The New Dark Age

9 February, 2010

Paul Shirley To Haiti: ‘Maybe Use A Condom Once In A While’
Paul Shirley, the former NBA player who still plays pro basketball, penned a long letter today about Haiti and the consequences of its earthquake, …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/paul-shirley-to-haiti-may_n_437725.html

UN: some Haitian hospitals are charging patients
Washington Post
By FRANK BAJAK AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020804139.html

Kidnapping of Haitian children was no act of charity
Washington Post
By Eugene Robinson Anyone sitting in a dank, fetid Haitian jail for any reason probably deserves at least a measure of sympathy, so in that sense I feel …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020802729.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Haiti disaster puts Red Cross CEO to the test
Washington Post
It was only later in the evening that McGovern was able to hole up in her hotel room and absorb the televised images of Haiti’s catastrophe: the pancaked …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020803724.html

Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti
Washington Post
By MIKE MELIA AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the Bahamas will be returned directly …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020802272.html

Ohio strip club hosts ‘Lap dances for Haiti’
Washington Post
AP TOLEDO, Ohio — A strip club in Ohio has raised $1000 for Haitian earthquake relief during what was billed as “Lap dances for Haiti. …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020801090.html

Miley Cyrus Recruits Britney Spears, Demi Lovato For Haiti Relief Auction
MTV.com
By Jocelyn Vena Miley Cyrus hasn’t let an opportunity pass to make sure she’s doing her part to help raise money for Haiti. She participated in both the “We …
www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631462/20100208/cyrus__miley.jhtml

Angelina Jolie visits Haitian quake refugees
AFP
SANTO DOMINGO — Screen star Angelina Jolie on Monday visited Haitian children being treated in the neighboring Dominican Republic after the devastating …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jW2DeyAktHKPVH-zf-EGQ87Ns-sQ

Haiti drug trafficking likely to rise in quake aftermath
USA Today
The US Justice Department says Haiti and the Dominican Republic are way stations for drugs coming to the USA from Latin America. …
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-02-09-haiti-drug-trafficking_N.htm

Race to Avoid a ‘Death by Red Tape’ in Haiti
New York Times (blog)
By ROBERT MACKEY Mr. Gilmore first reported the baby’s urgent need for medical care outside Haiti on Saturday. On Sunday, Mr. Gilmore reported that a …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/race-to-avoid-a-death-by-red-tape-in-haiti/

In Haiti, Practicing Medicine From Afar
New York Times
By MILT FREUDENHEIM In the desperate days soon after the earthquake in Haiti last month, foreign medical volunteers relied on improvised, low-tech devices …
www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/health/09tele.html

Man Rescued From Rubble In Haiti 4 Weeks After Earthquake, CNN Says
By The Huffington Post News Editors
In what may be the ultimate miracle rescue, CNN is reporting that a man was pulled alive from the rubble in Port au Prince, Haiti today, four weeks after the earthquake devastated the city. It was not clear whether the man had been …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/man-found-alive-in-rubble_n_454200.html

The Haiti Earthquake: Science, Early Warning And Mitigation
By Stellare
When we experience disasters like the earthquake in Haiti January 2010, we naturally ask the questions: Could we have known (early warning)? Could we have been prepared (mitigation plans)? PhotobucketHaiti on the Hispaniola island in …
www.scientificblogging.com/planetbye/haiti_earthquake_science_early_warning_and_mitigation_0

Angelina Jolie Visits Haiti Earthquake Survivors at The Insider
By TheInsider
Angelina Jolie has reportedly gone to the Dominican Republic to visit with hospitalized victims of the January 12 earthquake in neighboring Haiti. The
Associated Press reports that the star toured Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo …
www.theinsider.com/news/3188566_Angelina_Jolie_Visits_Haiti_Earthquake_Survivors

Earthquake in Haiti: The Church Responds – UMC.org
Scholarship office at Global Ministries has located students in Haiti. … 100% of your donation will go toward Haiti Emergency Relief. …
www.umc.org/haiti

YouTube – Helping Haiti – Everybody Hurts – Radio 1 premiere
Donate to the DEC Haiti Appeal: https://www.donate.bt.com/dec_form_haiti. htmlVarious Artists sing a cover of Everybody Hurts for charityLYRICSLeona…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2FEDNAqmmI

Hear The Sun’s Helping Haiti single today both on radio and …
THE Sun’s Helping Haiti single is launched today at 8am – with a simultaneous debut on radio and the internet, and performances from Robbie Williams,Gary …
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2834736/Hear-The-Suns-Helping-Haiti-single-today-both-on-radio-and-internet.html

8 February, 2010

The “Shock Doctrine” For Haiti By Ashley Smith
The U.S. intervention in Haiti shows that the US wants to reverse its setbacks of the last decade, reassert its geopolitical dominance and re-impose its economic program—the “plan of death”—throughout the region
www.countercurrents.org/smith080210.htm

Bolivia Calls for Channelling Aid to Haiti
Radio Cadena Agramonet
The Bolivian government will offer to channel the aid to Haiti given by the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) whose extraordinary meeting will be …
www.cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1501:bolivia-calls-for-channelling-aid-to-haiti-&catid=3:world&Itemid=14

Comment: Helen Scott
HOW THE U.S. COULD HELP HAITI
Two measures would immediately help Haitians—cancellation of the foreign debt and overhauling an immigration system that discriminates against them.
socialistworker.org/2010/02/05/how-the-us-could-help-haiti