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<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>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:34 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Oil in Haiti: Reasons for the US Occupation</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt" size=6><B>Oil in Haiti: Reasons for the US
Occupation</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt" size=4><B>Part
II</B></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT size=5>by <B>Marguerite
Laurent</B></FONT></DIV>
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align=justify><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>I wrote
Part 1 of <A
href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#shopping_in_Haiti"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Oil in Haiti as the economic reasons for the US/UN
occupation</FONT></A> back in October, 2009. <BR><BR>After the earthquake I
questioned whether oil drilling could have triggered the earthquake: <A
href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Did-mining-and-oil-drillin-by-Ezili-Danto-100123-329.html"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti
earthquake</FONT></A>?<BR><BR>Then suddenly, after spending years hitting myself
against Officialdom's colonial rock that kept denying Haiti had significant
resources.... <BR><BR>After being called crazy and un-American for writing that
the 2010 earthquake gives the US the perfect disaster-capitalism opportunity to
come out from behind the UN and openly occupy Haiti to secure Haiti's oil,
strategic location and other riches for the corporatocracy... <BR><BR>Just
after, I wrote about oil drilling causing earthquakes, on the following Tuesday,
a veteran oil company man comes forward in Business Week to say, and one wonders
how he can so authoritatively speculate about the area of the faultline without
intimate knowledge of the drillings, explorations, <BR><BR>Haiti's wellheads and
oil map, et al, but nonetheless his sudden, seemingly unprompted REVELATION, is
that Haiti lies in an area that has undiscovered amounts of oil, it must have
oil and the earthquake "may have left clues" to petroleum reservoirs! Oil that,
uhmmm, "could aid economic recovery in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation,
a geologist said." (<A
href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-26/haiti-earthquake-may-have-exposed-gas-deposits-aiding-recovery.html"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Haiti Earthquake May Have Exposed Gas, Aiding Economy</FONT></A>
by Jim Polson, Jan. 26, 2010, Bloomberg.) Yep, yep he may really mean: "that
could aid Haiti's US-occupied economy recover its strategic oil reserves" for
the global elite. No? I could be wrong, but I am thinking "and the cover up,
starts." But I won't say so. Let Stephen Pierce tell the story:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The Jan. 12
earthquake was on a fault line that passes near potential gas reserves, said
Stephen Pierce, a geologist who worked in the region for 30 years for
companies including the former Mobil Corp. The quake may have cracked rock
formations along the fault, allowing gas or oil to temporarily seep toward the
surface, he said yesterday in a telephone interview. </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“A geologist,
callous as it may seem, tracing that fault zone from Port-au-Prince to the
border looking for gas and oil seeps, may find a structure that hasn’t been
drilled,” said Pierce, exploration manager at Zion Oil & Gas Inc., a
Dallas- based company that’s drilling in Israel. “A discovery could
significantly improve the country’s economy and stimulate further
exploration.<BR><BR>...The Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and their offshore waters, probably hold at
least 142 million barrels of oil and 159 billion cubic feet of gas, according
to a 2000 report by the U.S. Geological Survey. Undiscovered amounts may be as
high as 941 million barrels of oil and 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas,
according to the report. Among nations in the northern Caribbean, Cuba and
Jamaica have awarded offshore leases for oil and gas development. Trinidad and
Tobago, South American islands off the coast of Venezuela, account for most
Caribbean oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Department.</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>For the record, Haiti has a large
reserve of oil and natural gas. How could it not? It shares the waters with oil
producing island from all around. We noted this also. Besides, this is not new
or a surprise to the United States and certainly shouldn't be new to "a
geologist who worked in the region for 30 years for companies including the
former Mobil Corp."<BR><BR>There's always been oil in Haiti. The US /<A
href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#USAIDguarantee"><FONT
color=#0d2980>USAID guaranteed an oil contract</FONT></A> for an American
businessman named Charles C. Valentine back in November 1962 that gave his
company a monopoly control over pretty much everything to do with oil in Haiti
and seems to have also paid him to back out of it. </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><A
href="http://www.guardianlies.com/Section%206/page36.html"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Valentine successfully claimed $327,304 from the development
agency, a sum USAID was itself able to extract from the Haitian government
along with $4,396 in interest charges.</FONT></A></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>According to Haitian scholar Dr.
Georges Michel, the US has known there's oil and natural gas reserves in Haiti
since 1908 and did their explorations in the 1950s and locked up what they found
as "strategic reserves for the US" to be tapped when Middle Eastern oil became
less available. (See, <A
href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#oil_GeorgesMichelEnglish"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Oil in Haiti </FONT></A>by Dr. Georges Michel) <BR><BR>I've been
writing for years now that the US has been trying to get rid of Haiti's
democratically elected government since 1991 so they could get to "their"
strategic reserves without any fear of a populous president nationalizing the
oil and gas reserves to benefit the miserably poor majority in Haiti as has been
done in Venezuela or elsewhere in Latin America. (See, <A
href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#full_of_oil"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Haiti is full of oil, say Ginette and Daniel Mathurin</FONT></A>,
where these scientist say there's more oil in Haiti than in Venezuela.) No one
has been listening. Not even the white liberals who are such <EM>defenders</EM>
of Haiti. To the best of my knowledge, other than Haitians, over the long years
before the earthquake, the only non-Haitian observers who ever paid attention
and picked up on our reports and concerns about the plundering and pillaging of
Haiti's riches, were John Maxwell and <A
href="http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2009/05/12/haitis_richesinterview_with_ezili_dant_on_mining_in_haiti"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Chris Scott of CKUT Radio</FONT></A> in Canada.That's it. All the
others bought the State Department line that Haiti was a charity case and had no
resources to mention. I supposed if they acknowleged Haiti could be
self-reliant, these savoirs, wouldn't have a gig to support themselves and their
heroic self-image, right?<BR><BR>Today Haiti has oil and it's all good cause
20,000 troops are down there to secure it and Haiti's other riches while the
vision is to perhaps herd the displaced earthquake victims - who don't die from
their TV-aid - into hastily constructed <A
href="http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/01/strong-flat-pack-prefabs-for-haiti.html"><FONT
color=#0d2980>pre-fabricated houses</FONT></A> and let the ghettos fester as
they do in Kingston, Jamaica, while the areas the whites and Haitian oligarchy
want are developed into tourist havens and all capital is flown out of
Haiti.<BR><BR>Notice where the earthquake fault line is and its juxtaposition to
the Bay of Port au Prince where the drilling was taking place and the damage at
Kafou's Morne Cabrit, the epicenter of the earthquake and where the poor built
their houses on the mountainside and all around the Southern coastal towns by
the Bay of Cayes where there's oil according to Haitians and the geologist map
of Haitian resources in the Lavalas white book. Notice how the earthquake was
LOCALIZED to these areas and Port au Prince and never reached the Dominican
Republic and there was no tsunami...</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>The Lavalas
map of Haiti's resources shows that Kafou's Morne Cabrit housed a huge reservoi
of oil. Here's the article I wrote, last year documenting that Haiti had oil and
that was the reason for the US/UN forced removal of President Jean Bertrand
Aristide. I do so hope, this time, to honor the lives lost and really help
protect the remaining survivors of Bush the first and Bush the lesser's two
regimes changes in Haiti and now this total occupation, that conscious Americans
and all decent folks on this earth, are paying attention and will help us stop
this latest travesty. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>The just
thing for now, is to allow former President Aristide who was kidnapped out of
Haiti on a rendition plane by the US Special forces and has been practically
under house arrest in South African for 6-years, forbidden first by US Secretary
of State Condi Rice and now Hillary Clinton from returning home, to return to
his country. He <A
href="http://www.mediahacker.org/2010/01/video-mistrusting-government-and-un-haitians-hope-for-us-troops-aristide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mediahacker+%28Mediahacker%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail"><FONT
color=#0d2980>ought to be returned </FONT></A>to Haiti so he may assist Haiti’s
majority at this agonizing time and help in the relief and rebuilding of the
nation. (Go to: Part I, <A
href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#shopping_in_Haiti"><FONT
color=#0d2980>Oil in Haiti and Oil Refinery - an old notion for Fort Liberte as
a transshipment terminal for US supertankers</FONT></A> )</DIV>
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align=justify>Don't fall for this hoax. The powers-that-be are already drilling
and for years, HLLN has been pointing to the Lavalas' white book detailing
Haiti's<BR>resources as part of the reason for oustering President Aristide and
putting in Haitian puppets to empire. Now that 20,000 US troops are in Haiti
behind the pretext of humanitarian aid, oh yeah, by the way the EARTHQUAKE
"<EM>may have left clues</EM> to petroleum reservoirs that could aid economic
recovery in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, a geologist
said"!!!<BR><BR>Never mind that stealth offshore and on-land drilling may have
disturbed the fault line, those Haitians are Black idiots anyway. Just
yesterday, I was called CRAZY for saying Haiti had oil and substantial mineral
resources. But today, today, if the white man says it, it must be true! Don't
fall for the empire's latest spin and clean-up job. Two many defenseless people
are still dying behind this earthquake and classquake. Too many long-suffering
flesh and blood who won't get rescue, recovery, relief and rebuilding, but the
cold steel of military occupation. <BR><BR>Ezili Danto / Marguerite
Laurent</DIV></DIV></FONT><br />--
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