This Happened on Their Watch - First-World Governments and the Tsunami
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I'm reposting this revised comment as a stand-alone message because it is seriously insane that trolls are now coming to the defense of those most powerful in the world who knew a tsunami was underway and made - effectively - no effort to warn people. If these governments with veto power and special privledges in the UN - the US, the EU, Japan - cannot warn others of impending disasters which they monitor worldwide, they cannot be trusted to warn their own people in times of disaster. They should be dismantled immediately and heads should roll.
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Troll or apologist for authority statement: "In most parts of the nations that were hit by the tsunami, there is very poor communications equipment, and even though people tried to get the word out, news did not travel fast enough."
Gee, so these places that cater to rich EU tourists and accept Mastercard don't have telephones? How are they capable of processing the tourists' bills if they can't figure out who to call when a giant wave is coming? Do all of the tourist hotels have no TV or radio? Has no one in Southeast Asia used a CB radio?
Imagine if you knew an earthquake was going to hit California in one hour, but it was Sunday, so when you dialed the USGS, you got a message. Would you shrug and give up??? (I suppose if you work for the US government you might).
But give me a break. You'd call the newspapers, you'd call the police, you'd call a goddamm hospital and tell them to prepare for the wounded, if nothing else.
Granted, no one at the time could have known the extent. But many DID have enough experience, on both sides, to know the outcome. This is 2004, people, we have now reached GODDAMN MARS, for chrissakes, don't be fooled by those who try to claim ignorance. Remember FedEx? Remember credit cards? Remember the INTERNET?? Remember CELL PHONES?? Remember Newspapers? TV? Hotels?? GPS??
Southeast Asia is poor, but it is not the moon.
As someone on Indybay wrote, one of the beaches where many were killed is right across the street from a police station, from which someone could have literally taken a bullhorn and yelled warnings. Do the police stations not have telephones? Are there no TELEVISIONS??? If there is virtually no communications, then how did any tourists figure out how to go there? What do they pay with, coconuts? Are there no banks? How do they have a bus system if there are no communications? I did see buses turned over. It wouldn't have taken HI-TECH or SPECIAL SCIENTISTS to spread a very simple warning. Even over the bus radios, for godsakes.
Think about it. A SINGLE news broadcast could have reached millions instantly and propagated to those who COULD figure out how to warn those in the most remote regions. They'd have called their loved ones, at the very least, by phone.
Don't buy this BS from government cover-up trolls and those amongst us who cannot bear to know that authority is covering up and so must make excuses for them.
This happened on their watch, the watch of the first world governments, the same ones that operate a SPACE STATION, the Hubble Space Telescope, dozens of Nuclear Aircraft Carriers, worldwide GPS, military intranets, satellite phones, space weapons, etc., etc.
Maybe I'm wrong about all this. But if I am, there is something very very wrong in first world governments and a complete overhaul is necessary. If they cannot propagate a simple message to thousands of people but they can put spy satellites all over the sky, they cannot care for their own countries properly either.
Take a look and see who will now benefit.
And remember, who was the biggest threat to progress in Iraq, once we were in there? Remember, on Friday Dec. 26th, 2003 - the same day as this one - that an earthquake in IRAN killed 15k. What is the reason that Aceh is under seige?
Who will now benefit, as the war machine kicks into gear to distribute 'aid?'
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"Why didn't the people who monitor these things warn the Indian [Ocean] countries that a tsunami was about to hit them?" asked Nirj Deva, a British member of the European Parliament who was in Sri Lanka.
"Nobody was warned. All these people died unnecessarily," he said in an interview with the BBC. "I want some answers."