A category 4 hurricane (cyclone) is heading to Calcutta. ANY interest, US media?

Bluebear

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:19 PM
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A category 4 hurricane (cyclone) is heading to Calcutta. ANY interest, US media?

Tropical Cyclone Sidr, a powerful Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds, is bearing down on the densely populated coasts of Bangladesh and India. Landfall is expected along a low-lying stretch of coast just east of Calcutta (Kolkata), India in just 36 hours.

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ddeclue

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:21 PM
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1. Holy crap!

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 08:22 PM by ddeclue

I've been through 4 hurricanes myself...all I can say is "run Forrest run!"

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

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MNDemNY

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:21 PM
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2. How is it affecting US tourists?

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C_U_L8R

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:22 PM
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4. You mean the blond ones?

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MNDemNY

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:24 PM
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8. Well, ...Yes......and some of the brunettes.

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C_U_L8R

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:31 PM
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13. I meant to say that the news corporations only seem to notice

when there are lost blonds involved. Especially Faux.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:55 PM
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34. If people in Bangladesh are hit hard by this storm I'm sure you will hear about it

"If it bleeds, it leads."

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MNDemNY

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:29 PM
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39. Me too, pretty much.

:hi:

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RL3AO

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:22 PM
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3. This storm could/will likely kill at least 75,000

yet not a peep from the American media.

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TahitiNut

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:36 PM
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18. To the degree they're able (not much), Bangladesh is evacuating coastal towns ...

... and moving people to shelters. It's appalling that we're going to treat a natural disaster MORE as entertainment (and news ratings) than investing in saving lives. I think 75,000 is a very conservative estimate of the death toll ... in the next 48-72 hours. Appalling.

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RL3AO

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:40 PM
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23. It could be a very conservative number.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:39 PM
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42. I wish there was something I could do right now to help

But probably staying the hell out of the way is all I can do.

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RB TexLa

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:23 PM
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5. Probably one of the few places Americans will care less about than if another hit Louisiana

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Harper_is_Bush

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:23 PM
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6. they're not white, right? Sorta like Mexicans?

And you're wondering why the US media doesn't care........why?

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marmar

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:23 PM
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7. I haven't heard a peep.....

Too many holiday shopping stories.

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11 Bravo

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:25 PM
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9. Ho hum, more soon-to-be-dead brown people.

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Forkboy

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:28 PM
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10. They're brown AND asian...what do you think?

If it affects the sex trade I'm sure we'll hear about it.

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11 Bravo

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:30 PM
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11. Hell, some of them are probably gay. Congressional Repugs may try and declare a national holiday.

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Forkboy

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:33 PM
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15. I'd laugh if you weren't so close to the truth.

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kestrel91316

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:57 PM
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35. I'm laying pretty good odds Phelps and his clan are at least considering

whether or not to go there to picket the funerals and blame THIS on the US tolerating gays.......

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malaise

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:30 PM
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12. Bangalesh will be devastated

Only weather channel is carrying this -too sad.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:32 PM
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14. There are all kinds of interesting things going on in the world at any given moment

The knee-jerk accusations of racism are over the top.

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Bluebear

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:35 PM
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17. Where am I displaying a "knee-jerk accusation of racism" please?

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 08:35 PM by Bluebear

This is a major catastrophe in the making for human beings. Your 'lack of interest' in it because of other things happening in the world is noted, however, for whatever reason.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:45 PM
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26. I never said you did, Bluebear. I was referring to some of the other replies.

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 08:46 PM by slackmaster

Your 'lack of interest' in it because of other things happening in the world is noted, however, for whatever reason.

Actually I am very interested in it. I am a weather junkie, especially fascinated by tropical cyclones. Watching them is one of my hobbies.

The so-called MSM, which I don't follow, will run stories about it if it turns into a human catastrophe. Right now it's only a potential catastrophe.

So there.

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Bluebear

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:47 PM
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27. Then why say there's other things of interest in the world at any given time?

Enough not to mention one peep of this in the American media?

Why do YOU think US media is not interested?

So there :)

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:49 PM
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29. The US media, like most corporations, cares only about ONE THING

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 08:51 PM by slackmaster

Profits. They are NOT journalists. They run what they believe will sell.

It's that simple.

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Bluebear

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:51 PM
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31. "They are journalists." - - - Not.

Journalists, at least when I grew up, focussed on world events, not profits.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:52 PM
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33. That was a typo

It's fixed.

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Bluebear

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:16 AM
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43. :)

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Forkboy

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:40 PM
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22. If the cyclone was armed with a gun I'm sure you'd give a shit.

The logic train is still at the station should you wish to catch it.

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Bluebear

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:40 PM
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24. :)

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 08:46 PM by Bluebear

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:48 PM
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28. I am very interested in the cyclone

As I am in all tropical disturbances, and the weather in general.

Some people really do read a lot of things into peoples' posts. You assumed all kinds of things about me and my attitude. Did it even occur to you to ask me how I felt about it? Evidently not.

Another knee-jerk reaction on DU. No news.

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lovuian

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:34 PM
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16. this is incredibly killer storm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-3jwnasMc-M

Another Sundabaran Island goes under the water "The Earth cracked and fell into the ocean" The Great Deluge returns

Salt & Sorrow... Risng seas are overtaking Sundarbar islands where 400 tigers inhabitat and 4 million people live... Global Warming and rising seas

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fipPFH8RFRQ

This is a catastrophe and hitting one of the most susceptible places on Earth
The Tigers are in for a very rough time too
their habitat is directly in the path

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ccpup

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:37 PM
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19. well, if the major Call Centers

for the major corporations Customer Care Departments are adversely affected, I'm sure we'll hear about it. Until then ... it's Dancing With The Stars! :evilgrin:

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:38 PM
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41. Interesting that you mention that, I Googled call center bangladesh

Lots of big companies do have call centers there. Just one example: HSBC, which is up to its ass in alligators on subprime mortgages.

http://www.hsbc.com.bd/bd/daynight/call.htm

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Junkdrawer

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:38 PM
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20. Weather guys on several blogs say it's now Cat 5...

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=862&tstamp=200711

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99019&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=180

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JerseygirlCT

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:39 PM
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21. Wow! Hadn't heard a thing about that.

Talk about disastrous!

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Junkdrawer

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:44 PM
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25. Not a peep in our major media...But , hey, OJ's trial date was set!!!

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/shapley/bangladesh-global-warming-terrorism-55111408

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:52 PM
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32. I hadn't heard about the OJ trial date getting set

But I did know about the cyclone.

Choose your information sources carefully.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 08:51 PM
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30. If you followed tropical weather you would have heard about it

Here is a site I often use as a starting point. I check it every day at least once.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html

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amandabeech

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:04 PM
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36. The storm surge map over on Jeff Master's blog on Weather Underground

is ugly, ugly, ugly.

I hope that this thing weakend considerably before it hits. Those folks will be in trouble if it doesn't.

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balantz

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:05 PM
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37. Three things off the top of my head

that I would expect from my progressive president:

1) Already be preparing to provide support to the people of that region;

2) Already be involved with helping upgrade the situations of those areas;

3) Already be SERIOUSLY addressing the necessary actions to reverse the problems of global warming and climate change.

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Hippo_Tron

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Thu Nov-15-07 05:58 AM
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47. If I could recommend replies this would be one of them

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Feron

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:18 PM
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38. Ouch.

Hopefully it downgrades before it hits land.

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-14-07 09:34 PM
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40. I hope so too

There is a chance. If not, I hope people get out of Dodge in time.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:28 AM
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44. Just as much as they had

for the floods in tabasco

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MrSlayer

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:32 AM
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45. Let's be honest, most Americans didn't care about Katrina.

They certainly don't give a fuck about Calcutta.

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cboy4

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Thu Nov-15-07 04:17 AM
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46. It is now a category 5, with maximum sustained winds of 155

and gusts of 190 miles per hour.

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Junkdrawer

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Thu Nov-15-07 07:17 AM
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48. If a million desperately poor trees fall in a forest, and CNN doesn't cover it....

are we expected to provide humanitarian relief?

And do Global Warming cries get louder?

A few days ago, CNN's Glenn Beck was hawking his 'Global Warming is a scam' talking points. I guess this story has too much potential to make him look foolish.

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