nonfunctional, citizens lined up to buy candles, which doubled in price, and water since lack of electricity-driven pumps left most households dry. Some walked to the city's lakes to wash.

Hotels and richer families were using private generators but only sparingly, given the soaring price of fuel.Public transportation was at a near standstill and vehicles had to cope with navigating without traffic lights. Many stayed away from their jobs, either because they could not find transportation or because they had to seek food and shelter for their families.Without my daily earning, just survival has become a big problem for us, said Tin Hla, who normally repairs umbrellas at a roadside stand.With his shanty town house destroyed by the storm, Tin Hla said he has had to place his family of five into one of the monasteries that have offered temporary shelter to the many homeless.Despite the havoc wreaked by tropical cyclone Nargis across wide swaths of the Southeast Asian country, the government indicated that a referendum on the country's draft constitution would proceed as planned on May 10.

It's only a few days left before the coming referendum and people are eager to cast their vote, the state-owned newspaper Myanma Ahlin said Monday.Pro-democracy groups in the country and many international critics have branded the constitution as merely a tool for the military's continued grip on power.Should the junta be seen as failing disaster victims, voters who already blame the regime for ruining the economy and squashing democracy could take out their frustrations at the ballot box.Thai government spokesman Wichianchote Sukchotrat said the ruling junta had asked for food, medical supplies and construction equipment. The Foreign Ministry in Yangon called resident ambassadors to a meeting Monday and some diplomats said they expected the government to request emergency assistance from other countries. Some in Yangon complained the 400,000-strong military was doing little to help victims after Saturday's storm, only clearing streets where the ruling elite resided but leaving residents to cope on their own in most other areas. Residents, as well as Buddhist monks from the city's many monasteries, banded together, wielding axes and knives to clear roads of tree trunks and branches torn off by the cyclones 120 mph winds.

Several residents said the streets were like forests, scattered as they were with trees and debris. Many stayed away from their jobs, either because they could not find transport or because they had to seek food and shelter for their families. Without my daily earning, just survival has become a big problem for us, said Tin Hla, who normally repairs umbrellas at a roadside stand. With his shanty town house destroyed by the storm, Tin Hla said he has had to place his family of five into one of the monasteries which have offered temporary shelter to many homeless. Most telephone landlines, mobile phones and Internet connections were down. But airlines announced Yangon's international airport had reopened. The city was plunged into almost total darkness overnight, security concerns mounted, with reports of robberies in some working class suburbs circulating. Many shops sold their goods through partially opened doors or iron grills. Looting was reported at several fresh food markets, where thieves took vegetables and other items. At least 351 people were killed, including 162 who lived on Haing Gyi island off the country's southwest coast, military-run Myawaddy television station reported. Many of the others died in the low-lying Irrawaddy delta. The Irrawaddy delta was hit extremely hard not only because of the wind and rain but because of the storm surge, said Chris Kaye, the U.N.'s acting humanitarian coordinator in Yangon. The villages there have reportedly been completely flattened.

State television reported that in the Irrawaddy's Labutta township, 75 percent of the buildings had collapsed. The U.N. planned to send teams Monday to assess the damage, Kaye said. Initial assessment efforts had been hampered by roads clogged with debris and downed phone lines, he said. Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been under military rule since 1962. Its government has been widely criticized for human rights abuses and suppression of pro-democracy parties such as the one led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for almost 12 of the past 18 years.

Last September, at least 31 people were killed and thousands more were detained when the military cracked down on peaceful protests led by Buddhist monks and democracy advocates. The Forum for Democracy in Burma and other dissident groups outside of Myanmar urged the military junta Sunday to allow aid groups to operate freely in the wake of the cyclone — something it has been reluctant to do in the past.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

CHILEAN VOLCANOE VIDEO
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One dead as Chilean volcano spews ash for third day Sun May 4, 4:36 PM ET

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A volcano spewed ash over Patagonian towns in southern Chile on Sunday, two days after its first eruption in thousands of years forced authorities to evacuate some 4,000 residents. Local media said an elderly woman died as rescue teams evacuated the last remaining people from the town of Chaiten, close to where the snow-capped volcano of the same name erupted on Friday, triggering earth tremors and sending a cloud of ash two miles into the air.There is no record of the volcano erupting in the last 2,000 years, according to Chilean geology officials.

President Michelle Bachelet visited the area on Sunday with several government ministers and said she hoped to fly over the worst-affected areas.The idea that we have is to try to fly over the Chaiten volcano, go to Chaiten and if the conditions allow, to Futaleufu, Bachelet told reporters in the nearby city of Puerto Montt, praising the evacuation effort.

Residents were also evacuated from nearby Futaleufu.

Southern Chile is fragmented into hundreds of small islands and fjords. Some residents had never ventured from Chaiten itself until the 3,280-foot (1,000-meter) volcano six miles away forced them to leave.Chile's 2,000 volcanoes include two of Latin America's most active -- Villarica and Llaima. Scientists say some 500 are potentially active. Chile has the world's second most active string of volcanoes behind Indonesia.Llaima, about 435 miles south of Santiago, erupted on New Year's Day, spewing ash and molten lava and forcing dozens of tourists and staff to evacuate a wilderness park.(Reporting by Manuel Farias; writing by Helen Popper, editing by Todd Eastham)