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HAITI? Instinctive Shooting! Israel USA CIA NSA DIA MOSSAD
US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti
Here we go: New Orleans 2.0 by Jeremy Scahill
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about "looters." After Katrina, the number of private security companies registered (and unregistered) multiplied overnight. Banks, wealthy individuals, the US government all hired private security. I even encountered Israeli mercenaries operating an armed check-point outside of an elite gated community in New Orleans. They worked for a company called Instinctive Shooting International. (That is not a joke).
Now, it is kicking into full gear in Haiti. As we know, the member companies of the Orwellian-named mercenary trade association, the International Peace Operations Association, are offering their services in Haiti. But look for more stories like this one:
On January 15, a Florida based company called All Pro Legal Investigations registered the URL Haiti-Security.com. It is basically a copy of the company.s existing US website but is now targeted for business in Haiti, claiming the "purpose of this site is to act as a clearinghouse for information seekers on the state of security in Haiti."
"All Protection and Security has made a commitment to the Haitian community and will provide professional security against any threat to prosperity in Haiti," the site proclaims. "Job sites and supply convoys will be protected against looters and vandals. Workers will be protected against gang violence and intimidation. The people of Haiti will recover, with the help of the good people from the world over."
The company boasts that it has run "Thousands of successful missions in Iraq & Afghanistan." As for its personnel, "Each and every member of our team is a former Law Enforcement Officer or former Military service member," the site claims. "If Operator experience, training and qualifications matter, choose All Protection & Security for your high-threat Haiti security needs."
Among the services offered are: "High Threat terminations," dealing with "worker unrest," armed guards and "Armed Cargo Escorts." Oh, and apparently they are currently hiring
The Kidnapping of Haiti
by John Pilger - January 28, 2010
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the "swift and crude" appropriation of earthquake-ravaged Haiti by the militarised Obama administration. With George W. Bush attending to the "relief effort" and Bill Clinton the UN's man, The Comedians, Graham Greene's dark novel about exploited Haiti comes to mind.
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured "formal approval" from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to "secure" roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in an American naval blockade and the arrival of 13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and mercenaries, none with humanitarian relief training.
The airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is now an American military base and relief flights have been re-routed to the Dominican Republic. All flights stopped for three hours for the arrival of Hillary Clinton. Critically injured Haitians waited unaided as 800 American residents in Haiti were fed, watered and evacuated. Six days passed before the US Air Force dropped bottled water to people suffering thirst and dehydration.
The first TV reports played a critical role, giving the impression of widespread criminal mayhem. Matt Frei, the BBC reporter dispatched from Washington, seemed on the point of hyperventilation as he brayed about the "violence" and need for "security". In spite of the demonstrable dignity of the earthquake victims, and evidence of citizens. groups toiling unaided to rescue people, and even an American general.s assessment that the violence in Haiti was considerably less than before the earthquake, Frei claimed that "looting is the only industry" and "the dignity of Haiti.s past is long forgotten." Thus, a history of unerring US violence and exploitation in Haiti was consigned to the victims.
"There.s no doubt," reported Frei in the aftermath of America.s bloody invasion of Iraq in 2003, "that the desire to bring good, to bring American values to the rest of the world, and especially now to the Middle East... is now increasingly tied up with military power."
In a sense, he was right. Never before in so-called peacetime have human relations been as militarised by rapacious power. Never before has an American president subordinated his government to the military establishment of his discredited predecessor, as Barack Obama has done. In pursuing George W. Bush.s policy of war and domination, Obama has sought from Congress an unprecedented military budget in excess of $700 billion. He has become, in effect, the spokesman for a military coup.
For the people of Haiti the implications are clear, if grotesque. With US troops in control of their country, Obama has appointed George W. Bush to the "relief effort": a parody surely lifted from Graham Greene.s The Comedians, set in Papa Doc.s Haiti. As president, Bush.s relief effort following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 amounted to an ethnic cleansing of many of New Orleans. black population. In 2004, he ordered the kidnapping of the democratically-elected prime minister of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and exiled him in Africa. The popular Aristide had had the temerity to legislate modest reforms, such as a minimum wage for those who toil in Haiti.s sweatshops.
When I was last in Haiti, I watched very young girls stooped in front of whirring, hissing, binding machines at the Port-au-Prince Superior Baseball Plant. Many had swollen eyes and lacerated arms. I produced a camera and was thrown out. Haiti is where America makes the equipment for its hallowed national game, for next to nothing. Haiti is where Walt Disney contractors make Mickey Mouse pjamas, for next to nothing. The US controls Haiti.s sugar, bauxite and sisal. Rice-growing was replaced by imported American rice, driving people into the cities and towns and jerry-built housing. Years after year, Haiti was invaded by US marines, infamous for atrocities that have been their specialty from the Philippines to Afghanistan.
Bill Clinton is another comedian, having got himself appointed the UN.s man in Haiti. Once fawned upon by the BBC as "Mr. Nice Guy... bringing democracy back to a sad and troubled land", Clinton is Haiti.s most notorious privateer, demanding de-regulation of the economy for the benefit of the sweatshop barons. Lately, he has been promoting a $55m deal to turn the north of Haiti into an American-annexed "tourist playground".
Not for tourists is the US building its fifth biggest embassy in Port-au-Prince. Oil was found in Haiti.s waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington.s "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela.s abundant oil reserves and sabotage of the growing regional cooperation that has given millions their first taste of an economic and social justice long denied by US-sponsored regimes.
The first rollback success came last year with the coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya in Honduras who also dared advocate a minimum wage and that the rich pay tax. Obama.s secret support for the illegal regime carries a clear warning to vulnerable governments in central America. Last October, the regime in Colombia, long bankrolled by Washington and supported by death squads, handed the US seven military bases to, according to US air force documents, "combat anti-US governments in the region".
Media propaganda has laid the ground for what may well be Obama.s next war. On 14 December, researchers at the University of West England published first findings of a ten-year study of the BBC.s reporting of Venezuela. Of 304 BBC reports, only three mentioned any of the historic reforms of the Chavez government, while the majority denigrated Chavez.s extraordinary democratic record, at one point comparing him to Hitler.
Such distortion and its attendant servitude to western power are rife across the Anglo-American corporate media. People who struggle for a better life, or for life itself, from Venezuela to Honduras to Haiti, deserve our support.


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End of the Day!! Ready for our own beds in CA!!!
Monley coming in for re-check
Haiti's mobile pharmacy
Day 14 post quake triaging patients starting to see people complaining of anxiety emotional distress mental health is really going to be needed.So depressing:(
Mosquitos are horrible!!!
Systems are being put in place at University Hospital in Port Au Prince... working well considering the conditions. More teams going out and establishing mobile clinics. A long way to go but heading in the right direction. Volunteers continue to come in still a great demand for nurses:) Anyone interested can contact International Medical Corps.
ready to get home and go back to "normal"
Coming home Saturday. Will spend the day with Monley before leaving:)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
day 10
5:15 a.m. PST
Day 10....Monley is due to come by and make sure his pneomonia is doing better spoke with the CNN crew and they will text me when they locate him and will bring him to hospital for re-check..Anderson thinks I need to adopt him:)
Good morning USA:) Ready for another day. Spirits are high sending our love and missing everyone!!!
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
update on monley
2:50 p.m. PST
he came by to see me today. he wasn't feeling well and he has pneumonia. we gave antibiotics and will check on him tomorrow. :)
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Hope For Haiti Now Telethon
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Friday, January 22, 2010
great to see him again!
11:56 a.m. PST:
so i saw my little boy today it was great to see him!
8:42 p.m. PST
thank you for your support. whatever it takes to get the work out. Haiti needs help and anything donated to IMC (International Medical Corps) will be great appreciated.
so i saw my little boy today it was great to see him!
8:42 p.m. PST
thank you for your support. whatever it takes to get the work out. Haiti needs help and anything donated to IMC (International Medical Corps) will be great appreciated.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
From 1/21/10 LA Times:
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Gary Elize was gloomily looking for one last body Wednesday in the flattened apartment where his brother and sister-in-law had died: that of their 5-year-old child. He said he spotted the boy's leg in the rubble and put on a pair of surgical gloves, preparing to extract it.
Then, the leg moved.
Elize told of how he and several friends dug furiously in the steamy heat and unearthed Monley Elize -- dirt-caked, dehydrated, emaciated and scuffed up, but otherwise unhurt.
Monley's first words were whispered. "I want some juice."
Trapped for nearly eight days -- seven days, 21 hours -- the boy was alive.
Gary Elize raced into the street with the boy in his arms to find a ride to the hospital.
The man who stopped was Neil Joyce, 54, a San Diego doctor with the Los Angeles-based relief agency International Medical Corps. Joyce put Monley and his uncle into the car and drove to the IMC clinic in the sprawling General Hospital, near the ruins of the presidential palace.
When Monley arrived, nurses and doctors started an IV.
"He could barely talk, he was so weak," said Gabriella McAdoo, 35, an IMC emergency room nurse who works at Stanford University Medical Center. "Then he started perking up. It's absolutely just a miracle. No fractures and hardly any scrapes."
Speaking from his bed at the clinic an hour later, Monley said he felt "fine," and drained a bottle of water in a few seconds.
"That's his third one since he got here," McAdoo said.
His uncle said Monley, his father and mother lived on the ground floor of a three-story apartment building in east Port-au-Prince. Both of Monley's parents died in the temblor, a fact that the boy seemed a bit too dazed to fully absorb.
Elize, who also lost his home, had pulled the bodies of Monley's mother and father out a week ago and buried them. He had resigned himself to the sad task of picking through the rubble to find his nephew's body, and had been working on the rock pile for several days, feeling no sense of urgency because he was convinced that the boy was dead.
Monley said the day of the quake had been his father's birthday, and his father was relaxing in the house as they prepared to celebrate. When the apartment began to shake, Monley said, "I tried to run but a door fell and blocked me, and my shirt got ripped." He said he knelt in a corner of the apartment, with his head cocked to the side, as the building came down. And that's how they found him.
When Joyce arrived on the scene, he saw a crowd of 50 people gathered around a man who had tears in his eyes and was holding a small child covered with dust.
"I thought, oh no, a dead child. But as I got closer, I could tell the child was breathing."
The crowd was trying to help Elize and his nephew into a crowded bus, so Joyce stopped and offered to take them to the hospital. They climbed into the car and Joyce noticed that "the child's head was floppy and he was whimpering. His skin was deeply wrinkled and showed signs of severe dehydration."
"The whole thing really was a miracle," Joyce said. "Here was a devastated place with tremendous needs, and when you see something like this happen, and a crowd that was so clearly excited and happy . . . well, it was really inspirational."
Gary Elize, 24, is Monley's only surviving relative, and he is concerned that he won't be able to properly care for the boy. Elize doesn't have a job, and he's been living in a tent camp near his old home.
"I don't have anything, and I don't see how I can do this," Elize said. "But I know I must."
Monley's chart at the clinic read: "Found under rubble after 8 days." And it noted that he had complained of "belly button pain."
"He was so thin when he came in that his belly was almost touching his back," McAdoo said. He was placed in a bed and, smiling weakly, gave one doctor a fist-bump.
After three hours in the clinic, Monley had taken a few bites of rice and appeared to regain a little strength.
"You're going to be sore," McAdoo told him. "But you're just fine."
Dr. Colleen Buono, from San Diego, questioned him, making sure he knew his name and could identify his uncle. She said he was ready to leave, making room for others.
The IMC staff dressed Monley in an X-Men T-shirt and Spider-Man shorts. They helped him to his feet and, though wobbly, he clearly was remarkably unscathed. The doctors decided he could be discharged, but they sent him to the hospital pediatric ward overnight, as a precaution.
As the nurses and doctors who had treated him gathered to watch, Monley was carried in his uncle's arms down the hill to the pediatric ward.
Sometime today, Monley will return to the streets where miracles are rare.
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