quake in haiti..

[Aptyp]

they are not all mean...

hell iv been robbed by a dominican once or twice... but never a haitian...

they need money and supplies.. or that country will go to shit and slowly after they will flee into the dominican republic... thats when all hell breaks loose.

I thought they were nice folks and welcome at DR?

Also, my house was robbed by a North Carolinian, but never by a New Yorker... New Yorkers are nicer people, apparently...

I don't think it has anything to do with individualism, every culture has some idiots. It's really sad to see people die anywhere in the world. Those late at night commercials show terrible conditions all over the world. It still doesn't mean people should send thousands of dollars in aid to countries that will unevenly distribute the cash and won't fix anything. Haiti has had failed society for 200 years with nearly constant US involvement in the past 100 years. Things just aren't getting better.

Just to make my contribution point: there's a homeless guy, who lives in the park a few blocks away. He cleans a parking lot of a diner every night for a dinner. Whenever I see him, I give him $10 or so. He works for food and doesn't stand on the corner doing nothing.

[Vince30]

Who's fault is it that Haiti was a shit-hole before the earthquake?

Seems like a dumb question to me, obviously it was god doing this because haiti signed a deal with the devil to get nopolian III and the french out of haiti and this earth quake was the grand fanally to finish them... Duh.

[LBJefferies]

Text "Haiti" to 90999 to donate to the Red Cross. 10 bucks automatically charged to your cell phone bill.

[Maluco]

Text "Haiti" to 90999 to donate to the Red Cross. 10 bucks automatically charged to your cell phone bill.

Regulatory Programs Fee $1.21
Government Fees and Taxes $0.87
City District Tax $0.95
Local Sales Tax $0.95
State Sales Tax $ 2.92
Federal Universal Service Fund $1.16
State Universal Service Fund $1.60

Amount donated to Red Cross Haiti Relief: $0.34

[White325is]

^^ So sad, but so true.

[LBJefferies]

^^ So sad, but so true.

Actually it's not. Nice try though.

[Vince30]

Lulz!

[ACMF74]

6.8 just hit in the Cayman.....:(

[Vedubin01]

6.8 just hit in the Cayman.....:(

Link?

[ACMF74]

I saw it on CNBC but CNN.com has it now

[ck_taft325is]

Actually it's not. Nice try though.

More or less, so don't get your panties too much in a wad. Donate directly to a relief organization. Not the laziest fucking way possible...

[chadthestampede]

Link?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011901551.html

[Aptyp]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100119/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1063

one way of helping their economy

[Maluco]

Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch

Jan 23 02:30 AM US/Eastern
Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.

A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.

"We're trained as volunteer ministers, we use a process called 'assist' to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points, to bring back communication," she said.

"When you get a sudden shock to a part of your body the energy gets stuck, so we re-establish communication within the body by touching people through their clothes, and asking people to feel the touch."

Next to her lay 22-year-old student Oscar Elweels, whose father rescued him from the basement of his school where he lay with a pillar on his leg for a day after the deadly January 12 quake.

His right leg was amputated below the knee and his left leg was severely bruised and swollen.

More than half of his fellow students died in the rubble of his school, although the rest of his family was unscathed, he said, thanking God.

"One hour ago he had no sensation in his left leg, so I explained the method to him, I touched him and after a while he said 'now I feel everything'," said Sylvie.

"Otherwise they might have had to amputate his other leg. Now his sister knows the method and she can do it."

Asked about the method being used on him, a smiling Elweels described it as "a sort of harmony between the nerves, a kind of exercise. I couldn't feel at all, but then I could."

Does he know Scientology? "Yes, it's a French organization," he said.

"All the patients are happy with the technique," said Sylvie. "But some doctors don't like the yellow T-shirts. It's a color thing," she insisted.

Another group of Scientologists distributed antibiotic pills. "The doctors said give everyone with wounds antibiotics," said Italian volunteer Marina.

Some doctors at the hospital are skeptical. One US doctor, who asked not to be named, snorted: "I didn't know touching could heal gangrene."

When asked what the Scientologists are doing here, another doctor said: "I don't know."

Do you care? "Not really," she said, wheeling an unconscious patient out of the operating room to join hundreds of others in the hospital's sunny courtyard.

Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium

[Aptyp]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/ts_afp/haitiquake

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – The death toll in the Haiti quake has topped 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Wednesday as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets.

More than three weeks after the 7.0-magnitude quake, Bellerive said his tiny Caribbean nation had been ravaged by "a disaster on a planetary scale" and detailed the tragic toll suffered by his people.

"There are more than 200,000 people who have been clearly identified as people who are dead," he told AFP, adding another 300,000 injured had been treated, 250,000 homes had been destroyed and 30,000 businesses lost.

At least 4,000 amputations have also been carried out due to horrific crush injuries -- a shocking figure which is likely to strain the impoverished nation's already meager resources for years to come.

Despite a massive aid operation, a lack of coordination and the extent of the damage has hampered the distribution of food and water leading to mounting tensions among a million people left homeless.

"The Haitian government has done nothing for us, it has not given us any work. It has not given us the food we need," said Sandrac Baptiste bitterly, as she left her makeshift tent to join angry demonstrations Wednesday.

In separate protests after a tense night when shots were fired in the ruined capital Port-au-Prince, some 300 people gathered outside the mayor's office in the once upscale Petionville neighborhood.

"If the police fire on us, we are going to set things ablaze," one of the protesters shouted, raising a cement block above his head.

Another 200 protesters marched toward the US embassy, crying out for food and aid, and about 50 protestors also gathered late Tuesday outside the police headquarters where the Haitian government of President Rene Preval is temporarily installed.

"Down with Preval," demonstrators shouted at the president who has only spoken to the people a few times since the disaster struck. Related article: Gangs threaten aid in Haiti slums

"There are no tents! There is no food!" protested Bousiquot Widmack, while demonstrators who said they were government workers complained their homes had collapsed, they had not been paid, and they had nothing to eat.

Amid the mounting frustration, UN chief Ban Ki-moon asked former US president Bill Clinton to "assume a leadership role" in coordinating the international aid, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told a press briefing.

"The aim... is to provide strategic guidance to the United Nations involvement at an international level," Nesirky said.

Clinton added: "The trick is to get the Haitian people back where they can stop living from day-to-day and start living from week-to-week or month-to-month and then start the long-term efforts.

"They, the leaders there, want to build a functioning, modern state for the first time, and I will do what I can to faithfully represent and work with all the agencies of the UN and help them get it done," he added.

Countries, companies and individuals have promised more than 230 million dollars to the World Food Programme for its Haiti emergency operations, the UN agency said.

Marjorie Michel, the Haitian minister in charge of women's affairs, said neighborhood committees were reporting a rise in the number of rapes in the tent camps, although women were reluctant to make a formal complaint.

She said teams were being sent into the camps to try to deal with the situation, and promised segregated bathroom facilities would be installed in new camps.

A Haitian judge was meanwhile also due to question a group of Americans accused of trying to smuggle children out of the quake-stricken nation. Related article: Mistrust in the eyes of rescued Haitian children. Ten US Christians from the Idaho-based New Life Children's Refuge have been detained in Haiti since the weekend after they tried to smuggle some 33 children out of the country to neighboring Dominican Republic.

Now they DEMAND help from United States. Isn't that sweet.