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16th January 2010, 12:39 PM Old #1

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It breaks my heart when a poor, helpless country is struck by a natural disaster.
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Ignore the god bothering in the middle and just look at the scenes of utter devastation.

It's pretty mindblowing

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It breaks my heart when a poor, helpless country is struck by a natural disaster.

Haiti is literally one of the poorest countries on the Earth.

Before this earthquake , due to the extreme poverty- Haitian children were forced to eat cookies literally made from dirt mixed with fat and sugar.

The dirt fills the stomach and keeps the hunger pains away, while the fat and sugar provides minimal energy.

What would be happening there right now- would be unimaginable to most of us.
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Why isn't there a telephon on to raise money for them? Shame Shame Shame.
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Traditionally the world likes to pretend that Haiti does not exist.
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Where's Bob Geldoff when you need him?
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He is busy tending to his socialite children.
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My heart goes out to them xx
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Such incomprehensible suffering really puts things in perspective. Quite harrowing just looking at those videos- One can't even begin to imagine the reality... my heart goes out to them.

Also, props on mentioning something that actually matters.

An estimated death toll of over one hundred thousand? WHO CARES DANII MINOGUE IS PREGNANT

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If gay adoption was legal we could adopt them.......

or Australia should take them in as refugees....they are more deserving at this point in time.
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Aussies gave so much money to those countries after the big tsunami five years ago.

But those places were our favourite destinations for cheap holidays. And they're full of people willing to be subservient to us.
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i had never heard of the clay cakes before. how awful.
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why are there so many natural disasters there?
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What gets me is that we (rich western nations) only seem to help when a major crisis happens such as this earthquake which presents a good photo opportunity for the politicians to stand up and say "Look at us, we are so righteous helping these people".
Then the rest of the time we let them just exist (because thats all they do in Haiti) in squalor starving to death.
I saw a doco about Haiti a while ago and they are so poor that they eat mud. They literally mix a bit of butter with mud , make little cakes and eat them because they dont have anything else.
Its sad but once the media frenzy is over the world will quietly go back to letting them all die slowly again.
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A year ago after the Victorian bushfires, aid came in quick and a lot. Luckily we're in a first world country and we can take care of ourselves. Imagine Haiti, the government can't do much, other Haitians cannot help as well. It's just too sad. Good thing all the rich countries are helping, and the US government just announced they will allow all Haiti citizens currently in the US to stay there for 18 months without visa.
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What is the risk of strong earthquakes happening in Australia? It happens in Newcastle and Melbourne. How about Sydney, what is the risk?
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