[Reader-list] Haitian Earthquake: Made In The USA

[TaraPrakash]

In addition, wasn't there some news about Hatians made a pact with devil and 
never lived happily ever after?


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From: "Britta Ohm" <ohm at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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> The water situation seems to be an additional fatalism; because of
> scarce water resources, salt water was used to mix cement for
> construction. This appears to be an increasing global problem.
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> Am 17.01.2010 um 17:05 schrieb A. Mani:
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>> See http://www.countercurrents.org/rall160110.htm
>>
>> The same 7.0 tremor hitting San Francisco wouldn't kill nearly as many
>> people as in Port-au-Prince.
>>
>> "Looking at the pictures, essentially it looks as if (the buildings
>> are of) breezeblock or cinderblock construction, and what you need in
>> an earthquake zone is metal bars that connect the blocks so that they
>> stay together when they get shaken," notes Sandy Steacey, director of
>> the Environmental Science Research Institute at the University of
>> Ulster in Northern Ireland. "In a wealthy country with good seismic
>> building codes that are enforced, you would have some damage, but not
>> very much."
>>
>> When a pile of cinderblocks falls on you, your odds of survival are
>> long. Even if you miraculously survive, a poor country like Haiti
>> doesn't have the equipment, communications infrastructure or emergency
>> service personnel to pull you out of the rubble in time. And if your
>> neighbors get you out, there's no ambulance to take you to the
>> hospital--or doctor to treat you once you get there.
>>
>> _______________________________________
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A. Mani
>>
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>> A. Mani
>> ASL, CLC,  AMS, CMS
>> http://www.logicamani.co.cc
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