Shorter Question Everything
Haiti
- Looks like I spoke too soon the other day when I said a bunch of bloggers saved the Haitian internet. What it looks like is, we only kept it on life support for a week.
Reynold Guerrier, the lone network engineer left to operate the country’s internet NAP (network access point), yesterday emailed U.S. military and State Department officials, “The main concern is to have communications system between the government HQ (20 endpoints), 10 clusters (2 endpoints for each) and the 10 City hall offices (2 for each).
“By communication systems, I mean phones, wireless connectivity, VoIP server and SIP/H.323 phones.”
In response to the pressure from all sides, fuel was provided to keep the generator going that is operating the hub. (The country’s submarine internet cables were destroyed in the quake, and this fuel-powered NAP is now the only connection between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.)
- [No proof offered here]
Russia Today: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has once again accused the United States of playing God. But this time it’s Haiti’s disastrous earthquake that he thinks the U.S. was behind. Spanish newspaper ABC quotes Chavez as saying that the U.S. navy launched a weapon capable of inducing a powerful earthquake off the shore of Haiti. He adds that this time it was only a drill and the final target is … destroying and taking over Iran.
- Guantanamo: The U.S. military is gearing up for a possible influx of Haitians fleeing their earthquake-stricken country at an Army facility not widely known for its humanitarian missions: Guantanamo Bay.
Soldiers at the base have set up tents, beds and toilets, awaiting possible orders from the secretary of defense to proceed, according to Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay.
Russia
- Russia will strengthen its Baltic fleet in response to U.S. plans to deploy Patriot missiles in Poland, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed senior navy official.
“The surface, underwater and aviation elements of the Baltic Fleet will be strengthened,” RIA quoted the unidentified Russian navy official as saying.
The United States is dispatching the missiles to Poland after dropping an earlier plan to deploy interceptor missiles in the NATO nation as part of an anti-missile system in Europe.
Warsaw said this week it would station the Patriot missile battery in the northern city of Morag, near Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.
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Shorter Question Everything
Haiti
Reynold Guerrier, the lone network engineer left to operate the country’s internet NAP (network access point), yesterday emailed U.S. military and State Department officials, “The main concern is to have communications system between the government HQ (20 endpoints), 10 clusters (2 endpoints for each) and the 10 City hall offices (2 for each).
“By communication systems, I mean phones, wireless connectivity, VoIP server and SIP/H.323 phones.”
In response to the pressure from all sides, fuel was provided to keep the generator going that is operating the hub. (The country’s submarine internet cables were destroyed in the quake, and this fuel-powered NAP is now the only connection between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.)
Russia Today: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has once again accused the United States of playing God. But this time it’s Haiti’s disastrous earthquake that he thinks the U.S. was behind. Spanish newspaper ABC quotes Chavez as saying that the U.S. navy launched a weapon capable of inducing a powerful earthquake off the shore of Haiti. He adds that this time it was only a drill and the final target is … destroying and taking over Iran.
Soldiers at the base have set up tents, beds and toilets, awaiting possible orders from the secretary of defense to proceed, according to Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay.
Russia
“The surface, underwater and aviation elements of the Baltic Fleet will be strengthened,” RIA quoted the unidentified Russian navy official as saying.
The United States is dispatching the missiles to Poland after dropping an earlier plan to deploy interceptor missiles in the NATO nation as part of an anti-missile system in Europe.
Warsaw said this week it would station the Patriot missile battery in the northern city of Morag, near Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.