[backhoe]

  IT'S ABOUT THE TRAGEDY - NOT MORE BUSH-BASHING -- I've been interested in watching them "try" out different attacks, and when they don't catch on, trying another.  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311032/posts

 Look who's talking about 'stingy'

 

 U.S. firms contribute $80 million

 

 Food airlifted to isolated towns

 

 

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES: Pacific coast's tsunami threat

 

Thousands flee after crackpot alert

 

 W asks Jeb to help

 

 Australians warned tsunami toll could reach hundreds

 

 Sweden update - Foreign office: 3500 Swedes missing in Thailand.

 Asian Tsunami: Trace the Missing

 

 Which son to save?

 

 U.S. Ships, Aircraft, Personnel Converge on Disaster Zone

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311019/posts
Kofi and Yawn had that "deer in the headlights" look on their faces.

 

 Public's record £30m response takes charities by surprise

 

 Sri Lankan Families Who Lost Children Taking Tsunami Orphans

 

 Odious tsunami politics (U.N. inserts sizable foot in mouth) -- So they gin up the disaster. They don't beg. They shamelessly DEMAND funding, as they call it. And they're going to pocket most of it, and dole a bit out in country. This is how these people make money. There is no audit, no concern about where the millions are going. No one cares six months after the fact how the money was spent, and specifically on what. They're home free. It's just one big international grift, ghoulishly feeding off the thousands who died in this horrible disaster!

 

 Out of the wreckage

 

 In the absence of God, blame has become our prevailing religion

 

Stingy?

 

 MY WALK AMID ROWS OF DEAD

[backhoe]

 U.S. military team arrives to assess disaster relief efforts

[backhoe]

 Animals sensed tsunami in advance

 

 Only America Does the Heavy Lifting -- while the world whines and complains, the US does the work.

 

KEVIN McCULLOUGH: Blogger's Remorse - (The left's "compassionate" tsunami response)

 

 Powell Will Tour Ravaged Areas With Jeb Bush To Organize Aid

 

 Waves of destruction wash away belief in God's benevolence

 

 Victims' fingers saved to ID them later

 

 No one gives more than U.S. -- President George Bush, also miffed at Egeland's remark, said the U.S.'s $2.4 billion in disaster relief last year was "40% of all relief aid given in the world."

 Where is D.A.R.T. [ 1 ... 5, 6, 7 ]

 

 Clemente Jr. sends aid to tsunami victims in tribute of father

 

 On Asia's Coasts, Progress Destroys Natural Defenses

 

 Israeli relief agency joins disaster response

 

 No one gives more than U.S. (Peter Worthington, Toronto Sune)

[backhoe]

 Additional before and after satellite images of the tsunami impact on Banda Aceh, Indonesia

 

 Catholic Group Pledges $25M Tsunami Relief

 

 More than 4,500 confirmed dead in Thailand, half of them foreigners

[jan in Colorado]

Ping

[backhoe]

 GAUGING DISASTER: How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly

 
Agence France-Presse
Tourists try to rush to safety before the tsunami hit the Hat Rai Lay Beach in Thailand. The water had
receded before the deadly wave struck.

 

 Aussie toll may eclipse Bali (1250 Aussies missing)

 

 Tsunami's Sorrows Will Need More Than Pity (Wonder Land)

 

 Microchips put into 1,000 unidentified bodies (Thailand)

[backhoe]

 Canadian Donors 'Amaze'

 

 The Left and the Tsunami

 

 Tsunami Orphans

 

 Cheap Points (Noonan on Bush-Bashing)

 

 Tsunami Stirring Up Waves Of Sea Serpents

 

 IT'S ABOUT THE TRAGEDY - NOT MORE BUSH-BASHING

 

 Tourists face a moral dilemma

[VOA]

master-list BUMP!

[CyberAnt]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/

This link shows the USGS world map of earthquake activity. The Pacific Rim has really been shaking this year. Living in San Diego .. it's beginning to make me real nervous.

However .. to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord .. so I'm not in despair over what may happen.

[backhoe]

 US Navy, Marines swing into action on Sumatra

 

 ISRAELI AID TO SOUTHEAST ASIA - UNREPORTED!

 

 E-Mail From Tsunami survivor (Vanity)

 

 Hopes Fade for Missing Europeans

 

 Thousands of US Citizens Missing

 

 World Reins in New Year Festivities After Tsunami

 

 US will increase aid from $35 million to $350 million

 

 An Open Letter about Canada's Disaster Response *** [ 1, 2 ]

 

 UN, not US should be leading relief efforts -- Clare Short [ 1, 2 ]

 

 GENEROUS RESPONSE TO THE ASIAN CRISIS

 

 World Relief Efforts Reach Devastated Asia

 

 On Phuket, disaster's just an inconvenience to rich who gripe about views, bubbly

 

 More Indonesian Towns Reveal a Bleaker Picture

 

 How long before the US is told the War on Terror MUST take a back seat to the Tsunami victoms?

 

[backhoe]

 Quake toll at 120,000 as $500m is pledged -- I see that jerk from the UN has set the tone for all the reporting on this--How much MONEY is being promised, who's ahead in the money race at this moment? Forget the human tragedy, they're also ignoring the fact that assessments have to be made before any of the money issues even mean anything.

 

 DART on standby

 

 Tsunami Must Be Fault of the US

 

Volcano erupts in Andaman Islands

 Environmentalists Surf Tsunami Tragedy -- At least with the Islamists you can explain their crazy behavior on their interpretation of their religion. These people are just plain crazy. Bruce Dern crazy.

 

 Children sell toys to help victims

 

 Liberal MPs refuse to help with aid, attack Bush instead [ 1, 2 ] 

 

 Tremors of Doubt

 

 Tsunami Charity and Disaster Relief

 

 

Samaritan's Purse is on the ground in the areas affected by the earthquake and tidal waves. Helping Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and Atheists in the name of Christ. I can't think of a better organization for this kind of disaster. They are ranked highly by http://www.charitynavigator.org

 Vanity - Is the foreign aid for tsunami victims unconstitutional?

 Delhi woman is Andaman's 'Angel of the Seas' [hams banned in '87, help reunite kin, relief, rescue] 

 Kofi Defends His '72-hour Delay' In Ski Paradise 

 UN Tsunami Press Release (United States doesn't make list of countries which have contributed!) 

[backhoe]

 Tsunami Relief: U.N. answers the call (Bush's Fault: Part XXXXVIII)

 

 Prayers Replace Parties to Mark 2004's End

 

 King Harald's New Year's address to the nation (1400 missing Norwegians)

 

 Drowning victims now being looted

 

 Ayn Rand Institute: U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims

 

 WORLD CAN'T GIVE ENOUGH (Tsunami)

 

 Sweden gives 75 million dollars in aid for tsunami-hit Asia

[Stoat]

Thank you Backhoe for creating this thread.

Website to track tsunami dead (Send weblink to your friends so they can look for loved ones)

[proud American in Canada]

Saving to read later -- I was offline just after
Christmas. I had no idea just how strong this earthquake was.

Thank you and Happy New Year!

[backhoe]

Thank you all for stopping by, best wishes for a good New Year- and here's a little more:

 Website to track tsunami dead (Send weblink to your friends so they can look for loved ones)

 

 U.S. military hauling food, water, clothing, manpower to Southeast Asia

 

 US firms, foundations pulling together tsunami relief funds

 

 Muslims, Mormons send aid to tsunami victims

 

 Ten years ago...What happened in Rwanda and where was the UN then?

 Kofi Annan's year to forget

 

 (October 2002)Indonesia: Seventeen Churches Closed Down in Aceh

 

 

X deaths does not equal Y deaths if factor Z is present or does it?

 

 Elders' Knowledge of the Oceans Spares Thai 'sea Gypsies' From Tsunami Disaster

 

 Saved by faith and quick thinking

 

 UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland at press conference on Asian Tsunami disaster

 

 Aid still failing to reach neediest

 

 Ingrates of the world unite - (Terry Kerry has a phrase for you: "SH$VE IT!")

 

 Thai Tsunami Victims Balk at Treatment

 

 Sri Lankan Rebel Base Left in Ruins

 

 Briton Surfs Tsunami, Survives

 

 

[backhoe]

 QUAKE ANGEL (A+ girl, 10, Saves Tourists From Death)

 

 Sounding the Alarm on a Tsunami Is Complex and Expensive

 

 Liberals refuse to do more with aid, slam Bush instead [ 1, 2 ]

 

 Message from God??? [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

 

 Annan cuts short vacation to oversee UN tsunami relief work -- How many days did it take him to decide to cut off his vacation and quickly go look and see if he can slip his fingers into the aid trough? Isn't this decision hitting about the time it took the Clintons to position themselves overseas, too?

 

 

 Do a search on FR for the very first thread of the Quake-   Here is the first one. Notice that there was an announcement that there was no tsunami.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308458/posts

 

[backhoe]

Six days on and still they wait for help - A dozen U.S. ships with 40 helicopters

[backhoe]

 Floods in Sri Lanka Prompt Evacuations

[backhoe]

The Miracle of Banda Aceh

[backhoe]

 Tsunami Relief: The Real Story -- It continues to amaze me that people give any credibility to the UN. The UN is loving watching the numbers of donations add up because they are figuring out how they can get new houses, cars, boats, etc. out of this deal.

 

 Floods in Sri Lanka Prompt Evacuations

 

 Tsunami Relief fund Could land in wrong hands - Assume only 25% of the money reaching affected??

 

 Japan pledges $US500m for tsunami-hit areas

 

European Tsunami Victims Need 0 Negative Blood

 

 Seeking the Hand Of God in the Waters

 

 GuideStar--National Database of Nonprofit Organizations

 

 Not a Living Soul Seen On Long Trek Home -- I believe there is video of the tidal surge through Banda Aceh at this link. It's the 5th link from the bottom, titled: KATC.wmv. It is very biblical in appearance.

 

 The Lives We Can Still Save

 

 Irked Kofi Grilled on Vacation

 

 A Boy named Tsunami