EDIT – Kanade: You wanna know what’s stupid apart from mangaslide who’s super stupid? Japan didn’t even ask for help yet. All our donations haven’t been reached yet. Talk about doing something without thinking first?

UPDATE: “Japan has requested what looks to be limited foreign aid. So far, that call still seems to exclude several nonprofit aid groups (like The American Red Cross).”

GIZMODO reports…

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5781182/did-your-donation-really-reach-japan-probably-not

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Update – I received some data to further say this thing isn’t a scam. It was donated to an outside collection with the same purpose (proof below) since Japan’s red cross has closed off donations.

Income 1 – Income 2 – Income 3 – Income 4 – Income 5

Outflow

For anyone who wants to donate to the efforts to help the Japanese, here is a direct link to the Red Cross donation page for the tsunami relief effort.

So there’s some nastiness flying around in the scene, and I just wanted to write a bit about it.

I was linked to this today: http://mangaslide.org/

If what is written there is true, it is definitely nasty. I’ve removed the link to the paypal and stuff just in case it is. There’s a link to the red cross above, so go and donate on that.

But, I think that this is a very nasty attempt to put our circle of groups in a bad light. Please open the post to read a bit of a rant.

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