The Rich Are Free Now! A 10% Settlement Amount For Haiti!

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The Republicans in the U. S. federal legislatures are now famously on record for complaining that BP was not offered "Due Process" in settling the claims in the Gulf Coast Disaster event. The Opening Amount if $20.0 bil.

The far more lethal, and devasting, disaster event in Haiti got $5.2 bil. in pledges, by comparison. After six months, which anyone expects from "Due Process," in "Class Action Lawsuit Settlements, after six years at a minimum:" The Haitians actually have about 10% of that $5.bil., so far, even now. That is of the "found money," kind of reputation of the famous class action settlements. 10% on the dollar of the claims is the more usual practice of the law.

Medals for Haiti recovery, little for homeless - Yahoo! News

And dignataries "free" to come and to go, were offered faith medals of salvation, easily able to be thrown over a U. S. National Fence of Vietnam War Protest. The "indignataries" were actually getting. . . .positively. . . .nothing! Many would notice that this has happened in history, before.

And so the Socialist outcome, of BP providing disaster relief funds--in partnership and league with Socialist government--will likely be followed with fiscal responsibility actually for the rich. The rich, people notice, are demanding fiscal responsibility. Sarah Palin, too--of "Fantasize Along With Fox TV News," and its. . . .journali. . . .well--The Governor, too: Is now very rich! Fiscal responsibility the way it was intended, will follow: In the Socialist model. Anyone can guess that Governor Palin will give all the money to the unemployed, just like Wannabe, Meg Whitman. Millions know that we have laws about these sorts of things.

The "Model Of Freedom" concept is shown in the link, about Haiti. "Leave them all alone," is what the Socialist model will be displacing. The "leave them all alone," basis "Model Of Freedom," was the one employed by Bush-Cheney-Paulson at the behest of the bankers. The concept was to send all the deficit money in billions in bonus money, to the bank executives, and for the others, "leave them all alone!"

The GOP Conservatives have heard of "Laissez-Faire," and tries very hard to "Leave them all alone!"

Republicans have really screwy ideas about all kinds of "freedom!" They have been screwing this up, ever since they got started! Who, for example, needs a birth certificate, anyway! You just go and ask the own. . . .parent of the chattel, of the household, when that happened, and who was involved.

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Great Chicken Hawk, Soaring-To-Overflights-Of-Many-ManytTerritories, find the baby turtles even: Released on the opposite coast of even Florida! "Freedom" of Great Chicken Hawk then happened!)
 
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Taiwan to rebuild Haiti's highest court building...
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Taiwan inked Haiti aid MOU: ministry
Sun, Aug 11, 2013 - PAID AID: Under the memorandum, which was signed last month, Taipei will give nearly US$16m to rebuild Haiti’s highest court after it was hit by the 2010 earthquake
Taiwan signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Haiti over a US$15.8 million (NT$472 million) donation to post-earthquake reconstruction efforts when the upcoming visit by President Ma Ying-jeou to Taiwan’s Caribbean ally was being arranged, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday. The memorandum was signed by Ambassador to Haiti Liu Bang-zyh and Haitian Chancellor Pierre-Richard Casimir on July 9, the ministry said. Under the MOU, which had gone largely unnoticed, Taiwan commits to donate US$15.8 million for a new building housing the Court of Cassation, Haiti’s highest judicial body, Florencia Hsieh, deputy director-general of the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, said by telephone on Friday. Hsieh said Ma and Haitian President Michel Martelly will preside over a ceremony to commemorate the laying of the building’s first stone in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

Ma is to arrive in Haiti on Tuesday on the first leg of a five-nation tour, which includes Paraguay, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The president will also make transit stops en route to Haiti and on his way back to Taiwan in New York and Los Angeles respectively. The project will be carried out by the Panama-based Overseas Engineering & Construction Co (OECC) and is to be completed in 24 months, Hsieh said. The OECC is a subsidiary of the Overseas Investment & Development Corp, a Taiwanese incorporation of major public and private enterprises, groups and financial institutions established by the late banking magnate Jeffrey Koo Sr. in response to the government’s call to assist in overseas public infrastructure projects to enhance relations with the nation’s allies.

The project is to be funded from a budget allocated for foreign assistance programs and payments will be provided progressively over the course of the construction in direct relation to how much work has been completed, Hsieh said. According to the ministry’s budget statement this year, the budget allocation for such programs in all 12 of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in Latin America and the Caribbean stood at NT$3.4 billion, in addition to NT$440 million allotted for confidential expenses in the region. The court project came up during discussions held between the two countries on what Taiwan could do to continue to help earthquake victims in Haiti after the completion of several humanitarian relief projects to provide vocational training, medical care and education, Hsieh said.

Three years after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people continue to suffer its effects. According to UNICEF, about 357,785 people — 138,000 of whom are children — are still living in crowded temporary settlements, are dependent on aid and are at a higher risk of exposure to abuse and exploitation. In January, UNICEF requested US$11.65 million to meet its annual humanitarian goals to tackle the prolonged displacement, persistent cholera epidemic and food insecurity plaguing Haiti, problems that were all augmented by Hurricane Sandy last year. Ma is to become the first Republic of China (ROC) president to visit Haiti since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1956. First lady Chow Mei-ching visited the Caribbean country when she participated in efforts by NGOs to provide humanitarian aid to the country in August 2010.

More Taiwan inked Haiti aid MOU: ministry - Taipei Times
 
Good to see Haiti is finally starting to recover...
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Haiti slum blooms into urban oasis
Tuesday 3 June 2014 ~ Jaden Tap Tap initiative helps foster sense of pride in Cité Soleil, where residents tend and cultivate their own green spaces
"Plant moringa; harvest community harmony" could be a good motto for Jaden Tap Tap, a green oasis in the tough, garbage-strewn eyesore that is Cité Soleil. The slum, in the north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, is often described as the one of the most dangerous in the western hemisphere. The Jaden Tap Tap, with its rows of quick-growing, nutritious moringa, known as the Tree of Life, is a community garden. Walking in from the sunbaked wasteland that is Cité Soleil, it is noticeably cooler. Like a leafy cocoon, it provides a shield from the harsh reality of life outside its walls. Its name is Haitian Creole for Garden Taxi – tap taps are the distinctive, brightly painted vehicles that ply the roads of Port-au-Prince.

The garden was created three years ago by three men with a dream, but without any official backing or even enough money for an irrigation pump. They still do not have a pump and the authorities allegedly remain uninterested in the project and its potential, but Daniel Tillias, Jaden Tap Tap's director, is philosophical. "Making a garden is about more than cultivating plants, it's about cultivating people," he says, quoting the late Japanese philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, famous for his book The One Straw Revolution. Tillias, Herode Gary Laurent and Franz Francois, all of whom grew up in Cité Soleil, laid the first seeds in the garden on a couple of acres of landfill.

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The Jaden Tap Tap garden project has sown seeds of community enterprise in the Cité Soleil slum.

Tillias says the history of the land they started to till is symbolic of some of Haiti's political turmoil. "People say that some wealthy businessmen abandoned the T-shirt factories that were here. People from Cité Soleil destroyed and ransacked everything after the overthrow of [President] Aristide in 2004. It became a landfill and the place in the neighbourhood where killings would happen." From the outset, the garden recycled decorated urban waste, with brightly painted tyres used for pots, for example. Also crucial was the willing labour of people who live in the tent camp across the road.

They straggle across, tilling and planting in the quiet green space, eventually harvesting the vegetables for the family cookpot, sharing fairly and equitably. They take home seeds and plants, and start container gardens. For them, it's a chance to leave behind, even if briefly, the stifling reality of their lives in the plastic tents. "I love to come here. It's a pretty space for the community," says Joseph Fanie, an elderly lady who appeared in the garden, hoe in hand, with other Cité Soleil residents. "I've started my own garden," she says proudly. It is proof, if any were needed, of the powerful example set by the Jaden Tap Tap, Haiti's largest urban garden with aspirations to link up with American urban agriculturist Will Allen's Growing Power movement.

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The Republicans in the U. S. federal legislatures are now famously on record for complaining that BP was not offered "Due Process" in settling the claims in the Gulf Coast Disaster event. The Opening Amount if $20.0 bil.

The far more lethal, and devasting, disaster event in Haiti got $5.2 bil. in pledges, by comparison.

I certainly agree with you that Obama extorted billions from BP with no due process, there is denying that.

Also, $5.2 billion was pledged to Haitiacross a range of donors. And I read the same that only a portion of that has come through.

What I don't get is what one has to do with the other other than you hate the wealthy. Do you have anything more specific or is it just that? And was our government supposed to give what charities promised and didn't come up with? Can you rant less and clarify more?
 
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