Sad outlook for Nepal

How sad.

The only good thing is they don't have vast oil reserves so their problems with Maoists and Royalists remain internal.
 
No end to instability and suffering in sight for the people of Nepal huh? Its truly hard to watch. Smoke up for Nepal...
 
There is a sureal feeling regarding Nepal that I have, being informed of chaos and destruction in the irregular postings here and even occasional headline on the Yahoo page. I see Nepal out of the corner of my eye. It's a sideshow. International events concerning the Middle East and oil, Al Queda, Palestine, Iraq and even Korea are front and center. Like many of the conflicts in Africa, the pain goes uninterrupted but because there are no strategic or burning global issues there, the world uneasily ignores it.

Nepal just quietly bleeds under the table.



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jmings said:
How sad.

The only good thing is they don't have vast oil reserves so their problems with Maoists and Royalists remain internal.
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Some say that they're not completely internal, and that at least one other country is involved. I haven't made my mind up on the issue.

But as for an impartial third party getting involved at this point, would that be such a bad thing?
 
Sometimes I feel like this story applies to things going on all over the world. I don't think we can be the little dutch boy and run around plugging all the holes though..... I do think that these events effect us all however. :(



Mouse Story. a message

A mouse looked through the
crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open
a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered -
he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the
warning.

"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap
in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and
said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you,
but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a
mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry,
Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but
pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a
mousetrap in the house!There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you,
but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and
dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house --
like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the
darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake
whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her
to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken
soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard
for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and
neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.
To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So
many people came for her funeral, the farmer
had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat
for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in
the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a
problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember --
when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
 
Why have I only heard news about this mess on NPR and in here? Well, I know why I've heard news about it in here, but no one else is reporting it, not even a blurb. I had to hunt for information when the royal family was killed, I think the most information I obtained was from here.
 
I check the local news stations, both on tv and the internet. No cable at home, but I check CNN, BBC, FOX news and Google news on the net.
 
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