The National Palace.
The dead are being burned en masse.
For a country of 10,000,000, that's roughly a loss of 2% of their population.
That would be the equivalent to the Houston metropolitan area disappearing from the face of Texas and everyone in the city with it. And then some.
I'm amazed at SnC's complete detachment from reality.
Oh wait, no, that's what passes for daily posting around here.
You're seriously arguing about this? You have no decency. None.
Outside the morgue, people search for their kin and loved ones
Obviously there's nothing we can do to help those people.Outside the morgue, people search for their kin and loved ones
NPR has clearly over-exaggerated the disaster.
IRC estimates the quake has rendered 3M people homeless.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Ameri...amp-up-quickly
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/wor...ned.cnn&hpt=P1
First hand video of the quake.
Of course, it's CNN, so I expect SnC will be along any moment to argue that the video is fake, since it's not directly from Fox News.
Why did you donate, SnC? Don't you know that it's covered by our taxes?
I doubt he followed the first order news. I know I suggested he's stupid, but in this case, he's probably just ignorant.
I didn't see these pictures until a few minutes ago myself.
Talk radio probably. I heard it on Laura Ingram although she wasn't reporting a story just making the comment then if the airport is so backed up that supply planes can't land (which is/or at least was true) then why the are politicians flying in there.
Which politicians? They don't want that photo op.
Could a politician fly in on a plane also loaded with supplies?
Is that at all possible?
Is there a law against that kind of thing?
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The French were complaining earlier today that the US forces in Port au Prince were rerouting aid to Santo Domingo. Whether that's an infrastructure problem or something political I don't know.
Or challenging security issues, for that matter.I can believe there's not sufficient infrastructure for the amount of aid on the way right now.
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or for the amount really needed, right now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_clinton
God damn, Laura Ingram is a ing idiot.
That's an understatement. I saw a report this morning from a hospital there. They don't have the supplies to treat the people with broken/crushed limbs, infection is setting in, they are losing people by the minute(quote), and the surgeon said they have been performing 70+ amputations per day but only had enough supplies to keep doing amputations for another 12 hours. If they can't do amputations & don't have supplies to treat infection then those peole will die.
In another report they said food/water were not getting distributed very well. One lady they showed was getting her first food in 4 days. The more people get desperate the more violent it becomes which makes distribution even slower which makes people more desperate which makes them more violent....
I think the final death toll will be far greater than the high number of 100,000 that was reported early on.
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