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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Bench Marking and Economic Site assessment
  • Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:24:39 -0500

dANIEL hALSEY wrote:
After reading some of the end game post I though I'd d some insight for the
perspective of a man that has seen a few recessions from a self employed
point of view.
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Here is a better model for us and them. Chickens. Send 20,000 chickens to
Haiti, They will clean up the mess, need no feed or refrigeration and they
can be eaten at a moments notice. The Haitians have been doing this for
centuries. Goats too. A dairy cow here and there. They make more of
themselves, produce eggs, milk, meat, fertilizer, leather, pillows, etc.
Haiti does not need another bank or burger king. Give Haiti back the
agrarian culture it once had and their culture will establish itself once
again and maybe this time be free of economic burdens we have imposed on
the.

They do not need concrete buildings, they need gardens, animals and forests
of food. They need Permaculture.
Same here.

Hello Dan:

I am surprised at the lack of followups to your thoughtful post.
As I understand it one of the problems they face in Haiti is ethnic conflict, fueled by outside interests, of course, the removal of Aristide as activist president being the most notable of late.
By ethnic I mean the longstanding conflicts between the Creoles and the two distinctly different groups of Blacks (for lack of better explanation, the ones following the voodoo tradition and those following black magic who were allied to the Duvalier family).

Something else may be standing in the way of sustainable, permacultural redevelopment of Haiti is this (thanks to Keith Johnson for posting this to Facebook):

The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti
by F. William Engdahl
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17287
President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti.

"A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for making a literal ‘pact with the Devil.’

Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines and urgently needed potable water to the millions of Haitians stricken, injured and homeless.

Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the world’s richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela."

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What do you make of this? and especially this:
"Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines and urgently needed potable water to the millions of Haitians stricken, injured and homeless."
Put this in the context of recent events in Honduras where _their_ democratically elected president was deposed because he sought to really do something for his people including extracting fair revenue from the parasite chiquita banana who promptly called the goon squad and had him removed. Recently there have also been journalist assassinations in Honduras, just as in Russia with those exposing the atrocities committed by that country on the Chechnians.
LL




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