EVEN THE GLOBE AND MAIL ADMITS AID TO HAITI HAS FAILED

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 04 February 2010 04:41

*Even the Globe and Mail Admits Aid to Haiti Has Failed* ** *Isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?* ** *Foreign aid to Haiti has been an utter failure. In 1965, Haiti had a population of 4.5 million people, most desperately poor. It was the basketcase of the Americas. Now, 45 years later, Haiti's degraded environment groans under 9.1 million people, most desperately poor. The West had poured billions of dollars of foreign aid into this disaster. Canada, even before committing tens of millions to disaster relief, was four fifths of the way through a $555-million aid handout (2006-2011). Yet, before the earthquake Haiti with its 67 average IQ and history of demonic voodoo, anti-White violence and lawlessness was a disaster. Its government was disfunctional* ** *The Globe and Mail (January 26, 2010) noted: "Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere even before the most recent disaster. Years of assistance from partner nations, including Canada, failed to significantly ameliorate the situation or raise the people from their despair." "Partner nations" is foreign aid jargon for suckers whose aid dollas enable Haitians to go on wildly overpopulating their island and destroying their environment.* ** *Now, the aid lobby is chattering about huge outlays over the next decade to "rebuild" Haiti to pre-earthquake disaster situation; that is, to the incompetent, corrupt mess it was before the recent earthquake. "Leonel Fernandez, President of the Dominican Republic, has estimated it will take $10-billion (U.S.) over five years to put his neighbour back on its feet." (Globe and Mail, January 21, 2010)* ** *Ten billion more, no way!*

 

BLACKS MASSACRED WHITE FARMER/SETTLERS 200 YEARS AGO & HAITI HAS BEEN POOR EVER SINC

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 04 February 2010 03:40

*Blacks Massacred White Farmer/Settlers 200 Years Ago & Haiti Has Been Poor Ever Since* ** *Slaves and Slaughter Haiti's horrible history* David S. Landes Slaves and Slaughter March 10, 1986 *The New Republic *http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/slaves-and-slaughter ** ... Meanwhile there is Haiti--a crowded piece of badly deforested and eroded land with the lowest income per head in the Western hemisphere. We hear talk of a new era: the institution of popular government; a resumption of foreign investment; a restoration of infrastructure; employment-creating enterprises--onward and upward. The program and goals are standard and unexceptionable. Getting there is the problem. After all, this is not Haiti's first chance. By 20th-century measures, it is an old country. Like the United States, Haiti won its freedom by driving out a European power in what Robert Palmer has called the age of democratic revolution. Haiti was known then as Saint-Domingue and was France's richest colonial possession. Its wealth came from sugar and coffee, above all from sugar, cultivated on large and middling plantations by slave labor. These blacks made up more than 90 percent of the population. Saint-Domingue was in effect a piece of Africa transported to the New World. The rest of the population was about evenly divided between mulatto freemen (the "yellows") and the whites. Color was class. The yellows constituted an intermediate group between whites and blacks, serving as overseers, agents, shop clerks, craftsmen. The whites were planters, soldiers, merchants, technicians, doctors, clergy. Some of these had brought families from Europe. But Haiti was not a healthful place, and the wiser whites left wives and children at home in France. That was another reason for the creation of a Creole population. The official religion--officially the only religion--was Roman Catholicism. But this moved only the whites, their households, and to a lesser extent the yellows. The blacks in the huts and fields, though touched by the white man's faith, retained a mix of African beliefs and practices that we still know as voodoo, with a strong component of sorcery. Whites and yellows spoke French. Blacks spoke a Creole mix of French and various west African tongues. Two worlds cohabited, both of them brutalized and terrorized by a relationship of power and exploitation. The great mass of sullen, smoldering slaves had to be kept in line by whip and fire. Their white masters, quick to punish, had nightmares of slave revolt. The hills were filled with marrons, rogue slaves gone over to plunder. The sugar estates and refineries were plagued by sabotage.It was not the blacks, though, who were the most immediate enemies of the slave order. It was the yellows, nominally free but deprived of civic rights. They read the new literature of freedom put out by enlightened French opinion (the Society des Amis des Noirs was founded in 1788), and the outbreak of revolution in the mother country led them to demand immediate rather than gradual reform. In 1791 Paris granted them citizenship. The whites on the island, infuriated, sought to block enforcement. The yellows agitated, conspired, fomented resistance. And then in 1792 the blacks rose in revolt. It took more than a decade to end the conflict. An initial period of anarchy and warlordism drove the French from the countryside into the cities, where they could shelter under the protection of military garrisons and naval guns. When they sought help from the home country, they found that the new revolutionary government was too busy fighting a coalition of European enemies to divert resources to the colony. Instead it sent out commissars, who in 1793 proclaimed freedom for the slaves. This no more ended the struggle than Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation would end the Civil War.... Toussaint's successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, was filled with an immense, unappeasable bitterness. He drove out the rest of the French forces, and on January 1, 1804, proclaimed independence in terms that evoked the crimes of the past and promised more blood to come: "Citizens, look about you for your wives, husbands, brothers, sisters. Look for your children, your nursing babies. Where have they gone?" And then Dessalines personally led a massacre of every remaining French man, woman, and child in the country, excepting only a handful of doctors and clergy. Haiti has cherished the memory of Toussaint, pupil of the Enlightenment, believer (and victim) of the hopes and illusions of a revolutionary era. But it also has remembered and honored Dessalines, savage in his hates, a man who turned his country in upon itself, the better to confront a hostile world. It is a mixed and bloody heritage, with the disappointed hopes of the one reinforcing and justifying the angry withdrawal of the other. The effect of these barbarities is still being felt. The legacy of fire and blood was a population reduced almost by half and an economy in ruins. Fields and cities were laid waste; the sugar mills were a rusting mass of scrap iron and ashes. The houses were gone, the huts were empty. Nor were reconstruction and resumption possible, because the freed slaves wanted nothing to do with employment. No one wanted to work for another, because that was what slavery was all about. Instead, each wanted his own plot, to grow food for consumption and perhaps coffee for market. But Dessalines needed sugar, because sugar was money and money was needed to pay for those forts and inland towns (away from the vulnerable coast) and a standing army consisting of up to ten percent of the population. So, in what was surely one of the most ironic betrayals in history, within two weeks of exhorting the Haitian people "to accept death in preference to the yoke," Dessalines proposed to open his ports to slave ships that would bring adult males for purchase by the Haitian government. And he offered a price for every Haitian refugee returned to the island. Neither measure helped, so Dessalines conducted a raid on the Spanish-speaking eastern part of the island. It was a raid to kill whites and capture blacks. It brought back some thousands of conscripts. Like the peasants assigned to forced labor in the fields, they were not called slaves, because slavery was forbidden by law. Whips were also prohibited, but adequate substitutes were found in vines (often with thorns) and sticks. The cocomacac, a heavy cane, could be very persuasive when it did not kill. Laborers, Dessalines pointed out, could be controlled "only by fear of punishment and even death," The Haitians had to kill Dessalines to get rid of him. In the meantime, neither force nor fear could overcome a population schooled in resistance. Many of the plantations were now owned by mulattoes, who found themselves targeted as the new enemy. Like the French before them, they retreated into the cities, creating a color line between rural and urban. Sugar was finished. Even coffee exports dwindled, from 77 million pounds in 1789, at the peak of colonial prosperity, to 43 million in 1801, 32 million in 1832. As foreign earnings shrank, Haiti found it ever harder to make up domestic food shortages by imports. In the end, the government had to give up its hope of restoring cash crops and had to encourage subsistence farming. As the population increased, plots grew smaller, the earth poorer, people hungrier--a downward spiral of squalor and immiserization. It was a poor basis for a democratic polity. This was a country with an elective presidential regime, but it quickly acquired the characteristics of pillage politics. Poor as Haiti was, there was always some surplus to be appropriated. The property of the ruling elite was there for the taking by any coterie strong enough to seize the reins. So in 150 years, Haiti ran through some 30 heads of state, almost none of whom finished his term or got out at the end of it. Many of them died to leave office, and their departures were followed by bloody, racist massacres--blacks revenging themselves on yellows, the yellows getting theirs back. In the long run, the blacks had the best of it, if only because there were more of them and they were the standard-bearers of unconditional negritude. The yellows were always suspected of being too French, in language, dress, and manners

 

LESSONS IN TERRORISM - MUST READ FOR EVERYONE IN NORTH AMERICA

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 21:29

*Lessons in Terrorism - Must read for everyone in North America* Let's stop kidding ourselves that our Governments have terrorism "under control" Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard -- she appointed him to bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City he shared information every North American needs to know - but that our government has not shared with us. He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News, stating publicly that it would happen within a week. O'Reilly laughed, saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. But, unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had already occurred. Juval Aviv gave intelligence (gathered in Israel and Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said Muslims would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant. Now for his future predictions. He claims the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months. Forget airplanes;he says terrorists will NEVER try to hijack a plane again as they know people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv says our airport security is a joke. We've been reactionary rather than using strategies that are truly effective. For example: 1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal; new explosives are plastic. 2) He talked about how a terrorist tried to light his shoe on fire; now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked! Every strategy we have is reactionary and after the fact. 3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates. Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It's easy to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to him to watch his bags for a minute while he runs to the restroom and detonate the bags BEFORE security gets involved. In Israel, security checks your bags BEFORE people even ENTER the airport property. Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, New York , San Francisco , Chicago, shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, as well as rural America this time ( Wyoming , Montana , etc.). The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country involving 5-8 cities and rural areas. Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in larger cities, because at places like MGM Grand in Las Vegas , they can valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away. Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with facts. The world is quickly going to become a different place; issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become irrelevant. On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, easy, effective; they have an abundance of young militants willing to 'meet their destiny'. He says the next level of terrorists which should concern America will not be coming from abroad, but will be 'homegrown' - having been educated in our schools and universities here in North America. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel to the Middle East . These young terrorists are dangerous because they know our language and our habits. However, Americans won't know much about them. Aviv says that Americans are uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still only has a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks. Aviv says it is critical that we change that SOON. So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology. We need to follow Israel,I reland, and England's hands-on examples of human intelligence, as well as to trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to educate ourselves as citizens; however, our government continues to treat its citizens 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth'; they're concerned we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake. Aviv recently executed a security test for Congress by placing empty briefcases in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In Chicago,someone tried to steal the briefcase! In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizens who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. America hasn't been 'hurt enough' for government to understand the need to educate its citizensor to understand that it's their citizens who are the best first-line of defense against terrorism. Aviv was concerned about the number of children in kindergarten after 9/11 who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up. Our schools had no plan to care for the students until parents could get there. He stresses having a plan agreed upon within your family to respond to in the event of an emergency. He urges parents to demand the schools develop plans of action. Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.. Aviv says that the government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way their bombs are detonated... So....How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak?