추천합니다
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아이티가 인류에게 주는 경고와 교훈은 무엇일까요?
신은 어째서 인류가 경제난과 자연재해의 참사를 보아야만 한다고 하셨을까요?
열심히 길을 바른 따라 오신 분은 이유를 잘 아실 겁니다.
*** [스크랩] 아이티 지진은 미국 대재앙의 예고편
제 3의 눈은 공포의 1월을 이렇게 말한다 10.01.13 18:37
내 이름은 doombird 미래의 길조
다음은 영화의 한 장면에서 제 3의 눈이 말한 것이다.
앞서 말했듯이 지구 중부권 지방에 순간적인 빙하기가 다가오고 남부지방에서는 화산과 지진이 계속 이어지고 있다. 남반구에서는 산불과 폭염, 홍수가 계속 이어지고 있다...
하지만 아직도 분위기 파악이 안되고 정신 못차린 국가들이 많이 있구나..
2010년 새해를 맞이하여 전세계가 떠오르는 해를 보며 나름대로 이상한 소원을 빌고 있다...
지구인, 이제 그대들이 빌고 싶은 대상은 없어진지 오래야...
그 대들이 스스로 하늘을 버리고 지구, 대자연을 버리고 양심을 버린지 오래인데 그 무엇을 향해 기도하고 있나... 그대들이 그렇게 자랑하는 기계에 다가가서 빌어라, 애꿎은 태양에 가서 빌지 말고... 태양은 이미 그대들을 버린지 오래인데... 또한 그대들이 찬양하는 신들과 예수, 마호멧, 석가 등등은 항상 그대편에 있을 거라고 생각지마라...
앞전에 말했듯 그대들이 밟고 서있는 이 대지는 그렇게 안전하지 않다. 이렇게 불안한 대지위에 왜 그렇게 위험하고 무거운 시설들이 많은지...
이 제 더이상 미래는 그대들이 생각한 것처럼 안전하지 않다. 반성하세요. 자연을 아끼고 자연에 절을 하세요. 누가 그대들에게 자연은 정복의 대상이라고 하였나. 다, 그대들의 탐욕이 만들어내 잘난 구호들이 아닌가... 제 3의 눈과 그래도 남아있는 인간의 양심이 이 모든걸 보고 있다는 것을 알아야 한다.
아이티 지진은 미국 대재앙의 예고편 10.01.17 14:48
내 이름은 doombird 미래의 길조
다음은 영화의 한 장면에서 제3의 눈이 말한 것이다.
앞전에 말한 것처럼 모든 일이 현실화되고 있다...
캘리포니아 지진을 시발로 하여 그 이어진 줄기인 아이티가 대지진의 직격탄을 맞았다.
슬픔에 젖은 목소리로 현장을 전하는 사자들은 새로운 재앙을 우려하는 표정이 역력하다.
앞서 말한대로 절망스러운 공포가 지구촌을 감싸고 있다. 하지만 이 재앙은 새로운 재앙의 예고편일 뿐이다.
지 구온난화와 환경오염 그리고 지구가 우주의 새로운 시간대로 진입한 상태가 만들어내는 이 현상은 인류의 미래를 계속 암울하게 만들것이다... 들려온다, 대 지진이 미국 캘리포나아와 뉴욕을 연결하는 지축에 엄청난 압력을 가하는 소리가... 그리고 이제 화산과 지진은 예전처럼 바다가 아닌 육지에서 직접 예고없이 나타날 것같다.
사실을 말하기 참담하지만 미국은 이제 과거의 미국이 아닌 절망의 미국이 될 것이다. 그리고 해외에 파견된 미군들에게 계속해서 견디기힘든 고통의 시간이 다가올 것이다.
길조는 왜 이런 슬픈 사연을 계속 써야만 하는가...
연극에 참여한 배우이기 때문이다.
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http://blog.daum.net/petercskim/7859130 - 피터김
지난주 는 아이티 지진참사의 참상이 눈과 귀를 사로잡고 미국의 오바마가 부시와 클린턴을 앞세워 나팔부는 소리까지 들어야하는 빰빠라 정국이었습니다. 그런데 아래의 같은 꿈을꾸자는 단체 CommonDreams.org 의 타전 기사는 그런 소동의 속내가 다른데 있다는 것을 드러냅니다. 잠시 골자를 보내드립니다.
1) 아이티 수도 포르또프랭스가 그정도 지진에 일거에 붕괴되고 5십만명 (외신은 왠지 자꾸 1십만명이라 보도하지만..)의 사망자를 낼정도로 취약한 사회기반이 된 것은 미국의 농간이 수십년간 지속된 과거업보의 결과라 합니다. 뚜 ~둥.
2) 아이티의 오래된 뒤발리에 정권은 미국정부의 뒷받침을 받아서 1957년부터 14년간 철권 통치를 하고 그의 서거후 아들인 소위 베이비 독이라 불리던 장클로드가 19세 나이로 종신대통령에 올라서 다시 15년을 꼬마 신랑 통치를 하셨다고 합니다. (윗 사진의 테레사 수녀 앞의 여성은 그분의 부인인데 엄청 칭송을 받는데 거기서 이런 참사의 단서가 보입니다.)
3) 베이비 독은 아버지에 뒤이어 철권통치를 하면서 수만명의 민주인사와 지식인을 골로보내고 세계화와 산업화 (꼭 어느나라 구호와 닮았네요.. 쩝)를 드라이브해서 농촌의 농업기반을 무너뜨리고 도시는 제조업으로 변화시킨다 해놓고선 영세 봉제업 같은 것만 늘어놓아 도시빈민 계층을 확산시키는 결과를 빚었다 합니다. 이런 상황에는 아이티 국민의 무지하고 타락스런 생활태도도 영합이 된 것입니다. (악업도 본인들의 선택이죠)
4) 좀 웃기는 내용인데요 유명한 테레사수녀가 베이비 독과 그의 부인을 칭송하는 대목이 있습니다. 세간에는 테레사를 빈자의 어머니, 자비의 천사로 그려내는데 실상은 국제언론의 그럴듯한 모델로 쓰임받았고 부패 정치라인의 뒷배경 역할을 하는 기막힌 인생역정이란 폭로성 조명을 받곤했죠. 그런 테레사 수녀가 1981 년 아이티에 가서 나중에 결국 돈가방을 들고 외국으로 도망친 폭군 베이비독 뒤발리에를 두고 “가난한 사람들이 국가의 우두머리와 이토록 친근한 경우는 처음 보았다”고 칭송했다. (눈이 멀었다는 증거죠) 또 “현대세계의 가장 냉소적이고 천박하며 못된 여성 중 하나”로 일컬어진 베이비 독 부인, 미셸의 두 손을 정답게 감싸쥐고는 “영부인은 느끼시고, 아시며, 자신의 사랑을 말뿐이 아니라 눈에 보이는 실체적인 행동으로도 보여주고자 하시는 분”이라 예찬하는 시적 표현을 합니다. (이하 중략)
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/cocolandkr/4198
http://blog.daum.net/damuse/271?srchid=BR1http%3A%2F%2Fblog.daum.net%2Fdamuse%2F271
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What you're not hearing about HAITI
Published on Thursday, January 14, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be)
by Carl Lindskoog
In the hours following Haiti's devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and extremely poor. Houses "built on top of each other" and constructed by the poor people themselves made for a fragile city. And the country's many years of underdevelopment and political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster.
True enough. But that's not the whole story. What's missing is any explanation of why there are so many Haitians living in and around Port-au-Prince and why so many of them are forced to survive on so little. Indeed, even when an explanation is ventured, it is often outrageously false such as a former U.S. diplomat's testimony on CNN that Port-au-Prince's overpopulation was due to the fact that Haitians, like most Third World people, know nothing of birth control.
It may startle news-hungry Americans to learn that these conditions the American media correctly attributes to magnifying the impact of this tremendous disaster were largely the product of American policies and an American-led development model.
From 1957-1971 Haitians lived under the dark shadow of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a brutal dictator who enjoyed U.S. backing because he was seen by Americans as a reliable anti-Communist. After his death, Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" became President-for-life at the age of 19 and he ruled Haiti until he was finally overthrown in 1986. It was in the 1970s and 1980s that Baby Doc and the United States government and business community worked together to put Haiti and Haiti's capitol city on track to become what it was on January 12, 2010.
After the coronation of Baby Doc, American planners inside and outside the U.S. government initiated their plan to transform Haiti into the "Taiwan of the Caribbean." This small, poor country situated conveniently close to the United States was instructed to abandon its agricultural past and develop a robust, export-oriented manufacturing sector. This, Duvalier and his allies were told, was the way toward modernization and economic development.
From the standpoint of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Haiti was the perfect candidate for this neoliberal facelift. The entrenched poverty of the Haitian masses could be used to force them into low-paying jobs sewing baseballs and assembling other products.
But USAID had plans for the countryside too. Not only were Haiti's cities to become exporting bases but so was the countryside, with Haitian agriculture also reshaped along the lines of export-oriented, market-based production. To accomplish this USAID, along with urban industrialists and large landholders, worked to create agro-processing facilities, even while they increased their practice of dumping surplus agricultural products from the U.S. on the Haitian people.
This "aid" from the Americans, along with the structural changes in the countryside predictably forced Haitian peasants who could no longer survive to migrate to the cities, especially Port-au-Prince where the new manufacturing jobs were supposed to be. However, when they got there they found there weren't nearly enough manufacturing jobs go around. The city became more and more crowded. Slum areas expanded. And to meet the housing needs of the displaced peasants, quickly and cheaply constructed housing was put up, sometimes placing houses right "on top of each other."(중략)
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http://www.abundanthope.net/pages/Candace_7/Haiti_Quake_4431.shtml
Haiti Quake By Candace
Jan 17, 2010 - 4:42:00 PM
Haitians are piling bodies along the devastated streets of their
capital after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace
and the main prison, the cathedral, hospitals, schools and thousands of
homes. Untold numbers are still trapped.
President Rene Preval says he believes thousands of people are dead
even as other officials give much higher estimates – though they were
based on the extent of the destruction rather than firm counts of the
dead.
His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: “I believe we are
well over 100,000,” while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The
Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead. Both admit they have no
way of knowing.
The magnitude-7 quake struck Tuesday afternoon.
Some photos are coming out of the country but most photojournalists
are just arriving and trying to find ways to transmit the photos. We
will update the blog as more photos are available.
WARNING: This post contains graphic images of dead bodies and injured survivors.
A man covers his mouth as the stench dead bodies fills the area outside
near a destroyed building on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that
struck and devastated the nation on January 12. (Photo by Chris
Hondros/Getty Images)
Two year old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother Daphnee Plaisin,
after he is rescued from a collapsed home by Belgian and Spanish
rescuers in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Port-au-Prince,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Light from the setting sun strikes the ruins of the National Cathedral in
Port-au-Prince on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and urgency
were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced
much of the capital to rubble. (Michael Appleton/The New York Times)
A woman uses bed sheets to contruct a makeshift tent in an encampment
near the airport in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of
tension and urgency were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after
an earthquake reduced much of the capital to rubble. (Michael
Appleton/The New York Times)
A woman in Port-au-Prince weeps as she watches bodies being loaded onto a
dumptruck for transportation to a mass grave outside the city on
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and urgency were growing in
Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced much of the
capital to rubble. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
James Girly, 64, of the US speaks with a French military rescuers from the
Securite Civile after he was brought out of a destroyed building of the
Montana Hotel where he was trapped for 50 hours in Port-au-Prince on
January 14, 2010. French rescuers pulled seven Americans and one
Haitian survivor from the building. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
The Haitian National Penitentiary stands burnt and empty after an
earthquake measuring 7 plus on the Richter scale rocked Port-au-Prince
Haiti on January 12, 2009. The prison house more than 3,000 inmates who
all escaped into the streets. The death toll in the Haiti quake could
top 100,000 dead, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said. (LOGAN
ABASSI/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S., French and Spanish rescue workers carry Sarla Chand, 65, of New Jersey,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after more than 50
hours being buried underneath the pile of rubble that was formerly the
Montana Hotel. The hotel, which sits on a ridge, was flattened from the
earthquake. She says she had been speaking to five other people trapped
with her up until the moment she was rescued. Chand is a physician. (AP
Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)
Earthquake survivors use water from a fountain to bathe in the central public
garden of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. An earthquake
measuring more than 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday,
leaving thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
The legs of an earthquake victim are seen lying in street in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. An earthquake measuring
more than 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday, leaving
thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
A man surveys hundreds of bodies of earthquake victims at the morgue in
Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake
struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
People carry a body to a truck in Port au Prince on January 14, 2010,
following the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12.
Desperate Haitians awaited a global effort to find and treat survivors
from the quake that left streets strewn with corpses and a death toll
that may top 100,000. Hundreds of thousands of homeless, injured and
traumatized victims spent a second night on the streets and sidewalks,
transforming Port-au-Prince into a gigantic and under-equipped refugee
camp. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
Bodies are unloaded from a hearse at a funeral home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and urgency were growing
in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced much of the
capital to rubble. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Injured people await treatment in a courtyard at a hospital in downtown
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and
urgency were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake
reduced much of the capital to rubble. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Two women cried outside a destroyed building where their mother's body
remained buried, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Damon
Winter/The New York Times)
Injured patients outside the St. Esprit Hospital in central Port-au-Prince wait
in vain for treatment on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2010. Survivors strained
desperately on Wednesday against the chunks of concrete that buried
this city along with thousands of its residents, rich and poor, from
shantytowns to the presidential palace, in the devastating earthquake
that struck late Tuesday afternoon. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
A woman cried outside a destroyed building where her mother's body
remained buried, in Port-au-Prince, Thurday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Damon
Winter/The New York Times)
A girl received treatment for a broken leg in a courtyard on the grounds
of the general hospital in downtown Port Au Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14,
2010. Foreign aid workers trying to deliver supplies faced a logistical
nightmare on Thursday. Since Tuesday's earthquake, power was still out
and telecommunications were rarely functioning. Most medical facilities
have been severely damaged, if not leveled. Supplies of food and fresh
water were dwindling. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
People gather around and search through the rubble of a church destroyed by
the massive earthquake killing many people inside on January 14, 2010
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies
headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive
relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing possibly
thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People carry the body of a person pulled out of the rubble caused by the
massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People check on the identification of a body that was pulled out of the rubble
caused by the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People grieve together after a relative was killed in the massive earthquake
on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers
and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies
launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing
possibly thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the
7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A man carries a coffin to be used to bury a body found in the debris from
the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Roselyn Joseph cries over the body of her daughter Emanuela Aminise after she
was killed in the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies
headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive
relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing possibly
thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
An unidentified female earthquake victim is transported by pick-up truck
to the airport on January 13, 2010 in Port-Au-Prince from where she
will be evacuated for treatment in another country, one day after a
cataclysmic earthquake struck Haiti. More than 100,000 people are
feared dead. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, and released by the Philippine
Mission to the United Nations, members of the 10th Philippine
Peacekeeping Contingent serving with the United Nations Stabilization
Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) help in search and rescue efforts at the
collapsed U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where a number of staff
members and peacekeepers, including three from the Philippines, remain
trapped more than a day after a powerful earthquake struck the capital
city. (AP Photo/United Nations, Marco Dormino)
A destroyed building is seen on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. US President
Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the
European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and
United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute
nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12 but the airport was operational, opening the way
for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as well as by sea.
(Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images)
A woman walks past bodies laid out on a sidewalk in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay
in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of
government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that
collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New
York Times)
Local residents crowd a devastated street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins,
and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government
buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that collapsed a
day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Local residents look at the damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in
ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of
government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that
collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New
York Times)
A injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in
Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti,
killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential
palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean
nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
An injured man is transported to safety in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins,
and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government
buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that collapsed a
day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
People sit at a park a day after the destructive earthquake in downtown
Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake
that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the
cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
People look at bodies covered in blankets along the road among destruction
from the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The
7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the
president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison
and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A woman is carried in a chair among destruction from the earthquake in
Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake
that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the
cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
People search for survivors under the rubble of a collapse building the day
after an earthquakeâ? hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened
the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main
prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
A UN car is covered in rubble the day after an earthquakeâ? hit
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude
earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace,
the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole
neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
An injured girl lies on the side of the road as she is attended to the day
after an earthquakeâ? hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday. (AP
Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
People cross the hands of an earthquake victim in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on
Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals,
schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo
Arduengo)
A person ties a dead woman's feet together as she is attended to on the
side of a road the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
An injured child sits on the sidewalkâ? in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on
Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals,
schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo
Arduengo)
A woman stands in the rubble of her home the day after an earthquake hit
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Rescuers work to free trapped survivors and find dead victims in a four story
building that collapsed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald
Herbert)
Debris lays in the street after an earthquake along the Delmas road in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude
earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
People walk and sit in the street after an earthquake struck Port au Prince,
Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest
ever recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cris
Bierrenbach)
A woman lies on the ground as others stand outside a market that
collapsed after a powerful earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Cris Bierrenbach)
People gather in the street after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest ever
recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
People gather in the street after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest ever
recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
Bodies of earthquake victims lay on a streetâ? in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
Men remove the battered body of a young woman from the rubble, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Tuesday's quake left a
landscape of collapsed buildings _ hospitals, schools, churches,
ramshackle homes, even the gleaming national palace _ the rubble
sending up a white cloud that shrouded the entire capital. (AP
Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell)
Girls cry as a little girl is removed from the rubble, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010, in Port-AU-Prince, Haiti. Tuesday's quake left a landscape of
collapsed buildings _ hospitals, schools, churches, ramshackle homes,
even the gleaming national palace _ the rubble sending up a white cloud
that shrouded the entire capital. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick
Farrell)
People look at earthquake victims lying on the street in the aftermath of a
7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
A body lies among the rubble of a damaged building in Port-au-Prince,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on
Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals,
schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory
Bull)
A injured man is carried on a push cart by friends among destruction from
the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The
7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the
president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison
and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A man walks past a body lying on a street in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. (AP
Photo/Gregory Bull)
In this photo released by the United Nations, buildings affected by an
earthquake lay in ruins in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP
Photo/United Nations, Logan Abassi)
People pass by the remains of a six-story communication building on January
13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief
supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a
massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have
killed thousands. US President Barack Obama ordered a swift and
aggressive US rescue effort, while the European Union activated its
crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency
funds and supplies for the destitute nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was
reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12 but the airport
was operational, opening the way for international relief aid to be
ferried in by air as well as by sea. (THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)
A photo released on January 14, 2010 from the UN Minustah mission showing
the damage done to the Presidential palace in Port-au-Prince following
a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. UN and aid agencies
warned on January 14, 2010 that they faced a "major logistic challenge"
in getting essential relief to survivors of Haiti's deadly earthquake.
(LOGAN ABASSI/AFP/Getty Images)
Local residents wander amidst the ruins of their hometown hours after the
earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. More than 100,000
people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous
earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in
ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. With thousands of people
missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as
more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital, where more than
two million people live, most in the grip of poverty. (JUAN
BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
Local residents wander amidst the ruins of their hometown hours after the
earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. More than 100,000
people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous
earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in
ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. With thousands of people
missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as
more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital, where more than
two million people live, most in the grip of poverty. (JUAN
BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
A Haitian man rides his bicycle past the rumble of a destroyed church
caused by a massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince on January 13, 2010.
Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. US President
Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the
European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and
United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute
nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12 but the airport was operational, opening the way
for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as well as by sea.
(ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)
A man helped an injured person after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. One of the strongest earthquakes
recorded on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola struck Haiti late
Tuesday afternoon near Port-au-Prince, the capital, trapping people
under collapsed buildings and raising fears of large numbers of
casualties in the hemisphere's poorest country. (Tequila Minsky/The New
York Times)
A young woman reaches out to adjust a blanket covering a body in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of
Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead
in the rubble of government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and
shantytowns that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake.
(Tequila Minsky/The New York Times)
Injured people sit along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude
earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
In this photo released by the United Nations, earthquake survivors' tents
are seen between buildings in Port au Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan.
13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP
Photo/United Nations, Logan Abassi)
A Haitian woman is covered in rubble on January 12, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the
impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing
widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A
tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the
earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A destroyed building is seen on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after
a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean
nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and
panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was
immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck
at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
Haitians walk past damaged buildings on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after
a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean
nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and
panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was
immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck
at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A Haitian woman is helped after being trapped in rubble on January 12,
2010 in Port-au-Prince following a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked
the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and
causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said.
A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after
the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A Haitian woman is helped from the rubble of a damaged building on
January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring
7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling
buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP
witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the
Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL
MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A body lies amid rubble on January 12,
아이티가 인류에게 주는 경고와 교훈은 무엇일까요?신은 어째서 인류가 경제난과 자연재해의 참사를 보아야만 한다고 하셨을까요?
열심히 길을 바른 따라 오신 분은 이유를 잘 아실 겁니다.
*** [스크랩] 아이티 지진은 미국 대재앙의 예고편
제 3의 눈은 공포의 1월을 이렇게 말한다 10.01.13 18:37
내 이름은 doombird 미래의 길조
다음은 영화의 한 장면에서 제 3의 눈이 말한 것이다.
앞서 말했듯이 지구 중부권 지방에 순간적인 빙하기가 다가오고 남부지방에서는 화산과 지진이 계속 이어지고 있다. 남반구에서는 산불과 폭염, 홍수가 계속 이어지고 있다...
하지만 아직도 분위기 파악이 안되고 정신 못차린 국가들이 많이 있구나..
2010년 새해를 맞이하여 전세계가 떠오르는 해를 보며 나름대로 이상한 소원을 빌고 있다...
지구인, 이제 그대들이 빌고 싶은 대상은 없어진지 오래야...
그 대들이 스스로 하늘을 버리고 지구, 대자연을 버리고 양심을 버린지 오래인데 그 무엇을 향해 기도하고 있나... 그대들이 그렇게 자랑하는 기계에 다가가서 빌어라, 애꿎은 태양에 가서 빌지 말고... 태양은 이미 그대들을 버린지 오래인데... 또한 그대들이 찬양하는 신들과 예수, 마호멧, 석가 등등은 항상 그대편에 있을 거라고 생각지마라...
앞전에 말했듯 그대들이 밟고 서있는 이 대지는 그렇게 안전하지 않다. 이렇게 불안한 대지위에 왜 그렇게 위험하고 무거운 시설들이 많은지...
이 제 더이상 미래는 그대들이 생각한 것처럼 안전하지 않다. 반성하세요. 자연을 아끼고 자연에 절을 하세요. 누가 그대들에게 자연은 정복의 대상이라고 하였나. 다, 그대들의 탐욕이 만들어내 잘난 구호들이 아닌가... 제 3의 눈과 그래도 남아있는 인간의 양심이 이 모든걸 보고 있다는 것을 알아야 한다.
아이티 지진은 미국 대재앙의 예고편 10.01.17 14:48
내 이름은 doombird 미래의 길조
다음은 영화의 한 장면에서 제3의 눈이 말한 것이다.
앞전에 말한 것처럼 모든 일이 현실화되고 있다...
캘리포니아 지진을 시발로 하여 그 이어진 줄기인 아이티가 대지진의 직격탄을 맞았다.
슬픔에 젖은 목소리로 현장을 전하는 사자들은 새로운 재앙을 우려하는 표정이 역력하다.
앞서 말한대로 절망스러운 공포가 지구촌을 감싸고 있다. 하지만 이 재앙은 새로운 재앙의 예고편일 뿐이다.
지 구온난화와 환경오염 그리고 지구가 우주의 새로운 시간대로 진입한 상태가 만들어내는 이 현상은 인류의 미래를 계속 암울하게 만들것이다... 들려온다, 대 지진이 미국 캘리포나아와 뉴욕을 연결하는 지축에 엄청난 압력을 가하는 소리가... 그리고 이제 화산과 지진은 예전처럼 바다가 아닌 육지에서 직접 예고없이 나타날 것같다.
사실을 말하기 참담하지만 미국은 이제 과거의 미국이 아닌 절망의 미국이 될 것이다. 그리고 해외에 파견된 미군들에게 계속해서 견디기힘든 고통의 시간이 다가올 것이다.
길조는 왜 이런 슬픈 사연을 계속 써야만 하는가...
연극에 참여한 배우이기 때문이다.
***
http://blog.daum.net/petercskim/7859130 - 피터김
지난주 는 아이티 지진참사의 참상이 눈과 귀를 사로잡고 미국의 오바마가 부시와 클린턴을 앞세워 나팔부는 소리까지 들어야하는 빰빠라 정국이었습니다. 그런데 아래의 같은 꿈을꾸자는 단체 CommonDreams.org 의 타전 기사는 그런 소동의 속내가 다른데 있다는 것을 드러냅니다. 잠시 골자를 보내드립니다.
1) 아이티 수도 포르또프랭스가 그정도 지진에 일거에 붕괴되고 5십만명 (외신은 왠지 자꾸 1십만명이라 보도하지만..)의 사망자를 낼정도로 취약한 사회기반이 된 것은 미국의 농간이 수십년간 지속된 과거업보의 결과라 합니다. 뚜 ~둥.
2) 아이티의 오래된 뒤발리에 정권은 미국정부의 뒷받침을 받아서 1957년부터 14년간 철권 통치를 하고 그의 서거후 아들인 소위 베이비 독이라 불리던 장클로드가 19세 나이로 종신대통령에 올라서 다시 15년을 꼬마 신랑 통치를 하셨다고 합니다. (윗 사진의 테레사 수녀 앞의 여성은 그분의 부인인데 엄청 칭송을 받는데 거기서 이런 참사의 단서가 보입니다.)
3) 베이비 독은 아버지에 뒤이어 철권통치를 하면서 수만명의 민주인사와 지식인을 골로보내고 세계화와 산업화 (꼭 어느나라 구호와 닮았네요.. 쩝)를 드라이브해서 농촌의 농업기반을 무너뜨리고 도시는 제조업으로 변화시킨다 해놓고선 영세 봉제업 같은 것만 늘어놓아 도시빈민 계층을 확산시키는 결과를 빚었다 합니다. 이런 상황에는 아이티 국민의 무지하고 타락스런 생활태도도 영합이 된 것입니다. (악업도 본인들의 선택이죠)
4) 좀 웃기는 내용인데요 유명한 테레사수녀가 베이비 독과 그의 부인을 칭송하는 대목이 있습니다. 세간에는 테레사를 빈자의 어머니, 자비의 천사로 그려내는데 실상은 국제언론의 그럴듯한 모델로 쓰임받았고 부패 정치라인의 뒷배경 역할을 하는 기막힌 인생역정이란 폭로성 조명을 받곤했죠. 그런 테레사 수녀가 1981 년 아이티에 가서 나중에 결국 돈가방을 들고 외국으로 도망친 폭군 베이비독 뒤발리에를 두고 “가난한 사람들이 국가의 우두머리와 이토록 친근한 경우는 처음 보았다”고 칭송했다. (눈이 멀었다는 증거죠) 또 “현대세계의 가장 냉소적이고 천박하며 못된 여성 중 하나”로 일컬어진 베이비 독 부인, 미셸의 두 손을 정답게 감싸쥐고는 “영부인은 느끼시고, 아시며, 자신의 사랑을 말뿐이 아니라 눈에 보이는 실체적인 행동으로도 보여주고자 하시는 분”이라 예찬하는 시적 표현을 합니다. (이하 중략)
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/cocolandkr/4198
http://blog.daum.net/damuse/271?srchid=BR1http%3A%2F%2Fblog.daum.net%2Fdamuse%2F271
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What you're not hearing about HAITI
Published on Thursday, January 14, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be)
by Carl Lindskoog
In the hours following Haiti's devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and extremely poor. Houses "built on top of each other" and constructed by the poor people themselves made for a fragile city. And the country's many years of underdevelopment and political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster.
True enough. But that's not the whole story. What's missing is any explanation of why there are so many Haitians living in and around Port-au-Prince and why so many of them are forced to survive on so little. Indeed, even when an explanation is ventured, it is often outrageously false such as a former U.S. diplomat's testimony on CNN that Port-au-Prince's overpopulation was due to the fact that Haitians, like most Third World people, know nothing of birth control.
It may startle news-hungry Americans to learn that these conditions the American media correctly attributes to magnifying the impact of this tremendous disaster were largely the product of American policies and an American-led development model.
From 1957-1971 Haitians lived under the dark shadow of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a brutal dictator who enjoyed U.S. backing because he was seen by Americans as a reliable anti-Communist. After his death, Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" became President-for-life at the age of 19 and he ruled Haiti until he was finally overthrown in 1986. It was in the 1970s and 1980s that Baby Doc and the United States government and business community worked together to put Haiti and Haiti's capitol city on track to become what it was on January 12, 2010.
After the coronation of Baby Doc, American planners inside and outside the U.S. government initiated their plan to transform Haiti into the "Taiwan of the Caribbean." This small, poor country situated conveniently close to the United States was instructed to abandon its agricultural past and develop a robust, export-oriented manufacturing sector. This, Duvalier and his allies were told, was the way toward modernization and economic development.
From the standpoint of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Haiti was the perfect candidate for this neoliberal facelift. The entrenched poverty of the Haitian masses could be used to force them into low-paying jobs sewing baseballs and assembling other products.
But USAID had plans for the countryside too. Not only were Haiti's cities to become exporting bases but so was the countryside, with Haitian agriculture also reshaped along the lines of export-oriented, market-based production. To accomplish this USAID, along with urban industrialists and large landholders, worked to create agro-processing facilities, even while they increased their practice of dumping surplus agricultural products from the U.S. on the Haitian people.
This "aid" from the Americans, along with the structural changes in the countryside predictably forced Haitian peasants who could no longer survive to migrate to the cities, especially Port-au-Prince where the new manufacturing jobs were supposed to be. However, when they got there they found there weren't nearly enough manufacturing jobs go around. The city became more and more crowded. Slum areas expanded. And to meet the housing needs of the displaced peasants, quickly and cheaply constructed housing was put up, sometimes placing houses right "on top of each other."(중략)
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Haiti Quake By Candace
Jan 17, 2010 - 4:42:00 PM
Haitians are piling bodies along the devastated streets of their
capital after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace
and the main prison, the cathedral, hospitals, schools and thousands of
homes. Untold numbers are still trapped.
President Rene Preval says he believes thousands of people are dead
even as other officials give much higher estimates – though they were
based on the extent of the destruction rather than firm counts of the
dead.
His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: “I believe we are
well over 100,000,” while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The
Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead. Both admit they have no
way of knowing.
The magnitude-7 quake struck Tuesday afternoon.
Some photos are coming out of the country but most photojournalists
are just arriving and trying to find ways to transmit the photos. We
will update the blog as more photos are available.
WARNING: This post contains graphic images of dead bodies and injured survivors.
A man covers his mouth as the stench dead bodies fills the area outside
near a destroyed building on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that
struck and devastated the nation on January 12. (Photo by Chris
Hondros/Getty Images)
Two year old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother Daphnee Plaisin,
after he is rescued from a collapsed home by Belgian and Spanish
rescuers in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Port-au-Prince,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Light from the setting sun strikes the ruins of the National Cathedral in
Port-au-Prince on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and urgency
were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced
much of the capital to rubble. (Michael Appleton/The New York Times)
A woman uses bed sheets to contruct a makeshift tent in an encampment
near the airport in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of
tension and urgency were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after
an earthquake reduced much of the capital to rubble. (Michael
Appleton/The New York Times)
A woman in Port-au-Prince weeps as she watches bodies being loaded onto a
dumptruck for transportation to a mass grave outside the city on
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and urgency were growing in
Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced much of the
capital to rubble. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
James Girly, 64, of the US speaks with a French military rescuers from the
Securite Civile after he was brought out of a destroyed building of the
Montana Hotel where he was trapped for 50 hours in Port-au-Prince on
January 14, 2010. French rescuers pulled seven Americans and one
Haitian survivor from the building. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
The Haitian National Penitentiary stands burnt and empty after an
earthquake measuring 7 plus on the Richter scale rocked Port-au-Prince
Haiti on January 12, 2009. The prison house more than 3,000 inmates who
all escaped into the streets. The death toll in the Haiti quake could
top 100,000 dead, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said. (LOGAN
ABASSI/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S., French and Spanish rescue workers carry Sarla Chand, 65, of New Jersey,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after more than 50
hours being buried underneath the pile of rubble that was formerly the
Montana Hotel. The hotel, which sits on a ridge, was flattened from the
earthquake. She says she had been speaking to five other people trapped
with her up until the moment she was rescued. Chand is a physician. (AP
Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)
Earthquake survivors use water from a fountain to bathe in the central public
garden of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. An earthquake
measuring more than 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday,
leaving thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
The legs of an earthquake victim are seen lying in street in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. An earthquake measuring
more than 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday, leaving
thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
A man surveys hundreds of bodies of earthquake victims at the morgue in
Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake
struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
People carry a body to a truck in Port au Prince on January 14, 2010,
following the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12.
Desperate Haitians awaited a global effort to find and treat survivors
from the quake that left streets strewn with corpses and a death toll
that may top 100,000. Hundreds of thousands of homeless, injured and
traumatized victims spent a second night on the streets and sidewalks,
transforming Port-au-Prince into a gigantic and under-equipped refugee
camp. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
Bodies are unloaded from a hearse at a funeral home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and urgency were growing
in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced much of the
capital to rubble. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Injured people await treatment in a courtyard at a hospital in downtown
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Signs of tension and
urgency were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake
reduced much of the capital to rubble. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Two women cried outside a destroyed building where their mother's body
remained buried, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Damon
Winter/The New York Times)
Injured patients outside the St. Esprit Hospital in central Port-au-Prince wait
in vain for treatment on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2010. Survivors strained
desperately on Wednesday against the chunks of concrete that buried
this city along with thousands of its residents, rich and poor, from
shantytowns to the presidential palace, in the devastating earthquake
that struck late Tuesday afternoon. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
A woman cried outside a destroyed building where her mother's body
remained buried, in Port-au-Prince, Thurday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Damon
Winter/The New York Times)
A girl received treatment for a broken leg in a courtyard on the grounds
of the general hospital in downtown Port Au Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14,
2010. Foreign aid workers trying to deliver supplies faced a logistical
nightmare on Thursday. Since Tuesday's earthquake, power was still out
and telecommunications were rarely functioning. Most medical facilities
have been severely damaged, if not leveled. Supplies of food and fresh
water were dwindling. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
People gather around and search through the rubble of a church destroyed by
the massive earthquake killing many people inside on January 14, 2010
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies
headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive
relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing possibly
thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People carry the body of a person pulled out of the rubble caused by the
massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People check on the identification of a body that was pulled out of the rubble
caused by the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People grieve together after a relative was killed in the massive earthquake
on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers
and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies
launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing
possibly thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the
7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A man carries a coffin to be used to bury a body found in the debris from
the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Roselyn Joseph cries over the body of her daughter Emanuela Aminise after she
was killed in the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies
headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive
relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing possibly
thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
An unidentified female earthquake victim is transported by pick-up truck
to the airport on January 13, 2010 in Port-Au-Prince from where she
will be evacuated for treatment in another country, one day after a
cataclysmic earthquake struck Haiti. More than 100,000 people are
feared dead. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, and released by the Philippine
Mission to the United Nations, members of the 10th Philippine
Peacekeeping Contingent serving with the United Nations Stabilization
Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) help in search and rescue efforts at the
collapsed U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where a number of staff
members and peacekeepers, including three from the Philippines, remain
trapped more than a day after a powerful earthquake struck the capital
city. (AP Photo/United Nations, Marco Dormino)
A destroyed building is seen on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. US President
Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the
European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and
United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute
nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12 but the airport was operational, opening the way
for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as well as by sea.
(Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images)
A woman walks past bodies laid out on a sidewalk in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay
in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of
government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that
collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New
York Times)
Local residents crowd a devastated street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins,
and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government
buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that collapsed a
day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Local residents look at the damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in
ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of
government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that
collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New
York Times)
A injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in
Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti,
killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential
palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean
nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
An injured man is transported to safety in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins,
and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government
buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that collapsed a
day earlier in a powerful earthquake. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
People sit at a park a day after the destructive earthquake in downtown
Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake
that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the
cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
People look at bodies covered in blankets along the road among destruction
from the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The
7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the
president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison
and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A woman is carried in a chair among destruction from the earthquake in
Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake
that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the
cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
People search for survivors under the rubble of a collapse building the day
after an earthquakeâ? hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened
the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main
prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
A UN car is covered in rubble the day after an earthquakeâ? hit
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude
earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace,
the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole
neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
An injured girl lies on the side of the road as she is attended to the day
after an earthquakeâ? hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday. (AP
Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
People cross the hands of an earthquake victim in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on
Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals,
schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo
Arduengo)
A person ties a dead woman's feet together as she is attended to on the
side of a road the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
An injured child sits on the sidewalkâ? in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on
Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals,
schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo
Arduengo)
A woman stands in the rubble of her home the day after an earthquake hit
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Rescuers work to free trapped survivors and find dead victims in a four story
building that collapsed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald
Herbert)
Debris lays in the street after an earthquake along the Delmas road in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude
earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
People walk and sit in the street after an earthquake struck Port au Prince,
Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest
ever recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cris
Bierrenbach)
A woman lies on the ground as others stand outside a market that
collapsed after a powerful earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Cris Bierrenbach)
People gather in the street after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest ever
recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
People gather in the street after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest ever
recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
Bodies of earthquake victims lay on a streetâ? in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
Men remove the battered body of a young woman from the rubble, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Tuesday's quake left a
landscape of collapsed buildings _ hospitals, schools, churches,
ramshackle homes, even the gleaming national palace _ the rubble
sending up a white cloud that shrouded the entire capital. (AP
Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell)
Girls cry as a little girl is removed from the rubble, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010, in Port-AU-Prince, Haiti. Tuesday's quake left a landscape of
collapsed buildings _ hospitals, schools, churches, ramshackle homes,
even the gleaming national palace _ the rubble sending up a white cloud
that shrouded the entire capital. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick
Farrell)
People look at earthquake victims lying on the street in the aftermath of a
7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
A body lies among the rubble of a damaged building in Port-au-Prince,
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on
Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals,
schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory
Bull)
A injured man is carried on a push cart by friends among destruction from
the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The
7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the
president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison
and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A man walks past a body lying on a street in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. (AP
Photo/Gregory Bull)
In this photo released by the United Nations, buildings affected by an
earthquake lay in ruins in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP
Photo/United Nations, Logan Abassi)
People pass by the remains of a six-story communication building on January
13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief
supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a
massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have
killed thousands. US President Barack Obama ordered a swift and
aggressive US rescue effort, while the European Union activated its
crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency
funds and supplies for the destitute nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was
reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12 but the airport
was operational, opening the way for international relief aid to be
ferried in by air as well as by sea. (THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)
A photo released on January 14, 2010 from the UN Minustah mission showing
the damage done to the Presidential palace in Port-au-Prince following
a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. UN and aid agencies
warned on January 14, 2010 that they faced a "major logistic challenge"
in getting essential relief to survivors of Haiti's deadly earthquake.
(LOGAN ABASSI/AFP/Getty Images)
Local residents wander amidst the ruins of their hometown hours after the
earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. More than 100,000
people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous
earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in
ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. With thousands of people
missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as
more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital, where more than
two million people live, most in the grip of poverty. (JUAN
BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
Local residents wander amidst the ruins of their hometown hours after the
earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. More than 100,000
people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous
earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in
ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. With thousands of people
missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as
more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital, where more than
two million people live, most in the grip of poverty. (JUAN
BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
A Haitian man rides his bicycle past the rumble of a destroyed church
caused by a massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince on January 13, 2010.
Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as
governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after
a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. US President
Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the
European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and
United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute
nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong
quake on January 12 but the airport was operational, opening the way
for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as well as by sea.
(ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)
A man helped an injured person after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. One of the strongest earthquakes
recorded on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola struck Haiti late
Tuesday afternoon near Port-au-Prince, the capital, trapping people
under collapsed buildings and raising fears of large numbers of
casualties in the hemisphere's poorest country. (Tequila Minsky/The New
York Times)
A young woman reaches out to adjust a blanket covering a body in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Huge swaths of
Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead
in the rubble of government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and
shantytowns that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake.
(Tequila Minsky/The New York Times)
Injured people sit along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude
earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)
In this photo released by the United Nations, earthquake survivors' tents
are seen between buildings in Port au Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan.
13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP
Photo/United Nations, Logan Abassi)
A Haitian woman is covered in rubble on January 12, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the
impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing
widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A
tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the
earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A destroyed building is seen on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after
a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean
nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and
panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was
immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck
at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
Haitians walk past damaged buildings on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after
a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean
nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and
panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was
immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck
at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A Haitian woman is helped after being trapped in rubble on January 12,
2010 in Port-au-Prince following a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked
the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and
causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said.
A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after
the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A Haitian woman is helped from the rubble of a damaged building on
January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring
7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling
buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP
witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the
Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. (DANIEL
MOREL/AFP/Getty Images)
A body lies amid rubble on January 12,
