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Haiti: I Can't Stand the Rain

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The story the mainstream media and even Keith Oberman who should know better are selling, goes like this, supposedly US Senator Tom Coburn doesn't think there's a necessity for both a US Ambassador and this new office of "special coordinator for Haiti" that will cost, uhmm "a paltry 5million."


I agree with Tom Coburn on this. Haiti has already been "gifted" the new Bill Clinton/Paul Farmer office of Special UN envoy and Deputy Envoy to Haiti, financed at the tune of $800,000 extra to be added to the UN $710 million per year budget to secure Haiti and push US endeavors in reconstruction.


Haiti has the US ambassador, the 14,000 foreign NGOs, the US private security contractors, the 22 million (gourdes) set aside to have a UN/Clinton Liaison Office in Port au Prince headed by Leslie Voltaire, all, supposedly marketing earthquake reconstruction for Clinton/UN and presumably the Obama appointed Clinton-Bush fund.


US holding up funds may be attributed to Coburn, but that's a silly cop out and frivolous distraction. How do these US policy-makers explain that the World Bank and UNDP are holding up the monies they've actually COLLECTED from other donor countries and not spending it while 1.7 to 2million Haitians die under tents, tarps and sheets for nine months now. Can't sleep on inches of rainwater and fetid waste BECAUSE the UNDP, a quasi-private UN entity, is in a tug-a-war, internal fight with the World Bank?


The UNDP insists that donor countries are pledging through the UN, thus Haiti donor monies should be held in the UNDP bank account, not deposited with the World Bank run by the US because Bill Clinton says so.


Uhmm, why? 'Cause UNDP would lose the 7% "administration fee" it takes off the top of donor countries monies. Is Tom Corbun controlling this? No. The US and UN are. And that means the Security Council and so mostly the US and its allies are holding up funds already collected and letting the people die. But is this a surprise and to whom?


I know most of you have read about Bill Clinton's glib apology for destroying Haiti's food sovereignty with US trade deals while he was in office.


Those familiar with Ezili's HLLN no doubt knows about how the US slaughtered 1.3 million livestock of the Haitian peasants to make them poorer and force them to accept unfair wages at US assembly plants... And how the peasant farmers' way of life in Haiti is so dangerous to US-hoard-it-all, profit-over-people-system, they destroy Haiti with coup d'etats and humanitarian embargos, at every turn. The abandonment and destruction of the two million Haitian earthquake victims is not an ISOLATED INCIDENT. It's part of SOLID US policy and Americans who continue to deny this, are fooling themselves.


Those who have not read Kissingers/Rockerfeller's genocide scheme for the Black and Brown world that still animates USAID, US-big agribusiness (GMOs, spermicidal corn, HIV tainted corn...), private-military-companies, oil and pharmaceutical companies overseas ought to read it. The UN has been a tool of destruction of Black countries since the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. The Belgians, Duponts and other US/Euro elites helped murder 50 million innocent people in the Congo and that has never been brought to criminal trial like Nuremberg. Never.


The Rockerfeller/Kissinger depopulation scheme and the eugenics before it, is still this world's "white" minority's highest priority. As Kissinger said,its the "highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World." The resource wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Caribbean with Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela, is about the perceived economic interests of the U.S.

The Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Apology

Why is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's apologies to the Guatemalans for US medical experiments done on them political theater? Because these experiments have not stopped. GMOs, for instance, have certainly not been duly tested and they are being spread abroad and in the US. There most likely are other experiments like the Guatemalan one happening right now. At least if the last two centuries of US history is to be trusted.

The article entitled, "Guatemalan STD medical experiments were just one crime in a long history of medical-government collusion to use humans as guinea pigs" explains why, as follows:

"The discovery of this medical experiment generated a series of official U.S. responses that can only be called political theater given how contrived they are. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the record saying, "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health... We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices."

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the discovery "reprehensible," and President Obama even picked up the phone to call Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and offer a verbal apology.

You know what all these actions have in common? An implied message that this experiment from the 1940's was somehow an aberrant mistake that never happens in America. They want you to believe this is just some lone researcher who went off his rocker and committed some atrocious crime in the name of medicine. But the reality is that Big Pharma and the U.S. government use innocent people in medical experiments every single day. This wasn't some bizarre, rare event. It was a reflection of the way the U.S. government has consistently conspired with the medical industry to test drugs on innocent victims and find out what happens...."

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