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Sewage runs, garbage piles up at Haiti quake camps
Reuters ^ | 21 Jan 10 | Catherine Bremer

Posted on 01/21/2010 11:07:57 AM PST by SkyPilot

* Sanitary conditions deteriorate as survivors camp out

* Thousands eat, sleep, wash and defecate in open camps

* Health risks mount, emergency latrines needed

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A child squats to defecate yards away from a sidewalk where women press plantain into bite-sized pieces for frying and a naked toddler plays with a pile of rice on the filthy ground.

Nearby, a dead body has been dumped on the street, right in front of a sea of morose people sitting on grubby mattresses, and a garbage collector uses a shovel to scoop up soggy black mounds of putrid trash composed of plastic water bags, polystyrene plates, orange peel and tin cans. Stray dogs forage.

Sanitary conditions in tent cities like this one in Port-au-Prince's once elegant Champs de Mars park around Haiti's crumbled presidential palace are worsening by the day as hundreds of thousands of survivors of last week's earthquake cram together to eat, sleep, wash and defecate.

"It's miserable here. It's dirty and it's boring. There's nothing to do but walk about," said Judeline Pierre-Rose, 12, who misses her comfortable home with its couch and TV.

"People go to the toilet everywhere here and I'm scared of getting sick. My twin sisters vomited last night," she said.

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As families settle in after nine days camped out -- preparing food on the dirty ground, cooking on charcoal fires and walking about in flip-flops through toxic dark gray puddles, nobody is doing anything about hygiene.

"It's up to the government to resolve this kind of problem, they must take responsibility and tell us what to do," said Wesnel. Then he added: "Maybe they are in the middle of working out a plan."

(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; garbage; haiti; immigration; import3rdworld; importignorance; importpoverty; sewage
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To: SkyPilot

“”It’s miserable here. It’s dirty and it’s boring. There’s nothing to do but walk about,” said Judeline Pierre-Rose, 12, who misses her comfortable home with its couch and TV.”

DO something, you moron! Bury a body, clean up the garbage!
Oh, yea, we need more of this!

If Haiti is like any other island, away from the port cities, there is open land, clean, with food growing wild. Get these people out of the destroyed city instead of importing millions more with the ‘I’m bored attitude’!


21 posted on 01/21/2010 11:27:55 AM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: gibtx2

That ‘Satan’ stuff is bulls-t. Humans don’t need Satan, we are humans. We bring this kind of crap on ourselves.

There’s only one G-d. This ‘Satan’ crap is a two-god philosophy, it’s crap.


22 posted on 01/21/2010 11:28:09 AM PST by bvw
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To: bvw

satan is alive and well..... sound like you dont believe in it..... i pray for your soul


23 posted on 01/21/2010 11:29:54 AM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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To: bvw
One mulatto Haitian friend doesn’t care what happens there now, they already tossed out her family — the ones who lived — after taking everything from them.

I would send these people to the front lawn of Baby Doc's French Villa.

24 posted on 01/21/2010 11:31:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: theDentist
“What? Ubama hasn’t waved his hand and made all better?”

Chris Mathews the day after the quake said he “has never in his life seen a President respond so quickly and effectively to a disaster.” My God, what a idiot.

25 posted on 01/21/2010 11:33:30 AM PST by NavyCanDo (America Rising 11-2-2010)
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To: SkyPilot

When I first started reading the title I thought they were talking about Congress.


26 posted on 01/21/2010 11:33:42 AM PST by luv2ndamend (They call themselves greens because they're too yellow to admit they're reds.)
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To: gibtx2

There’s only one G-d. He’s the only thing besides my own great propensity to make mistakes that I fear.


27 posted on 01/21/2010 11:37:07 AM PST by bvw
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To: dfwgator

In a way, that will happen, I’m sure — voodoo is a trap for the mind, and Baby Doc is likely to have inherited a susceptibility to it. A whole lot of ‘voodoo spirits’ coming at him! You betcha.


28 posted on 01/21/2010 11:40:56 AM PST by bvw
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To: bvw
Satan is most definitely real.

He is not a God, so your objections are unfounded.

29 posted on 01/21/2010 11:41:46 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: TChris

Me, and you, we are real. Satan’s an excuse.


30 posted on 01/21/2010 11:43:18 AM PST by bvw
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To: SkyPilot

From the videos my son brought back from Haiti in 2008, it sounds like business as usual.

(I know that the things are bad there after the earthquake, but Haiti was hell-on-earth before last Tuesday)


31 posted on 01/21/2010 11:45:37 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: grobdriver
"These are Plague conditions. And they want to bring some of these people to the United States? They should be quarantined. "

WANT to bring? Too late...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2434037/posts?page=4#4

This is a photo of Haitians being airlifted to the US in cargo planes. They're headed for Orlando

32 posted on 01/21/2010 11:46:06 AM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: Col Frank Slade
"These poor souls have been conditioned for decades to expect government help."

To paraphrase your namesake, their souls have been amputated. When people are groomed their entire lives to follow, there is no initiative or leadership to be found amongst them. It truly is heartbreaking, and whether or not one believes in voodoo, the Haitian government has truly turned these people into zombies waiting for the next scrap to fall from the table.

33 posted on 01/21/2010 11:49:04 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: AuntB; Travis McGee
Does this mean every time there is war or natural disaster, Washington will use it as an excuse to bring in people from that country in its efforts to change us into a 3rd World Country?

BTW, Matthew Bracken (AKA Travis McGee) in his thriller "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" describes the aftermath of major earthquakes in this country. It is an exciting read.

34 posted on 01/21/2010 11:53:53 AM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: SkyPilot

Was this written before or after the earthquake?


35 posted on 01/21/2010 11:56:53 AM PST by Venturer
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To: bvw

Haiti was officially dedicated to Satan in 1791. It was rededicated to Satan during the two hundred year anniversary in 1991 by Aristide.

At that time, it was noted that Aristide had, behind his desk in his presidential office, a huge oil painting of a necklace murder. Aristide was quoted as having described the smell of burning petrol and human flesh in a necklace murder as “a most beautiful aroma”.

Not surprisingly, this country beset by occultism is the poorest state in the Western hemisphere. The vast majority of the population of Haiti are actively involved in Voodoo. Haiti has the worst soil-erosion, pollution, and de-forestation problems in the Americas.

Although they share the same island, the contrast between the predominantly Christian Dominican Republic with its lush rainforests and fertile farms, and the deforested, eroded mess that is Haiti could not be more acute.

Why then is the ANC government wanting to align itself with an occultic tyrant and a regime dedicated to Satan?

i believe that the government uses the idea of Satan to govern the black population. it is their native position and counters the white GOD’s. So it is their bais belief. Now what they believe Satan is is another whole subject.


36 posted on 01/21/2010 11:57:14 AM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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To: TChris

Didn’t God know what he was going to do and what was going to happen, when He created satan?


37 posted on 01/21/2010 11:57:47 AM PST by stuartcr (If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
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To: bvw
There’s only one G-d. This ‘Satan’ crap is a two-god philosophy, it’s crap.

You're on the opposite side of 6,000 years of religious theology.

Not sure if you're Christian or not, but the word for such a position is "heresy."

I'm not trying to put you down or judge you, just offering an objective observation in response to your rather brusque proclaimation.

38 posted on 01/21/2010 12:01:06 PM PST by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: gibtx2

I accept all that as possible, even a fully truthful testimony. People fool themselves and others — worship of idols like a ‘satan’ — is certainly one such established method. Use of violence, dedication to degrading and profane rituals, all part of it.


39 posted on 01/21/2010 12:01:42 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw

the event will take its toll at any rate.


40 posted on 01/21/2010 12:02:48 PM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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