$35 million America? Is that all? After the biggest natural disaster of all time, which saw at LEAST 100,000 people dead - and that figure is only CONFIRMED dead in the hospitals. Streets, Alleys, everywhere is awash with bodies and rubble. Indonesia. Sri Lanka. Thailand. Malaysia. Burma. India. Maldives. Bangladesh. Seychelles. Kenya. Tanzania. Maldives. All levelled by tidal waves up to thirty feet high.

3 million people lack basic essentials. 1.5 million homeless. 2,000 tourists missing : we always mention how many Americans or Britons or Australians are missing. Which is just pissing in the wind. I don't care about 67 missing Brits. I care about 3,000,000 people. If you want to imagine that, think of ten times the number of people who can get into Knebworth. Or half of London. Tribes, languages, whole species have been made extinct. We do not control nature. We are here only through nature's unwitting leniancy. Homo Sapiens has survived only through chance.

Shame on you America. Should this have happened in say, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, you, Dubya would be bleating on national television begging for handouts. Don't bite the hand that feeds. You were lucky.

The BBC have some emails from people who were there : read these. pt 1, pt 2, pt 3 and yet another account and here's a link to some video of the tsunami. It's the biggest quake in history. We've been lucky most quakes happen on land, really... Each part is a seperate link.

Here's some other links...

21 Questions Bush will never answer.... , Bush may have had a stroke (and who would be surprised given his recent speeches?, Further proof that man is not only a virus, he writes Viruses, and here's some general paranoia and .something about global warming. In the meantime, Tibetan monks are fiercely debating their vision that aliens are due to land in 2012 to forestall the impending ecological disaster.

Like the existence of God, the jury is out until I see it with my own eyes.
- posted by Mark @ 6:34 pm