Yahoo News Video: No Reason For Slow Aid To Haiti
On the Yahoo News website in a video detailing some of the challenges to administering aid to the needy people suffering without food or potable water - for over four days now - a warehouse holding emergency supplies has been full the entire time. Supplies are just now being loaded into trucks even though the aid has been in the country for months prior to the tragic 7.0 earthquake which rocked the country of Haiti. The slow pace of aid to Haitians could not possibly have been hampered by lack of supplies, workers and volunteers when considering the close proximity of the warehouse to the actual need. Furthermore, there must have been some form of delivery structure already in place to have the hundreds of thousands of pounds of surplus food and water purification tablets so close at hand. The video shows absolutely none of the claims of obstacles and challenges which were supposed to have been met along what is claimed to be a long journey. The entire trip itself lasted "over 5 hours plus the several hours to load up" the one truck (according to the correspondent) which appeared to have been only partially full. There was enough room in the truck for military guards to ride in the back, and in the video one cannot even see the supplies in the small amount of shadow under the canopy. There is a high military presence on scene and leads one to believe that the threat of violence has become more of an obstacle to the operation than is any actual violence itself. There are no displays of altercations or acts of disorder. However, the correspondent in the video takes it upon herself to claim that this lack of hubris was due to just "one thing" the efforts of one lonely nun and a priest. This presents as a rather audacious statement since there was not one act of aggression in the entire video or any reports of such during the entire five and half hour tip to Port au Prince. On a side note, one must certainly question just how efficient anything is in this allegedly lightning-paced tech age where the Yahoo News website takes over 15 minutes to show a 3 minute video. The video itself - being viewed on a broadband connection - is so sporadic it is difficult to even watch intelligibly. In retrospect, it is obvious that the constant fear of a security breech is affecting most anything humans now engage in. Moreover, the actual need for such security - more synonymous with secrecy than functionality - is the main concern, regardless of how much this reality is now intended to be ignored amid incessent corporate pandering and government misfeasance. Merely the threat of loss has for hundreds of years been upsetting the natural order of things in a most destructive way and this website intends to expose it at any turn. Factbat extends a most gracious and heartfelt word of compassion and hope to the Haitian people in yet another tragic hour of need exacerbated by Western Imperialism.

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