Haiti: Guns or food?

[Andronex]

Run time: 09:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_gs7f-o2Ec   Posted on YouTube: January 19, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 19, 2010 By DU Member: Andronex Views on DU: 512

 
Peter Hallward: Arrival of US military raises questions of motivations and memories of recent interventions.

[Tx4obama]

1. Take all videos that you see with a grain of salt....

At the beginning of the video while talking about a hospital that has people outside in tents they show a clip of a man WAS ACTUALLY on the news that was AT A NURSING HOME SITTING IN A WHEELCHAIR --- NOT at a hospital outside in a tent.

I believe most people are trying their best to get the TRUTH out ... but 'words' and 'photos' and 'videos' can be MISLEADING to some degree! I understand that people/news folks are trying to get the word out that this is a MAJOR catastrophe like we have never seen before in recent history .. but be on the lookout for misleading information.

[Tx4obama]

2. Haiti should NOT rebuild as it was ...

Now that Port-au-Prince is basically GONE, demolished, collapes .. they should NOT rebuild on the fault line.
If they do rebuild they should build ONLY one story buildings so that there is not a repeat of what has happened.
There should NOT be multi-story buildings rebuilt.
There should be many water wells dug in the city so that drinkable water is more accessible.
The airport should be rebuilt with MORE runways and more storage facilities.
The 10,000 charity organizations should be reduced to just the main 100 so that the people of Haiti in the future will not be reliant on aid... (Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.) and many of the aid organizations will not be able to profit from the country's poverty -- for example: organizations that PROFIT from adopting out parent-less orphaned children, etc.
It is disgusting that there have been over 10,000 charity organizations making money in Haiti in recent years. Most of them raising money from 'good folks' in other countries from the images of the poor people of Haiti while they are profiting by making their money due to ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS and giving small percentages of donations to the people in need!
This raping of the poor MUST stop!

[Junkdrawer]

3. Very disturbing that Obama seems to be following the Heritage Foundation's recommendations

Thanks for posting...

[SteveM]

4. He ain't g'win fight dem boys. Put a dozen GOPers in a room of a hundred Dems...

who you think'll come out on top?