Tragedy in Haiti

[Devastatin Dave]

Apparently, the US annexed the Airport, they say it's "US Territory" now
Them yankees taking every opportunity to annex things

Go find yourself a better thread to insult my country.

[Devastatin Dave]

Go find yourself a better thread to insult my country.

Gawd, I hate Terminator movies!!!

[Beskar]

Interesting article

http://www.opendemocracy.net/daniel-...ocate-to-haiti

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Interesting article

http://www.opendemocracy.net/daniel-...ocate-to-haiti

Haiti wouldn't benefit. The diplomats don't even pay their parking tickets. Not that Haiti has anyone to issue them.

[Beskar]

Haiti wouldn't benefit. The diplomats don't even pay their parking tickets. Not that Haiti has anyone to issue them.

Though argubly, the UN would pay for them (if they needed to be paid) so it would still benefit the Haiti people.

Though if my memory serves me right, isn't Haiti the place they elected Papa Doc?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Though argubly, the UN would pay for them (if they needed to be paid) so it would still benefit the Haiti people.

They haven't in New York.

[Brenus]

"They haven't in New York" They haven't in London!!! Parking tickets and congestion charges...

[Brenus]

"I don't think they'd react that way over a team of doctors."
I think they can as a panic/hungry/angry/despaired mob will target any body for every thing.
No. I know they can. I know they did in various occasion....

I had few friends/former colleague killed in Humantarian Work. Don't think Humanitarian Workers are protected because they do good.
And I don't speak about rapes, team of nurses digging they own graves, drivers RPGed etc...

"The U.N. supervisors over-reacted." Were you there to estimate the situation?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

"I don't think they'd react that way over a team of doctors."
I think they can as a panic/hungry/angry/despaired mob will target any body for every thing.
No. I know they can. I know they did in various occasion....

I had few friends/former colleague killed in Humantarian Work. Don't think Humanitarian Workers are protected because they do good.
And I don't speak about rapes, team of nurses digging they own graves, drivers RPGed etc...

"The U.N. supervisors over-reacted." Were you there to estimate the situation?

People, when desparate, will do some amazing things. I recall reading Cornelius Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far," wherein a US Army Sergeant, having made a promise to one of his comrades, held a doctor at gun point and forced him, under threat of death, to see to the needs of his comrade first -- irregardless of the doctor's other duties, patients, etc. The story had a happy ending because the head wound was not mortal as most had thought, but desparate people CAN be a threat to doctors -- or anyone -- if they feel the needs of their loved ones are threatened.

Did they OVER-estimate the threat potential here? Quite possibly. Is the security concern baseless? Not at all.

[Vladimir]

US accused of occupying Haiti: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ja...cupying-haiti/

I thought about posting a France-bashing post but then I read Louis'.

Oh, and look at the picture of the author. Scary...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-flood-in.html

[Fragony]

"The death toll is now estimated at up to 200,000 lives. Around three million Haitians – a third of the country's population – have been affected by Tuesday's earthquake and two million require food assistance."

That is beyond any comprehension, and here I am cozy in my apartment and I don't think I even gave it any thought today until now.

[Lemur]

I know what you mean, Frag. It's very hard (impossible?) to wrap your head around that kind of tragedy.

Meanwhile, President 44 has a piece in Newsweek about Haiti, and the freaky thing is that he probably wrote it himself.

[Beskar]

US accused of occupying Haiti: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ja...cupying-haiti/

I thought about posting a France-bashing post but then I read Louis'.

Oh, and look at the picture of the author. Scary...

Looks like your typical Right-Wing older female. I am sure Furunculus' wouldn't like you for making such remarks about his mother though.

[Furunculus]

Looks like your typical Right-Wing older female.

what does your typical Right-Wing older female look like?

[Beskar]

Maggie Thatcher.

[al Roumi]

what does your typical Right-Wing older female look like?

A frump? With her face haunted by an expression of fear, loathing and selfish ignorance?

It's not the most flattering image and it's certainly staged, so I think it would be as fair to have a pop at her as it is Brown's "grinace".

She reminds me a little of the Women's Insititute character Maggie Blackamoor from little Britain.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Looks like your typical Right-Wing older female.

When in doubt, attack the author...

[Furunculus]

israelies up to their usual crafty tricks:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/st...ts-not-fooled/

Israel builds a field hospital in Haiti. Anti-Zionists not fooled!

Clever people the Jews… oops, I mean the Israelis. Look at the lengths to which they have gone to distract the world from their daily ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The latest trick is an Israeli field hospital, rushed into Haiti last Friday and erected in a soccer field.

The US, with all its resources, hasn’t yet managed to set up a field hospital in Haiti (undoubtedly the State Department is still drafting the crucial legal papers needed) but the Israelis, operating with their usual disregard to the niceties of law, slapped one up and have already delivered a baby there. The father, obviously paid off by the Mossad, rapturously declared that the baby would be named “Israel”.

According to Israeli government sources the hospital includes 10 tons of medical equipment, 40 doctors, 24 nurses, medics, paramedics, x-ray equipment and personnel, a pharmacy, an emergency room, two surgery rooms, an incubation ward, a children’s ward and a maternity ward.

Information from Israeli government sources should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, but footage of this tent-city/hospital has now been seen on SKY, Fox and CNN, ABC and CBS and the video seems to confirm (Mossad video fabricators are tricky) at least that the facility is large, clean, and full of modern equipment. CBS’s piece called the hospital the “Rolls Royce of medicine in Haiti”.

Thankfully, the BBC has kept its head and is not colluding with the Israeli government’s attempt to make the world forget its sins. However, that has not stopped Jewish…er…Zionist propagandists, who are already triumphantly calling the field hospital “Israel’s Disproportionate response”, a reference to the charge last year that Israel reacted to Hamas rocket fire with “disproportionate” military force. The word “disproportionate” in this case refers to the fact that this country of 7.5 million has sent 220 people, compared to say, China, which as of last week had sent 60.

Thankfully, many people are onto the ploy, as these comments from the Los Angles Times show:

“Great,” said someone identifying himself as ‘Smart Alex’, “I just hope the IDF soldiers don’t harvest any of the dead Haitians’ organs without the permission of their families.

“I know, I know,” he wrote, “that was a cheap shot. But I believe well-deserved for a country that tries to use its U.S.-funded humanitarian efforts as propaganda to paper over its disastrous and vile treatment of the Palestinians.”

A clever fellow and brave too! It takes guts to make such a deduction and publish it from behind the cover of a moniker like ‘Smart Alex’.

[Beskar]

When in doubt, attack the author...

Why so? I didn't know calling some one 'typical right-wing' when they basically have "I am right-wing and proud of it" next to her picture was classified as attacking.