The New Dark Age

29 January, 2010

Venezuela Sends Needed Gasoline and Diesel to Haiti
By editor
Shipment for Generation of Electricity and Vehicles Will Arrive Thursday In response to severe gasoline shortages that have plagued Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck the island nation on January 12…
aggregator.in/2010/venezuela-sends-needed-gasoline-and-diesel-to-haiti-10643/

A Glance at Haiti Developments 16 Days After Quake
New York Times
The aid group Doctors Without Borders says the psychological impact of Haiti’s earthquake on its victims is becoming more apparent. …
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/28/world/AP-CB-Haiti-Earthquake-Glance.html

Hope For Haiti Now Album Raises More Than $3 Million In Relief Funds
MTV.com
Now, it seems that music fans are finding a channel for their own good will toward Haiti, as iTunes and some of the world’s top artists are setting records …
www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630730/20100128/jay_z.jhtml

Tourism group criticizes Royal Caribbean for resuming cruise calls in Haiti
USA Today
A leading advocacy group for sustainable tourism is blasting Royal Caribbean for its decision to resume cruises to Haiti. The Center for Responsible Travel …
www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=76450.blog

Quincy Jones plans ‘We Are the World 25’ for Haiti
Entertainment Weekly
by Simon Vozick-Levinson Quincy Jones is assembling an all-star sequel to 1985’s “We Are the World” to raise funds for earthquake relief in Haiti, …
music-mix.ew.com/2010/01/28/we-are-the-world-25-quincy-jones-paul-haggis/

US legislation seeks to boost Haiti’s recovery
Reuters
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Two senior US senators on Thursday introduced legislation that seeks to write off Haiti’s foreign debt, increase trade and …
www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2823835420100129

State Department: US working to prevent child trafficking in Haiti
CNN International
The US, aid groups and Haiti are working to ensure that orphans are protected from child traffickers. Washington (CNN) — The United States will work with …
edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/28/haiti.us.children/

Claim Haiti donations on your 2009 tax return
Chicago Tribune (blog)
If you donated to the relief effort in Haiti, you will most likely qualify to claim your donation on your tax return as an itemized deduction this season. …
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/the-problem-solver/2010/01/claim-your-haiti-donations-on-2009-tax-return.html

Queen Latifah, Diddy Topline BET Concert for Haiti
E! Online (blog)
Queen Latifah, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Pharrell Williams will headline SOS Saving Ourselves—Help for Haiti, a benefit concert airing live Feb. …
www.eonline.com/uberblog/b164604_queen_latifah_diddy_topline_bet_concert.html

Global Voices Online “ Haiti: Security vs. Relief?
By Nicholas Laughlin
More than two weeks after the 12 January earthquake in Haiti, and despite an international outpouring of aid, thousands of affected Haitians in and around Port-au-Prince have received little or no relief assistance. …
globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/28/haiti-security-vs-relief/

Davos: Haiti Becomes Focus Of World Economic Forum
By The Huffington Post News Editors
DAVOS, Switzerland — Laying out his strategy for long-term economic growth, a possible future leader of China said Thursday that Beijing would seek to boost domestic consumer demand to drive forward its booming economy and move away …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/davos-haiti-becomes-focus_n_439899.html

Answers About New York’s Response to Haiti’s Earthquake, Part 2 …
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Taking Questions: Elsie St. Louis-Accilien, the executive director of Haitian-Americans United for Progress, responds to readers.
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/answers-about-new-yorks-response-to-haitis-earthquake-part-2/

How Can Haiti Be Sustainable? : The Primate Diaries
By Eric Michael Johnson
As I wrote yesterday in my piece for The Huffington Post, the history of Western financial involvement in Haiti has been one of growing the nation’s textile industry despite the fact that 70% of Haiti’s annual income comes from …
scienceblogs.com/primatediaries/2010/01/how_can_haiti_be_sustainable.php

James Zogby: Arabs Respond to Haiti
By James Zogby
Contrary to the snide commentary being made about the Arab world’s supposed lack of assistance to Haiti, nations like Algeria, Bahrain, and Jordan have all undertaken humanitarian efforts.
www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/arabs-respond-to-haiti_b_440631.html

US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in – Telegraph
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.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund | Home
On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince. The devastation – in lives lost, property destroyed, …
clintonbushhaitifund.org/

Haiti aid effort among biggest in Red Cross history
Panama City (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 – The massive relief effort in quake-ravaged Haiti is one of the biggest in the 150-year history of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday. In two weeks, the IFRC has distributed 2.5 million liters (660,000 gallons) of water, 550 tonnes of medical supplies – all transported in 43 chartered flights – and fielded 21 emergency teams in …

War of nerves as Haiti digs out from the rubble
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 – In quake-hit Haiti, rumors spread like wildfire and appeals for help are quickly relayed in the hopes of new miracles, but such dramatic rescues are also keeping nerves here tightly on edge. In a chaotic city, badly damaged in the January 12 quake, it is the Haitian people who for more than two weeks have been the most ardent, persistent rescuers of all. Thousands work every day under th …

Recounting Haiti’s devastation amid Davos glitz
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 – Amid the opulence of Davos, it was difficult for Josette Sheeran to talk about a country in such desperate need of cash and tents just to survive. In a town where it is hard go a day without an invitation to a grand meal during the World Economic Forum, the executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP) told how it is “every step a nightmare” in Haiti where bodies are still being colle …

Clinton calls for Haiti aid as girl’s recovery amazes
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 – Former US president Bill Clinton launched an appeal for Haiti quake victims Thursday as doctors marveled at a girl’s miracle recovery after 15 days buried in the rubble without food or water. Clinton urged global corporate bosses at the World Economic Forum in Davos to use the catastrophe which killed around 170,000 people as an opportunity to lift the devastated Caribbean nation out of gene …

Repairing Haiti port to take 8-10 weeks: US military
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 – US engineers will need eight to 10 weeks to repair a pier at the Haitian capital’s crucial port after aftershocks knocked it out of operation, a US general said on Thursday. While the southern pier undergoes repairs, the US military was deploying landing craft and floating docks to try to bring in more badly-needed relief supplies, said General Douglas Fraser, head of the US Southern Command …

Haiti’s child slaves set to swell after quake

Almost half of Haiti’s injured may be children: study

28 January, 2010

The Kidnapping Of Haiti
By John Pilger
Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti’s waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington’s “rollback” plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela’s abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation long denied by US-sponsored regimes
www.countercurrents.org/pilger280110.htm

Haitians Are Helping Haitians
By Bill Quigley
Haitians are helping Haitians. Young men have organized into teams to guard communities of homeless families. Women care for their own children as well as others now orphaned
www.countercurrents.org/quigley280110.htm

NOW | On the Ground in Haiti: Saving the Lives of Mothers During Childbirth
NOW: “Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, in addition to leaving lives and institutions in ruin, also exacerbated a much more common and lethal emergency in Haiti: dying during childbirth. Challenges in transportation, education and quality health care contribute to Haiti having the highest maternal mortality rate in the Western Hemisphere, a national crisis even before the earthquake struck.”
messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=239627&N=488&C=76a196c220c6b4abf0e0378da6549ca1&L=4065

Troops fire on starving crowds in Haiti
By Patrick Martin
January 28, 2010 – Troops under United Nations command have opened fire on crowds of hungry Haitians seeking food, an ominous sign of impending confrontation between the people of the earthquake-wracked country and the armed forces dispatched there under the auspices of the imperialist powers. On Monday, Uruguayan troops, part of the UN peacekeeping force deployed here since 2004, fired rubber bullets at people who crowded around food trucks, eventually pulling out and leaving sacks of rice to be fought over…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62679