This is the racist Zionist War Daily's front-page lead?
"Haiti calls on voodoo priests to help battered nation heal" by Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff | February 10, 2010
MARIANI, Haiti - The United Nations has reached out to the vast and influential network of about 60,000 voodoo priests in Haiti....
I guess global government has officially failed then, huh?
In a nation where government barely functions, and where more than half the population of 9 million is believed to practice voodoo in some form, the assistance of these priests is considered critical to better assess the situation.
Sort of like the Afghan warlords we use, right?
The priests in Haiti dispense unofficial justice and cater to religious needs.
The religion, born in Africa but melded with elements of Christianity by colonial slaves to mask its “pagan’’ veneer, is a nature-based belief that venerates one’s ancestors, calls on their spirits, and promotes a fervent love of family and community....
That's not so bad. So why the racist stereotypes in AmeriKan MSM?
The local voodoo priest, Lamercie Charles Pierre, said: “In the voodoo, we only do good.’’
Then I heard wrong through my movies and MSM!
That version of voodoo, far different from the dark imagery with which the religion is sometimes painted....
Yeah, and why would that be, AmeriKan MSM?
Max Beauvoir, 75, the “pope’’ of Haitian voodoo and a former biochemical engineer who once worked for Digital Equipment in Maynard, Mass., stressed that he respects all religions, despite what he sees as others’ disrespect for voodoo. Christian televangelist Pat Robertson, for example, said that Haitians had been cursed by the earthquake because of a “pact with the devil,’’ referring to a 1791 voodoo ceremony that began their revolution against the French.
Related: The Depths of Hell in Haiti
“Do we sacrifice animals? Of course we do,’’ Beauvoir said. “There is nothing we do that does not implicate nature.’’
Haitian voodoo holds that a single spirit has 16 lives, equally divided between male and female lives.
After each death, the spirit returns to the sea, Beauvoir said, where it is cleansed before “a proper body’’ can be found for the next incarnation.
Throughout the cycle, he said, the spirits of the dead are a constant, accessible presence. In a striking symbol of that belief, a sculpture in the sanctuary’s amphitheater shows a skeleton locked in an embrace with a woman who represents Haiti.
“She dances with her tradition,’’ Beauvoir said, “and with all of her ancestors who are dead.’’
That doesn't sound evil at all.
The calamity, Beauvoir believes, is a chance for Haiti’s voodoo culture to reassert itself by taking a prominent role in the recovery.
“It is inconceivable,’’ Beauvoir said he hopes, “that people will think about Haiti without thinking about voodoo.’’
Translation: Stereotyping works.
Another miracle:
"Found quake survivor may have had water" by Paisley Dodds, Associated Press | February 10, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating a man who, according to two other Haitians, had been trapped by debris since the Jan. 12 earthquake - but he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal.
The two Haitians’ account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center in Port-au-Prince where the man, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought by the two men Monday.
Nery Ynclan, a University of Miami media officer in Haiti, said the patient was in stable condition yesterday and being treated for dehydration and malnutrition. The man identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, she said, adding that his family told doctors varying accounts of his ordeal.
The man has normal kidney function, suggesting he had food and water at least for a week if he was trapped since Jan. 12, Ynclan said.
“Someone could not survive 28 days without water,’’ she said. “You can go nine weeks without food.’’
“He came in delirious, asking to die,’’ Ynclan added, saying Creole translators were at the field hospital. “He’s still out of it. He answers basic questions,’’ she said, adding that he is nibbling on chocolate and probably will be at the field hospital for a week.
A videotape shot by Michael Andrew, an Arizona-based freelance photographer and a volunteer at the Salvation Army medical center, shows doctors on Monday trying without success to insert a needle into the man’s arm to give him fluid. Doctors there then referred the man to the field hospital at the airport, Andrew said.
Andrew said the man was delirious and identified himself through an interpreter as Evans Muncie. The Salvation Army, in a posting on its website, identified him yesterday as Evan Ocinia.
The Salvation Army posting says two men, whom it didn’t identify, found the patient in the debris of a market Monday, 28 days after the quake.
The quake killed 230,000 people, the Haitian government said yesterday.
But no one really knows: How Many Died in Haiti?
The last confirmed survivor was a 16-year-old girl discovered in rubble 15 days after the quake.
Which reminds me, whatever happened to the Gengel girl?
FLASHBACK:
"Father of student asks that search go on
The father of a college student missing in Haiti pleaded with the US government yesterday to continue with efforts to find her. An emotional Len Gengel spoke outside his Rutland home and said the family is still hopeful that his daughter, Brittany Gengel, who was 19 when she went missing, will be found. US Senator John F. Kerry, who visited the family yesterday, praised the Gengels for their strength and courage. Kerry said Brittany is among 4,500 missing Americans after the earthquake Jan. 12 in Haiti. Brittany Gengel is one of four students and two teachers from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., who are still missing (AP)."
Nothing for weeks now.
Back to the guy they found:
"Haiti offers conflicting counts on number of quake deaths; Doctors believe man survived 27 days in rubble" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | February 11, 2010
TITANYEN, Haiti - A rice vendor who doctors say may have survived 27 days under the rubble after Haiti’s devastating earthquake was in stable condition and eating yesterday.
Doctors were skeptical at first about the man’s story - people can survive as long as nine weeks without food, but die quickly without water. The last confirmed survivor was a 16-year-old girl removed from rubble 15 days after the Jan. 12 quake.
They turned into believers, however, after he became lucid enough to tell his tale. He told health care workers that he was selling rice in a flea market when the quake destroyed the building, trapping him under the debris - apparently along with water or food.
“He’s doing very well,’’ said Dr. David Chong, who was treating the man at a University of Miami Medishare field hospital in Haiti’s capital. “We’ve been giving him intravenous fluids and he’s tolerating them well. We also gave him a Hershey bar. He was pretty happy about that.’’
The man - identified as 28-year-old Evans Monsigrace - had bad scrapes on his feet after being pulled from the rubble. He told doctors he was on his side for much of the time, trapped in a small void in the remains of the market.
“He’s not going to be able to walk for a while, but he should have a full recovery,’’ Chong said.Here he is:
Evans Monsigrace told health care workers that he was selling rice in a flea market when the quake destroyed the building, trapping him under debris, apparently along with water or food. (Michael Kastenbaum/Reuters)
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