Did New York Orchestrate The Asian Tsunami?

[UniverseSeven]

GO HERE FIRST!http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=362944

December 22, 2004

Unknown Energy Surges Continue to Hit Planet, Global Weather Systems in Chaos

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to the Russian Academy of Sciences

An increasingly panicked global effort is now underway by the worlds top scientists to understand an unprecedented series of ‘blasts’, energy surges, which the planet has been taking from as an yet unknown source which has been bombarding Antarctica with cosmic rays and disrupting Northern Hemisphere weather systems on a global scale.

The first of these cosmic ray blasts occurred nearly 5 years ago and have been increasing in their frequency and intensity since the end of November. The once normally darkened skies of the Northern Hemispheres Arctic regions are now in twilight due to these blasts. Wayne Davidson, from the Canadian Government's weather station at Resolute Bay, located in the Arctic Circle, says about this mysterious lighting, "The entire horizon is raised like magic, like the hand of God is bringing it up.”<br>
On December 1, 2004 the largest recorded blast sent not only shockwaves through the world scientific community but also through the Northern Hemisphere resulting in one of the largest weather events in recorded human history when 86,800 square miles of China was shrouded in fog, bringing transportation systems (especially air travel) to a virtual standstill throughout the country.

As reported by the BBC in this article from October, 2002, “German scientists have found a significant piece of evidence linking cosmic rays to climate change. They have detected charged particle clusters in the lower atmosphere that were probably caused by the space radiation. They say the clusters can lead to the condensed nuclei which form into dense clouds.”

These German scientists from the from the Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg go on to say that their measurements "have for the first time detected in the upper troposphere large positive ions with mass numbers up to 2500", and "Our observations provide strong evidence for the ion-mediated formation and growth of aerosol particles in the upper troposphere."

What they hadn’t expected to happen though has been the large scale occurrences of this over the past few weeks, to include China on December 2nd and 14th and then India on the 21st, which is due to both China’s and India’s reliance on fossil fuels and the continuing degradation of their air quality.

The effects of these blasts have also been felt throughout the rest of the Northern Hemisphere resulting in such freak occurrences as, hurricane force winds in Paris , Germany, Canada, Russia, England and the United States on an almost simultaneous basis. Accompanying these hurricane force winter winds have been the massive cold fronts following them dropping normal winter lows to record lows throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Though not yet at a point to acknowledge this publicly, some of the world’s top scientists are beginning to see an astrophysical correlation between these cosmic ray blasts to our planet and an ever increasing number of global events relating to atmospheric explosions of inbound meteors, such as those in Indonesia, where a meteorite was picked up by their Air Forces radar, China, where a meteorite explosion turned ‘night into day’ and Washington D.C. where one police official stated, "It looked like a ball of fire falling out of the sky."

The world’s top scientists have begun coordinating with Dr. Eun-Suk Seo from the United States University of Maryland, and her team, in a ‘search’ for answers to the origin of these cosmic ray blasts directed from an unknown origin in space towards the South Pole and disrupting our global weather systems.

Under Dr. Eun-Suk Seo her and her international team’s direction NASA launched a stratospheric balloon on December 20th from Antarctica’s McMurdo base and have stated, “The balloon, following circulation of winds high, will sail around the ice continent for about three weeks. During this time, data of great scientific interest will be gathered. These data concern flows of charged particles of highest energy (cosmic rays) coming from Space.”<br>
But as one Russian scientist said to us, and who wished to remain anonymous, “Why this game? We all know what’s happening.” an apparent reference to the fact though these events are well known to both world governments and the scientific establishments they are beyond the understanding of the general public at large.

Whatever the end results these experiments reveal for these scientists, it remains an undisputed fact that this world of ours is facing a type of global cataclysmic event buried in our common geological past, and maybe, as some social scientists report, in our common ancestral memory also.

December 22, 2004
Unknown Energy Surges Continue to Hit Planet, Global Weather Systems in Chaos
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to the Russian Academy of Sciences www.whatdoesitmean.com/index601.htm

© December 22, 2004, EU and US all rights reserved.


High Energy Mystery lurks at Galactic Center
www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/SgrA.asp

After Trio of Explosions, Scientists Say Supernova Is Imminent www.rednova.com/news/stories/1/2004/10/01/story001.html

PLANETOPHYSICAL STATE OF

THE EARTH AND LIFE

By DR. ALEXEY N. DMITRIEV*

Published in Russian, IICA Transactions, Volume 4, 1997
www.tmgnow.com/repository/global/planetophysical.html

ORBIT: GREAT QUAKE www.cyberspaceorbit.com/


NASA sparks asteroid fear
Jeff Sommerfeld
27dec04

HOLLYWOOD predictions of a rogue asteroid colliding with Earth and threatening life as we know it has become a real possibility, according to a new warning from NASA.

On Christmas Eve, NASA issued its highest-ever threat warning when it gave asteroid 2004 MN4 a rating of four on the 10-point Torino Scale used to rate intergalactic threats. The highest previous rating was one. The rating for 2004 MN4 means there is a 1.6 per cent chance it and Earth will collide when they crosses paths on April 13, 2029.

Astronomy educator Paul Floyd said 2004 MN4 was first discovered in March 2004, but contact was lost until it was rediscovered on December 19. He said it is about 440m in diameter and is larger than many of the asteroids to collide with the Earth in its recent history. He said if it was a stony type like most asteroids, much of it could vapourise in the atmosphere. He said if it was an iron type that remained intact as it passed through the atmosphere, 2004 MN4's size meant it could have an impact equivalent to between 100 to 150 hydrogen bombs.

Astronomers need a long time to work out asteroids' risk rating as Earth is a small target.
www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11789272%255E663,00.html

PICTURE WORTH A MILLION LIVES? *PIC*
www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=42809

Hyperdimensional Hurricanes?
Part One: The Mystery
By Richard C. Hoagland
© 2004 The Enterprise Mission
www.enterprisemission.com/hurricane1.htm

www.rumormillnews.com/

[UniverseSeven]

1+ million displaced, whole islands, towns and villages wiped off the map. Death toll may double to 140,000.

[Blindswordsman]

Indeed. They have to change the maps and globes now. One island was moved more than 150 (?) feet. Some islands grew taller by several feet.

Hotep

[Os3y3ris]

Tragic.

[UniverseSeven]

Weather as a Force Multiplier:
Owning the Weather in 2025



A Research Paper

Presented To

Air Force 2025

by

Col Tamzy J. House
Lt Col James B. Near, Jr.
LTC William B. Shields (USA)
Maj Ronald J. Celentano
Maj David M. Husband
Maj Ann E. Mercer
Maj James E. Pugh

August 1996

Disclaimer

2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future. Presented on 17 June 1996, this report was produced in the Department of Defense school environment of academic freedom and in the interest of advancing concepts related to national defense. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the United States government.

This report contains fictional representations of future situations/scenarios. Any similarities to real people or events, other than those specifically cited, are unintentional and are for purposes of illustration only.

This publication has been reviewed by security and policy review authorities, is unclassified, and is cleared for public release.

www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm

where in the world is Diego Garcia? www.ncmoddg.navy.mil/

This Will knock Your Socks Off -Aussie Bloke quote....

Just ask anyone in the region where all troubles now prevail, if the agree with this statement, guess what they´d say?

"....you can believe all this and...you still die...OR you can label me a fruit loop and you STILL die.....either way you still die...and if you go to the beach and hang around it will be quick at least."

This was from 5-12-2004

Yes he was referring to meteor hits. Have we absolutely determined meteors had nothing to do with what´s happening? No.

Antartica ´quake´ 12-24-04
Indian Ocean ´quake 12-26-04
Siberian ´volcano´ 12-29-04
Atlantic... ?


Original Post follows...

Check THIS out!!!!
5/12/2004
2:03 am EDT Re: Aussie Bloke Vol.#1

T-199.80..:-5-004.1.887(993.56)ETA:-24:34.INC
T-005.83..:-5-004.3.733(447.34)ETA:-05:51.INC
T-003.48..:-6-004.5.735(693.72)ETA:-10:37.INC?

MDC:-DIA=1.43..AU VEL as follows:-0.000234 LS
:-0.000138 LS
:-0.000319 LS

PTOI 1.9558.56 WE 10098.56 SE TTI+ETA(^&.99)
ETS SH=27/6/04? Tracking VEL US at this time.
PROJECTED POA UNKNOWN

T-199.80..:-5-004.1.887 INBOUND AT (sec.com) NAV 335.78+09.456(EMP=.0045) PSM.0012.

Aussie Bloke
5/12/2004
2:29 am EDT Re: Aussie Bloke Vol.#1

Who the hell posted THAT!!! YOU IDIOT!!! DON´T tell them YET...why do I even bother...the cats out of the bag...good one idiot. They work it out and then goodbye everyone. Oh well...there it is ladies and gentlemen...IF you can work the codes...its there in black and white. I think I know who posted this....I am onto you. Party pooper.

Aussie Bloke
5/12/2004
9:29 pm EDT Re: Aussie Bloke Vol.#1

T-199.80..:-5-004.1.887(993.56)ETA:-24:34.INC
T-005.83..:-5-004.3.733(447.34)ETA:-05:51.INC
T-003.48..:-6-004.5.735(693.72)ETA:-10:37.INC?

Interesting the way he coded it. Maybe I should "uncode" some of it for you. But if I do all the fun will be spoiled. So I will simply clarify a few things here and there. - is + ETA:- Estimated Time of Arrival

T- is t minus and counting....the times are mixed up but correct...YOU decide which one will hit first.

INC is Incoming Now Confirmed.....as you can see there is a question mark. It is a vital clue...by the way...THAT one is the one we are really worried about. It is somewhat unpredictable and none of us can explain why. THAT is why it is called an "anomaly"...UNKNOWN.

MDC:-DIA=1.43..AU VEL as follows:-0.000234 LS
:-0.000138 LS
:-0.000319 LS
The above is clear enough for you to work out.

AHHH...now we have some interesting numbers here.
PTOI is Projected Time Of Impact.

The numbers are self explanatory....WE is west and SE is South east. YOU know what the numbers mean...just look at a map and work it out. The numbers COULD be (hint) in reverse order or mixed up...but they are correct. I don´t want to take all the fun out of it for you.

(^&.99) IS a percentage probability...you were correct.

PTOI 1.9558.56 WE 10098.56 SE TTI+ETA(^&.99)
ETS SH=27/6/04? Tracking VEL US at this time.
PROJECTED POA UNKNOWN
PSM is PER SIMULATION MODEL
The numbers are hours or days...or both (hint) have fun.
T-199.80..:-5-004.1.887 INBOUND AT (sec.com) NAV 335.78+09.456(EMP=.0045) PSM.0012.

To put it all into plain English I will say this. PAY ATTENTION PLEASE. Work this out and you will have all your answers.

There are THREE incoming objects. TWO of them we know a lot about...but the third one is an unknown...all we know is it is coming and it has a high probability of hitting us. The other two WILL hit us. Along with these three main objects are many many smaller ones...it will rain death all over the world for a week or so. The death rain as we call it will begin late June. Leading up to June you can expect a wonderful light show as millions of small meteorites enter our atmosphere. I keep saying look south...but it is hard for most of the world to do this...unless you live down under and know exactly where to look and WHAT to look for. Immediately preceding the impacts, the earth...in fact the entire solar system...will be shrouded in thick black space dust. NASA will try..and indeed they already ARE trying to knock these objects of course. Next month is their last chance. ALL the satellites including the ISS will be obliterated and re enter the atmosphere causing the release of tons of toxic fumes into our air. On top of that you have multiple impacts all over the world and tidal waves like you could not imagine sweeping EVERY coastline around the world. THERE WILL BE NO PLACE TO HIDE. THOSE who for some reason survive will soon wish they had NOT. AFTER this all occurs humanity will emerge from their burrows...those that had one and lived....and proceed to kill each other just to keep living. The government will take control...or try to...and enforce their will on ALL. THE safest place to be is Australia well away from the coast...but even THAT is only a guess at this time because we simply do not know what "anomaly" will do as yet. So to counter all this we have a lot of distractions at present...wars...torture...beheadings...and for some reason interest rates are about to go up again. Keeps everyone focused on the here and now....or next year....ANYTHING but next month!! Watch the CNN...get all the latest "fair and balanced" CRAP...keep your minds away from next month...keep it focused on the elections and "next year"...keep focused on you debts...keep focused on the "war"...UP the alert to RED...declare martial law...and BAM...they got ya trapped. Nowhere to run and no WAY to hide. Now....you can believe all this and...you still die...OR you can label me a fruit loop and you STILL die.....either way you still die...and if you go to the beach and hang around it will be quick at least.

GO HERE!!! www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?message=62875&mpage=1&topic=3&showdate=12/29/04

www.cyberspaceorbit.com/

December 28, 2004

Evidence for Sumatra 9.0 Quake Leans towards Meteorite Strike
By: Sorcha Faal

As more scientific information begins to become available relating to the events surrounding the 9.0 earthquake off of the Northern Coast of Sumatra on December 26th, it is being reported that the depth was 10km. More importantly perhaps are the growing signs surrounding this event that rather than being caused by internal earth dynamics, as is being widely reported, it was instead caused by an extraterrestrial event, a meteorite strike into the ocean having come from the Southern Hemispheric skies.

Australian researcher Professor Ted Bryant had previously warned about just such an event happening in his book, Tsunami - The Underrated Hazard. He also ‘backed up his dire warning’ with a time and a date: 8pm on February 22, 1491, when a meteorite strike caused tsunami waves in excess of 130 meters high.

Further research for the Australian Spaceguard Survey by Michael Paine, and titled “Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts”, shows that an asteroid having a diameter of 2 km would be equal to 1,000,000 MT. Mr. Paine states, “When an asteroid hits the ocean at 70 000km/h there is a gigantic explosion. The asteroid and water vaporize and leave a huge crater - typically 20 times the diameter of the asteroid (that is, a 100m asteroid will create a 2 kilometre diameter crater). The water rushes back in, overshoots to create a mountain of water at the middle and this spreads out as a massive wave - a tsunami. The centre of the "crater" oscillates up and down several times and a series of waves radiate out.”

Lending credence to the suspicions of a meteorite strike causing this event have been a number of world reports relating to fireballs, mysterious lights in the sky around the world and exploding meteorites turning ‘night into day’ in both Indonesia and China over these past few weeks. www.whatdoesitmean.com/index624.htm

[SAMURAI36]

PEACE TO ALL:

I have a "theory" about this, that I have been discussing with BLIND for a minute now.....I may post it to see what other's thoughts on it are.

PEACE

[UniverseSeven]

Check this

Did New York Orchestrate The Asian Tsunami?
With Afghanistan and Iraq already lost, the Wall Street bankers were all desperately looking for other ways to control our world, when suddenly and very conveniently, the Sumatran Trench exploded. Trick or Treat?

Copyright Joe Vialls, 5 January 2005

-snippet- The Indian Government knew full well that this was not a "normal" earthquake. On 27 December India refused to join George Bush's planned exclusive 'club of four', which would have effectively pulled this Asian nuclear power out of its new coalition with Russia, China and Brazil. On 28 December the Indian Government politely warned the American military to stay clear of Indian sovereign territory, and on 29 December the India Daily Editorial publicly questioned the nature of the event: "Was this a showdown by a country to show the region what havoc can be created?" ... "Given the level of devastation and given the fact India is a regional power in South Asia, [the] Indian Navy has an obligation to investigate and tell the world what they found."

www.joevialls.co.uk/


The US military base in the Indian Ocean on the British-controlled island of Diego Garcia, received sufficient warning of the tsunami so that it suffered no damage, unlike the rest of the Indian Ocean.

Diego Garcia is the island, about 1,000 miles from India and directly in the path of the tsunami, from which the US conducts its bombing raids on Afghanistan and Iraq.
"There is already evidence that the US government had ample warning of the earthquake-driven tsunami, but did not communicate the information to the countries involved. US press reports indicate that the Pacific Warning Center in Hawaii, a facility of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, detected the earthquake when it occurred and immediately warned of the likelihood of tidal waves generated by one of largest temblors ever recorded."

"Charles McCreery, director of the center, confirmed that his team had transmitted warnings to the US Navy, the US State Department and the government of Australia. The State Department claimed to have notified India, but the Indian government said it received no such warning in the two hours that elapsed between the quake off Sumatra and the tidal wave that hit the Indian coastline in the southern province of Tamil Nadu. Nor did the Sri Lankan government receive a warning."

www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/bush-d30.shtml

www.navy.mil/

Foreknowledge of A Natural Disaster: Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean

by Michel Chossudovsky

freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2633

[Kephrem]

UniverseSeven said:

December 22, 2004

Unknown Energy Surges Continue to Hit Planet, Global Weather Systems in Chaos

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to the Russian Academy of Sciences

An increasingly panicked global effort is now underway by the worlds top scientists to understand an unprecedented series of ‘blasts’, energy surges, which the planet has been taking from as an yet unknown source which has been bombarding Antarctica with cosmic rays and disrupting Northern Hemisphere weather systems on a global scale.

The first of these cosmic ray blasts occurred nearly 5 years ago and have been increasing in their frequency and intensity since the end of November. The once normally darkened skies of the Northern Hemispheres Arctic regions are now in twilight due to these blasts. Wayne Davidson, from the Canadian Government's weather station at Resolute Bay, located in the Arctic Circle, says about this mysterious lighting, "The entire horizon is raised like magic, like the hand of God is bringing it up.”<br>
On December 1, 2004 the largest recorded blast sent not only shockwaves through the world scientific community but also through the Northern Hemisphere resulting in one of the largest weather events in recorded human history when 86,800 square miles of China was shrouded in fog, bringing transportation systems (especially air travel) to a virtual standstill throughout the country.

As reported by the BBC in this article from October, 2002, “German scientists have found a significant piece of evidence linking cosmic rays to climate change. They have detected charged particle clusters in the lower atmosphere that were probably caused by the space radiation. They say the clusters can lead to the condensed nuclei which form into dense clouds.”



These German scientists from the from the Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg go on to say that their measurements "have for the first time detected in the upper troposphere large positive ions with mass numbers up to 2500", and "Our observations provide strong evidence for the ion-mediated formation and growth of aerosol particles in the upper troposphere."

What they hadn’t expected to happen though has been the large scale occurrences of this over the past few weeks, to include China on December 2nd and 14th and then India on the 21st, which is due to both China’s and India’s reliance on fossil fuels and the continuing degradation of their air quality.

The effects of these blasts have also been felt throughout the rest of the Northern Hemisphere resulting in such freak occurrences as, hurricane force winds in Paris , Germany, Canada, Russia, England and the United States on an almost simultaneous basis. Accompanying these hurricane force winter winds have been the massive cold fronts following them dropping normal winter lows to record lows throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Though not yet at a point to acknowledge this publicly, some of the world’s top scientists are beginning to see an astrophysical correlation between these cosmic ray blasts to our planet and an ever increasing number of global events relating to atmospheric explosions of inbound meteors, such as those in Indonesia, where a meteorite was picked up by their Air Forces radar, China, where a meteorite explosion turned ‘night into day’ and Washington D.C. where one police official stated, "It looked like a ball of fire falling out of the sky."

The world’s top scientists have begun coordinating with Dr. Eun-Suk Seo from the United States University of Maryland, and her team, in a ‘search’ for answers to the origin of these cosmic ray blasts directed from an unknown origin in space towards the South Pole and disrupting our global weather systems.

Under Dr. Eun-Suk Seo her and her international team’s direction NASA launched a stratospheric balloon on December 20th from Antarctica’s McMurdo base and have stated, “The balloon, following circulation of winds high, will sail around the ice continent for about three weeks. During this time, data of great scientific interest will be gathered. These data concern flows of charged particles of highest energy (cosmic rays) coming from Space.”<br>
But as one Russian scientist said to us, and who wished to remain anonymous, “Why this game? We all know what’s happening.” an apparent reference to the fact though these events are well known to both world governments and the scientific establishments they are beyond the understanding of the general public at large.

Whatever the end results these experiments reveal for these scientists, it remains an undisputed fact that this world of ours is facing a type of global cataclysmic event buried in our common geological past, and maybe, as some social scientists report, in our common ancestral memory also.

© December 22, 2004, EU and US all rights reserved.

PEACE SEVEN,

What's the source, or link, for this article?

[Healthy Merking]

PEACE

this type of thing still catches me off guard at first

then you do the math and say "of course"

what a time to be on the planet

PEACE

[UniverseSeven]

P+E(AC)=E

Sorry, I forgot to add it. I modified the post with link.
www.whatdoesitmean.com/index601.htm

[UniverseSeven]

P+E(AC)=E

Scientist have made it clear that the event that lead to the South Asian Tsunami made the Earth's wobble on its axis. I do not think this is characteristic of earthquakes as they are release of energy from Earth and the Earth anticipates these events/releases whether it be volcanic eruption or earthquake. Rather an exterior energy impact such as a comet or very large subsurface nuclear explosion would create this effect as it is energy impacting Earth rather than being released. This correlates with the physics of energy and the laws that govern it. That is not say there was no earthquake but what was the cause?

Tsunami quake wobbled Earth's axis
December 28, 2004

An earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves on Asia was so powerful it made the Earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the regional map, US geophysicists said today. The 9.0-magnitude temblor that struck 250 km south-east of Sumatra island on Sunday may have moved small islands as much as 20 metres, according to one expert. "That earthquake has changed the map," US Geological Survey expert Ken Hudnut told AFP. "Based on seismic modelling, some of the smaller islands off the south-west coast of Sumatra may have moved to the south-west by about 20 metres. That is a lot of slip." The north-western tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra may also have shifted to the south-west by around 36 metres, Hudnut said. In addition, the energy released as the two sides of the undersea fault slipped against each other made the Earth wobble on its axis, Hudnut said.

"We can detect very slight motions of the Earth and I would expect that the Earth wobbled in its orbit when the earthquake occurred due to the massive amount of energy exerted and the sudden shift in mass," Hudnut said. Another USGS research geophysicist agreed that the Earth would have got a "little jog", and that the islands off Sumatra would have been moved by the quake.

However, Stuart Sipkin, of the USGS National Earthquake Information Centre in Golden Colorado, said it was more likely that the islands off Sumatra had risen higher out of the sea than they had moved laterally. "In this case, the Indian plate dived below the Burma plate, causing uplift, so most of the motion to the islands would have been vertical, not horizontal."

The tsunamis unleashed by the fourth-biggest earthquake in a century have left more than 23,000 people dead in eight countries across Asia and as far as Somalia in East Africa. The tsunamis wiped out entire coastal villages and pulled beach-goers out to sea.
The International Red Cross estimated that up to one million people have been displaced by the natural disaster.

- AFP

www.theage.com.au/news/Science/Tsunami-quake-wobbled-Earths-axis/2004/12/28/1103996533891.html?oneclick=true

Since nothing is what it seems, It is only logical to assume this event was not natural. Whether it be a result of the Great Earth Changes, Universal Energy Effects, or a man made event through a subsurface nuclear detonation it is clear that the truth is not as simple as a "big earthquake". The last large tsunami in the Indian Ocean was 500 years ago. 90% of all tsunamis occur in the pacific and are relativly non lethal and non destructive. Remember any stories in the last 20 years about a big tsunami in the Pacific that caused great loss of life or damge? thought not....

[UniverseSeven]

Disaster brings Indian, US navies together in Indian Ocean for first time

Saturday January 1, 9:39 AM

Indian and American navies will cooperate in the Indian Ocean for the first time when they join forces to coordinate relief for the victims of tidal waves, a report said. The two countries, estranged during the Cold War but whose ties have warmed in recent years, will join Australia and Japan in a "core group" being created by Washington to coordinate recovery efforts. US Secretary of State Colin Powell told AFP on Thursday that the United Nations had chief responsibility for coordinating relief in the Asian tsunami disaster, but the core group would be "complementary" to the world body's efforts. He said the United States sought to combine its military capability in the region with Japan's financial resources and the assets of India and Australia to mount a rapid action to be expanded as other countries and groups joined in.

The Indian Express newspaper Friday noted that during the Cold War, the Indian navy was effectively ranged against the armada of the United States, Japan and Australia.

In the coming weeks the South Asian region's strongest naval force would be working with the US Navy, the world's most powerful, for the first time in the Indian Ocean, it said. During Operation Enduring Freedom to oust the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, Indian ships had assisted the United States in providing security in the Malacca Straits, but that small operation had taken months to negotiate.

By contrast, the tsunami relief coalition has taken just days to tie up through a flurry of phone calls between Indian and US officials, including between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The United States has sent military transporters to the worst-hit countries in the Indian Ocean while an aircraft carrier, helicopter carrier and military forces that could help in relief work are also on the way from bases in Asia.

India's government, meanwhile, has said it would press on with plans to expand its facilities in the Andaman archipelago despite the Indian Air Force (IAF) base on Car Nicobar island being all but washed away in Sunday's tsunami. "Earlier the plan was to go in for expansion of the existing IAF facilities in the islands But now that the existing facilities have almost been wiped out, the plans will have to be redrafted," Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Indian Express. "But the expansion and augumentation of facilities will take place. The new runway, presently under construction, will also be built for taking heavier traffic." Car Nicobar island straddles access to the Malacca Straits, a key waterway through which much of the world's crude oil passes. sg.news.yahoo.com/050101/1/3plip.html


Tsunamis and Nuclear Power Plants
By Russell D. Hoffman
Tuesday 28 December 2004

Why did we build nuclear power plants near the ocean, anyway, where they are susceptible to underwater and surface attacks by terrorists and other belligerents? Because nuclear power plants need enormous quantities of water for their cooling systems, and water - especially in the western United States - is usually difficult to find except along the shoreline. The outflow from a nuclear power plant is always slightly contaminated with radioactive particles, and sometimes severely so; people don't want to drink that. So they put the plants near the oceans whenever possible.

Don't worry about tsunamis, they said - we've built you this puny little wall. Don't worry about asteroid impacts - they hardly ever happen. Don't worry about tornados or hurricanes. Don't worry about human error. So, society agreed to these poisonous cauldrons of bubbling radioactivity

- these behemoths of death-rays ready to burst - these sitting ducks on our shorelines.

Don't worry about tsunamis, they said - we've built you this puny little wall. Don't worry about asteroid impacts - they hardly ever happen. Don't worry about tornados or hurricanes. Don't worry about human error. So, society agreed to these poisonous cauldrons of bubbling radioactivity - these behemoths of death-rays ready to burst - these sitting ducks on our shorelines.

These tsunami waves would have had little or no effect on floating off-shore ocean wind energy farms (unless they were particularly close to shore), nor would they effect OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) power plants, or any other deep-sea energy solutions, because the tsunami waves are harmless in deep water.

full article at www.truthout.org/docs_04/123004W.shtml


Tsunamis and a Nuclear Threat
By J. Sri Raman, TruthOut.org.
January 5, 2005.

Chennai, India – This coastal city in south India has just survived a double peril; the tsunami disaster and a nuclear threat.

The enormous waves, which hit Chennai last Sunday, did not only destroy fishermen's hamlets and flood out thousands of other homes and lives. The tsunamis also inundated a part of the nuclear plant located in the outskirts of the city and close to the sea.

We will have to wait for a full report on the damage. No further investigation is required, however, to see that the Kalpakkam nuclear complex and the tsunami make for a deadly combination.

full article at www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20895/


Earthquakes, Tsunamis
And Nuclear Testing
By Lila Rajiva
Jan-2-05

In the aftermath of a cataclysm like the Asian tsunami, speculation can run wild. Reserving judgment until we really know what happened, here is a list of salient questions and answers that I,ve compiled from news reports, government and other reliable sources.

Q: What set off the gigantic tsunamis that devastated coastal south-east Asia?

A: An undersea earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale with its epicenter about 160 km from the northern portion of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia on Sunday, December 26.

Q: How soon after the quake did the tsunami hit?

A: The earthquake hit Indonesia at 6:58 a.m; the tsunami arrived as much as 2 1/2 hours later, without warning, suggesting that it might not have been caused directly by the quake but by some other change triggered by the quake.

Q: How large was it?

A: It was the largest since the 9.2 quake in Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1964 and the 4th largest in the century. The quake moved the entire island of Sumatra about 100 feet toward the southwest and even disturbed the Earth's rotation. It was the first tsunami in the Indian Ocean since 1883. Waves of around 30-40 ft in height and even greater were widely reported.

Q: What caused the undersea earthquake?

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U.S. Nuclear Submarine Runs Aground Off Guam
Sat Jan 8, 2005 08:43 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. nuclear submarine ran aground 350 miles off the Pacific Ocean territory of Guam, injuring about 20 crew members, one of them critically, the Navy said on Saturday.
There was no damage to the nuclear reactor that powers the USS San Francisco in the accident that occurred at noon on Saturday Guam time (9 p.m. EST on Friday), according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

The ship's hull was also intact, said Petty Officer Alyssa Batarla.

She said the Los Angeles-class submarine was able to resurface and head back to its base in Guam, where it was scheduled to arrive on Monday.

The submarine was carrying 137 crew members and was en route to a routine port visit in Brisbane, Australia, when it ran aground. The accident
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TSUNAMI IMPACT:
Narrow Minded Nationalism in Aceh Aid

Analysis - By Andreas Harsono


JAKARTA, Jan 11 (IPS) - It began quite mysteriously through mobile phone text messages just days after the Dec. 26 undersea quake and resultant killer waves flattened the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra, killing over 100,000 people. The messages were short and clear. They warned Indonesian Muslims that Christians were adopting Acehnese orphans, presumably to be taken out of Aceh and then converted to Christianity.

In the capital Banda Aceh, activists of the Muslim-based Prosperous and Justice Party later put up posters in public spaces with this warning: ''Don't let Acehnese orphans be taken away by Christians and their missionaries.'' The party also printed their telephone numbers, encouraging the public to hand over orphans to Muslim child-care centers instead.

The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, puts the number of affected children, including those who have been orphaned, injured or traumatised by the disaster - which devastated coastline communities along the Indian Ocean -- at close to 1.5 million across south and south-east Asia. In the worst hit Indonesian province of Aceh alone, close to the epicentre of the earthquake, some 35,000 children are estimated to have been affected. Hence, it is only natural for one to be moved by the plight of these destitute children.

Kristiani Herrawati, who visited Aceh with her husband, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, also took the initiative to show compassion and wanted to adopt a 13-year- old Acehnese boy, Muhammad Dede Nirwanda.

In the second week after the disaster, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who also heads the national disaster center, announced that he would include the Indonesian Council of Ulemas to help decide on the adoption of Acehnese orphans. ''We will help the children to keep their faith. No adoption could be done without the ulemas' (Islamic clergymen's) supervision,'' he said.

The media of Palmerah, a Jakarta neighborhood where top newspapers and TV channels are headquartered, played up Kalla's statement. But not a single media outlet could quite explain what prompted the vice-president and Muslim activists to focus on religion when the bulk of attention was on how to get emergency aid fast to the tsunami survivors.

In Kalla's statement, the innuendo was palpable: relief services had been motivated by religious considerations. Perhaps such worries had been sparked because international relief organisations -- whose workers are mostly westerners and presumably Christians -- were among the first to rush to Aceh.

But it seems more a case of paranoia: there is nothing to suggest that international relief workers are keen to take away Acehnese children and neither have Indonesian churches demonstrated such altruism. ''Just report it to me if there are churches doing this,'' said Nathan Setiabudi of the Communion of Churches in Indonesia. Aceh has an immense symbolic importance for Muslims who constitute 88.3 per cent of Indonesia's 201 million citizens, according to the 2000 census. It was the seat of the first Islamic kingdom in the archipelago in the 13th century, when its neighbors were under Hindu or Buddhist rulers.

But Aceh is also the home to a secessionist movement, though not one prompted by religion. Still, with Muslims comprising 97.3 per cent of Aceh's 1.7 million citizens, the adoption issue, however imaginary, worries many Islamic activists, including Jusuf Kalla -- himself a Muslim.

Since 1976, the Free Aceh Movement or GAM has battled the Jakarta government in a war that has claimed more than 10,000 lives. The rebels contend that the Javanese, the dominant ethnic group in Indonesia, annexed Aceh illegally when the Republic of Indonesia was founded in 1945.

In 1979, the authoritarian Suharto regime began a military operation to crush the rebels. General Suharto did not succeed in his move. In May 2003, the post-Suharto Indonesian government again placed the province under strict military control and isolated the area in an attempt to crush the rebels. Human rights groups and victims' families have charged that Indonesian troops have singled out and killed civilians suspected of being rebel supporters.

In a bid to pacify the rebels, Jakarta also granted Aceh partial autonomy that permits the limited implementation of Islamic law. Although the separatists are devout Muslims they have rejected autonomy saying that independence is more important to them than the rule of the land in accordance with Islam's tenets.

Aceh is now an internationally recognised disaster area after world leaders like U.S. State Secretary Colin Powell, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, World Bank President James Wolfensohn and many others visited the area to get a first-hand account of the extent of the destruction.

Besides the foreign dignitaries, Indonesians of various shades, too, have made their way there - from Islamic militant groups to students and politicians. As of such, it is inevitable that politics now rears its ugly head in the distribution of relief aid.

The Indonesian military or TNI controls the distribution of emergency relief in Aceh, and GAM rebels have accused them of using the disaster as a pretext to carry out more attacks on the resistance. The TNI on the other hand claims that the rebels are stealing aid, although relief agencies, which have been travelling freely outside the main towns, have not reported any problems. Bakhtiar Abdullah, a GAM spokesperson in their exile headquarters in Stockholm, welcomed the arrival of international relief workers, but deplored the presence of members of the ''thuggish so-called Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the terrorist Indonesia Mujahidin Council (MMI)."

''The actions and words of both the FPI and MMI are against the teachings of the Holy Quran and the Hadith and contradict the tolerance and faith of Achenese Muslims,'' said Bakhtiar. ''Neither the FPI nor the MMI has any credentials or skills in disaster relief, and their presence is clearly intended as a provocation to the people of Aceh,'' he added.

But the TNI has welcomed both groups, saying that they came to the province to help the tsunami victims. The media of Palmerah, too, has distanced itself from reporting on the GAM. Meanwhile, the mainstream press is fanning suspicions that the U.S. troops helping out in the relief efforts could be providing assistance to the GAM rebels instead. During the past nine days, U.S. Navy helicopters have rushed food, water and medical supplies to areas that are likely to remain inaccessible and in desperate need for weeks.

But President Yudhoyono is trying to put a stop to these claims. ''The presence of foreign servicemen here is apolitical; they are conducting a humanitarian operation. After some time we will take over the operation, but for now we are grateful for their presence,'' he said. But the president's admission, as well as his deputy's remarks, shows very well that sectarianism and narrow-minded nationalism are the hidden agendas in Aceh's relief operation. (END/2005)

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