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Title: BIG OIL BEHIND HAITI QUAKE?
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URL Source: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/haiti_oil__210.html
Published: Feb 5, 2010
Author: Victor Thorn
Post Date: 2010-02-05 20:50:10 by Itistoolate
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Views: 248
Comments: 16
BIG OIL BEHIND HAITI QUAKE? By Victor Thorn Did American petroleum companies murder hundreds of thousands of Haitians while extracting oil from their shores? In an exclusive Jan. 28 interview, social commentator and human rights attorney Ezili Danto believes “hydraulic fracturing” caused by drillers searching for oil may have caused the Jan. 12 earthquake. Yes, oil is Haiti’s smoking gun. Why do you think 20,000 American troops now occupy and control this impoverished nation? On Jan. 28, 2009, geologist Daniel Mathurin revealed, “Haiti’s oil reserves are larger than those of Venezuela. An Olympic pool compared to a glass of water is the comparison.” Indeed, Haiti may have 20 times more oil than Venezuela. Daniel and Ginette Mathurin mapped 20 oil sites (five of them major), and, oddly enough, the quake’s epicenter occurred in the exact same area where the Port-au-Prince resources exist. Imagine, one of the largest caches of oil in the Western Hemisphere, and now over a million residents are displaced or deceased. In a Jan. 26 commentary, Pastor Chuck Baldwin asked, “Why was an earthquake of this magnitude not felt beyond Port-au-Prince?” He continues, “People living in the adjoining country of Dominican Republic universally say they felt nothing.” He concludes, “It is being called ‘miraculous’ that an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale did not produce a colossal tsunami.” Ms. Danto also found the localized destruction very suspicious. “Port-au-Prince hasn’t had an earthquake since 1771,” she said. “What we’re seeing is similar to Hurricane Katrina. Look at how many people never returned to where they originally lived. Perhaps the oil cartels needed to get rid of certain people near the coastline where they wanted it cleared. If Haiti were a piece of dirt with just black people and no oil or minerals, they would have left us alone. We wouldn’t see all the investment money and troops; nor would the U.S. have built the fifth largest embassy in the world in this tiny little country.” To whom specifically is she referring? U.S. companies have known since 1908 that Haiti teemed with oil reserves. In the 1950s and 1960s, two different contractors were bought off to not develop these sites. CIA files also show that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) verified contracts in 1962 regarding these possible oil reserve sites. Ms. Danto explores the economic ramifications of this situation: “Oil companies in the 1960s and 1970s didn’t want to add more supply to the market and allow prices to plummet,” she said. “So, they locked down these deposits and kept them in reserve until the 21st century when Middle Eastern reserves began waning. For the past 50 years, Haiti has been called the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Oil profits could have vastly changed the lives of these people. Now we’re being fleeced, and our resources are being stolen. Haiti has always been a dumping ground, including the theft of our forests and minerals.” In mining Haiti’s riches, Ms. Danto recounts, “There were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about what these soldiers were doing,” she said. “There were barricades around Port-au-Prince, and we couldn’t see what the UN soldiers were doing. This activity started after the Bush-led coup d’33;tat in 2004. The areas blocked off were the same places where experts said oil reserves existed.” To illustrate the abundance of this natural resource, Dr. Georges Michel wrote on March 27, 2004, “In 1975 we bathed in the waters of Les Cayes and noticed that our feet were covered by a sort of black oil seeping from the seabed.” An even more interesting point is Ms. Danto’s revelation that a series of minor “earthquakes” registering near 2.0 on the Richter scale have been occurring for the past couple of years. A geologist also informed her that the 7.0 earthquake took place six miles below where oil companies were drilling. Also curious is a Jan. 15 statement by Bob Brewin, a military-technology writer and editor at the popular web site Next Gov.com. Brewin said that one day prior to the earthquake, Jean Demay of the Defense Information Systems Agency visited the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, where U.S. forces were conducting exercises on how to deal with a major earthquake in Haiti. Indeed, one day later this catastrophe transpired. As the U.S. military now controls Port-au-Prince, are U.S. government efforts to rebuild their infrastructure simply a ruse to grab Haiti’s oil? Ms. Danto answers this question very adroitly. “Most of Haiti’s major deep water ports have been privatized since the Bush 2004 regime change in Haiti.” She then noted in 2009, “If there are substantial oil and gas reserves in Haiti, the U.S.-Euro genocide and crimes against the Haitian population has not begun.” Victor Thorn is a hard-hitting researcher, journalist and the author of many books on 9-11 and the New World Order. These include 9-11 Evil: The Israeli Role in 9-11 and Phantom Flight 93.
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#1. To: Itistoolate (#0)
Of course not. Everybody knows it is Bush and the CIA that causes hurricanes, earthquakes, and erupting volcanoes. Big Oil just drowns polar bears,kills baby seals,and starves minority children to death. Everybody knows that.
Its... You should get forty lashes for posting such drivel.
Cyni, I talked to a geologist that I know about drilling and seismic events a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about the guy looking for geothermal energy in the Swiss Alps who was forced to stop his work by the gov't because of earthquakes. The geolgist I talked has done a lot of deep drilling. I asked him if earthquakes can be caused by boring holes in the earth. He answer was, "All the time."
Did he say earthquakes of what magnitude??? I am doomed I tell you. They are drilling deep natural gas wells all around me, fracturing as they go. There are prolly a dozen with a mile of me. In fact I should receive my first check this week. This county will soon have more millionaires than any county in state of Pa.
Within a couple of miles of me too, but there haven't been any earthquakes here in recorded history. God knows what hydraulic drilling will do near a major fault line. I'll try to find out.
It's not the drilling so much as the "fracking." This is often done to release gas. What caused the quakes? Injecting fluids into a deep well at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal just north of the city — that is, pretty much the same thing as fracking. So it is an activity that should be monitored closely, no matter whether we're worried about clean water or stable ground. Seismic testing has also been known to release stresses in the earth's surface. Even though the area where I live is very stable, geologists using dynamite to locate gas not far from our place shut down a spa that was fed by hot mineral water. The shocks set off a quake that irrecoveralby fractured the well.
I'd just like to throw one more into the pot here. If explosives can caused a 5.3 which is thousands of time more powerful than the initial explosion, can a 5.3 cause a 7.6 which is somewhat more than a thousand times more powerful than the 5.3?
I am dummy. Geologist made the statement that it was like a mosquito trying to inseminate an elephant. Being a dummy, I asked what triggered the last quake in Haiti hundreds of years ago, got whacked for that. Also Yellowstone has been acting up for quite some time. Am dummy.
I'm not maintaining that the US caused the Haiti quake. But it's evident that humans can cause quakes of some magnitude. That's one reason that surveys are done before crews poke holes in the ground. Being a dummy, I asked what triggered the last quake in Haiti hundreds of years ago, got whacked for that. I didn't whack you. Haiti quakes are big but actually rather infrequent. So infrequent that many victims died because they didn't know to run outside instead of inside when the quake hit and got crushed by the CB type construction common on that island. (No dummy, Cyni.)
Sorta makes sense in light of Pat Robertson describing the Haitians' "pact with the devil." Oil has been called the "devil's excrement."
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
Someone here did, my bell is still ringing. Myself, I will go along with Mother nature. If you recall many years ago, when you were a kid, there were hundreds of deep underground nukes turned loose, both here and in Russia. Big time boomers, deep underground and not a quake.
Could be they took some care where they put them before they lit them off.
Nevada, not far from Quakeville CA.
Just an FYI as to the nature of Seismic activity where it pertains to oil... If you drill into an oil deposit, the first thing that happens typically is natural gas is expelled out, which is what causes geysers of oil to shoot out. It's not the equivalent of popping a ripe pimple, as the only pressure that it's under is expelled almost immediately. What causes the problem, isn't so much the gas being expelled is as to what might be under the oil deposit. Could be that the crust is thin there, and buckles when the pressure keeping it all in check, is collapsed. I also think that if drilling caused massive earthquakes like this one, then Texas should have literally been destroyed with as many fields as there were drilled there. I'm not a big believer in this theory. What I would believe though, is that after such a massive quake, that it would be easier to extract that oil though. Once the mantle has stabilized, if it pushed the oil up, that would make it much more accessible. One thing about the whole HAARP thing. The core of this planet is nickel and iron. Both of them are susceptible to Magnetism. If HAARP were a giant electromagnet, that could direct magnetism and bounce it off the atmosphere, it could create quakes by causing whatever side of the core, to become larger. Kind of like how the moon actually makes the oceans rise and fall. Something to think about.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
BIG OIL BEHIND HAITI QUAKE?
#2. To: Itistoolate (#0)
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
#4. To: randge (#3)
"All the time."
#5. To: Cynicom (#4)
#6. To: Cynicom (#4)
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Cleburne, Texas, which sits amid much fracking for natural gas, has experienced a "wave of small earthquakes." There is no proof of a connection, but it does bring up anotherColorado memory from the 1960s. Starting in 1962, Denver suffered a spate of earthquakes, including a 5.3 tremor in 1967 that caused more than $1 million in damage.
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#8. To: randge (#6)
#9. To: Cynicom (#8)
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#10. To: Itistoolate (#0)
#11. To: randge (#9)
I didn't whack you.
#12. To: Cynicom (#11)
#13. To: randge (#12)
Could be they took some care where they put them before they lit them off.
#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
#15. To: Itistoolate (#0)
#16. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#15)
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