Globe helps out:
"To really help Haitian earthquake victims, be careful where you give your money" by Michelle Singletary, Washington Post | January 17, 2010
After a disaster, another tragedy is sure to follow. Once the news broke about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the US government and other organizations quickly started warning of scam artists trying to dupe people into sending them money intended for the victims....
Yeah, we all wonder where that check goes.
“As the past has proven, whenever there is a major headline story, like the Haiti earthquake disaster, there will be schemes to capitalize on it,’’ said Edward Johnson, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau of Metro Washington, D.C.
After hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, the scam artists blew in as fiercely as the gale winds that accompanied the storms. So many popped up that the FBI partnered with the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies to form the Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force....
--more--"The biggest scammers of them all:
"Obama calls America united in effort to help Haiti recover
WASHINGTON - President Obama said yesterday that America “stands united’’ with the Haitian people as he thanked two former presidents for agreeing to help raise billions to rebuild the Caribbean nation.
Obama met in the Oval Office with George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to discuss the fund-raising effort. “By coming together in this way, these two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and to the people of the world,’’ Obama said in the Rose Garden, standing between Bush and Clinton. “In these difficult hours, America stands united. We stand united with the people of Haiti, who have shown such incredible resilience, and we will help them to recover and to rebuild.’’
Bush and Clinton have created a website, www.clintonbushhaitifund.org, for donations. They said potential donors should know that their money will be spent wisely. “I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash,’’ said Bush, who made his first visit to the Oval Office since leaving the White House in January 2009.
Clinton, who also is the special UN envoy to Haiti, said he had stayed in hotels that collapsed and dined with people killed in the disaster. “It is still one of the most remarkable, unique places I have ever been,’’ he said.
It's piss-poor and awash in misery -- and that was before the earthquake, prick!
Cleaned up the report a bit for the paper, didn't they?
"Obama promises sustained US support to help Haiti" by Darlene Superville, Associated Press Writer | January 16, 2010
President Barack Obama, center, speaks about Haiti as former presidents Bill Clinton, left, and George W. Bush, right, listen in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Obama asked Bush and Clinton to help with U.S. relief efforts after the earthquake in Haiti. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Related: Globalists Getting Help to Haiti
I give up on the Obama; there was NO ONE ELSE he could FIND?
WASHINGTON -- "But what these gentlemen are going to be able to do is when the news media starts seeing its attention drift to other things but there's still enormous needs on the ground, these two gentlemen of extraordinary stature, I think, are going to be able to help ensure that these efforts are sustained," Obama said of Bush and Bill Clinton.Yes, Obama said that about the WAR CRIMINAL and TORTURE Bush.
Okay, remember, folks, CASH ONLY!
"Locals step up to help Haitians; Boston collects funds, resources for quake victims" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | January 17, 2010
Driven by an urgent need to help the suffering people of Haiti, a cross-section of people, including union workers, college students, and family members of Haitians came out in droves yesterday to Boston centers set up to collect funds and resources for the devastated country.
At Hibernian Hall on Dudley Street, dozens of volunteers collected everything from underwear and shoes to purses and jackets for children, women, and men.... They packed canned goods, toothpaste, and bottled water in cardboard boxes that would be sent to Haiti....
No, no, no, George said CASH ONLY! Don't you guys ever listen!?
In an adjacent room, union members and volunteers, some dressed in clown costumes, watched over the children some brought along and laid out coffee, Danish twists, and cranberry scones.
Regular old fun time, huh, Globe? Third day in a row they have left me "happy."
Jean Carmel St-Juste, a Haitian interpreter from Malden, whose family survived the earthquake, said he has been focusing on the good news coming out of Haiti. It is the best way to cope with the tragedy and stay focused on helping fellow Haitians, he said. “We are not talking about the dead,’’ St-Juste said. “We are talking about the people who have survived.’’
Yeah, and that is ALL that is going on: TALK!
Another shallow puff-piece:
"Haitians built strong roots upon arrival in Boston; Fled dictatorship at home in ’60s" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | January 17, 2010
They started coming in the late 1960s, fleeing François Duvalier, the brutal dictator who ruled Haiti from 1957 to 1971. Those first immigrants planned to live in Boston only briefly and return to Haiti once Duvalier left and the political situation stabilized.
But Duvalier didn’t leave. Instead, he transferred power to his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, who ruled Haiti until his overthrow in 1986. Meanwhile, the first Haitian immigrants to Boston married here, had children, and raised families in the city.
Yeah, nothing about them being propped up by the CIA or anything.
In so doing, they planted the seeds of a varied and vibrant community, the largest Haitian population outside Haiti, behind only Miami and New York....
And the agenda-pushing paper views it as a good thing.
Btw, HOW did they MAKE IT HERE because I HAVE SEEN NOTHING about ALL THOSE BOATS we have TURNED BACK all these years!
After the first group settled in Boston in the 1960s, two more waves of immigrants came to Boston from Haiti in the 1970s and ’80s, said Marc Prou, professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
They never really stop coming, do they?
They chose the city because of its colleges and hospitals - places where they aspired to send their children to be educated and find good-paying jobs, Prou said. And they formed part of a lifeline for relatives in their homeland. Even before the earthquake that ravaged Haiti this week, Haitians abroad were sending about $2 billion back to loved ones in Haiti every year, said Alix Cantave, associate director of the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston.
Money sent back by likely illegals that are removed from your economy, America.
And how is Haiti so desperate with the globalists and immigrants helping them out? How did Haiti ever get the way it is, huh?
The figure is all the more significant because Haitians in Boston report household incomes of about $47,000 on average, compared with $70,000 for Bostonians overall, according to the census.
Haitians average about twice what I was ever paid for a year.
Just pointing it out; I'm not angry.
About 40 percent of Haitians in Boston work in service-sector jobs, compared with 15 percent of all residents, according to the census. Many drive cabs, clean hotels, and care for the elderly in nursing homes.
You know, jobs out-of-work Americans won't do (but do do around here).
About 88 percent list Creole as their preferred language. Cantave said the community faces tensions, familiar to many immigrants, between a generation born in Haiti that identifies closely with Haitian language and culture, and a generation born in the United States that identifies more closely with Mattapan, Milton, Randolph, and Cambridge.
“They are susceptible to street gangs and all the issues we know of: truancy and youth violence,’’ Cantave said. “A lot of times, Haitian people see that as being acculturated in a negative way.’’
I thought they were just here for food on the table, and if you claim different you are a racist.
There are significant numbers of Haitians - particularly second-generation Haitians who saw their parents toil in low-paying jobs - who have become doctors, lawyers, and engineers in Boston....
They are so much more successful than you, Amurkn!
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