News From Rangoon

[Linkster]

Hearing that there has been a coup and that part of the military has turned their arms around to protect the demonstrators as well as the house in Myanmar where Aung San Suu Kyi is being imprisoned

[Moby]

Why all the fuss about Myanmar? Last year when Thaksin was over thrown while he was in the US during the UN meetings Dubya, Cheney or Rice never even went over to shake the man's hand.

[Linkster]

I think the media is finding it a good sellable story as it involves non-violent religious nuts against a military with guns