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2010-01-24 Caribbean-Latin America

Haiti deaths top 120,000, likely higher: govt

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue

Where was she went she said it? The French Riviera?

Haitian government = oxymoron.

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-01-24 14:07|| 2010-01-24 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Haiti just got hit with another aftershock. Initially rated at 5.3, it's been downgraded to 4.7. About the same center as the original quake.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-01-24 17:22|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-24 17:22|| Front Page Top

#3 WMF > CHINA STARTLED: HAITI'S TRAGIC STORY CAN REPEAT ITSELF IN CHINA. "Mud Brick" = SHODDY-IS-BEING-POLITE LOCAL CONSTRUX + poor Govt./Public Regulation-Oversight + EVER-RISING HIGH BIRTH RATES + PERVASIVE, PERENNIAL CIVIL UNREST-SECTARIANISM. This last one is only beginning in CHINA.

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > OIL IN HAITI: ECONOMIC REASONS FOR THE US/UN OCCUPATION. The US allegedly discovered OIL in Haiti long ago, + sees the Quake as a real oportunity to covertly achieve direct control of post-Quake LOCAL OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL-GLOBAL TRADE???

SAME > SAUDI ARABIA'S OIL RESERVES IS NOT THE LARGEST | US GEOLOGICAL SERVICE: VENEZUELA'S ORINOCO OIL BELT RESERVES HOLDS 513.0BILYUHN BARRELS [recoverable heavy oil].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-24 20:55|| 2010-01-24 20:55|| Front Page Top

#4 said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue

Not many members of the Haitian government left, I hear. The ones that are left are having to do double and triple duty.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-24 23:33|| 2010-01-24 23:33|| Front Page Top

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