TSUNAMI VIDEO FOOTAGE :O

[Mockery]

Scary :o
http://www.dagbladet.no/download/tsunamiphuket.wmv

[AChimp]

One of my friends is from Sri Lanka and he almost cancelled his birthday party in a few days because of this. Turns out his relatives are all okay, so the party is back on. :(

[El Blanco]

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041227-092017-3455r.htm

Jesus Christ. It moved an entire fucking island.

[Ninjavenom]

how long does it take to download this damn thing? >:

[Zhukov]

The quake in asia was triggered by a quake just south of Tasmania last thursday! Cool! I felt it and everything!

[FS]

don't worry guys Jet Li is OK :(

Seriously though, this is fucking terrible. :(

[Spectre X]

Word has it that the quake moved so much water that it disrupted the earth's rotation.

[Mockery]

More video footage:
http://video.contemporaryinsanity.org/
:o

[mburbank]

This is beyond horrible. Children make up most of the dead so far.

[pjalne]

Yeah, grown men were the majority of the survivors because they were strong enough to hold on to trees and stuff.

There's no way the death count is stopping at 50,000 :(

[Ninjavenom]

Did you hear all the little kids screaming in the first video? Lordy. Howcome the world has to end when i'm still alive, dammit?

</selfish>

seriously though, that sucks ass. Was there any prior warning of this thing occurring?

[El Blanco]

Think all them tech support jobs are coming back here?


I'm sorry, I had to get that out.


Its awful. 50,000 just wiped out. And it wasn't some tewrrorist attack or war or some shit. Its was an act of nature. It was the fucking ocean getting up and just over powering several nations. Canyou even hope to fight that?

[Perndog]

The terrorists made it happen with a nuclear bomb under the sea floor. >:

[El Blanco]

Don't be stupid. It was George Bush. With global warming because he didn't sign the Kyoto Accord. And he also used the Patriot Act.

[theapportioner]

Donate money, biotches:

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
http://www.care.org/
etc.

[theapportioner]

Also, apparently the vocalist for Nasum is missing :(

[Helm]

whoa first I have to donate money to i-mockery.com to change my mock war result from loss to a respectable draw, then I have to donate money to this

are you guys putting me on or something

[theapportioner]

GWB's response is positively sickening. His lack of sensitivity and attention towards the disaster really shows you how low the creature really is.

On the other hand, it's nice to see prominent sites like Google and Yahoo putting up links to relief agencies on their homepages.

[Jeanette X]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6762528/site/newsweek/

How You Can Help
A partial list of agencies accepting donations to aid tsunami victims in south AsiaNewsweek
Updated: 1:33 p.m. ET Dec. 28, 2004Most aid agencies agree that cash donations are the best way to show compassion in the wake of an international tragedy. Although many people share the impulse to send canned food, clothing and other material goods, giving money is often the most efficient and expedient means to help. For more information, consult the nonprofit umbrella group InterAction’s guide to giving and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s list of pointers on donating.

The following is a partial list of organizations accepting donations to aid those most affected by the devastating tsunami that struck southern Asia on Sunday, killing at least 33,000 and displacing more than a million people in six countries.

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th St., Suite 1201
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc
South Asia Tsunami Relief
Box #321
847A Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
212-885-0889
http://www.jdc.org

American Red Cross
International Response Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, DC 20013
800-435-7669
TDD: 1-800-220-4095
http://www.redcross.org/

CARE
151 Ellis Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-2440
800-422-7385
http://www.careusa.org

Catholic Relief Services
Tsunami Emergency
P.O. Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
800-736-3467
http://www.catholicrelief.org

Doctors Without Borders
P.O. Box 1856
Merrifield, VA 22116-8056
888-392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

International Medical Corps
Earthquake/Tsunami Relief
1919 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90404
800-481-4462
http://www.imcworldwide.org

Islamic Relief USA
Southeast Asia Earthquake Emergency
P.O. Box 6098
Burbank, CA 91510
888-479-4968
http://www.irw.org/asiaquake

International Rescue Committee
P.O. Box 5058
Hagerstown, MD 21741-9874
877-733-8433
http://www.theirc.org

Mercy Corps
Southeast Asia Earthquake Response
Dept. W
P.O. Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208
800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org

Oxfam
274 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 7DZ
United Kingdom
44-0-870-333-2700
http://www.oxfam.org.uk

Save the Children
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org

UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-486-4233
http://www.unicef.org/

[mburbank]

Thanks, Jeanette

[Cosmo Electrolux]

did anyone really expect GWB to be compassionate? That's not the white christian american way at all.... >:

[Ninjavenom]

where are you guys even reading about his response to this?

[Jeanette X]

What did he say/do this time around? :(

[Ant10708]

What better time to bash Bush then when we are talking about a natural diaster.

[Stabby]

100,000 and still climbing.

And they say a small percentage of the deaths might have been avoided too. But they were afraid of impacting tourism if they sounded the alarm.

"More terrifying still is the growing realization— reported sporadically in South Asia and Europe but almost unmentioned here— that some percentage of these deaths could have been prevented by timely warnings, but were not, out of fear of damaging tourism.

Bangkok's newspaper The Nation reported that Thailand's Meteorological Department, which supervises the country’s Seismological Department, was conducting a seminar at the hour the earthquake struck, Sunday morning, prevailing local time. Told the initial Richter Scale measurement was 8.2, a leading member of that department reportedly concluded there would be no tsunami, because another 2002 earthquake in the same Sumatra region that had measured 7.6 had produced no tsunami. The meeting devolved into the pros and cons of hurting the nation’s huge tourist economy in the event a warning proved unnecessary."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

More videos:


http://www.politiken.dk/media/wvx/3537.WVX
http://www.moose.cc/tmp/ts/patong_beach.wmv
http://www.moose.cc/tmp/ts/sri_lanka_tsunami.wmv

[Daphne]

Oh great, a country run by the mayor from Jaws >:

I'm glad that hundreds of thousands are dead instead, that's WAY better for tourism.

[Anonymous]

someone please tell me drudge is making this up

"The death toll in Acheh, the region worst hit by last Sunday's tsunami, may exceed 400,000"
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm

my god it's so horrible as it is, please tell me this is a lie

[ScruU2wice]

Yeah I think they are here's what AP says:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041230/ap_on_re_as/tsunami&cid=514&ncid=514

It's still pretty bad and doesn't look like it's gonna get any better :(

[imported_I, fuzzbot.]

What do you think about that comment that was made about the US being "stingy" (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/28/stingy.americans.ap/index.html) in regards to the 15 mil they sent to the Asia Tsumani victims?

Read this as well. (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041229/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_quake)

[El Blanco]

Let me preferace this by saying I don't want this to seem like some kind of international dick swinging. People need the help and everyone should be focused on that first and foremost. I am merely answering criticisms of my government and country.


People got pissy because they felt that the intital hard cash of tax payer money was too small.

They neglected the fact that it was the money the government could muster at that very moment.

And the actual materials we are sending.

And the continued cash we are setting up.

And the Marine Expeditionay Force that is there aiding the victims.

And the USN carrier group.

And the private donations that are flowing out.

There is no official government group that is slamming the government. Just a bunch of media and other assorted dipshits that don't understand that we don't just blink and make money appear like we're Barbara fucking Eden or something.




Oh, and cash isn't something I have in abundance at the moment. Does anyone know if blood donations are being accepted? Some of it might even be mine.

[Jeanette X]

I just sent fifty bucks, so these critics can collectively kiss my ass. >:

[DehydratedPorkMan]

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1104&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050101%2F1338173880.htm&sc=1104

Just seeing if anybody checked the out yet....sad stuff.
Anyone who laughs is going to hell.

[DehydratedPorkMan]

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20050104/1456409568.htm&photoid=20050103GOX102&floc=NW_1-T

GEH!