Breaking News: 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti

[Josephus]

Cuba's proximity makes it an easier target, not a harder one.

Not so.  Cuba's proximity allows for the possibility that it could strike at the mainland US.  Moreover, it has thousands upon thousands of partisans within the US willing to strike at America in the event of hostilities, in the form of college kids.

Everyone who's ever hung a Che poster in his college dorm is officially listed as potential hostiles.

[Neil]

Everyone who's ever hung a Che poster in his college dorm is officially listed as potential hostiles.

Every retard with a Che t-shirt can be shot on sight.

[jimmy olsen]

200,000 Dead, 250,000 Wounded, 1,500,000 Homeless. That's 2.22%, 2.78%, and 16.67% of the population respectively.

That's WWII level casualties inflicted on that country in a single day. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34928950/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

[Tamas]

  I spotted a lunatic's  blog (the biggest hungarian news site hosts blogs and always links assorted shit from the in its main page) who reasons why the whol thing is a big US conspiracy:

-he quotes some french/german newspaper (not sure, he babelfished it I think) from the 70s, how the American pharma companies were buying blood minerals from haitians in the early 70s (like, haitians went, gave their blood, americans extracted valuable stuff from it to export, gave back rest)
-a CV and 7000 troops "just happen to be near, how convinient". They went to block aid anyways, so more people would die, because:
-Haiti has reserves of: da-da-dam: CALCIUM-CARBONITE!!!!! (sp?)
-there is a swiss scientist under charges for producing an artifical earthquake. CAN YOU PIECE THE PICTURE TOGETHER?!!!!

[Admiral Yi]

 

What was our motivation supposed to be for Serbia?  Lucrative lead mines, something like that?

[HisMajestyBOB]

What was our motivation supposed to be for Serbia?  Lucrative lead mines, something like that?

I once read a book that claimed it was part of a US conspiracy to bring aid agencies under US military control, among other things.
The book was published by Medicines sans frontiers, which is why I no longer donate to them.

[The Larch]

Apparently there have been a few problems in coordination efforts, and some countries are blaming the US military for monopolizing the airport of Port au Prince and the landing rights, giving preference to their own planes and diverting those of other countries carrying aid. Apparently France and Brazil have already officially complained and asked for clear roles and priorities to be defined.

[HisMajestyBOB]

If they want to run the show, they can build and deploy their own carrier task force. The only reason anything is getting there is because of the US military, and they know what's needed to keep things running enough to get supplies anywhere, not the French and Brazilian bureaucrats.

[Admiral Yi]

Apparently there have been a few problems in coordination efforts, and some countries are blaming the US military for monopolizing the airport of Port au Prince and the landing rights, giving preference to their own planes and diverting those of other countries carrying aid. Apparently France and Brazil have already officially complained and asked for clear roles and priorities to be defined.

That seems kind of petty.

[Razgovory]

What was our motivation supposed to be for Serbia?  Lucrative lead mines, something like that?

Chomsky said it was copper mines I think.  Me I think it was an excuse to blow up a Chinese embassy.

[The Larch]

If they want to run the show, they can build and deploy their own carrier task force. The only reason anything is getting there is because of the US military, and they know what's needed to keep things running enough to get supplies anywhere, not the French and Brazilian bureaucrats.

No one is talking about running the show, don't get defensive. What they ask is clear roles and priorities. It's inevitable to have a certain level of chaos and confusion in this kind of things.

[Razgovory]

I spotted a lunatic's  blog (the biggest hungarian news site hosts blogs and always links assorted shit from the in its main page) who reasons why the whol thing is a big US conspiracy:

-he quotes some french/german newspaper (not sure, he babelfished it I think) from the 70s, how the American pharma companies were buying blood minerals from haitians in the early 70s (like, haitians went, gave their blood, americans extracted valuable stuff from it to export, gave back rest)
-a CV and 7000 troops "just happen to be near, how convinient". They went to block aid anyways, so more people would die, because:
-Haiti has reserves of: da-da-dam: CALCIUM-CARBONITE!!!!! (sp?)
-there is a swiss scientist under charges for producing an artifical earthquake. CAN YOU PIECE THE PICTURE TOGETHER?!!!!

Trying to mine iron from blood is really a difficult and round about way of doing it.

[Razgovory]

If they want to run the show, they can build and deploy their own carrier task force. The only reason anything is getting there is because of the US military, and they know what's needed to keep things running enough to get supplies anywhere, not the French and Brazilian bureaucrats.

No one is talking about running the show, don't get defensive. What they ask is clear roles and priorities. It's inevitable to have a certain level of chaos and confusion in this kind of things.

I heard that the Israelis have been the most efficient in getting their people in there and setting up.  I say we let the Jews run the whole thing.

[Admiral Yi]

No one is talking about running the show, don't get defensive. What they ask is clear roles and priorities. It's inevitable to have a certain level of chaos and confusion in this kind of things.

This is a different message than the one contained in your previous post.

[The Larch]

No one is talking about running the show, don't get defensive. What they ask is clear roles and priorities. It's inevitable to have a certain level of chaos and confusion in this kind of things.

This is a different message than the one contained in your previous post.

How so? The bottom line is the same, roles and priorities have to be clarified.

I'm looking for an English language source about this, but I only find snippets. IIRC, the problem arouse after a French cargo plane carrying an emergency field hospital was diverted to the Dominican Republic last saturday because the US military were taking up all the slots, or something.