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Antoinette Davis: Neglectful "Crack Ho" or Innocent Mother?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:54 -0500

250 volunteer searchers scouring "an area about 6 miles from the last confirmed sighting of Shaniya." found her body on Sunday (11.16.09). She was dumped along "Walker Road, off N.C. Highway 87, near the Lee-Harnett county line... about 100 feet off Walker Road." The little five year old was found among "deer carcasses" in a woodsy and wet area. The last sighting of Shaniya was at a hotel in Sanford, North Carolina. A man named Mario McNeill was seen carrying Shaniya into a hotel elevator at a Comfort Suites hotel, about 30 miles from her mother's home (Sleepy Hollow Drive, Fayetteville, NC). One unidentified man "who found the body said the girl was lying on the ground and was wearing only a T-shirt." It may be an important clue that a blanket belonging to the girl was found in a neighbor's trash can a day after her disappearance.

Police arrested Mario Andrette McNeill, 29 and charged him with first degree kidnapping. Late Saturday (11.15.09), Shaniya's mother Antoinette Nicole Davis, 25 was also arrested, three days after she reported her child missing. Davis claimed to have discovered the girl missing an hour after putting her to sleep on a couch.

Its hard to believe that Shaniya's mother Antoinette Davis would knowingly "permit an act of prostitution with Shaniya" as the arrest warrant states. Shaniya's mother was arrested late Saturday (11.15.09) and "charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse–prostitution, filing a false police report and obstructing a police investigation."

Questions yet to be answered

Why did Antoinette Davis initially accuse her boyfriend Clarence Coe of abducting Shaniya? Davis is pregnant with Coe's child. Coe was first arrested, but charges against him have since been dropped. He was released when a hotel employee at the Comfort Suites hotel tipped off police about McNeill. At that point the hotel surveillance video of Mcneill with Shaniya was turned over to police. According to Theresa Chance of the Fayetteville Police Department, “...footage was taken Tuesday, and we weren’t made aware of it until Wednesday.”

Antoinette Davis reported Shaniya missing on Nov. 10. On her 911 call released by police, she claimed that she put Shaniya to bed at 5:00 am. Although, Davis is accused of lying on the call--there was time for the abduction to take place without her knowledge. The child was seen on surveillance cameras at the hotel at 6:11 am, an hour and eleven minutes later. The distance between Antoinette Davis' house and the hotel is 30 miles. A distance by car of 50 minutes according to Google Maps. If Davis got the time right, then it would seem that 1 hour was enough time for McNeill to arrive at the hotel with Shaniya after he admittedly abducted her. McNeill, who has a criminal record for shooting a man in the face and other drug related crimes, has nevertheless plead not guilty.

Did someone (McNeil or Coe) point the finger at Antoinette Davis, leading to police arresting her? Or have police deduced from her 911 call and the time constraints involved that she is lying? Do police have other evidence against Antoinette Davis that they are not disclosing?

Did police and prosecutors jump the gun in arresting and charging Antoinette Davis with prostituting her own child? She was arraigned and charged even before the body of her child was found. People should keep in mind that video of Antoinette Davis in court were shot before the body of her missing child was found (she is currently in a segregated cell and on suicide watch)--so if she appears calm and emotionless--it may be because she had yet to learn of her child's death. Some of Davis' family have come to her defense. Her mother Ann Summers said that Antoinette is a "good mother." And her sister Brenda was interviewed after the arraignment.

"Her sister, Brenda Davis, 20, said outside of the courthouse that she does not believe the charges. “I don’t believe she could hurt her children,” said Brenda Davis, who was able to speak to her sister at the jail Sunday."

An uncle, was another family member who made a statement in support of Davis. "I know she’s a great mom. She’s a great mom. Antoinette really loved her children,” said Davis' uncle, Arthur Cromartie.

What is the father Bradley Lockhart's responsibility in this tragedy? Why did he hand his "angel" over to her mother (Shaniya is a product of a "one-night stand" with Davis, according to Lockhart) when there was some question about her fitness as a parent? A family friend Tim Allen said "after Shaniya went to her mother’s house, he noticed marks on her arms. "Boyfriends and his friends would put the cigarettes out on the baby's arms." The local news online, WRAL.com reports:

"Tim Allen has been caring for Lockhart's 17-year-old daughter, Cheyenne. He said Tuesday evening that he told Lockhart not to send Shaniya to live with her mother.
"I feel he is 99 percent the reason why this happened in the first place,” Allen said of Shaniya’s death."

Antoinette Davis had lived at a house (on Wall Street) which was raided in July by police for drugs, though no one was arrested. Davis also has a 7 year old son (no word on who fathered this son with Davis) and was investigated by child protective services, though no action was taken to remove her child and records are sealed. Lockhart has said that he decided to give Davis a chance to be a mother, and Shaniya was given to her mother on October 9, but by mid October, Shaniya was no longer attending school. Where was Shaniya when her mother was working at her two jobs? It should be mentioned, however, that in North Carolina mandatory school attendance age is 7-16 years old--so Antoinette Davis was not violating state law when she allegedly took Shaniya out of school. As for Davis' work record:

"Davis worked in the kitchen at Carolina Inn at Village Green, an assisted living facility in Fayetteville.
CES, a South Carolina-based staffing company that has a contract with Carolina Inn, hired her in June 2008 after an extensive background check, an official said. She had a good employment record at both Carolina Inn and the Haymount Nursing Rehabilitation Facility, but she is no longer employed by the company, the official said."

Who is Bradley Lockhart?
Why has the father who never given his "angel" his last name? While Antoinette is demonized by the majority of people opining about the matter (obviously, because of the arrest), Lockhart remains somewhat of a mystery. Still, some are hoping that this young woman did not cause this to happen to her innocent child. In America, is a person still presumed innocent, until proven guilty? Reading some of the comment on the internet it is hard to believe that people know of this celebrated tenet of the US criminal justice system.

Shaniya's father Bradley Lockhart seems to be a nice man on the surface. He's taken some blame on himself for Shaniya's death, saying--"Every parent would blame themselves. We all look within ourselves to see what we could have done differently." Antoinette Davis is 25 now, so she had Shaniya when she was 20. Wonder how old Bradley Lockhart is? As an aside... It's a frustration sometimes when the news outlets don't report a man's age, but are never slow with reporting the woman's age. Lockhart has five other kids with three different women. He has experienced a tragedy of equal proportion before. His former wife Vicki Lockhart was killed in a home invasion along with two others, including her 19 year old sister. Two men were arrested and prosecuted in the case. The evidence of this latest tragedy, appears to show that Lockhart was somewhat of an absentee father whose sister Carey Lockhart-Davis was actually taking care of Shaniya. His 17 year old daughter Cheyenne was also in the care of another--his friend Tim Allen. According to reports, Lockhart was gone a lot on "out-of-town jobs." No word on what his profession is.

Nancy Grace sets her sights on Antoinette Davis
That reptile Nancy Grace (maybe a guest spot on "V" would show her true colors?) aggressively attacked Antoinette Davis on her CNN show. Here's a video from the show: "Cops: Mom Owed Suspect Money." Grace claims that sources say (one of her guests pointed to cops) Davis owed McNeill for drugs. "Thanks, Mommy," Nancy exclaims at one point, for emphasis. Hasn't Nancy Grace learned anything from firestorm she caused when mother committed suicide after being on her show--"Melinda Duckett, a 21-year-old Florida woman whom Grace grilled after the disappearance of the woman's 2-year-old son." Can't abide Nancy Grace. If ever there was someone who personified gracelessness, its her offensive persona on her sideshow. This is the type of "news" show and ugliness that sells shampoos for Cable TV now.

This case is such a tragedy. Many people are saddened and are grieving the death of this innocent child. It is a sick reality that these sorts of incidents seem to be happening more and more often. What sick, twisted monster wants to have sex with children? The mind boggles and the heart is sickened by the thought of such a perversion. Is it a sign of the times? Is it the economic crunch, poverty and desperation that is leading people to do such despicable things for money? Or was it a festering illness that has always existed, yet never found the fertile ground to grow?

So is Antoinette Davis a neglectful, immoral and criminal "Crack Ho" or innocent hard-working mother?

Rest in peace Shaniya.

UPDATE 11.23.2009

Just want to briefly make a couple of corrections that have been brought to my attention:

1) Antoinette said she put the child back to bed at 5:30AM on the 911 call NOT 5:00 so my timeline is off. It was the 911 dispatcher who said 5--she seemed a little hard of hearing.

The "kidnapper" had just 41 minutes to get to the hotel from the time Antoinette said she put her daughter to bed. Still enough time in my opinion for her to have been telling the truth--keeping in mind that the "kidnapper" had a direct route and at that time of the morning there was most likely very little traffic.

2) Antoinette Davis was arraigned Monday afternoon AFTER she learned of her daughter's death.

Antoinette Davis was arrested late Saturday, November 14. She was arraigned on Monday, November 16. Her daughter Shaniya's body was found early Monday, Nov. 16, so it is possible that Antoinette, who was arraigned about one hour after her daughter's body was found, knew of the death. According to this article, she knew.

Just to clarify: the story reads "She knew, according to a sheriff's department spokeswoman, that a child's body had been found."

I regret the errors.

Why Haiti Needs a Political Partner with a Standing Army

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:11:53 -0500

ANSWER emergency response demonstration to March 1, 2004 Coup-knapping in Haiti – March 2, 2004

The recent history of relations between the US and Haiti has been an adversarial one. US foreign policy in Haiti has been controlled by right-wing elements in the US--with primary connections to the now deceased segregationist and racist Jesse Helms and his organization, the IRI, a subgroup of the National Endowment for Democracy--who were involved in the financing and sponsorship of two Coup D'etats in Haiti (the first on Sep. 30, 1991 and the second on Monday, March 01, 2004). The International Republican Institute (IRI) is not pro-democracy, though its objectives are stated to be democracy and trade. The real purpose of groups like the IRI, in countries of the global south is to promote anti-democracy elements by aligning with right-wing extremist elements of the countries they target. In Haiti, the mysterious Haiti Democracy Project (HDP) funded the creation of Group 184 (consisting of rich pro-business elements of Haiti's so-called "civil society") which in turn aligned with the armed "rebels" (their muscle) to form the threat that was the basis for the removal of Haiti's first democratically elected government--for the second coup.

Lovinsky-Pierre Antoine: disappeared July 28, 2007

Haiti is a country that has lost thousands of its citizens--they were/are either dead or disappeared as a result of the chaos attending the upheavals of the coups. A conservative estimate of the toll was published in the Lancet in 2006 that documented 8,000 deaths and 35,000 rapes in Haiti since the second coup in 2004.

Haiti is a part of a small island in the Caribbean. It is bordered on it's right by the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is where so-called "rebels" (Bush's then Secretary of State, Colin Powell characterized them as "thugs and criminals") were trained and armed by their benefactor (the US) in preparation to the second attack on Haiti's first democracy. Members of these "rebels" had also been trained and financed by US Special Forces and the CIA, including wanted drug trafficker Guy Philippe and his associates, wanted murderers/assassins Emmanuel Constant and Jodel Chamblain.

The United States of America--which is the world's number one super power--or has very good marketing apparatus that promotes the number one billing, is not and never was interested in promoting democracy in Haiti.

US government and multinational corporations/ political "interests" in Haiti

The US government's foreign policy is aligned with the Haitian sweatshops and businesses that pay poverty/slave wages to Haitian workers. A typical Haitian worker averages about $3 a day. These unethical multinationals and their Haitian coconspirators see to it that the Haitian worker is exploited and deprived of every basic human right that is enshrined in the UN "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." The UN's stated objectives in the declaration make imperative the right for workers to earn a living wage. This requires that basic employment laws that protect workers from exploitation are in place. One basic right denied to Haitian workers is the right to form unions.

What of this current UN mission in Haiti with the unfortunate and evocative acronym of MINUSTAH: United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti? The UN has now been occupying Haiti for the past five years under the pretext of bringing stability, after the violent kidnapping of the democratically elected government (which it supported), yet human rights for poor Haitians have not been a part of their mission. Perhaps this is because the security/stabilization they seek is for the multinational corporations and the Haitian rich business class to operate without oversight and to spare them the embarrassment of being called to account by an empowered native Haitian government?

There are many more reasons for forming a political, strategical partnership with a country that has a standing army. Below is a list of the potential candidates. Readers are invited to list their own candidates and explore the pros and cons of a partnership between Haiti and a foreign political partner. The best candidate should have a standing army and be able to withstand any economic, military or diplomatic embargo initiated and supported by the UN Security Council. As of October 15, 2009, the five "permanent" (voting) members of the UN Security Council were: United States, France, China, UK and Russia. As of today October 16, 2009--five new "non-permanent" (voting) members were elected: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria. They join Uganda, Turkey, Mexico and Japan to make up the fifteen members voting members. According to the UN, "Under the Charter, all Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council. While other organs of the United Nations make recommendations to Governments, the Council alone has the power to take decisions which Member States are obligated under the Charter to carry out."

During his UN speech in October, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi lamented the inequality among member states and criticized the Security Council as being ineffective because since its inception, 65 wars had been launched. Gaddafi also dropped the T-Bomb, calling the UN Security Council a "Council Of Terror." Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the US portrayed Gaddafi's speech as rambling and incoherent and the Guardian UK said it was mind-numbingly long. It would have perhaps been more constructive if they had focused on the substance of his first ever UN speech, instead of its length and entertainment value.

The Potential Candidates for a Partnership: Pros and Cons

Which candidate country would make the best political partner for Haiti? The Aristide government dissolved the Haitian army in 1995. President Aristide considered the Haitian military to be a primary source of oppression and an instrument used to make coups in Haiti. So, the political partner must have a standing army that fills that gap for Haiti. This is just one consideration, but a paramount one in a political partner. It would be constructive for a Haitian government which seeks autonomy to weigh the pros and cons in making a decision as to whom to approach about this matter. Conversely, any potential partner would have to be assured that the pros outweighed the cons in any partnership undertaken with the Haitian people.

Top candidates
Country ................. Military Defense Apparatus
Taiwan .................. National Defense
North Korea .......... Military
Iran ....................... Foreign relations and military
Venezuela .............. Military
South Africa .......... Defense
China .................... Military and Army
Cuba ...................... Military

Obama arrives in Beijing to continue China visit
US President Barack Obama arrived in Beijing Monday afternoon to continue a four-day state visit to China after meetings with officials and students in Shanghai.

Some will object to Haiti seeking aid from states that are considered to be enemies of the US. Those who have this qualm should ask themselves: If other sovereign countries can act in their own self-interest, why not the long-suffering people of Haiti? What of the US' alliances with the dictatorships and authoritarian governments of China, Saudi Arabia and Sudan--to name a few? The very thought of the US having cordial relations with the genocidal government of the Sudan, should be enough to turn the stomach of freedom loving Americans everywhere.

Obama's Half-Brother Mark Ndesandjo Releases First Book

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:11:37 -0500

President Obama's half-brother Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo holds a press conference prior to a book launch in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 4, 2009. Ndesandjo, who has lived Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, has broken his silence and launched his debut novel. (Mike Clarke-AFP/Getty Images)

Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is half-Jewish. He spent his childhood in Nairobi, Kenya with his Jewish American mother Ruth Nidesand, whose maiden name he adopted. Ndesandjo's father married his mother after divorcing Barack Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham. He met and married his Chinese wife in China where he has lived for seven years. He moved to China after he lost his job in telecommunications and marketing in Sept. 2001 in the United States. "In Shenzhen, a booming southern city bordering Hong Kong, he began teaching English, giving piano lessons, learning Chinese and dedicating himself to helping orphans and underprivileged children."

Ndesandjo is as accomplished academically as his half-brother Barack Obama --having "bachelor's degrees in physics and math from Brown University, a master's degree in physics from Stanford and an MBA from Emory. He is also an accomplished pianist, does Chinese calligraphy and has just finished reading the Chinese epic "The Dream of Red Mansions" in Mandarin."

"Speaking out publicly for the first time Wednesday, Ndesandjo made only a few references to his famous brother, saying: "We are family. I love my family, and we are in touch." He attended Obama's presidential inauguration in January, and he said he plans to see his brother when the president makes an official visit to Beijing this month. "

Ndesandjo worked on this autobiographical novel titled "Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East" for a decade, but his brother's victory spurred him to finish the 255 page book. He will be releasing an autobiography as a follow up to this novel, which the Washington Post calls, "an emotionally wrenching book about his search for identity and self."

Oh and by the way... his father, Barack Obama, Sr. was abusive towards Ndesandjo and his mother. "I remember times in my house when I would hear the screams, and I would hear my mother's pain," he said. "I was a child. . . . I could not protect her."

Ndesandjo credits Obama's election last year with allowing him to come to terms with his painful past and motivating him to finish his book.

In the 255-page novel, self-published through Aventine Press, Ndesandjo's character is called David. The author depicts his Kenyan father as an abusive alcoholic who beats David and David's Jewish American mother. He makes no reference to his brother Barack.

Fifteen percent of the proceeds from his debut novel are going to his charity "Help the Kids."

H1N1: CDC, MSM, Obama are SO SCARED for US

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:41 -0400

Over at WIRED, they seem to have disabled the comments on the article "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All." The writer Amy Wallace hinges her pro-vaccines argument on the "herd immunity" concept. From the title, one gathers that some members of the "herd" (parents) have decided in a "panic" to decline vaccination for themselves or other "herd" members (children), therefore they bear the responsibility for risking the health of the entire animal kingdom [sic].

The concept of "herd immunity" sounds to me like a pharmaceutical industry term that is very similar to "dead peasant" insurance (Does your Boss Want You Dead?)--both terms are equally offensive and hint at a hidden agenda.

According to the CDC, "herd immunity" is "A concept of protecting a community against certain diseases by having a high percentage of the community's population immunized... even if a few members of the community are unable to be immunized, the entire community will be indirectly protected because the disease has little opportunity for an outbreak. However, with a low percentage of population immunity, the disease would have great opportunity for an outbreak."

While parents may take exception to being the animals in this metaphor, it is an effective propoganda tool that relies on guilting people into not being the "freeloaders" who allow other members of the "herd" to bear the "risk" of vaccination. If the concept is to be believed--one should get vaccinated for the common good.

One could argue that this "herd immunity" concept is "Pseudo-science [which] preys on well-intentioned people who, motivated by love for their kids, become vulnerable to one of the world’s oldest professions. Enter the snake-oil salesman." This is Ms. Wallaces charge against those who believe that vaccines damage children's health.

Ms. Wallace cautions that "For starters, the human brain has a natural tendency to pattern-match — to ignore the old dictum “correlation does not imply causation” and stubbornly persist in associating proximate phenomena." So according to Wallace, to be reasoned and logical, one should demand peer-reviewed studies and scientific data to substantiate any concept that perports to have scientific value. Does the concept of "herd immunity" have a scientific basis? One is left to wonder.

Wallace singles out two Senators for criticism for buying the "snake-oil" of "pseudo-science": Chris Dodd of CT and John Kerry of MA are "currying favor" with their constituents by linking autism to vaccines, says Wallace. Wallace is also critical of Robert Kennedy, who she says "authored a deeply flawed 2005 Rolling Stone piece called “Deadly Immunity.” In it, he accused the government of protecting drug companies from litigation by concealing evidence that mercury in vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids."

Two activist moms, whose kids have medical conditions that both attribute to vaccines are Jenny McCarthy and Barbara Loe Fisher. Jenny McCarty, Wallace points out, is an actress and former Playboy centerfold who is apt to go off into "stream-of-consciousness rants" and is "the anti-vaccine movement’s most popular pitchman and prettiest face." Wallace grudgingly acknowledges Barbara Loe Fisher as "the movement’s brain" and "a skilled debate" against "well informed scientists," but then goes on to call her a liar. Paul Offit (he may seem "brash") says that Fisher "makes him particularly nuts, as in “You just want to scream.” The reason? “She lies,” he says flatly." Wallace explains that that Fisher maintains that draconian laws are forcing people to get vaccinated. "That isn’t true — the swine flu vaccine, like other flu vaccines, will be administered on a voluntary basis. But no matter: Fisher’s argument turns vaccines from a public health issue into one of personal choice, an unwritten bit of the Bill of Rights" writes Wallace.

Up until recently, vaccines may not have been mandated, but they were required by most school systems in order for children to attend school. Parents should be made aware that they can refuse to comply. For the record, in most cases a parent (and sometimes a student) can sign a form stating that they are against vaccination on conscience or on religious grounds.

There is a steady progression towards instituting mandates. In 2007, Texas became the first state to "require that young girls be vaccinated against some sexually transmitted viruses." This year state legislatures are debating whether to mandate the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for girls. Also this year, Massachusets' legislature has voted to fine, jail or forceably quarantine anyone who refuses vaccination in the event of a "public health emergency." There is a concern that this reaction by the Massachusetts legislature to the "pandemic" scare of H1N1 may be replicated by other state legislatures.

As an aside, schools are now equipped with a cornocopia of pharmaceuticals for the attending students for prescribed medical conditions. While many children with serious medical conditions do need their meds--it is worthwhile to note that more and more children, particularly black kids, are being diagnosed with "disruptive behavior" or ADHD and prescribed what are described as "behavioral drugs" or "psychiatric drugs." Do pharmaceutical companies benefit from this increase in diagnosed cases of "behavioral" problems? Do these drug companies have lucrative contracts with the public school systems? Are these things related? Makes you think.

As of last week the CDC is attributing 1000 deaths to H1N1, but can this figure be trusted given that the CDC lies? An article written in 2005, which has been substantiated by the British Medical Journal titled "Annual Flu Deaths: The Big Lie" takes issue with the CDCs numbers, flatly stating that the CDC's own findings in its National Vital Statistics Reports, are contradict the 63,000 flu deaths reported by the CDC. The real number of flu deaths is under 1000.

Reportedly, on Friday, President Barack Obama declared a “national emergency with respect to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.” Skeptics may well wonder at the hasty nature of the President's actions. Why do 1000 deaths from the H1N1 a cause for panic?

Is this H1N1 outbreak really a "pandemic?" By way of contrast, over 200,000 Americans die every year due to errors by doctors and hospitals. The CDC should be equally panicked about this issue of doctor and hospital errors which causes so many fatalities.

Just today CNN reported about an unfortunate woman who is now a quadraplegic due to a "miscommunication" at the hospital. She informed the hospital of her kidney stone, but they released her without taking care of it. The error lead to complications that caused the amputation of both of her arms and legs. Here is a link to the article: "Kids care for mom without arms, legs" By Ashley Fantz, CNN

Update 11.17.2009 -- two interesting articles that were brought to my attention...

FDA Approved H1N1 Vaccines Contain Ingredients Known to Cause Cancer and Death

"Most health experts will agree that vaccine reactions can occur. It is estimated that roughly 1 in every million people will react to their vaccine. Even then, health officials maintain that it is usually a simple case of inflammation at the injection site and/or a slight fever. On a rare occasion, anaphylactic shock may occur due to the patient reacting to a substance that they are allergic to. However, the FDA recently approved four H1N1 vaccines that not only contain very questionable ingredients, but some of those ingredients have even been proven to cause cancer and death."

More.

Widespread rumors of Ukraine bioterrorism

Source: Ukraineplague.blogspot.com
UPDATE 11/10/09 3:00pm est – Widespread rumors of Ukraine bioterrorism

This is not H1N1 2009 pandemic swine flu, also called California flu in Ukraine. People everywhere continue to refer to it as H1N1, but according to both WHO and the Ukraine government they are different diseases. The Ukraine government still reports only a handful of deaths from H1N1 California (”swine”) flu, with just one lab-confirmed death. Meanwhile both the government and WHO have been tracking the exponential increased of illnesses from severe acute respiratory illness, which have symptoms very different from H1N1 flu.

It is expected that within the next day or so WHO will release the gene sequence from tissue samples. Meanwhile speculation is rampant about what the ‘mystery disease’ actually is. Opinions range from a mutated, recombined, or man-made H1N1 to weaponized pneumonic plague or bird flu. At this stage there is no publicly available information on the cause. However, many observers say that it cannot possibly be H1N1 unless it is a different and much more virulent strain of it.

Background

On October 29 people in Kiev and cities in western Ukraine reported that light planes and helicopters had been spraying something to protect people against swine flu. Business owners were told in advance to keep doors and windows shut and to stay inside. There were many reports to local newspapers and radio stations, but local officials would not let them be published.

Within hours people were feeling ill, some reporting red rashes on their arms. Within two days a dozen people had died of severe acute respiratory illness (reported by WHO October 30 on their website), some with their lungs full of blood, fevers up to 39C-40C, and lung temperatures as high as 55C. This severe hemorrhagic pneumonia has similar symptoms to the 1918 Spanish flu, pneumonic plague, pulmonary anthrax, SARS and avian flu (H5N1).

Ex-Priest Faces Charges: Sexually Molested Children in Haiti

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:10:45 -0400

The international community has evidently concluded that there is no justice in Haiti. Sexual predators who have been operating with impunity in Haiti are being extradited to their countries of origin to face criminal charges. Douglas Perlitz was extradited to the US. Now John Duarte, a priest who has reportedly been abusing young boys in Port-au-Prince hotels for years--is to be extradited to Canada from the Dominican Republic. The Windsor Star has more on the story.
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Ex-Windsor priest John Duarte arrested for
alleged child sex abuse in Haiti
By Don Lajoie, The Windsor Star | October 21, 2009

Joao Jose Correira Duarte, a former Windsor priest, is now facing extradition to Canada, where he's expected to face 12 charges in the sexual abuse of Haitian youths, age 12 to 17, the Immigration Office and National Drug Control Directorate said in a statement sent to Canwest News Service.
Photograph by: Handout, CNS

A former local priest, who founded a mission to aid the poor in Haiti, has been arrested in the Dominican Republic and is awaiting extradition to Canada to face charges of sexually abusing teenage Haitian boys.

John Duarte, 43, former leader of the Windsor-based Hearts Together For Haiti, was picked up Tuesday in the city of Puerto Plata by Dominican authorities on a warrant issued in Canada, according to a statement released by the Dominican Immigration Office and National Drug Control Directorate.

It is alleged Duarte had been engaging in sexual relations with a group of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 in Port-au-Prince.

He faces 12 charges of sexual abuse.

Duarte is accused of seeking sexual encounters with the youths in the city’s hotel rooms in exchange for favours, such as buying them clothes or paying for better lodging for the victims’ families in the sprawling slums of the Haitian capital.

The statement said Duarte is being held in a Dominican prison where he will await the trip back to Canada.

Duarte had worked as a missionary off and on in Haiti since the 1990s, while also serving as a parish priest in Windsor and Essex County — most recently at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and previously at St. Michael’s Church in Leamington.

It took the Dominican authorities four weeks to apprehend Duarte after receiving a diplomatic note from the Canadian Embassy Sept. 28. The arrest warrant was signed by a Windsor justice of the peace. The embassy was informed of the arrest Wednesday.

Read the whole story at the Windsor Star.

Video reports–
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