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Hi, everybody. It's James here. If you don't listen to it could happen here, you might not

recognize me. My name's James Stout, and I'm the guy who pops onto this feed every few

months to tell you something very sad and then ask for your money. And that's why I'm here today.

A terrible earthquake struck Myanmar today, the day I'm recording this, which is

Friday the 28th of March. It was 7.7 on the Richter scale. We know of more than 100 deaths,

but it's likely the death toll is much, much, much higher. Lots of the telegraph and internet

infrastructure has been taken out by the earthquake and

the hunter restricts internet and social media access.

So we don't really know the full extent of the death, but we can imagine it will be very high

as one of the areas most affected was Mandalay, which is the second largest city in Myanmar.

I've spoken to half a dozen sources in Myanmar today, people who Robert and I

have interviewed before, they're all okay, but they all shared how terrible things were.

They said things were as bad as they were at the time of Cyclonegous, which was a terrible

disaster in 2008. If you would like to support the people of Burma who are currently fighting against tyrannical

dictatorship as well as dealing with the consequences of this natural disaster, there are a couple

of ways you can do so.

I was actually already running a fundraiser on my Patreon for MobyA PDF.

They are a casualty evacuation team in Southern Shan State right at the fiercest part of the fighting right now. They don't fight. What they do is they go and they evacuate people who have been injured and they provide medical services to internally displace people. They've been doing this since 2021. They're incredibly brave people and they've saved more than 300 lives.

You can read more about them by going to my Patreon post, which also includes all the links

for donation. The website for that is tiny URL.com slash help hyphen Myanmar. That's

tiny URL.com slash H-E-L-P-my-a-n-M-A-R. If you'd like to donate somewhere else,

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