Well yeah I stopped reading there. Oh this is such a fun…
Oh this is such a fun…
you make it too easy, bilge rat
Haiti earthquake
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hey what's going on in this thre-
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that's a cool smurf pic.
All my parents do is watch the news on haiti
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Bungie, game developers responsible for the Halo franchise and older games such as Myth and Marathon, will be donating money to the relief efforts through the American Red Cross.
All you have to do is pick up one of their "Superintendent" tees or other merchandise from their Bungie Store (http://www.bungiestore.com/) since they will be directing all their profits until the end of February to the American Red Cross
Alternatively, if you own Halo 3 or ODST and Xbox LIVE, you can help out by playing on Wednesday or Thursday. For every thousand players (should work since they have almost a million players daily) they will donate $100 to the ARC up to a maximum of $77,000.
! Here are the specifics:1. Round up all of your friends and hop online with Halo 3 or ODST any time next from 00:01AM PST Wednesday, 1/20, through 23:59PM PST Thursday 1/21.
! 2. Edit your appearance settings so your character is wearing the RED HEART emblem.
a. Press START
b. Select “SETTINGS” / “APPEARANCE”
c. Select “EMBLEM”
d. Select “Hearts” ICON, “Circle” BACKGROUND
e. Back out to the APPEARANCES menu and select “COLORS”
f. Set “EMBLEM PRIMARY” to RED (or MAROON / BRICK / ROSE depending on which game you’re playing!)
g. Set “EMBLEM SECONDARY” to WHITE
! 3. Once your emblem is set, play! This can be a custom game or a matchmaking game, just make sure it’s played online, on Xbox LIVE, or we can’t track it.
If you keep playing more games through midnight on Thursday, KEEP THE HEART EMBLEM ENABLED or you may not get counted.Pretty generous on their part
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Just donated money to the Haiti Cause. Feelin' good.
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Let us all pray for the victims of Haiti quake.
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@The:
lol, he thinks the lurkers read those massive word piles.
TL;DR
I donated through a text message service that appeared during an NFL game texting "Haiti" to 90999.
Shandian is an idiot.
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I don't think 200,000 people die every few weeks in Haiti. This isn't Sub-Saharan Africa (I don't even think it happens there).
As far as the earthquake goes, I'm looking out for scamers. Last time there was a major disaster (typhoon? quake? I've forgotten) there were a lot of scams going on when it came to people donating money. I'd imagine it'll be the same here.
African are richer than some peeps buddy.
YaY! not all of them, but oh well, they are not suffering of HUNGER! believe me!
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My aunt's family in Zimbabwe would tell you otherwise.
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I don't understand why everyone is bashing shandian, although his argument came across strong or maybe somewhat ignorant it made sense. He explained his reasoning which was reasonable enough for me. However there were points that I didn’t agree with as well.
Anyway I am not going to start a huge flame fest, but ill share some news which i got from reading couple of articles, many blogs, tweeter, and talking to haitian-canadians at my university. so here u go:
as of Jan 18th, 2010 Canada has sent over 13000 packages each worth 1000$, which includes tents, first aid, and food/water that is suppose to last for over 3 weeks. However they being confiscated by the Haiti government to for examination!? While people are dying from dehydration WTF…
and only 10% of the Red Cross aid/workers are seen in the street. (This I have read in numerous tweets coming from Canadians currently living in Haiti, and also hear it from Haitians here in Canada. I do believe this because its coming from the people of that country.
lastly all the water pipes are broken more casualties, bodies piling up, water in the city is contaminated, people don’t have shit, the whole place is said to smell like rotten flesh because "rits" must do their prayers first then dispose of the body (hence this is why religion pisses me off)... so what happens to the people? They either leave[[/FONT]Leogane, Port-au-Prince, Petit Gauve, Grand Gauve <- COOL (reminds me of Grand line =D)]in order to go to the border (I have no idea why, cause the goddamn place is an island) and guess what? They are being shot. Yes Haiti soldiers are shooting people who are trying to get away from the city, you might ask "why", because there is a possibility of mass chaos, if big amount of refugees enter a different city.
The weirdest thing is this whole thing seems like quarantine to me; I don't understand.
sorry if some parts sounds weird or grammatically incorrect i was pissed when i was writing this .
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Meh, I'm going to have to side with Shandian against this army of "sympathizing" people.
I'm not saying, "Haha! They deserved it.", but I'm not a "Awww… I'm feel so bad" type of person... but, at the same time, Shandian had a point with his statement.
It was maybe just too realistic for some people.
I would probably donate some change out to 'em, but I don't trust foundations (Wyclef) and I don't have any money to spare. -
Well unfortunately Haiti is starting to be 'yesterdays' news, people expect that humanitarian aid organisations will carrry it from here on perhaps donate once or twice to get themself 'feel good'.
as of Jan 18th, 2010 Canada has sent over 13000 packages each worth 1000$, which includes tents, first aid, and food/water that is suppose to last for over 3 weeks. However they being confiscated by the Haiti government to for examination!? While people are dying from dehydration WTF…
This suprised me bit, this is rather normal procedure on sub-saharan countrys and other countrys that are controlled by strong military. Its a strange and hard to belive but Goverment and ruling people of those countrys will glinge to their power to the last and they actually believe that those 'outside' aid can actually turn their people against them.
You see, fearmongering and propaganda are popular tools to make commoners suspisius to everything else except their 'beloved' leaders who should be only ones who will care citizens and willing to help them.
and only 10% of the Red Cross aid/workers are seen in the street. (This I have read in numerous tweets coming from Canadians currently living in Haiti, and also hear it from Haitians here in Canada. I do believe this because its coming from the people of that country.
I have to defend Red Cross here but there is aswell other destinations at the world that are dire need of their help and they were already partially stretched to their limits before this Haiti catastrophe, they of course will do everything they can for Haiti but it does not mean that they should pull their people from other locations and leave them to their suffering to help Haiti.
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I have to defend Red Cross here but there is aswell other destinations at the world that are dire need of their help and they were already partially stretched to their limits before this Haiti catastrophe, they of course will do everything they can for Haiti but it does not mean that they should pull their people from other locations and leave them to their suffering to help Haiti.
i wasn't blaming red cross at all, i am a huge supporter of red cross myself, butmy point wasn't clear here, i was trying to say only 10% of the relief workers that were sent to Haiti are allowed to aid the people(currently). each worker must be approved by the government, which apparently a 3 hour process, including interviews, medical tests, and a background check. There is currently estimated 600 relief workers dealing with the injured people only(so either doctors or nurses)<- keep in mind this is the news from 5 days ago so i don't know if additional troops were sent.
not sure about this but one but just this morning one of my moms friends(nurse) who was sent to Haiti just returned. this really surprised me because she is Haitian herself and was pretty dedicated to help the people, according to my mom. so i was thinking maybe they are sending red cross workers back. <- i am not sure about this right now, ill update as soon as i find out.
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i wasn't blaming red cross at all, i am a huge supporter of red cross myself, butmy point wasn't clear here, i was trying to say only 10% of the relief workers that were sent to Haiti are allowed to aid the people(currently). each worker must be approved by the government, which apparently a 3 hour process, including interviews, medical tests, and a background check. There is currently estimated 600 relief workers dealing with the injured people only(so either doctors or nurses)<- keep in mind this is the news from 5 days ago so i don't know if additional troops were sent.
not sure about this but one but just this morning one of my moms friends(nurse) who was sent to Haiti just returned. this really surprised me because she is Haitian herself and was pretty dedicated to help the people, according to my mom. so i was thinking maybe they are sending red cross workers back. <- i am not sure about this right now, ill update as soon as i find out.
Ultimately the 'goverment' of Haiti is deciding how much amount of help and relief Haitians are receiving. Haiti itself is brought to ruin and it citizens dying on hunger and lack of water and treatment but Red cross and international aid cannot help citizens if remnants of this goverment dont approve it.
Red cross from other countrys cannot trespass this protocol and if Haiti goverment wishes to let huge number of its citizens to die in starvation and injuries then Red Cross cant do anything but be polite and respectful towards nation leadership.
Its stupid beoynd measure but its an edict of international politics and ignoring local goverment would be huge political insult and Red Cross are not allowed to do such.
Atleast Red Cross is allowed to work on Haiti and their work is saving lives at every moment but fresh water is running low and pyreocratic precedures are slowing progress and denying Red Cross helping with full capability.
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All this attention whoring is still goin on? Your not obligatated to pay attention. It's the media for crying out loud.
Anyways, I donated some items today to a charity that runs within the college. Hoping to donate some more next week as I should be getting some income soon.
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Sad I missed the Telethon for this last night, due to it being broadcast on unknown obscure channels.
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lastly all the water pipes are broken more casualties, bodies piling up, water in the city is contaminated, people don’t have shit, the whole place is said to smell like rotten flesh because "rits" must do their prayers first then dispose of the body (hence this is why religion pisses me off)…
I know this is late, but according to one news source, the smell of dead bodies was so strong that people there have to walk around holding tubes of toothpaste up to their noses to block the smell.
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@Aoi:
I know this is late, but according to one news source, the smell of dead bodies was so strong that people there have to walk around holding tubes of toothpaste up to their noses to block the smell.
no doubts about it, here is it:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3240605/Haitians-use-toothpaste-to-block-stench
it seems like shandian was right, Haiti hype Jan 12-Jan 22 RIP.
GJ to anyone who donated, however if anything like this happens again, please do some research before donating about where your donating, and the place you are donating it to. An extmated 4% of donations were internet scams…
be safe, be smart, and know your government
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Okey, I finally donated some money too.
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Who the fuck would scam someone over something like this???
WTF is wrong with some people %4 of those people deserve to be beat the fuck up!
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^ Sin is everywhere. Shut up.
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There is no way anybody is dumb enough to respond to/fall for that.
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I know that most of you may be atheist… But think of it this way. There is always a reason a catastrophe happens... May be due to extreme sin going on over there, or it could've been other things... only god knows am i right ? :D
Gonna have to try a little harder than that.
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@ihsanfals:
7,0 richter…
damn... bigger than the earthquake in my country... my deepest condolence..
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hmm ihsan are u Persian? your name sounds familiar, when u mentioned "your country" i remambered there was a huge earth quake at bam, Iran. from what i remember 3 years after that earth quake(2006), huge amount of earthquake aids that were sent to help the people, were being sold in the market… i just wanted to know if u had any ideas about that."sins" WTF lol gg
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I know that most of you may be atheist… But think of it this way. There is always a reason a catastrophe happens... May be due to extreme sin going on over there, or it could've been other things... only god knows am i right ? :D
Angel: There's a lot of sin in Haiti.
God: Kill them.
I don't think that's how God works, according to the more sane people of your religion, whatever it is.
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Angel: There's a lot of sin in Haiti.
God: Kill them.
I don't think that's how God works, according to the more sane people of your religion, whatever it is.
that made me lol, irl
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http://www.flipcollective.com/2010/01/26/if-you-rebuild-it-they-will-come-by-paul-shirley/
Basically said everything i feel towards Haiti.
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Just read about this
http://www.tvguide.com/News/TV-Medical-Correspondents-1014178.aspx?rss=breakingnews
I'm speechless.
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do you care about what going now in haiti ?
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I know that most of you may be atheist… But think of it this way. There is always a reason a catastrophe happens... May be due to extreme sin going on over there, or it could've been other things... only god knows am i right ? :D
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