Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, January 18, 2010

More Haiti rumors

By Dave Anderson:

I've been hearing quite a few things from quite a few little birdies over the past couple of days regarding Haiti.  I've done my best to confirm what I can, or at least hear the same basic story from non-connected sources, but none of this is on the record yet.  Everything here I rate as at least B+ reliable. 


  •  US Navy Reserve Crane ships --- they will be the indicator of how badly damaged Port Au Prince's port facilities are.  1 or 2 activated, not bad, 3 or more, the port is worse than Malta in 1942.  

  • Beyond Bataan and Nassau phib goups at least one more ARG may be sent as soon as work-ups and redeployment is complete. 

  • Local politics is interesting.  Many large municipal governments and some states in the US have significant disaster response capacity.  Some of the units sent in 1st wave were sent on federal activation, but some were sent on local initiative.  The local initiative units will not have their costs picked up by Uncle Sam.  Those local initiative units most likely come from areas in the US with a large Haitian voting bloc.

  • Refugee resettlement is on the discussion board right now.  Major East Coast Metro areas, including at least NYC and Miami have been told to get ready for "temporary and long term" resettlement efforts with case management.

  • Wonder what that will do to Congressional reapportionment?

  • Initial trickle of Haitians are beginning to enter the US via 3rd countries (mainly Haitians who were already out of the country when the earthquake happened)

  • Get ready for the remnants of the Haitian middle and professional classes to leave.



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