19 January, 2010
Haiti Aid Picks Up, Doctors Fear Disease Risk
New York Times
By REUTERS PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The pace of food and medical aid deliveries picked up in earthquake-shattered Haiti, providing some hope to desperate …
www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/19/world/international-uk-quake-haiti.html
Haiti provides new test for Obama administration
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s promise to build a new Haiti out of the ruins of the earthquake could prove politically risky if the United …
www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60G2J520100117
US cellphone users donate $22 million to Haiti earthquake relief via text
Washington Post
By Thomas Heath The American Red Cross has received more than $22 million in US text-message donations for Haiti earthquake relief efforts, far outpacing …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803792.html
US airdrops 14000 meals into Haiti
USA Today
By Joe Raedle, Getty Images Parachuting bundles of food and water into Haiti became viable for the first time Monday in part because there are enough troops …
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-18-haiti-airdrops_N.htm
Gov’t lets Haitian orphans come to US for care
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON — The government is making it easier for Haitian orphans being adopted by Americans to enter the United States. …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803752.html
Wyclef on Haiti Charity: Mistakes Were Made
E! Online (blog)
Days after The Smoking Gun posted financial records suggesting his Yéle Haiti Foundation may have enriched the former Fugee, Wyclef reiterated remarks from …
www.eonline.com/uberblog/b162666_wyclef_on_haiti_charity_mistakes_were.html
Haiti Donations Pour In
FOXNews (blog)
The Haiti relief fund established by former Presidents Clinton and Bush has received more than 90000 donations, totaling more than $8.7 million. …
whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/01/18/haiti-donations-pour-in/
Faucet of aid opens in Haiti
USA Today
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY CARREFOUR, HAITI — The children are too hungry to play. The youngest of Divino Jean Baptiste’s 10 children cling to their …
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-18-haiti-humanitarian-aid_N.htm
Royal Caribbean cruise line brings tourists, supplies to Haiti port
USA Today
By Gene Sloan, USA TODAY Royal Caribbean(RCL) has quickly returned to Haiti, dropping tourists from cruise ships on the country’s north coast about 60 miles …
www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2010-01-18-earthquake-haiti-tourist-cruise_N.htm
UN Chief Asks Security Council to Authorize More Troops, Police for Haiti
Voice of America
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, just back from a tour of earthquake devastated Haiti, has asked the Security Council to boost the UN stabilization mission …
www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/UN-Chief-Asks-Security-Council-to-Authorize-More-Troops-Police-for-Haiti-81981657.html
Nursing home residents still awaiting aid in Haiti
Washington Post
By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Earthquake survivors have brought food and some medicine to dying residents in the rubble of a Haiti …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803319.html
Latest Updates on the Crisis in Haiti – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com
By By ROBERT MACKEY
On Monday The Lede is continuing to supplement reporting by our colleagues in Haiti on the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake by pointing to news and information on the Web. Readers are encouraged to share any first-hand accounts they …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/latest-updates-on-the-crisis-in-haiti/
JURIST – Paper Chase: Haiti confronts rising lawlessness after …
By Dwyer Arce
[JURIST] Local police struggled to maintain law and order in Haiti while awaiting the deployment of more US troops on Monday, as looting and vigilantism rose among increasingly desperate and frustrated survivors of the earthquake that …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2010/01/haiti-confronts-rising-lawlessness.php
Rupert Russell: Haiti and Conservatives’ Compassion Problem
By Rupert Russell
Why do conservatives claim the mantel of “compassionate conservatism” but liberals never claim a “more caring liberalism?” The need to emphasize compassion reveals the very lack of it in their natural disposition.
www.huffingtonpost.com/rupert-russell/haiti-and-conservatives-c_b_425871.html
Cruise ship docks at private beach in Haiti for barbeque and water …
By Cory Doctorow
The Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines’ ship Independence of the Seas went ahead with its scheduled stop at a fenced-in private Haitian beach surrounded by armed guards, leaving its passengers to “cut loose” on the beach, …
www.boingboing.net/2010/01/18/cruise-ship-docks-at.html
Shakesville: Haiti Open Thread
By Melissa McEwan
Doctors helping survivors of the earthquake in Haiti have turned to conducting surgeries in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the head of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti told the German Press Agency dpa. …
shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-open-thread_18.html
Panic, Looting And Triage After Major Haiti Quake : NPR
Panic, looting and triage after major Haiti quake.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122545946
18 January, 2010
Communication key to relief effort in Haiti
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on January 18, 2010 at 11:04 AM
After a natural disaster, some critical needs are evident, such as food, medicine and shelter. But it’s easy to forget another vital need: that of information and communication. This helps aid workers to co-ordinate relief efforts, and keeps locals informed about where they can access such relief.
www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/01/communication_key_to_relief_effort_in_ha.php
US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in —France accused the US of “occupying” Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security. 18 Jan 2010
The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts. Alain Joyandet admitted he had been involved in a scuffle with a US commander in the airport’s control tower over the flight plan for a French evacuation flight. “This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying Haiti,” Mr Joyandet said. Geneva-based charity Medecins Sans Frontieres backed his calls saying hundreds of lives were being put at risk as planes carrying vital medical supplies were being turned away by American air traffic controllers.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html
Curfew imposed in Haiti capital 18 Jan 2010
The Haitian police and the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti on January 17 imposed a 6pm curfew in the devastated capital city of Port-au-Prince. Under the curfew, no vehicles are allowed, except police and military vehicles or those escorted by the police. Flights are also banned from 6.22pm.
english.vovnews.vn/Home/Curfew-imposed-in-Haiti-capital/20101/111836.vov
Venezuela’s Chavez offers fuel to Haiti [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY …
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation. …
www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=52812
Haiti: We’re not here to fight, US troops insist —The US paratrooper had a simple message for the people of Haiti. He said: ‘I don’t plan on firing a single shot’ 18 Jan 2010
The order has come down from on high that when out patrolling the stricken streets of the city of Port-au-Prince, the paratroopers should have their rifles slung behind their backs. None of that strong-arm brandishing of metal that epitomised the early days in Iraq. “We’ve been told not to draw attention to our guns,” the paratrooper, Sgt David Gurba, said. By Monday, the US military was visibly out in force at the main airport in Port-au-Prince. Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/18/haiti-earthquake-us-soldiers-aid
Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid —Chavez promised to send as much gasoline as Haiti needs for electricity generation and transport. 17 Jan 2010
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation. “I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that’s what the United States should send,” Chavez said on his weekly television show. “They are occupying Haiti undercover. On top of that, you don’t see them in the streets. Are they picking up bodies? … Are they looking for the injured? You don’t see them. I haven’t seen them. Where are they?”
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G2DW20100117
Ortega warns of US deployment in Haiti 17 Jan 2010
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says that the United States has taken advantage of the massive quake in Haiti and deployed troops in the country. “What is happening in Haiti seriously concerns me as US troops have already taken control of the airport,” Ortega said on Saturday. The Pentagon says it has deployed more than 10,000 soldiers in Haiti to help victims of Tuesday’s earthquake. This is while US paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division took control of the main airport in the capital Port-au-Prince on Friday three days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake brought death and misery to the impoverished nation. “There is no logic that US troops landed in Haiti. Haiti seeks humanitarian aid, not troops. It would be madness [if] we all began to send troops to Haiti,” said Ortega. “I hope they will withdraw troops occupying Haiti,” he added. Earlier on Thursday, Nicaragua sent 31 military doctors of the Humanitarian Rescue Unit (URH) and humanitarian aid for the victims of the calamity. [WHY is the US government delaying the delivery of lifesaving food and water in Haiti? Is the plan to create a fertile environment for the number of ‘security incidents’ to skyrocket (which Faux News *can’t wait* to overemphasize) so there is a ‘need’ for Blackwater mercenaries to be sent to destabilize Haiti? —LRP]
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Haiti buries 70,000 in mass graves 18 Jan 2010
Haiti has announced that it has buried 70,000 bodies in mass graves as search and rescue personnel are continuing their efforts to find more survivors or dead trapped under the debris caused by last Tuesday’s massive earthquake. The country has declared a state of emergency until the end of January and a month-long period of national mourning, Haitian government minister Carol Joseph said on Sunday.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116412§ionid=351020706
Elderly and abandoned, 84 Haitians await death 17 Jan 2010
There is no food, water or medicine for the 84 surviving residents of the Port-au-Prince Municipal Nursing Home, barely a mile (1 1/2 kilometers) from the airport where a massive international aid effort is taking shape. “Help us, help us,” 69-year-old Mari-Ange Levee begged Sunday, lying on the ground with a broken leg and ribs. A cluster of flies swarmed the open fracture in her skull. One man had already died, and administrator Jean Emmanuel said more would follow soon unless water and food arrive immediately.
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/01/17/general-cb-haiti-waiting-to-die_7281440.html
Haiti-bound Utah group grounded in Florida 18 Jan 2010
They had hoped to arrive today before day’s light. But mid-afternoon Monday, a team of 14 Utah doctors and nurses sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and bound for earthquake-ravaged Haiti was stuck in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. “It’s frustrating,” said physician Jeffrey Randle, a rehabilitation specialist with the group. Randle said when they landed in Florida, they were told their private charter plane was delayed.
www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14216325
Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince —Demands Deployment of Lifesaving Medical Equipment Given Priority Port-au-Prince
17 Jan 2010
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations. Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying lifesaving equipment and medical personnel. Despite guarantees, given by the United Nations and the US Defense Department, an MSF cargo plane carrying an inflatable surgical hospital was blocked from landing in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, and was re-routed to Samana, in Dominican Republic. All material from the cargo is now being sent by truck from Samana, but this has added a 24-hour delay for the arrival of the hospital.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4165
Caricom blocked… as US takes control of airport 17 Jan 2010
The Caribbean Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devastated country’s airport, now under the control of the United States. Consequently, the Caricom ‘assessment mission’, that was to determine priority humanitarian needs resulting from the earthquake disaster of Haiti last Tuesday, had to travel back from Jamaica to their respective home destinations. On Friday afternoon the US State Department confirmed signing two ‘Memoranda of Understanding’ with the Government of Haiti that made official that the United States is in charge of all inbound and outbound flights and aid off-loading…’ Prior to the US taking control of Haiti’s airport, a batch of some 30 Cuban doctors had left Havana, following Wednesday’s earthquake, to join more than 300 of their colleagues who have been working there for more than a year.
www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161583443
Tens of thousands neglected at quake epicentre 17 Jan 2010
The immense scale of the earthquake devastation outside Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is becoming clearer. People in Leogane, at the quake’s epicentre, have so far been left to fend for themselves in ad hoc squatter camps. “It’s the very epicentre of the earthquake, and many, many thousands are dead,” said World Food Program (WFP) spokesman David Orr.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/17/2794190.htm
Bill Clinton arrives in Haiti with supplies
18 Jan 2010
Former president Bill Clinton on Monday visited the devastated Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where he visited with hospital patients and helped deliver medicine. “I wish every American could see this. It’s astonishing what the Haitians have been able to accomplish, performing surgeries at night, with lights, with no anesthesia, using vodka to sterilize equipment,” said Clinton, who was joined by daughter Chelsea. “It’s heartbreaking to see what has happened to Haiti,” he said.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011802711.html
Cuba helping in Haiti —Between 600 and 700 patients treated daily 17 Jan 2010
Steve Kastenbaum gave a laudatory report on CNN about the La Paz hospital where the Cubans are operating in Haiti, with help of Spanish and Latin American surgeons. Kastenbaum reports that La Paz Hospital, established by the Cubans, is one of the only places in Port au Prince currently where ordinary Haitians can be treated. Several dozen surgeries are taking place daily, with few supplies and facilities; the hospital is operating 24 hours a day.
progreso-weekly.com/2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1403:cuba-helping-in-haiti-la-paz-hospital-one-of-few-places-haitians-can-turn-to
A working hospital in Haiti 17 Jan 2010
CNN’s Steve Kastenbaum reports on a hospital which provides quality care for Haiti’s earthquake victims. (Video)
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/01/17/kastenbaum.haiti.la.paz.hosp.cnn
Haitians seeking US refuge will be returned 18 Jan 2010
U.S. authorities are readying for a potential influx of Haitians seeking to escape their earthquake-wracked nation, even though the policy for migrants remains the same: with few exceptions, they will go back. So far, fears of a mass migration have yet to materialize. However, conditions in Haiti become more dire each day and U.S. officials don’t want to be caught off guard.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803096.html
Frustration mounts over Haiti aid
Aljazeera.net
January 17, 2010 – Tensions are rising on the streets of Haiti as the bulk of earthquake survivors continue to go without food, medicine or proper shelter…Some aid agencies have complained about a lack of co-ordination at the Port-au-Prince airport, where the US military has taken over operations. Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, (MSF) said an aircraft carrying a mobile hospital was denied permission to land at the airport on Saturday and diverted to neighbouring Dominican Republic, where it would take a further 24 hours to deliver supplies by road…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62278
Haiti – The Price of Freedom
By Carolyn Cooper
The US refused to recognise the new Haitian republic and imposed an embargo that lasted until 1862. In 1915, the US invaded Haiti to protect its economic interests and remained in occupation until 1934. Local Haitian leaders were no less predatory than foreign forces, as demonstrated in the truly terrifying reign of Papa and Baby Doc.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24432.htm
Haiti earthquake: 70,000 buried in mass graves:
It is feared the death toll from the Haitian earthquake could reach 200,000, but aid groups have warned that if more medical supplies do not arrive soon, thousands more will die from their injuries.
snipurl.com/u4akh
Elderly and abandoned, 84 Haitians await death:
The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper.
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/01/17/general-cb-haiti-waiting-to-die_7281440.html
Frustration mounts over Haiti aid:
Little help has reached the many people waiting for help in makeshift camps on streets strewn with debris and decomposing bodies.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/201011831019984373.html
Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4165
Caricom Blocked: :
THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devasted country’s aiport, now under the control of the United States.
www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161583443
US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti:
American Government allows one baby girl to be airlifted to hospital in Florida.
snipurl.com/u4dtd
Witness to a nightmare:
ON SATURDAY, Hillary Clinton flew into Haiti to oversee the relief effort—supposedly. But I think her trip to Haiti tells you all you need to know: They had to shut down the airport for three hours so she could land, which meant that no actual aid flights could come in.
socialistworker.org/2010/01/18/witness-to-a-nightmare
US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti:
Brazil and France lodged an official ?protest with Washington after US military aircraft were given priority at Port-au-Prince’s congested airport, forcing many non-US flights to divert to the Dominican Republic.
snipurl.com/u4dtl
Chavez: US uses earthquake to occupy Haiti:
“There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that’s what the United States should send,” Chavez said on his weekly television show. “They are occupying Haiti undercover,” he warned.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116425§ionid=351020706
Haiti’s elite spared from much of the devastation:
Search-and-rescue operations have been intensely focused on buildings with international aid workers, such as the crushed U.N. headquarters, and on large hotels with international clientele. Some international rescue workers said they are being sent to find foreign nationals first.
snipurl.com/u4dto
Disgusting War Criminals Peddle “Humanitarian” Aid for Haiti:
On Sunday, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush mounted the corporate media propaganda platform and complained about the politicization of the Haitian relief effort.
snipurl.com/u4dtq
Haiti earthquake: US paratroopers sensitive of phrases like ‘occupying force’
Telegraph.co.uk
Pallets of tinned sardines from Venezuela, blue shirts from Bolivia, tents from Italy, grain, milk powder, tartan blankets and enough bottled water to float …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7021758/Haiti-earthquake-US-paratroopers-sensitive-of-phrases-like-occupying-force.html
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