Top Ten Stories of 2010

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http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/sp ... top102010/

Pretty intense year...

Your thoughts on any of those stories?

[nissangirl74]

Is it amazing to anyone else how quickly the attention to the Gulf Oil Spill dissipated, even before it was fully contained? I wonder what is going on there now and there's no significant updates. The Haiti debacle is just that. All that money, all that time and energy, wasted. People are still living in their own piss and s***, they are dieing from cholera, and still no hope in sight for a better future. It's truly sad.

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Is it amazing to anyone else how quickly the attention to the Gulf Oil Spill dissipated

My thoughts exactly.

From what I read, wild life around the area are still dying, BP stopped taking claims from those affected, BP has released all the "clean up crew" aka local fisherman with out jobs and there is a new phenomenon caused by the oil, the sea floor is compleatly dead in a ~10-40 mile radius from the disaster.

I haven't heard any thing about Haiti and the US media totally ignored the Pakistan flood. 20 million people with out a homes, ~$3 billion in crop damage, ~$50 billion in infrastructure damage and I saw nothing about it on News 12, ABC, FOX or CNN. I had to hear about this for the first time on STP; STP is a Portuguese news station that concentrates on European news.

[nissangirl74]

Sensationalism. That's what makes the headlines. After the catastrophe is over, the aftermath is boring. On to the next topic.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Sensationalism. That's what makes the headlines. After the catastrophe is over, the aftermath is boring. On to the next topic.

Not to sound cold...but with the constant bombardment of events like that, what do you expect?

[EvillE423]

The #1: Nala still hasn't got laid!! Actually, that's nothing new, so it's not a big story!

On a serious note, The oil spill is what made me the most upset. I go on family vacation to The Gulf, and I was furious to hear about it. Such a beautiful place to get ruined by oil. Millions of gallons mind you. Now that they have the well stopped leaking, you don't hear a word about it. 2010 has been an eventful year and I hope that next year isn't as bad.

[alms24sebring]

The #1: Nala still hasn't got laid!! Actually, that's nothing new, so it's not a big story!

On a serious note, The oil spill is what made me the most upset. I go on family vacation to The Gulf, and I was furious to hear about it. Such a beautiful place to get ruined by oil. Millions of gallons mind you. Now that they have the well stopped leaking, you don't hear a word about it. 2010 has been an eventful year and I hope that next year isn't as bad.

Aww beat me to Nala. Not only millions of gallons but the biggest oil spill ever. That was really bad and is it just me or have there been alot of major natural and human disasters in the passed 5 years: Katrina, oil spill, earthquakes, aluminum byproduct spill in Hungary, global warming... Earth is getting pissed. Its all leading up to the biggest events in 2012

[nissangirl74]

Sensationalism. That's what makes the headlines. After the catastrophe is over, the aftermath is boring. On to the next topic.

Not to sound cold...but with the constant bombardment of events like that, what do you expect?

Not cold at all. You're absolutely right. It still sucks though.

[Jenny2]

Good collections of stories. Nice way to share......

[simmode1]

I haven't heard any thing about Haiti and the US media totally ignored the Pakistan flood. 20 million people with out a homes, ~$3 billion in crop damage, ~$50 billion in infrastructure damage and I saw nothing about it on News 12, ABC, FOX or CNN.

I do remember CNN covering that, if it makes you feel any better.

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Good collections of stories. Nice way to share......

[Oatmealman]

not to sound like an ***hole but unless it has to do with the war in the middle east I don't wanna hear about.It's not our job to help the world,we do what we can and if we can't help somebody it's tough s*** for them.They have to figure out a way to help themselves.I'm not gonna drop everything I'm doing or donate money that I work my a** off for to help a country which is extremely unstable at best.as far as haiti goes i donated a good chunk of a paycheck to that cause.

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not to sound like an ***hole but unless it has to do with the war in the middle east I don't wanna hear about.It's not our job to help the world,we do what we can and if we can't help somebody it's tough s*** for them.They have to figure out a way to help themselves.I'm not gonna drop everything I'm doing or donate money that I work my a** off for to help a country which is extremely unstable at best.as far as haiti goes i donated a good chunk of a paycheck to that cause.

Huh?

What stories were you referring to?

[Bubba1]

not to sound like an ***hole but unless it has to do with the war in the middle east I don't wanna hear about.It's not our job to help the world,we do what we can and if we can't help somebody it's tough s*** for them.They have to figure out a way to help themselves.I'm not gonna drop everything I'm doing or donate money that I work my a** off for to help a country which is extremely unstable at best.as far as haiti goes i donated a good chunk of a paycheck to that cause.

Huh?

What stories were you referring to?

Perhaps he considers the story about arabs blaming Israel for some shark attacks more important than an emornous natural disasters that devastat countries.

No, I think he's referring to the major natural disasters in other parts of the world. I believe it;s his opinion that he's against our government providing humanitarian (financial) aid to any other country besides our own and pehaps a few select ones in the middle east. And his donating to Haiti himself means he feels whatever international aid our country does give out, should only come from private sources.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

Now that I clicked on the OP's link I'm wondering if my ISP is in the FBI database.

I'm more than a little upset about the whole Haiti ordeal, we as a country hold fundraisers and donate millions of our own money to help them and they blame us for the cholera epidemic. Get over yourselves, you got cholera because you're a poor a** third world country.

I still refuse to get gas at any BP station, whether it's my personal vehicle or the work van that my work issued cc pays for gas for, I just won't do it. Like clockwork they have insisted on raising their prices to make up for the loss and now they are the most expensive gas around.

As far as the rest of those news stories, sorry, but I'm not interested in how Europe's view of Islam have changed or how a volcano affected flights. The Pakistan floods I don't really have any feedback.

In other news we lost 221 famous people in 2010, some were tragic losses, others were not. Either way that's a lot of famous people to die in one year.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... otogallery

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I never understood peoples obsession with famous people...

Why are they so special?

[Jesda]

I never understood peoples obsession with famous people...

Why are they so special?

It sucks when they never call back.

[Amays U G37S]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nc-hh9viQ[/youtube]

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It sucks when they never call back.

You could so find out where she lives and confront her...