Notice the Plantation Media never shows Haitians speaking for themselves. They never allow Haitians to speak directly to the camera. They have no voice. They are related to like ... things. NeoLiberal Metrosexual Climate Change Nazis speak for them. Telling us ... what the Haitians think. Peep the difference in perspective in this piece. It's not the conniving illiterate corrupt Haitian of the Undercover Black Man meme. It's a pretty shrewd brother:
"These weapons they bring, they are instruments of death. We don't want them. We don't need them. We are a traumatized people. What we want from the international community is technical help. Actions. Not words."
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There was an interview with a doctor from Doctors Without Borders echoed a similar sentiment - that the U.S. military has essentially taken over the airport and is delaying flights with supplies from getting in.
She named one flight that was diverted to the Dominican Republic and, thus, a 3-day delay.
So one must ask, what is the U.S. military really doing? Probably the same thing they were doing in Louisiana. Keeping Black folks from handling their own recovery.
This has been my theory from day one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QtZkT8OBQ&feature=player_embedded
Richard Baker, a prominent Republican congressman from this city, had told a group of lobbyists, 'We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.' Joseph Canizaro, one of New Orleans' wealthiest developers, had just expressed a similar sentiment: 'I think we have a clean sheet to start again. All with that clean sheet we have some very big opportunities."
...Milton Friedman, grand guru of the movement for unfettered capitalists and the man credited with writing the rulebook for the contemporary, hypermobile global economy.
'Most New Orleans schools are in ruins,'Friedman observed, 'as are the homes of the children who have attended them. The children are now scattered all over the country. This is a tragedy. It is also an opportunity to radically reform the educational system."
The administration of George W. Bush backed up their plans with tens of millions of dollars to convert New Orleans schools into 'charter schools,' publicly funded institutions run by private entities according to their own rules.
For Milton Friedman...the state's sole functions were 'to protect our freedom both from the enemies outside our gates and from our fellow-citizens: to preserve law and order, to enforce private contracts, to foster competitive markets.'
-The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Port-Au-Prince (from what I remember has one airport, with a single runway.
How would you have handled this? Supplies without security?
Security without supplies?
Or like Honore suggested, build another runway. Use Osprey and airdrops.
The problem really was the lack of an organized contingency plan BEFORE any of this happened.
For instance, Marines can be almost anywhere in the world in 24 hours, and remain for up to a month without any other support. That's the theory.
Why is there not a civilian disaster organization with similar capabilities? I agree, humanitarian aid did not seem to be prioritized over security. But that's truly difficult to assess from thousands of miles away. Of course heavy equipment doesn't just appear, but food and water deliveries by helicopter?
The executive order came swiftly, but the practical delivery of supplies seems to have suffered under the weight of bureaucracy...U.S. and Haitian.
Denmark Vesey:
For there to be GENOCIDE there needs to be an AGENT OF DEATH.
Could you articulate WHO is performing the role of the Grim Reaper?
What are they gunning for once they clean out the unwanted genetic pool from the land?
Why are they focusing on Haiti instead of DR or Jamaica? Is there a trans-Caribbean oil pipeline to speak of?
[quote]So one must ask, what is the U.S. military really doing? Probably the same thing they were doing in Louisiana. Keeping Black folks from handling their own recovery.
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I.I.:
This type of rant actually pisses me off more than you know.
IF the USA refused to set foot in the nation and yielded to some other force - YOU (and DV) would be the first two waging protests.
The small airport was a DISASTER before hand. There was no "apron" upon which to park the planes. It was a collision waiting to happen.
It is interesting that I see DV as a "rebel against conformity" and yet an AIRPORT IS ONE PLACE WHERE CONFORMITY AND CONTROL" of these vehicles is necessary to prevent a catastrophic situation.
As with Katrina - the legacy of "disorder patched together by masking tape to appear as organization" is pushed aside as 5 DAYS worth of RECOVERY OPERATIONS is said to be YOUR PROOF that "The USA Don't Like Black People". The masking tape proved that it was not WATER PROOF.
It is clear that you have a "Grievance Based Activism" as your agenda.
Ill,
I wouldn't discard that possibility since the U.S government possesses a weapon dangerous enough to cause these disasters.
There is no official CNN story, but in NextGov.com it was reported that there was a canceled drill in Miami in the case of providing relief to Haiti after a Hurricane. This drill was supposed to be conducted the day before the earthquake.
I can't say the disaster was man-made, but I wouldn't discard the possibility.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100115_9940.php?oref=mostread
I can't say the disaster was man-made, but I wouldn't discard the possibility.
Now that's a meme.
Compared to Bro. César, you just snapping bubblegum, DV!
[quote]I can't say the disaster was man-made, but I wouldn't discard the possibility.[/quote]
César:
WHY DO YOU THINK that BARACK OBAMA WOULD WANT TO KILL OVER 100,000 BLACK PEOPLE per his command to set off the "Earth Quake" machine?
CF,
I can't find where I mentioned Barack Obama in my comment. You might have gotten confused there.
Would you like to rephrase your question?
UBM, my friend
It worries me that you are not aware of the dangerous consequences HAARP may cause.
Now, why would you call keeping possibilities open a "meme"?
^ Why César, that's the best kind of "meme" of all. Don't really state a proposition. Just be like:
"I'm not saying the U.S. military caused the Haiti earthquake using a secret undersea weapon. But hey... can you prove they didn't?"
Shit, I might start one of those my damn self. Just for giggles.
UBM,
I am sorry I cannot take you for a ride away from your little world.
Here in planet earth scientists are playing with fire. They do not conform with playing with our food you see. They like games Undercover Black Man and when they get bored they go for more.
HAARP has the capability to cause an earthquake of this magnitude or even more. Do they call real science a conspiracy theory in your little world?
I would've like to elaborate on the REAL issues of HAARP, but you do not seem prepare for it.
^ Well don't mind me. I'm sure Denmark is prepared for it... and would welcome it.
You right UB.
I'm open to truth.
Regardless of from where it comes.
As we know ... lol ... you will only accept truth from 'certain' people.
Like dogs who only accept food from their master.
^ Whereas some folks are like dogs who eat their own feces. Can you relates, DV?
lol ...
HAARP, while funded in large measure by the Navy - is not the source of the ELF (extremely low frequency) thumps that are also used by the Navy and deep sea oil exploration for surveillance and seismic mapping purposes.
btw - whether ELF thumps kill whales and other cetaceans, and, can trigger seismic activity, is not in dispute. However, if that had been the case in Haiti, that activity could not have gone undetected by a few other national military and scientific entities who would've had no compunction about reporting it
"who would've had no compunction about reporting it" CNu
Help me out here CNu. Name 1 of these entities.
Russia of course. As in 2004 with the Indonesian tsunami - when it stirred the speculation pot rather more aggressively.
Not only has Russia increased its naval activity manifold in disputed arctic waters where ice melting ice is freeing up previously unnavigable ocean both for new shipping lanes and oil exploration - but also throughout the Atlantic where Brazil, Cuba, and others are engaged in precisely the type of deep sea oil exploration and drilling that would provoke that type of thumping.
Very simply, any of the BRIC member nations would've spilled the beans had there been any evidence of malicious mischief.
Oh, and lest you imagine they're IMF'd or World Banked into submission too, bear in mind that both Russian and Chinese central banks are state owned, rather than privately owned, which is what renders their interests separate and "adversarial" from the anglo-american interests implicated in Haiti.
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