Archive for April, 2010
WE ARE BACK AS OF THE 18th AFTER SERVER CRASHES AND MALARIA INFECTIONS!!
Well, two weeks have passed by since our news site went down April first. We have been seeing a lot of traffic at the site, and were planning on changing servers to accommodate the higher viewing demand when Mr Collins fell ill with Malaria. Collins, being a man of great mental strength, refused to...
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Bill Clinton On Haiti’s Recovery-Audio clip included
Click this link to hear the NPR interview Interview with Bill Clinton on Haiti’s recovery The Transcript of the Two-Way Conversation From National Public Radio Bill Clinton Asks For Toned-Down Rhetoric In U.S.; Ramped-Up Aid In Haiti April 19, 2010 Former President Bill Clinton has emerged as one of the strongest advocates for Haiti....
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Haiti: Charges Against 10 Americans Still Pending
The Haitian judge investigating 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping for trying to take a busload of children out of the country said Monday that no decision had been made on whether to drop any charges. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil said he was still considering the legal fates of the group’s leader, Laura Silsby, who...
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U.N.’s Ballooning $732 Million Haiti Peacekeeping Budget Goes Mostly to Its Own Personnel
By George Russell - FOXNews.com The United Nations has quietly upped this year’s peacekeeping budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti to $732.4 million, with two-thirds of that amount going for the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island The United Nations has quietly upped this year’s peacekeeping budget for...
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US military to end Haiti quake mission in June
The US military will end its disaster relief mission in Haiti at the beginning of June, nearly six months after the massive earthquake struck. There are currently 2,200 US troops in the country, down from a peak of 22,000 in February when large numbers were despatched to help the aid effort. Some 500 National...
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Grad student uncovers Haitian founding document
DURHAM, N.C. — A Duke University graduate student has found what historians think is the only surviving printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence. The university said Thursday that 26-year-old history student Julia Gaffield discovered the yellowing document in February while combing through papers in Great Britain’s National Archives in London. Haiti’s revolutionary leaders...
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Rushed From Haiti, Then Jailed for Lacking Visas
By NINA BERNSTEIN More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida. Lunva Charles, a jailed quake victim, hopes to...
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Toads can ‘predict earthquakes’ and seismic activity
Common toads appear to be able to sense an impending earthquake and will flee their colony days before the seismic activity strikes. The evidence comes from a population of toads which left their breeding colony three days before an earthquake that struck L’Aquila in Italy in 2009. How toads sensed the quake is unclear,...
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FLASH-FLASH-FLASH Coup Rocks Haiti
With a deft stroke of the pen, Clinton/Preval create a coup against Haiti’s sovereignty in a violation of the Nation’s Constitution. In effect, they have declared a siege where no threat exists to create a continuity of corruption. There has been a 15 month moratorium declared in regards to Preval stepping down, yet he...
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