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Sean Penn Pens Anti-Wyclef Jean Editorial

Sean Penn isn’t done talking about Wyclef Jean’s ill-fated run for the Haitian presidency. In a new editorial for The Huffington Post, the veteran and humanitarian defends his position against Jean’s bid for public office in his earthquake-ravaged homeland.Jean’s political dreams have took a hammering last week when he has learned he can’t appeal a [...]

Wyclef Jean’s presidential plans for farming in Haiti

Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean has prepared his plan of action if he wins the presidential elections from his native country. The 37-year-old artist has laid out detailed changes that he will make to Haiti’s economy if he is successful in his bid for the country’s presidency, he wants to give power to the people by [...]

Wyclef Enters Haitian Presidential Race

Singer Wyclef Jean has officially announced his bid to be president of Haiti to a roaring crowd of supporters. Jean — a naturalized US citizen — jetted into Haiti on a private plane Thursday and officially launched a bid for president — just hours after stepping down from his embattled Haitian charity, Yele Haiti!. The declaration [...]

Sean Penn praised for Haiti relief work

Officials have praised Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, branding it as “an amazing achievement”. The actor co-founded the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organization after the devastating disaster, and has flown out to the country numerous times since to help implement a relief camp in Petionville and facilities in the community, near to the capital, Port-au-Prince. [...]

Protecting Haiti orphans is Jolie’s top priority

American actress Angelina Jolie’s top priority is to protect the orphaned children in Haiti, it has been revealed. Jolie returned to the SOS Village in Santo, Haiti, outside of Port-au-Prince to evaluate the progress made since she last visited the village more than six months ago. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010. “One [...]

Evil Dictators Before They Were Famous

The historian Edward Gibbon once wrote that ‘history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind’. Yet there is more to mankind than crime: if only this lot hadn’t had the folly to abandon respectable careers, history would have been more fortunate. Adolf Hitler: Postcard PainterHere’s Hitler as just one [...]

Susan Sarandon’s Premiere

Ever style icon, Susan Sarandon was sporting her accessory at Wednesday’s New York premiere of HBO’s biographical TV show about right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian, You Don’t Know Jack: a black foot bandage and crutches.
The Oscar winner played a joke about that a reason was break dancing excluding later enlightening, which was that [...]

Shakira Haitian School — Shakira Opening School In Haiti

Pop star/humanitarian Shakira is planning to build a school for needy children in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The star’s Pies Descalzos Foundation will finance the construction of a new school in Port-au-Prince.

The Colombian pop star arrived in the devastated Caribbean island nation on Sunday and sent the day meeting with survivors of January’s 7.0 quake, most of [...]

Survival strategy movies to be shown to Haiti quake victims

More than 70,000 people in quake-hit Haiti capital Port-au-Prince and nearby cities will be shown free movies on survival strategies, a media report said Saturday.
Under a programme launched in 2005 which aims at sharing cinematic experience with communities devastated by poverty or natural disasters, the Mexican government will show 11 films free of charge in [...]

Promises, promises

Donors pledge $5.3 billion for Haiti and talk bravely of fixing more than earthquake damage

THE effort to rebuild Haiti after its devastating earthquake on January 12th will run into countless pitfalls, but it seems that a lack of financing will not be among them. At a donor conference held at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday March 31st, nearly 60 countries pledged a total of $5.3 billion in aid over the next 18 months. Offers ranged from $10,000 (from tiny Montenegro) to $1.15 billion (from America). The total exceeds by 35% the Haitian government’s request for the near term and represents more than half the country’s expected economic output over that period. With promises made, the focus of reconstruction planning now shifts to converting these sums into improved conditions for survivors as quickly as possible.

Progress has been halting in the 11 weeks since the earthquake claimed some 220,000 lives and caused an estimated $8 billion in damage. Haiti’s fierce rainy season has begun, with some 700,000 people still packed into nearly 900 tent cities in Port-au-Prince, the capital. As many as 40,000 have clustered in high-risk areas, such as riverbeds, and many are reluctant to move. Concerns are growing about sanitation and contagious disease in the camps. Moreover, although the improvised settlements were initially peaceful thanks to a mix of solidarity and shell shock, they have grown increasingly dangerous as frustration sets in, with rapes becoming particularly prevalent. …

Keith Urban Nicole Kidman Haitian School

Hollywood power couple (I’m being generous…) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman are teaming up with Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis and the Artists for Peace and Justice organization to provide financial backing for a school opening in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti.

In addition to education, the school will also reportedly provide basic health needs to the [...]

Angelina Jolie visits Haitian refugees in Dominican Republic

Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie recently paid a visit to Haiti refugees in Dominican Republic.
The ‘Tomb Raider’ star, who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF, visited Haitian children that are in the Dominican Republic to receive medical treatment following the devastating 7.0 earthquake, reports Radar Online.
The earthquake is [...]

Ricky Martin Habitat For Humanity Team Up To Help Haiti

Ricky Martin has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to create a new relief fund for victims of the 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti earlier this month.
The Ricky Martin Foundation/Habitat for Humanity Haiti Recovery Fund was created this week after the Puerto Rican pop sensation visited the island nation alongside Habitat for Humanity International’s CEO Jonathan [...]

eWeek Newsbreak Jan 20 2010

Join eWEEK reporter Ashley Daley for a rundown of this weeks headlines. Google, Microsoft and other IT companies are donating their money and skill sets to help Haiti in the wake of a massive earthquake that devastated the countrys capital, Port-au-Prince, on Jan. 12. Google collaborated with GeoEye to make satellite imagery of the earthquakes aftermath available to users of Google Earth; Attack code targeting the Internet Explorer vulnerability used to hit Google and other companies has hit the Web. According to McAfee, researchers have seen references to the code which exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer on mailing lists and have confirmed that the code was published on at least one Website. The code was used to attack Google and others in a spate of cyber-attacks believed to have originated in China. The attacks have sparked controversy and prompted Google to threaten to pull out of China altogether. Officials at the U.S. State Department have stated they plan to get answers from China as to what happened in the coming days; A small amount of cocaine was discovered in a restricted shuttle hangar, outside a bathroom at NASA. NASA has since ordered a safety review of the Shuttle Discovery, which is scheduled to depart March, 18th, to check for any mistakes made to the spaceflight hardware. All of the nearly 200 persons who have access to the facility will be receiving a drug test as well; Google recently slashed $100 off the price of the phone for existing T-Mobile subscribers. The Nexus One will now cost all existing T-Mobile subscribers $279.
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Haiti Rocked By Second Earthquake

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: An intense second tremor rocked Haiti early Wednesday, disrupting rescue and recovery operations in Port-au-Prince following last week’s devastating 7.0 earthquake.

Strong earthquake shakes Haiti again

A strong earthquake has once again struck Haiti, shaking buildings and causing panic, eight days after a 7.0 magnitude quake left much of the nation in ruins. The U.S. Geological survey said latest quake had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centered 59 kilometers from the devastated capital Port-au-Prince. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from Wednesday’s quake, which comes as an international aid effort is underway to help those affected by last week’s powerful earthquake.

Troops struggle to rein in Haiti looters

Troops struggled to control looters in Port-au-Prince a week after the earthquake which devastated Haiti, as rescuers still pulled babies and women from the rubble and kept alive hope of finding more survivors.  With the stench of urine and decomposing bodies still hanging over the capital, USTroops struggled to control looters in Port-au-Prince a week after the earthquake which devastated Haiti, as rescuers still pulled babies and women from the rubble and kept alive hope of finding more survivors. With the stench of urine and decomposing bodies still hanging over the capital, US

Anderson Cooper Rescues Injured Haitian Boy [VIDEO]

Anderson to the rescue! CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper has been one of the journalists on the frontlines of reporting on the tragedy in Haiti ever since a castastrophic earthquake shook the island nation last week. But the media’s beloved Silver Fox has earned a new distinction — hero — after quickly scooping up a bloody [...]

Looters prey upon quake-ravaged Haitian capital

Roving bands of looters on Monday overran Port-au-Prince, while police and military officials tasked with protecting the quake-stricken Haitian capital were nowhere to be found. World leaders have promised to dispatch additional police, troops, marines and UN peacekeepers to the Haitian

Growing deadlier

The death toll mounts in Haiti, as aid and rescuers fail to reach earthquake victims

SIX days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, the extent of the damage and suffering is becoming clearer. The misery exceeds even the most pessimistic expectations. There are no reliable estimates of the death toll, but according to Jean-Max Bellerive, the prime minister, the government disposed of 20,000 bodies in the first four days after the tremor, most of them dumped into mass graves without any attempt to determine their identities. Despite these efforts, Port-au-Prince, the capital, is still littered with corpses and survivors have resorted to placing toothpaste or orange peel under their noses to fight the stench. On Sunday January 17th, Mr Bellerive guessed that 70,000 people had died in Port-au-Prince and Leogane (the city closest to the epicentre), before counting those killed in the country’s heavily affected south-western peninsula.

Both Haiti’s endemic misery and the obstacles for rescue workers are in the spotlight. Earthquakes of similar magnitude have struck bigger cities in richer countries and claimed just a few dozen lives. But the absence of building codes in Haiti, as well as a severe wood shortage because of mass deforestation, mean that many structures in urban areas are made of thin, low-quality concrete. Such concrete is both prone to collapse and dangerous for those who are hit by it or buried beneath it. Ironically, some of the country’s poorest benefited from living in tin-roofed shacks, which were much easier to escape from. …