15-02-2005 22:26									#1
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http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/050215/323/fcing.html

"VIENNA (AFX) - A group of Austrian and German victims of the Asian tsunami disaster are to file a lawsuit demanding that Thailand, French hotel chain Accor (Paris: FR0000120404 - news) and US forecasters prove they reacted adequately to the disaster, their lawyers said.
The suit, naming Accor and the US-run tsunami early warning system in the Pacific as well as Thai authorities, will be filed in a New York district court this week, the lawyers said in Vienna.

'We found that serious lapses were committed,' said Herwig Hasslacher, one of the three lawyers for the group."

So lets see: Our warning buoys in the pacific are supposed to detect events in the indian ocean BEFORE they hit the immediate area. Our NOAA is supposed to go into other countries and build early warning infrastructure,etc.

The article also reports that the death toll is now 300k.

	16-02-2005 00:02									#2
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Somewhere, someone's "Gives a **** " just broke. Again.

	16-02-2005 00:20									#3
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you beat me to it, though the thread title isn't very descriptive. .

It's obvious there were some screw ups. But lets be realistic, there was no system in place where american scientists were required to alert certain officials (they certainly tried). No procedure of who exactly to alert. and the fact taht tsunamis in the Indian ocean are rare, there was no alarm system. How could the hotels do anything?

	16-02-2005 00:23									#4
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Thailand probably had no chance, but someone should definately have warned Sri Lanka and India.

	16-02-2005 02:48									#5
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Next thing you know people are going to sue some temple for displeasing the gods.

	16-02-2005 02:53									#6
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There seems to've been a failure of communication in Thailand, for which presumably someone is to blame, but blaming the tsunami-warning system for the Pacific seems entirely bizarre.

Communications didn't work in Somalia either, despite the comparably very long time they had to get them out, but I suppose that's a special case.

	16-02-2005 05:40									#7
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Ok, I can understand Thailand being sued since it occured in Thailand, I can even understandi suing the hotel since they were staying there, but why are they suing the US? It's not like the US controls what happens in the north Indian ocean.

	16-02-2005 05:44									#8
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quote: It's not like the US controls what happens in the north Indian ocean.

Glad to see you're sticking to the approved story, Oerdin...

	16-02-2005 05:47									#9
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Haven't you heard about their secret earthquake machine?

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Quiet you!!!

	16-02-2005 05:54									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Ok, I can understand Thailand being sued since it occured in Thailand, I can even understandi suing the hotel since they were staying there, but why are they suing the US? It's not like the US controls what happens in the north Indian ocean.

this is true, but the fact is scientists in the U.S. did detect the quake, and tried to warn officials. I forgot where I read that, but it was detected. But it's not the scientists fault if no one would answer their phone, or pay attention to their warnings. Under the present system, they did all they could do.

	16-02-2005 05:55									#12
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It's Shrub's fault. He didn't treat the Indo-Australian plate with the respect it deserves.

	16-02-2005 06:00									#13
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weren't some people blaming the U.S. for doing secret tests on the floor of the ocean?

we can always blame the navy.

	16-02-2005 06:04									#14
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Yes there were. Reportedly, such beliefs are pretty common in Aceh.

	16-02-2005 06:14									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Haven't you heard about their secret earthquake machine?

Its not really ours, its more of a joint partnership between us, the Indians, and the jews.

	16-02-2005 06:16									#16
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You're all puppets of the Illuminati anyway.

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	16-02-2005 06:18									#17
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quote: Its not really ours, its more of a joint partnership between us, the Indians, and the jews.

So the Indians and the Jews supplied all the money, brains and programming talent between them. What did you guys bring to the table...

...the evil?

	16-02-2005 06:39									#18
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Nothing. We just outsourced the whole thing to them.

	16-02-2005 06:45									#19
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quote: Nothing. We just outsourced the whole thing to them.

	16-02-2005 06:56									#20
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Thailand probably had no chance, but someone should definately have warned Sri Lanka and India.

To may understanding the USGS warned both of those countries in an effort to save lives though the warning came with only 15-20 minutes of the wave hitting. How do you evacuate the entirer Indian and Sri Lankan east coasts in 20 minutes? Most of the villagers wouldn't even have had radios or TVs on.

	16-02-2005 10:50									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon quote: Its not really ours, its more of a joint partnership between us, the Indians, and the jews. So the Indians and the Jews supplied all the money, brains and programming talent between them. What did you guys bring to the table... ...the evil?

deep sea construction, fleet protection for the area in question, a satellite blackout,etc.