I
remember when the Clinton policies destroyed Haiti’s ability to be
self-sufficient in growing rice.
Calling
it a “sh..thole” country is both insensitive and true.
Here is the whole item from 'We Are Change'
This
has to be seen to be believed! This is the Arctic in darkness, in the
midst of winter and sea temperatures are 15.9C (60.8F) – warmer
than the surface air temperature!
This
is happening in realtime under our noses and this goes unreported and
people don’t care a shit. The role of media and government is to
trivialise and distract from what is really important.
Bill
Clinton’s Trade Policies Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming, Now Haiti
Faces Post-Hurricane Famine
Democracy Now!
In 2010, former President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported subsidized U.S. rice during his time in office. It wiped out rice farming, seriously damaging Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake,” Clinton said in 2010.”I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did.” Six years after Clinton’s apology, Haiti faces a new food crisis in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. We speak to Ninaj Raoul, executive director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and a board member of IFCO/Pastors for Peace.
In 2010, former President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported subsidized U.S. rice during his time in office. It wiped out rice farming, seriously damaging Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake,” Clinton said in 2010.”I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did.” Six years after Clinton’s apology, Haiti faces a new food crisis in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. We speak to Ninaj Raoul, executive director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and a board member of IFCO/Pastors for Peace.
EDITOR’S
NOTE: The following article is excerpted from Dinesh D’Souza’s
new book, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic
Party.
In
January 2015 a group of Haitians surrounded the New York offices of
the Clinton Foundation. They chanted slogans, accusing Bill and
Hillary Clinton of having robbed them of “billions of dollars.”
Two months later, the Haitians were at it again, accusing the
Clintons of duplicity, malfeasance, and theft. And in May 2015, they
were back, this time outside New York’s Cipriani, where Bill
Clinton received an award and collected a $500,000 check for his
foundation. “Clinton, where’s the money?” the Haitian signs
read. “In whose pockets?” Said Dhoud Andre of the Commission
Against Dictatorship, “We are telling the world of the crimes that
Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for in Haiti.”
Haitians
like Andre may sound a bit strident, but he and the protesters had
good reason to be disgruntled. They had suffered a heavy blow from
Mother Nature, and now it appeared that they were being battered
again — this time by the Clintons. Their story goes back to 2010,
when a massive 7.0 earthquake devastated the island, killing more
than 200,000 people, leveling 100,000 homes, and leaving 1.5 million
people destitute.
The
devastating effect of the earthquake on a very poor nation provoked
worldwide concern and inspired an outpouring of aid money intended to
rebuild Haiti. Countries around the world, as well as private and
philanthropic groups such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army,
provided some $10.5 billion in aid, with $3.9 billion of it coming
from the United States.
Haitians
such as Andre, however, noticed that very little of this aid money
actually got to poor people in Haiti. Some projects championed by the
Clintons, such as the building of industrial parks and posh hotels,
cost a great deal of money and offered scarce benefits to the truly
needy. Port-au-Prince was supposed to be rebuilt; it was never
rebuilt. Projects aimed at creating jobs proved to be bitter
disappointments. Haitian unemployment remained high, largely undented
by the funds that were supposed to pour into the country. Famine and
illness continued to devastate the island nation......
To
read the article
GO HERE
From Global Research
From its inception, and well before it made $10 billion of earthquake aid money disappear, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) was a vicious joke on Haitians. The original name, Commission Intérimaire pour la Reconstruction d’Haïti, should have been simply translated as Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti. After all, it was the commission that was temporary, not Haiti. There was also no need to change the word reconstruction to the vague term recovery, unless one deliberately wanted to suggest the collection of something. As the I-HRC, however, the organization not only acquired Hillary Rodham Clinton’s initials but also boasted that it would scoop up Haiti’s reconstruction funds and turn the world’s first black republic into a temporary construct. If Mrs. Clinton has become a zombie and the “I” in I-HRC has faded, this could easily be interpreted as a sign of the Haitian gods’ wicked sense of humor.
To read the article GO HERE
As a counterweight to this...
As a counterweight to this...
Rand Paul Reveals What Trump Did For Haiti As A Private Citizen, Delivers Blow To 'Racist' Narrative
On
Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered a major blow to the media’s
narrative that President Donald Trump’s supposed "s***hole"
remark about Haiti proves that he is "racist."
Paul
appeared on NBC’s "Meet the Press" with host Chuck Todd
where he revealed that Donald Trump, as a private citizen, was a
major financial backer of medical mission trips to Haiti which
resulted in life-changing surgeries for hundreds of Haitians.
Speaking
about Trump’s alleged "s***hole" comment, Paul said, "You
know, I don’t think the comments were constructive at all, but I
also think that to be fair we shouldn’t draw conclusions that he
didn’t intend."
"I
know personally about his feelings towards Haiti and toward Central
America because when I was not a candidate for president and he
wasn’t a candidate for president I went down there on a medical
mission trip," Paul continued. "I did about 200 cataract
surgeries with a group of surgeons in Haiti and the same in Central
America, and when we asked Donald J. Trump as a private citizen to
support those trips, he was a large financial backer of both medical
mission trips."
"So
I think it’s unfair to sort of draw conclusions from a remark that
I think wasn’t constructive is the least we can say, and it’s
unfair to all of a sudden paint him as 'he’s a racist' when I know
for a fact he cares very deeply about the people in Haiti because he
helped finance a trip where we were able to get vision back for 200
people in Haiti," Paul concluded.
Haitian government claims ousted dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier laundered stolen money through Trump Tower
President
Donald Trump insulted Haiti during an Oval Office meeting with
lawmakers, but he once signed off on a shady real estate deal with
the nation’s ousted dictator.
More
than a fifth of Trump’s condominiums in the U.S. have been
purchased since the 1980s in secretive cash transactions that fit a
Treasury Department definition of suspicious transactions, reported
Buzzfeed News.
Records
show more than 1,300 Trump condos were purchased through shell
companies, which allow buyers to shield their finances and
identities, and without a mortgage, which protects buyers from lender
inquiries.
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