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13.01.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
A devastating reminder of nature's fury - An opportunity to help and learn about the Caribbean country -
This morning brought unfortunate news:
Haiti, no stranger to devastation and misery, suffered a brutal 7.3 magnitude earthquake - and thousands are feared to be dead. In a country where approximately 80% of the population lives in poverty, finding and treating living victims, rebuilding, and preventing the scale of destruction the next time an earthquake hits will be a major undertaking - A small solace is seeing the news pouring in of international relief efforts... (HubPages Weekly)
The tropical forests had been cut down - to make way for farming but it resulted into the soil being washed away by heavy rain - which resulted into further greater poverty...
HAITI 2004 FLOOD
Haiti and its people are the poorest of the Americans and it made a lot of history which were in the world headlines - The people are descended from African slaves which were brought by the French colonists - French is widely spoken and so is Creole which is an Afro-Caribbean language with many French words - Their religion is mostly Roman Catholics - but voodoo which is an African-based religion is practised - Haiti art and literature is different from the other cultures... (by Hello, hello on HP)
On October 6, 2018, at approximately 8:11 p.m, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck 19 kilometers northwest of Port-de-Paix, Haiti. The earthquake damaged ...
Areas affected: Haiti, Dominican Republic
Magnitude: 5.9 Mww
Aftershocks: 2
Local date: October 6, 2018
The May 2004 Caribbean floods were a flood event that took place in the Caribbean Islands, mainly Hispaniola and some parts of Northern Puerto Rico from May 18, 2004 to May 25, 2004. The storm caused significant rainfall, with over 9.7 inches of rain falling at the most in Haiti, and 10 inches falling at ...
Death(s): About 2,000
Date: May 18 – 25, 2004
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see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 and Climate Change since ca. 2000 and "Banking Crisis" 2008 and poor people and social diseases and speculation and homelessness and robots etc. - instead of UBI & Ecology - Uncontrolled capitalism produces evil as bees produce...
see dali48 and Climate Change and heat waves and dryness and burning and also floods and Hurricanes etc. - since ca. 2000 and despite Copenhagen 2009 etc. - instead of #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & UBI etc...