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And again here we are seeing the suffering of millions of blacks on worldwide TV due to a natural disaster. A week after the event, already the media and other outlets are making this tragedy seem like another Katrina all over again. All the key factors are in place: large predominantly black poor population, a massive natural disaster of epic proportions, a lackluster relief effort from the U.S. government and a history of unfair economic policies from one toward the other.

Of course, all of this is passed off as "routine" and nothing to write home about. Really? When was the last time a hurricane killed almost 200,000 people on any part of the planet? And given that the numbers have been over 100,000 since the event first occurred, why isn't there a massive relief campaign equal to the scale of the tragedy? As I speak only one functioning field hospital has been set up in the country, by Israel, from thousands of miles away. Where are the U.S. field hospitals?

By now if anyone believes in America being a savior to or helpful to blacks in any sense of the term, they must be retarded. Of course, mass media won't say that the U.S. could care less that the victims of one of the largest natural disasters in recent history are continuing to die because of U.S. racism. Of course not. Nope, they will wait until the people get desperate because there is no food and water and especially after they begin to really realize that NOBODY gives a f*ck about them. However, that anger and desperation will be portrayed as simply blacks being violent and looting when in reality that isn't the case. Again, Katrina becomes an all too similar. And just like Katrina, the U.S. will wait until things cannot get more desperate and people are at wits end and things get really out of hand, to make a big show of coming in and "saving the day". Well if Katrina is any example then, "saving the day" could mean thousands more Haitians disappearing on top of the thousands already lost....

The most tragic part of all of this is that now the U.S. has a black president, which goes to show just how meaningless that is.

And the biggest question black folks should be asking is not white folks won't do more to help, because given the history of white folks, such a question is only obvious. Nope, the question is why black folks don't have the doctors, medicine, tents, clothing, food needed for this type of calamity nor the ships, helicopters and planes to send it there. To say that blacks still depend wholly and fully on the niceness of white folks as opposed to the millions of blacks in the diaspora, to survive in this day and age in the face of tragedy is an even bigger travesty.

But somehow the image we get of Haiti is of "god fearing" Africans worshiping and faithful to the white Jesus, even though the white folks that gave them Jesus have never been good to them.






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Surviving the massive quake that rocked Haiti was just the beginning. Experts say the new dangers -- among them, deaths from untreated wounds and disease outbreak -- may be compounded by Haiti's old problem: poverty.

"That creates a lot of challenges," said David Gazashvili, emergency team leader in Haiti for the humanitarian group CARE, "because Haiti is a country that's in a chronic emergency in terms of food insecurity, in terms of access to clean water, in terms of income."

Giuseppe Annunziata, the World Health Organization's emergency coordinator for Haiti, says the "big earthquake, right in the capital of a very poor and fragile state," created a humanitarian nightmare because basic health care services have "completely collapsed."

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"It's compounded by the fact that the state structure is so severely hit and the existing humanitarian structure has also been severely hit," Annunziata said. "And we have to deal with that."

Many victims could die from wounds that under normal circumstances would be easily treatable; a lack of food and clean water raises concerns over disease outbreaks. And people who were getting treatment for HIV and other chronic diseases no longer have access to care.
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"People suffering from cancer, people who need dialysis and even moms who need to deliver their kids -- all these things are being affected by this emergency," said Paul Garwood, a spokesman for the WHO's Health Action in Crises team.

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''People didn't need help prior to the earthquakes?''

Stop the bullsh.t talk. They need help now regardless of your faulty line of thinking. When this situation is stabilized then continue your prattle.

''That nation had one of the lowest life expectancy rate in the world. The nation saw its essential infrastructure destroyed by foreign powers and now we hear that people are actually going to be "assisted".

So I take it you don't want to donate one red cent to the effort because you fear some mismanaging by foreign powers? Don't do it then. And shut...up.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase.

Medical clinics have 12-day patient backlogs, untreated injuries are festering and makeshift camps housing thousands of survivors could foster disease, experts said.

"The next health risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract infections and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or nonexistent sanitation," said Dr. Greg Elder, deputy operations manager for Doctors Without Borders in Haiti.

Hoping to assess the scope of the crisis, World Food Program chief Josette Sheeran planned to visit Haiti on Thursday, as did European Union aid chief Karel De Gucht.

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Donations to earthquake-ravaged Haiti have hit records as people and companies contribute to the relief effort.

Americans donated $150 million in the first four days after the Haiti earthquake, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. That's more than four times the amount raised in the three days after the tsunamis struck Asia in 2004.

Donations to Hurricane Katrina efforts in 2005 totaled $108 million in the first four days after that disaster, the chronicle said.

It's "remarkable for that to have even happened at all," said Stacy Palmer, editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, "considering that we're in a bad economy and the disaster occurred outside the United States."

As of 6 p.m. ET yesterday, donations exceeded $210 million in the six days after the earthquake, a slower pace than the $457 million for Katrina relief efforts in the six days after that disaster.

But the Haiti effort topped the $163 million raised by U.S. relief groups in the nine days after the Asian tsunamis, the chronicle said.

Text messaging has become a huge contributor to donations. The American Red Cross has received more than $22 million through its campaign to encourage $10 donations via text message, a record.

In comparison, the Red Cross raised $200,000 from text messages during the 2008 hurricane season.

"I think once people saw the pictures of so much dramatic suffering, it was hard not to give. Images were coming back so quickly that really were so horrifying," Palmer said. "People had a way to respond really quickly. The real question is how are people going to give for the recovery, how do you keep the momentum going."

The Red Cross had raised $112 million through Monday night, which shows that people are spreading their donations across a variety of organizations, Palmer noted. The numbers will continue to be updated several times a day, she added.

Other efforts have also raised millions. Catholic Relief Services had secured $13.1 million in charitable gifts and pledges as of Monday, with $8.5 million donated online.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - More than a week after their nursing home collapsed, dozens of elderly Haitians are still begging for food and medicine in a downtown Port-au-Prince slum barely a mile from the international airport where tons of aid are pouring in.

"It's as if everybody has forgotten us, nobody cares," said Phileas Julien, 78, a sometimes delirious blind man in a wheelchair who has appointed himself spokesman for the 84 surviving residents. "Or maybe they really do just want us to starve to death."

The Jan. 12 earthquake killed six residents and two more have since died of hunger and exhaustion. Several more were barely clinging to life Wednesday evening. They struggle to survive in the midst of a squalid camp that was created in the hospice's garden by people who fled the quake's destruction.

Life for the residents has improved a bit since Sunday, when some of their new neighbors pulled beds out of the home and into the open so the elderly didn't have to sleep on the ground with rats scampering by.

Some relatives and volunteers have made small food offerings and helped wash and medicate the worse-off patients. An Associated Press reporter has brought a case of bottles of water every day since discovering their plight Sunday.

On Monday, the Brazilian aid group Viva Rio brought in a large tanker of drinking water, the first large-scale aid for the 59 women and 25 men left from the nursing home.

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John Lebrun, one of the nursing home's cleaners, also brought a 110-pound bag of rice that was cooked the same day.

"I found it in a storage house nearby," he said. He wouldn't elaborate on how he secured such a costly item: that much rice now costs $60 amid shortages. Lebrun grinned and said evasively that it came from a "broken" store — one damaged in the quake.

The plain, boiled rice Monday was the pensioners' first meal since the earthquake. They have not eaten since.

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American military helicopters landed on Tuesday at Haiti’s wrecked National Palace, and troops began rolling through the capital’s battered streets, signs of the growing international relief operation here. But the troops’ presence underscored the rising complaints that the Haitian government had all but disappeared in the week since a huge earthquake struck.

Haiti’s long history of foreign intervention, including an American occupation, normally makes the influx of foreigners a delicate issue.

But with the government of President René Préval largely out of public view and the needs so huge, many Haitians are shunting aside their concerns about sovereignty and welcoming anybody willing to help — in camouflage or not.

"It is not ideal to have a foreign army here, but look at the situation," said Énide Edoword, 24, a waitress who was standing in a camp of displaced people. "We are living amid filth and hunger and thirst after a catastrophe."

When Mr. Préval asked religious and business leaders at a meeting on Saturday whether they supported the intervention of the United States Marines, the response came with a caveat.

"They said, ‘Yes — as long as it’s temporary,’" said Bishop Jean-Zache Duracin of Haiti’s Episcopal Church, who attended the meeting. "We have no choice because the government has collapsed."

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Last week, the price of a small bag of rice cost $2, today it costs $3.50; the gallon of cooking oil fetched $10 only days ago and now it goes for $20. What will they cost tomorrow, no one knows.

The price of most basic goods such as beans, flour and pasta have mushroomed rapidly since the earthquake devastated Haiti, leaving millions homeless and hungry. Those are the lucky ones, because so far, government officials have put the number of people they've buried at 70,000, not counting familial burials that take place daily.

For the living, life here has become extremely difficult and uncertain. As the prices of goods continue to rise, tons of food aid are stuck at the airport, victim of the Haitian government's ineptness. Almost a week after the earthquake most of the population in dire need of food and water have not received any.

As they await the distribution, prices skyrocket. On a visit to several vending stands, merchants were hesitant about telling prices of goods a couple of days ago. Most of them would do so only if this reporter agreed to buy something from them.

"Who are you C.I.A," said an irate vendor. "Why do you want to know theses things."

Then he became somewhat defensive saying that they were only passing down the prices that they had to pay to buy the goods. The dollar has lost at least 20 percent of its value.

Most gasoline stations are closed, selling their reserve with precaution. So as soon as words spread that a station is open, a line almost a mile long is created, blocking traffic.

Some 800 Marines moved ashore Tuesday in Haiti, ferrying supplies on helicopters and Humvees as the U.S. military force there swelled to as many as 11,000.

The influx of troops comes as the military struggles to distribute aid throughout the country without setting off street riots. Defense officials last week ruled out air drops directly into unsecured populated areas because of the fear of street rioting.

But in some cases, large swarms of people have kept helicopters from landing and troops were forced to drop water bottles into the populated areas instead of distributing them on the ground.

"If you're trying to do it like this, you're going to create chaos," said Himler Rebu, a former Haitian army colonel, who ran unsuccessfully for president four years ago. "They have to establish a location and set up distribution network."

Still, many in Haiti fear that if the aid is not forthcoming and people can't afford to buy the limited food available in the market that the population will become restless and violence will ensue.

The economic landscape is dire. There is no electricity, no running water and no functioning business in and out of the capital. It is not known when banks and other businesses will reopen.

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The care they can get is enormously variable. The U.S. has several hospitals running emergency response units which were set up by the Department of Health and Human Services. It took days getting those hospitals in place, before the 82 Airborne determined the facilities were secure.

On Monday, I went into an illegal slum on the hillside, which probably housed 10,000 people. I was the first person to go there from the outside – they had not seen anybody from the government; they hadn’t seen a journalist or rescue worker. The people in the slums were on their own.

There were dead bodies everywhere. Some people had tried to continue living in their collapsed structures, but because of aftershocks they had moved out and they were either sleeping on the streets or on any space or lot they could find. The people were stunned and many were angry that nobody had come yet.

On the ground in Port-au-Prince there were some very sad sights, like a child’s school work, from a child who was doing his or her history or French homework when the earthquake struck, splattered with blood. It’s a place of enormous sadness.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A strong aftershock rattled Haiti once again on Wednesday, causing even more physical damage and further traumatizing the jittery population. But the authorities said the biggest dangers now facing survivors of last week’s major earthquake were untreated wounds and rising disease, not falling debris.

Because of untreated injuries, infectious diseases and dismal sanitary conditions, health workers said that the natural disaster that struck Haiti more than a week ago remained a major medical crisis and that, unless quickly controlled, it would continue to take large numbers of lives in the days and weeks ahead.

"There are still thousands of patients with major fractures, major wounds, that have not been treated yet," said Dr. Eduardo de Marchena, a University of Miami cardiologist who oversaw a tent hospital near the airport where hundreds of severely injured people were being tended. "There are people, many people, who are going to die unless they’re treated."
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Another grievance among some health professionals was that the American military was not giving enough of a priority to humanitarian aid. Doctors Without Borders has complained that more than one of its planes carrying vital medical equipment has been kept from landing at the airport here, costing lives.

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''Moron, do you even care about the people in the nation?''

I care enough to ask you to cease your nonstop and pointless and wasteful analyzing .

''These deaths are just Haitians temporarily "famous".''

See what I mean. I don't see how you can stand up straight with the load of bullshit you carry around in your head on this issue.

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This is why white males end up killing themselves at rapid rate [because of guilt].

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However, questioning whether this aid is just part of some pathetic PR stunt isn't wasteful.

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Fact is, aid being projected as being "helpful" is not humanitarian aid.

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However, isn't that Northrop Grumman's forte? Providing defective trash to an incompetent armed force.

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Haitian police shot and killed a man they suspected of stealing rice in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince on Thursday, leaving his body on the sidewalk for hours as his family mourned.

The dead man's mother identified him as Gentile Cherie, a 20-year-old carpenter. A companion with him was wounded, and a third man nearby was hit by what he said was a stray bullet.

Witnesses said no one was looting at the time. Josef Josnain, the owner of a shop near the city's airport, said the five bags of rice the men were found with fell from a truck and passers-by picked them up. And Cherie's wounded companion, who did not give his name, said a truck driver gave them the rice.

"A truck stopped and we jumped on, and the driver gave us the rice as a gift," he said. "But the cops shot us."

A CNN crew spotted police stopping the two men Thursday afternoon. They stopped to film the arrests, but while they were getting out of the car, they heard four gunshots and saw the men on the ground. Both had been shot in the back.

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Well I suppose they do according to you. I have no clue if they do or not. And I won't be interested in your sources on it if you have any. You've dug yourself a hole and can't get out of it. And this is why you stray so far from what I've been saying to you. You still can't relieve yourself of your useless analyzing. Those people in Haiti don't need your (by now self-inflicted) poppycock. They need donations, they need those authorities on the island, all of them, whatever nationality they are, to get off their asses and stop the bullshit so people who are right now needlessly dying because of the bullshit can live; they are putting up with bullshit, just like your relentless analyzing. Now I know why you do what you do. If that picture you posted on that link the other day is truthful then your age of 22 gives meaning why: no one else on this planet is aware of white people's dealings except you; you just found this stuff out recently didn't you.

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Finally, you seem to think I'm white, then I'm an afrocentric. You can't keep up with your own bullshit can you. lol

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In case anyone misunderstands my concern, I will make it clear. The sending of U.S. troops with guns only means that it will be easier to violate the civil rights of innocents under the pretext of "maintaining order". And it becomes a distraction and diversion from the most important issue: food, water and medical supplies. Focusing on "maintaining order" when there is no large scaled violence or looting of any sort is simply a callous way of ignoring the actual needs of such a disaster. Over 10,000 troops are now in Haiti and the arrival of all those troops only STOPPED and hindered the arrival of relief supplies. So again, this idea that "maintaining order" is helping is nonsense. It is just an excuse to keep black people at the end of a gun or under threat of some sort of draconian system of marshal law, which is what the U.S. has been supporting all along in Haiti. This isn't about the benefit of the Haitian people, it is about the elite and their Western backers using the crisis as an opportunity to further their own interests at the expense of the Haitian people.

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In case anyone misunderstands my concern, I will make it clear. The sending of U.S. troops with guns only means that it will be easier to violate the civil rights of innocents under the pretext of "maintaining order". And it becomes a distraction and diversion from the most important issue: food, water and medical supplies. Focusing on "maintaining order" when there is no large scaled violence or looting of any sort is simply a callous way of ignoring the actual needs of such a disaster. Over 10,000 troops are now in Haiti and the arrival of all those troops only STOPPED and hindered the arrival of relief supplies. So again, this idea that "maintaining order" is helping is nonsense. It is just an excuse to keep black people at the end of a gun or under threat of some sort of draconian system of marshal law, which is what the U.S. has been supporting all along in Haiti. This isn't about the benefit of the Haitian people, it is about the elite and their Western backers using the crisis as an opportunity to further their own interests at the expense of the Haitian people.

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The mobilization inside the United States—among the military, aid groups, the public—to help Haiti has been quick and generous. Hopefully, alongside peacekeepers and other international partners, we can help the Haitians stabilize their country and reduce human suffering. But then the work of rebuilding will begin, as the U.S. helps them to reconstruct their shattered capital and economy. And it will probably not go well. Not because the destruction was so massive (that is a surmountable problem), but because Washington policymakers unfamiliar with development practice still don't understand how to help the Haitians erect a functioning civil society, private economy, and competent government. It's not about reconstruction and humanitarian aid; it's about institutions. And without them, Haiti will remain a failed state.

A National Academy of Public Administration report of 2006 on why foreign aid has failed in Haiti summarized general donor opinion, which has "variously characterized Haiti as a nightmare, predator, collapsed, failed, failing, parasitic, kleptocratic, phantom, virtual or pariah state." One World Bank study of Haitian governance reports that "30% of civil service were phantom employees…One ministry had 10,000 employees, only about half of whom were ever at work." A USAID evaluation of the Haitian government institutions reported they are "characterized by lack of trained personnel; no performance based personnel system, no accepted hiring, firing, and promotion procedures; heavy top down management; and a decided lack of direction." In a word, Haiti was a failed state before the earthquake. The country needs more than rebuilding.

But the crucial idea in Violence and Social Orders—that once basic human needs are met, institutions are more important for a functioning country—is not driving Western aid. Increasingly, the groups who purvey it have focused on the delivery of services, not the building of institutions. For its part, Washington takes reconstruction literally (bricks and mortar alone). It's a truism that ports, roads, sewage, schools, health clinics, bridges, and clean water are preconditions to a stable country and expanding economy. But if that's all we do, Haiti will simply revert to dysfunction, and whatever is reconstructed will begin to crumble over time without institutions to ensure maintenance. (Even before the quake, Haiti's public services, where they existed at all, were perilously close to collapse.)

Unfortunately, institution building is much harder than reconstruction. Political pressure from Washington since the end of the Cold War, has demanded speed, visibility, and measurable results in state-building exercises. But functional institutions will take a decade or more, their successes will be undramatic, and many will be difficult to quantify. Aid efforts in Haiti in the past have focused too much on delivering public services through nongovernmental organizations and international groups instead of the trying to reform the Haitian institutions that should be delivering these services. But simply providing aid funds through Haitian government ministries, however—the newest international-aid fad—will strengthen the predatory forces that control them. Paul Collier, in his book the Bottom Billion says this kind of aid in a failed state will have the same affect oil revenues do in poor countries—it encourages looting of the treasury. Only a massive shift of personnel, power, and resources within Haitian society will break the stranglehold of predators. How do we do this?

Building new institutions will require competent and honest Haitian leadership. Haitian President René Préval has shown technical skill in improving governance during the last two years, but he has been invisible in the post-quake humanitarian-aid effort, which has damaged him politically. He will need help, and one of the best ways of generating that help in a country that has had a chronic leadership deficit is to bring prosperous, educated Haitians on a large scale back from the diaspora to help him build new Haitian institutions. Haitians in America and Canada are well known as upwardly mobile, entrepreneurial, and hardworking. They could be the vanguard of a new Haitian governing leadership to reform the corrupt and dysfunctional system.

At the same time, the Unites States should bring emerging Haitian leaders to American universities and colleges. The most successful institution-building program ever used by USAID, the U.S. government's main foreign development arm, was its scholarship program, which brought 18,000 students a year to American colleges and universities. Those scholarships have been phased out over time because Washington regulators demanded rapid and visible results, which education does not produce. But scholarships engender long-term transformation, because graduates usually return to their home countries from the United States as reformers. Bringing promising Haitians to the U.S. for graduate programs (with safeguards to ensure they return to Haiti afterward) can complement the return of the Haitian diaspora in building new institutions.

Another imperative is security, without which the exodus of educated professionals will continue. Criminal gangs linked to the drug trade have grown more powerful over the past few years and are behind the growing violence in Haitian society. Unless this trend is arrested, any effort to build new institutions will fail. This means that a large U.N. peacekeeping and police presence with a more aggressive mandate will be needed to keep order for at least a decade before this institution-building effort can show results. It will take U.N. and aid agencies a decade to help the Haitians build the local military and police forces necessary for a functioning criminal-justice system.

Once those programs are in place, Haiti can begin to lure investment. Beyond the terrible loss of human life from the earthquake, the greatest invisible devastation is the destruction of jobs, businesses, and economic activity. International business and capital markets do not invest money in failed states, and, without that investment, job creation, and economic growth (on the scale necessary to transform Haitian society) are impossible. And without economic growth, new Haitian institutions will be unsustainable, lacking the local tax revenue to fund them when aid ends. So even if reconstruction goes well, Haiti's failed-state status offers the twin economic challenges of mass unemployment and a poor business climate. And private capital must flow to new institutions in the private sector; it cannot all be focused on the Haitian state. USAID ran successful economic-growth programs for just that purpose in Indonesia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and El Salvador.

If Western countries want to end the dysfunctional cycle of crisis and failed Band-Aid development in Haiti, tractors and concrete will not be enough. Only an institution-based model of reconstruction will succeed.

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Seventy years later (1884=85) anxiety to promote the welfare of the Negro was announced as one of the motives for the Berlin conference. Europe and America undertook to employ every means to end the inland slave= trade. Muhammadan states for the first time in history participated with Christian powers in an enterprise of philanthropy. Their presence recalls the homely rhyme that "when the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be", for the sincere endeavors of Egyptian and Zanzibari rulers of Islamry were inspired by European influences. Though Christendom succeeded between 1817 and 1877 in ending the export of slaves to America and in hampering that to the orient, the inland traffic grew worse. From 1875 to 1890 Africa lost sometimes five hundred thousand, sometimes one million inhabitants annually. In 1890 America, Europe, Persia and Zanzibar "in the name of God" confessed that the European powers were morally accountable for the devastation, and resolved at Brussels to secure peace for Africa, to complete such slight results as they had already obtained since 1885 and to guarantee the extermination of the traffic. Belgium has since accomplished something, Britain a little, the others less toward the redemption of their pledges for their respective realms.

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''PS: Afrocentric moron, I don't remember a youtube video being a controlled poll. Regardless, I am speaking to white (mule) America's child and can't really expect anything too spectacular. I certify you as a first-grade moron.''

I see to whom you were talking to now.

That said, I can be considered afrocentric.

''You belong to the "white race" that was made possible due to your ancestor's work (i.e. selling out).''

So how did these people ''sell out''? So as to not off topic explain as succinctly as you can how they did that.

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Get this: The hollyweird troop is out in force again -- bringing to viewers a new version of "we are the world"-style feast, to remind viewers of what good "saviors" of the hapless they are. The media extravaganza! This tragic event has become about how to make attention-whores & celebrities alike and other American figures into the "heroes" and "heroines" out of all this.

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It has been said with literal truth that one cannot put one's finger on a spot of uncultivated soil in Belgium, and there are inevitable limits to manufacturing extension. Little scope, therefore, exists at home for the employment of accumulating capital or the absorption of the constantly increasing surplus labour. As statesman even more than king, Leopold II perceived at an early stage that his small but compict country, advancing in wealth and population, was permanently restricted; and that an outlet was needed for the employment of spare capital, and particularly for the enterprise of young men otherwise without profitable occupation. He had been chosen President of the African International Association, which was courageously entering on its philanthropic mission. Taking counsel with Stanley and other explorers, he secured, only some ten or twelve years ago, the territory of the Congo, staked an enormous fortune on it, became the absolute ruler with the consent of the Great Powers, and made legal provision through his own government—avoiding even the suggestion of ultimate personal gain—that within a stipulated number of years Belgium should have the option of taking over the Congo Free State and making it in name, as it is in effect, a Belgian Colony...

....Conversing lately with the writer of this all too inadequate sketch, His Majesty said, "My aim throughout life has been to find the truth and make the truth known to others. I have often been misunderstood and misrepresented, but we must not be discouraged; let us ever go forward in the path of duty, striving to let the light shine forth." In these memorable words the King has struck a lofty keynote for his own people, and for other peoples.

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Get this: The hollyweird troop is out in force again -- bringing to viewers a new version of "we are the world"-style feast, to remind viewers of what good "saviors" of the hapless they are. The media extravaganza! This tragic event has become about how to make attention-whores & celebrities alike and other American figures into the "heroes" and "heroines" out of all this.

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This is from around 1897:

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It has been said with literal truth that one cannot put one's finger on a spot of uncultivated soil in Belgium, and there are inevitable limits to manufacturing extension. Little scope, therefore, exists at home for the employment of accumulating capital or the absorption of the constantly increasing surplus labour. As statesman even more than king, Leopold II perceived at an early stage that his small but compict country, advancing in wealth and population, was permanently restricted; and that an outlet was needed for the employment of spare capital, and particularly for the enterprise of young men otherwise without profitable occupation. He had been chosen President of the African International Association, which was courageously entering on its philanthropic mission. Taking counsel with Stanley and other explorers, he secured, only some ten or twelve years ago, the territory of the Congo, staked an enormous fortune on it, became the absolute ruler with the consent of the Great Powers, and made legal provision through his own government—avoiding even the suggestion of ultimate personal gain—that within a stipulated number of years Belgium should have the option of taking over the Congo Free State and making it in name, as it is in effect, a Belgian Colony...

....Conversing lately with the writer of this all too inadequate sketch, His Majesty said, "My aim throughout life has been to find the truth and make the truth known to others. I have often been misunderstood and misrepresented, but we must not be discouraged; let us ever go forward in the path of duty, striving to let the light shine forth." In these memorable words the King has struck a lofty keynote for his own people, and for other peoples.

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French Groups Criticize Handling of Relief Flights

By DOREEN CARVAJAL
Published: January 22, 2010

PARIS — Far from Haiti’s battered international airport, relief groups are growing more strident in their complaints about how coveted landing spots are doled out among charity groups and prominent visitors by the U.S. Air Force.

Médecins Sans Frontières, the international emergency medical relief group that was founded in France, has seen eight of its planes from Europe diverted, the most recent on Wednesday.

“It’s a very confusing situation and difficult to understand,” said Marie-Noëlle Rodrigue, deputy director for operations for Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris.

She acknowledged the severe damage to the Port-au-Prince airport, where the control tower was destroyed by the earthquake on Jan. 12 and traffic is directed by the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron of the U.S. Air Force. “What is unacceptable to us is the priorities,” Ms. Rodrigue said in an interview.

She and the group’s director of operations, Thierry Durand, called it “shocking” and “crazy” that planes with lifesaving equipment were diverted while, for instance, Edward G. Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, was able to land in a private plane in Port-au-Prince on a mission to help transport Haitian orphans to the United States.

“We are not playing favorites — it couldn’t be further from the truth,” said Maj. Nathan Miller, an officer with the squadron in Haiti.

Major Miller, speaking by telephone from Haiti, noted that traffic had swelled from about 15 flights daily to 150, with military planes now arriving during off-peak night hours to make more room for international aid flights.

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Letters: Too much attitude in Haiti relief effort

Philadelphia Daily News
THE NEWS coming out of Haiti reminds me of Katrina, but so much worse. Maybe more than 200,000 dead.

But don't the survivors deserve some humane treatment?

The U.S. has chosen to occupy the airport, hoard supplies and turn away planes carrying lifesaving cargo from reputable organizations. Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross had to land in the Dominican Republic, and are losing precious time crossing overland.

The Marines will begin a military occupation as the media pump up propaganda that Haiti's people are turning violent in their desperation. But people being helped don't react violently, and Haitians have more patience with adversity than any of us can imagine.

Potential survival-related violence is no excuse to withhold supplies, with the excuse that there may be grabbing or rioting. Once the Marines arrive, turning guns on the population is not acceptable, no matter how desperate, thirsty, wounded, hungry and grieving these human beings have become due to the inadequate response to the disaster.

The U.S. has to stop blocking relief supply planes from landing at the Port-au-Prince airport. To allow relief materials to leave the airport and be delivered. To allow Haitians into their own airport.

Once the Marines arrive, the U.S. should evacuate those in totally destroyed zones to a safe, clean environment outside the city, instead of leaving victims to languish and die from lack of attention. These camps should be decent and temporary, with adequate shelter, food, water, medical care and education for children.

The U.S. should not criminalize Haitian refugees fleeing this disaster in hastily built little boats. The U.S. should not throw these survivors into jails and detention centers in Miami and Guantanamo, and traumatize them further.

The U.S. should allow these shaken civilians to land in peace, give them shelter, medical attention and grief counseling! Haitians are human beings, but so far, the U.S. is treating them as expendable farm stock, inhumanely.

Is this war on Haiti or relief?

Lynn Robinson, Philadelphia

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I think you are overlooking the repeated point that the U.S. military is actively OBSTRUCTING the relief effort to the victims. Medical and food supplies are either left stranded in their drop-off locations or turned back. The Haitian victims surely want those things to be within their reach, but if they aren't getting them in the first place, then they are clearly not in a position to tell someone to '****-off'.

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Avril: Just to give you the precise figures as well, in terms of international staff inside Haiti right now, MSF has 165. As you may recall, we already had 30 working in the country from a whole contingent of 800 that were already present managing projects before, when the earthquake struck that is. In terms of international staff that are on their way to Haiti, at the moment there are 48 en route, and for Haitian staff, we have at the moment working 550.

12:15 WSJ: A question about the aid not getting in, the 5 planes that were diverted. How did the cluster system work in this case – did that work smoothly – that was put into place after the tsunami to get the aid on the planes, and the problem being at the airport that the United States military has put a priority in order over getting aid in? Is that the reason planes were diverted? And did the cluster system work well in this case?

Benoit: Well, obviously as the plane did not land and inside was some really vital equipment, like surgical equipment and a hospital, and also some surgical teams. The cluster system did not work with these planes, and we are 48 hours delayed in this operation. On our side we have been trying through all our contacts, which is at the UN, or people in the United States, or here in Haiti--everywhere--we have tried all the possible channels for these planes to land. We have been given assurances that they could land, and they ended up (circling) over Port-au-Prince, and eventually diverted to Santo Domingo.

WSJ: So was the blame the US military not giving you the clearance to land, they control the aiport, or was it the cluster system that the UN put in place?

Benoit: Between the 2 systems I don’t think there is a smooth liaison in who decides what. It’s not clear to us, as I said before. Then yesterday we clearly had 2 planes diverted with cargo inside. People had been informed, I think the US were on the ground at the airport. The airspace, maybe I think it’s the Haitians but please confirm, because I think it’s changing all the time who is controlling. The planes didn’t land, and this was yesterday afternoon.

Avril: We have had 4 cargo flights that successfully have flown to Port-au-Prince, with a total tonnage of 135. We have 2 cargo flights that flew to Dominican Republic with their total tonnage being 65. At the moment we have 6 cargo flights planned for the rest of this week, with a total tonnage of 195.
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15:21 TV NOVA: I would like to know more about the security issue and about the security situation on the ground. Could you describe it, is it dangerous, for example, more during night, what happened in this field please.

Benoit: I know there have been very localized incidents. People are very tense, and people are shocked. So it’s more reasons for them to get frustrated when they see that the aid and the food for example, or the care is not fully implemented, only at the very ad hoc and very [indecipherable] distribution stage. So there have been several problems, people running, and I think Loris can give the details of what happened maybe this morning at the airport. But we know that some of the distribution has ended up in, I don’t want to exaggerate my words, but maybe very small riots. People are shocked, people are tense, people are desperate, they’re in the street now for 6 days, so this adds to the tension. And there are sporadic reports of either shootouts or incidents, security incidents, more things happening throughout the town.
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US military operations block relief efforts in Haiti
By Alex Lantier
21 January 2010

The US military intervention in Haiti, after the January 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people, continues to block arrival of critical supplies to the devastated country. Quake victims—including hundreds of thousands of wounded and an estimated three million Haitians made homeless—lack access to food, water, and life-saving medical equipment.

At 6 AM yesterday a strong aftershock, centered 60 km west of Port-au-Prince and measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, again shook Haiti. There were reports of widespread building collapses, notably by buildings already weakened by the main quake, but there were no estimates on casualties from the aftershock. John Bellini of the US Geological Survey said there would be more such aftershocks in the coming weeks.

US forces who have taken over the Port-au-Prince airport are denying humanitarian flights permission to land. US helicopters also landed troops yesterday, who took over the ruins of Haiti’s Presidential Palace. Roughly 10,000 US troops will be in place in Haiti in the coming days.

In response to protests by Doctors Without Borders that “hundreds of lives were lost” because one of its flights was denied landing rights at Port-au-Prince, US military spokesman Captain John Kirby said: It’s a question of physics. The airport is the only way in, it has only one runway, and there are literally hundreds of flights trying to make it in.

Publicly, US officials are taking the absurd position that they do not know the contents of humanitarian aid flights and cannot decide whether they deserve priority to land. Citing discussions with US General Ken Keen, commanding operations in Haiti, the Washington Post wrote, if an air traffic controller doesn’t know what’s on an incoming plane, then he doesn’t know what priority to give it. Apparently, priority goes to US military flights. Keen said: If the young airman [controlling air traffic] has three planes coming in and he knows what’s on one of them, he’s going to land that one.

Doctors Without Borders issued a statement yesterday protesting the US military’s continuing refusal to allow its planes to land at the Port-au-Prince airport. It quoted Loris De Filippi, the coordinator at Choscal hospital in the Cité Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince: they are begging us there in front of the hospital. It’s a very unacceptable situation. What we are trying to do is to expand our capacity to answer these calls. But we need supplies to get to the airport—and we don’t know why the planes are being redirected.

Joint UN-US efforts to deliver food and water to the millions of homeless Haitians are grossly insufficient. Nancy Exilos, of the UN’s World Food Program, said: We go to a site, where the first assessment is there are 100 people [in need of help]. We bring enough [supplies] for 100 people but when we arrive we find there are 2,000 people. The UN was hoping to provide water and food for 200,000 people in Haiti yesterday.

Reporters in Port-au-Prince said signs are sprouting everywhere across the city, asking for food and water. US Corporal Clifford Sajous, a Haitian-American who was serving as translator in the group of 125 Marines sent by helicopter to Léogâne, said: we’re going to hand out some water and food and not everyone is going to get some.

The US build-up is proceeding, citing as justification fears of possible looting by Haitians desperate for food and water—with the New York Times writing that the threat of mass looting seems to increase by the day. However, there have been no reports of violence against aid personnel. In fact, General Keen commented, The level of violence we see now is below pre-earthquake levels.

Teams of Cuban doctors have traveled to Haiti and are treating earthquake victims without armed guards.

US forces nonetheless refuse to move shipments out of the airport without massive guards, further delaying rescue attempts. Gilberto Castro, emergency response director of transport company Deutsche Post DHL, told the Wall Street Journal: Twenty containers go out, but you have to have about 100 heavily armed soldiers to escort them.

The most tragic costs of US military interference with relief efforts will be borne by the Haitian masses. Debarati Guha-Sapir, professor of epidemiology at the University of Louvain in Belgium, said that normally most earthquake deaths take place in the 2 days after an earthquake. However, she added: Haiti, I think, is going to be different. They will not die simply because there is no care. ... They will die of lack of surgical care. They will die of simple trauma that in almost any other country would not lead to death.

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Haitians dying by the thousands as US escalates military intervention
By Bill Van Auken
22 January 2010

Thousands of Haitians are dying every day for lack of medical care and supplies, according to a leading humanitarian aid group. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has announced that it is expanding the US military presence in the country, maintaining Washington’s priority of troops over humanitarian aid.

The US-based medical aid group Partners in Health has warned that as many as 20,000 Haitians may be dying daily due to infections such as gangrene and sepsis that have set in, as the majority of the injured receive no medical care or are treated in facilities that lack the most basic supplies.

Tens of thousands of earthquake victims need emergency surgical care now!!!," the organization said in a statement posted on its web site. "The death toll and the incidence of gangrene and other deadly infections will continue to rise unless a massive effort is made to open and staff more operating rooms and to deliver essential equipment and supplies."

Partners in Health has worked in Haiti for more than 20 years. Its co-founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, is the deputy United Nations envoy to Haiti and a senior professor of public health at Harvard University.

While Haitian officials and other organizations have claimed the Partners in Health figure is too high, it is indisputable that Haiti confronts a disaster that could equal or even eclipse that of the quake itself because of the delays in the provision of health care to hundreds of thousands of sick and injured people.

The New York Times Thursday quoted Dr. Eduardo de Marchena, a University of Miami cardiologist overseeing one field hospital in Haiti, who provided a similarly grim prognosis. "There are still thousands of patients with major fractures, major wounds, that have not been treated yet," he said. "There are people, many people, who are going to die unless they’re treated."

As the Times reported, "In the squatter camps now scattered across this capital, there are still people writhing in pain, their injuries bound up by relatives but not yet seen by a doctor eight days after the quake struck. On top of that, the many bodies still in the wreckage increase the risk of diseases spreading, especially, experts say, if there is rain."

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Port-au-Prince General Hospital is continuously besieged by more than 1,000 patients waiting for surgery. "Armed guards in tanks kept out mobs," the newspaper reported. It added, "At any given moment, thousands of injured, some grievously, wait outside virtually any hospital or clinic, pleading for treatment."

CNN’s Karl Penhaul reported from Port-au-Prince General Hospital, where US paratroopers have taken up positions. He said that Haitians questioned why so many US troops were pouring into the country. "They say they need more food and water and fewer guys with guns," he reported.

He also indicated that American doctors at the hospital seemed mystified by the military presence. "They say there has never been a security problem here at the hospital, but there is a problem of getting supplies in." He added, "They can get nine helicopters of troops in, but some of the doctors here say if they can do that, then why can’t they also bring with them IV fluids and other much needed supplies."

The Spanish daily El País quoted one of these American doctors, Jim Warsinguer: "We lack a lot of things, too many for so much time having passed since the earthquake: betadine, bandages, gloves. And, above all, morphine. We have to do amputations without anesthesia. You see them suffer, and it is terrible. The Haitians are very brave, but they are suffering a lot."

The desperate conditions and lack of sanitation for the estimated 2 million Haitians left homeless by the earthquake threaten to trigger a public health disaster. "The next health risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract infections and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or non-existent sanitation," said Doctors Without Borders deputy operations manager Greg Elder.

While media reports claim that ever-growing amounts of material aid are coming into the country, reporters on the ground have said that there is still no sign that it is getting into the hands of the overwhelming majority of those who need it.

The British Broadcasting Corporation reported Thursday, "Correspondents say the aid that has thus far arrived at the port is being driven for 45 minutes across the city to the airport, where it is piling up and not being distributed to those who need it."

The BBC continued, "The US and UN World Food Programme insist the distribution of food and water is well under way, but the BBC’s Adam Mynott in Port-au-Prince says many people have still seen no international relief at all."

Aid organizations have charged that since establishing its unilateral control over the Port-au-Prince airport and the city’s port facilities, and assuming essential governmental powers in Haiti, the US military has given the beefing up of its presence in the country priority over the provision of aid. Doctors Without Borders, for example, has protested that military air traffic controllers have since January 14 refused permission to land to five of its planes carrying 85 tons of medical supplies.

With the Haitian catastrophe now in its 10th day, it is becoming increasingly clear that the response of the Obama administration and the Pentagon, which have made military occupation of the Caribbean nation its first objective, has deepened the immense suffering of millions of injured, homeless and hungry people.

The Pentagon has announced that it is sending 4,000 more troops to Haiti, which will boost the US military occupation force to 16,000. For the first time, a unit that had been slated for deployment by the US Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is being diverted to the Caribbean nation.

Meanwhile, a naval encirclement of Haiti’s coastline is growing. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that the US military has also prepared a detention camp at the Guantánamo Bay Navy Base in Cuba—site of the infamous prison where detainees were tortured—to hold up to 1,000 Haitians should they manage to elude the US warships.

By using Guantánamo as a holding pen for refugees fleeing the horrific conditions of Haiti, the US government will insist that they have no legal rights and cannot appeal their deportation back to their homeland. This same procedure was used in 1991, when thousands of Haitians fled the country following a violent military coup.

The claim that this military "surge" into Haiti is an indispensable prerequisite for delivering aid to the Haitian people is a lie. Relief agencies operating in the country insist that they have not been threatened by the Haitian people, but rather hindered by the attempt to impose war zone-style security over their efforts.

The US media never so much as hints that there could be anything but the sincerest humanitarian motives behind Washington’s assertion of control over Haiti. It makes no reference to the country’s history, which includes a two-decade US occupation at the beginning of the twentieth century, the deployment of US troops twice in the last 20 years, and Washington’s orchestration of a 2004 coup that ousted and exiled Haiti’s elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

In publications reflecting the views of the military-intelligence apparatus, however, there are franker assessments of Washington’s objectives and the real mission. The American Enterprise Institute’s Center for Defense Studies issued a "crisis update" on Haiti, warning: "Conducting a ‘humanitarian relief’ mission in a poor country stricken by a natural disaster can quickly embroil the United States in local politics. And desperate people can easily become violent people."

The statement continued by affirming, "Beyond delivering relief, US soldiers and Marines will inevitably find themselves securing the peace." Part of this mission, it added, would be "to ensure that Haiti’s gangs—particularly those loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide—are suppressed."

Similarly, William Kristol and Thomas Donnelly, writing in the Weekly Standard, argued that beyond the humanitarian pretext for intervening in Haiti, "the strategic case is also compelling."

"With a transition looming in Cuba and challenges in Central America among others, there is a political reason to be—and to be seen to be—a good and strong neighbor."

In other words, Washington is exploiting the tragedy that has been inflicted upon the people of Haiti to assert colonial-style control over the country. Its aim is to reaffirm US imperialist hegemony in the broader region and to suppress any social revolt by the Haitian masses.

It is only a matter of time before the horrendous death toll caused by the January 12 earthquake will be augmented by victims shot to death by US occupation forces.

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Ok I adjust my position,all the above info makes it clear that they are in the way,I am in no way in favor of security before food and medicine,and they could have been deployed in other ways..like transport ships.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of children unaccounted for since Haiti’s earthquake are at risk of falling prey to child traffickers, aid agencies have learned, as fears were raised over at least 15 children who have vanished from hospitals within the past few days.

Unicef, the U.N. children’s agency, warned that "traffickers fish in pools of vulnerability. We know from past experience that trafficking happens in the chaos that usually follows emergencies." A Unicef adviser, Jean Luc Legrand, said he knew of at least 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals.

Save the Children, World Vision and the British Red Cross have called for an immediate halt to adoptions of Haitian children not approved before the earthquake, warning that child traffickers could exploit the lack of regulation. There has been a surge in offers from well-meaning foreigners.

Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that child enslavement and trafficking was "an existing problem and could easily emerge as a serious issue over the coming weeks and months."

Nearly 30 agencies helped by the UN peacekeeping mission and the Haitian government are urgently pooling information and resources to counter the threat. They are are touring hospitals and orphanages, broadcasting radio messages, and increasing surveillance of road traffic, the airport and the border with the Dominican Republic.

The scale of the problem is potentially enormous. Haiti is awash with children, with 45 percent of its population younger than 15. One U.N. official estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 children were killed, orphaned or separated from their families by the earthquake, which struck while most were still in school, and anecdotal evidence suggests many have been left to fend for themselves.

One small orphanage visited by The Times yesterday said it had turned away ten children because its buildings were badly damaged. A World Vision official in Jimani, a town just across the border in the Dominican Republic, said eight orphans and 25 unaccompanied children — many injured — had turned up there by Tuesday. A UN official spoke of people driving to the airport in expensive cars and putting children on outgoing flights without any documentation.

The alarm is particularly acute given Haiti’s dire record of child abuse. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported in 2008 that 29 per cent of children under 14 were already working, and roughly 300,000 were ‘restaveks’ (a creole corruption of ‘rester avec’) whose impoverished parents send them to work for wealthier families in the hope they will receive food and shelter.

Some were cared for and educated, but others were "sexually exploited and physically abused; and are unpaid, undocumented, and unprotected". When they turn 15, and must by law be paid, many are turned on to the streets to join as many as 3,000 other children who survive on the streets of Port-au-Prince as vendors, beggars or prostitutes.

Even before the earthquake, Haitian children were regularly sent to the Dominican Republic to work in sex tourism, or recruited by armed gangs. A Haitian women’s organisation documented 140 rapes of girls younger than 18 years in the 18 months to June 2008. Haiti’s many orphanages — there are said to be 200 in Port-au-Prince alone — are poorly regulated, and some are mere fronts for international child traffickers.

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Standing orders: shoot to kill and lynch for Haitians picking through the trash heap that is Port Au Prince. Just think about it, what of any use is food that was in a store now stacked like pancakes? What are they worried about? Do you actually believe that any of this trash that will be eventually scooped up by bucket loaders has any real value or is sellable? Not that business owners shouldn't care about their property, but obviously much of what is now in Port Au Prince is trash. Spoiled food, dead bodies, broken goods and thats about it. Not to mention the people going in to retrieve what is rightfully theirs from their own homes and businesses. But shoot to kill on sight for taking trash. Please.

Of course it is the black Haitian government doing this, which shows what lawlessness really means. Lawlessness means ABSENCE of the rule of law, not so much in terms of the everyday people, but the government reaction to it. Shooting a girl in the head for taking a painting out of the trash that is Port Au Prince is certainly lawless. And this is exactly the reason for my concern about such a big "security" effort in Haiti. WTF are Haitians criminals for being the victims of an earthquake? Don't they get the benefit of the doubt over whether the trash in the floors of collapsed buildings is "stealing" in such circumstances?

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The horrifying aftermath of Haiti's earthquake has claimed another victim in the form of a 15-year-old girl, an apparent looter, shot dead by police.

Fabienne Cherisma was killed with a bullet to the head after taking paintings from a wrecked shop in downtown Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

Pictures of the teenager show her slumped face down over one of the paintings and a trail of blood seeping from the wound. Witnesses said it was unclear if she was deliberately targeted or accidentally hit while police fired in the air to disperse a crowd which was carrying goods from Rue Grand Rice.

A conflicting account gave her name as Fabienne Geismar and said she was killed in Rue Marthely Seiee.

Police armed with rifles shot over the heads of the people and kicked a man, part of a delayed effort to regain control of a capital which has been lawless – but largely calm – since the 12 January earthquake.

The crowd was carrying grime-­covered chairs while Fabienne, who was on a roof, clutched paintings, including one of two flowers in a vase.

Photographs show her father Osam finding her body, then lifting it into a cart. Fabienne's mother, Armante, is shown weeping and close to collapse. Osam told AFP news agency that police intentionally shot his daughter. Police were not available for comment.

In a separate incident a mob lynched an alleged looter. In some parts of the city the practice goes without sanction. Scavengers mine the ruins of a supermarket in Petionville without comment from passersby.

Police were criticised for their absence from the streets in the first few days after the quake, compounding a sense that the Haitian state had ceased to function. Since Monday they have become more visible. UN peacekeepers and US troops have also materialised but have largely left looting control to local police.

Given the scale of devastation and lack of basic supplies many observers say looting and insecurity could have been worse, and that isolated cases had been magnified by the media.

Truckers with aid supplies coming from the neighbouring Dominican Republic have expressed fears of ambush, and discussed the need to arm themselves.

"The Haitian police, due to their own significant losses, are degraded," said Kenneth Merten, the US ambassador. "This is not a perfect law-and-order situation here, even in the best of times. We're concerned about it and we're monitoring it closely, but I don't think it's anything that's unmanageable."

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From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/20/haiti-earthquake-teenager-shot-police

And certainly if the black police of haiti are seen having shoot to kill orders for 15 year old children, what do you think that says for anyone else who thinks they need to "grab a gun" to help blacks?







http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1244034/Haiti-earthquake-disaster-Mob-justice-Haitis-streets-blood-looter-lynched-police-shoot-rioters.html

BTW, bodies on the street dead or tied up is part of the backdrop of what has been going on in Haiti for quite a while now. This certainly didn't start with the earthquake.

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While the United Nations and various organisations such as the Global Fund were still busy setting up the Millennium Fund, Cde Castro communicated to the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Cuba would like to lend its assistance to the cause.

He told Annan that because Cuba was under a decades-old blockade, the country could not give monetary aid but there was still a way in which he could give help.

Cde Castro said Cuba was willing to send 4 000 -- that's right, 4 000, of Cuba's best HIV and Aids doctors and specialists directly to Africa and that they would remain on the continent until the pandemic was defeated.

That offer, unfortunately was not taken up because the UN apparently feared the reaction from the United States -- Cuba's age-old enemy -- if it emerged that the Communist country was doing far more than anyone else in combating HIV and Aids.

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And again here we are seeing the suffering of millions of blacks on worldwide TV due to a natural disaster. A week after the event, already the media and other outlets are making this tragedy seem like another Katrina all over again. All the key factors are in place: large predominantly black poor population, a massive natural disaster of epic proportions, a lackluster relief effort from the U.S. government and a history of unfair economic policies from one toward the other.

Of course, all of this is passed off as "routine" and nothing to write home about. Really? When was the last time a hurricane killed almost 200,000 people on any part of the planet? And given that the numbers have been over 100,000 since the event first occurred, why isn't there a massive relief campaign equal to the scale of the tragedy? As I speak only one functioning field hospital has been set up in the country, by Israel, from thousands of miles away. Where are the U.S. field hospitals?

By now if anyone believes in America being a savior to or helpful to blacks in any sense of the term, they must be retarded. Of course, mass media won't say that the U.S. could care less that the victims of one of the largest natural disasters in recent history are continuing to die because of U.S. racism. Of course not. Nope, they will wait until the people get desperate because there is no food and water and especially after they begin to really realize that NOBODY gives a f*ck about them. However, that anger and desperation will be portrayed as simply blacks being violent and looting when in reality that isn't the case. Again, Katrina becomes an all too similar. And just like Katrina, the U.S. will wait until things cannot get more desperate and people are at wits end and things get really out of hand, to make a big show of coming in and "saving the day". Well if Katrina is any example then, "saving the day" could mean thousands more Haitians disappearing on top of the thousands already lost....

The most tragic part of all of this is that now the U.S. has a black president, which goes to show just how meaningless that is.

And the biggest question black folks should be asking is not white folks won't do more to help, because given the history of white folks, such a question is only obvious. Nope, the question is why black folks don't have the doctors, medicine, tents, clothing, food needed for this type of calamity nor the ships, helicopters and planes to send it there. To say that blacks still depend wholly and fully on the niceness of white folks as opposed to the millions of blacks in the diaspora, to survive in this day and age in the face of tragedy is an even bigger travesty.

But somehow the image we get of Haiti is of "god fearing" Africans worshiping and faithful to the white Jesus, even though the white folks that gave them Jesus have never been good to them.






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Surviving the massive quake that rocked Haiti was just the beginning. Experts say the new dangers -- among them, deaths from untreated wounds and disease outbreak -- may be compounded by Haiti's old problem: poverty.

"That creates a lot of challenges," said David Gazashvili, emergency team leader in Haiti for the humanitarian group CARE, "because Haiti is a country that's in a chronic emergency in terms of food insecurity, in terms of access to clean water, in terms of income."

Giuseppe Annunziata, the World Health Organization's emergency coordinator for Haiti, says the "big earthquake, right in the capital of a very poor and fragile state," created a humanitarian nightmare because basic health care services have "completely collapsed."

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"It's compounded by the fact that the state structure is so severely hit and the existing humanitarian structure has also been severely hit," Annunziata said. "And we have to deal with that."

Many victims could die from wounds that under normal circumstances would be easily treatable; a lack of food and clean water raises concerns over disease outbreaks. And people who were getting treatment for HIV and other chronic diseases no longer have access to care.
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"People suffering from cancer, people who need dialysis and even moms who need to deliver their kids -- all these things are being affected by this emergency," said Paul Garwood, a spokesman for the WHO's Health Action in Crises team.

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So is that why the U.S. as of today still does not have a functioning field hospital in Haiti? I mean if a small island country is rocked by an earthquake how can you speak of infrastructure? Isn't devastation to be expected? Even though Haiti is poor, that has nothing to do with the lack luster response from the U.S. and other Western Countries and the U.N. who was more concerned about pulling out people who could help than helping victims and leaving them to die.

In fact, my distrust of the Red Cross and other agencies is why I haven't donated any money yet. I don't believe it will actually go to the people who need it, because I know how rotten white folks in power can get.

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okay lemme see my calendar here.......... it took 11 days before the Afronuts here started blaiming the eq on America, which by implication is an indictment against Whites in America. I actually thought it would have taken longer.

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okay lemme see my calendar here.......... it took 11 days before the Afronuts here started blaiming the eq on America, which by implication is an indictment against Whites in America. I actually thought it would have taken longer.

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Yawn. The idea that Western imperialism behind Haiti is well acknowledged.

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The concept of white privilege, whiteness and its interconnectedness is well discussed in US academic within critical race theory or "whiteness" studies.

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Oh? explain to me discussed? do you mean like some Afrocentric

Go read "White man burden", refer to historical literature on US intervention, hell search for Congressional measures, and no one with a brain would be able to divorce what's being suggested here with reality.

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I swear, the relief teams, the EUROPEAN ones, are suggesting that US military presence is downright obstructive.

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Exactly Bob, The U.S is behind Haiti's problems and the U.S is taking advantage of the quake to booster its image

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Wait a sec! you are agreeing w/dudes who are claiming the US is there to further inflict suffering upon Haitians. How are they going to "booster" their image if they do not have Haiti's best interest at heart? Better yet! don't answer that. You guys are really fvcking confused.

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Originally posted by Jari-Ankhamun:
Exactly Bob, The U.S is behind Haiti's problems and the U.S is taking advantage of the quake to booster its image

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Dumb Fool, Let be unbiased both of us for a minute.

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You know as well as me that the U.S Image due to its Invasions, corruption, lies, and torture has a bad reputation and bad image to the world.

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The First attempt to slavage this Image was to put a black Face

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and a great orator in the white House, the second is to make the U.S look like a savor rather than invader.

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The U.S could careless about Haiti

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this is just P.R campaign to booster The Image of the U.S..

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The U.S is dominating the Relif Aid and trying to make it seem like the U.S is the biggest contributor and savior of the Haitians.

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The U.S could careless about Haiti

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