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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

There are no miracles

Basically, the "miracle" of the November 2008 election could be to remind us that there are no miracles. And the destiny of the United States, like that of other countries, must not to be confused with the personality of a man, with neither the will of a president.  Serge Halimi, monde-diplomatique.fr



  • UN #climate panel reviewing natural disasters claim: news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100124/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingipccbritainweather #
  • #UN #climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers - Times Online: bit.ly/7KQaCw #IPCC #
  • 150,000 #Haiti #quake victims buried, gov't says news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100124/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake #
  • #US, #Brazilian troops hand out aid in #Haiti slum news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_quake_haiti #Brazil #
  • #UN #climate panel head says glacier alarm 'regrettable error'- Hindustan Times: bit.ly/5qjovv #
  • #US stocks sink again - The China Post ow.ly/1nxhWP #finance #wallstreet #
  • Thank You, #WallStreet. May We Have Another? | Mother Jones: digg.com/d31F83d?t?t #US #
  • #Twitter to Help #Haiti? hope140.org/ #
  • GEAB N°41 is available! The Decade 2010 – 2020: Towards a knockout victory by gold over the #Dollar tinyurl.com/ybj4etw #economy #
  • www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/01/HALIMI/18699 Peut-on réformer les Etats-Unis ?, par Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique) #US #
  • #Davos elite to grapple with bank reforms, #Haiti is.gd/6YVn4 #
  • RT @TelegraphNews #Haiti #earthquake: government fears toll could rise to 300,000 - Telegraph ow.ly/1nwsgC #

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    Monday, January 25, 2010

    Connect with No Shock Doctrine for Haiti on Facebook

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    Friday, January 22, 2010

    Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert

    Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again and again.” Link



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    Thursday, January 21, 2010

    Haiti: Guns or food?



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    Wednesday, January 20, 2010

    We Are ALL Haitians!

    Help Haiti Now


    Open Street Map imagery of Haiti / Port Au Prince 
    (more than 5.000 geotagged items)


    We are ALL Haitians! Victims of the global military-financial oligarchy and thrown to the media. Dispossessed of our property and our culture on the temple of the Holy Profit. Solidarity and humanism transformed  into a television event. The survival of the fittest, the predator that gains in stock market and speculates on poverty, becomes universal law. Link
    • The end of #Haiti? bit.ly/8qkGOz #Refugees #earthquake #
    • Situation in #Haiti and the #DNS bit.ly/6YucA5 #earthquake #
    • #Haiti / Sismo: #Brasil tem condições para duplicar presença militar... tinyurl.com/ybm6rrg #
    • #ONU pede reforço da missão de paz no #Hait - PUBLICO.PT ow.ly/1neTLR #UN #
    • #Haiti: Como pode ajudar bit.ly/6ddjXn #Portugal #
    • BBC News - #US marines arrive to bolster #Haiti quake effor ts - shar.es/aBl8K #
    • #US troops insist 'we're not in #Haiti to fight' | World news | The Guardian - shar.es/aBlOg #
    • #Haiti aid agencies warn: chaotic and confusing relief effort is costing lives | World news | The Guardian... shar.es/aBl95 #
    • Reuters AlertNet - #UN 's Ban asks council for extra #Haiti peacekeepers - shar.es/aBApW #
    • Reuters AlertNet - No policing role for #US troops in #Haiti - Gates - shar.es/aBApQ #
    • #Haiti information service launched by Thomson Reuters Founda: digg.com/d31FtTA?t #
    • Help steps up, but so does scale of #Haiti tragedy - Authorities: 200,000 dead, 1.5 million homeless in Haiti is.gd/6yljA #
    • RT @huffingtonpost #Haiti Earthquake: Impact #Bloggers Weigh In is.gd/6ziuO #
    • French minister criticizes #US aid role in #Haiti news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_haiti #france #
    • #UN must investigate and clarify the dominant #US role in earthquake-ravaged #Haiti, a French minister said tinyurl.com/y8z7lxn #
    • "This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying #Haiti," Joyand et, in Brussels for an EU meeting on Haiti tinyurl.com/y8z7lxn #
    • RT @nydailynews #Twitter helped land a @MSF_USA plane with aid for #Haiti #earthquake victims!: ow.ly/XMVi #

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    Tuesday, January 19, 2010

    Haiti Aid Agencies: chaotic and confusing relief effort is costing lives

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    Monday, January 18, 2010

    BloggersUnite for Haiti


    • Before the Earthquake | #Haiti | - shar.es/aBH36 #
    • #US Policy in #Haiti Over Decades "Lays the Foundation for Why Impact of Natural Disaster Is So Severe": bit.ly/5emzYW #
    • Please Help The People of #Haiti: digg.com/d31Fmub?t #digg #
    • RT @mashable #Apple Wants to Ban #Nokia Imports to the US bit.ly/6Ckg9L #Finland #
    • "Agora é Deus que manda no #Haiti" - PUBLICO.PT bit.ly/6uSJpE #




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    Sunday, January 17, 2010

    Support Disaster Relief in Haiti



              Visit Google Crisis Response

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