US Red Cross
is out of medical
supplies in Haiti
The
Associated Press
Ricardo
Arduengo
An
earthquake
victim is
carried
from a
vehicle
to a
funeral
home in
Port-au-Prince,
Haiti,
Wednesday,
Jan. 13,
2010. The
7.0-magnitude
earthquake
that hit
Haiti on
Tuesday
flattened
the
president's
palace,
the
cathedral,
hospitals,
schools,
the main
prison and
whole
neighborhoods.
A spokesman for
the American Red
Cross says the aid
organization has
run out of medical
supplies in Haiti.
Red Cross
spokesman Eric
Porterfield said
Wednesday that the
small amount of
medical equipment
and medical
supplies that were
available in Haiti
has been
distributed.
The Red Cross
is sending more
medical supplies
to Haiti, but
Porterfield says
he does not know
when they will
arrive.
Porterfield
says he doesn't
know if the
depletion of
medical supplies
is preventing
victims in
critical condition
from being
treated.
A devastating
earthquake struck
the Caribbean
nation on Tuesday.
Cost dispute
halts airlift of
Haiti quake
victims -Feds
want miami to
Shoulder the
whole World's
responsibility
to treat injured
Haitians at
it's own cost
without federal
financial help !
Cost dispute
halts airlift of
Haiti quake
victims - MSNBC
Articles
Address:http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=35156892
I Having
lived through
this in Miami
several times
with mass
immigrations
from Cuba, I
knew within
hours of hearing
about the earth
quake in Haiti
that Miami would
be the place the
injured and
probably a
lot of the newly
homeless Hatians
would be brought
with little or
no
financial aid
from the fed
govt or the
other
possibility that
has
happened with
Cubans over the
years is that
the Fed Govt
would give them
everything
subsidized
housing,
welfare, food
stamps, medicaid,
small
business
administration
loans in the
hundreds of
thousands of
dollars
over and over
each time their
business failed
or had
suspicious
midnight
burglaries ?
I believe the
fed govt did
this to show the
World how much
better
Capitalism is
than Cuba's
Communism, But
the Cubans many
of whom were
only allowed to
stay in the USA
because they
said they were
escaping
Communism and
wanted free
speech and free
elections, Never
saw a U.S.
Socialist
program they did
not accept in
their own names
and some in a
couple
additional made
up names.
All of these
same benefits
Not being
available to
unemployed and
homeless
Americans ! (I
asked for a SBA
loan and was
told, Yes if you
have a paid off
house to put up
as collateral !)
Cost dispute
halts airlift of
Haiti quake
victims - MSNBC
Articles
Address:http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=35156892
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On CNN last night Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive talked to the network's Christiane Amanpour about the unsettling reality of trafficking of human organs from victims in the wake of the earthquake that struck a few weeks ago.
"A lot of organizations - they come and they say there were children on the streets," Bellerive said. "They are going to bring them to the States -- we have already reports of trafficking, even of organ trafficking."
AMANPOUR: And do you know for sure that children are being trafficked now
BELLERIVE: There are children trafficking for children and adult persons, also. Because they need
all types of organs.
AMANPOUR: No, but I mean live children. Are they being trafficked now?
BELLERIVE: The reports I receive; yes.
As TIME reported, the fact that vulnerable children in Haiti are the target of predators is something many organizations are concerned about:
Pean isn't the only one concerned. Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive on Tuesday expressed the fear that amid the clamor to airlift Haitian orphans out of the devastated country to waiting adoptive parents in the U.S. and Europe, others are being trafficked. The U.N. says it's on alert to prevent the exploitation of the thousands of Haitian kids who've lost or been separated from their parents and who wander aimlessly in search of food, water and shelter. UNICEF, the U.N.'s child advocacy arm, as well as groups like Save the Children and the Red Cross, say they're registering at-risk kids and setting up shelters exclusively for them. Says one UNICEF official monitoring reports of scenes like the one witnessed by Pean, "Traffickers fish in pools of vulnerability, and we've rarely if ever seen one like this.
MANY E-MAILS ARE
COMING IN WITH
CONSPIRACY STORIES
THAT POINT TOWARDS
THE EARTHQUAKE NOT
BEING A NATURAL
EVENT.
The desperate, evil, Bush Nazis attack Haiti with a Tesla Earthquake machine
The recent earthquake in Haiti was caused by an earthquake machine using technology developed by Nicola Tesla, according to MI6. The earthquake machine is not HAARP as I have previously suggested but rather some sort of nuclear device, according to this source and a CIA source. The CIA source says an expedition sent to the epicenter of the Indonesian earthquake that triggered the tsunami found it to be totally lifeless one year later, something that could only be explained by radiation. “The oil companies won a war and got rights to the oil in that region and nobody even heard about it,” the CIA source said.
In confirmation of these comments, recently declassified documents show the US government planned to attack Japan with a tsunami towards the end of World War 2 by setting of a large explosion along an underwater fault zone.
The attack on Haiti was a Bush/Nazi faction response to the ongoing cut off of their financial assets, according to the sources. The attack cut undersea cables and prevented the transfer of large sums of money to South American central banks. In addition, the attack was a warning by the Nazi faction saying: “If you squeeze us too hard we will start killing lots of people.” These criminals need to be punished for these evil acts.
Multiple sources are also saying a new 911 type incident is becoming increasingly probable as financial deadlines for the Federal Reserve Board approach. One important deadline is expected at the end of this month.
The sources also say the Federal Reserve Board crime syndicate sold China the anti-missile defense technology recently announced by China. These traitors to the US are almost certainly selling other types of secret technology to China in a desperate bid to keep themselves from going bankrupt.
Meanwhile, two sources who claim connections to the Pentagon Space Command say there will be major disclosure coming soon. Since there is plenty of evidence the Nazis planned a fake alien invasion, these “announcements” (if they really come) need to be examined very carefully and skeptically.
In Japan meanwhile, a decision has been made by the secret government to put power broker Ichiro Ozawa in jail in order to prevent him from forming a dictatorship.
Events are escalating and much turmoil is predicted as the ancient secret government goes through its death throes.
FROM:
http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/
DISA/SOUTHCOM/JCSE
ran
COMPLEX
HAITI
RELIEF
DRILLS
day
before
EARTHQUAKE!
Well folks
here it is.
The New
World Order
is ushering
in their
virtual
command and
control
governance,
forced web
portal
(information
dictatorship)
GIG
infrastructure
components
into place.
This is a
real world
roll-out of
what will be
put in place
globally.
Denying the
use of cell
phones
because non
IP based
information
cannot be
forcibly
controlled
via Role
Based
Authentication
like a 100%
IP based
information
infrastructure
can be.
"He who
controls the
spice,
controls the
universe."
He who
controls all
information,
controls the
universe.
Information
is as
powerful as
food with
respect to
the level of
enslavement
that can be
attained by
controlling
it to the
nth degree.
The web
portals are
a component
of the
fascist
terrorists
who carried
out 9/11
directly--the
members of
the Network
Centric
Operations
Industry
Consortium
(technological
dictatorship
arm of
Bilderberg/CSIS/CFR)
and the
AFCEA
(military
dictatorship
arm of
Bilderberg/CSIS/CFR).
Joint
Deployment
Distribution
Support
Platform (JDDSP)
Live Free or
Die Hard IV:
Agility
driven
Supply Chain
Eugenics
Economy
Exposed
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=109649.msg674543#msg674543
Strategic
Mobility 21
Program: A
Transformational
Service
Oriented
Integration
of Agile
Ports and
Strategic
Port Power
Projection
Remember the
most
important
thing in any
false flag.
Like any
good
criminal
investigator:
FIND OUT IF
THERE IS A
MOTIVE, THEN
DETERMINE
WHAT THAT
MOTIVE IS.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100115_9940.php
Defense
launches
online
system to
coordinate
Haiti relief
efforts
By Bob
Brewin
01/15/2010
Workers load
an Air Force
jet with
supplies and
equipment at
March Air
Reserve Base
in
California.
As personnel
representing
hundreds of
government
and
nongovernment
agencies
from around
the world
rush to the
aid of
earthquake-devastated
Haiti, the
Defense
Information
Systems
Agency has
launched a
Web portal
with
multiple
social
networking
tools to aid
in
coordinating
their
efforts.
On Monday,
Jean Demay,
DISA's
technical
manager for
the agency's
Transnational
Information
Sharing
Cooperation
project,
happened
to be at the
headquarters
of the
U.S.
Southern
Command in
Miami
preparing
for a test
of the
system in a
scenario
that
involved
providing
relief to
Haiti in the
wake of a
hurricane.
After the
earthquake
hit on
Tuesday,
Demay said
SOUTHCOM
decided to
go live with
the system.
On
Wednesday,
DISA opened
up its
All Partners
Access
Network,
supported by
the
Transnational
Information
Sharing
Cooperation
project, to
any
organization
supporting
Haiti relief
efforts.
The
information
sharing
project,
developed
with backing
from both
SOUTHCOM and
the Defense
Department's
European
Command, has
been in
development
for three
years.
It is
designed to
facilitate
multilateral
collaboration
between
federal and
nongovernmental
agencies.
Demay said
that since
DISA set up
a Haiti
Humanitarian
Assistance
and Disaster
Relief
Community of
Interest on
APAN on
Wednesday,
almost 500
organizations
and
individuals
have joined,
including a
range of
Defense
units and
various
nongovernmental
organizations
and relief
groups.
APAN
provides a
series of
collaboration
tools,
including
geographical
information
systems,
wikis,
YouTube and
MySpace-like
pages and
multilingual
chat rooms.
Meanwhile,
other
organizations
are tackling
different
technological
challenges.
Gianluca
Bruni, the
Dubai-based
information
technology
chief for
emergency
preparedness
and response
for the
World Food
Programme,
is setting
up networks
and systems
to support
United
Nations and
nongovernmental
organizations
in Haiti.
WFP already
has
dispatched
two
communications
kits to
Haiti, with
satellite
systems that
operate at 1
megabit per
second and
can support
up to 100
users. It
also has
sent laptop
computers,
Wi-Fi access
points and
long-range
point-to-point
wireless
systems to
connect
remote users
to the
satellite
terminals.
Bruni said
eventually
WFP plans to
set up cyber
cafés in
Haiti for
use all
relief
workers in
the country.[/color]
Jon
Anderson, a
DISA
spokesman,
said the
agency is
supplying 10
megabits of
satellite
capacity to
Navy, Marine
and Air
Force units
engaged in
the Haiti
relief
operation.
Many of the
relief
organizations
and agencies
in Haiti are
bringing
their own
radio
systems to
the country.
DISA has
deployed a
three-person
team from
its
Joint
Spectrum
Management
Element
to help
manage radio
frequency
spectrum.
The Joint
Forces
Command's
Joint
Communications
Support
Element
deployed two
teams
equipped
with
satellite
systems and
VoIP phones
to support
SOUTHCOM in
Port-au-Prince
late
Wednesday.
Those
systems were
operational
"in a matter
of hours,"
said JCSE
Chief of
Staff Chris
Wilson. The
organization
will send
another team
to Haiti in
the next few
days.
Wilson said
JCSE was
able to get
its gear
into Haiti
quickly
because the
systems
already were
loaded on
pallets in
Miami in
preparation
for an
exercise
that has
been
cancelled.
So many
governments
and agencies
from around
the world
have
responded to
the crisis
in Haiti
that they
have
overwhelmed
the ability
of the
Port-au-Prince
airport to
handle
incoming
relief
flights. The
Federal
Aviation
Administration
has had a
ground-stop
on aircraft
headed for
Haiti for
much of the
past two
days.
FAA warned
in an
advisory
Friday that
"due to
limited ramp
space at
Port-au-Prince
airport,"
with the
exception of
international
cargo
flights,
"the
Haitians are
not
accepting
any aircraft
into their
airspace."
The advisory
added that
domestic
U.S.
military and
civilian
flights to
Haiti must
be first be
cleared by
its command
center.
Exemptions
will be
based solely
on the basis
of ramp
space. The
agency also
starkly
warned
"there is no
available
fuel" at the
Port-au-Prince
airport.
Excerpted
from:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=155697.0
Personnel
accountability
system live
AF-wide; May
exercise
planned
Posted
4/22/09
by Maj. Beth
Kelley
Horine
Air Force
Personnel
Center
Public
Affairs
4/22/2009 - RANDOLPH
AIR FORCE
BASE, Texas
(AFNS) -- Air
Force
officials
implemented
the Air
Force
Personnel
Accountability
and
Assessment
System April
1. The new
program
improves
global
disaster
personnel
accountability
management,
reporting
and case
management
across the
force. They
plan to test
the system
in a
force-wide
exercise May
19 to 21.
"The May
exercise
will
evaluate
AFPAAS to
ensure the
Air Force is
truly ready
for the 2009
hurricane
season,"
said Tim
Beyland, Air
Force
Manpower and
Personnel
assistant
deputy chief
of staff.
Designed to
synchronize
Air Force
reporting
with the
Department
of Defense's
accountability
system,
AFPAAS meets
combatant
commander
and DOD
requirements
for
personnel
tracking by
ensuring
accountability
of all Air
Force
personnel, including
active duty
Airmen and
family
members,
Guardsmen,
reservists,
most
civilians
and
contractors
overseas.
"The only
civilian
employees
not
currently
required to
use AFPAAS
are
bargaining
employees,
due to union
requirements,"
said Maj.
Romero Reid,
Air Force
Personnel
Directorate
Current
Operations
Branch
deputy
chief, "but
they still
must
continue to
report their
accountability
status as
normal and
their unit
control
center will,
in turn,
update
AFPAAS. We
are pursuing
coordination
with the
labor unions
to allow
bargaining
unit
employees to
use AFPAAS."
An Air
Force-wide
exercise
held March
16-20 tested
the AFPAAS
system. The
exercise
allowed Air
Force
leaders to
identify
lessons
learned and
work through
some issues
before the
program went
live April
1.
The March
exercise
achieved its
goal to
orient and
familiarize
Air Force
representatives
with AFPAAS,
according to
Major Reid.
"Over
750,000
members were
accounted
for in the
system," he
said. This
was a huge
success.
However,
we're not
done yet.
The exercise
showed the
need for one
last
fine-tuning
exercise
before the
2009
hurricane
season,"
Major Reid
added,
referring to
the planned
exercise in
May.
Lessons
learned
submitted
from the
March
exercise
highlighted
challenges
related to
training,
labor
relations,
privacy
concerns and
lack of
understanding
of disaster
accountability
roles and
responsibilities
by
commanders
and members.
"These
challenges
are
aggressively
being
addressed
and will be
closely
evaluated
during the
May
exercise,"
said Mr.
Beyland.
The benefits
of AFPAAS
include
allowing
commanders
and units to
account,
assess,
manage and
monitor the
recovery and
reconstitution
process for
personnel
and their
families
affected
and/or
scattered by
a
wide-spread
catastrophic
event, every
step of the
way.
"AFPAAS
provides
valuable
accountability
at all
levels of
the Air
Force chain
of command,
enhancing
the
commanders'
ability to
make
strategic
decisions,"
said Brian
Angell, Air
Force
Personnel
Center
Personnel
Readiness
Cell
Operations
chief.
It also
decreases
labor costs
and manual
steps from
the previous
accountability
process Air
Force
officials
used, he
added.
As of April
1, Air Force
personnel
and family
members log
into
https://afpaas.af.mil
or
call 1-800-435-9941
to report
individual
and family
member
status if
affected by
a disaster
or crisis.
"AFPAAS is a
simple and
secure
system for
all users.
Anyone can
input their
details from
any internet
connection
or telephone
world-wide,
increasing
the access
and ease of
use for all
personnel
and family
members,"
Mr. Angell
said.
"However,
protection
of privacy
is
paramount,
and only
pre-approved
trusted
agents,
commanders
and their
designated
representatives
with CAC
access,
roles and
permissions
can view
personal
information,"
Mr. Angell
added.
Using AFPAAS
also helps
speed up the
process to
help
affected
family
members in
need of
assistance.
AFPAAS helps
commanders
identify and
verify
assistance
or aid
eligibility
and
entitlements
for affected
personnel
and their
families
prior to or
immediately
following a
disaster.
Web-based
AFPAAS
training is
available
for leaders,
commanding
officer
representatives
and
readiness
personnel,
as required,
and can be
scheduled
through
major
command
personnel
directorates.
For more
information
about AFPAAS,
visit the
Web site at
https://afpaas.af.mil,
or contact
your unit
commander.
Comment on
this story
(comments
may be
published on
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Title:
NATO
ships
enter
Black
Sea
for
exercises
-
planned
one
year
ago
just
like
Georgia's
attack
Source:
IHT
from
AP
URL
Source:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008
...
1/europe/EU-NATO-Black-Sea.php
Published:
Aug
21,
2008
Author:
Associated
Press
NATO
ships
enter
Black
Sea
for
exercises
BRUSSELS,
Belgium:
NATO
warships
entered
the
Black
Sea
on
Thursday
for
what
the
alliance
said
were
long-planned
exercises
and
routine
visits
to
ports
in
Romania
and
Bulgaria.
The
move
is
not
linked
to
the
tensions
over
Russia's
invasion
of
Georgia,
which
lies
on
the
eastern
shore
of
the
Black
Sea,
about
900
kilometers
(550
miles)
from
the
Romanian
coast,
said
officials
at
NATO's
military
command
in
southern
Belgium.
Three
warships
—
from
Spain,
Germany
and
Poland
—
sailed
into
the
Black
Sea
on
Thursday.
They
are
due
to
be
joined
by
a
U.S.
frigate,
the
USS
Taylor,
later
this
week.
They
are
"conducting
a
pre-planned
routine
visit
to
the
Black
Sea
region
to
interact
and
exercise
with
our
NATO
partners
Romania
and
Bulgaria,
which
is
an
important
feature
of
our
routine
planning,"
said
Vice-Adm.
Pim
Bedet,
deputy
commander
at
allied
maritime
headquarters
in
Northwood,
England.
However,
the
move
risks
increasing
tensions
with
Russia
which
has
deployed
ships
from
its
Black
Sea
fleet
to
the
Georgian
coast.
The
NATO
flotilla
includes
Spain's
SPS
Adm.
Juan
de
Bourbon,
Germany's
FGS
Luebeck
and
the
Polish
ship
ORP
General
K
Pulaski.
Romanian
and
Bulgarian
ships
will
join
them
for
exercises
during
a
three-week
deployment
which
NATO
says
has
been
planned
for
over
a
year.
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for
International
Herald
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NATO
sends
more
ships
into
Black
Sea
INSTANBUL/MOSCOW,
August
23
(RIA
Novosti)
-
NATO
has
sent
a
Polish
frigate
and
a
U.S.
destroyer
through
the
Bosporus
to
boost
its
presence
in
the
Black
Sea,
where
it
is
delivering
humanitarian
cargoes
to
Georgia,
a
source
in
the
Turkish
navy
said.
"Two
more
NATO
ships
passed
through
the
strait
and
entered
the
Black
Sea
on
Friday
evening,"
the
source
told
RIA
Novosti.
The
deputy
head
of
Russia's
General
Staff
said
the
Navy
was
aware
that
NATO
was
strengthening
its
presence
in
the
sea.
"The
situation
in
the
Black
Sea
is
escalating.
NATO
is
continuing
to
build
up
its
naval
presence
in
the
area,"
Col.
Gen.
Anatoly
Nogovitsyn
told
reporters
Saturday.
A
Navy
officer
said
Friday
that
Russia
would
continue
its
operations
to
ensure
the
security
of
shipping
to
and
from
Georgia's
separatist
republic
of
Abkhazia.
"The
Black
Sea
fleet
continues
to
carry
out
its
task
of
maritime
traffic
security
patrols
off
the
coast
of
Abkhazia,"
Captain
Igor
Dygalo
said.
The
ORP
General
Pulaski
and
the
USS
McFaul
joined
two
ships
from
Germany
and
Spain
that
entered
the
sea
earlier
Friday.
The
Turkish
navy
source
expected
the
NATO
presence
in
the
Black
Sea
to
grow
to
about
seven
vessels.
Nogovitsyn
on
Friday
expressed
doubts
that
NATO
vessels
needed
to
be
in
the
Black
Sea,
and
he
promised
that
Russia
would
respond
swiftly
to
any
provocations
against
its
Black
Sea
Fleet.
Tensions
between
NATO
and
Russia
are
high
following
the
recent
conflict
over
Georgia's
breakaway
region
of
South
Ossetia.
Russian
military
slams
NATO's
Black
Sea
presence
The
guided-missile
destroyer
USS
Mc
Faul
(R)
passes
through
the
Bosphorus
Strait
in
Istanbul,
Turkey,
22
August
2008.
The
USS
Mc
Faul
is
the
first
of
three
US
Navy
ships
carrying
supplies
such
as
blankets,
hygiene
kits
and
baby
food
to
Georgia
via
the
Turkish
Straits
to
help
the
country
following
its
war
with
Russia
over
the
breakaway
republic
of
South
Ossetia.
EPA/TOLGA
BOZOGLU
Moscow
-
The
Russian
military
Saturday
criticized
the
presence
of
NATO
naval
vessels
in
the
Black
Sea
given
the
current
conflict
in
Georgia.
'NATO
is
enhancing
its
military
presence
on
the
Black
Sea
under
the
pretext
of
providing
humanitarian
aid,'
Deputy
Chief
of
Staff
Anatoly
Nogovitsyn
said,
according
to
a
report
by
the
Interfax
news
agency.
'This
does
not
contribute
to
stability
in
the
region,'
the
colonel
general
added.
The
US
destroyer
USS
McFaul
is
currently
on
its
way
to
Georgia
carrying
aid
supplies,
passing
the
Bosphorus
on
Friday
evening,
accompanied
by
a
Polish
naval
vessel.
Two
more
US
naval
vessels
are
scheduled
to
pass
the
straits
off
Istanbul
headed
for
the
Georgian
coast
in
the
coming
days.
Several
other
NATO
naval
vessels
passed
the
straits
into
the
Black
Sea
on
Thursday
on
their
way
to
a
naval
exercise
off
the
coasts
of
NATO
members
Bulgaria
and
Romania
in
the
western
part
of
the
sea.
According
to
NATO,
the
exercise
was
planned
more
than
a
year
ago.
Russian
security
source
says
Georgia
planned
attack
year
ahead
MOSCOW,
August
23
(RIA
Novosti)
-
Georgia
planned
the
military
operation
against
its
breakaway
republic
of
South
Ossetia
a
year
in
advance,
a
source
in
one
of
Russia's
security
bodies
said
Saturday.
The
source
also
told
RIA
Novosti
that
the
operation
was
coordinated
with
NATO's
plans
to
strengthen
its
naval
presence
in
the
Black
Sea.
"The
statements
of
some
NATO
representatives
that
the
maneuvers
of
the
alliance's
ships
in
the
Black
Sea
were
planned
a
year
ago
are
evidence
that
attacks
on
South
Ossetia
and
Abkhazia
were
planned
earlier,
maybe
even
last
year,"
the
source
said.
A
NATO
representative
earlier
said
that
the
three-week
deployment
-
which
includes
stops
at
Romanian
and
Bulgarian
ports
-
was
planned
at
least
a
year
ago,
well
before
the
conflict
in
Georgia.
Already
under
strain
due
to
NATO's
courting
of
Ukraine
and
Georgia,
and
over
U.S.
missile
defense
plans
in
Eastern
Europe,
relations
between
the
alliance
and
Russia
have
frayed
badly
since
Georgia's
attack
on
South
Ossetia
and
Russia's
subsequent
military
operation.
In
the
opinion
of
the
source,
NATO's
buildup
of
naval
force
in
the
Black
Sea
under
the
cover
of
providing
humanitarian
aid
to
Georgia,
sets
a
dangerous
precedent
and
may
sharply
destabilize
the
situation
in
the
region.
Speaking
Friday
at
RIA
Novosti
news
conference,
the
deputy
chief
of
the
Russian
military's
general
staff
expressed
doubts
whether
it
is
necessary
to
have
NATO
vessels
in
the
Black
Sea
delivering
humanitarian
aid
to
Georgia.
"Now
that
the
conflict
[with
South
Ossetia]
is
exhausted,
there
are
NATO
vessels
[in
the
Black
Sea].
What
for
and
with
what
aim?"
Col.
Gen.
Anatoly
Nogovitsyn
said.
He
also
said
Russia
would
reply
swiftly
to
all
provocations
against
its
Black
Sea
Fleet.
We
must
win
in
Iraq.
If
we
withdraw,
there
will
be
chaos;
there
will
be
genocide;
and
they
will
follow
us
home.
-
John
McCain
What
the
alternative
[on-line]
press
is
saying...fyi.
-----Original
Message-----
For those who know how race and media intersect in times of crisis, the earthquake in Haiti has probably sent a bump through your pop-cultural seismograph. Now it's becoming a flashpoint.
Following an initial wave of sympathy, the corporate media has turned an alarmed eye to the increasingly desperate masses. We see unruly mobs, bodies piled in the streets (we hear of corpses being used as human "barricades"). The insinuations and direct reporting of violence flirt with the popular imagination and evoke memories of America's most spectacular prime-time tragedy-Katrina.
The AP reports that the U.S. may consider stepping up its "security role," while its humanitarian effort continues to hobble amid transportation delays, logistical chaos and dubious political machinations. Announcing plans to expand the U.S. ground deployment, Adm. Mike Mullen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday, "The initial intent is to strategically place some of our soldiers so that they can help with that relief distribution. And then, obviously, we're all focused on the security piece as well,"
(That "security piece" has been a pretty huge chunk of America's entanglement with Haiti throughout the 20th century, punctuated by military interventions and occupation. Six years after the last U.S.-backed coup, maybe the Pentagon has a hankering for another extended stay.) In the eyes of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, delivering help to people requires exerting control:
Gates said the primary goal was to distribute aid as quickly as possible "so that people don't, in their desperation, turn to violence." He suggested the U.S. was aware of perceptions of its profile in the ravaged country.
"I think that if we, particularly given the role that we will have in delivering food and water and medical help to people, my guess is the reaction will be one of relief at seeing Americans providing this kind of help," Gates told reporters.
Military officials said they were trying to stave off banditry and lawlessness by rushing relief supplies including desperately needed water where it will be most effective, and also where it can be distributed in ways least likely to cause rioting or looting.
Gates said early airdrops of aid were ruled out because they might have done more harm than good.
"It seems to me that without having any structure on the ground in terms of distribution, that an airdrop is simply going to lead to riots as people try and go after that stuff," he said.
"It seems to me that's a formula for contributing to chaos rather than preventing it."
As the White House wrings its hands over how to keep a tight grip on its aid mission, AirAmerica's Jack Rice wonders about the role of the media in shaping, and dehumanizing, public perceptions of the tragedy:
Why is it that we don't hesitate to show a photo of dead bodies if it takes place in Africa, Asia or Latin America? Would we be willing to do the same thing if this happened in Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis? Would we be willing to do it if it were dead American soldiers piled up in Afghanistan? My guess is no!
Shades of Katrina emanate from the descriptions of "anarchy" engulfing the streets. Remember the Superdome, the "looting," the alleged explosion of mayhem? The media conjured images of death and destruction with voyueristic zeal, while curating the stories to fit a prevailing narrative of savagery and social breakdown.
Sharp criticism eventually emerged, too late, to debunk the initial portrayals of lawlessness as distortions, colored by latent anxieties about how black people might act in the absence of white domination. But for those initial days after the hurricane, a media feeding frenzy projected white middle-class America's fears onto a forsaken city, constructed as pathetic and threatening at once.
Jaqueline Bacon wrote in the media criticism magazine Extra! in 2005:
For some members of the media, the victims of the hurricane were seemingly foreign-or perhaps not quite human. Allen Breed's New Orleans report for the Cincinnati Post (9/3/05) described "naked babies wail[ing] for food as men get drunk on stolen liquor" and a crowd whose "almost feral intensity" prevented delivery of water to victims by helicopter. (Breed did include a quote from a man who indicated that the decision to airdrop food was "insulting, demeaning.")
The New York Daily News (9/2/05) proclaimed officials "must do whatever it takes to curb the hardcore, armed, violent felons who are making it impossible to save the city," who are "a very different breed from desperate citizens who are trying to get food and water." Given that this "different breed" was largely a figment of media imaginations-later investigations showed that there was no more violence in New Orleans after Katrina than in any typical week (Seattle Times, 9/26/05; see page 9)-this kind of editorializing suggested that it is, in fact, the regular residents of the city who are inherently "other"-foreign, primitive and dangerous. As the Daily News put it: "Anarchy, Mogadishu-style, is just around the corner if they're not stopped."
Other pundits dehumanized the inner-city victims of the hurricane. Writing in the National Review Online blog the Corner (8/29/05), Jonah Goldberg advised those in the Superdome (which he described as a "Mad Max/Thunderdome/Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show") on how to survive: "Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents," "find the biggest guy you can and when he's not expecting it beat him senseless," and "protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the Earth with a race of gilled supermen."
In the wake of the storm, author Tim Wise reflected on the barrage of since-discredited tales of violence, rape and gunfire:
the media, feeling no need to find witnesses or to verify claims of black deviance (because, after all, what's not to believe?) simply went along. The result? Rescue efforts were delayed because rescue workers had been scared for their lives by a press that led them to think New Orleans was a war zone; the Governor and Mayor actually told law enforcement to stop saving lives and start arresting and shooting lawbreakers on sight; and the public, which rarely needs reasons to think the worst of poor black people, found its stereotypes confirmed. Not only whites, it should be pointed out, but black folks too, like Mayor Nagin and his crony police chief Eddie Compass, both of whom apparently think so little of their own people that they too assumed the stories were true, in spite of no evidence, and repeated the charges on national TV.
The recent rants of Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson (whose vile bloviating featured prominently in the Katrina coverage as well) may seem patently idiotic. But could such viewpoints seep into policy decisions?
Bill Quigley of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a longtime advocate for Haiti and Katrina survivor, has some tips for the Pentagon on how to "prevent chaos" as U.S. boots hit the streets of Port-au-Prince:
Do not allow US military in Haiti to point their guns at Haitians. Hungry Haitians are not the enemy. Decisions have already been made which will militarize the humanitarian relief--but do not allow the victims to be cast as criminals. Do not demonize the people.
The government's reluctance to airdrop supplies may be grounded in a valid security concerns. But you've got to wonder: are the hints of a potential sustained military presence a rebranded attempt to "stabilize" Haiti once again through occupation? Could a too-hesitant emergency response hurt the long-term recovery effort by breeding anger and resentment against foreign forces (which could possibly, as Jack Beatty suggested on NPR's "On Point" on Friday, create a self-fulfilling prophecy of disorder, to be "fixed" by outsiders)?
As with Katrina, the 24-hour news cycle's response to the earthquake seems a few steps ahead of the gridlocked aid effort, and it's yet unclear whether Washington's tactical decisions will turn out to be prudent and effective. And certainly, the press, despite its capacity for rapid-fire news dispatches, is constrained in its ability to assess the ongoing emergency response. But as long as the world's eyes are all on Haiti right now--and as long as the memories of Katrina's media exploitation still linger--it behooves us as media consumers and members of the international community to take a step back and separate the grim reality out there, from the racialized spectacle lurking within our collective imagination.
© 2010 ColorLines Magazine - The Applied Research Center
Michelle Chen works and plays in New York City. Besides freelance reporting, her various occupations have included ethnographic research in Shanghai and coat-checking at a West Village jazz club. Her writing has also appeared in In These Times, South China Morning Post, Women’s International Perspective, and her old zine, cain.
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Hathors/
Haiti and
the Chaotic
Node/ Tom
Kenyon
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 4:33 PM
Haiti and the Chaotic Node
A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon
The recent seismic event in Haiti heralds the beginning of the
Chaotic Node
we referred
to in our
last
communication.
We are, quite frankly, surprised that this event occurred slightly outside
the timeline
we had
projected.
This tells
us
that new levels of "novelty" (meaning an increase in unpredictability) are
escalating
faster than
we
anticipated.
Thus, it is,
and will be,
increasingly
difficult to
pinpoint
such future
occurrences.
However, the
general
thrust of
your
planetary
state is one
of extreme
volatility.
Your
magnetic
North Pole
is shifting
its position
in erratic
and
unpredictable
ways. The
photosphere
is also
showing
signs of
unusual
activity, as
yet
undetected
by your
scientists.
All of this
is to be
expected for
a planet
undergoing a
movement
into
Ascension,
and we liken
all
of this to
the birthing
pangs of
Earth's
birth into
higher
dimensions.
Our purpose
in this
communication
is not to
give
predictions
as to the
unfolding of
this chaotic
node, for we
must admit,
in all
humility,
that our
technology
is no longer
able to
precisely
predict the
chaotic
events
unfolding
before you.
What we wish
to address,
as always,
are
practical
applications
of
multi-dimensional
awareness.
It is the
state of
your
vibratory
field that
determines
your
experience
of any
event. In
its most
simple form,
the
cultivation
of
appreciation
for the
smallest
things in
your life
will give
you the
greatest
results.
The various
inner
technologies
we have
given before
will also
help you
navigate
through this
transition
as well, but
we
realize that
not everyone
is capable
of entering
into
multi-dimensional
awareness.
If you are
one of these
persons,
do not
concern
yourself
with it. The
simple act
of
appreciation
for what is
in your life
will shift
your
vibratory
field faster
and more
effectively
than any
sacred
geometry.
The task,
then, is one
of attaining
a higher
level of
vibration.
We do not
mean
physical
vibration--the
vibratory
rate of your
physical
body--but
rather we
refer to the
vibratory
rate of your
subtle
energy body
(your KA,
your
etheric
double).
As your
planet moves
into its
energetic
process more
deeply, you
can expect
more
volatility
in weather
patterns, as
well
as an
increase in
unpredictable
earth
changes. But
in some ways
the external
events are
easier to
deal with
than the
internal
changes you
will be
facing.
Those of you
who are more
sensitive to
the
subtleties
of
energetics
may find
yourself
"hard hit"
by the
dimensional
and physical shifts that will occur. To a greater or lesser degree,
depending
upon their
vibratory
levels, more
and
more
individuals
will
experience
sleep
disturbances,
and strange
dreams--some
of them
prophetic in
nature.
There will
also most
likely be an
increase in
strange
physical
ailments
that have no
logical
explanation.
These will
often arise
early
in the
morning
hours as
your energy
body shifts
from its
inner
journeys
back to
orientation
to your
physical
form. These
types of
physical
discomforts
are a
reaction
from the
organs
within your
body and the
various
bodily
systems to
the
accelerating
changes
taking
place. In
other words,
your
physical
bodies are
challenged
by the rapid
escalation
of
planetary
change.
You may
experience
sudden and
unexpected
periods of
extreme
fatigue,
weakness,
and even the
very odd
state of
being
both
awake and
asleep at
the same
time. Again,
all of these
challenges
are a result
of the rapid
changes
taking place
upon your
earth. If
you have the
luxury of
time, and
you feel one
of these
energetic
drops, the
sudden onset
of fatigue,
it is best
to rest if
you are
able--to
literally
lie down. If
you are
unable to do
so we urge
you to be
vigilant if
you are
driving or
making
critical
decisions or
choices,
especially
when engaged
with
technology.
There may
be--and we
expect
this to be
true--a
general
increase in
irritability
throughout
the
population;
small
negative
encounters
can easily
amplify into
something
much larger.
In our
previous
communication
we offered
the
Dimensional
Attunement
for the
Pineal
Gland. This
is still a
very
effective
sound tool
to assist
you as you
move through
this period.
Listening to
this
Attunement a
few minutes
a day can
help your
system "fine
tune" itself
so that the
changes that
are upon you
will be less
stressful.
Again, the
key
component in
all of this
is your
vibratory
rate, and
the
Dimensional
Attunement
assists your
nervous
system by
tuning the
pineal gland
to the
higher
realms of
light. Think
of it as an
"acoustic
life raft."
You may also
experience a
greater
number of
individuals
choosing to
exit the
Earth plane.
These exits
will take
place
through
unexpected
accidents,
unforeseen
illnesses,
and of
course,
earth
changes and
weather
anomalies.
What we wish
to say to
you in this
regard is
that as the
dimensionality
of Earth
shifts, the
veils
between the
dimensions
will become
thinner, and
it will be
true for
many that
they sense
friends and
loved ones
on the other
side of the
veil more
clearly
than ever
before.
In some ways
the veils
between life
and death
are being
lifted, and
the veils
between
dimensions
are being
parted.
Thus some of
you may have
unusual and
extraordinary
encounters
with animal
spirits,
devic beings
of the
Earth,
and other nature spirits that have been obscured for the last/7
several
thousand
years.
Although
this is a
difficult
and
challenging
period, it
is an
extraordinary
opportunity
to be
embodied at
this time.
Regardless
of what
unfolds
before you
in your
life, or in
the lives of
those around
you, we
suggest you
cultivate
appreciation
for the
smallest
things in
your life.
Share your/
love and
affection
for those to
whom you
feel close.
In the great
miasma you
call Western
Civilization,
it shall be
individual
relationships
that survive
the coming
storm.
As you let
go of the
distortions
created by
your culture
and wake up
to the
simple truth
of your
existence as
an
embodied
being in
time and
space, you
will see
that the
great
adventure
has just
begun.
The Hathors January 13, 2010
________________________________
Tom's
Observations
In their
last
message, the
Hathors
predicted a
ninety-day
timeline for
the
emergence of
the first
Chaotic
Node. This
puts the
earthquake
in Haiti six
days past
their time
line.
When the
Hathors
predicted
this Chaotic
Node,
something
they have
rarely done
by the way,
they did say
that it
could occur
either
before or
after the
ninety-day
period.
But when the
timeline
came and
passed, they
were rubbing
their
proverbial
heads. They
were
honestly
quite
surprised
that the
event didn't
occur before
this.
In my first
contact with
them they
told me that
there are
stages of
chaos that
all systems
(including
Earth) go
through as
they move to
higher
levels of
order. And
the
emergence of
novelty,
meaning
unusual
situations
that could
not
possibly be
anticipated,
is part of
the chaotic
process.
The Hathors
are of the
opinion that
the
emergence of
this
catastrophic
event marks
the
beginning
phase of
ever-increasing
unpredictability
and novelty.
Please do
note that
not all of
this is
negative.
Unpredictable
generosity
from one
human to
another, or
one culture
to another
can also be
part of
this. It is
just that
all bets are
off when it
comes to
predicting
probabilities.
There are a
few points
in this most
recent
message I
wish to
explore. The
first has to
do with
"strange
physical
ailments
that have no
logical
explanation."
Personally,
I have
experienced
some of
this, as
have many of
my friends,
but I would
like to
insert a
caution
here. If
you are
experiencing
physical
ailments and
are
concerned
about them,
especially
if they
persist, I
would
suggest that
you
see your
health
practitioner
to rule out
any medical
reasons.Don't
assume that
sudden
physical
ailments or
loss of
wakefulness
are just
energetic.
Having said
that, let me
share a
personal
experience I
had with
this type of
phenomenon.
I was caught
off guard
several
mornings
around 3AM
by
particularly
strong and
strange
physical
sensations.
I asked the
Hathors what
the hell was
going on,
thinking
that I might
be dealing
with
something
quite
serious.
They said
that the
atomic and
molecular
levels of
our bodies
are being
affected by
the massive
energetic
changes that
are taking
place within
the Earth,
the sun,
our solar
system, and
our galaxy.
They said
this was the
biological
equivalent
to "holding
on" to old
ways of
organizing
third-dimensional
reality and
not letting
go into the
unknown
(meaning
higher
dimensional
realities).
They had no
real solid
solution for
this other
than to say
that as I
continued to
work with
the inner
technologies
they
had given, I
would
eventually
reach a
place where
I was more
familiar
with higher
dimensional
realities
and could
let go
of my
attachments
to the third
dimensional
world more
easily. For
the record,
they were
not talking
about death,
per se.
They believe
that the
shifting of
dimensionality
(Ascension)
ultimately
means that
those of us
who are
embodied
will be
aware of
both the
third-dimensional
world we
live in and
other
realms,
simultaneously.
But in the
process of
moving
to this
expanded
state of
awareness,
most of us
tend to hold
onto the
known.
I also find
it
interesting
that they
addressed
the issue of
sleep by
mentioning
"the very
odd state of
being both
awake
and asleep
at the same
time." I am
experiencing
this on a
regular
basis, as
are many
others. In
this odd
state of
body and
mind, my
body is
asleep, as
evidenced by
the same
type of
breathing
patterns I
experience
when I am
asleep, and
my body
feels heavy
as it does
when I am
asleep. But
in these
peculiar
bodily
sleep-states
my mind is
quite awake.
I am
personally
finding that
sleep is
becoming
more and
more of an
art form.
For those of
us
experiencing
the
simultaneity
of sleep and
wakefulness
during the
night, it is
sometimes
challenging
to enter
into the
restorative
state of
deep REM
sleep. If
you are one
of these
persons, may
the farce be
with you.
Perhaps
think more
in terms of
catnaps than
long
comfortable
sleep. Take
what you can
get, and be
thankful
for
it.
The Hathors
also
mentioned
the Pineal
Dimensional
Attunement
in this
message.
When they
originally
gave me this
sound code,
they
indicated
that they
would give
other
Attunements
in the
future. By
the way, all
of these
Attunements
will
be offered
free of
charge to
the world
community
through this
website as
they become
available.
For now, the
Hathors are
of the
opinion that
listening to
the
Dimensional
Attunement
for the
Pineal Gland
(on a
regular
basis) will
continue to
assist those
of us
choosing the
path of
Ascension.
Personally,
I sometimes
think of the
Hathor inner
technologies
and the
Attunements
as energetic
surfboards
that
allow us to
keep ahead
of the
evolutionary
waves.
This brings
me to one of
their
statements
that I found
both
illuminating
and quite
amusing:
"The simple
act of
appreciation
for what is
in your life
will shift
your
vibratory
field faster
and more
effectively
than any
sacred
geometry."
Mind you
this is
coming from
a group of
intelligences
that have
given me
volumes of
information
regarding
geometry.
And I have
no doubt
that sacred
geometry
shapes the
flow of
subtle
energy. But
when it
comes down
to it, the
most
important
thing here
is to raise
the
vibratory
rate of your
own subtle
energy body
(your KA)
despite what
may be
happening
around you.
If the use
of sacred
geometry
assists you
in this,
then so be
it. It
certainly
does for me.
But
if you are
unable to
engage such
pyrotechnics
of the mind,
the Hathors
are saying
don't worry,
be happy.
Just
appreciate
the smallest
things in
your life
and your
vibratory
rate will
rise by
itself. I
applaud them
for this
simple
statement
for I, too, have found appreciation to be the express elevator to the
upper floors
of my own
consciousness.
There is a
tendency for
many of us
to get
attached to
our little
devices,
whether
physical or
mental,
thinking
that they
will shift
us into
whatever
version of
paradise we
imagine. But
this is, I
think, just
another type
of
dogmatitis
(an
inflammatory
condition of
the soul).
Dogmatitis
appears
whenever
there is a
limiting
idea or
belief. The
most common
form of this
is the
belief that
you
cannot move
upward in
consciousness
on your own,
unless you
use some
type of
device
and/or
follow a
certain
path.
The Hathors
are
reminding us
that we
possess one
of the
greatest
tools for
self-evolution
within our
emotional
nature, the
simple act
of
appreciation.
This brings
me to
another one
of their
statements
that occurs
toward the
end of this
message. "In
the great
miasma you
call Western
Civilization,
it shall be
individual
relationships
that survive
the coming
storm."
Whatever
comes down
for humanity
in terms of
3D
realities, I
suspect that
truthful and
co-operative
relationships
with
our
fellow
humans may
turn out to
be our most
reliable
currency.
May you find
both the
small things
and the big
things that
bring you
joy.
Tom Kenyon
For more
information
about the
Pineal
Attunement:
http://tomkenyon.com/sound-gifts
To listen to
or download
the
Attunement:
https://tomkenyon.box.net/shared/b0xc8la6j5
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