The New Dark Age

10 February, 2010

Amy Goodman on the Plight of Haiti
“Haiti, Forgive Us” — The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead and the approach of the rainy season, which will be followed by the hurricane season.
www.truthdig.com/report/item/haiti_forgive_us_20100209/

Eugene Robinson on Haitian Children Kidnapped
“Kidnapping Is Not Charity” — Even in the midst of a terrible natural disaster, spiriting away a busload of kidswith vague plans to worry about the “paperwork” lateris no act of charity.
www.truthdig.com/report/item/kidnapping_is_not_charity_20100208/

Haiti PM: rebuilding could take 10 years
Reuters
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Four weeks after an earthquake shattered its capital, Haiti remains in a precarious situation with no clear idea of how to house …
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6190I520100210

Angelina Jolie visits Haiti with UN refugee body
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Angelina Jolie began two days of meetings with Haiti earthquake victims Tuesday in her role as a goodwill ambassador for the UN …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gO4lBAcCoMLQbUHfuoGtnJTvdzoQD9DOTOSO0

Haiti single is ‘fastest seller’
BBC News
Simon Cowell’s Haiti song featuring Leona Lewis and Mariah Carey, has become the fastest-selling charity single this century. The Official Charts Company …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8506650.stm

Haiti quake toll rises to 230000
BBC News
The number of people killed in the Haiti earthquake could be 230000, the Haitian government says, revising its latest estimate up by 18000. …
news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/americas/8507531.stm

Miley Cyrus charity auction for Haiti at Ebay.com/Miley
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Miley Cyrus takes on a serious cause: providing relief for Haiti after the horror of the 7.0 Haiti Earthquake. Miley Cyrus has joined with Nicole Richie, …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?entry_id=56934

Body of missing Air Force major found in Haiti
The Associated Press
MIAMI — The body of a US Air Force officer visiting Haiti at the time of last month’s earthquake has been found in the rubble of a hotel in the country’s …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hA1-4QlsRIpVaaxZyKvQAKHFY6jAD9DOUULG2

Gildan 1Q Net Rises; Company Provides Haiti Update
Wall Street Journal
Gildan also gave an update Tuesday on its activities in Haiti. It said Palm Apparel, a Gildan sewing contractor, suffered a building collapse and a …
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100209-716776.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

UNICEF warns against Haiti child smuggling
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The head of UNICEF warned Tuesday that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iGB7iB_8_N63NBxe3axmSxF81a_gD9DP1F6G0

State Department rebuffs call for Clinton intervention in Haiti case
CNN International
By Charley Keyes, CNN Laura Silsby, left, and two other members of her missionary group are seen after a recent court hearing in Haiti. …
edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/09/haiti.clinton.arrests/

Officer: US missionaries had tried to take other Haitian kids
CNN
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — The American missionaries in Haiti facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country last week made …
www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/09/haiti.border.arrests/?hpt=T2

Angelina Jolie Is Heading to Haiti | PopEater.com
By PopEater / Wire Services
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says its goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie is heading to Haiti to meet with earthquake victims. UNH.
www.popeater.com/2010/02/09/angelina-jolie-is-heading-to-haiti/

March C-17 crew completes mission to Haiti
By afnews@afnews.af.mil (Capt. Ashley Norris)
A March Air Reserve Base C-17 Globemaster III aircrew returned home Feb. 1 after flying a five-day humanitarian mission to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The nine-member crew from the 729th Airlift Squadron took 171400 pounds of cargo and 25 …
www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123189600

Martha St Jean: Haiti: What Really Matters
By Martha St Jean
In trying to live out a Rudyard Kipling poem, these so-called “naïve” and “well-meaning” missionaries have caused attention to shift away from what truly matters.
www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-st-jean/haiti-what-really-matters_b_454212.html

New Clinton-Bush Haiti PSA | UN Dispatch
By Mark Leon Goldberg
Visitor: 26 Jan 4:16am. Haiti,Haiti, world waves, there are a survival situation, water, fire(energy), shelter(whetherdefence read more. Visitor: 25 Jan 10:17am. We have to keep Haiti in the news read more …
www.undispatch.com/new-clinton-bush-haiti-psa

Delivering aid in Haiti still difficult | Homepage Feature | PRI’s …
By The World
More than 200 international medical relief groups have sent teams to help the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake. Now, four weeks after the catastrophe, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about …
www.theworld.org/2010/02/09/delivering-aid-in-haiti-still-difficult/

Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase – Yahoo! News
Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital’s General Hospital with …
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake

Americans Jailed in Haiti Plead for Aid From U.S. – NYTimes.com
The 10 Americans detained on child kidnapping charges say the US government could be doing more.
www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/americas/10prisoners.html

Massive food distribution begins in quake-ravaged Haitian capital …
A massive two-week food distribution effort aimed at reaching 2 million people began Sunday in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital.
www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/31/haiti.food.aid/index.html

9 February, 2010

William Fisher | Haiti Beyond the Cleanup
William Fisher, Truthout: “Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country can look forward to more of the same.”
messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=239627&N=511&C=76a196c220c6b4abf0e0378da6549ca1&L=4189

Haiti Numbers – 27 Days After the Quake
Bill Quigley, Truthout: “$890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries announced they will forgive $290 million. Source: Wall Street Journal. $644 million. Donations for Haiti to private organizations have exceeded $644 million. Over $200 million has gone to the Red Cross, which had 15 people working on health projects in Haiti before the earthquake. About $40 million has gone to Partners in Health, which had 5,000 people working on health in Haiti before the quake. Source: New York Times.”
messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=239627&N=511&C=76a196c220c6b4abf0e0378da6549ca1&L=4191

Mass vaccination planned in Haiti, death toll continues way up:
The Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade, first formed in response to the United States’ Hurricane Katrina emergency and with field experiences in China, Pakistan, Guatemala, Indonesia and Bolivia, plans to open 37 more vaccination points across Port-au-Prince and beyond.
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/health/2010-02/03/c_13161607.htm

The “shock doctrine” for Haiti
The U.S. is reviving what Haitians call “the plan of death.”
Ashley Smith
February 8, 2010 – ONE MONTH after the devastating earthquake, Haiti continues to suffer under apocalyptic conditions. The quake killed more than 200,000 people, injured 250,000 and has left over 3 million dependent on assistance for food, water and housing. Contrary to the puff pieces in the media, the relief operation has been a miserable failure. The United Nations admitted at the end of January that had only been able to feed 1 million people, leaving many more without access to food. Whole sections of Port-au-Prince and surrounding towns never even saw relief convoys…
www.uruknet.de/?p=63071