Taking advantage of those in town for the Grammys, yesterday producer Quincy Jones gathered a galaxy of pop stars for a re-recording of 1984’s We Are The World. Among the 70 artists lending their voices: Beyonce, Natalie Cole, Barbra Streisand, Usher, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift, Gladys Knight, Rihanna, Harry Connick, Kayne West, Toni Braxton, LL Cool J and Wyclef Jean. …
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Rep. Alan Grayson To Christian Right:
What About YOUR Pact With Satan?
On the floor of Congress yesterday, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) called out the Christian right for the comments about Haiti and asked Pat Robertson, “What about your own pact with the devil? How’s that worked out for you?” Classic Grayson!
Read More »Photo Of The Day – Haiti Rescue
Seven year-old Kiki Joachin was rescued by NYC cops and firefighters in Haiti after spending eight days buried in the rubble. (I’d like to thank the 100+ JMG readers who sent this in to us. Now stop.)
Read More »Hope Less
Virtually every broadcast and cable network showed the Hope For Haiti Now telethon last night. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Fox News was the lone holdout. On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now, a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds …
Read More »Haiti Telethon Highlights
Beware The Earthquake Machine
According to Venezuela president Hugo Chavez, it was the U.S. that totally wiped out Port Au Prince with its secret earthquake machine. Citing an alleged report from Russia’s Northern Fleet, the Venezuelan strongman’s state mouthpiece ViVe TV shot out a press release saying the 7.0 magnitude Haiti quake was caused by a U.S. test of an experimental shockwave system that …
Read More »A Moment Of Light
American rescue workers free a woman trapped for several days in Haiti’s rubble as bystanders chant “USA! USA!” This is probably the most jingoistic thing you’ll see on this here website thingy.
Read More »Haiti Death Toll Hits 200,000, Charges Arise Of American “Occupation”
New estimates put the death toll in Haiti at over 200,000. That number approaches the estimated 230,000 killed by 2004’s Indian Ocean tsunami. With thousands of bodies being shoveled into mass graves, there is no accurate tally of the casualty count. Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Tuesday that 72,000 bodies had been recovered by the government. The European Commission, citing …
Read More »Everlasting Gobstobber
(Tipped by JMG reader Jeff in FTL)
Read More »Haiti: Anderson Cooper Rescues Kid
Anderson Cooper was on the scene as fighting broke out among looters at a Port Au Prince store. After a young boy was struck on the head, Cooper pulled him out of the crowd.
Read More »Obama’s First Tweet
It was done on the Red Cross account, so he had to write about himself in the third person.
Read More »Housing Works: NYC Relief Agencies Assist Haiti’s HIV-Positives
Housing Works CEO Charles King is in Haiti coordinating relief efforts for the country’s HIV-positive residents, many of whom are now cut off from their HAART medications. I recommend following King’s blogging from the scene. About 5 o’clock yesterday evening, Edner and I left the compound where we are storing the supplies in order to to rent a vehicle to …
Read More »Bidding Is Now Open
Your very own Pat Robertson voodoo doll, complete with Bible and money bag, is now up for auction on eBay. Proceeds go to the Haiti relief effort. (Via – Americablog)
Read More »How To Help Poz Haitians
Many of Haiti’s estimated 200,000 HIV-positive residents are now cut off from their critical HAART medications. NYC’s AID For AIDS, a group that sends unused or unneeded HIV meds overseas, tells us how to help, because individuals cannot send drugs directly there. And people can send medications directly to you in New York?If they’re in the New York City area, …
Read More »CBN: Pat Robertson Didn’t Say That And What He Said Is True Anyway
You’d think that after all the outrage that rained down on Pat Robertson from the left AND the right (even the Freepers were pissed), we’d see some kind of waffly, half-assed, non-apology apology from the Christian Broadcast Network. Not so. On today’s The 700 Club, during a segment about the devastation, suffering and humanitarian effort that is needed in Haiti, …
Read More »Text Donations Raise $10M For Haiti
The ease of making text message donations to relief agencies in Haiti has raised $10M already and that amount is mushrooming by the minute. This is first time that cell phone donations have been used to this degree, enabled by recent agreements from carriers to pass along the funds without taking a cut for themselves. The American Red Cross said …
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Gary Cass
“What exactly did Pat [Roberston] say that was so terribly egregious? First he retold a very familiar story about the history of Haiti about a pact that was made by its revolutionary leaders. In exchange for help in throwing out the French Haiti would serve satan. Some have disputed this ever happened. But what is indisputable is Haiti’s history ever …
Read More »Olbermann Rips Limbaugh & Robertson
“Mr. Robertson, Mr. Limbaugh. Your lives are not worth those of the lowest, meanest, poorest of those victims still lying under that rubble in Haiti tonight. You serve no good, you serve no god. You inspire only stupidity and hatred, and I would wish you to hell, but knowing how empty your souls must be for you to be able …
Read More »Maddow Show: Haitian Ambassador Calls Out Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson: God Did This To Haiti Because They Made A Pact With Satan
Right on schedule, Pat Robertson blames a horrific natural disaster on God’s wrath. Because the Haitians are devil worshipers. God loves you so much, he’s going to kill the fuck out of you to prove it.
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