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To: LindyBill who wrote (344848)	1/21/2010 8:28:39 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793838

This story doesn't reflect the recent USAID policy decision. One Week Later: Haiti's Mass Graves, Orphans, Riots, and Refugees ecofactory.com The first orphans of the 7.0 Haiti Earthquake arrived in Pennsylvania today on a military transport plane. International airports in Florida, particularly the state's largest in tourist-friendly Orlando, have been flooded with refugees as the US-controlled airports in Haiti began sending flight after flight into the United States. Despite the growing momentum behind relief efforts, tension is mounting in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince as starvation, thirst, and unsanitary conditions threaten the lives of the quake survivors. CNN reports roaming mobs of hundreds of Haitian men who are breaking into unguarded and dilapidated stores and homes to steal everything from food to electronics. These super-riots are overwhelming the Haitian National Police force, who are only now beginning to work with US peacekeeping marines who landed in the capital last week. To complicate matters, all 4,000 high-security criminals held inside the country's National Penitentiary have escaped. To evade logistical bottlenecks, US military transports have begun airdropping bottled water and food into Port-au-Prince. The nation's airport, which U.S. military officers said could handle about 100 flights per day if operated 24/7, is hurriedly servicing as many as 180 flights a day. On the ground, the international relief efforts in Haiti are in full swing. Israel, Turkey, Russia, Argentina, and France all deployed field hospitals in Haiti in an effort to treat the wounded and prevent infection. A US hospital ship is expected to arrive in Port-au-Prince sometime this week. Rescuers have not given up hope, as more than 75 survivors were pulled from the rubble on Monday, nearly a week after the 7.0 Haiti Earthquake, whose estimated death toll has climbed past 100,000. Reporters in the country say that the streets of Port-au-Prince reeks of the rotting dead, who are continually being collected by police forces and deposited into mass graves. * * *

To: LindyBill who wrote (344848)	1/21/2010 11:33:00 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

A hundred violins are playing Mozart's Requiem Liberal talk-radio station Air America files for bankruptcy, will go off the air By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 22, 2010; C08 Air America, the liberal talk-radio network that helped boost the careers of Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, said Thursday that it was declaring bankruptcy and going off the air. The company, founded in 2004 and based in New York, strove to provide left-leaning commentary and call-in programs as an alternative to such popular conservative radio talkers as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. It was troubled almost from the start. The company had difficulty lining up affiliates and attracting a sizable audience. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection just 30 months after its inception and was resold to an investor group in early 2007 for $4.25 million. Charlie Kireker, one of Air America's principal owners and its chairman, said in a memo to employees Thursday that the company was done in by "a perfect storm" of plunging ad revenues, intense competition, high debt and poor prospects for new financing. A search for new investors, he said, has been fruitless. The company declined further comment. Air America's chief executive is Bennett Zier, who previously founded and headed Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's broadcasting company, Red Zebra, and was the top executive of Clear Channel Broadcasting's cluster of eight major stations in the Washington area. The company's programming director, Bill Hess, is also a longtime Washington radio executive. Since last summer, Air America has been heard in the Washington area on WZAA (1050 AM). Its audience has been so small that Arbitron, which compiles radio ratings, was unable to detect any listeners for WZAA during several weeks in December. Franken was one of Air America's earliest program hosts; he left the network in 2007 to launch his successful bid for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Maddow, another host, made the transition to television and hosts a nightly show on MSNBC. Ron Reagan Jr., Arianna Huffington and Montel Williams have also had Air America programs. Ana Marie Cox, who has hosted a one-hour program on Air America on Saturday and Sundays for the past year, said on Thursday that news of the network's demise took her by surprise. She said that the programming, as well as Air America's Web site, had begun to improve of late but that people hadn't caught up to it. "I'd gotten used to people saying: 'Oh, Air America. Is that still around?'" Cox said. "One of my standard jokey responses was, 'Well, my paycheck still clears.' I guess that will stop." The network, she said, had tried to incorporate more humor and move away from being an "angry" liberal version of conservative talk radio, which can be argumentative and aggressive. "I think the progressive or liberal audience likes a different type of discussion," she said. Kireker said in his memo that Air America will carry reruns of earlier programs until it goes off the air at 9 p.m. Monday.

To: LindyBill who wrote (344848)	1/22/2010 2:39:52 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793838

They badmouth the military until someone shoots or threatens them. Then it's "where the hell are you!" That's the absolute truth....! And part of the reason that the Left is in such disarray and extremis right now, IMO. Many of the hard left are duplicitous....they say one thing, and mean completely the opposite. They seem to admire Stalin and Hitler (see socialistworker.org, ANSWER, and all the etcs) BUT don't seem to see the chaos that following their communist/socialist demands.