Hip-hop star sustained wound to his hand while campaigning for one of the contenders in Sunday’s presidential vote Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean has received a gunshot wound to the hand while campaigning for a fellow performer who is running for president in Haiti . The shooting happened in the Delmas area near the capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday night, said Joe Mignon, senior programme director for Jean’s Yele Foundation. Jean was treated at a hospital and later released, Mignon said. Jean, a native of Haiti who rocketed to fame as a member of the hip-hop trio the Fugees, is in his home country to support fellow musician and friend Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, who is contesting a run-off vote taking place on Sunday against former first lady Mirlande Manigat. Last week, Jean participated in a Martelly campaign concert in Port-au-Prince. “We are happy that Wyclef is okay but we continue to pray for him and for a peaceful and fair election today in Haiti,” said the Rev Al Sharpton, who has worked with Jean on educational issues and bringing aid to Haiti after the devastating January 2010 earthquake. Rosemond said: “It is clear that enemies of progressive change in Haiti are behind the shooting of Wyclef – those that don’t want to accept that a monumental change is inevitable for the betterment of the Haitian people. This incident will not deter those of us that see the election as crucial to the country’s future.” Haiti Wyclef Jean guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …How Many Teachers’ Salaries or Years of Funding NPR Does Launching a Tomahawk Missile Cost Us?
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Click here to view this media I guess now that we’ve decided we can afford to help with air strikes against another country that has a lot of oil that we might be concerned about, we can continue to tell the tax payers that we’re broke and cannot afford to pay for those horrible entitlement programs that you working slugs were expecting like your Social Security and your Medicaid programs. And never mind raising taxes on the “job creators” because their needs must be met at all times whether they’re creating jobs overseas for slave wages or anywhere for that matter. If you’re a corporation that does business in the United States, you must be coddled to. And you stinking low life union thugs must STFU if you don’t like any of this, because you of course are the source of all of our problems and draining the taxpayers in America of their hard earned money. And if you’re a dirty f-king hippie organization like NPR, you must be defunded because we can’t have our taxpayer dollars being spent on any evil liberal ideology being spread around to the rural areas of the country. And of course we can afford this it it ever means raising taxes on the rich. From my buddy Scarce who helps me here and shared this with our group. Deep Thought — U.S. fires 110 tomahawk missiles, each costs $569,000. That’s more than 5 years of NPR federal funding in less than an hour. We’ve got to have our priorities, don’t you know. I am really disgusted with what’s been going on in Libya and Gadhafi’s actions, but am also really cynical about our decision to go in there. We’re supporting dictators that are as bad as Gadhaifi and treating their citizens just as badly, but we’re not doing anything about that or helping to overturn those regimes. If the uprisings in the Middle East and Africa don’t start a conversation about what’s wrong with our foreign policy and what we can and cannot to pay for at home and what we should and should not be supporting, I don’t know what will. The interview with Fawaz Gerges is available at CNN’s website .
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Private Daniel Steven Prior has died at same age as his Falklands soldier uncle A new father wounded in Afghanistan has died at the same age as the uncle he was named in memory of, who was killed in the Falklands war. Private Daniel Steven Prior, of 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, was born the year after the death of Steve Prior, who lost his life trying to save the life of a colleague. The 27-year-old had only returned to Afghanistan a fortnight ago, having flown home to the UK to be with his wife Emily as she gave birth to their son Logan. Prior was fatally wounded by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand Province last week and was treated at a military hospital in Camp Bastion before being flown back to Britain. He died at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham on Friday with his family by his side. His parents Ian and Gillian made a joint statement with his wife and newborn son, saying: “Dan was a lively young man with an amazing sense of humour. “He was a wonderful son, husband and father. We are all tremendously proud of him and he will be sorely missed by his family and friends.” Prior, who was from Peacehaven, east Sussex, lived in Colchester, Essex, with his wife. He was described by colleagues as the best soldier in his company. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Harrison said: “Private Dan Prior died surrounded by his family in England. Two days before, he had been mortally wounded, 4,000 miles away, whist patrolling to bring lasting peace to the village of Char Coucha in Helmand Province. “The village has recently made headlines for its remarkable return from Taliban devastation. Private Prior was one of those incredibly brave young soldiers who made that happen. “This bright, inspiring and able paratrooper knew the risks of war more than almost anyone; his uncle died the year before Dan was born fighting for this great battalion at the battle of Goose Green in the Falklands conflict. Dan had accompanied his family to receive the Elizabeth Cross in his memory only last year.” He said Logan would be proud to learn his father was a “bright star” loved by friends and colleagues alike. Lance Corporal Chris Wilmott, of 10 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, served alongside Prior and his uncle. He said: “It was a great honour for me to serve with Dan Prior especially after serving with his uncle Steve Prior who was my section commander in the late 70s. Dan was, without doubt, focussed, conscientious and destined for great things. For me he will never be forgotten, nor will his uncle Steve.” Prior’s death brings the total number of UK military personnel to have died since operations in Afghanistan began in 2001 to 360. Afghanistan Military guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …The first good news out of this in a while: Working overnight into Sunday, engineers have successfully restored power to cooling pumps in two reactors at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the first genuinely hopeful sign in the week-long battle to prevent a full-scale meltdown at any of the six reactors at the site. Although power has so far been restored only at reactor buildings 5 and 6, which were not considered a particular threat, that success suggests that workers are finally beginning to make some headway in their effort to prevent more radiation from escaping the plant. The two reactors had been shut down at the time the magnitude 9 earthquake struck a week ago, but spent fuel rods in an upper level of the reactor buildings were still generating heat and required cooling. When electricity at the site was lost and the tsunami damaged backup generators, the pools holding the fuel rods began to grow warmer. Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which owns the plant, said water in the no. 5 pool had already cooled by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit since the cooling pumps had started working. Engineers said they hoped to have the power connected to the remaining reactor buildings sometime Sunday or early Monday. But now there’s radiation in the food and water supply: Although Japan’s Health Ministry said the levels were not immediately harmful to humans, the discovery of higher than normal radioactivity in batches of milk and spinach near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was almost certain to stir new angst among a Japanese public already weary from earthquake aftershocks, blackouts and fears of a complete nuclear meltdown. That announcement was followed by reports late Saturday that traces of radioactive iodine were found in tap water in Tokyo and other parts of the country. “This is the expected next development,” said Dr. Glenn D. Braunstein, chairman of the department of medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, referring to the tainted foods. After the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in the Soviet Union in 1986, he said, a major cause of the thyroid disease suffered by children came from consumption of contaminated food. “There are two routes to radiation exposure: One is breathing it in, and the other is swallowing it through foodstuffs,” he said . Other experts warned that contamination may also turn up in fish, a staple of the Japanese diet.
Continue reading …Then and Now—Television Series Shows Gay Kiss…And The Apocalypse Fails To Happen
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enlarge Twenty-two years ago, the ABC show “thirtysomething” aired an episode which portrayed two gay secondary recurring characters in bed together, obviously post-coital. The two men never touched, never kissed, never spoke intimately about what they had been doing. Just two men lying in bed together. Religious groups went nuts at the idea. Letter-writing campaigns were launched, ads were pulled and ABC pulled the episode from the re-broadcast line up. It wasn’t seen again until the series went into syndication on basic cable. There was no public outcry about the episode before it aired. Following the broadcast, ABC received around 400 telephone calls with about 90% of them being negative. [3] TV Guide in its “Cheers & Jeers” column gave the episode a “Jeer”, saying that having the men have sex on the first date perpetuated negative stereotypes about the promiscuity of gay men. Five of the show’s regular sponsors pulled out of the episode, costing the network approximately $1.5 million in advertising revenue. [3] ABC removed the episode from the summer rerun schedule out of fear for additional losses. [3] The controversy surrounding “Strangers” in the late 1980s, along with similar controversies relating to early 1990s episodes of such shows as Picket Fences ( “Sugar & Spice” ) and Roseanne ( “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ), led producers to refrain from presenting sexualization of their gay and lesbian characters. As noted by author Ron Becker, “So viewers got to see Carol and Susan wed on Friends , but they didn’t get to see them kiss. And fans of NYPD Blue could hear male hustlers talk about their johns, but the only sex they got to see involved the precinct’s straight cops—naked butts and all. Clearly, chastity was the price gay characters paid for admission to prime-time television in the 1990s.” [4] That was then, this is now On Tuesday, Fox Television aired an episode of Glee where two gay regular characters kissed. And went back for more. And look…not even a peep from Bill Donohue. Well, that’s not completely true. Somebody did have issues with it . But overall, the kiss occurred without any outrage from the religious right. Could it be that we’ve grown as a society? It appears we have…and a recent poll shows that the GOP is far behind most of America on this : More than half of Americans say it should be legal for gays and lesbians to marry , a first in nearly a decade of polls by ABC News and The Washington Post .This milestone result caps a dramatic, long-term shift in public attitudes. From a low of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, support for gay marriage has grown to 53 percent today. Forty-four percent are opposed, down 18 points from that 2004 survey. The issue remains divisive; as many adults “strongly” oppose gay marriage as strongly support it, and opposition rises to more than 2-1 among Republicans and conservatives and 3-1 among evangelical white Protestants, a core conservative group. But opposition to gay marriage has weakened in these groups from its levels a few years ago, and support has grown sharply among others – notably, among Catholics, political moderates, people in their 30s and 40s and men. The results reflect a changing albeit still polarized climate.
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March 20, 2011 No Commentenlarge Twenty-two years ago, the ABC show “thirtysomething” aired an episode which portrayed two gay secondary recurring characters in bed together, obviously post-coital. The two men never touched, never kissed, never spoke intimately about what they had been doing. Just two men lying in bed together. Religious groups went nuts at the idea. Letter-writing campaigns were launched, ads were pulled and ABC pulled the episode from the re-broadcast line up. It wasn’t seen again until the series went into syndication on basic cable. There was no public outcry about the episode before it aired. Following the broadcast, ABC received around 400 telephone calls with about 90% of them being negative. [3] TV Guide in its “Cheers & Jeers” column gave the episode a “Jeer”, saying that having the men have sex on the first date perpetuated negative stereotypes about the promiscuity of gay men. Five of the show’s regular sponsors pulled out of the episode, costing the network approximately $1.5 million in advertising revenue. [3] ABC removed the episode from the summer rerun schedule out of fear for additional losses. [3] The controversy surrounding “Strangers” in the late 1980s, along with similar controversies relating to early 1990s episodes of such shows as Picket Fences ( “Sugar & Spice” ) and Roseanne ( “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ), led producers to refrain from presenting sexualization of their gay and lesbian characters. As noted by author Ron Becker, “So viewers got to see Carol and Susan wed on Friends , but they didn’t get to see them kiss. And fans of NYPD Blue could hear male hustlers talk about their johns, but the only sex they got to see involved the precinct’s straight cops—naked butts and all. Clearly, chastity was the price gay characters paid for admission to prime-time television in the 1990s.” [4] That was then, this is now On Tuesday, Fox Television aired an episode of Glee where two gay regular characters kissed. And went back for more. And look…not even a peep from Bill Donohue. Well, that’s not completely true. Somebody did have issues with it . But overall, the kiss occurred without any outrage from the religious right. Could it be that we’ve grown as a society? It appears we have…and a recent poll shows that the GOP is far behind most of America on this : More than half of Americans say it should be legal for gays and lesbians to marry , a first in nearly a decade of polls by ABC News and The Washington Post .This milestone result caps a dramatic, long-term shift in public attitudes. From a low of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, support for gay marriage has grown to 53 percent today. Forty-four percent are opposed, down 18 points from that 2004 survey. The issue remains divisive; as many adults “strongly” oppose gay marriage as strongly support it, and opposition rises to more than 2-1 among Republicans and conservatives and 3-1 among evangelical white Protestants, a core conservative group. But opposition to gay marriage has weakened in these groups from its levels a few years ago, and support has grown sharply among others – notably, among Catholics, political moderates, people in their 30s and 40s and men. The results reflect a changing albeit still polarized climate.
Continue reading …Then and Now—Television Series Shows Gay Kiss…And The Apocalypse Fails To Happen
March 20, 2011 No Commentenlarge Twenty-two years ago, the ABC show “thirtysomething” aired an episode which portrayed two gay secondary recurring characters in bed together, obviously post-coital. The two men never touched, never kissed, never spoke intimately about what they had been doing. Just two men lying in bed together. Religious groups went nuts at the idea. Letter-writing campaigns were launched, ads were pulled and ABC pulled the episode from the re-broadcast line up. It wasn’t seen again until the series went into syndication on basic cable. There was no public outcry about the episode before it aired. Following the broadcast, ABC received around 400 telephone calls with about 90% of them being negative. [3] TV Guide in its “Cheers & Jeers” column gave the episode a “Jeer”, saying that having the men have sex on the first date perpetuated negative stereotypes about the promiscuity of gay men. Five of the show’s regular sponsors pulled out of the episode, costing the network approximately $1.5 million in advertising revenue. [3] ABC removed the episode from the summer rerun schedule out of fear for additional losses. [3] The controversy surrounding “Strangers” in the late 1980s, along with similar controversies relating to early 1990s episodes of such shows as Picket Fences ( “Sugar & Spice” ) and Roseanne ( “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ), led producers to refrain from presenting sexualization of their gay and lesbian characters. As noted by author Ron Becker, “So viewers got to see Carol and Susan wed on Friends , but they didn’t get to see them kiss. And fans of NYPD Blue could hear male hustlers talk about their johns, but the only sex they got to see involved the precinct’s straight cops—naked butts and all. Clearly, chastity was the price gay characters paid for admission to prime-time television in the 1990s.” [4] That was then, this is now On Tuesday, Fox Television aired an episode of Glee where two gay regular characters kissed. And went back for more. And look…not even a peep from Bill Donohue. Well, that’s not completely true. Somebody did have issues with it . But overall, the kiss occurred without any outrage from the religious right. Could it be that we’ve grown as a society? It appears we have…and a recent poll shows that the GOP is far behind most of America on this : More than half of Americans say it should be legal for gays and lesbians to marry , a first in nearly a decade of polls by ABC News and The Washington Post .This milestone result caps a dramatic, long-term shift in public attitudes. From a low of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, support for gay marriage has grown to 53 percent today. Forty-four percent are opposed, down 18 points from that 2004 survey. The issue remains divisive; as many adults “strongly” oppose gay marriage as strongly support it, and opposition rises to more than 2-1 among Republicans and conservatives and 3-1 among evangelical white Protestants, a core conservative group. But opposition to gay marriage has weakened in these groups from its levels a few years ago, and support has grown sharply among others – notably, among Catholics, political moderates, people in their 30s and 40s and men. The results reflect a changing albeit still polarized climate.
Continue reading …Then and Now—Television Series Shows Gay Kiss…And The Apocalypse Fails To Happen
March 20, 2011 No Commentenlarge Twenty-two years ago, the ABC show “thirtysomething” aired an episode which portrayed two gay secondary recurring characters in bed together, obviously post-coital. The two men never touched, never kissed, never spoke intimately about what they had been doing. Just two men lying in bed together. Religious groups went nuts at the idea. Letter-writing campaigns were launched, ads were pulled and ABC pulled the episode from the re-broadcast line up. It wasn’t seen again until the series went into syndication on basic cable. There was no public outcry about the episode before it aired. Following the broadcast, ABC received around 400 telephone calls with about 90% of them being negative. [3] TV Guide in its “Cheers & Jeers” column gave the episode a “Jeer”, saying that having the men have sex on the first date perpetuated negative stereotypes about the promiscuity of gay men. Five of the show’s regular sponsors pulled out of the episode, costing the network approximately $1.5 million in advertising revenue. [3] ABC removed the episode from the summer rerun schedule out of fear for additional losses. [3] The controversy surrounding “Strangers” in the late 1980s, along with similar controversies relating to early 1990s episodes of such shows as Picket Fences ( “Sugar & Spice” ) and Roseanne ( “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ), led producers to refrain from presenting sexualization of their gay and lesbian characters. As noted by author Ron Becker, “So viewers got to see Carol and Susan wed on Friends , but they didn’t get to see them kiss. And fans of NYPD Blue could hear male hustlers talk about their johns, but the only sex they got to see involved the precinct’s straight cops—naked butts and all. Clearly, chastity was the price gay characters paid for admission to prime-time television in the 1990s.” [4] That was then, this is now On Tuesday, Fox Television aired an episode of Glee where two gay regular characters kissed. And went back for more. And look…not even a peep from Bill Donohue. Well, that’s not completely true. Somebody did have issues with it . But overall, the kiss occurred without any outrage from the religious right. Could it be that we’ve grown as a society? It appears we have…and a recent poll shows that the GOP is far behind most of America on this : More than half of Americans say it should be legal for gays and lesbians to marry , a first in nearly a decade of polls by ABC News and The Washington Post .This milestone result caps a dramatic, long-term shift in public attitudes. From a low of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, support for gay marriage has grown to 53 percent today. Forty-four percent are opposed, down 18 points from that 2004 survey. The issue remains divisive; as many adults “strongly” oppose gay marriage as strongly support it, and opposition rises to more than 2-1 among Republicans and conservatives and 3-1 among evangelical white Protestants, a core conservative group. But opposition to gay marriage has weakened in these groups from its levels a few years ago, and support has grown sharply among others – notably, among Catholics, political moderates, people in their 30s and 40s and men. The results reflect a changing albeit still polarized climate.
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Entertainer Michel Martelly and ex-first lady Mirlande Manigat vie for post as UN says voting has improved since first-round chaos Voting in Haiti’s presidential run-off started slowly in some places, with foreign donors hoping the poll would produce the stability needed to rebuild the earthquake-crippled nation. In the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince, several polling stations were unable to open on time because materials such as ink to mark voters’ fingers and labels to mark the urns had not arrived, witnesses said. Arguments also broke out over which officials and party representatives should be there. As groups of Haitians waited to vote, polling officials scrambled to get the stations ready. Blue-helmeted Brazilian UN troops guarded voting centres with Haitian police, and white UN armoured vehicles rumbled through the streets, many still strewn with debris left from last year’s earthquake. The election presents Haiti’s 4.7 million voters with a choice between a political newcomer, energetic entertainer and singer Michel Martelly, 50, and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, a law professor and opposition matriarch. The run-off followed a chaotic first round vote on 28 November that dissolved quickly into fraud allegations and unrest. The United Nations, which is supporting the election, says voting improvements should better ensure a clear, credible outcome for the run-off in one of the world’s poorest and most disaster-prone states. “I need a president to change the situation of the country,” said Adeline Hyppolite, 50, a small trader, who cast her ballot in the Petionville district of the capital. “We are hoping for a better life … but only God knows. We hope we’ll find the change we’re looking for,” she added, saying her husband had been disabled in the earthquake. The Caribbean state desperately needs a capable leadership and government to steer a post-quake reconstruction that requires billions of dollars of foreign assistance. “This is the first time in Haitian history that they will have a run-off election, a second round, so I think the product of this election will be a legitimate one that will have the support of the majority of the Haitian people and that alone is already an asset for the next government,” Edmond Mulet, the UN’s top official in Haiti, told Reuters. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and other international leaders appealed for a calm, transparent vote. Weighing on many Haitians’ minds as they cast their ballots will be the reappearance of a political heavyweight, former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who arrived back from exile on Friday . The return of the charismatic leftwing populist and former Catholic priest who still commands a big following in Haiti was opposed by the United States and United Nations as potentially disruptive to the polls. But Aristide is not a candidate and aides have said he will stay out of politics. Although Aristide, who was driven into exile by a 2004 rebellion, has not clearly endorsed any candidate, many voters have been trying to interpret who he favours in what is expected to be a close-fought run-off. Nevertheless, recent opinion polls have shown Martelly slightly ahead of Manigat. With banners welcoming Aristide, the slogans of the rival candidates were plastered on walls. Martelly’s ” tet kale ” slogan, a Creole play on words that refers to his shaven head and also means “all the way” to convey his promise of forceful change, contrasts with Manigat’s more homely ” banm manman’m ” (give me Mummy) slogan that seeks to bolster her image of experience and responsibility. Reflecting ex-president Aristide’s enduring image as a champion of the poor, many Haitians said that if he were on the ballot they would vote for him. Under Haiti’s election law, the Provisional Electoral Council is due to announce preliminary results from the run-off on 31 March, with final results being confirmed on 16 April. Mulet acknowledged this long wait for results ran the risk of rival camps stirring up supporters with noisy claims of victory or fraud – such claims in the first round triggered street protests. But he was confident UN forces supporting Haiti’s police could control the situation. Haiti United Nations Ban Ki-moon guardian.co.uk
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Entertainer Michel Martelly and ex-first lady Mirlande Manigat vie for post as UN says voting has improved since first-round chaos Voting in Haiti’s presidential run-off started slowly in some places, with foreign donors hoping the poll would produce the stability needed to rebuild the earthquake-crippled nation. In the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince, several polling stations were unable to open on time because materials such as ink to mark voters’ fingers and labels to mark the urns had not arrived, witnesses said. Arguments also broke out over which officials and party representatives should be there. As groups of Haitians waited to vote, polling officials scrambled to get the stations ready. Blue-helmeted Brazilian UN troops guarded voting centres with Haitian police, and white UN armoured vehicles rumbled through the streets, many still strewn with debris left from last year’s earthquake. The election presents Haiti’s 4.7 million voters with a choice between a political newcomer, energetic entertainer and singer Michel Martelly, 50, and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, a law professor and opposition matriarch. The run-off followed a chaotic first round vote on 28 November that dissolved quickly into fraud allegations and unrest. The United Nations, which is supporting the election, says voting improvements should better ensure a clear, credible outcome for the run-off in one of the world’s poorest and most disaster-prone states. “I need a president to change the situation of the country,” said Adeline Hyppolite, 50, a small trader, who cast her ballot in the Petionville district of the capital. “We are hoping for a better life … but only God knows. We hope we’ll find the change we’re looking for,” she added, saying her husband had been disabled in the earthquake. The Caribbean state desperately needs a capable leadership and government to steer a post-quake reconstruction that requires billions of dollars of foreign assistance. “This is the first time in Haitian history that they will have a run-off election, a second round, so I think the product of this election will be a legitimate one that will have the support of the majority of the Haitian people and that alone is already an asset for the next government,” Edmond Mulet, the UN’s top official in Haiti, told Reuters. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and other international leaders appealed for a calm, transparent vote. Weighing on many Haitians’ minds as they cast their ballots will be the reappearance of a political heavyweight, former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who arrived back from exile on Friday . The return of the charismatic leftwing populist and former Catholic priest who still commands a big following in Haiti was opposed by the United States and United Nations as potentially disruptive to the polls. But Aristide is not a candidate and aides have said he will stay out of politics. Although Aristide, who was driven into exile by a 2004 rebellion, has not clearly endorsed any candidate, many voters have been trying to interpret who he favours in what is expected to be a close-fought run-off. Nevertheless, recent opinion polls have shown Martelly slightly ahead of Manigat. With banners welcoming Aristide, the slogans of the rival candidates were plastered on walls. Martelly’s ” tet kale ” slogan, a Creole play on words that refers to his shaven head and also means “all the way” to convey his promise of forceful change, contrasts with Manigat’s more homely ” banm manman’m ” (give me Mummy) slogan that seeks to bolster her image of experience and responsibility. Reflecting ex-president Aristide’s enduring image as a champion of the poor, many Haitians said that if he were on the ballot they would vote for him. Under Haiti’s election law, the Provisional Electoral Council is due to announce preliminary results from the run-off on 31 March, with final results being confirmed on 16 April. Mulet acknowledged this long wait for results ran the risk of rival camps stirring up supporters with noisy claims of victory or fraud – such claims in the first round triggered street protests. But he was confident UN forces supporting Haiti’s police could control the situation. Haiti United Nations Ban Ki-moon guardian.co.uk
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