I started this fundraiser for the victims of the earthquake in Nepal on Crowdriser.com. It’s a very simple and direct way of making donations to the American Red Cross so they can give people some very much needed help.
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Japanese TEPCO Executives Should be Forced to Work in Fukushima Death Camp
A Japanese TEPCO executive visited a temporary shelter for evacuees in the area of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, bowing and apologizing for causing such a ‘nuisance.’
‘Nuisance.’
If this man bows a bit lower, someone should take the opportunity to kick his head through a plate glass window.
These Japanese power company nincompoops are not only disrespectful, but they are quite possibly criminals.
The CEO of TEPCO has all but disappeared, requiring low-level employees to work in his nuclear death camp, risking their health and lives for a company that has been shown to have falsified inspections when not skipping them altogether.
The TEPCO CEO should be forced to work in his own death camp. Then when he is done there and has suffered irreparable cellular damage, he should be tried and sent to prison.
Apparently, a Japanese government minister this week threatened firefighters with punishment unless they continued to work hard at the disintegrating nuclear plant.
It really pains me to watch highly paid executives and inert Japanese politicians kill workers, soldiers and firemen by forcing them to work in what amounts to a death camp.
The photo is from AFP.
Northern Japan May be Rendered Uninhabitable by Nuclear Reactors
Look at that picture. That’s a Reuters news photo of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. It is disintegrating. Explosions, fires and radiation leaks are growing worse by the day and the efforts to dump water on the reactors are desperate and considered by experts to be ‘last-ditch’ efforts.
The UK’s Daily Mail has an in-depth article with photos.
This is a frightening and horrific world disaster that is quickly approaching and will likely exceed the Chernobyl disaster. The French government is evacuating its nationals from Japan and has announced that the Japanese government is hiding the truth about the disaster. That’s about all one should need to know at this point. The French, one of the world’s leading nuclear nations, are evacuating from Japan.
Let’s stop and think about a Japan with a northern region that is completely uninhabitable.
Japan cannot handle this situation. It has become an emergency requiring a massive U.S. military intervention.
It should go without saying that investigations of nuclear power plant operators worldwide is in quick order. The criminal stupidity of building these things should lead to arrests and prosecutions in the coming months. If someone comes to your town trying sell you a nuclear power plant… put them in a jail cell.
I simply cannot overstress the absolute criminal stupidity of building nuclear reactors in an earthquake zone prone to massive tsunamis. It is simply beyond all excuse and government and power company officials in Japan should definitely be put in jail and taken out of office. This reactor problem is an insult to rationality itself. You don’t build nuclear reactors on top of faults in tsunami waters. It is suicide.
UPDATE: Great Britain is now evacuating all British citizens from Tokyo.
Photos of Earthquake and Tsunami Damage in Japan
The Daily Mail in the UK has a series of photos of the earthquake and tsunami damage in Japan.
The photos are from the European Pressphoto Agency.
CNN has a live blog following the quake and tsunami.
The Huffington Post has live coverage.
Here is how you can donate to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake effort.
Raw Video of Japan Tsunami Entering Town
This is raw and shocking video of the tsunami in Japan entering and destroying a town. It was posted by James MacWhyte on his Facebook page.
Thank you to Paul Gallagher of Dangerous Minds for the find.
CNN has a live blog following the quake and tsunami.
The Huffington Post has live coverage.
Here is how you can donate to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake effort.
Huge 8.9 Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Japan
CNN has a live blog following the quake and tsunami.
The Huffington Post has live coverage.
Here is how you can donate to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake effort.
Crisis Camps: Computer Techies Helping Response for Haiti
Computer programmers and other technical people are building valuable tools for helping the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake on January 12. Crisis Camps have been set up for volunteers to develop applications that help with damage assessment, mapping, locating of survivors, locating first aid stations, translation, radio communications, food and water deliveries, free phone services, and many more. At the root of the effort is the basic understanding that good data must be given to and easily shared between all of the aid organizations, both public and private, helping with aid and rescue in Haiti. Some of the earliest volunteers for Crisis Camp came from Google, NASA, the United Nations, the American Red Cross and the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
Google developed an online tool to help people locate missing persons in Haiti. The technical effort has a Wiki page at Crisis Commons Wiki, that gathers resources, updates on projects, and calls for volunteers in specific areas.
The Crisis Camp volunteer approach is building something very powerful that will have a huge impact on disaster response in the future. This is the internet and tech world at its very best.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Docks Ship for Fun and Sun in Stricken Haiti
Perhaps the most disgusting company on the face of the planet has made itself known today: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has docked the cruise ship Independence of the Seas at a private beach in Haiti which is fenced off from the rest of the stricken nation, for some fun and sun along the beach. The resort beach is about sixty miles from the devastation of Haiti’s earthquake zone and is surrounded by tall fences and armed guards.
Apparently, the cruise line company has excused its shocking act by saying that it delivered some pallets of relief supplies. So, with millions of people injured, two hundred thousand dead, everything lying in heaps of rubble, this Royal Caribbean company thinks it can dock its ship for fun and NOT pick up survivors or provide beds and rooms for survivors or transportation for survivors. What Royal Caribbean should be doing is running its ships back and forth to ferry people to hospitals on other islands. That’s what a responsible company with real sailors in its employ would be doing. How could a ship’s captain or crew live with itself after behaving in such a monstrous fashion? How could the passengers not mutiny? What are the names of the people on board this ship? Let’s find out and post them on the web.
Ship photo from Bernt Rostad
Google App to Help Find Information on People Missing in Haiti
This is an application from Google that tries to locate information about missing persons in Haiti. I don’t know how well it works, but I think Google is trying pretty hard with its considerable resources to find any data that might help.
Update (1-17-2010): News organizations that have set up sites to help locate people are apparently opening their systems and sharing their data with the Google people-finder application. The MIT Center for Future Civic Media is calling on all people-finder data collectors to pool their data in one place. This is very smart and will drastically increase the effectiveness of the Google people-finder app. Here’s more about the call for shared data.
No Water In Haiti After Earthquake
There’s no water in Haiti. With approximately 6,000,000 people looking for water this is a truly horrific situation. Many thousands more people are going to die within several days if enormous amounts of water are not somehow delivered to them. With a single jammed airport in Port-au-Prince, it seems like a nearly impossible task.
You can donate to the Red Cross International Response Fund. Also, giving blood is always one of the very best things you can do because it fills the blood banks and can be used almost anywhere.
You can also donate to Doctors Without Borders, which is putting medical personnel on the ground in Haiti to assist in saving lives.
Bill Clinton Talks About How to Help Haiti
Bill Clinton offers ideas on how to help Haiti after the earthquake. Whenever this guy opens his mouth I feel like someone is doing something to help.
Haiti Earthquake Help is Slow to Arrive
Here’s CNN footage of survivors trying to help people trapped in collapsed buildings. Medical help is not significantly present in Haiti at the moment. It is a shame that in the western hemisphere, so close to the richest nation on earth, it takes days to get a little medical assistance into a crisis zone. We think more about war and terrorists than we do about real threats that kill hundreds of thousands of people. Shameful.
YouTube‘s CitizenTube Channel is maintaining an updating playlist of videos taken on the ground in Haiti just after the earthquake and during rescue attempts.
You can donate to the Red Cross International Response Fund. Also, giving blood is always one of the very best things you can do because it fills the blood banks and can be used almost anywhere.
You can also donate to Doctors Without Borders, which is putting medical personnel on the ground in Haiti to assist in saving lives.
More footage from Associated Press:
Videos From Haiti During and After Earthquake
This video shows shocking scenes of the carnage and death just after the earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. It is extremely graphic. It shows dead and severely injured people. This is terrible and tragic news from a desperately poor nation that has no medical infrastructure to deal with the injured.
YouTube‘s CitizenTube Channel is maintaining an updating playlist of videos taken on the ground in Haiti just after the earthquake and during rescue attempts.
You can donate to the Red Cross International Response Fund. Also, giving blood is always one of the very best things you can do because it fills the blood banks and can be used almost anywhere.
You can also donate to Doctors Without Borders, which is putting medical personnel on the ground in Haiti to assist in saving lives.
One extra and disgusting note: on his Christian Broadcasting Network today, televangelist Pat Robertson told viewers:
And you know, Christy, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it, they were under the heel of the French, uh, you know, Napoleon the third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil, they said, we will serve you, if you get us free from the Prince, true story. And so the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free, and ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other, desperately poor. . . the Island of Hispaniola is one island cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti, on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is, is, prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty, same Islands, uh, they need to have, and we need to pray for them, a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I’m optimistic something good may come, but right now we’re helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable.
I’m going to be very clear about something. What this awful man is saying is truly disgusting and belongs back in the Middle Ages. This is deeply primitive and racist thinking which is an embarrassment to our nation. If you are watching this creep on television, please seriously reconsider what you are doing.
Haiti is in Really Bad Shape After Major Earthquake
Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince looks to be destroyed. The people need more doctors. I’ve heard about one major hospital that was destroyed, so it must be very bad.
Doctors Without Borders is in Haiti to set up clinics for treating the injured. You can donate now for that.
Terrible Earthquake In Haiti – Most of Capital City Destroyed
Most of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, has been destroyed by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit yesterday. Bodies are lying in the streets. The death toll is expected to be enormous and the survivors need immediate help. The Red Cross is taking donations and sending teams to Haiti. You can donate to the Red Cross International Response Fund. Also, giving blood is always one of the very best things you can do because it fills the blood banks and can be used almost anywhere.
You can also donate to Doctors Without Borders, which is putting medical personnel on the ground in Haiti to assist in saving lives.