Some reflections on the media and disasters:

* “Donors unmoved by Pakistan’s woes”,(Sunday Age 22.8.10)….”Pakistan’s floods have caused unprecedented devastation…yet aid agencies are underwhelmed by the Australian public’s response.The phones are silent on the donation hotlines”.

* A 2007 study of the influence of mass media and responses to disasters found that,”for every person killed by a volcano,40,000 people must die in a drought to get the same overage.It requires 40 times as many killed in an African disaster to get the same media coverage as a disaster in Eastern Europe”.(Sunday Age 22.8.10.

* “…..A million dead in China is equivalent to half a million dead in India,is equivalent to a 1000 dead in Italy is equivalent to 100 dead in England is equivalent to 10 dead in Adelaide is equivalent to one dead in your own street”.(Weekend Australia 4.6.87).

How big is the Pakistan disaster?

Check this BBC site:
http://howbigreally.com/ (Type in Sydney or New York or London)

And Prayer:”This then,is how you should pray”.Jesus.Matt 6:9

“The Prayer to Our Father (From the original Aramaic)

Oh Thou from whom the breath of life comes.
who fills all realms of sound, light and vibration.
May Your light be experienced in my utmost holiest.
Your Heavenly Domain approaches.
Let Your will come true-in the universe (all that vibrates)
just as on earth (that is material and dense).
Give us wisdom (understanding assistance) for our daily need.
detach the fetters of faults that bind us, (karma)
like we let go the guilt of others.
Let us not be lost in superficial things (materialism, common temptations),
but let us be freed from that what keeps us off from our true purpose.

(I confirm with my entire being).

Taken from ‘The Lord’s Prayer’-Translations from Aramaic,Origins and history of the Lord’s Prayer.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm

(From Alan Matheson – thanks Alan).

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