I guess the Globe is blind and deaf.
Found in my Sunday local while the Globe was silent (mute, too, Glob?):
"Heavy rain hits Haiti's quake-ravaged capital" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | February 26, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The first heavy rain since the earthquake briefly doused Haiti's capital Thursday night as relief officials changed tack on dealing with the homeless, demphasizing plans to build big camps outside Port-au-Prince.
Instead, they want the hundreds of thousands of refugees in this city where barren hillsides and weakened buildings threaten to give way to pack up their tents and tarps and return to destroyed neighborhoods.
Yeah, RETURN to the RUBBLE!
Related: No Quarter For Haiti
That's why the AmeriKan MSM has ceased its coverage on the global aid mission. It has failed.
People dashed for shelter down streets streaming with runoff from the driving tropical rain. The 20-minute drenching swept trash along roadside gutters, clogging drains and turning depressions into ponds.
Some women stripped naked and took advantage of the downpour to take a shower—there are no bathing facilities in overcrowded tent camps that officials want to move people out of....
One thought Haitian misery couldn't get worse, and yet here it is getting worse!
With the official rainy season still a month away, forecasters warn that a potential weekend storm, the first since the Jan. 12 quake, could bring floods and mudslides to a population in a perilous state. Many dwellings are severely damaged or clinging to the sides of hillsides....
People who lined up at a downtown site Thursday morning to register for the new campaign to resettle more than 1.2 million Haitians expressed skepticism and were dismissive of the plan, and relief officials acknowledged its immense challenges.
They may be poor, but they are not stupid!!!!
"There will be flooding. There will be discomfort, misery. And that's not avoidable," a top U.N. official for Haiti, Anthony Banbury, told a New York news conference this week.
Gerald-Emile Brun, an architect with the government's reconstruction committee, agreed. "Everything has to be done before the start of the rainy season, and we will not be able to do it," he said Thursday.
Sigh. You had months, dammit. The wars seem to keep rolling along easy enough and fully supplied. WTF?!
Brun suggested that Haitians, who expect little of their corrupt and inefficient government, may largely be left to sort it out themselves.
In many ways we are SO MUCH ALIKE, dear Haitians!
Camp dwellers—the capital alone has some 770,000—welcomed the idea of swapping flimsy makeshift tents in the city's fetid center for something more stable. But that didn't mean they wanted to return to their quake-ravaged neighborhoods....
Yeah, let's go back to the rubbled community where not a thing has been done for weeks after all that press about the aid effort and how the world was responding, blah, blah, blah.
We all know this was now about U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION!
Haitian President Rene Preval described the new plan Thursday to visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, saying the idea is to create small camps of 50, 60 or even 100 tents.
Silva, whose troops are leading a six-year-old U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, expressed support for the strategy but said the effort would be challenging because of all the heavy equipment needed to clear neighborhoods of rubble.
"The problem for Brazil and the U.N. teams is to determine the machinery needed do this work," he said.
It is a mammoth task.
Preval has said it would take 1,000 trucks and 1,000 days—more than three years.
Pffft!
If they were Jewish the world would have fixed 'em up by now.
Brun, of the reconstruction committee, said the government has about 250 trucks and can probably find another 250 in the private sector.
Col. Rick Kaiser, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operation in Haiti, told The Associated Press that the rubble would fill the New Orleans Superdome five times over.... In the meantime, many people remain terrified of another quake. The U.S. Geological Survey published a new study this week warning that aftershocks—the city has suffered dozens—will continue for many months and almost certainly one will be stronger than a magnitude 5 in the next year. Quake-damaged buildings are particularly vulnerable.... I'm having a hard time imagining that, readers. Earth vibrating under you and never knowing when.
Oh, I stand corrected!
Once again the Globe is LATE with a report:
"Haiti wants refugees back in ravaged areas" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | February 27, 2010
Yeah, save it for a SLOW SATURDAY, Globe!!
Sherider Anilus, 28, and her daughter, 9-month-old Monica, traveled yesterday to the spot in Port-au-Prince where her home collapsed in the earthquake. (Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images)
So what has the world community really been doing there, readers?
Covering up its organ-stealing and child-sex-slave rings?
Whatever it is, they have been DOING NOTHING for the Haitian people!!!
The PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE proves that!
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Relief officials have changed tactics and are urging Haiti’s earthquake homeless to return to their destroyed neighborhoods as the rainy season fast approaches.
Officials had initially planned to build big camps outside Port-au-Prince. They still anticipate creating some settlements, but decided this week to instead get people to pack up their tents and tarps and go home.
To rubble.
For that to be possible, authorities will need to demolish hundreds if not thousands of buildings and remove mountains of rubble.
So WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING all this time and WHY has the AmeriKan MSM focus been on ADOPTIONS?
A 20-minute downpour Thursday evening gave a taste of the approaching rainy season and the problems it will bring. People dashed for shelter down streets streaming with runoff while trash clogged gutters and turned depressions into ponds.
Paragraph seems oddly familiar, doesn't it?
Haiti’s government weather service lifted its warning of heavy rains yesterday morning, but advised people to remain vigilant as chilly winds and dark clouds moved through Port-au-Prince.
Floods and mudslides threaten hundreds of thousands living in camps, and many dwellings are severely damaged or clinging to the sides of hillsides.
Maybe one day a reporter will actually go into one.
At a camp housing 40,000 people overlooking the capital, Matin Bussreth ran for cover from his bed-sheet tent to a neighbor’s plastic tarpaulin during the drenching Thursday....
Some of the hundreds who lined up at a downtown site Thursday to register for the new campaign to resettle many of the 1.2 million homeless in their old neighborhoods expressed skepticism about the plan. Relief officials also acknowledged the immense challenges.
“There will be flooding. There will be discomfort, misery. And that’s not avoidable,’’ a top UN official for Haiti, Anthony Banbury, said this week.
Gerald-Emile Brun, an architect with the government’s reconstruction committee, agreed. “Everything has to be done before the start of the rainy season, and we will not be able to do it.’’
Brun suggested that Haitians, who expect little of their corrupt and inefficient government, might largely be left to sort it out themselves.
Camp dwellers - the capital has some 770,000 - welcomed the idea of swapping flimsy makeshift tents in the city’s fetid center for something more stable. But that did not mean they wanted to return to their quake-ravaged neighborhoods.
Why couldn't the Glob have picked this up on Friday, readers, rather than no coverage at all of Haiti that day?
So it is not only Sunday Globe Censorship, but every day, 'eh?
Why am I still reading them? New England's largest newspaper?
No wonder we are so arrogant, uninformed, and stoo-pid up here!
Jean Petion Simplice, a father living with his two boys, wife, and mother-in-law under a scrap of sheet in the capital, said he feared returning to his district, which is a shambles.
“They’re going to remove us from here, but they won’t tell us where we’re going,’’ he complained as he joined a line of hundreds to get registered at the Champ de Mars, in the shadow of the collapsed National Palace.--more--"
