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Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 15:33:44 EST

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Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation

Ezili's HLLN has consistently maintained, since the beginning of the 2004
Bush regime change in Haiti, that the 2004 US invasion of Haiti used UN
troops as its military proxy to avoid the charge of imperialism and racism.
We have also consistently maintained that the UN/US invasion and occupation
of Haiti is not about protecting Haitian rights, security, stability or
long-term domestic development but about returning the Washington
Chimeres/[gangsters] - the traditional Haitian Oligarchs - to power,
establishing free trade not fair trade, the Chicago-boys' death plan,
neoliberal policies, keeping the minimum wage at slave wage levels,
plundering Haiti's natural resources and riches, not to mention using the
location benefit that Haiti lies between Cuba and Venezuela. Two countries
the US has unsuccessfuly orchestrated regime changes in and continues to
pursue. In the Dunn Plantation and Georges Michel papers, we find and
deploy further details as to why the US is in Haiti with this attempted
Bill Clinton facelift to the UN's continued occupations. in Haiti. For, no
matter the disguise or media spins it's also about Haiti's oil reserves,
and about securing Haiti's deep-water ports as transshipment location for
oil or for tank sites to storeReynold's deep water port in
Miragoane/NIPDEVCO property- scroll to photos in middle of the page.)

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Jan 18, 2010

Oil in Haiti and Oil Refinery - an old notion for Fort Liberte as a
transshipment terminal for US supertankers - Another economic reason for
the ouster of President Aristide and current UN occupation (Haiti's
Riches:Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti)

Located in the North-Eastern part of Haiti and abounding with tourist
sites, Fort-Liberté is a city where the first declaration of Haiti's
independence took place on November 29, 1803. It has one of the most
captivating historical sites in the area called Fort Dauphin known today as
Fort-Liberté. This fort was built around 1731 under the command of Louis
XV, king of France, and its ruins are the greatest evidences of its genius
designers who chose the most strategic point to built it in order to fight
off upcoming invaders.

In addition to its architectural charm, it overlooks a splendid bay of
turquoise seawater, which sparkles under the bright rays of the tropical
sun.

There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and
due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that
era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle
Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an
article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and
oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel
Mathurin.

There is also good evidence that these very same big US oil companies and
their inter-related monopolies of engineering and defense contractors made
plans, decades ago, to use Haiti's deep water ports either for oil
refineries or to develop oil tank farm sites or depots where crude oil
could be stored and later transferred to small tankers to serve U.S. and
Caribbean ports. This is detailed in a paper about the Dunn Plantation at
Fort Liberte

Ezili's HLLN underlines these two papers on Haiti's oil resources and the
works of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin in order to provide a view one
will not find in the mainstream media nor anywhere else as to the economic
and strategic reasons the US has constructed its fifth largest embassy in
the world - fifth only besides the US embassy in China, Iraq, Iran and
Germany - in tiny Haiti, post the 2004 Haiti Bush regime change.

The facts outlined in the Dunn Plantation and Georges Michel papers,
considered together, reasonably unveil part of the hidden reasons UN
Special Envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, is giving the UN occupation a
facelift so that its troops stay in Haiti for the duration.

For, no matter the disguise or media spins it's also about Haiti's oil
reserves, and about securing Haiti's deep-water ports as transshipment
location for oil or for tank sites to storeReynold's deep water port in
Miragoane/NIPDEVCO property- scroll to photos in middle of the page.)

In Haiti, between 1994 to 2004 when the people had a voice in government,
there was an intense grassroots movement to figure out how to exploit
Haiti's resources. There was a plan, where in the book "Investing In
People: Lavalas White Book under the direction of Jean-Betrand Aristide
(Investir Dans L'Humain), the Haitian majority "were not only told where
the resources were, but that -- they did not have the skills and technology
to actually extract the gold, to extract the oil."

The Aristide/Lavalas plan, as I've articulated in the Haiti's Riches
Interview, was "to engage in some sort of private/public partnership. Where
both the Haitian people's interest would be taken care of and of course the
private interest would take their profits. But I think it was around that
time we had St. Genevieve saying they did not like the Haitian government.
Obviously, they didn't like this plan. They don't like the Haitian people
to know where their resources are. But in this book, it was the first time
in Haitian history, it was written in Kreyòl and in French. And there was
a national discussion all over the radio in Haiti with respect to all these
various resources of Haiti, where they were located, and how the Haitian
government was intending on trying to build sustainable development through
those resources. So that's what you had before the 2004 Bush regime
change/Coup D'etat in Haiti. With the Coup D'etat now, though the people
know where these resources are because this book exists, they don't know
who these foreign companies are. What they're profit margins are. What the
environmental protection rules and regulations to protect them are. Many
folks, for instance, in the North talk about losing their property, having
people come in with guns and taking over their property. So that's where we
are." (Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti.)
crude oil without interference from a democratic government beholden to its
informed population's welfare.

The mainstream media, owned by the multinational companies fleecing Haiti,
certainly won't lay out for public consumption that the UN/US invasion and
occupation of Haiti is to secure Haiti's oil, strategic position, cheap
labor, deep water ports, mineral resources (iridium, gold, copper, uranium,
diamond, gas reserves)ï¿½ï¿½, lands, waterfronts, offshore resources
for privatization or the exclusive use of the world's wealthy oligarchs and
US big oil monopolies. (See, Map showing some of Haiti's mining and mineral
wealth, including five oil sites in Haiti; Oil in Haiti by Dr. Georges
Michel; Excerpt from the Dunn Plantation paper; Haiti is full of oil, say
Ginette and Daniel Mathurin; There is a multinational conspiracy to
illegally take the mineral resources of the Haitian people: Espaillat
Nanita revealed that in Haiti there are huge resources of gold and other
minerals, and Is UN proxy occupation of Haiti masking US securing oil/gas
reserves from Haiti).

In fact, the current Haitian authority-under-the-US/UN-occupation that is
in charge of regulating exploration licenses and mining in Haiti does not
explain, in any relevant or systematic manner, to the Haitian majority
about the companies buying up, post 2004, Haiti's deep water ports, what
their profit shares with the Haitian nation are, where are the accounting
of said shares owed to the people of Haiti, nor explain the environmental
effects of the massive excavations of Haiti's mountains and waters going on
right now. Instead, the Director of Mining in Haiti blithely maintains that
"further research will be necessary to confirm the existence of oil in
Haiti."

In an excerpt taken from the article posted Oct 9, 2000 by Bob Perdue
entitled "Lonnie Dunn, third owner of the Dauphin plantation," we learn
that:

"On November 8, 1973, Martha C. Carbone, American Embassy, Port-au-Prince,
sent a letter to the Office of Fuels and Energy, Department of State, in
which she stated that the Government of Haiti "...had before it proposals
from eight different groups to establish a trans-shipment port for
petroleum in one or more of the Haitian deep water ports. Some of the
projects include construction of a refinery...." She further commented that
the Embassy was acquainted with three firms: Ingram Corporation of New
Orleans, Southern California Gas Company and Williams Chemical Corporation
of Florida.. (According to John Moseley, the New Orleans company was
probably "Ingraham", not Ingram.)

In the November 6, 1972 issue of Oil and Gas Journal, Leo B. Aalund
commented in his article "Vast Flight of Refining Capacity from U.S.
Looms",.: "Finally, 'Baby Doc' Duvalier's Haiti is participating with a
group that wants to build a transshipment terminal off Fort Liberte,
Haiti". One of the proposals referred to by Carbone was undoubtedly
submitted by Dunn interests.

Additionally, we learn from this article that "Lonnie Dunn who owned the
Dauphin plantation "planned to straighten and widen the entrance to the
[Fort Liberte] bay so that super tankers could be brought in and the cargo
distributed to smaller tankers for transfer to U.S. and Caribbean ports
that could not accommodate large ships..." (Photo of Fort Liberte, Haiti).

We've put on the Ezili's HLLN website the other relevant portions of this
paper that talks about the corporate eye the US has had, for decades, on
Fort Liberte in Haiti as an ideal deep water port for the multinationals to
establish an oil refinery.

In the 50s and 60s there was little need for Haiti's ports or oil as the
Middle Eastern monopoly was gushing dollars galore. No need for these oil
monopolies to undercut themselves by putting more oil on the market to cut
their profits. Manipulated scarcity thy name is profit! or, did I mean
capitalism?

But the oil embargo of the 70s, the advent of OPEC, the rise of the
Venezuelan factor, the Gulf Crisis followed by the Iraq war for oil, all
has made Haiti a better bet for the three-piece suits and their military
mercernaries called "Western governments", yep, a way easier place to
pillage and plunder behind the "bringing democracy" or "humanitarian aid"
public covers.

Serendipitously with Haiti's 2004 Bush-the-son Regime Change, a follow up
to the 1991 Bush-the-father's military coup, we find, flurries of
Congressional "discussions" about off-shore drillings in preparation,
perhaps, to the eventual "revelation" as written in the Dunn paper years
ago, that "there is a need for supertankers that require deep-water ports
which are not readily available along the U.S. East Coast - nor
...welcome...for environmental and other consideration will (not) permit
the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the scale that will be
required."

Occidental side of the Fort

Despite being renovated by ISPAN in the mid' 1990, it is now in a very bad
shape. All the balls and most of the canons have been stolen along with
most of the cut stones paving its alleys and imported from Nantes, France.
They were quite simply stolen by people not fully aware of their illegal
act. Moreover, many holes within the fort enclosure are a potential threat
to the preservation of the Fort in case of rain.

We underline that Haiti is an ideal dumping ground for the US/Canada/France
and now Brazil, because environmental, human rights and health issues and
other considerations in the US and in these other countries, would probably
not permit the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the scale that
new explorations of oil in this hemisphere will required. So, why not pick
the most militarily defenseless country in the Western Hemisphere and dot
it with such unsafe initiatives behind a UN multi-national "humanitarian"
mask and fatherly Bill Clinton's snowy white hair and smiling face?

It is relevant to note here that most of Haiti's major deep water ports
have been privatized since the Bush 2004 regime change in Haiti. It is also
relevant to note here what I wrote last year in the piece titled Is the UN
military proxy occupation of Haiti masking US securing oil/gas reserves
from Haiti: "If there's substantial oil and gas reserves in Haiti, the
US/Euro genocide and crimes against the Haitian population has not yet
begun. Ayisyen leve zye nou anwo, kenbe red. Nou fèk komanse goumen. (Read
again, John Maxwell's Is there oil in Haiti.)

The revelations of Dr. Georges Michel and the Dunn Plantation papers seem
to positively answer the question that there is substantail oil reserves in
Haiti. And our Ezili Dantò Witness Project information is that it's indeed
being tapped and contracted out, but not for the benefit of Haitians or
Haiti's authentic development. That's why there was a need to marginalize
the Haitian masses through the ouster of Haiti's democratically elected
Aristide government and put in the UN guns and UN occupation that today
masks the US/Euros' (with a piece to the new power that is Brazil) securing
Haiti's oil and gas reserves and other mineral riches such as gold, copper,
diamond and underwater treasures. (Majescor and SACG Discover a New
Copper-Gold in Haiti, Oct. 6, 2009; See, Haiti's Riches and There is a
multinational conspiracy to illegally take the mineral resources of the
Haitian people: Espaillat Nanita revealed that in Haiti there are huge
resources of gold and other minerals.)

Today, the US and Euros say they are happy with Haiti's "security gains"
and "stable" government. To wit: the last elections the US/UN presided over
in Haiti excluded Haiti's majority party from participation. Haiti's jails
are filled, indefinitely detained without trial or hearings, since 2004,
with thousands upon thousands of community organizers, poor civilians and
political dissenters that the UN/US label "gangsters." Site Soley has been
"pacified." There are more NGOs and charitable organizations - about 10,000
- in Haiti then in any where in the world since 2004 and the Haitian people
are a million times worst off than they were before this US/NGO
civilization (otherwise also known as the "International Community") and
their thugs, thieves and corporate death squads came and disenfranchised
nine million blacks. Food prices are so high, some resort to eating dirt in
the form of cookies to assuage Clorox hunger.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, the head of Haiti's largest human rights
organization was disappeared in 2007 in UN occupied Haiti with no
investigation done. Between 2004 and 2006 under the Western occupation,
first by the US Marines then the UN multinational troops headed by Brazil,
from 14,000 to 20,000 Haitians, mostly who opposed the occupation and
regime change, were slaughtered with total impunity. More Haitian children
are out of school today in 2009 than before the US/NGO "civilization" came
post 2004. Under the US-imposed Boca Raton regime ,Haiti's Supreme Court
was fired and brand new and paid-for judges, without any Constitutional
authority inherited from the people of Haiti's mandate, took the place of
the legitimate judges and law officers and are still metering out paid-for
rulings in 2009 under the UN occupation and international community's
tutelage.

And, as a matter of power, privilege, inequity and the violence of
neocolonialism, white-sex abusers and pedophiles are having a hay day and
human trafficking of Haiti children are at an all-time high. It is no
revelation that in the stakes of corruption in Haiti or in Africa that a
great many of the foreign NGOs along with their bourgeois/ elite/ pastors/
priests and others are destroying poor children's life with absolute
impunity while being painted as "saints" in their press back home the
better to raise more funds to masturbate on Black pain some more.

Yet, Special UN Envoy, Bill Clinton, tells us "I am serving the next two
years as a US Special Envoy to Haiti...This is the best chance in my
lifetime that Haitians have ever had to escape the chains of their past..."
The former President added, "If Haiti pulls out of this it will be in no
small measure because of the efforts of non-governmental organizations."

What that means is perhaps this is the Haitian subcontractors, ruling
oligarchs and US/Euro military industrial complexes' best chance to finally
impose their chains on Haiti for good. Tap Haiti's oil, keep it so poor it
will be grateful for slave wages at sweatshops. Let sexual tourism and the
white sex-abusers do as they will. Transfer quickly more Haiti properties
to foreigners and render the "good" Haitians as maids, butlers and servants
in US/Euro-owned Haiti tourist resorts like the rest of the Caribbean.
Militarize Haiti so that dissent is not possible even as a thought. That's
perhaps UN Envoy, Bill Clinton's "best chance in my lifetime" scenario for
Haiti. Nothing else makes sense. (See, HLLN comment on new IMF figures
indicating Haiti is no longer the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
and Does the Western economic calculation of wealth fit Haiti -fit
Dessalines idea of wealth distribution?NO! and Comparing crime, poverty and
violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti and Pointing Guns at
Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth and The Western vs the Real
Narrative on Haiti and No other national group anywhere in the world sends
more money home than Haitians living abroad.)
Going shopping in Haiti:

"It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the
bottom. ----Emma Goldman

Though they exist and form the exception to the rule, there are very few
Paul Farmers, Margaret Trosts or Bill Quigleys in the Haitian world. And
even amongst "the exceptions," the number whittles down to almost zero in
terms of foreign heroes who can be expected to go the lifetime-distance
without making "unusual alliances" or joining the status quo that vies for
the soul of Black folks. Few who would HEAR, Lila Watson who said, "If you
have come here to help me then you are wasting your time, but if you have
come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work
together." This sort of thinking that inspires self-reliance not dependency
and provide the respectful conditions for those in great need to, in
liberty, dignity and identify, realize their own needs is not what compels
the International Community in Haiti right now.

For, in the age of humanitarian imperialism, globalization, financial
colonialism and neocolonial-violence obfuscated behind forced assimilation
and cultural imperialism, what exactly do some whites or modern
missionaries go shopping in Haiti for: sex, self-esteem, adulation, fun,
challenge, adventure, the boost in serotonin-consumption, to exploit cheap
labor, plunder Haiti's natural resources, for self-improvement, recovery,
to use Haiti as in excuse to raise funds for their salaries and living
expenses to live the old Dixie's planters' life with exploitation black sex
on tap, or as an easy way to gain international expert credentials in any
field and move up the socio-economic ladder at home and/or for securing the
good tropical lifestyle with mountain and oceanfront houses, the waiters,
maids, gardeners and seafood they couldn't obtain as easily in their
Euro/US countries where they are the majority, ordinary, can't use the
white privilege inheritance without some scrutiny and are not as exotic and
special as in neocolonial devastated Haiti. It's all hidden, of course,
behind the mask of being good humanitarians, altruistic charity workers and
helping Haitians. (See also, Ezili Dantò Reviews Travesty in Haiti: A true
account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug
trafficking (a book by Timothy T. Schwartz, Ph.D.); The Slavery in Haiti
the Media Won't Expose ; Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues; UN
Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing
Haitian children; The-To-Tell-The-Truth-About-Haiti Forum 2009; I am the
History of Rape: HLLN Letter to UN asking for investigative reports on UN
soldier's rapes in Haiti; and, Proposed solutions to create a new
paradigm.)

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Last Updated January 17, 2010 7:36 PM

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