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Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by bawomolo(m): 9:52pm On Jan 25, 2010 |
*Hauwa*: word |
Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by Nobody: 4:52pm On Jan 26, 2010 |
debosky: I only wished you did the same. I looked at the "evidence previously unknown" to me . . . compared it to what happened to states like Japan or Cuba. Epic fail. |
Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by Arnold1(m): 8:36pm On Jan 26, 2010 |
Haba David, the country just experienced an earthquake. It cannot be neglected. The issues you are raising (negroid devoid of being self reliant) should hold another day. Right now, peoples' lives are at stake. |
Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by cap28: 12:44am On Jan 27, 2010 |
davidylan: Davidylan please go and research Haiti's history before spouting junk on here - maybe this article might help: Even in its hour of utter devastation, Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, teaches the rest of the world some valuable truths. This Caribbean island nation of nine million people has right now a third of its population cut off from basic supplies of food, water, medicine or shelter. In the blink of an eye, the earthquake that hit the country has buried a capital city of three million people under rubble for which the eventual death toll may be between 100,000 and 500,000. Just like that. Like shutting the proverbial stable door after the horse has bolted, the US and other world powers are promising to send emergency aid to Haiti. Well intentioned no doubt. But where was the aid and economic development assistance to Haiti – over half the population live on $1 a day and 80 per cent are classed as poor – in the years before this calamity? Haiti’s poverty – as for other poor countries hit by natural disasters – leaves its people wide open to the kind of devastation that has befallen them. And make no mistake, Haiti’s poverty is not just bad luck or something inherently faulty about its natural resources and people. The country has been kept underdeveloped by decades of political and economic interference from Washington to ensure that this former slave colony continues to serve as a cheap source of agricultural exports to the US and as a labour sweatshop for American corporations making textiles and other consumer goods. While Washington spends $1,000 billion on wars allegedly to combat the threat of terrorism, Haiti’s poor – whose country’s economy is valued at $7 billion – show us a sobering perspective on what a real threat to life looks like. We live in a physical world where floods, tsunamis, earthquakes happen. These disasters claim multiple more lives than the threats that the US is fixated on and spends multiples more money on. Can you imagine how many lives could have been saved in Haiti’s earthquake if a fraction of the money squandered on futile wars had been directed to economic and social development of that country? Of course, the moral and sensible logic of that idea does not apply in a world dictated by Washington’s foreign policy. This is because of the imperatives and logic of US-led capitalism, which requires countries like Haiti to be kept in a state of poverty for the sake of corporate profit and which requires the fixation on illusionary threats to cover up its need to control geopolitical resources (mainly energy). This is the true face of the economic system that Washington and its allies impose on the world. And Haiti has pulled the mask of this ugly face. The harrowing anguish and suffering of Haiti teaches us something else. Heart-rending reports of streets filled with corpses and blood running from under rubble, children crying for parents, parents digging with their fingers for children, the sound of dying voices pervading the darkness of night. This is the horror of hundreds of thousands of people suddenly engulfed by suffering. Some observers have compared what has happened in Haiti to the aftermath of an atom bomb being dropped. So the next time, Washington spokespeople airily float plans on Sunday morning chat shows to obliterate Iran – that other “serious threat” (meaning not serious threat) – we should remember: this is what human suffering on a massive scale looks like. Finian Cunningham is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Finian Cunningham http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CUN20100114&articleId=16964 |
Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by Busybody2(f): 10:07pm On Apr 18, 2010 |
cap28 : Cap28 Thanks for always stating the truth as it is. Phew, Zimbabwe had a narrow escape from being brought to its knees too, otherwise it would have met the same fate as Haiti. They already had Zimbabwe by the chokehold - Denying them credit facility needed to purchase farming equipments, forcing them to repay their loan straightaway to cripple the economy, not slating the white farmers for destroying their machineries, refusing Mugabe the chance to peg the of price of goods to give them the chance to ridicule him for the high rate of inflation which would ensue as a result, etc. Funny enough, the US after installing their puppet Doc (substitute for Tsvangirai) was boasting about the success they had of liberating them from Jean Paul Aristides who they claimed had ruled too long, (Mugabe) and making life better for them, which ironically was the same period Kobojunkie posted an article stating Haitians were now relying on mudcakes to survive due to the abject povertry the Country became entrenched in . . . Thank God Zimbabwe is landlocked and thank God their neighbouring Countries did not give in to the demand of the West to stage their "shock and awe" moves on Zimbabwe |
Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by Ndipe(m): 12:46am On Feb 11, 2011 |
Nothing wrong in helping the underprivileged, Davidyland, get off your high horse, those victims are in such situations, mostly because of their government. Bill Cosby received flak from people like Dyson for his attack on underprivileged blacks. |
Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by thameamead(f): 11:26am On Mar 11, 2011 |
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Re: Davidylan Challenges Motivation & Usefulness of 'Relief Efforts' for Haiti by Nobody: 3:06pm On Mar 11, 2011 |
@Cap28, Vintage cap28! Disseminating historical facts to a world where truth is: -'hidden in plain sight' -distorted via propanganda & 'spin' -conspiracy theory to d 'sheeples' who are already dumbed down via the media (foxnews, nollywood etc) Haiti's crime is simply that they stand up for their right demanding liberty, justice & freedom Their punishment by the imperialists/slavemasters is domination,subjugation & humiliation via invasions, embargo/sanctions & puppet govt Haiti is kept as an example to systems, nations et al who dare to disobey. A deterrence of what awaits them if they revolt. Refuse to be dumbed down, search historical fact & stop parrotting the imperialist propaganda. For a starter, read ''The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins'' & watch the scales from your eyes Singing Bob Marley's Redemption song ''emancipate urself from mental slavery - - -'' |
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