haiti earthquake

7.2 magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of Haiti: "High casualties are probable" This quake is stronger than the one that struck in 2010 and killed as many as 300,000 people, but it struck in a less-populated area so casualties may be fewer.

It's been six months since everyone turned their attention to the poor nation of Haiti, which seems to be some wrathful God's whipping boy, in the aftermath of that horrific earthquake. But now six months later the country is down to one acute care hospital and it is now short of antibiotics and...

When will this happen? Three. . . Two . . .

A guy on another forum posted a diatribe about how "God f'n Rocks" for recently giving him a good deal on his rent. http://www.freedomcrowsnest.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83304 But when I said, "God's a swell guy. Sure, he just killed 230,000 people in Haiti, but he gave John a great deal on his...

Stephen Jones gears up for a talk about Haiti and says that the crisis was generated to grab the oil. http://vimeo.com/9614190 He starts speaking about this at around the 6:20 mark on this video after David Ray Griffin waffles on about Sunstein (I think, I didn't actually listen to it though)...

There is an article on the Guardian web site concerning the amount of art lost due to the recent earthquake. The question is, how high on the hierarchy of needs does art come? Should resources be put to rescuing artworks now, at a cost to other rescues/rebuilding, bearing in mind that some...

The Haitian humanitarian response seems to have been characterised by an obsession with security and the massive deployment of US troops. In reality there has been very little looting considering how desperate the people must be. It took almost a week before any significant supplies reached...

Are you a fat rich white guy with Viagra in your pocket? There's no need to let that earthquake in Haiti spoil your Caribbean vacation! As a Royal Caribbean cruise passenger you can visit sunny, beautiful Labadee Beach, a walled resort only 60 miles from the epicenter of the quake. You can...

It's probably best not to read this if you just ate something. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivwpraZNS56O4hgGIjZvs-35mC1g

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has once again accused the United States of playing God. But this time it’s Haiti’s disastrous earthquake that he thinks the U.S. was behind. Spanish newspaper ABC quotes Chavez as saying that the U.S. navy launched a weapon capable of inducing a powerful earthquake...

http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/20/chavista-experts-say-us-milita?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Hystaria rules when it comes to Obama, while the Tee Party right in this conuntry...

Just reported. No reports of additional damage, but this couldn't have helped any.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8467755.stm Kind of an interesting article, in that the author (philosopher Bain) doesn't allow the religious to get away with hand waving arguments such as "God works in mysterious ways". I particularly like the quote from a US Bishop: "I have...

Copied and pasted from http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2010/01/with-great-pride.html Please check your links to make sure they link to the page you are citing. On Friday, El Al and IDF planes came into Haiti, carrying 250 medical personnel -- doctors, nurses, lab and x-ray technicians and even...

http://gawker.com/5451086/john-travolta-to-airlift-desperately-needed-e+meters-to-people-of-haiti They need food, water and shelter; John Travolta sends them massages. To be fair, the report sugggests that some of the people sent by the Co$ are medically qualified doctors, but my fear would be...

This article makes me so sad. Elderly and abandoned, 85 Haitians await death I understand there are too many people in need of help. And you'd like to think Haitians could at least protect these vulnerable people from the thieves and rats, even if they can't feed them or give them water...

I have been following the Earthquake hits Haiti thread and was very struck by a particular comment At first I took it as a kind of mean spirited comment, then I took it as a rhetorical question, then I started thinking, what if this person honestly doesn’t know why? Then I thought, “Do I know...

Great editorial at Center for Inquiry: A Plea for Any Real Psychics to Help Haiti The answer, of course, is "No".

http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/01/14/us.haiti.airport/index.html?hpt=T2 I just heard on the radio that the US military is taking over the main airport in Port-Au-Prince. How much farther will this go? Will the US take over the security situation in the entire country..or even just the capital? If...

Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?” His obscene opinion would be bigger news if Glover had – like Pat Robertson – idiotically blamed a less-fashionable deity.

Let's not get overexcited and lose perspective. The US will probably never be able to give enough aid to suffering Haitians to repay its debt to them. Some history: Haiti's Tragic History Is Entwined with the Story of America

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.pat.robertson/index.html We could have seen this come. Jack Chick- level stuff. Sometimes I can't help but wish there were re-education camps for those who say and/or believe in this crap. Yes, its not a PC thing to say but the anger... Mods- please...

What a couple of complete scumbags... Based upon the nonsense that these two wastes of skin are spewing, I think perhaps the most immediate & best way to deal with it is to send a big donation to aid agencies which will be able to help in Haiti.

Countdown until the Haiti earthquake is blamed on HAARP experiments. 3, 2, 1 .... Edit: KABOOM!

http://gawker.com/5447408/pat-robertson-thousands-died-because-haitian-slaves-swore-a-pact-with-the-devil-for-their-freedom http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html God sure waited a long time to deliver this message.

Big earthquake hits Haiti This looks really serious. I've been trying to contact a work colleague in Port-au-Prince, but can't get through. The mobile phone networks are down. This from the BBC:

Video: James Madison Impersonator James Madison - Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rReS6uA-C_A&feature=related The above is part 1 of a video of a James Madison Impersonator (JMI) shot in July, 2008. The JMI is about the same height and weight of James Madison and bears a striking...