Based on history and some inference taken from prior relief attempts by the national and international community, it’s not hard to see that the fall out of any natural disaster is always going to be frustration.

10. Hurricane Andrew – 1992

FEMA was still more or less in its infancy at this point. Created by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, FEMA was untested until Andrew hit the coast of Florida. FEMA had 15 years to prepare but apparently needed another week.

It took them nearly that long to mobilize and deploy troops to help the thousands and thousands of stranded survivors. This was the first test and first fail of the woe begotten program. Why was Katrina such a surprise? Because Andrew taught them nothing.

9. Tangshan Earthquake – 1976

At approximately an 8 on the Richter scale, this monster of a quake killed 240,000 people. Though not the largest Chinese natural disaster of all time, it is bad enough. China refused International aid and like typical Chinese government help in that decade, it was a “fend for yourself” situation.

8. Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami 0 2004

Over 225,000 people were killed in the tsunami that followed the Indian Ocean quake in 2004 that hit in nine countries on a total of three continents. And although thousands of traveling tourists were affected, Western nations were slow to respond. Again, as with Haiti, the supplies were showing up, but the distribution was slow.

7. Burma Cyclone – 2008

When the poor nation of Burma was hit by a killer cyclone in 2008 the people affected were left to languish and suffer until their government made an international appeal for help, little too late. Over 2,400 people died needlessly as a result of pour shelter before the storm and lack of any real aid for sometime after.

Mark Farmaner, of the Burma Campaign UK, commented on the government’s failed aid relief: “The regime failed to warn people and are failing to help them now”, “One of the few things that may motivate them to allow aid in is the fear of another uprising. People are asking why they can mobilise the police and army to attack democracy protests but do nothing now.”

6. Live Aid – 1985

Live Aid in 1985 raised something like $238 million dollars to relieve Africa’s woes due to drought and famine. You could build a rose garden across the state of Nevada with that kind of money, but not a few farms in Ethiopia.

Nope. If 25% of any of that money made it to the people, it made it straight to their bellies and not their futures. Mismanagement of funds and giving into pressure from bandit military governments watered this effort down to nothing.

5. Pakistan – 2005

An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale leveled mountainside villages and left Pakistan in dire straits in 2005. Relief to be people victimized by the natural disaster was slow in coming. With the infrastructure down and a lack of any co-ordination, thousands died in the aftermath.

4. Iran – 1990

Does anyone remember the “tremor” that killed 40,000 people in Iran? Probably not. The big disaster in all of this is simply that this region gets earthquake after earthquake and nothing is done by the international community to help prepare the populace. Buy a man a fish and feed him for a day, but don’t teach him how to build an earthquake proof home.

3. Indonesia – 1997

Fires rages through Indonesia in 1997, unchecked and left to burn up valuable rainforest, and where was Mr. Eco- Al Gore? When things looked smoky for neighboring countries was aid offered. The West did very little to help; the main reason being that rainforest wasn’t hip at the time.

2. Hurricane Katrina – 2005

In the biggest muff job of all time, FEMA dropped the ball again. This disaster exposed how the disaster relief organization had some pretty hefty holes in its policies. The reason it’s listed so high is simply that with all the resources at its disposal…. People who hate the US could have done a better job.

1. Haiti Earthquake – 2010

International relief makes the same errors over and over again. The people of Haiti should be in luxury tents, their 3,000 escaped criminals rounded up and their dead buried by now. But instead, while World leaders promise aid, the streets of Port-au-Prince remain in chaos, survivors still in desperate need of shelter, health care and basic supplies like food and water.

Relief efforts are however gaining momentum, if still a bit late, with more money and more troops.

1. Hillary Clinton TV ad – 3 am Whitehouse Phone Call

Used in Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the primary elections against senator Barack Obama. A classic example of negative campaigning where the ad portrays Hillary as the better choice for president as she, unlike Obama” already knows” the political game and military etc.

2. Willie Horton political ad 1988 – is Dukakis soft on crime?

In the run for president 1988, George H W Bush, had numerous negative campaigning tricks up his sleeve, thanks to wing man Lee Atwater. In a successful attempt in smearing democratic candidate Mike Dukakis, this ad was broadcatsed nationwide to portray Dukakis as soft on crime. Appearing in the ad is the imprisoned criminal Willie who had, supported by Dukakis, received several weekend passes from prison, During one of those weekends Horton assaults a couple, severely raping a woman etc. This ad campaign is thought to greatly have affected Dukakis defeat in the presidential election to come.

3. McCain compares Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears

More than 3 months before the election McCains staff launched a smearing tv ad accusing Obama of only being interested in international fame rather than serving his country as president.

4. Jerry Springer for Governor: Self-smearing

Jerry Springer has a different take of negative campaigning as he when running for governor in 1980, admits that he has bought sex from a prostitute some years back. The fact that the infamous tv-show host Jerry Springer is even thinking of running for politics is hilarious. Don’t know if he won though? Prob not.

5. The wrong kind – congressman Ron Kind

A negative campaign ad that doesn’t bother to sugar cote. Big red letters and open criticism.

6. Stop the spawning where our children play

What?

7. Canadian Prime minster Jean Chretien “Face Ad”

In 1993 The Conservative Prograssive party launched an ad attack at the current running for prime minister Jean Chretien, focusing the entire ad on close up shops on the “physical defect” the candidate was said to have. That’s low!

8. Stephane Dion gets pooped on by puffin

Just this year smear ad against candidate Stephane Dion in the Canadian federal election showed the candidate getting pooped on by an animated puffin. The conservative party later apologized for the ad but still published it on their website.

9. The Daisy Girl ad 1964

Ad used in American presidential election 1964 pro Lyndon Johnson. The daisy girl commercial argued that if candidate Barry Goldwater would be president he would basically blow away USA with an H-bomb.

10. Thomas Jefferson negative political ad – only 200 years too late

Arguing that if Jefferson would be voted president today we could expect pure evil.