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Help the People of Burma (Birmania) — Post this Meme on Your Blog!

Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.

This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.

By passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this something we bloggers can do to help.

How to participate:

1. Copy this entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234

2. After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition. Note: Google indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show up in the results.

THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US

There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking. I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.

The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule. While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.

This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades. It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.

The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.

Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community. As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.

In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else. If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.

Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.

Ricevo da pievigina una catenella a cui non posso esimermi dal partecipare.

L'argomento è il seguente:

un alieno con pesanti problemi di aerofagia mi si para innanzi e mi dice: "spiegami cos'è il rock in 25 singoli, altrimenti ti polverizzo col mio deretano"...

ecco dunque come risponderei all'alieno puzzone:

1. Bob Dyland, All along the watch tower
2. Jimi Hendrix, Are you experienced?
3. J.J.Cale, Cocaine
4. Nirvana, In bloom
5. Soundgarden, The day I tried to live
6. Led Zeppelin, Tangerine
7. Tolo Marton, Alpine Valley
8. The Clash, Should I stay or Should I go
9. Green Jelly, Three little pigs
10. AC/DC, Back in black
11. Pink Floyd, The great gig in the sky
12. Deep Purple, Smoke on the water
13. Black Sabbath, War Pigs
14. Motorhead, Orgasmatron
15. The Doors, The end
16. Premiata Forneria Marconi, Impressioni di settembre
17. Faith no more, Stripsearch
18. The Beatles, Hey Jude
19. Sex Pistols, God save the queen
20. The Ramones, Hey, oh, let's go!
21. Stone Temple Pilots, Plush
22. King Crimson, Epitaph including March for no Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
23. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simple Man
24. Elio e le storie tese, il rock and roll
25. Sepultura, Necromancer

Ho fatto una faticaccia per trovare 25 pezzi rimanendo (più o meno...) nel rock and roll. Solo con l'ultimo mi sono lasciato un po' andare mettendo i Sepultura, ma solo per atomizzare l'alieno puzzone ;)

Giro la catenella a gUIDO, era77 e mariano che sono liberissimi di scrivere nel blog la loro lista!

Ricevo da pievigina il meme riguardante le 5 cose che non direi mai in una conversazione intellettuale.

Anticipo subito che giro la catena ad Enrico, Lucio e Paolo sperando che siano sintonizzati.

Ecco la mia lista:

1. Piuttosto che stare qui [a questo convivio culturale], andrei a fare alter table in produzione (del link leggete bene la parte: " gli elementi cancellati, ed i relativi dati, non sono recuperabili in alcun modo!").
2. Ho sempre ritenuto il latino una materia inutile da studiare. Considero le ore passate a studiare le declinazioni ore perse (Mi piaceva però studiare la letteratura latina).
   In più avevo una professoressa che mi faceva leggere le poesie con la cadenza: orribile.
3. Mi piacciono un sacco i film con Schwarzenegger, quelli in cui ammazza tutti. Mi piacciono proprio perché mancanti di intreccio e non richiedono alcuno sforzo intellettivo. Mio preferito: Commando.
4. Nella stessa settimana sono passato con una certa facilità (e senza pormi alcun problema morale) da un concerto degli Slayer (discretamente di destra) ad uno dei Napalm Death(abbastanza anarcoidi).
5. La sintesi migliore del pensiero umano è il libro Il linguaggio C di Kernighan e Ritchie.

Ho piazzato all'inizio i prosecutori della catena perché so che loro, in quanto programmatori, leggono i blog solo attarverso i feed rss (ah! la tecnologia!), e quasi tutti i feedreader si mangiano una parte del post (sono malefico nella mia ingegnosità).