Haiti Earthquake Appeal
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18 Jan 2010, 20:08
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Heaven Media is asking you to donate to the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
A major earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January just ten miles from the capital city of Port-au-Prince.As many as 200,000 people are believed to be dead, and it is still too early to know the full human cost of this tragedy.
We have set up a page for donations to Oxfam's efforts through JustGiving.com, a UK-based organisation which facilitates donations to a number of charities, and with a target of £500 set, secretly we'll be disappointed if we can't hit four-digits.
We believe that the decision to help should be an easy one, but in case you needed a little extra persuasion, here it is: Adam Godfrey, our very own Business Developement Manager at Heaven Media and of course the Reason Gaming manager/owner, has agreed that if we hit the £500, he will allow himself to be tied up at Multiplay's i39 event, for the community to chuck wet sponges at him!
Oh, and as an added incentive, if we can double our target, and hit £1,000... he'll do it wearing only his underwear. Who said that helping your fellow human beings couldn't have a second (albeit very minor) purpose?
Keep an eye out later in the week for another announcement to help spur on donations - we think we've got a real cracker in store for you.
No matter how much or how little you feel you can afford, do your part now, even the smallest of donations will help.
edit. Donated.
People living in a few square meters, eating a little bit of bread and drinking water is the only liquid they see... If I would live there, I would be concerned and I would love it if other people (who have more money) would help me.
You should start watching those documentairys on tv about Haïti, I'm sure you would change your mind and not only think people could give money away just because they have money.
if it doesn't improve your life?? Imagine if your house is on fire. What's the point of some1 helping you if it doesn't 'improve' his life? Should be all just let each other die or rott like an apple because it doesn't benefit you?? Sjeezes get some intelligence.
That's just life and the way things go :)
I don't get it why you always want money to help some1? Is it really that hard to do it for free? Will you ask money if you help an old person cross the street? If your in a foreign country and you don't know the way, you wouldn't care if the locals would ask money? (ah well they don't benefit otherwise by not telling the way)
If you get a heart attack in a few years and you need immediate help, should people just pass by and let you die? Imagine if we act in every way in life like this... would be wonderful. By the way, not everyone wants 'not to get saved' when getting a heart attack.
lol :D well, tho I agree with some your opinions, I atleast feel sorry for them ;)
egoistic pig
You have still the world view of a cave man. (Survival of the fittest) Congrats to that.
Pointless to discuss with a racist nazi anyway.....
but dont think about me I think just about myself. I would sacriface myself for my country, or would risk my life trying to help with fire.
Besides, more and more people live in cities, we actually take less space in with more people compared to 20/30 years ago (and yes there is enough food).
I meant water, electricity, pollution etc.
passive houses? yeah,only "good idea" out of what you said
Two more things to think about. At first, even "material" supplies arent infinite. At second, I said that earth is overpopulated and cant bear as many people as they are now. And now we are talking about future. Maybe in future we will have technologies to "supply" every human with whatever he wants and without any pollution. But we cant do that now.
Once again - what will get from that Finland, if their population rather support country which will never be able to help them when they will need that, instead of keeping the money to build their own life better?
*facepalm about your comment, not about the languagebarrier tho*
its the human instinct and you cant change it by giving them medical aid or psychological support. they need to bite in the dust like we did back than when we started to envolve into an industrial nation, you cannot force them nor help them to get that far.
those billions will be invested in saving humans which will die anyways really soon due their starvation / thirst / other diseases.
for me its a total different story if i donate for children which got abused or for some sandniggers fighting even for the last TV when their house burned down.
How do you even dare judge these people?
could also be that i missed some news or smth, since i dont really care about the gaza conflict
generally things in the past cant be undone. of course it cant be undone payed for giving them education. education is the key. but noone in the west rly wins if africa stopps being 3rd world.
actually jews got their country because of what you say. but either way - trying to compare colonialism to the social history of jews is nonsense.
Maybe you can figure out my point by yourself. (Maybe)
Well, at least 19th century utalitarianists would be glad to see their teechings are still alive and kicking :-S
You can't compare some luxury problems to having no food or water.
Unbelievable.
Throwing out a random sound bite is thinking rationally now?
read it as a cynic remark =(
Anyway, I hope you do get my point which is more important than criticizing just a random example.
I do hope you dont actually stand behind the things you are claiming here, but you are merely getting off on the fact you are making people respond to your crap (which in itself is already rather disturbing).
and no, you werent, you thought it was in africa. dont worry though, you are just as clueless as a large percentage of the american population who cant even pinpoint france on a map
btw i just say "africans" to all black people, dunno been used to that for ages and i dont see a wrong aspects as long as i dont call them niggers
would love to keep on discussing like this forever but it's rather useless because you obviously have an entirely different look on things and i cba to hear any more :{
You'd be fucked.
just stating!
:DDDD good one.
Is there a reason to believe that my help is needed now?
and as i pay taxes i already chipped in
however all the donates are welcome of course, hope they actually transfer all the money rather than keeping some percentage to themselves.. (that eventually.. is up to them)
Have you thought about how medical care ISN'T FREE? Have you thought about how medical staff, police, helicopter pilots, plane pilots, everybody involved in looking after these people & getting supplies to them, are paid? These people are working, you might find some are volunteering but the majority of them are working and have their own families to provide for.
Have you thought about the families who have lost loved ones and have no money to pay for their funerals?
Have you thought about the costs of food?
Have you even thought about any of this?
Just another kid who takes their world & situation for granted. GG.
Also, do you realise how much fuel costs for aeroplanes / helicopters etc?
No, didn't think so : )
im just saying, there are different social systems (eg. less "children paying for you", more "you pay for yoruself").
oh and btw, the problem with children paying for their parents is that there are no children actually :D
edit: naah, they'll eventually push the reform through and our pension when we retire will be saved (i hope :d)
evolution eliminates the weakest ones
Evolution is by no means an indicator for a moral stance. Even die-hard atheists such as Dawkins (and Darwin btw) clearly state that it is a natural process, but not something men should take as an argument in creating moral stances.
logic says to you make settlements in safe areas... where you cant get flooded, there wont be an earthquake etc...
Being stupid as haitians make them first to exterminate..
I never disputed the fact that some places are not built for human life. But your logic is so grotesque and astonishing it baffles my mind. Oh yes, we all choose to live where we want. And Oh yes, immigration is not being blocked by the countries that have better conditions. And Oh of course, You would let those people move in in your house where there are no earthquakes right?
Let alone of course that we all have the same understanding of what is "rational"
I BELIEVE YA BUT MY TOMMY GUN DON'T
HAHAHA
This post shouldn't have comments allowed, to read shit of racist motherfuckers like you.
Words from a white.
As soon as Finland gets a powerful earthquake I might start caring.
feel sorry for the people there
e: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pgO-9RBUc&feature=related
[x] will help
[ ] will help significantly
change next two stouts of your's to food, water and medicines for haitians <3
wtf will u do when youre entire infrastructure collapses ?
go to work?
I'll put my money on redcross or some missionary thing
We could have created our own paypal account to take payments on, but that could well have scared off anyone who didn't trust us to pass it on.
or this is your share of doing the goods for haiti?
mama was supposed to handle me an invite, but apparently he failed
I even go to est so often atm, that I can easily wear this flag :D
why are you in estonia so often though?
how far is it from your place? and aren't there any language-problems?
and even if we understand each other pretty well also when talking in own our languages (est and fin are kinda close to each other), we usually talk english :)
And to those saying it's useless to give money, you're either just egoist or just a conservative libertarian; which actually is the same.
400 Million euro of aid sounds good in the media but actually its just a loan.
haiti going to payback ONE BILLION EUROS?
are you fucking retarded? do you think they will be EVER capable of giving away a that huge amout of money when their financial situation was fucked up like hell even before the earthquake?
you just driving me crazy with your brainfucked charity.
Every country has loads of debt, it doesn't mean they are bankrupt. And that loan given to Haiti is one of between 0 and 1% interest (probably a 0,25% loan)which is one of those very low interest loans like the IMF gives to poor countries. When there is a disaster ofc they dont have to pay the first few years, it's only a long term loan.
And stop replying if your only gonna reply with some stupid bullcrap without an ounce of thought behind it, fucking moron.
seriously dude, learn2argument
:-D
Where did I say that it wouldn't help them? I only said it's not just a cheque of 1 billion 'free' money given to them, it's a loan. Of course it will help them. They get 1 billion where they barely (if at all) have to pay interest on and so they can use that money without financially destroying their own country (instead of high interest loans like usual).
I only said this because IN THEORY they get 1 billion dollar extra debt (its a loan right) so IN THEORY they have to pay it back but everyone with an ounce of intelligence knows that IN PRACTICE they wont pay that back, certainly not a pisspoor country like Haiti.
And stop replying to me, your insulting my intelligence. This was my last comment btw, not gonna constantly reply to some idiot spouting some bullcrap.
that's yust sad
Haiti has been one of the most corrupted countries in the world, but after this disaster they might have a chance to start over from scratch and get rid of all the corruption that is rooted there and allow the people a better future, with the help of other nations of course.
My point being was that maybe there are some positive aspects in this tragedy and maybe they finally can get rid of the corruption rates, if everything goes well and the help of other nations actually show some results, which it usually doesn't.
And btw, think about other people. they lost EVERYTHING!
So It is totally forbidden to even think of anything positive this earthquake can cause i.e Getting finally rid of the corruption which has been one of the highest in the world ?
Mind stated he is not going to donate money and he pretty much alright hates n*ggers.
I stated that this earthquake might have something positive aspects on it.
Guess that makes me a 'retard', still cannot follow your absurd logic.
don't be stupid and turn this into a universalistic idea.. what happened there was immensly tragic and it won't help develop this country, it actually destroyed it.
If you can't get that you are ignorant.
bb £91.50 :(
I wouldn't mind giving a little, but not that much... jesus
Get it?
For a miserable 2 euro a person a whole country can get rebuild (just like in the countries hit by the tsunami). Do these 2 euro mean so much to you? Drinking a beer less while you saves lots of lives and help rebuild a country. Now what's worth more? Hard one.
Same with throwing things on the street (empty cans, chewinggum etc). If everyone does that, the world will become a disaster very soon, but not everyone does.
im even afraid to buy something from ebay :(
but if a friend of me would donate then id give him my 5 eu at school for example...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/haiti_six_days_later.html
Not much to be said on the comments - invoke some self discipline people.
dont feel like donating to such people
Some people here on crossfire think they know something about how the world goes, but actually they don't know shit. Try to listen to different opinions and then maybe, just maybe, express your nuanced opinion instead of making yourself look like a complete idiot and an asshole.
Your money might not do much but if everyone acts like that we don't got shit for support.
And the fact that you don't wanna give money cause of the violence, the plundering and robbing, shows you're narrow minded. You don't see further than the picture on the newspaper. If you would've been in Haiti you'd realize how much these people need your support. The violence is a result of no support.
People are starving on the street, of course they will fight to survive, that's a human reaction. Our money can be used for first aid, but also for rebuilding a government, which is now non-existant. Half of the government employees are dead and the police system is completely disfigured. It will cost a shitload of money to rebuild the whole country. Now if you want to leave those people to their fate, then go ahead. Just know that you're an insensitive prick.
But honestly, we can't judge those people.
We're also doing a charity gig soon, few bands play, people bake cakes etc, have done it for plenty of causes in the past and raised a good few hundred ££
Unless someone wants to donate me a return ticket so I can go out there and take some pictures + help \o/
Even if the donation is driven by egoistic motives, in what way is it retarded if it benefits those in need?
Psychopaths have no feeling of empathy, well guess what?
offtopic : I hope thats not you in your profile pic :\
EDIT: So many morons @ crossfire... humankind is really sad...
we gonna extinct because of mercy :X
e: im just wondering what he is gonna do with that bloc of A4 papers
I've heard some ultra-liberals argue that those people shouldn't be forced to conform to "western" culture. I argue that beggars can't be choosers. You can maintain your own culture while being modern... look at Dubai.
for instance:
AIDS medicines that are bought for Africa cost 1$ to make , but africa pays 40$
take a wild guess which country produces the meds and make a huge profit ?
it starts with a U and rhymes with "essay"
me : comspiracy theories are feasible
yes, there are good organisations, but some conpsiracy theories are founded in truth
nemesis said that i.e. donations to Africa are not efficient because corporations make money of of it
form your post I read you said that's a conspiracy theory
and then i had to reply that is not true
:)
Here's a few words to back up my beliefs: http://www.cfr.org/publication/19984/
the moment i read the headline and saw the 200+ posts i was sure this is not going to end well.
it's like trying to stop 4chan discriminate gay black people or something if you think that there won't be any retarded comments here.
faggots, this is a serious biz so dont abuse it for advertisement.
I guess you succeeded with this controversial statement to piss people off though, because it do make me feel even more ashamed of how ignorant and stupid the human race can be.
No one would force you to donate money to these people, it would most likely be a drop in the ocean in comparison to what a state can provide. However, saying that you don't give a shit about these people and with that implying they might as well suffer just shows your lack of intelligence.
Most of us humans got a characteristic known as empathy. Guess you missed that out growing up.
good idea though, those ppl really need all the help they can get
e: done my donation.
but seriously, how is it that so many Finnish people are retarded? Is it the cold? Oh my some of the comments in this thread just make me stare at my screen in amazement. although it is rather satisfying to see the relation between lack of caring for people who lost their entire lifes, mothers losing their husband and children who are all crushed by 20tons of concrete leaving them entirely alone in the middle of fucking hell and the obvious absense of any sort of intelligence, mostly translated into not really being able to speak any other language than their own properly and coming around with the most retarded statements and arguments one could possibly dream of.
Right, time to go to bed! goodnight!
though i do wonder if that tsunami had hit australia, would have above countries done all they could to help us out?
regards
GFC!
you got my money.
cheers. Pearl
But if you wanna believe the people that tell this shit to you, then go ahead.
How much did you donate? Just curious...
Not that much but I also do a monthly payment now with 10 € a month.
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