The New Dark Age

30 January, 2010

Haiti Moves, Haltingly, to Reopen Schools
Wall Street Journal
PORT-AU-PRINCE—Haiti will reopen some of the country’s schools Monday for the first time since the Jan. 12 earthquake, but few are in the capital or other …
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704343104575033542998064122.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird

Performers Plan More Efforts for Haiti
New York Times
Entertainment personalities are continuing their efforts to raise awareness and money for the earthquake relief effort in Haiti. On Thursday, BET Networks …
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/television/30arts-PERFORMERSPL_BRF.html

Cost Dispute Halts Airlift of Injured Haiti Quake Victims
New York Times
By SHAILA DEWAN MIAMI — The United States has suspended its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who …
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/us/30airlift.html

UN Group Urges $700 Million Investment in Haitian Agriculture
Bloomberg
29 (Bloomberg) — An investment plan to restore Haiti’s agriculture industry and secure food production will require $700 million in international aid, …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=at_vFIabEsso

Seminarian’s body found in Haiti rubble
Chicago Tribune
Family members say the body of a Lutheran seminarian from the Midwest has been located in the rubble of the earthquake that hit Haiti. The Rev. …
www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-haiti-earthquake-,0,1581093.story

Community raises more than $100K for Haiti earthquake victims
St. Joseph News-Press
By Kristin Hoppa Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas citizens have responded to the Haiti earthquake relief efforts with an outpouring of donations. …
www.stjoenews.net/news/2010/jan/30/community-raises-more-100k-haiti-earthquake-victim/?local

Suffolk Notebook: Students raise money for Haiti
Newsday (subscription)
Students and staff at Jack Abrams Intermediate School in Huntington Station are participating in a Hats for Haiti initiative, paying $1 each to wear a hat …
www.newsday.com/long-island/li-life/suffolk-notebook-students-raise-money-for-haiti-1.1727770

Hope For Haiti Now Earns Over $3 Million For Charity
FMQB
After debuting at #1 on the album sales chart this week, iTunes sales of the Hope For Haiti Now album, video and individual performances have raised more …
www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=1679052

An idea for helping Haiti
Daily Comet
I can’t stop trying to come up with ideas for something, anything we can do to help the helpless in Haiti. As I sit in my comfortable home, eating too much …
www.dailycomet.com/article/20100130/LETTERS/100139995?Title=An-idea-for-helping-Haiti

Molino Church Still Collecting Supplies For Haiti Quake Victims
NorthEscambia.com
A Molino church is continuing to work to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Aldersgate United Methodist Church is accepting supply donations from the …

Global Voices Online “ Global Voices in Haiti: Litmus Test
By Georgia Popplewell
Georgia Popplewell, on the ground in post-earthquake Haiti, looks into reports of “tear gas” being used at a food distribution point, and visits the Carrefour area of Port-au-Prince. The second in a series of special reports. …
globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/29/global-voices-in-haiti-litmus-test/

US Embassy trumpets Muslim aid to Haiti – Jihad Watch
By Robert
This showed up, in French, on the website of the U.S. embassy in Morocco, but here’s the English original, “Muslim Americans Strive to Help Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti.” The same story appears, in Arabic, on webpages affiliated with the …
www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/us-embassy-trumpets-muslim-aid-to-haiti.html

Haiti Earthquake: Orphans For Sale For $50 | Disinformation
By phunkychic666
By Nick Allen in Haiti for the Telegraph: Orphans in Haiti are being offered for sale to foreigners for as little as £30 amid warnings that up to one.
www.disinfo.com/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-orphans-for-sale-for-50/

Flat Pack Prefabs Could Provide Relief in Haiti | Inhabitat
By Ariel Schwartz
Red+Housing Emergency Housing by OBRA Architects Inhabitat recently wrote about Emergency Shelters and Disaster Relief For The People of Haiti and how Shipping Containers Could Provide …
www.inhabitat.com/2010/01/29/flat-pack-prefabs-could-provide-relief-in-haiti/

Haiti Earthquake – Special Coverage on CNN.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries will start laying out the groundwork for rebuilding Haiti on …
edition.cnn.com/haiti

29 January, 2010

Hell And Hope In Haiti
By Bill Quigley
Hope is found in the people of Haiti. Despite no electricity, little shelter, minimal food and no real goverment or order, people are helping one another survive
www.countercurrents.org/quigley290110.htm

Haitian president says 170,000 bodies recovered:
Estimates of the total number of dead range as high as 300,000.
wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j29.shtml

Push to send FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash:
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina – an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products on the poor.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_bi_ge/us_leftover_trailers_haiti

Haiti revival after quake could take generations says UN chief:
Bleak outlook for decades to come and fears of health calamity when rainy season starts in May
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/haiti-quake-generations-un-decades

Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics
Associated Press
January 29, 2010 — Doctors and aid workers say treating the tens of thousands of Haitians injured by the earthquake is taxing the country’s devastated hospitals — as well as the efforts of physicians from around the world who are providing emergency care. Basic medical supplies such as antibiotics and painkillers are running dangerously low at some hospitals and clinics in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and in the countryside, alarming doctors who are struggling to keep up with demand…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62740

Haiti earthquake: orphans for sale for $50
By Nick Allen in Haiti
January 29, 2010 – In a remote area north of Port-au-Prince, a man was reported to have offered to sell a young boy to a Canadian man for just $50. The first confirmed case of a child being offered for sale since Haiti was devastated by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan 12 took place near Gonaives, 150km north of Port-au-Prince. It was reported by Noel Ismonin, a Canadian pastor who rescues orphans in the area. A man offered to sell him the boy but the pastor refused. Meanwhile, in camps around the capital there were several reports of men being lynched after being accused by earthquake victims of trying to steal infants from tents…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62741

Stop treating these people like savages
Haitians have faced their tragedy with dignity and stoicism – not that you would know it from the way the disaster has been reported
Andy Kershaw
January 29, 2010 – Just a couple of hours before the earthquake hammered poor Haiti, I was reorganising my bookshelves at home. In the Haiti section I came across a lovely old volume I’d bought from a wandering bookseller in Port-au-Prince on one of my many visits to the former “Pearl of the Antilles”, once – incredibly – the richest colony in the world. The book, Haiti Cherie, published in 1953, was clearly intended for the souvenir stalls – in the days when Haiti had tourists. The full-page photos show a Haiti, and particularly the architectural splendours of Port-au-Prince, during what was known as la belle époque, that period between the Second World War and the arrival, in 1957, of the crazed Duvalier father-and-son dynastical dictatorship in the now-crumpled presidential palace (which was designed and built by British architects and engineers)…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62726