DISA/SOUTHCOM/JCSE ran COMPLEX HAITI RELIEF DRILLS day before EARTHQUAKE!

[jofortruth]

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=156201.0

[Calibabe]

Good catch.  I wonder what they were doing there before the quake.  This is yet more evidence that this quake wasn't just an 'accident.'

Yeah, even Hugo Chavez says we have "an earthquake weapon".  Now if you can't believe Hugo, who can you trust.   

[Dig]

Yeah, even Hugo Chavez says we have "an earthquake weapon".  Now if you can't believe Hugo, who can you trust.   

Hugo Chavez? That Castro wannabe will never gain the Rockefeller boot licking award like the beard did.

In any case why are you listening to Chavez when all you have to do is listen to Secretary of Defense for the United States of America, Coen who said that we not only had earthquake weapons but other weapons of Extraorinary Destruction.

[Mr Grinch]

Found this on Alan Watt's site today for yesterdays show...... The data seems to show a ramp up of HAARP activity prior to the quake.... Gonna give it a listen now.

http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/radio/Alan_Watt_CTTM_Live_on_RBN.html

Jan. 21, 2010
Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN:
Lucky? -- Off Miami, SOUTHCOM's Fleet Was On its Feet:
"SOUTHCOM to the Rescue as Haitians Suffer,
Fleet was Ready, 'fore the Quake, to Go in as a Buffer,
Practicing for Future Hurricane, the Fleet was on Standby
To Sail Saviours to Haiti (Brings Tears into the Eye,)
H.A.A.R.P. was Playing Merrily Right Up into the Quake,
At the End it Ceased Completely, Says Tokyo, Goodness Sake!
Standing Wave's a Powerful Weapon, Goes Almost Undetected,
And Government Pulls Out Experts So Opinion is Deflected,
Mightier than A-Bomb, Causing Quakes, Floods, Famine, Drought,
Best of All, it is Deniable, the People Left in Doubt"
Meeting of 1937-8 RIIA-CFR, Internationalism, Saving Soviet Union at all costs - Public Fed Ideas, Culture, Music - Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis - Bank Collapses "No-one Saw Coming". Practice Exercises for Attacks on Sept. 11 2001 and 7-7 London Bombings - Disaster Rehearsal Exercise for Haitian Earthquake beforehand - Tectonic Weaponry, HAARP Pulse and Aerial Spraying, UN Weather Warfare Treaty - Guilt by Preponderance of Evidence - Induction Magnetometer to Measure Frequency Activity. War on Terror as "Crusade" - Bible Passages on UK Sniper Gunsights. Association for "Voluntary" Sterilization. Interdependence (Complete Dependence) - 2012 UN Earth Summit in Brazil, Sustainability and "Green" Economy. Brzezinski's "Grand Chessboard", Urged on Afghanistanis against Russia in "Holy War", Organization of Revolts / Revolutions - India and Pakistan. Presentation of "Conspiracy Theories" in Fictional Manner / Entertainment - Cognitive Dissonance - Ulterior Reasons for Public "Disclosure". Sickness, Disability and Death from Tamiflu Drug.
***Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 21, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
***LISTEN / DOWNLOAD


Topics of show covered in following links:

Defense Was Preparing Relief Exercise to Haiti When Earthquake Struck

Chavez-US Tectonic Weapon Caused Haitian Earthquake

HAARP-Induction Monitor for Ultra-low Frequencies
2010 January 10     Jan. 11     Jan. 12

The image below is a time-frequency spectrogram, which shows the frequency content of signals recorded by the HAARP Induction Magnetometer. This instrument, provided by the University of Tokyo, measures temporal variations in the geomagnetic field in the ULF (ultra-low frequency) range of 0-5 Hz. The  spectrogram images are produced by computing the PSD (power spectral density) of successive 102.4-second segments of timeseries data, and plotting these spectra as color/intensity slices along a 24-hour scale. If the images below is not too interesting, you might want to look at 02 Sep 2004 for an example of narrowband PC1 pulsations, or 27 Jul 2004 for an example of wideband ULF noise during a magnetic substorm. Expanded plots of the last 12 hours, last 6 hours, last 3 hours, and last 1 hour are also available.

1/10


1/11


1/12

[Viper]

Found this on Alan Watt's site today for yesterdays show......

God Bless Alan Watt, a fellow Scot i'm proud to say, and my current teacher i'm even more prouder to say, though i dunno what i'd do without many folks here too.

God Bless America, carry on...

[Don Quixote]

Hugo Chavez? That Castro wannabe will never gain the Rockefeller boot licking award like the beard did.

In any case why are you listening to Chavez when all you have to do is listen to Secretary of Defense for the United States of America, Coen who said that we not only had earthquake weapons but other weapons of Extraorinary Destruction.

Case in Point, in NYC i met someone (Spanish) who worked for Rockefeller. Do you remember when King Castro came to the US, NY, UN etc..?  well they let slip that Castro visited Rockefeller at his estate. Funny, somehow the MSM, Faux news, etc...neglected that little gem. It spoke volumes. Just like Bella Dodd in her bio. School of Darkness relates that Wall Street was behind the whole commie thing http://www.savethemales.ca/160303.html. Sane, i am impressed to that you caught the whole Dutch East India Co., so few people understand that global genocidal co. many centuries ago. Christopher Dawson, a former Harvard prof., stated in one of his books, that the Dutch East Ind. Co. hated Catholicism so much that the Co. would give money to Hindu temples in the Far East so that the people would be easier to control.  One last point about Rockefeller, for years now they have supported Protestant groups in Central and South America. Why? Not out of the goodness of their heart, but to wrest control from the CChurch, get the people in Protestantism, and then proceed with the Depopulation programs. It is ALL about Eugenics and Depopulation. Period. I wish Chavez would see that. Sadly, he has not.

[worcesteradam]

Case in Point, in NYC i met someone (Spanish) who worked for Rockefeller. Do you remember when King Castro came to the US, NY, UN etc..?  well they let slip that Castro visited Rockefeller at his estate. Funny, somehow the MSM, Faux news, etc...neglected that little gem. It spoke volumes. Just like Bella Dodd in her bio. School of Darkness relates that Wall Street was behind the whole commie thing http://www.savethemales.ca/160303.html. Sane, i am impressed to that you caught the whole Dutch East India Co., so few people understand that global genocidal co. many centuries ago. Christopher Dawson, a former Harvard prof., stated in one of his books, that the Dutch East Ind. Co. hated Catholicism so much that the Co. would give money to Hindu temples in the Far East so that the people would be easier to control.  One last point about Rockefeller, for years now they have supported Protestant groups in Central and South America. Why? Not out of the goodness of their heart, but to wrest control from the CChurch, get the people in Protestantism, and then proceed with the Depopulation programs. It is ALL about Eugenics and Depopulation. Period. I wish Chavez would see that. Sadly, he has not.

The elite today are against all religion, except their gaia worship. Thats what the New World Order is, the overthrow of all the old ideologies and allegiances like religion and nationalism.
Those are the things that stop the imperialists from getting their world government.
They created, funded and built up Communism for that purpose.

The policy of the British Empire was to promote Protestantism and undermine Catholicism for strategic purposes. If there were Catholic institutions in India, or indeed anywhere in the empire, that would represent the cultural influence of opposing european powers, so although interesting to know, it doesnt surprise me and I dont see the significance of it with regards to the NWO today.(?)

[Don Quixote]

Thanks. Sometimes i ramble, but i see the British Empire Co/ Dutch East Co. committing genocide centuries ago globally and the Rockefeller/Ford foundations (NWO) doing the same thing today. It is the Catholic Church that stands in the way than and today with the NWO (albiet infiltrated, but still stands up to the anti-genocidal NWO).  Whether it was Kosovo, Haiti, Afghan., etc... Planned Parenthood has been using natural disasters and war genocidal programs to continue the depopulation programs.

"Pro-Life Medical Group Responds to Planned Parenthood Exploiting Haiti for Money"

by Susan Yoshihara
January 21, 2010

LifeNews.com Note: Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute.


Port-au-Prince, Haiti (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- Immediately after the earthquake that devastated Haiti last week, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPrison Planet Forum) used the crisis to solicit funds for its family planning clinics in the country.

At the same time, a pro-life medical team arrived in Port au Prince to provide emergency medical services and skilled birth attendants.

The responses highlight a rising dispute over the current United Nations (UN) program for reducing maternal mortality which puts fertility control first, a program in which Haiti has been a main target but has nonetheless maintained one of the world’s highest rates of maternal death.

Carmen Barroso, regional director for IPrison Planet Forum, the world’s top abortion provider, justified the fund drive for the IPrison Planet Forum affiliate, Profamil, saying “Since 1984, PROFAMIL has worked to improve sexual and reproductive healthcare in Haiti, often providing the only healthcare available in some areas.”

Abortion is legal but highly restricted in Haiti. Profamil boasts delivering 600,000 condoms in a single year in 2005 and IPrison Planet Forum awarded the group for keeping up an aggressive contraceptive campaign from 2003-2005 during a period of political and economic instability.

According to IPrison Planet Forum’s last annual report, contraceptive sales are its second highest source of income in the Western hemisphere after patient fees, accounting for more than $25M annually. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Population Fund (UNFPA) are among IPrison Planet Forums top international donors, and the three are part of a UN group called the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health which promotes family planning as the number one way to prevent maternal death.

Pro-life UN experts have expressed grave concern because UN staff have stated that the UN’s “family planning first” approach to maternal health includes abortion, and because it runs counter to the long-standing consensus of the medical community that skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care are the best ways to reduce maternal mortality.

A pro-life obstetrical team from Matercare International (MCI) went to Haiti this week to conduct a needs assessment for a long-term operation serving Haitian women.

Dr. Robert Walley, director of MCI and leader of the team, told the Friday Fax that they will provide emergency obstetric care to mothers, many of whom have reportedly had to give birth in the streets since the crisis began a week ago.

“It almost seems that with these type of tragic circumstances somehow the world believes that life simply stops, so emergency obstetrical care for life threatening complications is not an immediate priority,” an MCI fundraising appeal stated. “The result is an enormous increase in the number of maternal deaths,” it said.

Haiti is the only country in the Western hemisphere that is on the UN’s list of 25 priority countries for maternal health programs, and therefore has received maximum distribution of contraception and reproductive health services. Despite this fact, Haiti has one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world, and the highest in the Western hemisphere.

Whereas about 11 women die in the United States for every 100,000 live births, about 700 Haitian suffer this fate, a rate more than five times higher than the average for the Latin American and Caribbean region.


 

Haiti despite the vodoo thing is still Catholic. Above is an example of Rockefeller's Planned Barrenhood in Haiti.

[worcesteradam]

Well they are atheists, not protestants.

To accept your version i would have to cherry pick history, excluding for example the Spanish butchery of the New World in the name of the Pope.
And the Pope calling for a New Word Order.

The Protestant v Catholic thing is very interesting, but i dont see the evidence for one side over the other.

Another point to consider is that many of the elite throughout history were Freemasons. Very interesting at a time when religion was so strong. The academic historiography explains much of the past as religious conflict yet hasn't taken Freemasonry into account.
Freemasons of course are people who have agreed to worship the same God. They believe that all religions are ultimately worshipping the same being.
George bush is one, believes this and has said so. Imagine if Neocons knew that George Bush worshipped Allah.

[xereau]

Info on Ground Penetrating Radar:

GPR Limitations

The fact that GPR works at all depends upon very sensitive measuring systems being used and specialized circumstances. Radio waves decrease exponentially and soon become undetectable in energy absorbing materials.

The quality and characteristics of a GPR image are determined by factors including the wavelength and frequency of the transmitted radar signals, the quality of the receiving antenna and equipment, and the quality of the mathematical analysis and processing that produces the final image.

Higher frequency and shorter wavelength radar signals will produce images of higher resolution. But such signals do not penetrate as far into the earth. Lower frequency signals penetrate farther, but cannot provide the same level of detail.

On average, low frequency GPR signals can penetrate up to about 140 feet through solid rock, providing an image with about three-foot resolution. Soil impedes GPR signals more than rock, and liquids rapidly degrade GPR signals and dampen signal penetration.


GPR signals decay exponentially in soil and rock



Attenuation varies with excitation frequency and material.
This family of graphs depicts general trends. At low frequencies
(<1 MHz) attenuation is primarily controlled by DC conductivity.
At high frequencies (> 1000 MHz) water is a strong energy absorber.

Can I Decrease Frequency To Improve Penetration?

Lowering frequency improves depth of exploration because attenuation primarily increases with frequency. As frequency decreases, however, two other fundamental aspects of the GPR measurement come into play.  
First, reducing frequency results in a loss of resolution. Second, if frequency is too low, electromagnetic fields no longer travel as waves but diffuse which is the realm of inductive EM or eddy current measurements.  

Why Can't I Just Increase My Transmitter Power?

One can increase exploration depth by increasing the transmitter power. Unfortunately, power must increase exponentially in order to increase depth of exploration.



When attenuation limits exploration depth, power must increase
exponentially with depth.

What is the diameter of the earth?

The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).
But, if you measure the earth through the poles the diameter is a bit shorter - 7,901 miles (12,715.43 km). Thus the earth is a tad wider (25 miles / 41 km) than it is tall, giving it a slight bulge at the equator. This shape is known as an ellipsoid or more properly, geoid (earth-like).

***************************************************
The Numbers:

140 feet = 42.7m

12,756,320m / 42.7m = 298,742 times the distance 2500 watts can penetrate.

To go another 42.7m, you will need 5000 watts of power.

To go another 42.7m, you will need 10,000 watts of power.

Getting the picture yet?

2^298,742 = a number so massive, we might as well not go on, right?

The number of atomic particles in the universe is estimated at 10^87.

So.

Anyone still think HAARP can penetrate the earth to cause earthquakes ?

[Jackson Holly]

Anyone still think HAARP can penetrate the earth to cause earthquakes ?

It may not be a matter of penetrating the crust ... it may be a matter of interacting
with the electromagnetic forces all around us.

[carlee]

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/13/things-to-remember-while-helping-haiti/

Things to Remember While Helping Haiti

Posted January 13th, 2010 at 3:32pm

Today, the United States began surveying the damage inflicted by a devastating earthquake in Haiti this week. In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the U.S. response to the tragic earthquake should address long-held concerns over the fragile political environment that exists in the region.

The U.S. government response should be bold and decisive. It must mobilize U.S. civilian and military capabilities for short-term rescue and relief and long-term recovery and reform. President Obama should tap high-level, bipartisan leadership. Clearly former President Clinton, who was already named as the U.N. envoy on Haiti, is a logical choice. President Obama should also reach out to a senior Republican figure, perhaps former President George W. Bush, to lead the bipartisan effort for the Republicans.
While on the ground in Haiti, the U.S. military can also interrupt the nightly flights of cocaine to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the Venezuelan coast and counter the ongoing efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to destabilize the island of Hispaniola. This U.S. military presence, which should also include a large contingent of U.S. Coast Guard assets, can also prevent any large-scale movement by Haitians to take to the sea in dangerous and rickety watercraft to try to enter the U.S. illegally.

Meanwhile, the U.S. must be prepared to insist that the Haiti government work closely with the U.S. to insure that corruption does not infect the humanitarian assistance flowing to Haiti. Long-term reforms for Haitian democracy and its economy are also badly overdue. Congress should immediately begin work on a package of assistance, trade, and reconstruction efforts needed to put Haiti on its feet and open the way for deep and lasting democratic reforms.

The U.S. should implement a strong and vigorous public diplomacy effort to counter the negative propaganda certain to emanate from the Castro-Chavez camp. Such an effort will also demonstrate that the U.S.’s involvement in the Caribbean remains a powerful force for good in the Americas and around the globe.

To assist Red Cross Relief Efforts, go to www.redcross.org

(Post updated on 1/13/10 at 5:08 pm)

[bigron]

US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism

by Bill Van Auken
http://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62621&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

WSWS, January 27, 2010

The US media’s coverage of the catastrophe in Haiti has increasingly included articles and broadcast reports extolling the supposed humanitarian role of US soldiers and Marines in the Caribbean country. They generally describe how "combat-hardened" veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are lending a helping hand to the survivors of the earthquake.

Some of this reporting seems aimed at countering growing international criticism of the US militarization of the response to the Haitian disaster, which has given priority to rushing in combat-equipped troops over the provision of medical supplies, food and water desperately needed to save lives.

A spokesman for Doctors Without Borders, for instance, voiced concern over "the extreme confusion of distributing food with a gun." The organization formally protested the repeated diversion of planes bringing it medical supplies after the US military seized control of the Port-au-Prince airport, saying that many of its patients have died as a result.

With hundreds of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands more injured, there is undoubtedly shock among the troops in Haiti at the scale of the devastation and sympathy for the suffering of the Haitian people.

Those in Washington who sent them there and the senior officers who command them, however, are operating on the basis of very different motives, as one recent press report on their mission makes clear.

USA Today published an article Monday headlined "Marines Studied Their Own History in Haiti," describing the country as "a major part of Marine Corps lore."

The Marines, the article states, "governed Haiti from 1915 to 1934 after an invasion force was sent to prevent an anti-American dictator from assuming power. Young, non-commissioned officers governed Haiti with little supervision."

USA Today goes on to quote Lt. Col. Gary Keim, the commander of a Marine logistics battalion, who said he and other officers had studied the history of the occupation before deploying to Haiti. "We were required to reread it," he said. "We’ve been here before. We’ve been successful before."

The Marines, the article continues, "viewed those years as a model for nation building and counterinsurgency strategy."

That the US Marines sent to Haiti by the Obama administration are consciously modeling their mission on the "success" of the 20-year occupation that ended in 1934 has unmistakable political significance.

When the Marines first invaded Haiti 95 years ago it was also presented as a rescue mission, aimed at protecting American lives and saving Haitians from German domination. Declaring martial law, the invasion force seized control of Haiti’s treasury and customs houses, while armed Marines were sent into the country’s parliament to ensure that it installed Washington’s choice for president.

Over the next two decades, some 3,000 Haitians were killed by the occupiers, while the Marines themselves suffered just 16 fatalities.

The initial years of the occupation saw a campaign to suppress opposition from the so-called cacos, a peasant-based rebel movement led by a former Haitian army officer, Charlemagne Peralte. The movement gained broad support from Haiti’s most oppressed layers, in large measure because of the brutal methods of the American occupiers, who seized peasants off their land and pressed them into chain gang-style labor.

As the USA Today article suggests, the Marines introduced innovative "counterinsurgency" tactics that would be repeated from Vietnam to Afghanistan, including the US military’s first use of aerial bombardments to support ground assaults on the cacos and the peasant population that supported them. As in the current US wars, prisoners were beaten and tortured to extract information and, in many cases, subjected to summary execution.

Peralte himself was captured and murdered by the Marines in 1919. His corpse, nailed crucifix-style to a door, was placed on public display in an attempt to intimidate the population.

Washington pushed through changes in the Haitian constitution giving foreigners the right to own land for the first time since a slave revolt secured the country’s independence from France in 1804.

The US set about building up a Haitian repressive force, commanded by Marine officers, known as the Garde d’Haiti. The creation of this force was part of what the press referred to at the time as the "Haitianization" of US colonial domination of the country.

It was growing popular resistance that forced the US military out of Haiti. The decision to withdraw was hastened by mass unrest sparked by the economic crisis that gripped the country in 1929, with the collapse of coffee prices. A student strike was joined by workers, and peasants staged risings in a number of areas.

In Cayes, in the southwest, thousands of peasants carrying stones, clubs and machetes confronted Marines armed with automatic weapons on December 6, 1929. The Marines opened fire, killing 24 and wounding 51 Haitians. One Marine was reported injured. The unit’s commander was subsequently awarded the Navy Cross for directing the massacre.

In 1931, Smedley Butler, the Marine officer who led the initial intervention and headed the Haitian security forces for two years, provided a candid assessment of his mission: "I was a racketeer for capitalism," he declared. "I helped make Haiti…a decent place for the National City boys to collect revenue in." National City, the precursor of Citibank, controlled Haiti’s railroads and largest bank. After the US invasion, it took over the Haitian treasury.

The Marine occupation left behind a powerful US-dominated military which effectively controlled the country’s political life for decades, and in 1957 brought to power the Duvalier dictatorship, which would rule Haiti through savage repression for 30 years.

This deadly legacy played a decisive role in subjecting the Haitian people to poverty and oppression and creating the social and economic conditions that allowed the January 12 earthquake to claim such a staggering toll in human life.

That today’s Marine commanders invoke the occupation of the early 20th Century as a precedent for their current mission constitutes a warning. Behind the humanitarian mask, Washington’s intervention in Haiti is part of an attempt to assert US imperialist interests in the Americas and across the globe by use of military force.

In Haiti, the US military has been deployed to assert Washington’s hegemony over the lands to its south, where American imperialism got its start and where it now faces ever greater challenges from powerful economic rivals in Europe and China.

As in the intervention that ended in 1934, US guns will inevitably be used against the resistance of Haitian workers and oppressed to poverty, starvation wages and extreme social inequality.

Bill Van Auken


 

[worcesteradam]

in Prof Rich Muller's fist lecture of the UC Berkeley Physics course this year he discusses how he saw Defense secretary Gates on TV saying that food shouldnt be dropped on Haiti, which he found so outrageous he personally wrote to the white house.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2010-B-51962|2010-B-69390&semesterid=2010-B

lecture one, 11:00

[bigron]

The Kidnapping of Haiti

By John Pilger

http://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62647&hd=&size=1&l=e

January 27, 2010 -- The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured "formal approval" from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to "secure" roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in an American naval blockade and the arrival of 13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and mercenaries, none with humanitarian relief training.

The airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is now an American military base and relief flights have been re-routed to the Dominican Republic. All flights stopped for three hours for the arrival of Hillary Clinton. Critically injured Haitians waited unaided as 800 American residents in Haiti were fed, watered and evacuated. Six days passed before the US Air Force dropped bottled water to people suffering thirst and dehydration.

The first TV reports played a critical role, giving the impression of widespread criminal mayhem. Matt Frei, the BBC reporter dispatched from Washington, seemed on the point of hyperventilation as he brayed about the "violence" and need for "security". In spite of the demonstrable dignity of the earthquake victims, and evidence of citizens’ groups toiling unaided to rescue people, and even an American general’s assessment that the violence in Haiti was considerably less than before the earthquake, Frei claimed that "looting is the only industry" and "the dignity of Haiti’s past is long forgotten." Thus, a history of unerring US violence and exploitation in Haiti was consigned to the victims. "There’s no doubt," reported Frei in the aftermath of America’s bloody invasion of Iraq in 2003, "that the desire to bring good, to bring American values to the rest of the world, and especially now to the Middle East … is now increasingly tied up with military power."

In a sense, he was right. Never before in so-called peacetime have human relations been as militarised by rapacious power. Never before has an American president subordinated his government to the military establishment of his discredited predecessor, as Barack Obama has done. In pursuing George W. Bush’s policy of war and domination, Obama has sought from Congress an unprecedented military budget in excess of $700 billion. He has become, in effect, the spokesman for a military coup

For the people of Haiti the implications are clear, if grotesque. With US troops in control of their country, Obama has appointed George W. Bush to the "relief effort": a parody surely lifted from Graham Greene’s The Comedians, set in Papa Doc’s Haiti. As president, Bush’s relief effort following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 amounted to an ethnic cleansing of many of New Orleans’ black population. In 2004, he ordered the kidnapping of the democratically-elected prime minister of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and exiled him in Africa. The popular Aristide had had the temerity to legislate modest reforms, such as a minimum wage for those who toil in Haiti’s sweatshops.

When I was last in Haiti, I watched very young girls stooped in front of whirring, hissing, binding machines at the Port-au-Prince Superior Baseball Plant. Many had swollen eyes and lacerated arms. I produced a camera and was thrown out. Haiti is where America makes the equipment for its hallowed national game, for next to nothing. Haiti is where Walt Disney contractors make Mickey Mouse pjamas, for next to nothing. The US controls Haiti’s sugar, bauxite and sisal. Rice-growing was replaced by imported American rice, driving people into the cities and towns and jerry-built housing. Years after year, Haiti was invaded by US marines, infamous for atrocities that have been their specialty from the Philippines to Afghanistan.

Bill Clinton is another comedian, having got himself appointed the UN’s man in Haiti. Once fawned upon by the BBC as "Mr. Nice Guy … bringing democracy back to a sad and troubled land", Clinton is Haiti’s most notorious privateer, demanding de-regulation of the economy for the benefit of the sweatshop barons. Lately, he has been promoting a $55m deal to turn the north of Haiti into an American-annexed "tourist playground".

Not for tourists is the US building its fifth biggest embassy in Port-au-Prince. Oil was found in Haiti’s waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington’s "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela’s abundant oil reserves and sabotage of the growing regional cooperation that has given millions their first taste of an economic and social justice long denied by US-sponsored regimes.

The first rollback success came last year with the coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya in Honduras who also dared advocate a minimum wage and that the rich pay tax. Obama’s secret support for the illegal regime carries a clear warning to vulnerable governments in central America. Last October, the regime in Colombia, long bankrolled by Washington and supported by death squads, handed the US seven military bases to, according to US air force documents, "combat anti-US governments in the region".

Media propaganda has laid the ground for what may well be Obama’s next war. On 14 December, researchers at the University of West England published first findings of a ten-year study of the BBC’s reporting of Venezuela. Of 304 BBC reports, only three mentioned any of the historic reforms of the Chavez government, while the majority denigrated Chavez’s extraordinary democratic record, at one point comparing him to Hitler.

Such distortion and its attendant servitude to western power are rife across the Anglo-American corporate media. People who struggle for a better life, or for life itself, from Venezuela to Honduras to Haiti, deserve our support.

www.johnpilger.com




 

[bigron]

Haiti Gets a Penny of Each U.S. Aid Dollar

By The Associated Press

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24518.htm



January 27, 2010 -- AP-- Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts.

Less than two weeks after President Obama announced an initial $100 million for Haiti earthquake relief, U.S. government spending on the disaster has tripled to $317 million at latest count. That's just over $1 each from everyone in the United States.

Relief experts say it would be a mistake to send too much direct cash to the Haitian government, which is in disarray and has a history of failure and corruption.

"I really believe Americans are the most generous people who ever lived, but they want accountability," said Timothy R. Knight, a former US AID assistant director who spent 25 years distributing disaster aid. "In this situation they're being very deliberate not to just throw money at the situation but to analyze based on a clear assessment and make sure that money goes to the best place possible."

The AP review of federal budget spreadsheets, procurement reports and contract databases shows the vast majority of U.S. funds going to established and tested providers, who are getting everything from 40-cent pounds of pinto beans to a $3.4 million barge into the disaster zone.

"We are trying to respond as quickly as we can to this catastrophe of biblical proportions by mustering all of the resources that the United States government can bring to bear, first on rescue leading into relief, which is where we are right now, and hopefully seamlessly into recovery," said Lewis Lucke, U.S. special coordinator for relief and reconstruction.

Major relief efforts were launched within hours of the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed at least 150,000, devastated the capital of Port-au-Prince and affected a third of its 9 million people. Behind each effort has been cash and contracts, airline tickets to be purchased and ocean freighters to be leased.

Of each U.S. taxpayer dollar, 40 cents is going to the U.S. military, paying for security, search and rescue teams, and the Navy's hospital ship USNS Comfort.

Another 36 cents funds US AID's disaster assistance - everything from $5,000 generators to $35 hygiene kits with soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste for a family of five.

Just over a dime has already been spent on food: 122 million pounds of pinto beans, black beans, rice, corn soy blend and vegetable oil. When purchased in bulk, the actual food prices are relatively low. Pinto beans, for example, cost the U.S. government 40 cents a pound when purchased in 5 million-pound batches last week.

Getting the food to Haitians - paying for freighters, trucks and distribution centers, and the people to staff them, took another 10.5 cents from each dollar.

Initial disaster spending was aimed at saving lives; now the spending is shifting to recovery. The Obama administration wants to put about 1.5 cents of each dollar directly into Haitian quake survivors' hands by paying them to work. One program already in place describes paying 40,000 Haitians $3 per day for 20 days to clean up around hospitals and dig latrines. That project also includes renting 10 excavators and loaders, at $600 each, and 10 dump trucks at $50 a load.

One penny of each dollar is going straight to the shattered Haitian government, whose president is sleeping in a tent while struggling to organize an administration that was notoriously unstable even before the earthquake. A final half-cent funds three Dominican Republic hospitals near the Haitian border, where refugees have been begging for help.

The U.S. is providing the largest slice of a global response that totals more than $1 billion in government pledges. The European Union's 27 nations are contributing $575 million.

The U.S. also has long been the largest donor of ongoing foreign aid that Haiti depends on for up to 40 percent of its budget, with more than $260 million in U.S. money last year aimed at promoting stability, prosperity and democracy.

Private money also is flowing into Haiti - U.S. charities have raised $470 million for disaster relief, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the U.N. says total international giving - spent and pledged - has topped $2 billion.

The U.S. government funding flows through federal agencies that administer $2.6 billion already appropriated in the 2010 budget for foreign disaster relief, said Thomas Gavin, a spokesman at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Gavin said there are no plans to ask Congress for more money.

"At this point, the costs incurred are well within the levels appropriated by Congress for emergency disaster assistance," he told the AP. "It's like your checking account, your family budget - you decide, 'OK, I'm going to spend "X" number of dollars on my groceries.' Well, we, as a country, set this money aside."

© MMX, The Associated Press

[Jackson Holly]

(Videos)
Haiti and the seismic weapon
by Thierry Meyssan*

READ ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article163729.html

EXCERPTS:
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The controversy that followed the publication on our website of an article entertaining the possibility that the earthquake in Haiti was caused artificially, calls for clarification. Yes, seismic weapons do exist and the United States, among others, have them. Yes, the U.S. military forces were pre-positionned to be deployed to the island. These facts are not conclusive in themselves but they certainly warrant heightened scrutiny into this matter.

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What is particularly disturbing is the reaction of the United States. While the Western media are immersed in a controversy over the violation of Haiti’s sovereignty, the Latin American media are perplexed about the swiftness of GI deployment: as of the first day, more than 10000 soldiers and contractors arrived in Haiti. This logistical feat can be easily explained since these troops were already pre-positioned in the context of a military exercise. Under the orders of General P.K. Keen, Military Deputy Commander of U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), they took part in an excercise simulating a humanitarian operation in Haiti after a hurricane. Keen and his staff had arrived a few days earlier. At the precise moment that the earth shook, they were already sheltered in the US Embassy, built in compliance with anti-earthquake norms; only two men who were not at the Embassy but at the Hotel Montana have been reported injured.

General Keen has granted several interviews to the US media, which has provided ample coverage mainly focusing on the relief operations. While Keen’s presence in Port-au-Prince during the earthquake has been referred to several times, the reasons for his presence were never mentioned.

Among the objectives of the military exercise was the application of a new software enabling the NGOs and the armed forces to coordinate their humanitarian efforts. In the few minutes that followed the catastrophe, the software was put on line and 280 NGOs readily signed up.

It is legitimate to question whether such coincidences are simply due to chance.

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[grapecrusher1]

A doctor I know who volunteered in Haiti has reported that, in his estimation, the death toll of 200,000 is low.  He served in Vietnam and other disaster zones and says this is the worst he has experienced by far.

[worcesteradam]

Haiti Gets a Penny of Each U.S. Aid Dollar

By The Associated Press

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24518.htm

You mean 40% of the aid is being spent on the US military? FFS
Dont they have their own budget.
These elites are psychopaths