And look at the FIRST SOURCE they use!!!!
"Agencies launch effort to aid quake communications" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | January 15, 2010
Rescue efforts in Haiti will be hindered by a dire lack of telecommunications services. Even before the earthquake, Haiti had a primitive telecom system, with only 108,000 landline phone lines in 2008, or one for every 83 people, according to the CIA’s World Factbook.
So the Boston Globe and AmeriKan MSM are REALLY CIA, huh?!!
The country has far more cellphones, 3.2 million, but that is still only about one for every three people. And only 1 million of Haiti’s 9 million residents have Internet access.
Communications technicians from around the world are launching aid efforts. The US Southern Command, which oversees all US military activities in the Caribbean, is deploying satellite communications systems to support the humanitarian efforts.
Yup, NO MENTION of the aircraft carriers or ground troops being sent -- again!
And SINCE WHEN did ANY GLOBALIST BUSINESSES do ANYTHING without having an angle, readers?
A French technology relief agency, Telecoms Sans Frontieres, or Telecoms Without Borders, has sent a team from Nicaragua, while another group is on the way from France. Those teams will set up satellite calling stations, where Haitians will be able to place free phone calls to other countries....
I would be more apt to trust them, Americans. How sad is that?
Not that I'm going to make a big issue out of it; however, I notice the immigrant illegality issue is unmentioned as well.
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Another day, another MSM omission; that's what I always say.
"After frantic calls, tears of joy; Crisis center helps Haitians search, cope" by David Abel, Globe Staff | January 15, 2010
In a sterile conference room in Dorchester, beside a glowing computer screen and with a phone on her shoulder, Andrea Janvier stared at the 10 phone numbers she had scrawled on a fraying piece of paper, a list she had reviewed repeatedly in the past 48 hours.
Grief counselors, city workers, and others stopped by to see whether she wanted water, help navigating through a confusing bureaucracy, or just a break to talk.
But Janvier, a 46-year-old dental assistant who moved to Boston from Haiti in 1989, wouldn’t stop dialing. The list included her two brothers, three sisters, and some of her 10 nieces and nephews, most of whom live near the epicenter of the earthquake that rippled so much horror across Haiti.
It seemed like an act of futility, until she finally got through.
“All I feel now is pain,’’ she said between calls and a stream of tears. “I call their numbers, again and again, but nothing. They live near the presidential palace, which is in ruins, and all I see are the images on TV - babies dead in the street, like fish washed up. It’s terrible, really awful.’’
Janvier was one of more than 50 Haitians who sought help from a crisis center city officials set up yesterday in an office building beside the Bayside Exposition Center. Like many of the others, every time she dialed, she waited and waited. Most of the time, she heard nothing. Sometimes, there was a busy signal or a message on the phone: “Unable to route call.’’ “I have tried all day and all night - and nothing,’’ she said.
A few cubicles away, Nadege
The 32-year-old, who moved to Hyde Park from Haiti six years ago, said that she has become so distraught she cannot eat or sleep. “All I can do is cry,’’ she said. “Inside my heart, this is killing me.’’ She looked at the phone and shook her head. It seemed useless to keep calling, but she kept dialing. “I need to know if they’re alive,’’ she said.
Beside her, Christine Edouard flipped through a large notebook filled with numbers. She focused on eight numbers and sent e-mails, hoping for a response from her many cousins who live in the country of 9 million people. “It’s devastating,’’ said Edouard, 50, a nurse who has lived in the Boston area most of her life. “With all the country’s tragedy, this is the worst in more than 200 years. It’s like two steps forward and 100 steps backward,’’ she said.
In Mattapan, Jacques Dady Jean, president of the Mattapan Technology Center, used Facebook, text messages, and Internet calling to try to reach his relatives and hundreds of Haitians in New England writing to him for help. He was receiving about 35 e-mails an hour.
He said he had succeeded in reaching five people in Haiti who have satellite communications. Through those contacts, he said, he learned that his father and five brothers and sisters survived. “It was a huge relief,’’ he said.
As for Janvier, after countless busy signals and silence, one call finally went through, and she grew very excited as she heard the sharp beeps, signaling that the phone was ringing. “I couldn’t believe it,’’ she said. Then, she heard a voice at the other end. It was her niece, Rodline, and amazingly the connection was perfectly clear. “She said, ‘I am OK - everyone’s OK,’ ’’ Janvier said, her voice cracking with joy as she relayed their conversation. “When you say everyone’s OK, did you see my brothers and sisters?’’ Janvier asked. “She said, ‘Yeah, I did. They’re OK,’ ’’ Janvier said. “I said, ‘How do you know?’ ’’
Her niece told her that her brother was with Janvier’s brothers and sisters, in their house in Port-au-Prince, before coming to her house in Delmas, about 15 miles east of the capital. Her niece said their family was living on the lawn outside the presidential palace to avoid any harm from aftershocks. They spoke for about 10 minutes, which seemed like an hour, or a lifetime. “I feel so happy - so relieved,’’ Janvier said. “I haven’t spoken to them, but now I know they’re OK. I feel a lot less pressure.’’
She asked her niece to tell her brothers and sisters to send her a text message and said she would add minutes to their cellphone plans. She is waiting to hear from them. In the meantime, she called her mother and a sister who live in the States. “There was a lot of tears - of joy,’’ she said.
Gee, I'm feeling pretty good about what happened down there now, even with the tens of thousands dead, aren't you? Thanks, Glob!
Time to get a cab and get out of here.
"At work, taxi drivers’ thoughts are back home" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff | January 15, 2010
Inside the USA Taxi garage, a squat, unmarked building of brick and cinderblock near a shuttered bowling alley in Dorchester’s Fields Corner, men talked anxiously in Creole or English or stood alone, making urgent cellphone calls. On any day, the garage is busy during the evening shift change. But yesterday at USA Taxi, where three-quarters of the drivers are Haitian, it crackled with worry.
“I’ve been trying all night long, since Tuesday night, to get through,’’ said Jean Benoit, wearing a haggard look, coming off the 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift. He had not been able to reach even one of the dozens of relatives and friends he had dialed. “I’ve been trying. I called, I called, I called, I called, I called. And I called many different phones.’’
Dominique Pamphile said he had gotten through to his mother, on her satellite phone, and learned that his 6-year-old cousin had been crushed to death. The family had no choice but to bury the boy on the spot, their home reduced to rubble, their homeland in chaos. Pamphile’s brother was hurt but would be OK. All the land lines and cellphones were down, but Pamphile told Benoit he could reach people in Haiti by text message - if they use a particular wireless carrier.
“If you text them you can find them,’’ said Pamphile, a 35-year-old who left Haiti in 2000. “On Voila.’’
“Yes, if the person has Voila,’’ Benoit said, sighing. “But my people, they all have Digicel.’’
Pamphile was on the phone again, alternating calls to his wife in Brockton and to a friend, Ludier Jolicouer, who was on a satellite phone in Carrefour near the Haitian capital. Pamphile was trying to book a flight to the Dominican Republic, to cross over to Haiti and retrieve his mother and two young nieces, US citizens, from the devastation of their homeland. They have been sleeping in tents on a soccer field.
Pamphile passed the phone over for a brief interview, the connection crowded with static and background noise.
“There are a lot of dead bodies and they are all over the city. . . . There’s a lot of buildings collapsed, people living on the streets,’’ said Jolicouer, 30, who used to live in Medford and drive a cab. He returned to Haiti a few years ago to work for his family’s store, a bulk retailer that, like much of the country, was destroyed.
And they had so little to begin.
“The government cannot do anything now because they don’t have the machines to remove the buildings collapsed on the people. . . . We don’t have the machines to move it. We need the help. But they say they are going to have the help.’’
Benoit, 61, from Dorchester, has spent half his life in the United States. But half his family is in Haiti. He can’t concentrate on work, he said. Pamphile, off the phone, said he, too, could not concentrate, his mind in Haiti. “My friend just tell me, if someone has a house that got two floors on it, that means you almost die or you die, because if you have two floors, the second floor - it goes down,’’ Pamphile said, talking now with Jean Rameau, 55, who left Port-au-Prince 25 years ago. Rameau wore a parka and a scally cap, just another Bostonian in winter, but his thoughts were somewhere else. The men switched to Creole, speaking quickly and animatedly.
Near the door, Wesner Lafleur said he drove his 12-hour shift on little sleep, worried about the 25 full- and half-siblings and 86-year-old father he has been unable to reach. “You don’t know what happens. You don’t want to believe that everybody in your family died if they are not dying. So you don’t know,’’ he said, his voice deep and gravelly. “Even if you try not to think about it, you are still thinking about it.’’
Lafleur, a 50-year-old with a salt-and-pepper goatee, was headed from the taxi garage to a friend’s auto repair business nearby, where a number of Haitian and Haitian-American friends would be gathered in front of a TV for news from home.
For some, there were surprise phone calls.
“One of them just called me. I am so happy! I was so worried,’’ said James St. Paulin, 61, who has an adult daughter and son in Carrefour. On a borrowed phone, his son let him know they survived, with little time for details. “They were injured, but they are alive.’’
Passengers have been sensitive and aware, the drivers said.
“As soon as they get in the car they ask me if I’m Haitian. I say, ‘Yes.’ They say, ‘Oh, I am sorry about your country.’ They ask me if I hear from my family, and I say, ‘Not yet,’ and they tell me, ‘I hope your family is OK,’ ’’ said Serge Charles, a Dorchester resident who has been driving a cab for 20 years. He has three brothers in Port-au-Prince, and he spent the shift switching between WBZ News Radio and Haitian radio, his phone at the ready.
YOU SEE?
WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE HERE!!!!!
Not the RACIST UGLIES portrayal typical in the Zionist MSM.
In an industry heavily populated with Haitians, USA Taxi stands out in particular. Of the company’s 100-plus drivers, roughly three-quarters come from Haiti, said Andrew Hebert, one of the managers. At least six drivers were in Haiti for vacation when the earthquake struck, their whereabouts still unknown last night. One of the drivers learned yesterday that his two young nephews had been killed, and that his father had buried them in the yard, said Dave Piazza, an owner and manager. “It just breaks your heart,’’ Hebert said.
Outside, Hebert chatted with Pamphile, who was headed for home, and Yvon Celestin, just in from his shift. Celestin has been driving six days a week for nearly 23 years. He has taken thousands of people to Logan International Airport. Yesterday, he missed the exit. “I really can’t focus,’’ he said, standing near a stack of tires.
Pamphile told Hebert he may miss a workday or two next week, depending on how his mission goes. He planned to rent a motorbike in the Dominican Republic to cross to Haiti, noting which roads are passable, and then take his mother and nieces back by car. The trip, including airfare, could cost $5,000 or more.
How many trips would a $250,000 buy?
“When I come back,’’ he said to Hebert, asking for a coveted overtime shift, “you have to give me two Saturday nights.’’ He managed a small laugh, and he got back on the phone.
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And SOMEONE got a HORRIBLY WRONG NUMBER!!
"Elation turns to anxiety for one Mass. family; Early report had claimed daughter was found safe" by Travis Andersen and Lisa Welsh, Globe Staff | Worcester Telegram & Gazette | January 15, 2010
A Rutland couple’s relief and celebration that their daughter had been located alive in Haiti turned to shock and disbelief last night when they learned that a mistake had been made and she was still missing.
Oh, no. You know what this is looking like then. Please don't let it be so.
Britney Gengel, 19, a student at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., was among four Lynn students reported found yesterday morning, but a rescue team told the school later in the day that the report was false, Lynn spokesman Jason Hughes said on a conference call.
That's too young!
Lynn president Kevin M. Ross told reporters that he had spoken last night with Len and Cherylann Gengel, who had flown to Florida yesterday for an anticipated reunion with their daughter. “It was very somber, as you can imagine,’’ Ross said. “They are devastated by this news. But I will tell you that they are still a very hopeful group.’’
The mistake occurred when a rescue group in Haiti told the university that Gengel and three other students had been found. Later, however, the group told the school that it had been mistaken and that the students were still unaccounted for. The school also said two faculty members were missing.
In Rutland yesterday, a mass of yellow flowers, ribbons, and balloons decorated the mailbox of the Watson Lane home of the Gengels. Cherylann Gengel said she received a telephone call at 9:15 a.m. saying Britney and 10 other Lynn University students working in Haiti had been evacuated by helicopters to the Dominican Republic. The students were in Haiti for a semester program working with the poor.
As of 10 a.m., 32 members of the large Gengel family had arrived at the home and were celebrating what they believed was the good news.
Cherylann Gengel said she had just spoken to her daughter on the phone about an hour before the devastating earthquake. “She was happy and loving it, so when I got the phone call that she was in trouble, I said, ‘Oh no, I just talked to her,’ ’’ she said.
Efforts to reach her daughter by text message and telephone had failed, and Britney’s whereabouts were unknown by the college for more than 24 hours, leaving family members frantic with worry.
State Senator Stephen M. Brewer, Democrat of Barre, who has been in contact with family, said late last night that he had not spoken with any family members since the mistake was announced. “This is like a bad dream hearing this,’’ he said.
Except it is a WIDE-AWAKE NIGHTMARE!
Earlier, displaying his happiness over the report that his daughter had been rescued, Len Gengel had posted the news on his Facebook page. He wrote: “She’s Alive she just got rescued!!!’’
“I went from hell on earth as a parent to just elation when I found out she was alive,’’ he said. That turned to misery late last night when the mistake about his daughter’s whereabouts surfaced.
According to the university, the group was to have been registered and staying at the Hotel Montana on Tuesday evening. The school had been trying to contact the group since the quake and sent a rescue team.
Britney Gengel is studying social work, relatives said. The group flew into Haiti this week to work with Food for the Poor, a faith-based nonprofit.
Cherylann Gengel said her daughter, a sophomore whose birthday is next week, had seemed to have found her calling in Haiti.
“From the first day she loved it,’’ Gengel said. “She called and said, ‘Mom, I know what I’m going to do with the rest of my life.’ ’’
The rest of us should be so lucky.
And was God calling her, readers?
Also yesterday, officials from a Boston-based order of Anglican nuns say they have learned that three of its nuns survived the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
“We have heard that they have been sighted,’’ said Sister Carolyn Darr, mother superior of the Sisters of St. Margaret. “We have not heard where they are.’’
“We know they’re alive,’’ she said.
The convent in which they lived on the grounds of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Port-au-Prince was destroyed, along with the cathedral and a school, Darr said.
The sisters, who established their convent in Port-au-Prince in 1927, run a home for the elderly. There was no immediate word on its residents.
“We’re just worried,’’ Sister Kristina Nordhaus said. “We really would feel much better if we could actually hear their voices.’’
“We’re just waiting, as so many people are,’’ Darr said.
The nuns were among a growing number of people in Haiti with ties to Massachusetts who have either had word of their survival passed on or broken through the communications breakdown caused by the earthquake.
No need to say God Bless them; he already has.
Looks like I've got some calls to make, too, readers.
