If one didn't know better, one would expect more nefarious reasons behind what happened in Haiti; however, we all know the lying, obfuscating, omitting, and agenda-pushing, war-mongering MSM only cares about the Haitians well-being.
Makes you wonder why it's been a hell hole for so long, huh?
"Venting sorrow, seeking hope, Haitians here turn to radio" by David Filipov, Globe Staff | January 16, 2010
Linda Chery’s Thursday night show on this Haitian radio station has long been a draw for Haitians in the area who want to hear music and discussions of current events. Now it has become a virtual lifeline - a clearinghouse of good news, tragic news, vital news - for Haitians caught up in the destruction and chaos wrought by the major earthquake Tuesday night.
They await word from Haiti. They call in to pass on something, anything that they have seen or heard. They call in to plead for news of friends or loved ones. Chery, a Haitian-American born in Cambridge, relays their messages in fluent Haitian Creole. She translates breaking news. She forgets, for a while, that she, too, is waiting desperately; that she, too, is in mourning.
Three members of her brother-in-law’s family are dead, crushed when their house collapsed. A cousin she thought was in the United States is instead in Haiti, missing. She has heard nothing. Other relatives, many friends - missing. She puts that aside and does her job....
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The owner of the Mattapan station did not want the call letters or location published. A number of Haitian radio stations in the region broadcast without a license, but the owner did not respond to inquiries as to whether the Mattapan station has one. The Haitian stations generally have weak signals that reach local communities, but listeners can stream their broadcasts over the Internet.
Why does the word illegal suddenly pop into my mind?
Chery briefly switches on an Internet feed from a radio station in Haiti. Then she goes back on the air and reads out a petition being sent around, asking the US government to grant temporary protected status to Haitians in the country illegally, so they cannot be deported to Haiti during the crisis. (President Obama granted the status protections yesterday.)
Okay, I AGREE with the order because you CAN NOT SEND people back to that hell; however, this is the ONLY MENTION of the issue, and it contains a disgusting cui bono at that!!
Of course, if the U.S. had not been MEDDLING in Haiti for CENTURIES, maybe they would have had a better chance!
Another deejay, Sanders Nicolas, gets on the air. He does a long interview by phone with a Haitian man in Florida. He gives his listeners a phone number “if you want to reach [Governor] Deval Patrick.’’ He reads updates from Haiti.
Nicolas has been calling Port-au-Prince since Tuesday night, hoping for updates of his own.
“My entire family is there,’’ he says later. “I called them this morning. I woke up and prayed, and then I called.’’
He got through. The connection lasted a minute or so. His family is alive. The houses to the left and right collapsed. His family’s home somehow remained intact. They survived. “Our story is one of triumph, but there is so much tragedy,’’ Nicolas says. “You cannot be a Haitian and not have a friend or family down there.’’ He pauses. He has so many friends. He has heard from so few. “People call to see if their families are safe,’’ he says. “You want to inform everybody. but you don’t know if your friends or family are safe.’’
The show is over. Time to go home. “This is my therapy,’’ Chery says again. “Therapy, free of charge.’’
Gee, the Globe again left me feeling positive about what happened down there, even with the tens of thousands dead! Thanks, Glob!
Stress is taking it's toll:
"Wait, worry; Devastation back home takes toll on local Haitians" by Patricia Wen, Globe Staff | January 16, 2010
Tempers flared yesterday at check-out lane No. 5 in a Mattapan grocery store filled with Haitian immigrants.
“I paid for this food with food stamps!’’ shouted an elderly woman, pointing to a pile including sausage links, oatmeal, and popcorn. “And I paid for the rest,’’ she said, gesturing to trash bags, cat litter, and aluminum foil, “with a credit card.’’
I don't want people to starve; however, 1 in 7 Americans are going hungry and yet we have possible illegals with food stamps. I'm glad the American budget isn't busted or in deficit; otherwise, we would have real problems, America.
And the credit card?
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I'm sure the banks are loving it.
It was 10:30 a.m., and cashier Marie Valne had no patience for this. She wanted her cellphone, placed beneath her cash drawer, to ring with news about relatives in Haiti. She had another shift yesterday at a Brighton nursing home ahead of her. Now more than ever, the 43-year- old single mother of four needed to send money back home. A cellphone rang, but it was for a Haitian man in her line. He looked somber as he answered.
Everything - and nothing - is the same at Valne’s check-out lane in Mars Farmers Market in Mattapan Square since 4:53 p.m. Tuesday when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Here, some 80 percent of the cashiers and customers are from Haiti, and among the aisles stocked with their favorite rice, yams, and peppers, Valne and others know their routines must continue like the conveyer belts rotating in the store. Among the 100 workers here who speak Creole, French, and English, nobody has asked for time off in the past few days. Everyone needs money as much as they need a distraction. Their ritual of wiring money back home - foreign remittances account for 25 percent of Haiti’s gross domestic product - cannot be missed in the months ahead.
Money being sucked out of your economy, America, never to return.
Isn't there a BETTER WAY of ECONOMICS than what the globalists have enacted?
Valne, who has worked as a cashier for about four years, typically wires about $100 a month to Haiti, though she plans to wait until the Haitian banks are fully up and running before sending more money.
Always about banks.
She has already heard that her aunt’s apartment building collapsed, killing her and at least several others. She has not heard from her husband, Jean F. Constant, or from a 28-year-old man she had raised since boyhood, Jacqy Pierre. She cannot get through to them and her cellphone has yet to ring with any news - even through others - of their fate.
Not that I want to shift the focus, but does the Zionist newspaper show such concern for so many others? All this print for Haiti. Why?
Yes, the magnitude of what happens demands it; however, that never stopped our MSM from ignoring catastrophes before. I simply no longer trust them, readers, and when they advance a cause it is not for the reasons given.
Her 10:30 a.m. customer didn’t, at first, seem complicated. Valne said at least three out of every four customers use food stamps to buy groceries, and the transactions with the government’s new blue debit cards are simple.
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Yeah, so this whole "illegal immigration enforcement" thing is a f***ing s*** fooley joke.
But then the customer didn’t have enough money left on her card, and the two of them had to go back and forth about what she would pay for on a credit card and what items needed to be voided. The customer complained that Valne was getting it all wrong, at which point Valne darted back: “Nobody is stupid, honey.’’ And when they argued over the accuracy of the $51 bill, Valne headed to the manager’s office, muttering, “I’m so confused!’’
The CUSTOMER is ALWAYS RIGHT, right, Amurkn?
How many times have you had that drilled into your head over the years -- unless the CUSTOMER is YOU!!!!!!
Meanwhile, Banave Molin, a 66-year-old veteran worker who was stocking boxes of crushed peppers, approached her to try to resolve things. He, too, has been waiting for his cellphone to ring, hoping to hear whether his many cousins who live near the Haitian capital survived. As Molin, Valne, and the customer pored over the long, curling white receipt, one of the managers, Bill Fennell, came over to talk to everyone.
Lesson number one:
Never try to be a peacemaker; I have the broken nose to prove it.
Behind the check-out lane, the man whose cellphone had rung had just finished his conversation. The call had been from Haiti, and Ernest Hilfort, 43, learned that his sister-in-law’s 9-year-old daughter had died, and her other daughter’s arm was severely damaged. Hilfort leaned against a shelf containing canned goods, shaking his head in disbelief. The day before, he had learned his mother was still alive.
By Valne’s cash register, her cellphone remained silent.
Everyone has a cellphone, too, huh?
Her customer, Dorothy Higgins, 65, whose family is from Jamaica, was quickly putting a half-dozen plastic bags of groceries onto her personal fold-up cart. After scrutinizing the receipt, she realized she had not been overcharged.
She said she felt bad that she created such a fuss, especially after remembering she was among so many Haitian workers with so much else on their minds. “I apologized to the cashier, I apologized to the manager,’’ she said, looking even more flustered after realizing around 11 a.m. she had missed her bus to her Mattapan apartment. “We’re all stressed.’’
Yeah, you have to LOVE the SELFISHNESS and the lame-ass excuses for being a b***, huh?
But then again, that's the way those blacks are according to my racist Zionist War Daily.
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Oh, no, it's okay when they do it.
Of course, Haitians are just reacting as any one of us would.
"From afar, kin hope and pray; Lack of news has Haitians in Hub edgy, worried" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | January 16, 2010
As rescuers continue sifting through rubble in Haiti looking for earthquake survivors, hundreds of Haitians living in the Boston area are still waiting to hear from relatives in Port-au-Prince.
“The communications have improved, but there are still so many people who can’t sleep because they just don’t know whether their fathers or mothers or children are still alive,’’ said Guerlince Semerzier, board president of the Somerville Haitian Coalition.
Josephe d’Orleans, 63, heard that one of her nephews was killed in the collapse of a market, but doesn’t know the fate of four nieces and nephews who were living in her house in Port-au-Prince.
“I’ve just been watching the television, trying to see if they show my house or the faces of my relatives,’’ she said. “I don’t know how they’re doing. I don’t know if my house has fallen down.’’
The rising death toll and the misery of tens of thousands of Haitians left without shelter or necessities such as water has spawned worldwide relief efforts. Local organizations such as Catholic Charities, Partners in Health, and community agencies catering to Haitian immigrants are raising money, putting together medical teams, scheduling visits to Haiti, and helping the Boston-area Haitian community cope with the sudden deaths of relatives and friends.
In his daily blog, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley announced that Catholic Relief Services, which has a long history of philanthropy in Haiti, has committed $5 million to the relief effort.
“Certainly, the Haitian people have suffered very much in their history and have always done so with great courage and dignity,’’ O’Malley wrote. “I know that they will suffer this latest tragedy with the same determination and ability to rebound. We just hope everyone will be able to work together closely and that the international community will be generous in coming to the aid of the Haitian people.’’
At St. Angela’s church in Mattapan yesterday afternoon, a few Haitians said silent prayers.
Elsie Fabre, a nurse who lives in Brockton and works in Jamaica Plain, said she learned that her parents survived the earthquake but that at least 20 of her friends died.
“I just feel numb, hopeless, I don’t really know what to do so I came here to pray,’’ she said, standing outside the large red-brick church on Blue Hill Avenue. Fabre said she would like to use her nursing skills to help out in Haiti.
Several graduate students from The Fletcher School at Tufts University were scheduled to return to Boston last night after being evacuated from Port-au-Prince. They were part of a group of students working on a mobile banking project in the impoverished country and were out of Port-au-Prince on a visit to a bank administrator when the quake struck.
That's how we tell people we love them: introduce usurious, debt-slaving banks.
That's AmeriKa's "humanitarian" aid.
Fellow students in Medford tried for hours to reach them, and finally made contact via a cellphone seven hours after the quake. One of the students in Medford, Patrick Meier, is an expert in crisis mapping. He and about a dozen graduate students have set up a website that provides “quasi real-time reports on the events in Haiti as they unfold.’’ He said the website has had about 80,000 hits and has been accessed from 63 countries. The site relies on media and witness accounts, Twitter feeds, Facebook, and radio broadcasts. The website can be accessed at haiti.ushahidi.com.
How come some sites are promoted by the Globe and others ignored, hmmm?
Is that fair?
Semerzier said his organization is focusing on getting counseling for those who need it. The coalition is offering community counseling through the Cambridge Health Alliance.
Semerzier said his group is organizing a trip to Haiti. “We’re looking at March 1, and right now it would be focused on bringing health officials and equipment down there,’’ he said.
They NEED HELP NOW!!!!
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Derrick Z. Jackson Disaster is opportunity to do right in Haiti
I know he means actually fixing the incredible poverty, etc, but I don't like that word used with disasters.
Related:
Rice: 9/11 an “enormous opportunity”
Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"Yeah, kinda left me with a sour taste in my mouth about cui bono opportunity.
