Comments on: some Haiti Earthquake numbers

By: Caramoan

Caramoan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:16:49 +0000

I pray for those people who have been injured in Haiti. the earthquake in Haiti is one of the word disasters this year. I just hope that they would be able to recover soon.

By: dk.au

dk.au — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:24:04 +0000

Update: 14: the number of deaths from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Los Angeles where there a building codes, including those for earthquake resistance, and they're actually enforced (via).

By: weaver

weaver — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:13:06 +0000

By: weaver

weaver — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:40:38 +0000

What I had in mind was the economic and social consequences of Haiti's long history of US sponsored coups and dictatorships (here's one recent overview doing the rounds), which may be a tad broader meaning of the phrase "forces of law and order" than what you have in mind. But then, in any case, MINUSTAH and the police seem to have had a tendency to interpret their (not entirely unsuccessful) mission of countering criminal gangs to mean "shooting up poor neighbourhoods". (Why, yes, those are both extremely left-wing sources.) Which is why we should be concerned by what people have in mind when they talk of "restoring order" in Haiti: historically the agents of extra-national interventions have defined Haitian civil society as the rich minority and everyone else as a problem to be dealt with.

By: dk.au

dk.au — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:37:10 +0000

Considering what said forces have done to the place in the past, after all

I don’t claim any specific knowledge of the country … care to elaborate a little?

By: weaver

weaver — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:25:27 +0000

Is it worth worrying about escaped inmates though?

Probably, though I suppose it depends on why they were inmates. But I’m not convinced even the most deranged ex-con could do as much damage to the place as the forces of “law and order”.

(Considering what said forces have done to the place in the past, after all.)

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:56:36 +0000

Haiti suffering “partly made in the USA”:

http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2010/01/haiti-suffering-partly-made-in-usa.html

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:54:50 +0000

Update from MSF:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/15/haiti-update-from-do.html

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:51:52 +0000

Scott McLemee at Crooked Timber:

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/01/15/history-is-the-devils-scripture/

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:20:46 +0000

Another reponse to Robertson’s fundamentalist insanity – from France via the Christian Science Monitor.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/0114/Pat-Robertson-Haiti-comments-French-view-theory-with-disbelief