[Peace-discuss] Reply to Mr. Helbig about my so called " libel "

Fri Jan 11 14:33:49 UTC 2013

Mr. Helbig,

I do NOT libel or slander !

I always speak and write the TRUTH to the best of my ability via trying to confirm the validity and past track record of sources for my information.

Below is a TON of info about Bill Clinton and the Haiti FEMA trailers from a variety of GOOD RELIABLE sources.

BTW. You should read former Marine Corp General Smedley Butler's Book " War is a Racket " as well as former Green Beret Donald Duncan's book " The New Legions ".

Also I would highly recommend Howard Zinn's classic book " A People's History of the United States ".

If you read these books, it would more than likely help your analysis ability in being able to determine the truth from bullshit.

Also, for daily news sources you should check-out " Democracy Now " television program as well as LINK T.V. and FREE SPEECH T.V. available on either DISH or DIRECT Sattelite T.V..

Sincerely

David Johnson   

Clinton (Bill) Foundation

I posted summary of this situation at the first links shown.

http://haitirewired.wired.com/group/newsonhaiti/forum/topics/clinton-foundation-scandal

http://www.facebook.com/notes/alister-wm-macintyre/clinton-foundation-scandal-part-isummary-

from-breaking-news/10150250639564267

Saying that these "trailers" are hurricane shelters, is some kind of oxymoron or evidence

of promoters not knowing what they are saying or doing, given that in the USA, people

are told to evacuate trailers when bad weather approaches.

Here's USA and Canadian news media with sordid details.

http://www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built

http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/161887/slide-show-inside-clinton-foundationsshoddily-

built-searingly-hot-and-toxic-haitihttp://

canadiancentreinvestigates.org/haiti-shelters/

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/international/1524/the_shelters_that_c

linton_built/

http://news.yahoo.com/shelters-clinton-built-152744334.html

http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/7/12/clinton_foundation_accused_of_sending_h

aiti

Here is HAITI news media on the topic.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/another-crime-against-humanity-the-shelters-clinton-built/

http://www.haitian-truth.org/push-to-send-fema-trailers-to-haiti-stirs-backlash-industrypush-

to-send-leftover-fema-trailers-to-haiti-stirs-backlash-called-self-serving/

I think these are HAITI blogs:

http://brikourinouvelgaye.com/2011/07/11/the-shelters-that-clinton-built/

Here are blogs, most just copying the news stories.

http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/2011/07/g-s-spends-bankster-winnings-onour.

html

http://drupal.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/shelters-clinton-built

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/11-12

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/962#July12t4

http://mangodhaiti.blogspot.com/

http://variation-urge.blogspot.com/2011/07/shelters-that-clinton-built-nation.html

http://www.leftwingpost.com/the-shelters-that-clinton-built

http://www.jusrhyme.com/2011/07/12/clinton-foundation-accused-of-sending-haitishoddy-

trailers-found-toxic-after-katrina/

http://www.mynucleus.org/story/2011/07/12/_2011_7_12_clinton_foundation_accus

http://americanprogressivenews.com/2011/07/why-did-the-clinton-foundation-funddangerous-

unhealthy-trailers-in-haiti/

http://americanprogressivenews.com/2011/07/the-shelters-that-clinton-built/

Tweets - give the effort an "F" due to the Formaldehyde

http://naturaldisaster.tweetmeme.com/story/5721313855/the-shelters-that-clinton-builtthe-

nation

http://topsy.com/www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built

Similar info in forums

http://www.thebellforum.com/showthread.php?t=53905

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439

x1469193

http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=24912

Video Shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6VjgC3uDg

http://www.thenation.com/signup/161887?destination=slideshow/161887/slide-showinside-

clinton-foundations-shoddily-built-searingly-hot-and-toxic-haiti-

Since so many do a good job of linking to the original, we can search for Link: original

http://www.google.com/search?q=Link%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2F

article%2F161908%2Fshelters-clinton-built&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-

8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The project was announced by Clinton as his foundation's first contribution to the Interim

Haiti Recovery Commission, which the former president co-chairs. The foundation

described the project as "hurricane-proof...emergency shelters that can also serve as

schools...to ensure the safety of vulnerable populations in high risk areas during the

hurricane season," while also providing Haitian schoolchildren "a decent place to learn"

and creating local jobs. The facilities, according to the foundation, would be equipped

with power generators, restrooms, water and sanitary storage. They became one of the

IHRC's first projects.

Here's what was promised thru the IHRC project.

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/files/managed/IHRC%20proposal-haiti.pdf

The facilities, according to the foundation, would be equipped with power generators,

restrooms, water and sanitary storage. So far they do not have so much as a single latrine

supplied.

Some projects are more interested in profits for corporate participants, than in value for

money invested. It is sometimes called "exploitation via disaster capitalism."

One million dollars for 20 double-wides, with no A/C...toilets...water?

Remember formaldehyde in Katrina trailers via FEMA? The same company has been

paid by the Clinton Foundation to build the same kind of technology for Haiti school

children, and to be hurricane shelters.

The trailers have been tested. The same deadly levels of formaldehyde found there.

Here are the lab results:

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/files/managed/Haiti%20lab%20results.pdf

Children symptoms can be explained by the high levels of formaldehyde.

Apparently many USA homes have safe levels of the stuff, so it is important to identify

levels found in Haiti vs. know what levels are safe.

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehhe/trailerstudy/compendium.htm

What does it say about the reconstruction efforts in Haiti if the very first project approved

by the commission that is supposed to ensure accountability and transparency in Haiti's

rebuilding passes this kind of project and Bill Clinton himself has his hands all over it?,"

says Macdonald. "He is the co-chair of this commission that is supposed to ensure Haiti

is built back better."

Greg Higgins wrote on Haiti Rewired

http://haitirewired.wired.com/group/architectureforhaiti?commentId=4920407%3ACom

ment%3A55619&xg_source=msg_com_group

The Clayton Homes + Clinton scandal was predictable. If former President Clinton had

surrounded himself with a dozen of the best architects and engineers money could buy (as

in experienced and independent), this would likely not have happened. Shipping "offthe-

shelf" prefab schools to Haiti, as it appears they were, has to rank as one of the

dumbest moves yet. FYI: here's a Clayton Homes press release from last year about

these school buildings:

http://www.claytonhomes.com/cla

When Nation reporters visited the "hurricane-proof" shelters in June, six to eight months

after they'd been installed, we found them to consist of twenty imported prefab trailers

beset by a host of problems, from mold to sweltering heat to shoddy construction. Most

disturbing, they were manufactured by the same company, Clayton Homes, which is

being sued in the United States for providing the Federal Emergency Management

Agency (FEMA) with formaldehyde-laced trailers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Air

samples collected from twelve Haiti trailers detected worrying levels of this carcinogen in

one, according to laboratory results obtained as part of a joint investigation by The Nation

and The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund.

By mid-June, two of the four schools where the Clinton Foundation classrooms were

installed had prematurely ended classes for the summer because the temperature in the

trailers frequently exceeded 100 degrees, and one had yet to open for lack of water and

sanitation facilities.

As Judith Seide, a student in Lubert's sixth-grade class, explained to The Nation, she and

her classmates regularly suffer from painful headaches in their new Clinton Foundation

classroom. Every day, she said, her "head hurts and I feel it spinning and have to stop

moving, otherwise I'd fall." Her vision goes dark, as is the case with her classmate Judel,

who sometimes can't open his eyes because, said Seide, "he's allergic to the heat." Their

teacher regularly relocates the class outside into the shade of the trailer because the

swelter inside is insufferable.

But headaches were not the only health problems students, staff and parents at the Institut

Haitiano-Caribbean (INHAC) told us they've suffered from since the inauguration of the

classrooms. Innocent Sylvain, a shy janitor who looks much older than his 41 years,

spends more time than anyone in the new trailer classrooms, with the inglorious task of

mopping up the water that leaks through the doors and windows each time it rains. He

has felt a burning sensation in his eyes ever since he began working long hours in the

trailers. One of his eyes is completely bloodshot, and he said, "They itch and burn." He'd

previously been sensitive to eye irritation, but he says he's had worse "problems since the

month of January"-when the schoolrooms opened their doors.

Any number of factors might be contributing to the headaches and eye irritation reported

by INHAC staff and students. However, similar symptoms were experienced by those

living in the FEMA trailers that were found by the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention to have unsafe levels of formaldehyde. Lab tests conducted as part of our

investigation in Haiti discovered levels of the carcinogen in the sixth-grade Clinton

Foundation classroom in Léogâne at 250 parts per billion-two and a half times the level

at which the CDC warned FEMA trailer residents that sensitive people, such as children,

could face adverse health effects. Assay Technologies, the accredited lab that analyzed

the air tests, identifies 100 parts per billion and more as the level at which "65-80 percent

of the population will most likely exhibit some adverse health symptoms...when exposed

continually over extended periods of time."

The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Clayton Homes had been awarded a milliondollar

contract to ship twenty trailers to Haiti, for use as classrooms for schoolchildren.

The Clinton Foundation claims it went through a bidding process before awarding the

contract to Clayton Homes, which was already embroiled in the FEMA trailer lawsuit.

But despite repeated requests, the foundation has not provided The Nation with any

documentation of this process.

Bradley Mellicker, IOM's Port-au-Prince-based emergency preparedness and response

officer, said, "The Clinton Foundation paid for the containers through a no-bid process."

Imogen Wall, former spokeswoman for OCHA in Haiti, responded by e-mail that OCHA

never deals with procurement or project management.

The Clinton Foundation did not build so much as a latrine at the school, or at any of the

three other schools where its trailers were installed. (INHAC and two of the other schools

had a limited number of pre-existing outhouses, which the school directors saw as

inadequate, while the fourth did not have a single outhouse, making it unusable,

according to the school's director.)

Conille, Clinton's chief of staff at his UN office, acknowledged in a telephone interview

that the trailer classrooms "would never meet the standards for school building" under

Haitian or international regulations.

Larry Tanner, a wind science specialist at Texas Tech University, was "suspicious" when

he heard that trailers were to be used as hurricane shelters in Haiti. Tanner thought it

unlikely that Clayton Homes had developed a mobile home that could safely be used as a

hurricane shelter, saying in a telephone interview that he put the odds at "slim to none."

Mobile homes are considered by FEMA to be so unsafe in hurricanes that the agency

unequivocally advises the public to evacuate them.

In an interview with The Nation, Clayton Homes engineer Mark Izzo said the Léogâne

trailers could withstand winds of up to 140 miles per hour. The company arrived at this

figure through calculations, he said, rather than testing.

But Tanner emphasizes that such structures must be rigorously tested for resistance to

high winds and projectiles. Clayton Homes' failure to test the trailers meant that they

would not meet the international construction standard for hurricane shelter. "It certainly

would not be accepted by FEMA either," Tanner added. Moreover, the kind of anchoring

systems used by the trailers in Léogâne-which rely on metal straps to attach the shelter

to the ground-"fail routinely," according to Tanner.

Two weeks into Haiti's hurricane season, The Nation visited some of the Clinton shelters

with Kit Miyamoto, a California-based structural engineer contracted by USAID and the

Haitian government to assess the safety of buildings in Port-au-Prince. Standing in front

of one of the trailers, Miyamoto looked doubtful when asked whether, in his professional

view, these structures were, as the Clinton Foundation has repeatedly claimed,

"hurricane-proof." In the world of engineering, buildings are rarely considered to be truly

hurricane-proof, explained Miyamoto, who said he had never heard of a wooden trailer

being used as a hurricane shelter, let alone being referred to as a hurricane-proof building.

"To be hurricane-proof you a need a heavier structure with concrete or blocks," he

explained.
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