Get Rich or die trying...A devil philosophy!

Watching the events unfold in Jamaica over these past few weeks, have been like seeing the words from the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman come to life  When I posted Air Jamaica and the Jamaican Dollar, I was wondering why this was happening to the Land of Wood and Water.  There must be a plan behind what was going on, but I, not being privy to the inner workings of government, could only speculate that there was a force pressing down on the island from outside.  Sure, we can look back and see the escalation of what appears to be a destablization of the island since the very begining of the 1980's, but who and why, would not reveal itself for nearly 30 years.  Thus, many could only deal with the issue at hand, the soaring crime rate, the devaluing of the Jamaican dollar and the apparent corruption of the government, government agents, government agencies, and greedy people exploiting hungry people.  Rest asurred, hunger is not only an empty belly. 

But, this is not about Jamaica, simply because Jamaica and her surrounding sister islands are only pawns on a much larger chess board.  This is really about us.  The events in Jamaica are symptons of a wider sickness that encircles the globe.  Many blame it on the exportation of "American values", that ,what is happening there and in other places is the acceptance of the lower standards of American morals and mores.  I don't believe this is truly the case.  Many Black people have accepted a station in life that centers around making dollars, gettin' money.  It's now acceptable to hear one say "I can't knock that man, because he's making money."  Really?  One cannot knock what another does simply because the other is making money?  Getting money has become the panacea for the ills of a stunted people, for those that have little in their hearts and maintain less in their minds.  The greed of those that hold the reigns of government are being reigned in by another set of greedy and controlling hands, and all too many of us fail to see, or look for those hands.  We are not seeing the exportation of American morals.  What we are seeing are the affects of the continuing saga of colonization.  Europe has never stopped her need for natural resources, or actually the need for the manipulation of stock markets through natural resources, which includes the bodies of human beings (remember every job had a personnel office, now its HUMAN resources.)  Thus, we are seeing the affect of mental and psycological colonization for the capturing of Nature's goods.  But, we have allowed this to happen.

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., in his 1963 speech in Washington D.C., said that he longed for a day when we would be judged by the content of our character and not by the colour of our skin.  Not long after this speech, the content of the character of a person became less and less important.  And the desire for great opulance became the order of the day.  Within ten years of this speech, the U.S. dollar became the worlds currency.  It maintained no value unless it was moving, nothing else.  It was no longer backed by any precious metal. It became an inflated vehicle by which to OBTAIN THINGS, and our attention was changed to just that.  The desire to obtain THINGS.  Though it seemed, we were moving in a direction of "moving on up", alll the while we were being directed towards a lower state of mind.  We gained jobs we never had before, we gained status on a scale, that we, in a wider sense, had not acheived prior to World War II.  We began to seemingly, attain what the white world was holding.  In just 20 short years, from the 1970's to the 1990's, the message all around us became get money.  It was seen on the covers of magazines, television commercials and most notably it was being hypnotically chanted in music.  The belief, that having money will cure your ills, has been achieved by a few, and passed on to the many only as a fantasy.  It no longer matters how one gets the money, but that you got it. 

No longer does the general population care about the content of ones character, but that if he or she has gotten a lot of money they should not be denied their accolades.  This has been the story of old Europe that continues today.  Destroy a people, move them if you have to, and get the resources to make money.  This is not an American export, but a European imperialists' concept, and the U.S. has become the militariy wing of Europen namely Britain.  We have played into this concept.  Bought it, hook line and sinker   Getting rich or the belief that one day one will get rich has become the opium of Black people.  No longer is the content of one's character a valued "American export."  

Christopher "Dudus" Coke is the Osama Bin Laden of the Western hemisphere.  He may no longer exist as a living being (he may still be right there in Jamaica, although I doubt it), but his name is to be carried forward for the purpose of war.  Jamaica, along with Haiti has long been coveted(since their independence?) and now the time is right for an new British expansion played out by her latest and greatest military power, the U.S. military.  Minutes after the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. Coast Guard was on station off the coast of Port-Au-Prince to secure the Haitian ports.  Then came more talk about Haitian deep water ports in January of this year.  By February, Jamaica solidifies its deal with the harlot, signing a 127 billion dollar deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and continues their quest to get into the oil business.  Jamaica has been working on this since as early as 2004 and had stated their oil plans would come to fruition by the end of 2010. 

The British march on, devouring and consuming at the cost of her minions.  She has never cared about commoners whether they be those of us of a darker hue or even her own lower class whites and Irish people.  And, yet our desire to get money and become rich supercedes our desire to develop good character.  This is the only way the mantra of "I can't knock that man, because he's making money" can be allowed to survive and flourish.  Until we learn and understand that the beast can be defeated by defeating the beast within everyone of us, we will continue to die and be jailed.  The bible tells us that our people die for lack of knowledge.  Unfortunately, the bible doesn't tell us what that knowledge is.  But, our ancestors have told us repeatedly, that it is the knowledge of ourselves.  Until we accept their teachings, many of us will continue to perish.

Haiti: an unwelcome katrina redux...Cynthia McKinney

I found this gem on the Trinidad Express blog, which is a reprent of an article written by our esteemed former Georgia congress woman and former candidate for president in 2008 running on  the Green Party ticket, Cynthia McKinney. This article brings home some thoughts I had on the quick response by President Obama and his deployment of the U.S. military's most leathal combat units, the 82nd Airborne and U.S. Marines, to Haiti.  This article was originally posted on Global Research where you can read the full post.

Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

By Cynthia McKinney
January 22, 2010 – globalresearch.ca

President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working – saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.
 
The United States, on the day after the tragedy struck, confirmed that an entire Marine Expeditionary Force was being considered “to help restore order,” when the “disorder” had been caused by an earthquake striking Haiti; not since 1751, 1770, 1842, 1860, and 1887 had Haiti experienced an earthquake. But, I remember the bogus reports of chaos and violence that led to the deployment of military assets, including Blackwater, in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One Katrina survivor noted that the people needed food and shelter and the US government sent men with guns. Much to my disquiet, it seems, here we go again. From the very beginning, US assistance to Haiti has looked to me more like an invasion than a humanitarian relief operation.

On Day Two of the tragedy, a C-130 plane with a military assessment team landed in Haiti, with the rest of the team expected to land soon thereafter. The stated purpose of this team was to determine what military resources were needed.

An Air Force special operations team was also expected to land to provide air traffic control. Now, the reports are that the US is not allowing assistance in; shades of Hurricane Katrina, all over again.

On President Obama’s orders military aircraft “flew over the island, mapping the destruction.” So, the first US contribution to the humanitarian relief needed in Haiti were reconnaissance drones whose staffing are more accustomed to looking for hidden weapon sites and surface-to-air missile batteries than wrecked infrastructure. The scope of the US response soon became clear: aircraft carrier, Marine transport ship, four C-140 airlifts, and evacuations to Guantanamo. By the end of Day Two, according to the Washington Post report, the United States had evacuated to Guantanamo Bay about eight [8] severely injured patients, in addition to US Embassy staffers, who had been “designated as priorities by the US Ambassador and his staff.”

On Day Three we learned that other US ships, including destroyers, were moving toward Haiti.

Interestingly, the Washington Post reported that the standing task force that coordinates the US response to mass migration events from Cuba or Haiti was monitoring events, but had not yet ramped up its operations. That tidbit was interesting in and of itself, that those two countries are attended to by a standing task force, but the treatment of their nationals is vastly different, with Cubans being awarded immediate acceptance from the US government, and by contrast, internment for Haitian nationals.

US Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson IV reassured Americans, “Our focus right now is to prevent that, and we are going to work with the Defense Department, the State Department, FEMA and all the agencies of the federal government to minimize the risk of Haitians who want to flee their country,” Watson said. “We want to provide them those relief supplies so they can live in Haiti.”

By the end of Day Four, the US reportedly had evacuated over 800 US nationals.

For those of us who have been following events in Haiti before the tragic earthquake, it is worth noting that several items have caused deep concern:

1. the continued exile of Haiti’s democratically-elected and well-loved, yet twice-removed former priest, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide;

2. the unexplained continued occupation of the country by United Nations troops who have killed innocent Haitians and are hardly there for “security” (I’ve personally seen them on the roads that only lead to Haiti’s sparsely-populated areas teeming with beautiful beaches);

3. US construction of its fifth-largest embassy in the world in Port-au-Prince, Haiti;

4. mining and port licenses and contracts, including the privatization of Haiti’s deep-water ports, because certain offshore oil and transshipment arrangements would not be possible inside the US for environmental and other considerations; and

5. Extensive foreign NGO presence in Haiti that could be rendered unnecessary if, instead, appropriate US and other government policy allowed the Haitian people some modicum of political and economic self-determination.

Therefore, we note here the writings of Ms. Marguerite Laurent, whom I met in her capacity as attorney for ousted President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ms. Laurent reminds us of Haiti’s offshore oil and other mineral riches and recent revival of an old idea to use Haiti and an oil refinery to be built there as a transshipment terminal for US supertankers. Ms. Laurent, also known as Ezili Danto of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN), writes:

“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 in Haiti.

“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.”