i just want to say how despicable i think those people are.

They should be purged from the party.

WITHOUT CEREMONY.

purge THOSE people from the party, and i will start donating money to the party.

again.

as of now i'm still an independent.

until the party can stop CATERING to clinton derangement.

And what was he doing?

Interviews.  

Walking around.

Guiding a cameraman.

WTF IS WRONG WITH CNN THAT A DOCTOR IS GETTING SOUNDBITES FROM THE HAITIAN PRESIDENT WHILE PEOPLE ARE DYING???????

My friend also forwarded many messages from those he could reach there, artists and poets who write so well of what they are seeing and experiencing, but even they are searching for words.  Their messages do reminds us that the news may get much worse, as at least we are hearing about how bad it is in urban areas -- but as happens so often, the rural areas may be as hard-hit and with even fewer resources already there before the quake hit.  And those rural areas will be the last reached by the new resources arriving in Haiti now.

As for donating, I plan to direct my contributions to

The WSWS writes:

In 2004, the United Nations secretariat that focuses on disaster relief pointed to this combined effect of natural and socio-economic disasters:

"The impact of the hazards is much greater in Haiti because the vulnerability of people there is higher. Rapid urbanization, lack of land management, the exploitation of charcoal and consequent deforestation make Haitian people more vulnerable to mudslides."

The head of the secretariat, Salvano Briceño, said at the time: "What is happening in Haiti is an illustration of a combination of vulnerabilities that was bound to happen. Vulnerabilities have been allowed to grow in Haiti in proportions such that any natural hazard would lead to great disaster."

He urged international agencies and the world's governments to invest in aiding Haiti to build up its infrastructure so that it could be prepared to deal with disasters, rather than relying only on relief after the fact.

Instead, the United Nations sent thousands of troops, led by the Brazilian army, to occupy the impoverished nation and impose "law and order" in the wake of a US-backed coup that overthrew the elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An estimated 8,000 Haitians were killed in the period of the coup, many at the hands of right-wing gunmen, some of them trained by the CIA.

This was only the latest in a long series of US interventions aimed at maintaining Washington's domination of the country and suppressing any movement of the masses to transform the oppressive social and economic conditions.

There was virtually no sign of outside assistance other than a few United Nations vehicles passing by. There was little police presence, no water being handed out, no encampments, except those set up by people apparently left homeless by the quake or those too afraid to go back into their ramshackle homes.