Essential The Official Contemporary Haitian Geopolitics/Event thread

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Welp...

 

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She claims it can be worth TRILLIONS...

 

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When he spoke of the wealth beneath Haitians’ feet, Boumba wasn’t speaking in metaphor. The value of the gold and other minerals—copper, silver, iridium—under Haiti’s ground isn’t known, but exploratory drilling suggests that they may be worth $20 billion. In December 2012 the Office of Energy and Mines issued the first three permits to mine gold and copper. A member of parliament later complained that he’d learned about the permits from the radio. Two months later the senate passed a nonbinding resolution calling for a moratorium on mining. To get around the deadlock, Haitian government officials invited the World Bank to redraft the mining law, which it did, in close consultation with mining-company officials.

Showing Haiti on Its Own Terms

 

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For those of us, who don't know what a Bushveld Igneous Complex is.

The Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is the largest layered igneous intrusion[1][2] within the Earth's crust.[3] It has been tilted and eroded forming the outcrops around what appears to be the edge of a great geological basin: the Transvaal Basin. It is approximately 2 billion years old[4] and is divided into four different limbs: the northern, southern, eastern, and western limbs. The Bushveld Complex comprises the Rustenburg Layered suite, the Lebowa Granites and the Rooiberg Felsics, that are overlain by the Karoo sediments.[5] The site was first discovered around 1897 by Gustaaf Molengraaff.[6]

Located in South Africa, the BIC contains some of the richest ore deposits on Earth.[7][8][9][10] The complex contains the world's largest reserves of platinum-group metals (PGMs) or platinum group elements (PGEs)—platinum, palladium, osmium, iridium, rhodium, and ruthenium along with vast quantities of iron, tin, chromium, titanium and vanadium. These are used in, but not limited to, jewellery, automobiles and electronics. Gabbro or norite is also quarried from parts of the complex and rendered into dimension stone. There have been more than 20 mine operations.[11] There have been studies of potential uranium deposits.[12] The complex is well known for its chromitite reef deposits, particularly the Merensky reef and the UG-2 reef. It represents about 75 percent of the world's platinum and about 50 percent of the world's palladium resources. In this respect, the Bushveld complex is unique and one of most economically significant mineral deposit complex in the world.[13]

The description sounds like how vibranium in Wakanda is described. But I digress.

If Haiti truly has a similar ore vein, then in theory, the Haitian people can be fed well for centuries. In theory...

 

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For those of us, who don't know what a Bushveld Igneous Complex is.



The description sounds like how vibranium in Wakanda is described. But I digress.

If Haiti truly has a similar ore vein, then in theory, the Haitian people can be fed well for centuries. In theory...

Yep... But also.

"PGM" are where the iridiums are. So... Les Irois and L'Asile.

 

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Quick factoid. France, adjusted for inflation, owes Haiti $20B from the blackmailing of France losing the war. Haiti has found $21B in gold in the last 7 years and France (and others) is looking to mine it out of Haiti for pennies on the dollar.



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Yep... But also.

"PGM" are where the iridiums are. So... Les Irois and L'Asile.

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Quick factoid. France, adjusted for inflation, owes Haiti $20B from the blackmailing of France losing the war. Haiti has found $21B in gold in the last 7 years and France (and others) is looking to mine it out of Haiti for pennies on the dollar.



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The French are one of the cacs I hate the most and no not just their treatment towards Haitians but among many things. Probably among the most sadistic cacs.

 

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About to post some old article about core group in Haiti with all resource trafficking going on

 

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They been mining . Probably see a lot of cancer rising in Haiti with the mining and GMOs

Quick factoid. France, adjusted for inflation, owes Haiti $20B from the blackmailing of France losing the war. Haiti has found $21B in gold in the last 7 years and France (and others) is looking to mine it out of Haiti for pennies on the dollar.



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Image broken.

For those of us, who don't know what a Bushveld Igneous Complex is.



The description sounds like how vibranium in Wakanda is described. But I digress.

If Haiti truly has a similar ore vein, then in theory, the Haitian people can be fed well for centuries. In theory...

 

[loyola llothta]

@Jesus is my protector now reading this article again connect alot dots

24 April 2019
Haiti’s Huge Gold Reserve: ‘Haiti, Give Me Your Gold, Not Your Weak and Weary!’

By Norris McDonald

Haiti is back in the news with popular revolts against political corruption. Ordinary Haitians are being frustrated every step of the way as they strive to enjoy a better quality of life as is their right.

The discovery of a huge US$20 billion gold reserve in Haiti is no panacea since gold mining has always been surrounded by intrigue, skullduggery, and, perhaps, international plunder and piracy.

Americans, Canadians, and politically well-connected present and past Haitian political leaders stand to reap vast profits from the apparent plundering of Haitian gold.

Haitian workers, meanwhile, are paid a measly US$6.25 a day for working in the muddy, gold-mining pits.

Political Background

The historical evolution of Haitian society has been one in which the ordinary people have been exploited, brutalised, and oppressed – starting from the turn of the 19th century up until 1990, with Haiti’s very long history of American political and military interventions, dictatorship, militarism, cronyism, and official corruption.

There was a period from 1957 to 1971 when Haiti was ruled by François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier. Political opponents were suppressed by the infamous paramilitary group, the Ton-Ton Macoutes.

Following his death in 1971, Jean Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier took power.

The political economic climate of these repressive regimes was aimed at maintaining “business-friendly environment”.

Popular revolt, like we are seeing in Haiti today, led to the collapse of the oppressive Duvalier rule.

Following this, in 1990, a progressive Catholic priest, President Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected, winning 67 per cent of the popular vote.

President Aristide attempted many populist reforms, then in September 1991, a military coup d’état removed him from office.

He was again re-elected president in 2001. Then in 2004, right-wing paramilitaries, aided and abetted by foreigners, violently removed him from power.

President Aristide was put on a plane and dumped in a remote area of Africa.

The Clinton Connection

Haitians were once again going through the back and forth of corrupt governments under which politicians, the ruling elites, and foreigners got wealth while the ordinary people suffered.

Then came the 2010 earthquake and the entry of the Clinton Foundation, ostensibly to help with reconstruction.

Over 200,000 people were killed and a further 300,000 reportedly injured.


Many poor neighbourhoods were devastated.

The Clinton Foundation and the Red Cross raised an estimated US$1 billion, but no one can say what happened to this money.

As to the work of the Clinton Foundation, well, what about it?

Tony Rodham is the brother of Senator Hilary Clinton. It was his company, VCS Mining, that according to the Daily Mail, was given a ‘very lucrative gold-mining contract’.

VCS Mining will pay one of the lowest royalty rates in the world. The Haitian government charged a rate of 2.5 per cent over a 25-year period, with renewal. In comparison, Peru charges a royalty rate of 12 per cent, while Ecuador charges between five and eight per cent for its royalty rate of gold mining.

Political Cronyism

VCS Mining is a Delaware-registered company with a “foreign qualification service” designation, allowing it to work overseas. Its board members include former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive along with former Clinton and Obama administration officials.

Georgianne Nienaber published a detail, well-sourced article, in Opednews, that reviewed leaked internal documents, showing VCS Mining’s connection to ‘cronyism and political corruption”.

“This is a complicated story fraught with intricate detail and begins with the fraudulent installation of a crooked Haitian president, a Korean trade deal, an industrial park facilitated by the Clinton Foundation,” and other unsavory elements, Georgianne Nienaber reports.

Nienaber quoted leaked emails that showed how a USAID-funded power plant, instead of supplying Haitian homes with electric power, was used to supply electric power to VCS Mining operations.

“It would be scandal enough if Tony Rodham and VCS Mining benefited from a gold mine permit in Haiti, but the potential electrical power lines for that gold lead straight to one of the biggest lies to come out of Haitian ‘reconstruction’,” the report stated.

“Meanwhile, there are severe environmental risks associated with gold mining. These risks include the possibility of cyanide spills poisoning the water-supply system.

The Future

Since gold mining will continue in Haiti, what then can be a reasonable expectation for the future?

At present, half of Haiti’s US$1 billion budget comes from foreign aid. Despite this, it is unclear if future gold-mining royalty payments will be placed in a National development fund.

Many nations do this. If this was done, it would certainly help to set aside money to further develop the country and to help the Haitian poor people.

The Haitian government must:

• Seek better royalty terms for mineral mining;
• Set up an independent, transparent national development fund to put some returns from gold exploration and mining towards improving the Haitian people’s lives, while;
• Set up and maintain an effective, disaster-management agency to help mitigate the possibility of a disaster.

Meanwhile, as Haitian gold continues to enrich a handful of people, the dislocated many, who sought refuge in America, are now being driven away by the Donald Trump administration.

In short, it is fine to say: ‘Haiti, give me your gold but not your weak and weary’.

This is the very, very, very sad, bitta truth!

Link:

Norris McDonald | ‘Haiti, give me your gold, not your weak and weary!’

 

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@loyola llothta @For Da Bag an old 90s article confirming iridium in Haiti.

The first notch in the gun occurred in 1978 when Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michel, two nuclear chemists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, discovered 30 times more iridium, a rare element, in clay sediments of a fossil bed in Gubbio, Italy, than had been expected.

The sediments were 66 million years old, a period when the dinosaurs and many other species mysteriously became extinct. Since iridium is thousands of times more plentiful in asteroids than it is in Earth's surface, Asaro, Michel and the two Alvarezes concluded that an asteroid must have smashed into the planet.

They theorized that the asteroid vaporized instantly upon impact, throwing up an enormous dust cloud of particles that eventually settled back down to Earth, laying down a layer of iridium.

Since June 6, 1980, when the four scientists published their findings in Science, high levels of iridium have been found in geological formations of that era at more than 150 sites around the globe.

A second notch made by scientists is the discovery in 1984 of pieces of "shocked quartz," which contain tiny fractures in their crystalline structures, at these fossil beds. These rare pieces of quartz have only been found near the collision sites of asteroids or nuclear bomb explosions.

The third notch involves the discovery of tektites in the sediments of Haiti.

It happened because Bates did a favor for Izett. Bates was filming scenes for a segment on the extinction of dinosaurs. He decided to fly to Haiti to film Florentin Maurrasse, a scientist at Florida International University. Maurrase had discovered an unusually thick layer of iridium-rich clay in a fossil bed near Beloc, Haiti, which led some scientists to speculate that the impact site of the asteroid must be nearby.

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@Jesus is my protector now reading this article again connect alot dots

24 April 2019
Haiti’s Huge Gold Reserve: ‘Haiti, Give Me Your Gold, Not Your Weak and Weary!’

By Norris McDonald

Haiti is back in the news with popular revolts against political corruption. Ordinary Haitians are being frustrated every step of the way as they strive to enjoy a better quality of life as is their right.

The discovery of a huge US$20 billion gold reserve in Haiti is no panacea since gold mining has always been surrounded by intrigue, skullduggery, and, perhaps, international plunder and piracy.

Americans, Canadians, and politically well-connected present and past Haitian political leaders stand to reap vast profits from the apparent plundering of Haitian gold.

Haitian workers, meanwhile, are paid a measly US$6.25 a day for working in the muddy, gold-mining pits.



Link:

Norris McDonald | ‘Haiti, give me your gold, not your weak and weary!’

Thanks reading now.

 

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Thanks reading now.

"USAID-funded power plant, instead of supplying Haitian homes with electric power, was used to supply electric power to VCS Mining operations."

@For Da Bag you see how these Aid funds and Corporation help each other

Also remember USAID is part of reforestation projects in Haiti

 

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"USAID-funded power plant, instead of supplying Haitian homes with electric power, was used to supply electric power to VCS Mining operations."

@For Da Bag you see how these Aid funds and Corporation help each other

Also remember USAID is part of reforestation projects in Haiti

Finished reading and I actually read that article before. Haiti badly needs a Hugo Chavez more than ever.