It Was The 10Th Anniversary Of The Boxing Day Tsunami

....this last Boxing Day, and yet we hardly heard a peep from the media

I find that a bit weird

Since it was one of the biggest disasters in history

230,000 to 280,000 people dead

Apparently the earthquake shook the whole planet to a degree of 1 cm

 

I feel the earth move under my feet..

 

I very briefly heard it mentioned. You are right though about the media not making a huge deal of it. It does seem strange.

 

4th world countries are insignificant to modern press..

 

You are aussie arent you? They are about to amass at Gallipoli again by the thousands, thats always weirded me out, and yet this aniiversary didnt seem to fall on anyones radar.

A bit weirder in this part of the world, they are our neighbours, how many of us holiday in Indo or Thailand....barely gets a mention, and yet tickets to Centennial Park so you can watch the Gallipoli service from the other side of the world, get drunk, pass out, wake up for another dawn service, fake partiotism, for a war none of them would have a clue was about , that was a century ago

Bizarre

 

Yes, I'm in Australia.

It's funny I never really thought about the coverage of the tsunami anniversary in comparison to the Gallipoli service but you are bang on!

Kind of unrelated but still surrounding the media. The recent siege in Martins place Sydney had massive news coverage because of possible terrorist connections but the very next day in Pakistan 160 kids were killed at the hands of a suicide bomber and it barely got a mention. The media were more interested in reporting on the masses of flowers laid in Sydney for the three deaths that occurred there. Which, in my opinion is a waste of fucking money anyway! If people really want to spend money in the aftermath of tragedy why not donate to a good cause.

 

they made a big deal about princes diana, and hardly a peep about mother therisa too. well the public makes a bigger deal about actors then writers, and that never makes any sense to me either.

 

Yea it's so weird how movies only show trailers for movies

 

I cried for like 4 hours when I heard about the tsunami, I've never really been shook up by any other world event to that extent. SO many people died. I've seen a couple of anniversary shows about it while flipping about the ol' telly.

 

no the weird and ignorant thing, is how some people, and how many of them, make a bigger deal about about the corporate brainwashing bullshit they imagine themselves to be entertained by, then anything in real life.

as for which ever of those tsunamies of which this speaks, i 'rememeber' something like 30 or 40 or more years, BEFORE it happened.

a whole lot of people in napal and neighboring areas of india and tibet, felt a whole lot of 'earth moving under their feet, less then a couple of weeks ago.

poor nepal, when the rest of the world isn't sabotaging its politics, the earth itself seems to betray them.

 

I couldn't agree more, tsunamis wouldn't only make a stellar movie in 40 years, but the novel adaptation will be better. However right now, it's just too close to home, and too near the bone. Nepal would be a strange setting for tsunami's but maybe in 40 years, parts of india will be gone and nepal will be up against the coast. If not from environmental destruction lead by the automobile industry, it'd certainly be from government corruption and ignorant americans.

 

The magnitude of that disaster was unimaginable. I literally cannot fathom what 240,000 people looks like, nor can I picture the amount of destruction that that single event caused, and what a luxury it is be able to say that. It's seriously unbelievable. I wonder if that is part of the reason that it got so little attention. Small disasters or tragedies seem to get more attention, simply because folks can wrap their minds around them or empathize in some way.

 

A close friend of mine lost 3 family members that day, including his daughter. It changed his life forever and he died a very sad man.

 

The whole world should hang their heads in shame over the events of that day. The tsunami warning center detected what was happening 4 hours before the devastating waves started to hit the worst affected areas, but they were not warned. This was simply because their governments did not contribute to the early warning program. I have little doubt that it is the reason that the west want to forget all about it and pretend it never happened.