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Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:32 pm
by nousd
:D
if only

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:37 pm
by hackman
pimp posted this in the other thread, speaks volumes


Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:49 pm
by nousd
yeah, lots of Saudi aid pouring in.

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:55 pm
by hackman
yeah the arabs are at fault

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:13 pm
by nousd
the Saudis are excluded from conspiracy theories?
why so?

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:15 pm
by gender
sd5 wrote:I see that you have accepted my advice hackman
& are on the way to recovery.
May Allah and his angels be with you.
you say i'm deluded then you chat noise about allah and angels?? not to hijack the thread or hate on religion but at least my assertions are based on facts.

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:28 pm
by hackman
sd5 wrote:the Saudis are excluded from conspiracy theories?
why so?
if you got beef with the saudis start a new thread

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:29 pm
by magma
gender wrote:
sd5 wrote:I see that you have accepted my advice hackman
& are on the way to recovery.
May Allah and his angels be with you.
you say i'm deluded then you chat noise about allah and angels?? not to hijack the thread or hate on religion but at least my assertions are based on facts.
I think he was being sarcastic.

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:33 pm
by gender
if thats the case then fair play... if not, he's a moron

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:38 pm
by nousd
^^^point was:
US is fronting with on-the-ground help
(as are some others with dosh)
You think that it is planned intervention.
I don't.
And am pleased that US troops have been required to lessen the display of arms (despite civil unrest)
But I wonder where other wealthy nations are with substantial help.
Or is Haiti so unimportant in geopolitics that the US & Cuba are left to being neighbourly?

edit to add an arrow

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:41 pm
by missedthebus
hackman wrote:pimp posted this in the other thread, speaks volumes

is this al jazeera?

As you say, speaks volumes.

There is an article from the FT from wed 20th called Needy in desperate need of supplies' worth checking out

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:43 pm
by magma
sd5 wrote:Or is Haiti so unimportant in geopolitics that the US & Cuba are left to being neighbourly?
I think there's a large amount of this. [Despite having clearly planned the whole shebang], the US are part of several programmes providing emergency relief across The Americas... however bad things are looking right now, I wonder how they would've looked if this had happened pre-Katrina?

I do lean to thinking that global response to this sort of thing should come from the UN rather from individual nations, but people would find reasons to think anyone intervening was evil. Bottom line is people love "knowing more" even if there isn't more to know.

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:56 pm
by hackman
missedthebus wrote:
hackman wrote:pimp posted this in the other thread, speaks volumes

is this al jazeera?

As you say, speaks volumes.

There is an article from the FT from wed 20th called Needy in desperate need of supplies' worth checking out
yeah think so
you got a link for that article? cant find it on google

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:58 pm
by hackman
magma wrote: the US are part of several programmes providing emergency relief across The Americas...
yet the americas all still hate america
hmmmmmmmm

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:04 pm
by missedthebus
hackman wrote:
missedthebus wrote:
hackman wrote:pimp posted this in the other thread, speaks volumes

is this al jazeera?

As you say, speaks volumes.

There is an article from the FT from wed 20th called Needy in desperate need of supplies' worth checking out
yeah think so
you got a link for that article? cant find it on google
cant do a direct link because of the batty subscription on there, but the top one, "Needy in desperate wait for supplies" and "A shaken state" (23rd). Both help highlight many of the problems with aid co-ordination and military presence.
http://search.ft.com/search?queryText=n ... =type_news

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:09 pm
by magma
hackman wrote:
magma wrote: the US are part of several programmes providing emergency relief across The Americas...
yet the americas all still hate america
hmmmmmmmm
The biggest, richest and most powerful nations will always be naturally disliked (just like the biggest, richest and most successful football teams)... it's important to cut through the prejudice and evaluate nations on actions you can actually prove. There are plenty of valid reasons to vehemently complain about America... I don't get why people that could be championing intelligently progressive thinkers like Chomsky or Klein allow themselves to get bogged down in all this essentially unproveable tittle-tattle.

If it gets proven I'll happily eat my hat, but right now it seems like massive waste of effort from everyone involved... all this negative energy from people around the world desperately searching for reasons to paint America as some "great Satan" could be going towards genuinely progressive and effective causes.

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:15 pm
by hackman
magma wrote:The biggest, richest and most powerful nations will always be naturally disliked
that is such bullshit, you cant equate football to the world
american and england both fully deserve all the hatred we get, if we actually used our positions as the leaders of the world to help rather than just make money wherever possible and grab monopolies...........

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:21 pm
by nousd
maate
I can understand self-hatred
& buying how yu poms were imperialist bastards etc
(with no saving graces nor justifications at all)
but how about at least visiting the States before making final judgement as to their motives?

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:27 pm
by magma
hackman wrote:
magma wrote:The biggest, richest and most powerful nations will always be naturally disliked
that is such bullshit, you cant equate football to the world
american and england both fully deserve all the hatred we get, if we actually used our positions as the leaders of the world to help rather than just make money wherever possible and grab monopolies...........
I agree that the biggest nations abuse their positions (as the authors I mention will tell the world until they're blue in the face!), but so-called "progressives" don't filter as well as they should - it's tempting to latch onto every theory about the US because they're such a big target.

The football analogy was lighthearted, but I think it's more relevant than you think. America get called the "great satan" and accused of actions bordering on genocide, yet I don't see similar insults been thrown at Zimbabwe which is, without a shadow of a doubt, a far worse administration. Hell, I even see people sticking up for people like Ahmedinejad/Khomeni... "my enemy's enemy is my friend" doesn't always work.

I'm not trying to insult anyone, especially not you, by saying I don't believe this stuff. Opinions are opinions.

Re: US conducted a Haiti help drill 1 day before the earthquake

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:36 pm
by hackman
magma wrote:
hackman wrote:
magma wrote:The biggest, richest and most powerful nations will always be naturally disliked
that is such bullshit, you cant equate football to the world
american and england both fully deserve all the hatred we get, if we actually used our positions as the leaders of the world to help rather than just make money wherever possible and grab monopolies...........
I agree that the biggest nations abuse their positions (as the authors I mention will tell the world until they're blue in the face!), but so-called "progressives" don't filter as well as they should - it's tempting to latch onto every theory about the US because they're such a big target.

The football analogy was lighthearted, but I think it's more relevant than you think. America get called the "great satan" and accused of actions bordering on genocide, yet I don't see similar insults been thrown at Zimbabwe which is, without a shadow of a doubt, a far worse administration. Hell, I even see people sticking up for people like Ahmedinejad/Khomeni... "my enemy's enemy is my friend" doesn't always work.

I'm not trying to insult anyone, especially not you, by saying I don't believe this stuff. Opinions are opinions.
sorry i was being calm, bullshit is a calm word lol
i dont think zimbabwe is a far worse administration, the american one has been going on much longer, but is just way more subtle
its obviously evil and needs to be sorted out, but i just think the american one is much more evil
btw this is nothing against american people, im talking about the heads of the corps, shadow government types, the bushes, the council foreign relations, bilderbergs etc
englands just as much the great satan for the same reasons