Posted on 12/27/2004 12:02:14 PM PST by expatguy
Glad to see you are ok. You were the first person I thought of when I heard about tsunami.
They've been talking about this on Fox News today.
Does this mean it was Bush's fault or Rummy's?
I posted this over 6 hours ago on my site. Did I beat FOX?
Haliburton's fault as they have the most to gain in the clean-up.
Just clipped from Google's cache:
There are major earthquakes all the time that do no generate such waves, so even if someone in Los Angeles thinks that a tsunami might be created, the chances of anyone in Somalia hearing about it or caring if they did is negligible.
I heard them mention it this morning.
I posted that same bulletin on a thread here on the 25th.
Oh, cool. I was just responding to expat's observation that the text of the page had been changed after-the-fact. Thank God for Google's cache!
I forgot about them...that makes it Cheney's fault, I guess.
The people had over an hour and a half. Things like this travel over the internet in the blink of an eye.
I understand very well what you are saying, but I might ask you why tornado warnings are posted on the internet in the United States? Surely that is not an adequete way to convery a warning.
Thanks for digging that up.
Before 2000, no one understood tsunamis. But with the election of Bush, it all became very clear. Much like Reagan not caring about AIDS, Bush didn't care about brown skin natives on the beach and their death is on his head. He and he alone could have built a system to let the world know, but he didn't care.
Would that surprise you? It shouldn't.
It's sounds like they are only warning the Pacific, not the Indian Ocean. Sheesh, you'd think before India bought another Russian sub or ran another nuclear test, they'd have some rudimentary system in place, if nothing more than monitoring the USGC website for earthquakes in the "Indian" Ocean.
Why is it the responsibility of the U.S. to warn them anyway?
That's a frantic warning? Well, it is in all caps.
http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/contents.php?id=120
Recommendation ITSU-XIX.4: Working Group on the Tsunami Warning System in the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean
Writer: Tammy Kaitoku Updated: 15.10.04 Created: 21.09.04 Hits: 394
Recommendation ITSU-XIX.4: Working Group on the Tsunami Warning System in the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean [endoresed by the IOC Executive Council at its 37th Session in June 2004]
Recommendation ITSU-XIX.4
WORKING GROUP ON THE TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEAN
The International Co-ordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific,
Recognizing that the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean has a significant threat from both local and distant tsunamis;
Further recognizing that some areas of this region are not covered by the PTWC;
Noting the interest of Member States in the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific regions to enhance their tsunami warning services;
Acknowledges that Indonesia has decided to develop its National Tsunami Warning System with already existing and planned upgrades to seismic and sea-level networks and that the PTWC provides distant tsunami warnings for the Southwest Pacific;
Further acknowledging that there may be mutual benefits to these regions and to the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific from the establishment of this system;
Decides to establish an intersessional Working Group on the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean with the following Terms of Reference:
- to evaluate capabilities of countries in these regions for providing tsunami warning services;
- to ascertain requirements from countries in the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean for the tsunami warning services.
Requests Australia and ITIC to prepare a draft prior to the next SOPAC meeting for consideration by the Working Group.
Recommends that the Group be composed of representatives from Indonesia, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Japan, Observer from Papua New Guinea and the Directors of ITIC and PTWC and Chaired by the Representative of Indonesia.
Acknowledges that ITSU is the Co-ordination Body for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (TWSP) and encourages non-ITSU Member States to contact the IOC Secretariat to request membership of the ICG/ITSU.
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Financial implications:
US$ 5,000 for 2004; US$ 5,000 for 2005.
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