Arch wrote:
The country has been hit by Tsunami tidal waves
caused by an earthquake on 26th Dec 2004.
This country has been hit by a wave of apathy! Early Warning Systems
exist the world over to predict this kind of a calamity,
""In the absence of instrumentation we could not have known that
the earthquake in Sumatra would lead to tsunami on our coasts,"
Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ocean
Development Kapil Sibal told a press conference here.
"It is not a phenomenon that has occurred in this part of the
world. If we had had any inkling we could have reacted faster."
http://www.eians.net/2004/12/29/29busk.html
WHERE WERE THESE INFORMED JOKERS WHILE THE CALAMITY WAS IN THE MAKING?
I'LL BET AT THEIR SUNDAY BRUNCH, AT IIC., probably; discussing,
probably, and in all probability, discussing the earthquake somewhere
off their radar
I vote to set-up a calamity management fund, along this model..
Assasination Politics by Jim Bell
http://www.tamerlane.ca/library/cp/ap.htm
and along these lines...
http://cryptome.vwh.net/pipermail/cryptome/Week-of-Mon-20041213/000153.html
let's just name the guys who could have acted years ago to stop this
kind of a trajedy, and start a kitty to assist the grief struck who
might want to have their say against the litigating, ngo-infested,
court-going, deeplely moralizing apathic state that we have allowed to exist