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this kind of thread does not deserve that, thank you.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/15/haiti.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T1


Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Disaster and emergency experts warn that earthquake-ravaged Haiti is facing fresh tragedy as time becomes ever more crucial to rescue efforts.

They said most people killed in an earthquake die within the first 72 hours.

Rescue efforts in Haiti have been chaotic, hampered by a lack of resources and infrastructure, and emergency workers face a race against the clock to save those feared still trapped under rubble and to keep the injured and hungry alive.
 
I was listening to an interview of an aid worker the day after.....her comment was that in the area she was working they had more dead bodies than living people to carry them out....

International Aid of Spring Lake, Michigan is a totally volunteer agency that has already landed it's first shipment of medical supplies in Haiti. They did an outstanding job during Katrina and had a full service medical facility up and running in Mississippi within 24 hours. They operate by taking donations of dated supplies from hospitals from all over the Midwest, packaging them for emergency shipment, with volunteer nurses and doctors where needed. I know people there and can vouch for the fact donations will be used 100% to provide real help.

http://www.internationalaid.org/2010/01/13/international-aid-responding-to-haiti-earthquake/
 
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Yurt said:
without any insults

this kind of thread does not deserve that, thank you.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/15/haiti.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T1


Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Disaster and emergency experts warn that earthquake-ravaged Haiti is facing fresh tragedy as time becomes ever more crucial to rescue efforts.

They said most people killed in an earthquake die within the first 72 hours.

Rescue efforts in Haiti have been chaotic, hampered by a lack of resources and infrastructure, and emergency workers face a race against the clock to save those feared still trapped under rubble and to keep the injured and hungry alive.
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I have to leave and take care of some things today; but I was channel surfing and one station was doing a story about a woman who had just been pulled alive, from a store that collapsed, after 50 hours. I think it was a store.

After so many days being buried under rubble, people usually die from wounds; but a lot die from the lack of water and exposure to the elements.

4 minutes without oxygen, 4 days without water, 4 weeks without food.
 
Haiti: Where will all the money go?

WASHINGTON – Haiti has received billions of dollars in taxpayer and private aid from the United States and others, yet is so poor that few homes had safe drinking water, sewage disposal or electricity even before the earthquake. With sympathetic donors around the world sending money, making sure that aid is spent properly will be a challenge.

Corruption, theft and other crime and Haiti's sheer shortage of fundamentals — reliable roads, telephone and power lines and a sound financial system — add to the difficulty as foreign governments and charities try not only to help Haiti recover from the disaster but pull itself out of abject poverty.

It is one of the poorest places on Earth. Most basic public services are lacking, people typically live on less than $2 a day, nearly half the population is illiterate and the government has a history of instability. The public has little opportunity to be sure that aid to the government is used honestly and well. Nor is following the money easy for donors, including the United States, 700 miles away and one of the country's biggest helpers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_bi_ge/us_haiti_following_the_money

this rescue effort will be remembered for a long, long time
 
Yurt said:
Haiti: Where will all the money go?

WASHINGTON – Haiti has received billions of dollars in taxpayer and private aid from the United States and others, yet is so poor that few homes had safe drinking water, sewage disposal or electricity even before the earthquake. With sympathetic donors around the world sending money, making sure that aid is spent properly will be a challenge.

Corruption, theft and other crime and Haiti's sheer shortage of fundamentals — reliable roads, telephone and power lines and a sound financial system — add to the difficulty as foreign governments and charities try not only to help Haiti recover from the disaster but pull itself out of abject poverty.

It is one of the poorest places on Earth. Most basic public services are lacking, people typically live on less than $2 a day, nearly half the population is illiterate and the government has a history of instability. The public has little opportunity to be sure that aid to the government is used honestly and well. Nor is following the money easy for donors, including the United States, 700 miles away and one of the country's biggest helpers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_bi_ge/us_haiti_following_the_money

this rescue effort will be remembered for a long, long time
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This story is beyond sad. The amount of lives lost is incomprehensible, much like the Tsunami of 2004.
 
Struggle to aid Haitians as fears of unrest rise

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hundreds of U.S. troops touched down in earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince overnight and were soon handing out food and water to stricken survivors, as relief groups struggled to deliver aid Friday and fears spread of unrest in Haiti's fourth day of desperation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake

tragedies of this proportion should never be politicized, unless outright gross negligence. katrina was politicized for all the wrong reasons.
 
usaloyal2theend said:
This story is beyond sad. The amount of lives lost is incomprehensible, much like the Tsunami of 2004.
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I was in Thailand in 2004 when the tsunami happened, the previous year I was staying on Patong beach, Phuket. I met many people who were in Phuket, Khao Lak and Krabi who gave me first hand accounts of the devastation.
 
Yurt said:
Struggle to aid Haitians as fears of unrest rise

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hundreds of U.S. troops touched down in earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince overnight and were soon handing out food and water to stricken survivors, as relief groups struggled to deliver aid Friday and fears spread of unrest in Haiti's fourth day of desperation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake

tragedies of this proportion should never be politicized, unless outright gross negligence. katrina was politicized for all the wrong reasons.
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Are so many USA troops there to pacify and occupy?
 
yellow_peril said:
Are so many USA troops there to pacify and occupy?
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They are there to help. Much like they did in the aftermath of the tsunami in '04. Did we occupy any of those nations?

Besides, there is no organization on the planet that can mobilize as many medical personnel and as much aid as quickly as our military. From doctors and medics to the ability to airlift cargo to the ability to produce 35,000 litres of freshwater a day, the US military is an excellent (if not critical) resource in the first days of the tragedy.
 
I’m totally no expert on Haiti, or on the reasons for its under development, poverty, and instability. But one thing I know for sure, the mainstream US media will never report or delve into Hatian history in any significant, or honest way. At best, the most Americans will ever hear about Haiti is some simplistic caricature that its’ always been some fucked up country that, for some unknowable reason, can never seem to get it’s act together.

This is an informative article: As the only country in history where slaves kicked out their colonial oppressors, Haiti was subject to repeated foreign invasion and occupations; first by the French and then by the Americans. Colonial and foreign intervention that was perhaps, above and beyond what most countries in the western hemisphere endured. The islands wealth was apparently siphoned of the the banks of New York and other centers of colonial capitalism. And the horrific dictators that ruled Haiti, aka Papa Doc, did so with the blessing and support of the United States because they were viewed as reliably anti-communist.

It would be simplistic to simply place sole blame on the United States, France, or the hatians themselves. But, this article has the kind of crap that puts hatian history and under development into some context.

http://www.alternet.org/world/14518..._own_--_the_u.s's_hidden_role_in_the_disaster
 
WinterBorn said:
They are there to help. Much like they did in the aftermath of the tsunami in '04. Did we occupy any of those nations?

Besides, there is no organization on the planet that can mobilize as many medical personnel and as much aid as quickly as our military. From doctors and medics to the ability to airlift cargo to the ability to produce 35,000 litres of freshwater a day, the US military is an excellent (if not critical) resource in the first days of the tragedy.
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Make that the fifth day.
 
Cypress said:
I’m totally no expert on Haiti, or on the reasons for its under development, poverty, and instability. But one thing I know for sure, the mainstream US media will never report or delve into Hatian history in any significant, or honest way. At best, the most Americans will ever hear about Haiti is some simplistic caricature that its’ always been some fucked up country that, for some unknowable reason, can never seem to get it’s act together.

This is an informative article: As the only country in history where slaves kicked out their colonial oppressors, Haiti was subject to repeated foreign invasion and occupations; first by the French and then by the Americans. Colonial and foreign intervention that was perhaps, above and beyond what most countries in the western hemisphere endured. The islands wealth was apparently siphoned of the the banks of New York and other centers of colonial capitalism. And the horrific dictators that ruled Haiti, aka Papa Doc, did so with the blessing and support of the United States because they were viewed as reliably anti-communist.

It would be simplistic to simply place sole blame on the United States, France, or the hatians themselves. But, this article has the kind of crap that puts hatian history and under development into some context.

http://www.alternet.org/world/14518..._own_--_the_u.s's_hidden_role_in_the_disaster
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we heard about them throwing off the yoke of slavery, pat robertson told us that the devil did it and that some pact was made
 
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