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Haiti Relief Aid Unfurls

January 17, 2010 6:13 PM

As Haiti continues to struggle through the disastrous earthquake, Byron Pitts reports on the efforts of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division to help rescue, feed and protect citizens.

The Tragedy of Haiti
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by kamila03 January 30, 2010 2:50 PM EST
So unfortunate it has come to this realizing how important having any country be up to par when it comes to infrastructure. Neglecting or taking away the wealth of any country pretending you're helping them it shows not in anyone's best interest. So many peolple loss their lives including diplomats or non diplomats alike. It could have been Hilary Clinton- President Obama or any chieft of states in that matter meeting with the top UN chieft in Haiti when the earthquake happened; they would of been buried as well in the hotel Montana.
I hope we draw from so unfortunate episode to rally together and fix and repay what we sucked out of them and rebuilt their countries as it should be order for all be safe when visiting "those countries" knowingly our love ones will return safe and sound. Haiti has been neglected and taken her wealth away from the begining of time when she fought for independence from the French. Undermined her independence and government and kidnaping head of states and turn a blind eye from the elite doing injustice to the mass. When have anyone ever heard that a family owned a port of any country. Such amenity belong to the government to better the lives of the people from ships/ revenues coming into the country should NOT belong to Mervs family.
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by Rachel5368 January 24, 2010 10:48 PM EST
Regardless of politics and opinions, these people need help. The doctors shown in this report very simply understand that. I shared 5% of my $400 monthly unemployment income to support their effort. Not much, but the 5% is sufficient to purchase a head-mounted flashlight in use by the doctors. What will your 5% do?
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by CRAYDUCK January 19, 2010 6:28 PM EST
Our prayers are not only with the people of Haiti but with all those who are who are doing any type of work to help. It is everyone who is making a difference. I worked with the Dr's. Boutian's. Both are good.
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by londoncalling1 January 19, 2010 12:06 PM EST
We are all still so vulnerable to nature and yet I wonder how many underwater military or 'other' exercises are conducted in this area by different agencies.
Several years ago I had predicted that when the planet Pluto traveled into the constellation Capricorn that all material "institutions" that had been constructed or built such as governments, buildings, infrastructures etc would be shaken to their foundations. Most of these would be start in the island area fault lines and continue to get stronger next month when Jupiter travels into Pisces. For the next 12 years what has seemed to be organized governments and so called organized religions as we know it will disintegrate. The first symptom of this is fear based polarization of irrational fanatical ideas as we see on Fox News and radicalizing of any kind of religion including Christianity or into military action.

Anything to generate fear to polarize people is the same old guard of control. Remember all polarizing ideas are designed to be divisive instead of united. There is no real governing authority that we can actually see, we need to be responsible for our selves, our own reactions, and choices. If anything is to be remembered by events of 9-11 is that destruction of the unbelievable did and was allowed to happen here and we are not indestructible. Katrina was allowed due to neglect for 30 years of the levy's and then fear again.
Destruction and denial unfortunately like some diseases is silent and through our constant denial grows anyway within rotting away all our souls decent parts until there is nothing left to give and Deus ex Machina has nothing more it can take from us.
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by malaya19 January 19, 2010 12:02 PM EST
MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE PEOPLE OUT IN HAITI. I PRAY FOR THEM EVERYDAY. I TRY NOT TO CRY WHEN I SEE THE KIDS SUFFERING. ITS' HEART BREAKING. YOU WORRY IF YOUR KID GETS SICK AND HOW YOU CAN HELP HIM FEEL BETTER. BUT THESE SEEING KIDS CRUSHED AND LYING ON THE STREETS DEAD WITHOUT ANY HELP ANY MEDICAL SUPPORT NO HELP ITS HARD TO LOOK AT.
I ASK EVERYONE WHO WATCHES THESE. THINK ABOUT THE KIDS AND THAT THEY HAVE NO ONE TO HELP THEM EXCEPT YOU.
PLEASE DONATE TO ANY ORGANIZATION YOU CAN FIND THAT IT TRULY HELPING HAITI SURVIVORS. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE SOMEONE TO HELP THEM BUT THEY CAN'T WITHOUT ANY SUPPLIES. PLEASE HELP!!!.

GOB BLESS YOU!!! AND YOUR FAMILY.
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by scohen305 January 18, 2010 5:48 PM EST
The massmedia converge and feed on dramatic disasters; retroactive charity and philanthropy assistance. What the world needs now is proactive universal coordinated effort to control and prevent disasters,e.g., people relocation, better enviromental engineering.

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by andora63 January 18, 2010 3:43 PM EST
I fail to see what many of these comments have to do with the present humanitarian catastrophe. Despite all the technological advances, we seem to have an emotional disconnect precisely because our nation is so sanitized and cordoned off and socioloically/politically divided. But this is the time to put all that aside and just be a human being and try to send some aid to people who need it. The president of Haiti is alive and working 24 hours a day trying to make some semblance of order and visiting people all over his capitol to let them know help is on the way.
We ARE lucky enough to be born here and have a chance at much better lives, some to the point that they expect it or assume this is the norm. The people born there cannot help where they were born. As far as the overpopulation, you can thank the church (almost 80% catholic) that bars birth control, lack of education and again, lack of financial wherwithal. Our nation uses 20% of the planets resources despite being a much smaller percentage of population. And some here are out there saying "OH Gee, thats too bad. That's their problem."?
If we can spend billions to go across the world to wage war, and yet we claim to be the "caring big brother or leader of the world", cetainly we can spare a drop in the bucket, in comparison to better a place we've had our hand in keeping down at times, along with our French buddies. It's easy to see where the term "ugly American" arises. I for one am seeing how appreciative the majority of people there are of our help, and think we could use a little positive PR for a change.
I was in NY when the towers went down. Politics went out the window and the city pulled together to help one another. We ought to be able to do the same for our even poorer brothers in other parts of the world.
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by adamh077 January 18, 2010 3:19 PM EST
Haiti isn't even suitable for 40,000. Any of those buildings would have been condemned in a developed country. There are no building regulations and if there were what money would they have to construct something? We all would agree Katrina was horrible and compared to Haiti it is just a grain of sand in a desert. I think 200,000 people ESTIMATED is a social problem and definitely needs to be addressed. Where are these people going to go?
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