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  • Haiti Quake: The Domino Theory
    1 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Haiti quake destruction lands smack dab in the middle of a burgeoning Socialist oil belt on the US’s doorstep.
    See map below...
    References:
    Tectonic weapon: http://www.voltairenet.org/article163626.html
    Cuba oil : http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/energy/2009/03/03/why-cubas-dreams-of-major-oil-discoveries-might-come-true.html
    Haiti background: http://www.opednews.com/populum/link.php?id=105516
    Oil band map background : USGS

  • Planet Earth As Weapon and Target
    25 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LEUREN MORET
    World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues v.9, n.4, Winter 2005
    If you have some doubt about the naturel catastroph in Haiti, read this article...
    http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2009/12/haarp-the-space-preservation-treaty-planet-earth-as-weapon-target-by-leuren-moret.html

  • THE HORROR OF HAITI: WHAT THE PRESS COVERAGE TELLS US
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 21, 2010
    THE HORROR OF HAITI: WHAT THE PRESS COVERAGE TELLS US
    John Chuckman
    It is relentless, the pictures of terror-stricken people, broken limbs, and bloated dead, and many of us cannot stand to see or hear more.
    One has to ask: what are we to do with such information?
    Create pressure on governments to keep the assistance flowing? Perhaps, but there is no shortage of assistance being sent to Haiti. There is however a huge problem in Haiti’s limited ability to absorb the (…)

  • Engineered Earthquake? US is Occupying Haiti as Troops Flood In
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    2010 January 19
    by Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince
    The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts.
    U.S. Air Force troops patrol downtown Port-au-Prince Monday January 18, 2010. Thousands more U.S. troops will keep order on Haiti’s increasingly lawless streets as tens of thousands of survivors wait desperately for aid. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Alain Joyandet (…)

  • Cuba is Missing... From US Reports on the International Response to Haiti’s Earthquake
    19 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dave Lindorff
    There are only two US media outlets that have reported on Cuba’s response to the deadly 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti. One was Fox News, which claimed, wrongly, that the Cubans were absent from the list of neighboring Caribbean countries providing aid. The other was the Christian Science Monitor (a respected news organization that recently shut down its print edition), which reported correctly that Cuba had dispatched 30 doctors to the stricken nation.
    The Christian (…)

  • Caribbean at risk of more large earthquakes
    18 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    (c) newscientist
    * 18:32 15 January 2010 by Kate Ravilious
    Earthquake experts are warning that the devastating quake that struck Haiti on Tuesday could be the first of several in the region. They say historical records suggest that not all the energy that has built up in the faults running through the Caribbean region was released in this week’s tragedy.
    Their fear is that enough energy remains in the fault system to trigger another earthquake of the same scale as Tuesday’s.
    The (…)

  • U.S. Foreign Policy: Blinded by Self-Righteousness, Greed & Arrogance; Held Together with Stupidity
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Originally published at OpEd News, November 25, 2009.
    Image, USAF Photo:
    Full sequence of events leading to the crash available at YouTube:
    On June 24, 1994, at Fairchild Air Force Base located near Spokane, Washington, an Air Force B-52 bomber crashed at the end of its air show. The aerial demonstration was awesome and chilling to watch. Reckless though it was, it appeared that the commander was in complete control of his craft, confidently demonstrating the might of his nation as (…)

  • The Cockpit: Where Custom & Tradition, Technology and Humans Collide
    14 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Probable Cause summation at the end of an aircraft accident investigation report is the official determination of why an accident occurred. Common threads are pilot error and equipment failure. Beyond structural failure, the clash between technology and humans was evident in the case of an American Airlines flight at Cali, Columbia.1 The third factor is more difficult to identify and document. It is the failure of the system, a situation that does not allow for the full utilization of (…)

  • Natural Disasters In Asia: Harbinger Of Things To Come?
    6 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    In a span of 5 weeks and one day earthquakes, floods, mudslides, typhoons and tsunamis swept through 10 nations leaving thousands of people dead and rendering millions more homeless.
    The first of the natural disasters struck Manila and the surrounding area on September 26 causing massive floods and mudslides and forcing thousands to flee their homes. Tropical storm Ketsana left hundreds dead and thousands displaced. On October 3rd this happened again with Tsunami Parma.
    The combined (…)

  • Ground the Airbus?
    19 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since entering service in 1974 with many technological innovations, such as computerized fly-by-wire control systems, user-friendly cockpits, and extended use of composite materials, 5,717 aircraft have been manufactured by Airbus, an European aerospace company. More than 5,100 Airbuses remain in service.
    Not including losses attributable to terrorism, rebellion or military action, Airbuses have been involved in 23 fatal crashes causing the deaths of 2,584 passengers, crew members and (…)