PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Mud up to their ankles and a steady rain falling on their tents, residents of Haiti's earthquake camps ignored warnings to leave their makeshift homes as Hurricane Tomas bore down on their deforested and flood-prone nation early Friday.
By evening it was clear most camp residents were not heeding the advice. People in the yard of a high school on the Delmas 33 thoroughfare said their camp's governing committee had passed along the official advice to leave, but they decided to stockpile water and tie down their tents instead. You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can apparently also save Haitians from earthquake and feed and cloth them, but not make them leave to save themselves.
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Why? They know from past experience that the planes, boats and 'Hurricane Relief' concerts from the US will begin any day now.
Either that or the 'coastal' folks are so resigned to their horrible existence (even before the earthquake) that it really doesn't matter anymore.
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If they applied the concepts of self-responsibility and forethought, Haiti wouldn't be Haiti.
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The Haitian folks living in the back-county and mountains have a lot of forethought, are quite resourceful and are extremely responsible, Rob. I've been there and worked with them. There are just very few resources available (whatever the Duvaliers and subsequent governments haven't stripped from them) and they have to work extremely hard to provide for their families and kin. The earthquakes didn't affect them much, but the hurricane, I'm sure, will.
Some diligent younger male members of the country and hill families do move to the coastal cities for jobs to augment their family's income. Earthquake survivors from this group have largely moved back with their families for the time being.
The 'less diligent' (or more criminal) moved to the coastal towns/cities long ago and became the morass of people we generally see as the 'Tragic Haitians'.
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[El Universal] Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand lead in the ease of doing business according to a report by the World Bank (WB) which places Mexico, Peru and Colombia as the best Latin American countries in that area.
According to the study, Venezuela remains the worst place in which to do business in the region. The report also ranks Bolivia, (149 out of 183 economies), Uruguay (124) and Argentina (115) as three of the economies with worst results in the region, Efe reported.
The ranking measures the ease to start and operate a business, from the regulatory framework to taxes, access to credit and investor protection.
México ranks 35 in the World Bank's table, a very significant advance over last year when it ranked 51. On the contrary, Chile, which was the best Latin American country in the previous list, ranks 43 (although it advanced six positions, since it ranked 49). Peru ranks 36 and Colombia is the 39th country in the list.
Brazil, one of the major world economies ranks 127, behind Guatemala (101), Paraguay (106), Argentina (115), Nicaragua (117), Uruguay (124) and Costa Rica (125).
Ecuador (130), Honduras (131), Bolivia (149) and Venezuela (172) are among the Latin American countries with the worst performing.
"Governments worldwide have been consistently taking steps to empower local entrepreneurs," said Neil Gregory, Acting Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, World Bank Group, DPA reported
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[El Universal] Mario Leonardo Rocco, a former Venezuelan police officer who is sought by the Venezuelan justice for an alleged murder committed during a coup attempt led by Hugo Chavez in 1992, was released by a Spanish court on Sunday.
Judge Fernando Andreu, of the Spanish National Court, issued the release order and filed the extradition papers as the Venezuelan judicial authorities did not request Rocco's extradition within 40 days, as established in the treaty signed by the two countries, said Spanish newspaper El País.
On Tuesday, Luisa Ortega Díaz, the Venezuelan Attorney General, compared the extradition to Spain of the alleged ETA member Arturo Cubillas with the extradition of Mario Rocco to Venezuela. "Let's see if they are going to respond as swiftly as they talk," she said.
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ION WMF > THE CURRENT GENERATIONS ALIVE TODAY + AFTER 2013 R 2015 [POTUS Obama 1st, 2nd Terms-Admins] WILL CERTAINLY SEE THE DECLINE OF THE USA. AMERICANS' GREATEST SINGLE FEAR IS LOSS OF ITS ANGLO-EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION TO HISPANICS, ASIANS, + MUSLIMS [aka Non-Anglo/White, Non-Northern Euros].
versies
* WMF > IFF A MAJOR SINO-US WAR OCCURS, ONLY ONE DAY IS NEEDED FOR THE US TO DESTROY CHINA'S VITAL US$75.0BILYUHN NORTHERN WATER TRANSFER/DIVERSION PROJECTS.
Des Dams, Boss, du jour des Dams!
Once again, wid feeling, "SINK THE TIRPITZ, SINK THE TIRPITZ" {Bismarck], + "THE GORGEBUSTERS".
[SECDEF Gates + USN FEMALE SUBMARINERS here].
* SAME > US-WORLD AIM THE KNIFE AT CHINA'S BODY: VIETNAM'S INTERNATIONAL LEASE OF CAM RANH BAY, + US BASES ON GUAM + SINGAPORE'S CHANGXI, EFECTIVELY ASSURES THAT CHINA'S SOUTH CHINA SEAS TERRITORIES + REGION WILL BE CONTROLLED/
DOMINATED BY AMERICA, NOT CHINA.
* TAIWAN "CENTRAL NEWS": PHILIPPINE SENATOR CALLS FOR MANILA/GOVT-LED ALIENATION OF THE US [+ Europe] IN FAVOR OF CHINA [+ Asia]. PHILIPPINES MUST BEGIN TO DEVOTE MORE TIME + RESOURCES TO ITS ASIAN NEIGHBORS + RISING CHINA AS A [post-US]FUTURE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER.
* SAME > RUSSo-JAPAN KURILS DISPUTE + RUSSIAN STRATEGIC DEADLOCK: MOSCOW DOES NOT DESIRE CHINESE-CENTRIC ECONOMIC DOMINATION IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST + NORTHEAST ASIA, BUT ALSO CANNOT MODERNIZE ITS FAR EAST WIDOUT CHINESE INVESTMENT + IMMIGRATION [Chin Labor].
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OOOOOPSIES, forgot DAILY TIMES.PK > [Burma]MYANMAR ETHNIC GROUPS ALIGN AGZ REGIME. SIX armed ethnic groups to form alliance in fear of attack by Military-led Junta.
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After that bill passed my health insurance (which I get on my own Ms Sebilius you clown) unexpectedly became more than my house statement per month.
I received a letter inviting me to add any dependents up to age 25. I am going to reply to them, curt.
And a letter to my State Rep, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Governor, US Rep, US Senator, Insurance Commissioner, and whatever Chambers of Commerce I can find applicable.
So thank you insurance company for reminding me why I voted, and brainstorm with others on how health care ramrod can include that bill as accomplice to price gauging.
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AARP is the ultimate traitor to it's "beneficiaries". That organization sold everyone down the river, and any smart American should have seen this.
There is a better alternative though it escapes me now.
None of it will matter next year. We will be trading food for healthcare as the dollar will not be worth shit.
I hate to go against the grain, but I don't have a problem with journalists making donations to political candidates.
Particularly 'journalists'. Particularly those who's job is to spew and spout, spit phlegm and bile, and pound his tiny fists on the desk in rage while screaming red-faced into a camera.
All to make more money and with more job security than he ever had covering the NFL.
It's not like I didn't already know who Keef favored.
Besides, if NBC really had an ethics policy, MS-NBC would have been stillborn.
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I can picture him in a year, as the guy the bartender detests, because he is always cursing while nursing a tall straight Irish whiskey all night, never leaves until close, pisses off all the other customers, and never, ever tips.
And when he goes into the john, he is so constipated that his groans sounds like the undead are living in there, and his bms have to be cut with a coat hangar to flush.
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But he likely signed a hiring code of conduct document and knew it was a violation, and yes, most people don't read all the fine print, but obies the type that would so IMO he's deserves what he has coming.
The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about its human rights failings.
It heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years.
Russia urged the U.S. to abolish the death penalty. Cuba and Iran called on Washington to close Guantanamo prison and investigate alleged torture by its troops abroad. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, told the U.S. it must better promote religious tolerance. Mexico complained that racial profiling had become a common practice in some U.S. states. Rest at link if you want to read the tyrant filled spew of hate against the US. US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
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I really, truly want to know who sold us out to the UN.
Oh...never mind:
But what really is under review is the gamble by the Obama administration to join the council in the first place, rather than shun it in disdain, as the Bush administration did...
And....
The same official, however, declared that the most important part of the process is the dialogue with our own citizens.
That was a reference to the importantand often harshly criticalrole being played in the U.S. Universal Periodical Review by American human rights interest groups, or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), also known in U.N. parlance as stakeholders.
The Obama administration has gone to elaborate lengths to consult with such groups in advance of the Geneva meeting. The State Department, has led delegations from a variety of government departments (including Labor, Homeland Security, Education and Justice) to consult with such groups in Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Harlem, and Albuquerque, according to an official at State.
God help us.
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I don't have to hit the link, I read the fed department releases.
I think I will create a job, form and NGO and come up with a snappy justification for the acronym UNSCREWUS.
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Be afraid...be very, very afraid. Who elected Soros to anything?
At least $65 billion might be raised by taxing foreign-exchange transactions and auctioning pollution permits, a United Nations panel said today in a report recommending ways to finance aid for fighting global warming.
The panel, which includes billionaire investor George Soros and Larry Summers, director of President Barack Obamas National Economic Council, said selling carbon-emissions permits would generate $38 billion and a financial transactions tax an additional $27 billion, according to the report released today.
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I have a much better idea. How about we place an incentive for bounty hunters to find the hidden, untaxed, unregulated money of offshore financial speculators...our global billionaire friend included? Split the tax proceeds 50/50 with the country that should have earned the tax proceeds...the other 50% can go directly to fund aid projects in developing countries. Win/win all around. Something good could actually come from Soros' money instead of him trying to control us.
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You have got to be frigging kidding me.
Indonesia - where over 200-odd Christian churches have been razed in the name of Islam - where 4 Christian girls were made into Human Sacrifices to Allah. Who gave the person behind the Bali Bombing not even a wrist-slap sentence. Talks about 'religious intolerable'.
Mexico who's racist consitution and their own illegal alien laws are far worse than anything we can come up with.
Russia and China who have a long, long, history of executing (as in Death Penalty) anyone who disagrees with the government.
And Obama, who swore an oath to defend the United States is going along with them.
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Life-size statues depicting him making love could hardly be called erotic but he could probably be charged with inflicting bodily harm for scarring everyone's retinas for life!
You gotta read it at the link at WSJ. The Feds claim there isn't inflation and yet the prices of energy and food keep rising. Then on top of it, devalue our money. Pure genius we have in Washington.
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If you want to read a nightmare on inflation, devaluation, and collapse, try Chapter 5 of "The Collapse of Complex Societies", Joseph A. Tainter. Scary reading for Americans.
Increasing % ethanol requirements in auto fuel gives farmers sure thing crop selection turning food into fuel.
Those are the general outlines for why your food prices will increase, only to be aggrivated by speculators on the one few US industries remaining and then dollar devaluation. It might be easy to point at the marketeers, but the problem is government - the marketeers are a response to government policy.
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Yes, it is a worry for those who have to pay. Food programs now drive the market. It doesn't matter the brand or the price. The wealthy will still get what they want. They will still eat out but not as often. Private label business works only if you have volume. They give themselves all kinds of space and cut back those who don't pay or pay enough for space. So you see the quality go and size gets ever smaller. The wealthy and food assistance people will get quality so the name brands will remain. Quality product requires a higher price. Good profit margin and you will stay in business. Knock offs and bottom feeders will be hurt the most.
Kaukab Siddique, a tenured professor of English and journalism at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, was caught on video calling for the dismantling and destruction of Israel "if possible by peaceful means." In addition, Siddique is a Holocaust denier and editor of publications that promote Holocaust deniers. More on the story here.
One of the surest ways to know that a person is a fool is to hear that person deny the Holocaust.
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Denying the holocaust and implying support for jihad is not a firing offense.
Saying diversity studies are overfunded or that the gender studies department has too many interns or that you oppose the global warmist agenda, however, may get you sacked immediately.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Mud up to their ankles and a steady rain falling on their tents, residents of Haiti's earthquake camps ignored warnings to leave their makeshift homes as Hurricane Tomas bore down on their deforested and flood-prone nation early Friday.
[El Universal] Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand lead in the ease of doing business according to a report by the World Bank (WB) which places Mexico, Peru and Colombia as the best Latin American countries in that area. 
The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about its human rights failings.
