Obviously not your opinion on the actual floods – i don’t think anybody can disagree that it was a horrible tragedy for many innocent people.

No, I mean more about how the other nations have reacted. One thing I have noticed is that, while more people have been affected (not killed, affected) than the Haiti earthquake, it has received less coverage. Where is Pakistan’s charity single?

I ask this because I am writing a guest post on a friends blog about the recent disaster. I’m interested in other people’s opinion.

So, why do you think that Pakistan has received less coverage than other disasters?

I, like many people, believe that it has its roots in racism. Whilst many people have not been brave enough to mention this factor, I think it is there. Where I come from, anybody with brown skin is automatically labelled a ‘Paki’ – even if they are Indian, nobody cares enough to differentiate. (I am a British White Male, by the way).

I was speaking to somebody the other day about this, and his reply actually shocked me. He said ‘Well, its not like we’re going to run out of them, is it?’.

I also read about a group with terrorist (al-Qaeda) connections, giving out aid in the poorest regions, do you believe this will spur terrorism on? I personally believe that in five, ten years, the young children of rural Pakistan are going to remember who it was that helped them when they needed it the most.

So, what do YOU personally believe, what are YOUR thoughts on the whole situation?

And finally, do you think the world is falling apart?
@Harley Drive – interesting! Although, they could have double that population, it wouldn’t matter. The rural population are poor, and their crops have been destroyed. Many areas of Pakistan are unreachable due to the floods now, so its very difficult for the government to help. Nice answer though, to the point. Thanks!

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I know that the trees and shrubs are burnt after a fire but what happens to the animals? Also, are there any other disasters?

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A coworker told me of a top ten list of natural disaster that came on yahoo recently. He described one of the disasters as occurring about 20 or 40 years ago in some central America country like Ecuador where gas had leaked throughout a city and the gas caught on fire and burned many people. I looked all over and couldn’t find any disaster like this in history. Does anybody know of a disaster like this happening?

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My grandfather is a real Christian man and he says that all these earthquakes are signs of the rapture or apocalypse. Even before these disasters, he told me that they would happen… What is your input?

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Even disasters would be more welcomed by profiteers (selling disaster relief) than preventing disasters.
“”Proud 13-year old member of the vast right wing conspiracy.””” I would have guessed 11 or 12.

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Brazilian news have been reporting many earthquakes around the globe with emphazis on Haiti, Chile, Taiwan and now Mexico. It wasn’t like that last year or the years before. Is it only the media exploring disasters more fiercily or are we really facing a global catastrophe?

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please give me answer for this question i have to make a project on and i have still got no answer please give me information about

"what can a student do inmanaging disasters"

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I am told so many times to hold my tongue when trying to convince designers and builders that improving their building frames would stop a tornado in destroying their product.

They all say not to worry, because we are all insured against disasters.
thanks for the sympathy, morgan, and knightrider; if you had a new method for buildings to resist wind and seismic forces, which didn’t change the design of the building, just the frame, was easier and less expensive to assemble/install, and proved to upgrade the frames to be more resistant than the forces, what would you do?

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I know a lot about the 2012 doomsday prophecies but do you think with all the recent happenings and massive Earthquakes could be leading up to 2012? I believe some have said that you will start seeing more and more disasters as the time gets closer? Could this possibly be true? And the whole thing about it lining up in the middle of the milky way even possible and cause cataclysmic occurrences?

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Are we now fighting a "War on Disasters?" Is this what they mean by "disaster capitalism?"

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A recent post on a global-warming website specifically aimed at youngsters implicitly blames man-made global warming for the Haiti earthquake.

In an article titled – with breathtaking insensitivity – ""What the Haiti Quake Means for the Climate Movement"" (because that’s the main concern here, right?) it says "as the planet heats up, disasters are becoming more frequent and severe" and that Haiti is just the latest example of this.

Although it hedges by stating that ""it is inherently difficult to map changes in the Earth’s climate to any specific event"", it leaves the young reader in no doubt as to the underlying cause, saying ""every time a natural disaster hits, I think about fossil fuels"" and that ""what we know is that burning fossil fuels is altering the climate, increasing the likelihood that disasters like this one will occur.""

It’s only a short article. Have a read and see what you think. Lowest of the low? Are there *any* depths to which they won’t stoop?

""What the Haiti Quake Means for the Climate Movement""
From "It’s Getting Hot In Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement" website.

http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2010/01/14/what-the-haiti-quake-means-for-the-climate-movement/

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EDIT -

In case you’re wondering, the author of this article, Josh Lynch was a campaign manager for "Green for All" and helped organise the "Dream Reborn" conference described by its participants as ""transcendent" and "church-like."" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_For_All )

He is also a co-founder of the Energy Action Coalition.

See: http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/author/joshlynch/

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As if some kind of radiated pulse or modifier is aimed at water supply near storm to increase the storm development in a certain area.

I have noticed this and have copied several instances to my hard drive. Whenever I have seen these patterns – these storms became major disasters.

Could our Government have some kind of Weather Modification satellite in space? You know, some kind of microwave pulse or beam directed at nearby water supplies to warm up the water and creat more moisture/power in the storm.

I saw this during hurricane Katrina – A major glitch flashing right across the Infrared weather screen right befor ethe storm intensified.

And it is only visible on the Infrared screen

Just throwing this out there.
Peter D

You seem to think you know me. I don’t show my questions or answer so you are either watching what I do or you have nothing to do all day and look at every post on every board.

The World is not what it appears to be from an average citizens point of view.

The fact that I connect on all these issues is nothing more than a way to help people wake up.

The World doesn’t belong to man and my life doesn’t belong to my Government.

Freedom of Speech

I may ask what I want, where I want and when I want.

Get a life

I can show you the screen grabs if you would like of Hurricane Katrina spiking on the infrared.
HERE ARE FOUR OF MY SCREEN GRABS

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=17240540&uid=1924676&members=1

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I want to help out with disasters like the Haiti earthquake but I haven’t been able to because I don’t have the money to physically get to the disasters. I’m young and strong, have a decent amount of first aid training, and a strong desire to help. Who could use me if it meant paying my way there?

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This movie features a Tsunami in New York and Tornados in LA, and people flee to Mexico, there are disasters all over the world, earthquakes etc. Typical end of time flick.

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I’m all the way in NY…and I hate watching the news on television. It seems to be making headlines, and 300,000 people evacuated in SoCal is a huge number. A federal emergency is pretty big. The thing with wildfires though is that it’s mostly just evacuations and structural damage, not lives lost. So how would you rank this disaster along with past disasters such as Katrina, the Minnesota bridge collapse, and the California earthquakes of the late ’80′s/early ’90′s? And what about compared to the Florida wildfires that occurred recently when they had to close Disney World?

One thing I wonder is why they build communities in natural wildfire areas…if they can’t control them, they shouldn’t be doing that.
How would you guys compare them to the recent Florida wildfires? My only thoughts on it is that those wildfires went through pretty rural areas of farmland in south Georgia/North Florida, while the SoCal wildfires are ripping through urban and suburban areas, affecting many more people and structures.
Are these occurring right in San Diego? I’ve been to the Encinitas/La Jolla area a few times, it’s beautiful there, are the fires reaching any of those areas? I remember that where we would stay, we would hop on a highway and go right to Sea World in about 10-15 minutes.

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Do you believe in God?

Can you prove that God was responsible for this disaster?

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God hasn’t caused the earth ozone layer to shrink, or the atmosphere to become polluted, or the trees to be destroyed. Do you know who is responsible for all the earth disasters.

Even some Catholic Cardinals say "its an act of God" To illustrate: While visiting San Pedro Sacatepéquez the Friday after the quake a man pawing through the remains of his home dejectedly told me: “This is punishment from God, because we have been very bad people.”
Where, you may wonder, did he and many others of these humble hardworking people get such an idea? The next day it became apparent. The Catholic Cardinal of Guatemala, Mario Casariego, said, as quoted in the country’s principal newspaper:
“In these moments of great calamities to the people, the teaching of the Holy Scriptures comes to mind: God loves and because he loves, he corrects, sets straight and awakens. . . . Haven’t we resisted so much that we have obligated God to work in this way?” Then he added that helping to rebuild the Cathedral and other destroyed churches would “be the symbol of an authentic and personal return to God.”—El Imparcial, February 7, 1976, page 6.

*** Awake 1976 5/8 p. 9 Earthquake Devastates Guatemala ***

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Yesterday, I saw many signs & boxes about donating food & school supplies to places, like Africa & Honduras. But do other countries do that for us when our country is struggling? I understand that those are poor countries, but I’m just curious.

People cared more about the tsunami in Asia than they cared abut Hurricanes Katrina & Rita. Why is that?
Yeah. That’s what I’m saying. People here in the US didn’t care about the disasters of their own country.

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Thursday, 01 October 2009
The tsunami warnings issued following the recent Indonesian earthquake are being exploited by malware developers.

Scammers have targeted keywords such as “tsunami” and “western Samoa” in an attempt to ensare unwary Web surfers.

"An unfortunate side effect of any news-worthy disasters of the modern day is that a wave of malware will often follow in the virtual world after the initial event in the physical world,” says Symantec.

“For many people, search engines are the gateway to the masses of information available and because of this, it is also one of the first places to be targeted by malware creators. They waste no time in getting their malicious software and Web sites set up and poisoning the Web searches to make sure that their results are returned near the top of the page.”

The latest exploits exhibit the same pattern as the recent Serena Williams malware.

Certain Web pages promising information about the tsunami will attempt to perform fake antivirus scans, and will suggest that computers have been infiltrated with spyware. These operations, known as ‘scareware’, will then offer to ‘clean’ PCs for a fee, in the process further infecting systems.

As always, NetGuide recommends that you run anti-virus software on your computer and keep it up to date at all times.
hello
the article shows you how fast the bad guys will react to news stories as a hook to get you to their infected sites. in some ways it is kinda sad these ppl have nothing better to do than update their scareware within hours of a news story just to try and get you infected.
roger

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/04/texas-run-secessionist-guv-has-received-federal-disaster-relief-more-times-any-state
Is it that Perry like a lot of other conservative Republicans like to delude themselves into believing that the federal government only hurts them and not helps them even though they keep on asking the federal government for help when disasters happen ?
Invisible, read the link then you will understand. That’s why I put it there.
I think some of you have taken for granted the benefits of living in a union for too long. You’re ingrates.

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As my question: What are some disasters [natural or not] that may occur to California?

Acceptable Answer: It is said that California will have an earthquake in the next 15 years, etc.

UNACCEPTABLE Answer: i don’t know. look on the news.

– I will report those unacceptable, ignorant answers.
Oh and also, what parts of California?

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apparently there was a 5.2 earthquake about 5:30 a.m. EDT in Illinois. I live in southern Indiana and slept right through it. add that to the list of the disasters I have slept through in my life. I did however, feel the aftershock around 11:15 a.m. I looked and the USGS said it was a 4.6. I always thought that aftershocks were a lot smaller than that for an eatherquake of that size

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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/inflatable-hous.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp

This article basically says that there is a new product on the market that basically is a bouncing room house. Its shaped like a small cube that can be used as a safe shelter for disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.

The only problem is that there are many people who are claustrophobic who would not be able to last long in this thing.

What do you think?

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As my question: What are some disasters [natural or not] that may occur to California?

Acceptable Answer: It is said that California will have an earthquake in the next 15 years, etc.

UNACCEPTABLE Answer: i don't know. look on the news.

– I will report those unacceptable, ignorant answers.
Oh, and also, what parts of California?

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