Thousands feared dead following mag 7 quake in Haiti
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Saw the news before going to bed, but the pictures today... they make it more real.
Hopefully the people will get the help that they need.
Inna lillah wa inna ilaihi raaji'oon.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Called Caribbean friends, seems everything is normal outside Haiti. Highly unreliable death toll estimates are up to 500,000. With no other commitments I would want to go and get my hands dirty. I feel bad saying that. I will fill a bag with clothes and ask the neighbours if they want to do the same - most I imagine will already be donating much needed funds for food and medicine.
The estimates have come down from there now - 50,000 is still a hell of a lot.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
:O
Great Satan is using earthquake to send in the military. more weapons are pouting into Haiti than food. Peple need food not guns you stupid Americans.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116425§ionid=351020706
Ayatollah rightly named America as "Great Satan".
www.presstv.ir
" Sometimes it takes a catastrophe to demonstrate just how much more the U.S. military is able to do than simply kill the enemy. Only the U.S. can initially control flights into and out of the Port-au-Prince airport from aboard a nearby Coast Guard cutter, while waiting for an Air Force special-ops team to set up shop at the airport and step up operations to 24/7. Only U.S. warships have the capability to generate up to 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day from seawater. Only the U.S. military can send a spy drone from California to fly lazy orbits over Port-au-Prince snapping close to 1,000 pictures a day, which when compared with similar ones shot last summer, create a map of the hardest hit areas that can be instantly relayed to those working on the ground.
Only the U.S. military has enough aluminum matting to boost the runway capacity of Port-au-Prince airport. Only the U.S. military has the surveillance capability to quickly assess additional Haitian airfields and seaports for use in rescue relief operations. Only the U.S. military has the wide variety of vessels and aircraft to utilize those fields and ports, including air-cushioned vehicles capable of ferrying 60 tons of supplies from ship to shore at 40 knots."
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Malik, you're so insightful I look forward to your illuminating posts.
Don't we all.
Haiti need help and America is providing a very large part of it. An act to be commended.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
There is a DEC appeal about it...
many things need to be combatted there - provide the living with clean water, shelter, food and secutitiy, get doctors and nurses in there for the injured and then find any bodies under the rubble and fund the cleanup/rebuild operation.
Senegal has promised those who may want to move there from Haiti fertile land.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.