Mangled Thoughts

by inference, earthquakes.

While away, one just listened to classical music and the cricket on the radio. So, one was saved the nasty, ugly rubbish put out as news in newspapers and t.v. Just abrief news report sufficed, one didn’t need the obscene rubbish put out by the media to consider the ramfications of the human catastrophe and that is it: they went through it, not the the handwringing slobs in the media, including one girlie on a.m. ABC radio who demonstrated her beautiful navel by saying:

We who lived through this and have survived it (!!!!) have learned lessons about life,living, death, and survival. (!!!!!!!!)

The topic was changed and she twittered on like the vacuous little girlie she is. Not, though, to mark, such exhibition of stupidity, shallowness and conceited feigned sensibilities are peculiar to her, as the false hand wringing and moralising of the medja, the `major charities ‘ and The Revd. Tim Costello shows.

This report is juvenile and nasty:

Tsunami waves are distinguished from ordinary ocean waves by their great length between peaks, often exceeding 160km in the deep ocean, and by the long amount of time between these peaks, ranging from 5 minutes to an hour.

While they cannot be seen from the air, or felt aboard an ocean-going ship, tsunamis can cause as great a loss of life and property as their other natural disaster cousinstornadoes and hurricanes.

In this case, the tsunami about takes about 180 minutes, travelling 1600km, to reach Sri Lanka where, as in the coastal areas already struck it wreacks untold havoc.

Hello Dick, hello bloody Dora, where’s Spot.

Then, James Ensor is director of public policy, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad :
James Ensor: Rich countries can do better

December 30, 2004

BEFORE being browbeaten into retreat by the US administration, UN aid official Jan Egeland this week accused the rich world of being “stingy” with both its tardy response to the Indian Ocean tsunamis and more generally with aid. Is he right?

However, other donors have been slow to respond to and understand the scale of the emergency. Contributions from Britain, the US and European Union so far fall well below what is required. Time is running out if the international community is to meet the immediate needs of people affected by the tsunamis.

Rich countries can easily afford to deliver the necessary aid and debt relief. On average, rich countries spending 0.7 per cent of their national income on aid is equal to a mere one-fifth of their expenditure on defence and half of their expenditure on domestic farm subsidies. The US is spending six times more on its military program as it would cost to increase its aid budget to 0.7 per cent. Cancelling the debts of 32 of the poorest countries would also be small change for the rich nations. The cost to the richest countries would amount to $1.8 billion each year over the next 10 years or on average a mere $2 for each of their citizens every year.

I see, Enser, the earthquake and the tsunami were an evil capitalisto plot.

I refuse to donate a single cent to dah `major charities’. They rely on disasters to pursue their own selfish socialisto ends. They happen to exploit them as a means of prying cash out of people who otherwise are compassionate and do wish to do something for those hit with a disaster, and not just on that scale. The ratain advertising firms year in year out, constantly developing advertising campaigns which are launched as soon as the next catastrophe occurs, that does not come cheap.

So Tim Costello found his opportunity to find megastardom , playing at being a useless hero, he gave up his christmas to be there, big deal.

Ah, yes, the U.N. can’t let go of an opportunity to show what a pack of commie bastards they are:

On the UN: As the scope of the catastrophe on coasts from Indonesia to India becomes clearer, so does a solution on how the relief effort must be handled ? this is a job for the UN. As UN official Jan Egeland warned yesterday, the disaster is unique in harming so many countries over such a vast area.

For something sensible, in stark contrast, this, Are Tsunamis Good for the Economy? by Chris Westley

Of course not, he points out, and very telling also is:

disaster is, above all, a human tragedy

Natural disasters are a fact of life, but the evidence is clear that they cause much less destruction than wars (and other fruits of the nation-state).

It is also clear that the best protection against natural disasters is not an expansion if the public sector on an international basis, but wealth creation. It is no mistake that natural disasters, which are quite equitable in distribution between rich and poor countries, are more devastating to the poor than the rich. The establishment of a thriving private sector in Sri Lanka, India, and Indonesia is crucial for a quality of life to develop there that can withstand earthquakes and their aftermath as well as does the California coast.

He also notes that the usual culprits exploit disasters, such as politicians who compound problems by forcing rebuilding in areas prone to calamities.

I believed it was a bit of a joke that the ` man causes global warming’ brigade would attribute the catastrophe to just that but, no, that is what some are trying to do. Unbelievable but, one Dr. Phil Cummins, senior seismologist with Geoscience Australia, wrote:

“There are theories that climate change is having an effect and influencing earthquake occurrence. This is yet to be verified.”

So, its true, it was due to an evil capitalisto plot.

Who-ever the culprits are, they would best serve themselves by taking a Phd in, `the life of the wee folk at the bottom of the garden, a Descontruction of the context in which they live their lives, and how nasty capitalistos oppress them.”

One geuinely interesting note , however is:

The massive earthquake may have shortened the day by three micro-seconds, scientists said..

Doesn’t seem much at all really, but taken with the next sentence, then we have a phenomenon which touches on something momentous, to say the least :

It made the earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the physical map, U.S. geophyscists said.

It touches on ,

Lambertian Fallacies
the Earth shifting its axis of rotation