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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>" As Chossudovsky and numerous others have pointed
out, since the devastation of 12 January, the Haitian people have exhibited a
high degree of solidarity, courage and social commitment which the
militarization of relief operations can only undermine, weakening the
organizational capabilities of Haitians to rebuild and reinstate their
institutions of civilian government, as well as their lives. "</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Shock Doctrine ala Naomi Klein being used again to
further the corporate agenda !</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=tanstl@aol.com href="mailto:tanstl@aol.com">David Sladky</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=undisclosed-recipients:
href="mailto:undisclosed-recipients:">undisclosed-recipients:</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:17 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Clinton Co-ordinating Haiti Relief</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt" size=5><B>Clinton Co-ordinating Haiti
Relief</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT size=4><B>Clinton: Time to Take a Break -
and give Haiti one at the same time.</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>by Julie
Webb-Pullman</FONT></DIV>
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align=justify><BR><BR></DIV>
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align=justify><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Ban Ki-Moon
obviously has a very twisted sense of humour. As if the Katrina fiasco wasn’t
sufficient evidence of the singular unsuitability of the U.S. to lead any sort
of disaster effort, appointing a power-abusing sex-offending lying ex-President
as Special Envoy beggared belief. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Even the
most generous interpretation would have to conclude that the U.S. had already
surpassed its Katrina incompetence - they took eight days, yes EIGHT days, to
decide to air-drop food and water into Haiti, resulting in who knows how many
thousand unnecessary deaths. [i] Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier
airdrops were ruled out “<I>because they might have done more harm than
good</I>.”’ [ii] (ie there would be more survivors who might challenge the
blatant US military occupation, carried out under the guise of ‘security’ to
protect the populace from the pseudo-rioting and looting invented by U.S. media
hacks to justify it – but more of the un-generous interpretation later.) </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>When the
U.S. finally got around to airdrops, ie when the “riots and looting” (read,
people frantically trying to get food, water, and medical help for themselves
and others) were happening anyway because so little assistance was forthcoming,
and some ethical international commentators were having more success getting the
truth out than Fox et al were in distorting it, we learnt the purported ‘why’ of
the delay: “<I>Parachuting bundles of food and water into Haiti became viable
for the first time Monday in part because there are enough troops there to
identify a safe place to drop them…</I>” [iii] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Give us a
break – before the earthquake even struck the U.N. already had over 10,000
troops, other personnel and international police on the ground in Haiti [iv] and
there were some 10,000 NGOs registered [v] - are we seriously expected to
believe these guys couldn’t get it together to receive air drops for over a
week? </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Worse
still, the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) held pre-disaster
simulations in Miami of a relief response to the impact of a hurricane in Haiti
the DAY BEFORE the earthquake! [vi] Are their memories are THAT short??!! </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>It’s
therefore pretty obvious that both the UN and the U.S. military, not to mention
a sizeable bunch of NGOs, aren’t up to the job of looking after disaster
victims’ interests. What is less obvious is why the UN does not head up the
response effort by someone from a country with a proven track-record in this,
such as Cuba, [vii] together with someone from UNICEF, given the age demographic
of Haiti. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Maybe
because the REAL reason it took eight days for the U.S. administration to start
a genuine emergency response is that, with the complicity of Ban Ki-Moon and
puppet-President Préval, they were too busy using the earthquake as a convenient
excuse to secure U.S. interests in the region. They were too busy taking
military control of Haiti’s airport and port facilities, prioritising the
deployment of U.S. troops and evacuation of U.S. citizens, to trouble themselves
with such trivial details as the provision and distribution of food and medical
supplies to the devastated Haitians. [viii] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>How many
thousands more Haitians would have died but for the Cuban doctors, who had
continuously, and without fanfare, been providing emergency health care from Day
One, [ix] and Venezuela from Day Two – after they had managed to circumvent the
U.S. military blockade of the airport, that is. [x] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>More
concerned about appearing to ‘lead the world’ and upstaging Cuba and Venezuela
in the public relations stakes , the U.S. prevented not only CARICOM countries
from landing with humanitarian assistance, but also aid flights from France,
Brazil, and Italy, as well as several international aid agencies such as UNICEF,
World Food Program (WFP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the Red Cross, who
were either refused landing or diverted to other countries in the essential
first days. [xii] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>And it’s
not only one-way – the U.S. is also running a naval blockade to keep adult
Haitians from getting out. [xiii] Unfortunately, what happens to them inside the
country even without a quake, is not exactly fun either. [xiv] Economic
interests (but whose) are clearly not being ignored, and Canada also has its
fingers in the pie. [xvi] While Venezuela promptly cancelled Haiti’s debt,
[xvii] others have yet to even repay theirs, [xviii] and still others are just
cashing in on the tragedy. [xix] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>There are
increasing suspicions that the U.S. may even have <I>caused</I> the earthquake.
[xx] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>The result
of this bare-faced U.S. military invasion masquerading as aid was a veritable
chorus of well-founded accusations from international diplomatic, media,
academic, legal, human rights, NGO and political circles that the U.S., with the
complicity of the United Nations [xxi], was using the Haitian earthquake to
undertake a military occupation of Haiti to further U.S. strategic military and
economic interests in the region, [xxii] shaming them into unconfirmed reports
after a week of stalling that the U.S. would give precedence for landing to
civilian over military planes at Port-au-Prince’s airport. [xxiii] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>So aid
finally started reaching people...but that was not the only thing to arrive. In
scenes reminiscent of the 2004 tsunami when thousands of child survivors just
‘disappeared’ into the people-trafficking ether, human vultures had already
swooped, stealing children from hospitals,[xxiv] and scooping up ‘orphans’ by
the plane- and bus-load and transporting them out of Haiti. [xxv] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Unicef said
the disaster was likely to have separated thousands of children from their
parents or guardians, and the agency repeated warnings about the threat of child
traffickers. In an attempt to prevent the illegal departure of many children
UNICEF is deploying two specialized staff to control documentation at the
airport.[xxvii] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>So take a
bus instead! Ten U.S. ‘missionaries’ are already under arrest for trying to
smuggle 33 children out of the country, and that was not their first
attempt.[xxvii] Of course they are most unlikely to actually face trial let
alone be convicted of this blatant crime – Clinton has already negotiated a deal
to get all but Laura Silsby freed[xxix] (she obviously should have worn her blue
dress that day...), showing how much HE gives a toss about what UNICEF has to
say. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>We should
hardly be surprised - even a human-rights-law-quoting suitably-outraged usually
on-the-button US commentator neglected to mention that the U.S. is one of only
two countries in the world NOT to have ratified the Convention on the Rights of
the Child.[xxx] Why should they suddenly start caring about Haitian children
when they don’t even pretend to protect their own? And in Clinton’s case, have
sex with at least one woman in his employ young enough to be his daughter? Isn’t
that precisely one of the major problems already facing ‘restaveks’? </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Given U.S.
conduct since the Haiti quake, and Bill Clinton’s before and since, I think we
can safely say that in condoning the US military occupation of Haiti and in
appointing Bill Clinton as the UN Special Envoy, Ban Ki-Moon demonstrated a
gross lack of respect and concern not only for Haitians but for every member
country of his organisation, and several of its own agencies to boot. Clinton’s
illness provides him with an opportunity to make at least some amends. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>As
Chossudovsky and numerous others have pointed out, since the devastation of 12
January, the Haitian people have exhibited a high degree of solidarity, courage
and social commitment which the militarization of relief operations can only
undermine, weakening the organizational capabilities of Haitians to rebuild and
reinstate their institutions of civilian government, as well as their lives.
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in"
align=justify>Community-based integrated disaster response and recovery models
have been promoted by various UN bodies and at-risk countries for at least a
decade.[xxxi] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>It’s time
Ban Ki-Moon walked the talk. He should be supporting UN agencies in their
difficult task of using best practice to assist Haitians to rebuild their
shattered lives, not undermining them by condoning a military occupation and
genocide.[xxxii] </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>He should
now appoint the most appropriate person as Special Envoy for the response and
recovery effort – a person with demonstrated capacity in the area, without
exploitative economic motives but with the trust and confidence of Haitians.
This is clearly NOT Bill Clinton, whose current health crisis suggests it is
time to give him a break, and appoint a new person to this important role.
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Ban Ki-Moon
now has a unique opportunity to stand with the south and look left, where he
will find several candidates with impeccable credentials - not only world
leaders in disaster preparedness, management and recovery, but also a lengthy
history of solidarity in the region and beyond - plus a demonstrated commitment
to refrain from military intervention in other nation states. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Kia kaha,
Ban Ki-Moon – get the cavalry out of there, and someone in who actually gives a
damn about Haitians. <BR><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in"
align=justify><STRONG><FONT color=#004477>Julie
Webb-Pullman</FONT></STRONG><EM><FONT color=#004477> </FONT></EM><EM>is a New
Zealand based freelance writer who has reported about - and on occasion from -
Central America for Scoop since 2003. Send Feedback to<A
href="mailto:julie@scoop.co.nz" target=_blank>julie@scoop.co.nz</A>
<BR></EM><BR><STRONG>Notes</STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>i. “</FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti: Obama’s Katrina, Many post-quake deaths
could have been prevented</I></FONT><FONT size=2>.” Drs Soumitra R. Eachempati,
Dean Lorich, and David Helfet 25/01/10
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904575025091656446622.html;
see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>American Paratroopers Land In Haiti: And on the
Eighth Day...</I></FONT><FONT size=2>by William Bowles 20/01/10 <A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17084"
target=_blank>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17084</A>;
see also The Economist: 18/01/10 “[T]he majority of victims did not perish
during the 35-second tremor... some 200,000 people were probably injured or
trapped but not killed by the quake... an additional 25,000 of them have died on
each day that has passed since the tremor, as a result of treatable ailments
such as bleeding, dehydration, suffocation and infection.” <A
href="http://www.economist.com/world/americas/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=15320716"
target=_blank>http://www.economist.com/world/americas/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=15320716</A>;
see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>History of a Haitian Holocaust: Blackwater
before drinking water </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by Greg Palast 17/01/10 <A
href="http://www.gregpalast.com/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/"
target=_blank>gregpalast.com</A></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>ii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>US may play security role in Haiti in
earthquake's aftermath</I></FONT><FONT size=2> 15/01/10 <A
href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_may_play_security_role_in_haiti_eS762qlxqs19Z63V5oEoCL"
target=_blank>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_may_play_security_role_in_haiti_eS762qlxqs19Z63V5oEoCL</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>iii. <I>U.N. approves extra troops, police for Haiti </I>19/01/10
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>iv. <A
href="http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=37304484.story"
target=_blank>http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=37304484.story</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>v. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>U.N. approves extra troops, police for Haiti
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>Staff and Wire reports 19/01/10 <A
href="http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=37304484.story"
target=_blank>http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=37304484.story</A>,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>vi. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti's New PM and the Power of
NGOs</I></FONT><FONT size=2> 30/09/08 by Nikolas Barry-Shaw <A
href="http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/9_30_8/9_30_8.html"
target=_blank>http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/9_30_8/9_30_8.html</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>vii. </FONT><A
href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44407&dcn=e_gvetwww"
target=_blank><FONT size=2><I>Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti
relief efforts </I></FONT></A><FONT size=2>by Bob Brewin 15/01/10 <A
href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0110/011510bb1.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0110/011510bb1.htm</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>viii. “</FONT><FONT size=2><I>Cuba’s success in saving lives gives us a
model of effective government-driven disaster preparedness. ...the secret of
this success is that it is also a matter of enacting and enforcing laws,
building and maintaining institutions that are accountable, and producing an
environment of mutual respect and trust between government and the
population.”</I></FONT><FONT size=2> From </FONT><FONT size=2><I>The Role of
National Governments and the “International Community</I></FONT><FONT size=2>”
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Corporate Document
Repository </FONT><FONT size=2><I><A
href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad710e/ad710e0k.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad710e/ad710e0k.htm</A> ;
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>CUBA, Weathering the
storm: lessons in risk reduction from Cuba </I></FONT><FONT size=2>An Oxfam
America Report By Martha Thompson with Izaskun Gaviria 2004 </FONT><FONT
size=2><I><A href="http://www.preventionweb.net/files/4585_Us01MH281-Ft.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.preventionweb.net/files/4585_Us01MH281-Ft.pdf</A>;
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Disaster Relief
Management in Cuba: Why Cuba’s disaster relief model is worth careful study
Jonathan </I></FONT><FONT size=2>Keyser and Wayne Smith May 2009 </FONT><FONT
size=2><I><A
href="http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/photos/Final%20Cuba%20IPR%200509.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/photos/Final%20Cuba%20IPR%200509.pdf</A>;
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>When disaster strikes:
the response to the South Asian earthquake</I></FONT><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT
size=2><I>PAKISTAN: Cuban solidarity – bringing healthcare to the people
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>IRIN project of the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs </FONT><FONT size=2><I><A
href="http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=6&ReportId=34374"
target=_blank>http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=6&ReportId=34374</A>
</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>ix. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>As U.S. Prepares Long-term Occupation, Haiti’s
Quake Victims Still Without Aid</I></FONT><FONT size=2> By Bill Van Auken
23/01/10 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j23.shtml;see also
</FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux</I></FONT><FONT size=2>
by Cynthia McKinney 19/01/10 <A
href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17063"
target=_blank>http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17063</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>x. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Cuba sends more doctors to Haiti
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>Dominican Today 14/01/10 <A
href="http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/world/2010/1/14/34483/Cuba-sends-more-doctors-to-Haiti"
target=_blank>http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/world/2010/1/14/34483/Cuba-sends-more-doctors-to-Haiti</A>;
see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Reflections by Comrade Fidel: We send Doctors,
not Soldiers </I></FONT><FONT size=2>Fidel Castro Ruz 23/01/10
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2010/ing/f230110i.html; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xi. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicholas Maduro is reported to have said
that aid shipments to Haiti were being diverted via the neighbouring Dominican
Republic to avoid restrictions imposed by the US at the Port-au-Prince airport.
<A href="http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5086"
target=_blank>http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5086</A></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xii. Heritage Foundation response on 13/01/10, the day after the quake,
quickly taken up by Obama: “<I>The government under President Réne Préval is
weak and literally now in shambles. Cuba and Venezuela, already intent on
minimizing U.S. influence in the region, are likely to seize this opportunity to
raise their profile and influence... The earthquake has both humanitarian and
U.S. national security implications... President Obama should initiate a rapid
response that is not only bold but decisive, mobilizing U.S. military...</I>
<I>Congress should immediately expand U.S. trade preferences for Haiti.”</I>
Unfortunately, he also adopted their priorities: “<I>U.S. military and civilian
forces; heavy equipment to clear the debris and rubble; and emergency food
supplies and medicines.</I>”
http://www.heritage.org/research/latinamerica/wm2754.cfm </FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xiii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With
Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince </I></FONT><A
href="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/" target=_blank><FONT size=2>Doctors
Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)</FONT></A> <FONT size=2>17/01/10;
see also “</FONT><FONT size=2><I>UNICEF tried to send a plane full of medical
kits, blankets and tents, but was denied permission to land and was forced to
return to Panama...On Saturday, January 16, the World Food Program (WFP) was
finally able to land airplanes with food, medicine and water—after being
diverted on Thursday and Friday so that the U.S. could land troops and
equipment, and lift Americans and other foreigners to safety</I></FONT><FONT
size=2>.” From </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Why So Many People Died in the
Earthquake... And Why the U.S. Can Do No Good in Haiti </I></FONT><FONT
size=2>by Li Onesto 19/01/10 <A href="http://revcom.us/"
target=_blank>http://www.rwor.org/a/189online/Haiti-en.html</A>; see also
</FONT><FONT size=2><I>US Military Operations Block Relief Efforts in
Haiti</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Alex Lantier 21/01/10 <A
href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j21.shtml"
target=_blank>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j21.shtml</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xiv. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti Earthquake: US Ships Blockade Coast to
Thwart Exodus to America </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by Bruno Waterfield 19/01/10 <A
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7030237/Haiti-earthquake-US-ships-blockade-coast-to-thwart-exodus-to-America.html"
target=_blank>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7030237/Haiti-earthquake-US-ships-blockade-coast-to-thwart-exodus-to-America.html</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Washington Shuts Door on Haitian
Refugees</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Tom Eley 20/01/10 <A
href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j20.shtml"
target=_blank>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j20.shtml</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Will the U.S. Send Haitian Refugees to
Guantanamo?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Unsilent Generation 19/01/10 <A
href="http://unsilentgeneration.com/2010/01/19/will-the-u-s-send-haitian-refugees-to-guantanamo/"
target=_blank>http://unsilentgeneration.com/2010/01/19/will-the-u-s-send-haitian-refugees-to-guantanamo/</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xv. “...</FONT><FONT size=2><I>the UN has been warehousing young Haitian
men and moving them, through criminalization and indefinite detention in prison
for years, out of the area in Site Soley where access to oil deposit are noted
[on this <A href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html"
target=_blank>map</A>]”</I></FONT><FONT size=2> From </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Did
mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti
earthquake?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Haitian lawyer Ezili Dantò <A
href="http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake"
target=_blank>http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake</A>;
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xvi. John Pilger said “</FONT><FONT size=2><I>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 $55 million deal to turn
the north of Haiti into an American-annexed “tourist playground”</I></FONT><FONT
size=2>. From </FONT><FONT size=2><I>The Kidnapping of Haiti</I></FONT><FONT
size=2> by John Pilger 28/01/10 <A
href="http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/02/haiti-pilger-obama-venezuela"
target=_blank>http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/02/haiti-pilger-obama-venezuela</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; See also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Profiting From Haiti’s
Crisis</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Benjamin Dangl 18/01/10 <A
href="http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1827/1/"
target=_blank>http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1827/1/</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Bush, Clinton and the Crimes of
US Imperialism in Haiti</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Patrick Martin 18/01/10
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j18.shtml; see also Li Onesto
“…this is what Bill Clinton had to say after the earthquake: ‘</FONT><FONT
size=2><I>Once we deal with the immediate crisis, the development plans the
world was already pursuing have to be implemented more quickly and on a broader
scale. I'm interested in just pressing ahead with it... ‘ </I></FONT><FONT
size=2>In other words, Clinton now sees the massive destruction in Haiti as an
opportunity to press forward with his plans for setting up profitable sweatshops
and tourist areas.” From </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Why So Many People Died in the
Earthquake... </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by Li Onesto 19/01/10</FONT><A
href="http://revcom.us/" target=_blank> <FONT
size=2>http://www.rwor.org/a/189online/Haiti-en.html</FONT></A><FONT size=2>;
see also “</FONT><FONT size=2><I>A <A
href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html"
target=_blank>map</A> showing the mining resources in Haiti shows five oil/gas
sites in Haiti.</I></FONT><FONT size=2>” from </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Did mining
and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti earthquake?</I></FONT><FONT
size=2> <A
href="http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake"
target=_blank>http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake</A>;
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xvii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Canada and Haiti: Relief Efforts in the
Shadow of Past “Help”</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Dan Freeman-Maloy 17/01/10 <A
href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/297.php"
target=_blank>http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/297.php</A>; see also
</FONT><FONT size=2><I>Peacekeeping or War-making?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by
Murray Dobbin <A href="http://murraydobbin.ca/" target=_blank>Murray Dobbin's
Blog</A></FONT> <FONT size=2>21/01/10 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xviii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Venezuela Cancels Haiti’s
Debt</I></FONT><FONT size=2> By Venezuelan Embassy in the U.S.A. 25/01/10 <A
href="http://www.transcend.org/tms/article_detail.php?article_id=2548"
target=_blank>http://www.transcend.org/tms/article_detail.php?article_id=2548</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xix. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti: The Hate and the Quake: A Long History
of Stolen Wealth </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by Sir Hilary Beckles 17/01/10 <A
href="http://www.nationnews.com/story/guest-column-hilary-beckles-copy-for-web"
target=_blank>http://www.nationnews.com/story/guest-column-hilary-beckles-copy-for-web</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xx. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti: Humanitarian Aid to Repay an Odious
Debt?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet 18/01/10
<A href="http://www.cadtm.org/Haiti-Grants-to-repay-an-odious"
target=_blank>http://www.cadtm.org/Haiti-Grants-to-repay-an-odious</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>US Security Company Offers to
Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" in
Haiti</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Jeremy Scahill 18/01/10 <A
href="http://rebelreports.com/post/341673601/us-security-company-offers-to-perform-high-threat"
target=_blank>http://rebelreports.com/post/341673601/us-security-company-offers-to-perform-high-threat</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxi. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>The U.S. Created the Earthquake in
Haiti?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> PRAVDA 24/01/10 <A
href="http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/24-01-2010/111809-russia_says_US_created_earthqua-0"
target=_blank>http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/24-01-2010/111809-russia_says_US_created_earthqua-0</A>;
see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Are they that sick? Did US Weather Weapon
destroy Haiti? </I></FONT><FONT size=2>By Junius Ricardo Stanton 29/01/10 <A
href="http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/are-they-that-sick-did-u-s-weather-weapon-destroy-haiti/"
target=_blank>http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/are-they-that-sick-did-u-s-weather-weapon-destroy-haiti/</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2><I>Did mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti
earthquake?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> Ezili Dantò 22/01/10 <A
href="http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake"
target=_blank>http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake</A>;
see also 1997 US Defense Dept transcript acknowledging the existence of such
technology <A
href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674"
target=_blank>http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674</A>,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>No 'Hope for Haiti' Without Justice
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>by Mark LeVine 19/01/10 <A
href="http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/20101196265844450.html"
target=_blank>http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/20101196265844450.html</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxiii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>The Militarization of Emergency Aid to
Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion? </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by
Michel Chossudovsky 15/01/10 <A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17000"
target=_blank>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17000</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Chavez Says U.S. Occupying Haiti
in Name of Aid </I></FONT><FONT size=2>Reuters17/01/10 <A
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G2DW20100117"
target=_blank>http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G2DW20100117</A></FONT><FONT
size=2><I>; US accused of "Occupying" Haiti as Thousands of Troops Flood
in.</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Aislinn Laing and Tom Leonard 18/01/10 <A
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html"
target=_blank>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html</A>;
see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Latin American Leaders say U.S. occupying Haiti
</I></FONT><A href="http://www.presstv.ir/" target=_blank><FONT size=2>Press
TV</FONT></A> <FONT size=2>22/01/10 <A
href="http://www.infowars.com/latin-american-leaders-say-us-occupying-haiti/"
target=_blank>http://www.infowars.com/latin-american-leaders-say-us-occupying-haiti/</A>;
see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti Needs Emergency Relief, not Military
Intervention!</I></FONT><FONT size=2> Canada Haiti Action Network 23/01/10 <A
href="http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=973"
target=_blank>http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=973</A></FONT> <FONT
size=2>23/01/10; see also </FONT><FONT size=2><I>The Kidnapping of Haiti
</I></FONT><FONT size=2>by John Pilger 28/01/10 <A
href="http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/02/haiti-pilger-obama-venezuela"
target=_blank>http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/02/haiti-pilger-obama-venezuela</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxiv. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>US Military to Enforce State of Emergency in
Haiti </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by Tom Eley 19/01/10 <A
href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j19.shtml"
target=_blank>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j19.shtml</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxv. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Missing children: Abduction and human
trafficking?</I></FONT><FONT size=2> UNICEF 22/01/10 <A
href="http://newstrendstoday.com/missing-children-abduction-human-trafficking/03755"
target=_blank>http://newstrendstoday.com/missing-children-abduction-human-trafficking/03755</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxvi. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Adopted orphans arrive in France as UNICEF
raises trafficking fears </I></FONT><FONT size=2>by France 24 22/01/10 <A
href="http://www.france24.com/en/20100122-haiti-earthquake-missing-children-hospitals-trafficking-adoptions-unicef-spain"
target=_blank>http://www.france24.com/en/20100122-haiti-earthquake-missing-children-hospitals-trafficking-adoptions-unicef-spain</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxvii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Haiti revival after quake could take
generations says UN chief </I></FONT><FONT size=2>Rory Carroll and Tom Phillips
29/01/10 <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/haiti-quake-generations-un-decades"
target=_blank>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/haiti-quake-generations-un-decades</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxviii. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Tamar Hahn in Haiti: orphaned and
separated children</I></FONT><FONT size=2> 20/01/10 <A
href="http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/archive/2010/01/20/tamar-hahn-in-haiti-orphaned-and-separated-children.aspx"
target=_blank>http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/archive/2010/01/20/tamar-hahn-in-haiti-orphaned-and-separated-children.aspx</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxix. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Officer: U.S. missionaries had tried to take
other Haitian kids </I></FONT><FONT size=2>Karl Penhall 09/02/10 <A
href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/09/haiti.border.arrests/?hpt=T2"
target=_blank>http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/09/haiti.border.arrests/?hpt=T2</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxx. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Clinton brokers deal over Haiti orphan
abductions</I></FONT><FONT size=2> Tony Allen-Mills 07/02/10 <A
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7017950.ece"
target=_blank>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7017950.ece</A></FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxxi. </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Child Slavery in Haiti</I></FONT><FONT
size=2> by Stephen Lendman 03/02/10 <A
href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/02/child-slavery-in-haiti.html"
target=_blank>http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/02/child-slavery-in-haiti.html</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>and </FONT><FONT size=2><I>Washington’s Militarized Takeover of
Haiti</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by Stephen Lendman 25/01/10 <A
href="http://www.rense.com/general89/wash.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.rense.com/general89/wash.htm</A></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>xxxii. For example, UNICEF <A
href="http://www.unicef.org/emerg/files/women_disaster_relief.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.unicef.org/emerg/files/women_disaster_relief.pdf</A>;
UNDP <A
href="http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=598"
target=_blank>http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=598</A></FONT>
<FONT size=2>; FAO <A href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/AC798E/ac798e0e.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/AC798E/ac798e0e.htm</A>; as well as
country-level for example, Cuba <A
href="http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/trainings-events/edu-materials/v.php?id=4585"
target=_blank>http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/trainings-events/edu-materials/v.php?id=4585</A>,
Venezuela <A
href="http://www.proventionconsortium.org/themes/default/pdfs/CRA/Venezuela.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.proventionconsortium.org/themes/default/pdfs/CRA/Venezuela.pdf</A>,
India <A href="http://www.preventionweb.net/files/598_8373.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.preventionweb.net/files/598_8373.pdf</A>, Taiwan <A
href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/7m748656p42jv543/"
target=_blank>http://www.springerlink.com/content/7m748656p42jv543/</A>,
Australia <A
href="http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/communities/progserv/Pages/disaster_assistance.aspx"
target=_blank>http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/communities/progserv/Pages/disaster_assistance.aspx</A>,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=left><FONT
size=2>Lendman quotes Professor Francis Boyle "</FONT><FONT size=2><I>The
forcible transfer of children of one group (Black Hatians) to another group
(White Americans) is genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention (besides
violating Fourth Geneva)."</I></FONT><FONT size=2> From </FONT><FONT
size=2><I>Washington’s Militarized Takeover of Haiti</I></FONT><FONT size=2> by
Stephen Lendman 25/01/10 <A href="http://www.rense.com/general89/wash.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.rense.com/general89/wash.htm</A></FONT> </DIV><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT><BR><BR>
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