Greetings, you're listening to podcast number 117 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

Today you'll hear three segments touching on women and children so hungry and desperate

they eat cookies made of dirt.

What's that got to do with you and me?

Right-wingers so callous and vicious they blame victims of natural disasters for their

own fate.

And in a change of pace some campaign awaits strategy suggestions from yours truly.

It's a multi-hued picture I'll paint for you.

Let's get right into it.

My sources for this segment are The Associated Press, The Miami Herald, The Institute for

Justice in Democracy in Haiti and JubileeUSA.org.

Some pretty intense stuff to start off with here.

I recently came across this Associated Press story whose headline is Poor Haitians Resort

to Eating Dirt.

Here are a few short excerpts, Porto Prince Haiti.

It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums and Charlene Dumas was eating mud.

With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice and

some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.

Charlene, 16 with a one-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy

for hunger pains.

Cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.

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