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Haiti Rocked by a 7.0 Earth quake which has been the worse earth quake in 200 years.  The United Nations Reports a lot of their forces reported missing or have not reported in for duty yet in Haiti.

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake near the capital that destroyed buildings and left thousands of people dead or missing.

The temblor was centered 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, a city of about 2 million inhabitants, at 4:53 p.m. local time yesterday, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. An official casualty count has yet to be announced and phone lines are out across the capital.

Port-au-Prince is in “total chaos,” with clouds of dust from collapsed buildings covering the city and fears that thousands may be dead, Robyn Fieser, a spokeswoman with the Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, said after receiving reports from representatives in the country. At least 13 aftershocks with a magnitude above 4.5 have struck the area, according to the USGS.

“My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been affected by this earthquake,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. “We are closely monitoring the situation and we stand ready to assist the people of Haiti.”

The White House statement said U.S. Southern Command, the State Department and USAID have begun working to coordinate aid for Haiti.

Pope Appeals for Aid

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to “everyone’s generosity,” in a call for financial aid for Haiti after a papal audience today in Rome.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick, in an e-mailed statement, said the bank will provide Haiti with financial assistance. The statement didn’t specify the amount of aid it might make available.

“The World Bank is ready to mobilize a team to help assess damage and losses and plan recovery and reconstruction,” said Zoellick. World Bank offices in Port-au-Prince “were destroyed but most staff have been safely accounted for,” the statement said.

The relief organization CARE said it is allocating an initial 100,000 euros ($145,000) to start emergency operations. The organization will distribute food from warehouses on the island, it said in an e-mailed statement. CARE’s country director, Sophie Perez, said in the statement that the quake was “terrifying” and lasted more than one minute.

Citigroup Inc.’s office building in the capital collapsed, CNN en Espanol reported, citing a company official. Jon Diat, a Citigroup spokesman, said in an e-mail he couldn’t confirm anything.

‘Full of Debris’

“The streets are full of debris and it’s very difficult to move about,” Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in a phone interview from Geneva.

Warner Marzocchi, a seismologist at Rome’s Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, said the earthquake was “20 to 30 times bigger” than a quake that struck the Italian city of L’Aquila last April killing more than 300 people.

“This is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and therefore I expect that the quality of the buildings is terrible in the face of an earthquake,” Marzocchi said by phone from Rome.

Haiti, a nation of about 9.6 million people, is recovering from four tropical storms or hurricanes that killed at least 800 people in 2008.

UN Force

The UN, which has a peacekeeping force of about 7,000 personnel and 2,000 police in Haiti, said its offices were damaged and that a “large amount of personnel” are unaccounted for. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told two radio stations that the head of the UN Mission, Tunisian diplomat Hedi Annabi, is probably dead, AP reported.

The UN force has been stationed there since June 2004, after President Bertrand Aristide left the country to go into exile.

“There is no security problem in our headquarters,” Alain Le Roy, UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, said in an e-mailed statement. “But we don’t know about the rest of the city so far.”

Some UN troops have surrounded the headquarters building and are trying to rescue people still trapped inside, Le Roy said. “As we speak, no one has been rescued from this main headquarters, but we don’t know how many people were in the building when the collapse happened.”

Missing Peacekeepers

Three Jordanian peacekeepers were killed and 21 others injured in the quake, Jordan’s official Petra news agency said. Brazil’s army said four of its soldiers were killed and five were injured and China’s CCTV said 10 of its peacekeepers were missing.

Former President Aristide said the earthquake is “a tragedy that defies expression.” Aristide, in a statement e- mailed from Pretoria, South Africa, said he and his wife “stand with the people of our country and mourn the death and destruction that has befallen Haiti.”

A school with children in its rooms collapsed in Port-au- Prince, according to the UN Children’s Fund, Unicef. The aid group Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins sans Frontieres, said in a statement that its 60-bed hospital in Port-au-Prince was seriously damaged. A hospital was destroyed in Petionville, a district near the city, the Associated Press reported. CNN, citing Haiti’s first lady, said parts of the presidential palace collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, she said.

Unicef Headquarters

Unicef’s headquarters suffered “considerable damage,” Tamar Hahn, a spokeswoman for the fund, said by phone from Panama. “We are waiting for daybreak in Haiti to really be able to assess the extent of the damage.”

U.S. Embassy employees reported seeing a number of bodies in the street, State Department Spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in a briefing yesterday. At least two U.S. citizens, both members of the Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, were trapped in a collapsed building, AP reported.

“There’s going to be serious loss of life,” Crowley said.

Houses slipped down hills, walls collapsed and landslides left roads blocked, which will impede any response by authorities, Ian Rodgers, a senior emergency adviser at Save the Children in Port-au-Prince, said in an interview on CNN. People are digging through rubble to find loved ones, Rodgers said.

More than 100 workers from Unicef in Haiti are helping the injured and providing for children separated from their parents, said Caryl Stern, the president of the U.S. fund of Unicef in New York.

‘Densely Populated’

“It’s a really densely populated area. It couldn’t be worse,” said Stern, who has been in contact with Unicef workers in Haiti. “It’s going to take a big world effort.”

Fixed-line and mobile phones in the capital are out, U.S. State Department spokesman Noel Clay said in Washington.

The Netherlands pledged 2 million euros ($2.9 million) in emergency aid, a Dutch foreign ministry spokeswoman said. Germany approved 1 million euros, the foreign ministry in Berlin said. The U.K. government said in a statement it would “provide whatever humanitarian assistance may be required.”

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved $200,000 in emergency aid to Haiti, the Washington-based lender said in a statement on its Web site today.

‘Very Strong’

Rafael Nunez, a presidential spokesman for neighboring Dominican Republic, said the earthquake felt “very strong.” No damage was reported in the Dominican Republic, Nunez said in an interview with CNN en Espanol.

Haiti’s per capita income is about $560, with 54 percent of Haitians living on less than $1 a day and 78 percent on less than $2 daily, according to the World Bank. The gross domestic product was $7 billion in 2008.

“This is the worst possible time for a natural disaster in Haiti, a country which is still recovering from the devastating storms of just over a year ago,” Eliot Engel, a New York congressman who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, said in a statement.

Former President Bill Clinton, the UN special envoy for Haiti, said the world body is “committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts.”

San Diego Ca- A earthquake Measuring 5.8 on the rector scale hit the Baja area today.

A 5.8-magnitude Baja earthquake rattled the southwest United States today, and it was felt in San Diego, Phoenix, Tijuana and even Los Angeles according to reports.

The quake struck Baja California at approximately 10:48 a.m. local time, per KPSP-2.

Buildings swayed briefly in San Diego, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries there or elsewhere in California or Mexico.

The epicenter was reported 22 miles southeast of Calexico, California, across the border from Mexicali, Mexico, and not far from Yuma, Arizona.

As typical, bloggers and Twitter users immediately shared personal accounts.

One blogger wrote, “I was sitting at my desk going through the email when I felt it … That familiar shake of the ground. I look up and sure enough, the lamp above my head is swinging. It’s an earthquake.”

Did you feel this earthquake? If so, share your experience in the comments below.

So let’s say theoretically you are a movie star/Governor of California and you just sign a bill to stop people from using cell phones while driving. Sounds pretty surreal huh? I would love to be a fly on the wall when he got home that evening. According to TMZ.com (which exposed her habitual cell phone usage) while driving. You would think that since Maria Shiver comes from a political Blue blood line of royalty that she would respect local government and laws especially since the bill was written not only to save lives, but was actually signed by her very own husband!

TMZ stated shortly after she was caught that Arnold Twittered TMZ.com Stating: “Swift Action Will be Taken”. HAHA! What kind of irony is that? You have to pay money out of your pocket for a law you signed into action and was immediately broken by your own wife!

Word of advice, if you are in politics or a movie star. No matter where you go or what you do it will be recorded!!!!!

Actual (AP) Release

(AP) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling out his wife, Maria Shriver, for apparently violating a state law he signed – holding her cell phone while driving.

The celebrity Web site TMZ.com posted two photographs Tuesday showing Shriver holding a phone to her ear while she’s behind the wheel. It says one was snapped Sunday and the other in July.

The Web site later added a video it said was shot Tuesday in Brentwood, where the family lives. It shows Shriver holding a cell phone to her ear while driving a large SUV that appears to be a Cadillac Escalade. She then puts the phone down while the camera is rolling.

The first lady’s office said it would have no comment.

On his Twitter feed, Schwarzenegger wrote to TMZ.com founder Harvey Levin: “Thanks for bringing her violations to my attention. There’s going to be swift action.”

Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear says that by “swift action,” the governor means he’ll ask his wife not to hold the phone while driving.

In a note accompanying the video, TMZ responded to Schwarzenegger’s tweet by saying, “… your scofflaw wife was at it again.”

A law that took effect in July 2008 requires California drivers to use a handsfree device when talking on cell phones.

Since then, the California Highway Patrol has issued more than 150,000 citations. That figure does not include citations issued by local police.

Drivers who are spotted by law enforcement officers holding a cell phone to their ear are subject to fines of at least $20 for the first ticket and $50 for subsequent tickets, plus additional fees.

In Los Angeles County, where Brentwood is located, the Superior Court has set the cost at about $93 for the first ticket and $201 for the next one, meaning Shriver would owe at least $300 in fines and court fees had she been caught by police.

Schwarzenegger has previously praised the regulation and said he warned his then-16-year-old daughter that if she ever violated the law, “she’ll be taking the bus.”

UPDATE:
The actor, 73, was wearing an oxygen mask when he was wheeled in, sources tell ET. His rep, Sheila Feren, later confirmed to the Associated Press that Hopper was suffering flu-like symptoms and complaining of a stomach ailment when he was admitted to an unidentified New York medical facility.

BREAKING NEWS:

Actor Dennis Hopper has been rushed to a New York hospital for an unspecified condition, according to a report from Entertainment Tonight.

Hopper, 73, was reportedly brought into an unidentified Manhattan hospital by an ambulance Monday wearing an oxygen mask and “with numerous tubes visible.”

The legendary Oscar nominee has appeared in such major films as “Easy Rider,” “Hoosiers,” “Speed” and “Apocalypse Now.” He is currently starring on the new STARZ television series “Crash.”

A rep for Hopper was not immediately available for comment Wednesday.

At least 17 deaths were confirmed, said Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services of American Samoa.

“Two or three villages have been badly damaged,” he told CNN International.

An American Samoa homeland security official working at the island’s emergency operations center told CNN that the death toll is expected to rise to at least 20.

The tsunami wave hit right in the middle of the harbor of Pogo Pogo, the capital, Cinta Brown said.

Water damage and infrastructure damage was reported throughout the island, she said.

The village of Leone was “sadly devastated,” Brown said. “The wave came onshore and washed out people’s homes.”

The same happened on the hard-hit east and west sides of American Samoa, she said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, canceled tsunami watches and warnings about four hours after the earthquake hit.

Finally, There is a power ball winner to hit my current state here in South Carolina. There has been a ton of turmoil from our Governor’s issues to the beauty contestant Mrs.South Carolina displaying her wits on national TV. Some luck has finally shined on the state of South Carolina!

Did you buy a Powerball ticket in South Carolina for last nights’ drawing? No? Then stop reading this post right now and get back to your job. You were not the Powerball winner from August 19, 2009 that is now $260 million richer. There was only one winner in the ninth largest payout in Powerball history and that ticket was sold in South Carolina. Four other Powerball ticket holders matched the first five numbers which is good for a cool $1 million.

Powerball Winning Numbers

14 – 24 – 31 – 43 – 51 Powerball 27

So where does this winner start to spend the cash? $260 million!! Probably around $130 million after taxes. I have a few ideas if it was me…travel the world, buy a yacht, wipe my nose with $100 bills, etc., etc. How about you? Where would you spend your millions.

Lately in a Recent statement, Rush Limbaugh stated that Obama’s New Health Care Logo looked like the Hitler’s Swastika.

“They accuse of us being Nazis, and Obama’s got a healthcare logo that’s right out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook,” said Limbaugh.

This has definitley been in the news lately with Obama’s office wanting anyone providing misinformation about the healthcare system to be reported to a government link so they could be informed properly.

Rush went on further to say:

Limbaugh then proceeded to describe the ways Democrats are like Nazis — a list that included their dedication to animal rights and their opposition to smoking and pollution.

Well, the Nazis were against big business — they hated big business. And of course we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. They were for two years mandatory voluntary service to Germany. They had a whole bunch of make-work projects to keep people working, one of which was the Autobahn. They were against cruelty and vivisection of animals, but in the radical sense of devaluing human life, they banned smoking. They were totally against that. They were for abortion and euthanasia of the undesirables, as we all know, and they were for cradle-to-grave nationalized healthcare.

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It seems that a rumor circulating in the internet marketing world about SEO Giant Stompernet is true.

There are no evil subplots or schemes behind this move yet.. hehe

It seems that Brad Fallon has bought out  Andy’s stake in the compaany. We were assured by Andy that there was no ill will or any type of forced buy out.

On June 2009 Brad Fallon who was Andy’s partner in the company bought his half out to run the company solely.  Andy was the main face for Stompernet and a huge creative drive.  He used his past film industry experience to produce some stellar video copy. Also, with other main SEO gurus like Howie Schwartz and Brad Fallon came up with the latest and greatest in search engine optimization techniques which many of the students of the Stomper courses proudly stated the course completion in almost a certified aspect.

Andy will be missed at Stompernet and the future of Stompernet will rest with Brad Fallon but assured it will remain in very good hands.  As for Andy who moved from Burlington, New Jersey to Atlanta, Ga to help form the dominating SEO company. He stated in the Warrior forum the following:

Jason Moffat Quoted:

“Hi!

There will be a joint Press-Release early next week. Like James said, nothing Sinister, unless you count me moving to San Diego as evil. Arguable, I suppose.”

Here is a nicely written article with more of a press release approach!

http://www.kikabink.com/news/brad-fallon-buys-out-andy-jenkins-stake-in-stompernet/

Amish Shah, John Reece and now Andy Jenkins? Could a major Power house be forming up in La Jolla or is it Jason Moffatt’s pure sex appeal as seen in the post below.

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Any which way things should start to become more interesting in the Internet Marketing World!

STOMPERNET’S LATEST LAUNCH

Click the Book for the Reviews at Amazon pretty interesting comments!

Hugo Chavez gives Obama a book

It seems that Hugo Chavez has his own book club like Oprah. The Venezuela leader gave the book titled Open veins of Latin America.  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez walked over to Obama and handed him a book, in Spanish.

A lot of people were asking “What is the book that Hugo Chavez gave to Obama?”

The book, Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America) by Eduardo Galeano is described by an unidentified Chilean delegate, as ‘an academic book that is the basis for the 60s-era `dependency theory’ that Latin America depends on the North,” according to the White House media pool report.

Does this mean better relations with the Venezulean President and the country he dictates? Is there a bigger meaning behind the book that they depend on North America for better trade and economic diplomacy?  Who knows with Hugo Chavez he has been major thorn in North America in the past and has flip flopped on many stances with between the different Americas.

Obama’s response to the gift: ”I thought it was one of Chávez’s books,” he said. ”I was going to give him one of mine.” The event began with Obama seated at the head of a U-shaped table. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet sat to his right. Chávez was at the far end of the table, on Obama’s left.

Some say the Democratic Party is the closest party to socialism and now we are seeming to befriend socialist and communist countries to build better diplomacy.  I don’t know whether this is a good thing or bad. The book does not tread lightly on the United States.

I do know that Cuban Cigars would be nice for America!  Anyway, I am posting this as the Latest trend of the day that has sent book sales for this book on Amazon to go out the roof.   I am suprised that it was still in stock after news hit on CNN.

Anyway it should be interesting to see if gas prices drop if we open trade and Venzuela decides to export us some oil.

That’s Right Chick Fil A Chairman decided the best way to protest the raise in taxes and the new tax hike by participating in the National Tea Party! Free Tea will be available with your meals!!

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