[Peace-discuss] Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its cholerablunder in Haiti

[David Johnson]

Great Statistics Carl,

Let' s not forget that Bill Clinton has been profiting off of Haiti's U.S. / 
U.N. imposed misery.
He has made millions of dollars via his " foundation " pimping old Katrina 
contaminated FEMA trailers ( the firm is the same ARKANSAS company from 
Katrina notariety ) and calling them " Hurricane Proof Shelters ".
Black Agenda Report has called Bill Clinton
 " The defacto colonial Viceroy of Haiti ".

The most imaginative fiction Author couldn't conceive in his or her wildest 
dreams / nightmares of this twisted shit.

Meanwhile the sweatshops and multi-national oil and mining companies are 
making profits hand over fist with U.S. and U.N. troops protecting their 
interests often shooting demonstrators with live ammunition.
But rarely a word about Haiti reported in the U.S. corporate media.
I wonder where all that donated earth quake money went ?

David Johnson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "David Green" <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its 
cholerablunder in Haiti


> Haiti by the Numbers, Three Years Later
> by Dan Beeton and Jake Johnston
>
> Number of people killed in the earthquake in 2010: over 217,300
>
> Number of people killed by cholera epidemic caused by U.N. troops since 
> October 19, 2010:over 7,912 [i]
>
> Number of cholera cases worldwide in 2010 and 2011:906,632
>
> Percent of worldwide cholera cases that were in Haiti in those years: 57
>
> Total number of cholera cases in Haiti from 2010-2012: 635,980 [ii]
>
> Days Since Cholera Was Introduced in Haiti Without an Apology From the 
> U.N.: 813
>
> Percent of the population that lacks access to "improved" drinking water: 
> 42
>
> Funding needed for U.N./CDC/Haitian government 10-year cholera eradication 
> plan: $2.2 billion
>
> Percent of $2.2 billion which the U.N. pledged to provide: 1
>
> Percent of $2.2 billion that the U.N. has spent on MINUSTAH[iii] since the 
> earthquake: 87
>
> Amount disbursed by bilateral and multilateral donors to Haiti from 
> 2010-2012: $6.43 billion
>
> Percent that went through the Haitian government: 9
>
> Amount the Haitian government has received in budget support over this 
> time: $302.69 million
>
> Amount the American Red Cross raised for Haiti: $486 million
>
> Amount of budget support to the Haitian government in 2009, the year 
> before the earthquake: $93.60 million
>
> Amount of budget support to the Haitian government in 2011, the year after 
> the earthquake:$67.93 million
>
> Number of dollars, out of every $100 spent in humanitarian relief, that 
> went to the Haitian government: 1
>
> Value of all contracts awarded by USAID since the earthquake: $485.5 
> million [iv]
>
> Percent of contracts that has gone to local Haitian firms: 1.2 [v]
>
> Percent of contracts that has gone to firms inside the beltway (DC, 
> Maryland, Virginia): 67.6[vi]
>
> Number of people displaced from their homes by the earthquake: 1.5 million
>
> Number of people still in displaced persons camps today: 358,000
>
> Percent that have left camps due to relocation programs by the Haitian 
> government and international agencies: 25
>
> Share of camp residents facing a constant threat of forced eviction: 1 in 
> 5
>
> Number of transitional shelters built by aid agencies since the 
> earthquake: 110,964
>
> Percent of transitional shelters that went to camp residents: 23
>
> Number of new houses constructed since the earthquake: 5,911
>
> Number of houses marked “red”, meaning they were in need of demolition: 
> 100,178
>
> Number of houses marked “yellow”, meaning they were in need of repairs to 
> make safe enough to live in: 146,004
>
> Estimated number of people living in houses marked either “yellow” or 
>  “red”: 1 million
>
> Number of houses that have actually been repaired: 18,725
>
> Percent growth of the Haitian economy (GDP) in 2012, predicted by the IMF 
> in April 2011: 8.8
>
> Actual percent growth of the Haitian economy (GDP) in 2012: 2.5
>
> U.N. Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) funding appeal 
> for 2013: $144 million
>
> Percent of last year’s OCHA appeal that was actually funded: 40
>
> Funding committed by the U.S. Government for the Caracol industrial park: 
> $124 million
>
> Share of U.S. funds earmarked for “reconstruction” that this represents: 
> 1/4th
>
> Cost of building 750 houses near the Caracol park for workers: $20 million
>
> Cost of building 86-100 houses for U.S. Embassy staff: $85 - 100 million
>
> Share of garment factories in Haiti found to be out of compliance with 
> minimum wage requirements: 21 of 22
>
> Number of garment factories that have lost preferential tariff benefits to 
> the U.S. because of labor violations: 0
>
> [i] According to the Haitian Ministry of Health, based on reported cases. 
> The actual number is probably much higher.
> [ii] According to the Haitian Ministry of Health, based on reported cases. 
> The actual number is probably much higher.
> [iii] The U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti, comprised mostly of 
> military troops and police officers. U.N. troops were responsible for 
> causing the cholera epidemic, according to scientific studies.
> [iv] Authors’ calculations based on information in Federal Procurement 
> Data System.
> [v] Ibid.
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/10-2
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:25 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Haiti indeed has a cultural problem. It is called "American 
>> exceptionalism."
>>
>> From: David Johnson <dlj725 at microsoft.com>
>> To: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:02 AM
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its 
>> cholera blunder in Haiti
>>
>> "It's ridiculous to blame the UN for a funda mental cultural problem."
>>
>> Wayne,
>>
>> Haiti's problem(s) are NOT cultural.
>>
>> Haiti's problems are and have always been interference, foreign military 
>> intervention, and economic domination / sanctions.
>> I won't go into the 200 some year history with the U.S. and France after 
>> the Haitian revolution, their economic rape, pillage and extortion via 
>> naval blockades and military interventions. Not to mention their 
>> installing and backing brutal dictators and the most recent U.S. invasion 
>> in 2004 with U.S. Special Forces troops forcing the elected President 
>> Aristide and his family at gunpoint to leave the Presidential Palace 
>> where upon the U.S. put them on a military plane and dumped them in the 
>> Central African Republic and then banned the majority political party in 
>> Haiti ( Aristide's Party ) and jailed all of it's leaders. All becasue 
>> Aristide wouldn't play ball with the IMF and World Bank, and wanted to 
>> raise the minimum wage as well as spend more of Haiti's revenues on 
>> education, HEALTH and SANITATION programs.
>> France and the U.N. are complicit in this CONTINUED military occupation 
>> and control of Haiti and are the source of ALL of Haiti's continued 
>> suffering and problems !
>> See more details below........
>>
>> On February 29, 2004, with rebel contingents marching towards 
>> Port-au-Prince, Aristide departed from Haiti. Aristide insists that he 
>> was essentially kidnapped by the U.S., while the U.S. State Department 
>> maintains that he resigned from office. Aristide and his wife left Haiti 
>> on an American airplane, escorted by American diplomats and military 
>> personnel, and were flown directly to Bangui, capital of the Central 
>> African Republic, where he stayed for the following two weeks, before 
>> seeking asylum in a less remote location. This event was later 
>> characterized by Aristide as a kidnapping. Though this has never been 
>> proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has 
>> not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details 
>> surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US 
>> obtained Aristide's purported letter of "resignation" (as presented by 
>> the US) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a 
>> resignation.
>>
>> Aristide has accused the U.S. of deposing him in concert with the Haitian 
>> opposition.[40] In a 2006 interview, he said the U.S. went back on their 
>> word regarding compromises he made with them over privatization of 
>> enterprises to ensure that part of the profits would go to the Haitian 
>> people and then "relied on a disinformation campaign" to discredit 
>> him.[41]
>>
>> Political organizations and writers, as well as Aristide himself, have 
>> suggested that the rebellion was in fact a foreign controlled coup 
>> d'état. Caricom, which had been backing the peace deal, accused the 
>> United States, France, and the International community of failing in 
>> Haiti because they allegedly allowed a controversially elected leader to 
>> be violently forced out of office.
>>
>> David J.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: ""E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"" 
>> <ewj at pigsqq.org>
>> To: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
>> Cc: "Robert Naiman" <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>; "Peace-discuss List" 
>> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 8:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its 
>> cholera blunder in Haiti
>>
>>
>> > It's ridiculous to blame the UN for a funda mental cultural problem.
>> > It's also a bit difficult to discern the motivation for going after
>> > the UN on this. I guess it is to induce the UN to fix the problem.
>> > WHO's necks in line.
>> >
>> > I doubt very much that even the UN can change the
>> > behaviour of Haitians.  Maybe if they could get some Muslims in there
>> > then Obama could go after them with drones...
>> >
>> > Haiti doesn't have its human waste system and its
>> > water supply separated very well.  This situation of poor sanitation
>> > is exacerbated by a catastrophic event such as an earthquake,
>> > a widespread fire, typhoon, tsunami, hurricane, or war.
>> >
>> > Many travelers from Cholera problem areas go to the industrialized
>> > countries every year and develop clinical or sub-clinical cholera.
>> > This does not result in epidemics because the industrialized countries
>> > have established a sanitation system that prevents the spread of the 
>> > disease.
>> >
>> > There was an outbreak of Amoebiasis in Chicago after the great
>> > fire due to human feces in the drinking water.
>> >
>> > No doubt O'Leary's cow must have been named Georgina.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 01/10/13 9:37, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>> >> http://ijdh.org/archives/30243
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Jan 9, 2013, at 7:13 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"<ewj at pigsqq.org> 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Haiti was a pristine land of excellence in sanitation before
>> >>> all them filthy UNers came in and trashed the place with
>> >>> their VooDoo.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 01/10/13 8:25, Robert Naiman wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> This petition has more than 10,000 signers.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >>>> From: Oliver Stone, Just Foreign Policy<noreply at list.signon.org>
>> >>>> Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:18 PM
>> >>>> Subject: Help the UN rectify its cholera blunder in Haiti
>> >>>> To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dear Robert,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We all make mistakes. Sometimes our mistakes badly hurt other 
>> >>>> people. When we make a mistake that badly hurts other people, it's 
>> >>>> our responsibility to do what we can to rectify the harm caused by 
>> >>>> our mistake.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The United Nations made a terrible series of mistakes in Haiti that 
>> >>>> badly hurt hundreds of thousands of Haitians. First, the UN sent 
>> >>>> troops to Haiti who were carriers of the deadly waterborne disease 
>> >>>> cholera, which was previously unknown in Haiti. Then, the UN didn't 
>> >>>> make sure that UN troops were using proper sanitation procedures. As 
>> >>>> a result, UN troops who were infected with cholera dumped their 
>> >>>> contaminated waste in a river that was used by Haitians for drinking 
>> >>>> water. Then, when people complained about sanitation problems at the 
>> >>>> UN base, the UN didn't do anything about the complaints.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> As a result of the UN's mistakes, since October 2010 cholera has 
>> >>>> killed thousands of people in Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of 
>> >>>> Haitians have gotten ill, in a country with poor health care 
>> >>>> infrastructure to take care of them.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Now the UN has an opportunity to try to rectify the situation. The 
>> >>>> anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti is coming up in a few days, 
>> >>>> and that's a time when the world will turn its focus towards Haiti. 
>> >>>> It's also a time when the UN could make an announcement about what 
>> >>>> it's going to do about helping Haiti get rid of cholera. The 
>> >>>> government of Haiti and the UN have a plan, but so far the plan 
>> >>>> isn't funded. A plan that's not funded can't do anything. We need 
>> >>>> public pressure NOW on the UN and other donors to come through with 
>> >>>> money to implement the plan.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Can you help us build pressure on the UN and other donors to produce 
>> >>>> the money to get rid of cholera in Haiti? I've initiated a petition 
>> >>>> at Avaaz which has been signed by thousands of people from around 
>> >>>> the world. If we get enough signers, Members of Congress will 
>> >>>> present this petition to the UN.  Please sign and share my petition 
>> >>>> at this link:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_Haitis_Cholera_Epidemic_with_UN_Action_Now_1/
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thank you for helping me help Haitians who've been hurt by cholera 
>> >>>> to raise their voices to the UN.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> –Oliver Stone, on behalf of Just Foreign Policy
>
>
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