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The Politics of Haiti - Discuss Haitian Politics, Share your own Political Views!
RE: Remnants Of Haiti's Army March In The CapitalMarjorie Middy says: The president should nip this one in the bud very soon before this situation bites him in the rear. This "army" has potential for a blood bath in Haiti.
Send Your Loved One's Ashes Up To Orbit Earth. LJean Pierre Alexandre says: When SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket it will secretly be carrying celebrities. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original "Star Trek" series, died in 2005. His ashes will be on board this mission -- as will those of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and 306 other people. If you have the money, Celestis, a space services company, will send your loved one's ashes up to orbit Earth. l Sound familiar? This is the second time around for Celestis and Space X; the companies tried to launch Doohan and Cooper and 206 others back in August 2008. When SpaceX launched the remains on its Falcon1 rocket, the rocket never made it to space. When the rocket failed to get to orbit, neither did the cremated remains, or, for that matter, some small satellites sent by NASA and the Department of Defense. The satellites were lost, but Celestis has a performance guarantee, which means it holds some ashes back just in case something goes horribly, terribly wrong. It often does in the rocket business. Hence, a second chance. The Falcon 9 is currently counting down to a launch on Saturday morning at 4:55 a.m. EDT. Fifty years ago Gordon Cooper piloted the Faith 7 spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission, the last flight of Project Mercury in May 1963. He later served as command pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965, racking up 225 hours in space. His ashes are returning on a rocket that is remarkably similar to the ones that first took him into the heavens. What Trekkie doesn't know James "Scotty" Doohan? He was the engineer who beamed Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock back to the starship Enterprise from the most remote of planets. If only it were that easy to get his remains into Earth orbit. The memorials written by the families of the others on this flight are poignant. Brady Watson Kane died last year in a skydiving accident in Colorado. His family remembers when he told a teacher, "Some day I will take my family to space!" His parents said they will watch the launch on Saturday at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Friends of Francis Edward McShane of New York pooled their money to send his ashes on this flight. Their tribute to their buddy rights the wrongs in his life. He died of a heart attack in the parking lot of the hospital where he worked. "In the balance of life, Frank's scales are uneven," they wrote. "To help right this injustice we now pool our resources to lift his last remains of a noble man to the heavens." Vicki Julian promised her husband, Steve, she would send his ashes to space. Steve Julian died of cancer in 2006. She says his passion to become an astronaut started when Sputnik launched; instead, he majored in history, got married, had two children, and worked in the insurance industry. She is fulfilling his dream of spaceflight. Sending a loved one's ashes to space isn't that outrageous. It requires some patience; Celestis has to find an aerospace company willing and able to get the ashes into orbit. These ashes are in a canister stored in the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which will separate from the Dragon capsule nine minutes into flight. If all goes as planned, the rocket will orbit the Earth for up to a year before it re-enters the atmosphere and burns up Celestis' prices vary. A suborbital flight with a return to Earth starts at $1, 000, the launch into Earth orbit is $3, 000, a trip to the Moon costs almost $10, 000, and if you really want to go where no man has gone before, a flight into deep space will run you almost $13, 000. This puts NASA in a delicate position. NASA's Alan Lindenmoyer, who oversees the agency's relationship with SpaceX, says this delicate cargo passed all of NASA's safety requirements. "We had to make sure it would be interfere in any way with our mission objectives before we allowed it go into the rocket," he said. SpaceX Falcon Rocket Carries Cremated Remains The space agency has spent just under $300 million to fund SpaceX under COTS, the Commercial Orbital Transportation System. SpaceX picked up the early development costs for its Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule, hoping eventually to score a $1.6 billion dollar contract for regular cargo runs to the space station. One day, it says, it hopes to carry astronauts. But SpaceX is in business to make money, and if they can pick up cargo on the side, it makes sense financially. The ashes of 308 souls add up to about $1 million-- though 208 of them are make-goods from the previous failed mission. So in addition to the 1, 014 pounds of food and supplies headed to the six astronauts on the space station, there are the spirits of 308 people.
Remnants Of Haiti's Army March In The CapitalJean Pierre Alexandre says:
Remnants of Haiti's army march in the capital PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A group of former and would-be soldiers in Haiti are refusing government orders to disband. Hundreds of the ex-soldiers and their young recruits wore mismatched military fatigues as they marched through Haiti's capital on Friday. A few carried handguns. The group has been pressing President Michel Martelly to honor his campaign goal of restoring the armed forces that was abolished in 1995 because of its abusive record. Martelly has said he wants to revive the military but it must be done legally. His administration meanwhile has done little to disband the group of men who've been parading about Haiti as if they were an actual army. U.N. troops fired tear gas upon the marchers near the National Palace but the incident was otherwise peaceful. http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/remnants-o...
RE: In Thailand, Roasted Fetuses Found Stashed In LuggageBy Kocha OlarnJean Pierre Alexandre says: What is it with that fetuses thing around for ages? In the first detonated H-bomb, one nuclear physcist pregnated a woman at one sacrifice table, months later they removed the fetus, add that fetus to the core of the reactor chamber completed the bomb, placed the bomb in the desert and detonate the sucker right to the sky, that was the first nuke explosion. In Haiti, they use fetus from human and animals to makes deadly poison"powder". Just last week in China, the government seize and arrests many people fron contreband with hundreds of suitcases loaded with ground dried fetuses skins as pills. Enough is enough.
In Thailand, Roasted Fetuses Found Stashed In LuggageBy Kocha OlarnJean Pierre Alexandre says:
In Thailand, roasted fetuses found stashed in luggageBy Kocha Olarn, CNN Chow Hok Kuen, a 28-year-old Briton of Taiwanese origin, faces charges of hiding and covering dead bodies and a jail term of up to a year, police said. The arrest came after police were tipped off about a website advertising the sale of the fetuses. Police searched Chow's hotel room and found the fetuses packed in a box inside Chow's baggage, they said. Chow said that he planned to sell fetuses in Taiwan and that one could be worth up to 200, 000 Thai baht, or $6, 300, police said. He told police that the black magic rituals with fetuses are believed to bring good fortune for businesspeople. Police say it's unclear where the fetuses came from. The British Foreign Office confirmed the arrest and will provide consular assistance if necessary.
RE: Le Secrétaire Général Insulza Félicite Le Nouveau Premier Ministre LaurentJean Pierre Alexandre says: I wonder if the general secretary Insulza"OEA"think or can accept Martelly/Lamorte and other parasites in that government are ready to join them at the Bohemian grove ceremony in human sacrifice to say thanks to molock http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/...
Le Secrétaire Général Insulza Félicite Le Nouveau Premier Ministre LaurentJean Pierre Alexandre says:
Vendredi, 18 mai 2012 13:05 Le Secretaire General de l'Organisation des Etats Americains (OEA) a felicite dans un communique, le nouveau Premier Ministre haitien, Laurent Lamothe, qui vient d'etre installe a la tete de la primature “Je prends note de sa declaration de politique generale qui met l'accent sur la bonne gouvernance, le renforcement de la democratie, l'elimination de la pauvrete absolue, le respect des droits de la personne et la modernisation de l'Etat, en vue de pouvoir disposer d'institutions fortes" a declare le Secretaire General dans une lettre adressee au Premier Ministre Lamothe. “Ces elements cles refletent les principes et les valeurs fondamentales des Etats membres de l'OEA dont Haiti est un membre fondateur" a ajoute le plus haut representant de l'Organisation continentale. Le Secretaire General Insulza a annonce au Premier Ministre que le Secretaire General Adjoint, l'Ambassadeur Albert Ramdin, se rendra tres bientot en Haiti " en vue de renouveler l'engagement de l'OEA" envers la nation antillaise. De meme, il a fait savoir que le Representant special de l'OEA en Haiti, Frederic Bolduc, "lui offrira toute sa collaboration en vue de la mise en oeuvre du programme du Gouvernement Martelly-Lamothe". EJ/Radio Metropole Haiti The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in a statement congratulated the new Haitian Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, who has just been installed at the head of the prime minister "I take note of his policy statement that focuses on good governance, strengthening democracy, the elimination of absolute poverty, respect for human rights and the modernization of the state, able to have strong institutions, "said the Secretary General in a letter to Prime Minister Lamothe. "These elements reflect key principles and core values of the Member States of the OAS which Haiti is a founding member," added the highest representative of the continental organization. The Secretary General Insulza said the Prime Minister that the Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, will travel to Haiti very soon "to renew the commitment of the OAS" to the Caribbean nation. Similarly, he informed the Special Representative of the OAS in Haiti, Frederic Bolduc, "it will offer its full cooperation to the implementation of the Government program Martelly-Lamothe". EJ / Radio Metropole Haiti New! Hold down the shift key, click, and drag the words above to reorder. Dismiss
Fet Drapo Peyi DayitiJean Pierre Alexandre says:
Drapo peyi Dayiti,
Over 200,000 Living With HIV/AIDS In HaitiJean Pierre Alexandre says: Over 200, 000 living with HIV/AIDS in Haiti- leading cause of death AIDS is currently the leading cause of death in Haiti, where there are more than 200, 000 people with the disease. Haiti’s Minister of Health Gabriel Timothe is reported as saying that the infant mortality rate is also increasing given the number of children infected with this disease. At least 25, 000 children are orphaned by the disease.
It's The Whole F'ucking World."Says Sean Penn"Jean Pierre Alexandre says: Sean Penn accused the media of abandoning Haiti on Friday during a news conference for a benefit for the impoverished country. "It's not only celebrities who went for a day," he said to a room full of journalists at the Cannes film festival. "It's the whole f'ucking world. It's all of you." He added, "The reason we have Haiti fatigue is because there was never a commitment in the first place." The activist-actor, who spends much of his time in Haiti, said the country finally had a chance to reestablish itself after decades of turmoil. He said that because of the commitment among young people, "You see the very tangible success story that Haiti can be." Penn was at a news conference with Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova and film director Paul Haggis, each of whom have non-profit organizations working in Haiti. They are joining forces with the Cannes Film Festival at a benefit for Haiti on Friday night.
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