From the washington post:

"New Orleans looks like Haiti, or Baghdad, or Sudan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.

The images of all the rubble and corpses and empty-eyed survivors remind people of those places, not the United States.

How can this be happening ... in a nation whose wealth and power seem almost supernatural in so many struggling corners of the world?"

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Kanye West, speaking to a nationally televised audience on NBC

"As I watched the footage of all those black bodies desperately trudging through dirty flood waters, I realized that I actually had seen something exactly like this before.

It was one year ago, when Hurricane Jeanne slammed against the coasts of Haiti, a country which like New Orleans is both poor and black.

The floods and mud slides ended up killing thousands of Haitians. The media gave scant attention to the matter for a few days; just long enough to get some sexy footage of houses being destroyed and valleys filled with floodwater.

Enough to boost ratings for a while. Shortly after that, they packed up their equipment and got out of there faster than you can say "racist indifference."

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Hurricane Jeanne in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and Bush does nothing!

"The city is looking more and more like occupied Haiti with the arrival today of hundreds more heavily armed troops, whose main role is to repress a thoroughly frustrated, angry Black population.

Tens of thousands have been suffering from starvation along with lack of water, housing, clothing, health care and other human needs denied by the government since the hurricane and subsequent flooding of New Orleans."

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Gas prices may reach $3 Nationwide in the United States. This will definitely hurt the pocket of Haitians living in Amrica.

Wholesale gasoline prices on the Gulf Coast broke $3 a gallon on Tuesday — far higher than prices at most U.S. pumps — as major refineries remained shut after Hurricane Katrina...

Read more about gas prices here...

Looking at the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans and the Mississippi area, I can't help but think of what Hurricanne Jeanne did to Gonnaives, Haiti.

Watching CNN, all day you will see graphics that will put tears in your eyes.

As you watch this you can't help but think what it was really like in Gonaives, and Mapou in Haiti.

Search for news about Katrina on Google

Received from Ed Loazama:

Député de Nepean à Ottawa invite la population à écrire la reine pour empecher l'investiture de Michaelle Jean en tant que Gouverneure Générale.

Renversons la vapeur , écrivons à la reine pour appuyer Michaelle Jean.
 
cliquer sur le lien suivant pour écire à la reine:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3776.asp
 
Appuyons Michaelle Jean,
 
Voye lèt elektronik sa-a bay tout moun.

This Sunday there were supposed to be an interview between Haitian prime minister Gerard La Tortue and Carl Fombrun of Carl's Corner.

Unfortunately the radio station is flooded due to the hurricane.

Carl Plans to submit the questions to Prime minister La Tortue via email and the answers will be posted on Carl's corner.

ScienceDaily.com reports...

U.S. postal inspectors and about needed police arrested three men on Wednesday for stealing bags of mail containing cash and valuables headed for Haiti.

after receiving complaints the U.S. postal inspection service set up surveillance operations these three men were busted.

Bare Volè!

On Monday night August 15, 2005 Carl Fombrun had the opportunity to meet an interview Haitian presidential candidate Charles Henry Baker.

the meeting took place at Carl's Residence in Miami Florida the location where his TV show Carl's Corner is recorded.

The interview will air in its entirety in south Florida's Island TV but you can get a glimpse of the transcript by visiting Carl's Corner @ www.fombrun.com

If you don't know what Mr. Baker looks like, you can also sees his pictures Carl's photo album of on www.belpoz.com

From  the Palm Beach Daily News:

... In a wet T-shirt, jeans and sandy shoes, the man told the officer he had just bathed. Later, however, the two said they landed just offshore in a boat with others from Haiti, police said.

... ... They were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol. read more...