And now, one day after that atrocious item about Haitians starving was hidden on page A32 of the Sunday paper, I find this piece of crap on the OPS page!!!
"Haiti's ongoing disaster" by Donna J. Barry and Kimberly Cullen | November 24, 2008
It is NOT the food crisis, it is the collapsing schools, can you believe it?
Donna J. Barry is the advocacy and policy director at Partners in Health. Kimberly Cullen is a research assistant working on several projects in Haiti.
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Given the increased financial stresses worldwide, Haiti too finds itself at the mercy of large fluctuations in prices of basic commodities. Food prices have soared and sparked riots in a nation that is so starved as to need a new phrase to describe their hunger pains - it is like drinking bleach, they say.
In addition to the food crisis and this terrible tragedy, the country is still reeling from the devastation following four hurricanes earlier this fall.
Given all these hardships, the Haiti government is still obligated to use what little money it has to pay off the debt to international financial institutions, much of it accrued by past dictators. This is money that the government would otherwise likely put toward healthcare and education. Even with the crises of food price inflation, hurricane recovery, and this tragedy, the government of Haiti continues to pay nearly $1 million per week....
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That wasn't the focus of the propaganda piece, readers; however, I thought it valuable information.
Yup, the GLOBALISTS WHO CARE SO MUCH about the people of this planet are MAKING HAITI'S MISERY WORSE!!
Hey, where is HAITI'S $700 BILLION BAILOUT? I'll bet they could do GREAT THINGS with $700 BILLION!!!
The fact is, that small country has been shit on forever by the globalist colonials because they had the temerity to oust their French masters.
Thanks, ethanol, thanks a lot. Meanwhile, as Haiti is starving the only stories in my racist, Zionist War Daily have been school collapses!!!
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Do I even need type it?
And just posting this article (reading it for a second time) is drawing water from these old and tired eyes.
"Deadly food crisis grips Haiti; Children suffer after storms devastate crops" by Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press | November 23, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly.
In pockets of Haiti accessible only by donkey or foot, children are dying of malnutrition, their already meager food supply cut by a series of devastating storms that destroyed crops, wiped out livestock, and sent food prices spiraling.
Yup, ETHANOL and the GLOBALIST PLANS that called for STARVING POOR PEOPLE is NOT CULPABLE, according to the MSM!!!
You see why I am so sick of them and what they represent?!!
And, oh, yeah, TRILLIONS for WARS, BANKS, etc, etc.
At least 26 severely malnourished children have died in the past four weeks in the remote region of Baie d'Orange, in southeast Haiti, aid workers said last week, and there are fears the toll will rise much higher if help does not come quickly to the impoverished Caribbean nation. Another 65 severely malnourished children are being treated in makeshift tent clinics in the mountainous area, or at hospitals they were brought to in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere, said Max Cosci, who heads the Belgian contingent of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti.
Think about those kids while you are reading about the people who are charged with alleviating that problem.
Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Quite a spread at the U.N. huh?
One evacuee, a 7-year-old girl, died while being treated. At a makeshift malnutrition ward at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the capital, 10 emaciated children were under emergency care Thursday, their stomachs swollen and their hair faded by pigmentation loss. Several had the puffy faces typical of kwashiorkor, a protein-deficiency disorder.
I'm at the point now where I can hardly stand it. They are CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!
Five-year-old Mackenson Duclair, his ribs protruding and his legs little more than skin stretched over bones, weighed in at 19.8 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk Doctors said he needed to gain another 5 pounds before he could go home. Mackenson's grandmother, who has raised him since his mother died, said she barely has a can of corn grits to feed herself, the boy, and her 8-year-old granddaughter each day. "These things did not happen when I was growing up," Ticouloute Fortune said.
That means the MISERY that is Haiti is nearly UNIMAGINABLE!! (Blog author is having a hard time typing because he can't see through the water coming from his eyes) How can the world allow this to happen to CHILDREN!!!?? Beautiful, innocent, lovely CHILDREN!!!!!!
Rural families already struggling with soaring food prices in Haiti lost their safety nets when fields were destroyed and livestock wiped out by the storms, which killed nearly 800 people and caused $1 billion of damage in August and September.
Yeah, those storms blow through and they leave or memories just as quick; U.S. still hasn't rebuilt from Katrina and Ike.
UN World Food Program country director Myrta Kaulard said she fears more deaths from malnutrition in other isolated parts of Haiti, and search teams were fanning out in the northwest and along the southwestern peninsula to check. The World Food Program has sent more than 30 tons of food aid - enough to feed 5,800 people for two weeks - into the remote southeastern region since September, and other groups funded by the US Agency for International Development have sent food as well, Kaulard said.
Yeah, well, maybe the U.N. could get them all a table at the diner:
"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....
I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream"
Bet the Haitains wouldn't be hungry then!! How can you believe in the U.N. ever again, America?
The GLOBALIST U.N. should be DISBANDED!!!! They do good? WHAT GOOD? WHERE?
But the steep, narrow paths and poor visibility make it difficult to deliver the food to the mountain communities, where hunger is worsening. In one case, a truck struggling up a hill flipped over and slid into a ravine, killing an aid worker.
Then USE A HELICOPTER!!!!
Frankly, I am SICK of the GLOBALISTS and their DAMN EXCUSES as to why they CAN'T GET THINGS DONE!!!
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
The mountain villages have long suffered from hunger, growing only enough staples to feed themselves less than seven months out of the year, she said. But families normally have enough to last through December. This year, Haiti's agriculture ministry says 60 percent of the harvest was lost in the storms. --more--"
Maybe we could give them a glass of ethanol to drink, huh?
"9 injured in 2nd Haiti school collapse" by Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer | November 12, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --A school partially collapsed in the Haitian capital on Wednesday, injuring nine people less than a week after the collapse of another school killed 89. Portions of the Grace Divine school in Port-au-Prince came crashing down while class was in session. As word of the incident spread, crowds of anxious parents descended along with ambulances and crews from the collapse of the College La Promesse in nearby Petionville.
The cause of the incident was unknown, though Edouard Ernseau, a city building inspector, said recent heavy rains may have weakened the two-story concrete structure. On Saturday, Haitian President Rene Preval said poor construction, including a lack of steel reinforcement, was to blame for the collapse of College La Promesse the day before. He warned that many other buildings throughout Haiti are in danger of failing.... --more--"
I've always had a special place in my heart for the Haitians after they drove Napoleon's Army out and established the first nation run by former slaves. The imperialists have never forgiven them (they never do).
"Death toll up to 94 in Haiti school collapse
PETIONVILLE, Haiti - US, French, and Haitian firefighters used sonar, cameras, and dogs yesterday in the search for victims at a collapsed Haitian school, but as the stench of death rose from the wreckage, they no longer expected to find anyone else alive.
Three days after the concrete building suddenly collapsed during a children's party, killing at least 94 students and adults and severely injuring 150 more, Captain Michael Istvan of Fairfax County, Va., said the chance of more survivors was remote.... Istvan's firefighters were flown in by the US Agency for International Development, and an eight-person military team from the US Southern Command also helped. --more--"
Now I'm not being critical, because the Haitians deserve all the help we can provide --
how can you say no to this face?
Dany Love St. Cloud, 8, a victim of the school collapse, in her bed at the main hospital in Port-au-Prince. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
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and I would much rather have military do this than bomb and kill people; however, is it not odd that the U.S. is still recovering from long-forgotten Ike?
"Death toll in Haitian school collapse at 92; 21 victims found in one classroom" by Joseph Guyler Delva, Reuters | November 9, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE - The death toll in the collapse of a ramshackle school in Haiti rose above 90 yesterday after rescue workers uncovered a room full of victims, many of them children, officials said.
Oh, the horror of that find.
The disaster struck as the poorest country in the Americas struggled to recover from four tropical storms and hurricanes that killed more than 800 people and destroyed 60 percent of its crops in August and September. Rescuers worked frantically at the school site on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the capital, bringing in a crane to lift blocks of concrete. Firefighters from Virginia and rescue workers from Martinique brought search dogs. The search continued for a second night.
Crowds of screaming and crying parents searched for their children in the ruins, and roads around the school were so jammed with people that some rescuers had to be brought in by helicopter. --more--"
Well, I'm not screaming at the computer right now, but the tears are flowing. Sigh.
"School collapse kills at least 30 in Haiti; More could be buried in rubble" by Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press | November 8, 2008
PETIONVILLE, Haiti - A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes yesterday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more.
Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. More children were believed to be buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll was likely to go higher, said Yphosiane Vil, an civil protection official. Neighbors suspected that the building had been poorly rebuilt after it partly collapsed eight years ago, said Jimmy Germain, who teaches French at the school.
He said that people who lived just downhill had abandoned their land out of fear that the building would tumble onto them, and that the school's owner tried to buy up their vacated properties. The concrete building's third story was still under construction, and Mayor Claire Lydie Parent of Petionville said she suspects a structural defect caused the collapse, not the recent rains.
Police commissioner Francene Moreau said police have launched an investigation into the accident, and said the preacher who runs the church-operated school could face criminal charges. Parent said roughly 500 students from kindergarten through high school attend the school, College La Promesse, in the hills above Port-au-Prince. She did not know how many were inside when it collapsed late yesterday morning.
The aid group Doctors Without Borders pulled out 85 people, half with life-threatening injuries, said Max Cosci, the group's director in Haiti. Volunteers arrived with shovels and axes, and said they would try to deliver water to people trapped inside. A swelling crowd erupted with cries and prayers as the injured were carried away and emergency vehicles raced up a winding hill to the school. "My child, my child!" one mother yelled.
Oh, I can't take it!
United Nations peacekeepers and Haitian police were on the scene, trying to clear a path for three battalions of military engineers from Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador to assist in the rescue. The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, was sending two helicopters to help. France promised to send a rescue team as soon possible. --more--"
What good is the damn U.N. anyway? How are they helping these people? Or is it all about OCCUPATION once again?
Update: More than 200 feared dead in school collapse
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