| 7.0 earthquake In Haiti | |
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| brittany | Jan 30 2010, 03:31 PM Post #136 |
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US evacuations to hospitals stopped over WHO PAYS? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/us/30airlift.html?ref=todayspaper |
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| retiredLEO | Jan 30 2010, 04:48 PM Post #137 |
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All these evacuees are here to stay, I don't see any of them going back and Obama is going to grant them imunity. How come we are not hearing much about this anymore? I guess the MSM is trying to paint this as an Obama success story? People still not being fed, females being raped, 7,000 criminals out on the streets, I guess we can add the ones that never made it to jail. Some people getting food once every three days or so. Things are not going so well, but is the MSM reporting it. I always had one question, I know this could be kind of gross, but where are all these people releving themselves? They need to seperate these refugees into groups outside the city, to maintain some order. |
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| kbp | Jan 30 2010, 04:54 PM Post #138 |
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That would be like buying new Democrats on a lifetime payment plan (I'm hoping all will survive). I'd think all are in a condition that meets the requirements for getting disability (rules??), and if accurate, you'd expect them to vote for the ruling party. Not a conspiracy in my eyes, just what it is. Edited by kbp, Jan 30 2010, 04:55 PM.
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| brittany | Jan 31 2010, 09:06 AM Post #139 |
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They arrested a group of American Baptists from Idaho (for kidnapping?). They said they were setting up an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
Edited by brittany, Jan 31 2010, 09:07 AM.
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| Baldo | Feb 1 2010, 01:54 AM Post #140 |
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You knew this was coming. As food distribution improves, Haitians want U.S to 'take over' PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- International relief organizations backed by American soldiers delivered hundreds of tons of rice to homeless residents of the Haitian capital Sunday, laboring to ease a food shortage that has left countless thousands struggling to find enough to eat. But even as food-aid workers enjoyed their most successful day since the Jan. 12 earthquake, the increasingly prominent role of U.S. troops and civilians in the capital is creating high expectations that the Obama administration is struggling to contain. The needs are extraordinary, and the common refrain is that the Americans will provide. "I want the Americans to take over the country. The Haitian government can't do anything for us," said Jean-Louis Geffrard, a laborer who lives under a tarp in the crowded square. "When we tell the government we're hungry, the government says, 'We're hungry, too.' " Added Canga Matthieu, a medical student whose school was destroyed: "The American government should take care of us." "They're well organized. The United States is the richest country in the world, and they can help." But help has its limits, U.S. officials emphasize in their public statements and in their interactions with Haitians. "You will have a friend and partner in the United States of America today and going forward," President Obama said the day after the earthquake. But U.S. officials here make it clear that the American government is not responsible for rebuilding the ravaged country. "The military forces . . . are not here to do any reconstruction. That is not our mission," said Col. Rick Kaiser, a U.S. Army engineer overseeing emergency repairs to the Port-au-Prince docks, the electrical and water systems, and other battered infrastructure in the hemisphere's poorest country. Administration officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, describe virtually every activity here as "Haiti-led," although the government is barely functioning and its record was checkered even before the earthquake killed more than 110,000 people and leveled an array of government ministries...snipped http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013102725.html |
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| brittany | Feb 1 2010, 03:46 PM Post #141 |
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Poor things don't have airconditioning? Who takes a bus load of kids out of the country without approval? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/01/10-americans-face-child-trafficking-charge-in-hait/ By Frank Bajak and Paisley Dodds ASSOCIATED PRESS UPDATED: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haitian and U.S. officials are considering a trial in the United States for 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without documents or permission. The aborted Baptist "rescue mission" has become a major distraction for a crippled government trying to provide basic life support to millions of earthquake survivors. Haiti's courts and Justice Ministry were destroyed in the disaster, which also killed many judicial officials. But the government insisted Monday that the Americans, however well-intentioned, must be prosecuted to send a strong message against child trafficking. "There can be no question of taking our children off the streets and out of the country," Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelin Lassegue said. "They will be judged. . . . That's what is important." Since their arrest Friday near the border, the church group has been held inside two small concrete rooms in the same judicial police headquarters building where ministers have makeshift offices and give disaster response briefings. They have not yet been charged. One of their lawyers said they were being treated poorly: "There is no air conditioning, no electricity. It is very disturbing," lawyer Jorge Puello told the AP by phone from the Dominican Republic, where the Baptists hoped to shelter the children in a rented beach hotel. Edited by brittany, Feb 1 2010, 03:48 PM.
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| brittany | Feb 4 2010, 03:34 PM Post #142 |
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The 10 Americans have been charged with kidnapping. Closed trial to take place by judge. |
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| Baldo | Feb 4 2010, 03:55 PM Post #143 |
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They did have a Radio report that all the children had signed parental releases to go with the group. The reporter went to the village where the kids were from and the parents admitted they have sent the children away with the group so they can have a better life. One mother said there is nothing here anymore, no school, no hope. They said the Americans would adopt the kids and give them an education. My point is let's heard both sides of the story. Edited by Baldo, Feb 4 2010, 03:56 PM.
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| kbp | Feb 4 2010, 05:35 PM Post #144 |
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At the minimum, it's difficult to come up with a reason to compliment the leader of the group. They needed Rambo to assist them on a mission like that. |
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| brittany | Feb 9 2010, 12:28 PM Post #145 |
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Haitian man pulled alive from market rubble Day 27 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585187,00.html?test=latestnews |
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| brittany | Feb 9 2010, 12:31 PM Post #146 |
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Construction materials in Haiti's buildings may also have contributed: Pre-pressed concrete slabs tend to leave gaps when they crash down. |
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| Sherp | Feb 9 2010, 01:17 PM Post #147 |
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I read a terrific artice about using shipping containers for housing in Haiti. Pictures of containers already being used in Germany and Europe. Apparently, there are millions of colorful abandoned containers all around the Caribbean and South America as are 55 gallon drums which can be used on the top for a little garden and collect water. |
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