Haiti: Military Takeover Or Humanitarian Mission?

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Doctors Without Borders: Haiti Aid Planes Refused Landings! France Accuses US of ‘Occupying’ Haiti !

• Humanitarian aid or military invasion? Would it surprise anyone when America starts to build military bases in Haiti? The military industrial complex has announced the construction of 7 military bases in Columbia which is next door to Venezuela. Building military bases in Haiti make perfect sense. It is just north of Venezuela.
   
• America has over 800 military bases worldwide. Nobel Peace prize winner Obama just asked for another $30B for war. The military budget for next fiscal year exceeds US$700B! The Southern Command (SouthCom) was reactivated in 2009 after 58 years. Hugo Chavez is correct in warning about war in Latin America! (emphasis mine)
   
  Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince
  January 17, 2010 – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations. Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying lifesaving equipment and medical personnel.
    
  Despite guarantees, given by the United Nations and the US Defense Department, an MSF cargo plane carrying an inflatable surgical hospital was blocked from landing in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, and was re-routed to Samana, in Dominican Republic. All material from the cargo is now being sent by truck from Samana, but this has added a 24-hour delay for the arrival of the hospital. 
   
  A second MSF plane is currently on its way and scheduled to land today in Port- au-Prince at around 10 am local time with additional lifesaving medical material and the rest of the equipment for the hospital. If this plane is also rerouted then the installation of the hospital will be further delayed, in a situation where thousands of wounded are still in need of life saving treatment.
   
  Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti
  Port-au-Prince, January 19, 2010 – A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there. This 12-ton cargo was part of the contents of an earlier plane carrying a total of 40 tons of supplies that was blocked from landing on Sunday morning. Since January 14, MSF has had five planes diverted from the original destination of Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic. These planes carried a total of 85 tons of medical and relief supplies.
   
  “We have had five patients in Martissant health center die for lack of the medical supplies that this plane was carrying,” said Loris de Filippi, emergency coordinator for the MSF’s Choscal Hospital in Cite Soleil. “I have never seen anything like this. Any time I leave the operating theater I see lots of people desperately asking to be taken for surgery. Today, there are 12 people who need lifesaving amputations at Choscal Hospital. We were forced to buy a saw in the market to continue amputations. We are running against time here.”
   
  Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims!
  Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security. The decision left CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta as the only doctor at the hospital to get the patients through the night.
   
  CNN initially reported, based on conversations with some of the doctors, that the United Nations ordered the Belgian First Aid and Support Team to evacuate. However, Belgian Chief Coordinator Geert Gijs, a doctor who was at the hospital with 60 Belgian medical personnel, said it was his decision to pull the team out for the night. Gijs said he requested U.N. security personnel to staff the hospital overnight, but was told that peacekeepers would only be able to evacuate the team.
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  CNN video from the scene Friday night shows the Belgian team packing up its supplies and leaving with an escort of blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers in marked trucks. Gupta — assisted by other CNN staffers, security personnel and at least one Haitian nurse who refused to leave — assessed the needs of the 25 patients, but there was little they could do without supplies. More people, some in critical condition, were trickling in late Friday.
   
  “I’ve never been in a situation like this. This is quite ridiculous,“ Gupta said.
   
  With a dearth of medical facilities in Haiti’s capital, ambulances had nowhere else to take patients, some of whom had suffered severe trauma — amputations and head injuries — under the rubble. Others had suffered a great deal of blood loss, but there were no blood supplies left at the clinic. Gupta feared that some would not survive the night. He and the others stayed with the injured all night, after the medical team had left and after the generators gave out and the tents turned pitch black. Gupta monitored patients’ vital signs, administered painkillers and continued intravenous drips. He stabilized three new patients in critical condition.
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  “What is striking to me as a physician is that patients who just had surgery, patients who are critically ill, are essentially being left here, nobody to care for them,” Gupta said. Sandra Pierre, a Haitian who has been helping at the makeshift hospital, said the medical staff took most of the supplies with them. “All the doctors, all the nurses are gone,” she said. “They are expected to be back tomorrow. They had no plan on leaving tonight. It was an order that came suddenly.” She told Gupta, “It’s just you.”
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  Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said the evacuation of the clinic’s medical staff was unforgivable. “Search and rescue must trump security,” Honoré said. “I’ve never seen anything like this before in my life. They need to man up and get back in there.” Honoré drew parallels between the tragedy in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Port-au-Prince. But even in the chaos of Katrina, he said, he had never seen medical staff walk away. “I find this astonishing these doctors left,” he said. “People are scared of the poor.”

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International Hearings Begin On “Falsified” Swine Flu Pandemic !

• I really hope those responsible for it gets fried. I also hope that the sheeple will wake up and realize that the MSM is not reporting the truth! Whether by ignorance, stupidity or complicity, the false pandemic could not have been hyped up without the aid of the MSM! PrisonPlanet reports:
   
  “Greatest medical scandal of the century” to come under scrutiny”
  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a 47 nation body encompassing democratically elected members of parliament, has begun hearings to investigate whether the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was falsified or exaggerated in an attempt to profit from vaccine sales. A PACE resolution, passed last month, gave context to the hearings which began yesterday in Strasbourg.
   
  “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The “bird-flu”-campaign (2005/06) combined with the “swine-flu”-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies.”
   
  Heading the hearings will be chairman of the Health Committee of PACE, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a former German lawmaker, a medical doctor and epidemiologist. Wodarg has referred to the swine flu pandemic as “one of the greatest medical scandals of the century.” Wodarg charges that the WHO altered the definition of a pandemic from an outbreak in several continents at once with an above-average death rate, to one where the spread of the disease is constant.
   
  The Parliamentary inquiry will determine if a “falsified pandemic” was declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of medical advisors, many of whom have close financial ties to the very pharmaceutical giants – GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, – that produced the H1N1 vaccines. It will also look into the controversy surrounding the fact that two shots were initially advised when it was later revealed that one dose was entirely suitable.
   
  Pharmaceutical companies are thought to have made a profit of somewhere in the region of $7.5-$10 billion on H1N1 vaccines. The worldwide death toll from H1N1 is thought to be around 13,500, just over a third of the number who die from regular flu every year in the U.S. alone.PACE has noted that the alleged conspiracy could have exposed “millions of healthy people to the risk of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines”
    
  Many countries have begun offloading huge stockpiles of unused vaccines and canceling outstanding orders. The latest to do so is Greece, where the government had announced that it would make H1N1 vaccination mandatory. PACE will also hold a debate next week entitled ‘Faked pandemics, a threat to health’, to be attended by representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European pharmaceutical industry.
   
  “Unlike the European Parliament, it has no decision-making powers, but, as was demonstrated by its report into extraordinary rendition, it does have the power to make life uncomfortable for the powers that be,” notes the Irish TImes.

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More and More American States on Budget Brink!

• The past 3 weeks have seen much noise over the potential for sovereign debt default in the Eurozone. The world is now concerned about PIIGS (ie Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). All these reports are camouflaging what is clearly a bigger problem. The bankruptcy of America at all levels, from the federal government to the state government, down to the municipal level, corporations and obviously individual Americans. CNN Money reports:
    
  California is hurtling into the budgetary abyss — and it’s not alone. Across the nation, state tax collections in the first three quarters of 2009 posted their steepest decline in at least 46 years, according to a report this month from the public policy research arm of the State University of New York.
    
  At least 30 states raised taxes in their most recently completed fiscal year — which ended in most cases in mid-2009. Even more cut services. All told, states raised $117 billion to fill last year’s budget gaps, the Pew Center on the States estimates. Yet despite all those new taxes and deep cutbacks, pressure on state finances continues to build. Economists warn that without a new round of federal stimulus spending, states could face another round of layoffs that could kneecap an already shaky economic recovery.
   
  “We could see a real ripple effect if the states don’t take a balanced approach” by balancing cutbacks with tax raises and other new revenue, said Jon Shure, deputy director of the state fiscal project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
    
  State and local governments have cut 132,000 jobs since August 2008, the center says. Fiscal problems appear most acute in California, whose general obligation bonds were downgraded this week after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency.
   
  The state has already said it will increase tuition by a third in the University of California system, among other cash-raising moves. At one point, it was projected to spend nearly 50% more than it stands to garner in revenue in this fiscal year, by one count. California has asked for federal help and warned it could run out of cash in March.
   
  And California’s not the only state facing an almost unfathomable shortfall. Like California, Arizona and Illinois face budget gaps above 40% of projected general fund spending, according to Pew data. Arizona put its state office buildings on sale this week in a bid to raise $700 million. The University of Illinois furloughed some workers this week after the state failed to come up with $436 million in expected funds. Budget officers in those two states describe their outlooks for fiscal 2010 as “dire,” according to a National Conference of State Legislatures report.
   
  Alaska, Nevada, New Jersey and New York face gaps of at least 30% of their planned general fund spending by the end of this fiscal year. A dozen more states face a fiscal 2010 budget gap of between 20% and 29%. “California is playing out on the biggest stage, but there are states around the nation facing problems of equal or greater magnitude,” said Corina Eckl, who runs the fiscal affairs program at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver. “We are seeing some frightening situations.”
   
  Big shortfalls scare legislators because states by law must balance their budgets every year. After revenue and spending rose steadily in the middle of this decade, bolstered by a housing bubble that boosted employment and fed a stream of property transfer fees, state funding went into freefall when the recession started at the end of 2007.
   
  Given the depth of the recession, few states are expecting an uptick in employment or consumer spending that would translate into bigger tax collections anytime soon. Nine states are forecasting they won’t return to their peak revenue years of 2007 or 2008 until at least 2014. Adding to the pressure, job losses spur demand for the services states devote the lion’s share of their budgets to: education and Medicaid, which provides healthcare for low-income people. “The needs grow as states’ ability to meet those needs declines,” said economist Andrew Reschovsky, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
   
  So far, the worst cuts have been avoided with the help of billions of dollars of federal stimulus money — including $135 billion for education and Medicaid. But the flow of those funds will start to slow down in the second half of 2010 and will stop altogether at year-end, unless Congress appropriates more money for state assistance.
   
  States have used $53.6 billion in Medicaid funding through Jan. 8, according to government data. If Congress doesn’t extend the Medicaid funding beyond the end of the year, “states are looking at a stimulus cliff,” said Robert B. Ward, deputy director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York at Albany. The only way to make up those shortfalls is through more new taxes, cutbacks and borrowings.
   
  Local and state governments have had little problem borrowing in the bond market, where analysts expect issuance of $400 billion or more this year. California has had to pay higher-than-average interest rates to sell its debt, but there seems to be little fear of a default, given the state’s giant economy and its relatively small $64 billion worth of general obligation bonds outstanding.
   
  But borrowing is no help in fixing so-called structural deficits, in which spending exceeds revenue over a prolonged stretch. And so far there has been little sign legislators are willing to make the obligatory tough choices, particularly issuing more or higher taxes. Many of the so-called fixes for current state deficits are mere Band-Aids that push the problem forward rather than address it, observers said.
   
  “It’s surprising that political leaders don’t seem to be taking seriously the magnitude of the problems,” said Reschovsky. “You would hope it wouldn’t come to this, but it might take schools closing and programs being eliminated to create a sense of urgency.” 

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Is a Run on the U.S. Dollar Starting Soon?

• The simple fact is: there is no way America will be able to pay back its debts. The amount, including unfunded liabilities like Social Security, MediCare…, exceeds US$100 Trillion (as in 1,000 billion). The plan is clear: hyper-inflate away the debts! America has about 8,100 tons of physical gold worth around US$275B at current prices. When hyper-inflation comes, gold price will rocket to the moon while the debts will still be US$100T. Wages and hard assets will rise astronomically.
   
• If you earn $100K a year and have a $1 billion debt, you are in deep trouble. If you earn $100 million a year, the $1 billion debt is just a minor irritation. So the FedRes will step up QE, print money out of thin air aggressively and finally force banks to lend. This will boost the supply and velocity of money and trigger massive inflation. Suddenly, the gold that was worth only US$275B is now worth US$27.5T! Tax revenues will rise phenomenally in nominal terms because wages have rocketed!
   
• Yes, a dollar collapse is coming. I cannot tell you exactly when but I doubt it will be beyond 2 years out! My dear American friends, please take precautions to protect yourself. Inflation is theft of the poor by the rich and powerful. It is a stealth tax. All your paper currencies will become worthless. Richard C. Cook opines:
   
  Yes, I think a run on the dollar is coming. A lot of people are saying this, including a man named Dmitri Orlov who recently came out with a book entitled “Reinventing Collapse” that compares the crash of the Soviet Union in the 1990s with what he believes is coming here within a short period of time. I heard that at the last meeting of the G20 the U.S. asked Russia and China if they would agree to an orderly devaluation of the dollar, and the answer was “Nyet.”
    
  So something big is likely to happen. I don’t know what it will be. A worst case scenario is a wild hyperinflation of the dollar and a total collapse of the monetary system, followed by skyrocketing gasoline prices, etc., and another Great Depression. But the Federal Reserve is too smart just to let that happen, so they will likely try in some way to keep the economy afloat while engaging in an orderly devaluation that will reduce the overall levels of debt. There are many ways to tackle this but it will require strong central planning and maybe even “monetary reform.”
   
  The possible scenarios are endless and much depends on the political will of Obama and Congress as to how much control they can exert over the financiers. I am hesitant to predict total gloom and doom, though it is certainly a possibility. One thing that could trigger it would be if the U.S. can no longer buy oil from abroad. That depends also on whether “Peak Oil” really exists or not. But clearly big changes are coming. Our country has become so fragile. Most of our population is a month away from starvation when you look at the food pipeline.
   
  Richard C. Cook is a former U.S Treasury analyst who also worked in the Carter White House and for NASA and writes on public policy issues. His new book is We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform (Tendril Press 2009). His website is http://www.richardccook.com He is a member of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network and has been an adviser to Congressman Dennis Kucinich and the American Monetary Institute http://www.monetary.org

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HAARP: The Earthquake Weapon? Weather Modification Using HAARP.

Weather Radar Anomalies

• Whether the Haiti and SiChuan, China earthquakes were man-made is anybody’s guess. But it is clear that the technology for artificially creating earthquakes, typhoons… inclement weather has been around for the past few decades. This technology is not just confined to America. Quite a few countries have them. See also:
   
  The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
  Nick Begich: Mind Control – The Rise of Invasive and Oppressive Technology!
  Jesse Ventura: HAARP – Weather Modification, Military Defence and Mind Control!
  Military Use of Mind Control Weapons
  Nick Begich: HAARP, Weather Control and Mind Control  
  Mind Control: The Ultimate Brave New World by Dr. Nick Begich
  Weather Warfare Weapons – Part 1
  Weather Warfare Weapons – Part 2 

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