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posted by takyon on Tuesday October 02 2018, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly

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Hundreds dead as quake, tsunami hit Indonesia's Sulawesi

Nearly 400 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Indonesia's central Sulawesi island.

The national disaster agency put the current death toll at 384, all of them reported in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the number was likely to rise as rescue efforts continued on Saturday.

In Palu - home to around 350,000 people - partially covered bodies lay on the ground near the shore, the day after tsunami waves triggered by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake came ashore.

[...] Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake, but lifted it 34 minutes later. The agency was widely criticised for not informing a tsunami had hit Palu on Saturday, though officials said waves had come within the time the warning was issued. The Palu area was hit by a less powerful quake earlier on Friday, which destroyed some houses, killed one person and injured at least 10 in Donggala, authorities said.

Sulawesi.

See also: 34 children attending Bible camp found dead as death toll cross 1,200 in Indonesia quake
Sulawesi tsunami devastates coast in Indonesia – in pictures


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by VLM on Tuesday October 02 2018, @12:35PM (9 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 02 2018, @12:35PM (#742732)

    34 children attending Bible camp found dead

    According to google there's 3000 dead kids per day in the USA from abortion. Just saying the story is kinda small potatoes.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:19PM (#742754)

    Not fetuses, and not even babies, but kids? Soon, they'll come for the teenagers.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:19PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:19PM (#742875)

      You say that like it'd be a bad thing.

      I read it as meaning that 3000 kid (girls) die daily of getting a back-alley hanger job. Which sounds like news from the near future.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:26PM (6 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:26PM (#742758) Journal

    According to google there's 3000 dead kids per day in the USA from abortion.

    According to actual reported numbers [nrlc.org], it's 1800 fetuses per day in the US. In 1985, at the peak rate of abortions, it was over 4300 per day. But what is the point of speaking of such numbers? The world is far from perfect and overpopulation is a real problem.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:52PM (5 children)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:52PM (#743061)

      overpopulation is a real problem.

      Abortion is only encouraged for white people, who are only like 4% of the global population, so something else is going on there...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:25PM (#743126)

        [citation needed]

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 03 2018, @01:48AM (3 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 03 2018, @01:48AM (#743188) Journal

        Definitely citation needed. Abortion is aimed at blacks. Going back to the hag who got all that crap going, she hated blacks. It was her intention to eliminate society's "weeds" - the undesirables. We've forgotten all about her racist views and agenda though. https://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/23/7-shocking-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/ [lifenews.com]

        We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. – Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, 1939

        • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:25AM (1 child)

          by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:25AM (#743204) Homepage

          From that page:
          In a 1947 interview that surfaced via the British Pathe, Sanger described her desire for women in the developed world to cease completely from reproduction. When asked by the reporter whether this would be impractical to ask women who desire children, but would no longer be able to conceive in 10 years, Sanger said, “I should think instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.”

          Which considering at the time the "developed world" meant white people... the idea that it's aimed at whites is not entirely wrong. Seems in fact to have been aimed at everybody, with varying selectivity.

          --
          And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:32AM

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:32AM (#743208) Journal

            1947 is 8 years later than 1939. One might deduce that Sanger had somewhat cleaned up her act, and was less blatantly racist by that time. Someone sat her down, and explained, "Margaret, if you openly campaign to eliminate black people, you're going to be assassinated!"

        • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @11:40AM

          by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 03 2018, @11:40AM (#743338)

          Uncle Adolf only got 6 million Jews a long time ago, Roe v Wade got over 10 million blacks so far and counting.

          Just saying that a couple here and there getting overworked on a cotton plantation is supposedly evil, but google reports there were less than 4 million slaves in 1860 so abortion has certainly killed a lot more Africans than any plantation owner.