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While the United Nations appears to be adept at having meetings, the organisation is hopeless on the ground say career foreign service officers in tsunami-affected regions.
As news media are increasingly dominated by footage of US, Australian and regional military forces actually delivering aid […]
The same QuickBird pics, but the before and after have been aligned so that they overlap perfectly. Click a button to toggle between the views for a dramatic view of the tsunami damage.
Tsunami - Kalutara Beach, Sri Lanka
The “Before/After” button below (the one that is currently labelled “Before”) toggles the image between the “Before” […]
CJAD 800 : News
Death toll from Asian earthquake, tsunami rises to about 160,000
Updated at 1:33 on January 7, 2005, EST.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CP) - The death toll from the devastating tsunami that hit Asia and Africa soared to about 160,000 early Friday after Indonesia announced almost 20,000 new deaths.
Health officials have warned the death toll could […]
The Command Post - Global Recon - U.N. Warns Tsunami Death Toll Could Reach 300,000
Reuters reports the World Health Organization warns that the tsunami death toll could double to about 300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic services by the end of the week.
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Chrenkoff
Wednesday tsunami update
The death toll: In this table.
The big picture: “The United Nations says ‘extraordinary progress’ is being made. The UN says the total amount of aid pledged had risen to between $US2 billion and $US3 billion ($A2.55 to $A3.99 billion).”
This is a handy list of who’s giving what. As the report notes, the […]
Cory Doctorow:
Frank sez, “Curious as to how much $350 million in promised US aid for tsunami victims equals in expenditures on the war in Iraq? I did the math so you don’t have to. $350 million equals 42.27 hours of the cost of the war in Iraq. (And yes, the decimal point is in the […]
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Telegraph | Opinion | American stinginess is saving lives
But the waters recede and the familiar contours of the political landscape re-emerge - in this case, the need to fit everything to the Great Universal Theory of the age, that whatever happens, the real issue is the rottenness of America. Jan Egeland, the Norwegian bureaucrat […]
Xeni Jardin:
Another collection of satellite photos of affected areas, including Aceh and Nicobar. Link (Thanks, Catherine Giayvia)…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/03/tsunami_satellite_im.html
Xeni Jardin:
Following up on this previous BoingBoing post:
Problem — No effective system of mass, international alert existed in South Asia to quickly warn those in harm’s way of the tsunami’s approach.
One approach to a solution, created in the span of about 24 hours by an impromtu volunteer geek corps — A tech system called […]
I’ve not seen it discussed much at all, the damage in Africa. Let’s not neglect that the tsunami hit there, too.
Tsunami-Info.org
Somalia Seeks Aid for 50,000 Victims
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia appealed Monday for international aid to victims of the deadly tsunami that slammed its shores, with an official saying […]
Tsunami-Info.org
News Feeds & Blogs From Around the World, Collected by Andy Carvin
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The Command Post - Global Recon - The Darker Side
Amidst all the stories of heroism and humanity by the relief workers, there are some stories showing that we’re a very imperfect species.
Concerns have been raised in Indonesia that children orphaned by the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Aceh are being taken away by unidentified […]
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The Command Post - Global Recon
“We find them by the smell,” says Kerg-Reut Khaolamai, manager of the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Krual, as the body is bagged and carried out.
“Then the elephants clear the way and lift them out. They have not done this kind of work before.“
Tsunami Missing Persons
Find Missing Persons from Tsuanami affected areas.
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The Command Post - Op-Ed - Counting The Cost
The human toll of the recent [tsunami] tragedy will never be known exactly. It looks like it will never be known even approximately. All the official figures are, as at 01 January 2005, neccessarily drastic under-estimates. To see why, and what the difficulties are in estimating […]
HELP ARRIVES:
RAHAM LINCOLN - Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid Saturday as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War, ferrying food and other emergency relief to survivors across the disaster zone.
From dawn until sunset on New Year’s Day, 12 […]
HERE’S AN INTERESTING LIST of tsunami blog links.
…excerpt from: http://instapundit.com/archives/020190.php