Aid Groups Focus on Haiti’s Homeless
New York Times
JACMEL, Haiti — Haiti has approved plans for more than a dozen sprawling tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince, the first step in an epic relocation effort that could reshape the country as up to one million people displaced by the earthquake find new places to live.
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Logic and emotion
It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, the [...]
Regeneration
Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third;
there must be some bond of union between them.
And the fairest bond is that which makes
the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines;
and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato
The poetic hymn
“There’s an app for that.”
Underneath the hood
[black box [...]
Let history show
“It held the line against the bad, allowing for its deconstruction, and the universalization of our economic model, to be followed, through our continued success, by the universalization of our political model.”
via Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog.
When lessons are learned
“Germany was a country where horrible crimes were committed in the second world [...]
Earthquakes make bad laws
National Post, Marni Soupcoff, Monday, January 18, 2010
“Canada’s government is suggesting that significantly relaxing requirements (family-reunification requirements, in particular) for Haitians to come here as immigrants and refugees would be a good way for us to lend a hand.”
Immigrants and refugees: Who gets chosen?
Soupcoff writes, “The move would be tantamount to [...]
The Crisis in Haiti
“When disaster strikes the second disaster that looms is the efficiency and impact of the three R’s – Response, Recovery and Reconstruction. As seen by the poor response by FEMA after Hurricane Katrina, lives are lost when a coordinated effort is not conducted. In a developing country like Haiti the biggest danger [...]
Layers
Your ecosystem is composed of layers.
Look to the layers:
there
you will find
time and responsibility,
the order of civilization.
I’ve come to think this way from my reading of Stewart Brand’s, Clock of the Long Now. Tell me what you see?
Perturbating the order of civilization
Beneath Nature’s ground, an earthquake in Haiti.
One so devastating, it shocks Culture into chaos;
local Governance has no assembly.
With its Infrastructure crushed,
there is no capacity for Commerce;
and Fashion has no market.
Doctors are on the way
As is food and water. But who will administer the system? Who will provide physical security so [...]
