Paperwork Hinders Airlifts Of Ill Haitian Children
 


Private medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian children
to the United States for treatment have largely stopped because aid
workers, doctors and government officials are worried about being
accused of kidnapping if they transport the children without first
getting paperwork that is slow to arrive or is unavailable.
Before 10 Americans were arrested trying to take  children out of Haiti
late last month, the largest pediatric field hospital in Haiti was
airlifting 15 injured children aboard private flights to the United
States each day.

But since the arrests, it has been able to evacuate only three
children on private flights to American hospitals, according to
Elizabeth Greig, the field hospitalâ??s chief administrative officer, who
has been in charge of trying to get the necessary Haitian and American
approval.

At least 10 other children have died or become worse while waiting
to be airlifted out of the country, she said. Dozens of children are in
critical need of care, and there has been no shortage of American
hospitals or pilots willing to take them.

But before being permitted to evacuate the children, some doctors
said they were now being asked by American and Haitian officials for
documents proving that the children were orphans or that the adult
traveling with them was a parent - a challenging task considering that
many residentsâ?? birth certificates and other records remained buried
under the rubble.

â??Theyâ??re all at risk of dying, and none of these children should
still be here in Haiti,â?? said Dr. Shayan Vyas, an American pediatrician
changing an IV at the pediatric field hospital, which is based here at
the Port-au-Prince airport and handles most of the private pediatric
airlifts out of Haiti.


 


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Sick man! These people should not be allowed to breathe, I don't care what anybody else says, they should be locked for good.

Wow, this man's stupidity is going to cause him so much trouble! He could have been deported and end of the story but now he is facing 20 years in prison, insanity!

Interview With John And Doris Naisbitt: 'China Is A Country Without An Ideology'
 


John Naisbitt found success with his bestseller
"Megatrends." Now, he and his wife Doris have published a new book
about China. They argue that the country has developed a new political
and social system - and may be more democratic than the West.




SPIEGEL ONLINE: Google appears to be pulling out of China,
ostensibly the result of hacker attacks and because the company is no
longer willing to censor its search results. Are they doing the right
thing?



John Naisbitt: They've broken a contract. In order to get a
license, they agreed not to allow searches on certain subjects. And
now, four years later, they say 'we won't do this anymore because we've
been hacked.' In Russia, hackers are much more vigorous and plentiful,
but Google has said nothing. The company has a big market share there
whereas in China it doesn't. Google is breaking the contract and it's
blaming it on something else.


SPIEGEL ONLINE: So you think it's a PR stunt?


Doris Naisbitt: We cannot say that, but it's a gift! Look what a
wonderful marketing effect this has for Google - being the David
fighting Goliath.


John Naisbitt: Say it's a PR stunt - it couldn't have succeeded
any better. Because here you have U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
getting on Google's side, not understanding the contractual situation,
and making the Internet one of the foreign policy planks of the
administration. That's not a bad thing. But it went from a contractual
disagreement to the secretary of state becoming a spokesperson for
Google.


SPIEGEL ONLINE: Does the Chinese government respond to external pressure, whether from a company like Google or the U.S. government?


John Naisbitt: They are built to resist outside pressure. They
really resent being jerked around. They resent Google putting them in a
position where it looks like it's their fault when Google is the one
that initiated this challenge. I think they're really pissed off. In
China, when you make a deal, you never sign anything, you just shake
hands. It's all based on trust. But if you break that, you're dead in
the water. This breaking of trust is a really big deal for the Chinese.


SPIEGEL ONLINE: At its core, this is a cultural conflict?


 


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FBI's Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 5, 2010
           

Read about our Top Ten news stories of the week, including the response from the FBI Laboratory director to the editor of 'The Wall Street Journal' regarding a recent opinion piece on the anthrax investigation; the guilty plea of a Texas State Representative to her role in a bribery and extortion scheme; and the conviction of a California woman for her role in a $6.5 million mortgage fraud scheme.
           

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/topten_020510.htm
           

Montana Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charges
           

Robert James Lawton, of Bozeman, Montana, was sentenced to 72 months in prison in connection with his guilty plea to receipt and possession of child pornography.
           

http://saltlakecity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/slc020410b.htm
           

El Salvador Man Pleads Guilty in Texas to Assaulting Border Patrol Agent
           

Rigoberto Torres-Gomez, a native of El Salvador illegally in the United States, pled guilty in Laredo, Texas to assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent by running into the agent with a vehicle.
           

http://sanantonio.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/sa020410.htm
           

The Rise Of 'Chimerica' - Two Superpowers Take On The World
 


The U.S. and China are already the two most
powerful countries in the world. As allies, they would be unstoppable.
Is the era of a double superpower taking shape?



When China sneezes, the whole world gets a cold. Bill Clinton
recognized this during his term as United States president, speaking of
the "potential challenge that a strong China could present to the
United States in the future." At the same time, he warned of the risk
presented by a "weak China," which could destabilize large regions of
Asia.


Now Clinton's successor and fellow Democrat Barack Obama is looking for
ways to work more closely with the giant nation, with its 1.3 billion
people. President Obama believes that cooperation with China is essential in the
coming years. "The major challenges of the 21st century, from climate
change to nuclear proliferation to economic recovery, are challenges
that touch both our nations, and challenges that neither of our nations
can solve by acting alone," the U.S. president said during his recent
visit to China.





In China, meanwhile, politicians, economists and the military come
to much the same conclusion when they brood over how best to interact
with that old superpower, the U.S. "In the 21st century," says the
Chinese president and party leader, Hu Jintao, "relations between China
and the US are among the most important in the world." There is the
perception that, without American help, it will take a long time for
China to achieve the "moderate prosperity for all citizens" that the
Communist Party promises its people and uses to justify its rule.

Never have the two countries been more dependent on one another than
today. Without the American market and American investments, things
wouldn't be looking as good as they do in China. But at the same time,
many Americans would be struggling to make ends meet during the current
economic downturn without cheap imported Chinese goods. And the
American government would no longer be able to function if China's
central bank didn't buy so much American debt. Last year, China held U.S.
Treasury securities worth around $800 billion (â?¬570 billion).


 


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Texas State Representative Terri Hodge Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Resign
           

Texas State Representative Gladys E. Hodge, also known as "Terri Hodge," who was to go on trial early next month on charges outlined in a 31-count indictment charging 14 public officials and their associates with various offenses related to a bribery and extortion scheme involving affordable housing developments in the Dallas area, has pled guilty. Hodge has agreed to resign her office and never seek or hold future public office.
           

http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/dl020310b.htm
           

Mexican National Sentenced in Georgia on Sex Trafficking Charges
           

Miguel Rugerio, a Mexican national, was sentenced in Atlanta, Georgia to five years in federal prison on charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and related immigration offenses, and of transporting one of the victims of the conspiracy in interstate and foreign commerce for purposes of prostitution.
           

http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/at020310.htm