Earthquake

[grizzledvet]

It just amazes me the difference between news coverage over the earthquake.

After learning of the disaster I turned to BBC world, watched for awhile then thought I'd check CNN. From nonstop video, interviews etc from BBC world, I tuned into an Andy Griffith Christmas album commercial on CNN. Several more commercials later they returned to local news, I returned to BBC.

I still have not heard from family in the region, but I don't know if they have power or not in Jakarta. They are probably ok as they are not usually on the coast but vacation in Aceh and in Phuket.
I'll have to stay tuned to BBC.

 

[Esco!]

You still watch the Crappy News Network???
Thats so passez dude. Get with the program, its all bloggers nowadays.
Oh yeah, and Drudge!!

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

There is only about 20000 people that are dead, most died in the resulting tsunamis

 

[banshie]

There is only about 20000 people that are dead, most died in the resulting tsunamis

Only 20,000? Hardly even newsworthy, eh?!

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

Only 20,000? Hardly even newsworthy, eh?!

I forgot to mention the millions of people that are now homeless

 

[RogerRabbit]

There is only about 20000 people that are dead, most died in the resulting tsunamis

www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20041227-002/page.asp



Please donate, if you can or are able to:

www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20041226-005/page.asp

Those wishing to make a financial donation to quake relief can contact the following organizations:

UNICEF Canada online at www.unicef.ca, or 1-877-955-3111. Donations can also be mailed in to UNICEF Canada, 2200 Yonge St., Suite 1100, Toronto, Ont., M4S 2C6.
World Vision Canada online at www.worldvision.ca, or call 1-800-268-5528.
The Red Cross online at www.redcross.ca, or 1-800-418-1111 - the 24-hour toll free line accepts Visa and Mastercard. You can also mail a cheque made payable to the Canadian Red Cross, earmarked “South East Asia Earthquake and Tidal Wave Relief� to Canadian Red Cross National Office, 170 Metcalfe Street, Suite 300, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2P2. Donations of goods won’t be accepted.
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (C.C.O.D.P.) online at www.devp.org, or 1-888-664-3387, or you can mail a cheque to Development and Peace, 5633 Sherbrooke St. East, Montreal, Que., H1N 1A3. The cheque should be marked “Tidal Wave Disaster.�
Oxfam Canada online at www.oxfam.ca or 1-800-466-9326.

 

[GIMME]

There is only about 20000 people that are dead, most died in the resulting tsunamis

Only? WTF?

Now the number is 60,000. Thats from the initial Tsunamis. I think you will breach 200,000 by the time this is over. Deceases and etc will add to total.

Worst disaster in human scale in the last 100+ years. I took the money I would have spent on MPA's since September/04 and donated it to the Red Cross.

Makes you think whats important. You watch bodies of 4 year old children being pulled from water all bloated up. You see a father crying over his dead daughter.

For me, I am sorry to say that I am going to spend all money I think of spending on MPA's and Strippers to the devestated areas. I urge everyone else to do the same.