This is kind of crazy. While I’m not a fan of Fox News, this is more important than any of the dribble they’re broadcast over the past year. Wyclef talks about the repercussions of the earthquake, which is just heartbreaking to hear. To donate $5, text the word “Yele” to 501501. If supposed broke bastards (that is, according to a faceless visitor of the site who has somehow correctly guesstimated my net worth #notreally) such as myself can donate something, you should be able to, too.
this shit is just fucked…..
1 said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Yeah, I hate faux news so this is shocking. I doubt they’re coverage is going to be positive for long though.
marlymarrr said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:12 am
“On a good day it’s tough.” I hate how these idiots are talking all this negative shit with people dying feet away from them. STFU and help.
marlymarrr said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:14 am
just dropped off $5…. http://www.yele.org/
Sano213 said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Crazy
Sandor said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I sent 5sms to that number, this some crazy shit
ZahlberG _C.O.B_ said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Whats with the (#) everywhere? Is that the new internet thing to do?
They Call Me Chainsaw said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:32 am
2012 anyone????….
boston said this on January 15th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I donted $5…..I wish I could do more
J. Rob said this on January 15th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Wyclef Jean should be very careful over there…the next problem is gonna be disease in Haiti with all the dead bodies.
Tommy said this on January 15th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Ha i hate how people are so obsessed with that apocalyptic bullshit…earthquakes happen frequently but just because an earthquake happened in 2010 doesnt have shit to do with 2012..
Truly is horrible that so many innocent people are dying..makes you wonder why God would let something happen like this
BSnyd3 said this on January 15th, 2010 at 11:51 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8460771.stm
DayO said this on January 15th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
ayo wycleffff
The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410,000 for rent, production services, and Jean’s appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago–and has been active since that time–the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009. That month, the foundation provided the IRS with returns covering calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007–the only periods for which it has publicly provided a glimpse at its financial affairs. In 2006, Jean’s charity reported contributions of $1 million, the bulk of which came from People magazine in exchange for the first photos of a pregnant Angelina Jolie (the actress reportedly directed that the publication’s payment go to Jean’s charity, not her personally). As seen on the following pages from the foundation’s 2006 tax return, the group paid $31,200 in rent to Platinum Sound, a Manhattan recording studio owned by Jean and Jerry Duplessis, who, like Jean, is a foundation board member. A $31,200 rent payment was also made in 2007 to Platinum Sound. The rent, tax returns assure, “is priced below market value.” The recording studio also was paid $100,000 in 2006 for the “musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert.” That six-figure payout, the tax return noted, “was substantially less than market value.” The return, of course, does not address why Jean needed to be paid to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser. But the largest 2006 payout–a whopping $250,000–went to Telemax, S.A., a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to “own a controlling interest.” The money covered “pre-purchased…TV airtime and production services” that were part of the foundation’s “outreach efforts” in Haiti. No further description of these services was offered, though the return claimed that “the fees paid are below market” and that the use of Telemax was the “most efficient way of providing these services.” The group’s tax returns also report “consultant” payments totaling $300,000 between 2005-2007, while the 2006 return reported nearly $225,000 in “promotion and PR” costs. These expenses are not itemized further in the IRS returns.
P'cola said this on January 15th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
“Truly is horrible that so many innocent people are dying..makes you wonder why God would let something happen like this”
That’s easy.
God doesn’t exist.
Sorry to break it to ya.
Natural selection & evolution ftw.
beyondAreasonableDOUBT said this on January 15th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
@beyondAreasonableDOUBT
yeah mane i was about to say the same thing.
moc5 said this on January 15th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
hurr durr, i don’t believe in god i have to convince everyone else he’s not real either.
shut the fuck up.
P'cola said this on January 15th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
@beyondAreasonableDOUBT
oh you are sooo cool man, let me ask you one question though. and since you obviously are confident about your beliefs (yes, beliefs) let me ask you something.
if energy can not be created nor destroyed, where did it come from?
also, don’t assume i’m implying anything. im interested in your answer.
iamcoreyg said this on January 15th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
“Natural selection & evolution ftw.”
no not ftw dick
burd said this on January 15th, 2010 at 5:35 pm