Without A Crisis Haiti Doesn't Exist

Very Interesting reading... Here are some snipets...

About CNN and Anderson Cooper

... CNN doubled its prime-time viewership in January when a 7.0 earthquake devastated much of the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With CNN lagging behind its more partisan competitors, disaster porn is now the news channel's bread and butter....

... Anderson Cooper pledged to stay on the story of Haiti's reconstruction... But he's only been seen in Haiti once since the quake... on its six-month anniversary... to accept a medallion for his reporting from the Haitian government...

About Clinton and Bush

... The George W. Bush administration blocked millions of dollars in loans from the Inter-American Development Bank for public water infrastructure in Haiti's central region...

... President Bill Clinton pressured the Haitian government into slashing tariffs on imported American rice, devastating the rice farming economy of the area....

... Families are so poor they have no choice but to drink, bathe and cook with water from the muddy Artibonite River...

... the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund, inaugurated by President Obama with both former Presidents at his side, is still running Web advertisements that say "100% of donations go directly to relief efforts." That's a cruel lie, considering the quake victims living in flood zones under withered plastic tarps....

Read the full article here: Insult to injury: Cholera has Haiti reeling, and Bill Clinton & Anderson Cooper haven't done enough

By the way...

The title of this article - "Without A Crisis Haiti Doesn't Exist" - is statement, made via Twitter by Vanderbilt University historian Peter James Hudson.

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