"Hope finally reaching Haiti; Devastated island hangs by a thread
The hope may be there, but not supplies.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Precious water, food and early glimmers of hope began reaching parched and hungry earthquake survivors Saturday on the streets of the ruined Haitian capital, but the island's despair threatened to spark a frenzy in places.
"People are so desperate for food that they are going crazy," said accountant Henry Ounche, standing in a crowd of hundreds who fought one another as U.S. military helicopters clattered overhead carrying aid....
As relief teams grappled with on-the-ground obstacles, the U.S. leadership promised to step up aid efforts. In Washington, President Barack Obama joined with predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to appeal for Americans to donate to the cause.
Two paragraphs in and I'm already looking at rewrites, cuts, reedits, etc.
Related: Where is the Help For Haiti?
Globalists Getting Help to Haiti
Sigh. I'm in no mood.
Across the hilly, steamy city, people choked on the stench of death, and hope faded by the hour for finding many more victims alive in the rubble, four days after Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake.
But we have glimmers, sigh.
Still, here and there, the murmur of buried victims spurred rescue crews on, even as aftershocks threatened to finish off crumbling buildings....
Haven't heard, seen, or felt many of those rumbles in the vast MSM reports.
Can you imagine what the Haitians must think at the slightest shaking?
But hope wouldn't die....
Well, which one is it fer cryin' out loud!!!
Nobody knew how many were dead....
Yet, despite the obstacles, the pace of aid delivery was picking up....
I can't stomach the qualifiers anymore.
How can you eat hot fart mist, anyway?
On a back street in Port-au-Prince, a half-dozen young men ripped water pipes off walls to suck out the few drops inside. "This is very, very bad, but I am too thirsty," said Pierre Louis Delmar.
Outside a warehouse, hundreds of desperate Haitians simply dropped to their knees when workers for the agency Food for the Poor announced they would distribute rice, beans and other supplies. "They started praying right then and there," said project director Clement Belizaire.
What, they weren't out marauding?
The aid official was overcome by the tragic scene. "This was the darkest day of everybody living in Port-au-Prince," he said....
The U.N. also announced that the body of Haiti mission chief Hedi Annabi had been found in the rubble of collapsed headquarters.
I find the EDITED CUT very interesting:
"Annabi was meeting with an eight-member police delegation from China when the earthquake toppled the five-story headquarters building late Tuesday afternoon. Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, said its reporters witnessed Annabi’s body being recovered from the rubble by a Chinese rescue team yesterday afternoon. UN officials said Friday that roughly 100 UN personnel who worked at UN headquarters were missing and believed buried under the collapsed building where Chinese and Brazilian teams were still searching."
I can't explain them anymore, readers.
Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, who has 7,000 Brazilian U.N. peacekeeping troops in Haiti, warned against viewing the rescue effort as a unilateral American mission....
At a simpler level, unending logistical difficulties dogged the relief effort.
But glimmers of hope.
A commercial-sized jet landed with rescue and medical teams from Qatar, only to find problems offloading food aid. I'm not reading about them in the Globe, either.
It's ALL ABOUT how great USrael is in there!
They asked the U.S. military for help, surgeon Dr. Mootaz Aly said, and were told: "We're busy."
Yeah, occupying the place with troops.
And I can understand a little of how these folks feel. Not a lot, but a little.
"Outside Haiti capital, much despair and little aid
LEOGANE, Haiti – As aid masses in Haiti's devastated capital, time is running out in rural areas where the damage is no less severe. In Leogane, frustrated men gathered Saturday with machetes and clubs, ready to fight for a town they said the world has forgotten.
Oh, they LOVE THEIR HOMES just as WE DO!!
And the MSM is calling them LOOTERS!!!
All along the cracked highway heading west from Port-au-Prince along the bay, people begged for help. "SOS," declared a sign near Leogane. "We don't understand why everything is going to Port-au-Prince, because Leogane was broken too."
That is putting it lightly.
Leogane's city center is a rubble pile spiderwebbed with fallen power lines, coastal Haiti re-landscaped as a post-apocalyptic film set. Two mass graves line the road to the capital, a few yellowed bodies thrown in to start a third. At the corner of Rue La Croix and Pere Thevenot, a charming two-story built in 1922 that housed a pharmacy and a florist last week is a brickyard sepulcher for the couple who died trying to escape.
Blocks away a group of men gathered to defend a health clinic-turned-shelter against all comers: The local government, which wants to dig another mass grave there, criminals loosed from the capital's broken penitentiary, and looters as hungry as they are. They said they do not want violence, but carried machetes, typical of this sugar-growing town, and clutched wooden pins and poles.
Oh, and New England's largest daily that loves Haitians ignores this in favor of looters?
"There is no one in the police station. We haven't seen aid," said 28-year-old Philip Pierre, who manages a yogurt plant. "We are ready to die fighting if they don't listen to us." Death has done brisk business here already, in a town where roaming Carnival bands were just getting in gear when the quake struck Tuesday, its epicenter just 12 miles (25 kms) to the east.
Ruined the party.
The stench emanating from rubble is intense, and among the residents' demands are the "big shovels" working in the capital to excavate bodies....
In a country where half the population lives on $1 a day, they carry their bodies atop pieces of tin and drop them in a mass grave. The living, meanwhile, are trying hard to stay that way. There is food in the markets, but the price of a 50-pound bag of rice has risen about 25 percent to $27.50 since the quake struck.So Haitians have to work for a MONTH just to get a BAG of RICE?
WTF, Bill Clinton?
In the mountains that ring the town, cisterns broke, leaving many without drinking water. '
A nearly collapsed corner store had $6,000 worth of rice, spaghetti and other food in the basement, its owner said, but he was too scared of collapse to go in and get it, despite increasingly terse demands from neighbors that he do so.
Oh, you gotta go in there and get that food.
U.N. peacekeepers from Sri Lanka were delivering water to about 1,000 people and sharing their own rations, Maj. Chandima Beligasooabba said. They were told the U.N. would be bringing in food supplies later Saturday.
I don't know about "peacekeepers; maybe you should ask the Tamils about that.
A team from Kansas City, Missouri-based Crisis Response International roamed the downtown area near the structurally unstable Sainte Croix Hospital, looking for any non-governmental organization to give supplies to. None was immediately apparent.
They CIA, too? Related: Code Red24 For Haiti
Within Leogane, individual neighborhoods are on the lookout against each other.
Sort of like fascista AmeriKa?
Leaders of each suspect the others might get violent — but promise they won't start trouble themselves....
I'm wondering where the U.N. agent provocateurs or U.S. Special Forces are going to strike.
--more--"
And like I said, always about us:
Children are safe, but US parents' adoption dreams are buried in rubble of ..
Darline's adoption is in limbo, along with those of hundreds of other orphans being adopted by U.S. families.
Oh, yeah, found this while searching:
"Haitians desperate for supplies; rescues continue" by Michelle Faul And Mike Melia, Associated Press Writers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince's destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse.
"Why give thanks to God? Because we are here," said the Rev. Eric Toussaint. "We say 'Thank you God.' What happened is the will of God. We are in the hands of God now."
As Toussaint preached to a small crowd of survivors amid the ruins, rescuers across the capital were still struggling to pull an increasingly slim number of living from collapsed buildings amid the stench of death. Hundreds of thousands waited for food and water to finally reach them five days after Tuesday's magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
Frustration grew over efforts to get aid through the small, damaged and clogged airport that has been taken over by U.S. military controllers, and to get it from the airport into town.
Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that a cargo plane carrying a field hospital was denied permission to land at the airport and had to be rerouted through the Dominican Republic -- creating a 24-hour delay in setting up a crucial field hospital....
Figures! That's where I sent the check.
At the cathedral, elderly women worried the beads of their rosaries and prayed for the intervention of Our Lady Of The Ascension, to whom the 81-year-old church is named. Sunlight streamed through what little was left of blown-out stained windows, and a rotting body lay in its main entrance. A military helicopter roared overhead, drowning out a hymn by the congregation....
An apparently demented elderly woman began preaching on the sideline of the Mass: "Where is our justice? Now the palace of justice has been broken down ... we are all infected by disease. The end is near."
Why is she demented?
Amid the struggle for food, some turned to looting, infuriating people struggling to guard what little they still have. Residents in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince caught two suspected looters, tied them together, beat them and dragged them through the streets. One lay completely motionless, his dreadlocked hair stained by a deep pool of dark crimson blood. The other lay bleeding profusely but occasionally twitched his leg....
Are we supposed to feel sorry for looters?
I wonder if it was the team from Leogane.
I don't know, readers; I'm running out of hope with my MSM newspapers.
The coverage is shallow if not deceptive and all the other things.
