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       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 18, 2022, 5:08 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/haiti-verge-collapse-ngos-warn-142016898.html
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       > On Monday, the US and Mexico called for the formation of a
       non-UN multinational force to take down the gangs who now
       dominate much of Port-au-Prince.
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       Let the gangs rule Haiti! (For most of history, these "gangs"
       would have been recognized as prospective royal houses.) Just
       let everyone who doesn't want to live under their rule emigrate
       to the US or Mexico!
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       > A record 4.7 million people are facing acute hunger, with 1.8
       million now at an emergency level of malnutrition.
       >
       > For the first time thousands of Haitian are suffering level 5
       hunger – the WFP’s highest alert level and one often reserved
       for wartime famine.
       >
       > Malnutrition has long been rife in Port-au-Prince’s slums, but
       the paralysis of the country by gangs has caused hunger to reach
       life-or-death levels.
       >
       > Many residents are unable to work due to severe petrol
       shortages and food prices are soaring, leaving 65% of Cite
       Soleil’s inhabitants regularly hungry and 5% of them needing
       urgent humanitarian assistance, the WFP says.
       --- End Quote ---
       They need assistance getting out. Sending stuff in is useless;
       just send ships etc. to ferry out all who want to leave!
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       > “The progressive destruction” of Haiti and its institutions
       will make any program to stabilise then rebuild it from a failed
       state into a functioning democracy a long and arduous one, said
       Jonathas.
       --- End Quote ---
       False Leftists like Jonathas are the problem. Don't rebuild!
       Forget about democracy! Let the gangs transform Haiti into a
       non-democratic state! Just concentrate on moving refugees out of
       Haiti!
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       > Any international solution must also include Haitians if it is
       to be a lasting one, he added. UN missions in Haiti have quelled
       violence in the past, but it swiftly returned once they
       departed.
       >
       > “Solutions must be local, among Haitians, but of course with
       the involvement of our international partners. If we talk about
       solutions and forget once again the important Haitian actors, it
       will be a short-term solution to return with the same problems a
       few years later.”
       --- End Quote ---
       The gangs are Haitians, you moron! Include them! But no, you are
       a False Leftist who thinks Westerners should be the ones who
       decide which Haitians (ie. Western puppets) are the 'correct'
       Haitians to include.
       #Post#: 16881--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: guest78
       Date: December 5, 2022, 12:35 pm
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       Port-au-Prince: Haiti's capital city taken hostage by brutal
       gangs - BBC News
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       > Haiti is on the "verge of the abyss", according to the UN, as
       heavily armed gangs expand their control of the country.
       >
       > Armed groups control - and terrorise - at least 60% of the
       capital Port-au-Prince and its surroundings, according to
       Haitian human rights groups.
       >
       > They are also warning rape is increasingly being used as a
       weapon.
       >
       > In the first six months of this year, the gangs killed almost
       1,000 people, the UN has said.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diBbx5d8XRo
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       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: 2ThaSun
       Date: May 15, 2023, 7:46 pm
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       Vigilantes fight back against Haiti's gangs
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       > Warning: Video contains graphic images | A rise in armed
       vigilante groups has opened an unpredictable new chapter in
       Haiti’s gang war, as ordinary civilians, tired of being
       terrorized, take matters into their own hands.
       --- End Quote ---
       
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGnieIule50
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       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 3, 2023, 5:47 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/though-haiti-dire-security-needs-035120293.html
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       > This July marks two years since Haiti’s President Jovenel
       Moïse was shot dead inside his home. With the country mired in
       crisis, it is virtually impossible to get hold of regular
       supplies of water or fuel, or to access healthcare services
       because of the violence.
       --- End Quote ---
       As I keep saying, transporting supplies to where the people in
       need are will always fail. The correct approach is to transport
       the people in need to where the supplies are.
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       > The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team
       working in Port-au-Prince has seen a substantial increase in the
       presence and reach of armed groups in Haiti, now numbering up to
       300 gangs both within and beyond the capital, which is now
       mostly under their control. It’s no surprise, then, that the
       dominant narrative about Haiti focuses on insecurity and whether
       or how to answer calls for the deployment of international
       forces to intervene and restore order.
       --- End Quote ---
       NO, DO NOT INVADE! The only role of international forces should
       be to provide transport for any Haitians wishing to leave Haiti!
       It is that simple.
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       > Yet this laser focus on the security situation has crowded out
       an equally important conversation: how to make tangible progress
       in meeting Haitians’ basic needs
       --- End Quote ---
       How? Get them out of Haiti and into the US ASAP, that's how!
       (Though really France should also be stepping up to take them
       in. I would be all for the US pressuring France to accept all
       Haitians who themselves wish to relocate to France in the
       long-term.)
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       > There are several Haitian and international organizations
       working hard to alleviate that suffering, but they are in need
       of more funding and resources.
       >
       > As the regional director for the Americas for the ICRC, I fear
       that a singular narrative about security in the country draws
       support and attention away from critical humanitarian relief,
       which could ultimately shrink our ability and that of others to
       continue to provide assistance.
       --- End Quote ---
       Then do not provide assistance in Haiti, but provide assistance
       in the US, and get Haitians in need of assistance into the US!
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       > Half of Haiti’s residents are experiencing hunger, and only
       slightly more have access to safe drinking water.
       --- End Quote ---
       That's how many Haitians should be in the US by now.
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       > Haiti’s profound humanitarian needs are alarming and on the
       scale of those my organization sees in armed conflicts around
       the world, covered heavily in the news. But the narrative that
       exists outside of Haiti is that the situation is so dire
       achieving results is impossible, creating a sense of
       hopelessness and fatigue.
       --- End Quote ---
       The narrative is not wrong. Haiti's carrying capacity has been
       reduced. There is no getting around this. The only way to
       achieve results is for Haitians to emigrate until the remaining
       population falls back below the new carrying capacity.
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       > That’s why the international community must support Haiti —
       not abandon it — in finding a viable political solution and to
       strengthen the efforts of humanitarian and development actors,
       both national and international, which right now are addressing
       the needs of the most vulnerable.
       --- End Quote ---
       NO! Haiti requires no "political solution" and no "development".
       The current carrying capacity in Haiti is actually closer to
       what it used to be prior to the colonial era, which is a good
       thing. Stop trying to artificially pump the carrying capacity
       back up to colonial-era levels! Just leave it as it is and get
       the excess Haitians into the US!
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       > And it must start a new conversation, one that moves beyond a
       security-centric narrative and embraces a compassionate,
       inclusive, and forward-looking approach in Haiti.
       --- End Quote ---
       You cannot be both compassionate and forward-looking. True
       compassion is always regressive. True compassion always prefers
       the bad thing to never have happened to the victim in the first
       place, whereas progressiveness tries to turn every bad thing
       that happened to the victim into a chance for the victim to
       "grow" (ie. desensitize) from the experience (until the victim
       eventually becomes glad that the bad thing happened - this is
       what progress actually means). This is the opposite of
       compassion: it is sadomasochism.
       Related:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/
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       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: July 3, 2023, 9:06 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > whereas progressiveness tries to turn every bad thing that
       happened to the victim into a chance for the victim to "grow"
       (ie. desensitize) from the experience (until the victim
       eventually becomes glad that the bad thing happened - this is
       what progress actually means). This is the opposite of
       compassion: it is sadomasochism.
       --- End Quote ---
       They also say that if we not want to forgive the oppressors who
       ever hurt us and keep to make them to be hold accountable, we
       are glad that we suffers and not want to grow up to accept the
       reality. Sadomasochism meaning is a people who have pleasure on
       experiencing pain. We who are always urge the oppressors to take
       accountability for their wrongdoings are considered by them
       "glad on our sufferings." Because they think if we forget the
       pain which we already got in the past, we will not feel painful
       again and we will live normally. If we still urge the oppressors
       to take accountability and they not want to do it, we will
       continuously suffer. So, what about that? They can use word
       "sadomasochism" on us.
       #Post#: 20769--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: July 4, 2023, 5:47 am
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       --- Quote ---
       > every bad thing that happened to the victim into a chance for
       the victim to "grow" (ie. desensitize) from the experience
       (until the victim eventually becomes glad that the bad thing
       happened
       --- End Quote ---
       This more appropriately called as "servility". Servility to the
       current oppressive conditions and not try to change it, instead
       merely try to adapt and being appropriate on it . Western's
       Stoic philosophy is the sources of it's powerful influence to
       the today' society. They are made to appear to be unaware of the
       oppression they are subjected to by false promises.
       That's my more explanation if you all not yet understand
       #Post#: 20776--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: July 4, 2023, 3:50 pm
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       "If we still urge the oppressors to take accountability and they
       not want to do it, we will continuously suffer"
       There's no point trying to talk the oppressor, they are set in
       their ways. One has too build defences in order to be immune to
       the violence inflicted by the enemy.
       #Post#: 20777--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 4, 2023, 5:11 pm
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       "There's no point trying to talk the oppressor, they are set in
       their ways. One has too build defences in order to be immune to
       the violence inflicted by the enemy."
       If we build defences but do nothing about the enemy, eventually
       they will find a way to breach the defences. The point of
       building defences is only to give us a window of opportunity to
       destroy the enemy. This awareness also informs us about what
       type of defences we should and should not build. Specifically,
       immunity to violence is the worst type of defence:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/vaccination/msg10403/#msg10403
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       > The real answer is that this entire problem-solving approach
       will continue to be accepted in all domains so long as its
       philosophical foundations are not dismantled.
       >
       > Immunity approach = "We will evolve to be immune to you, and
       if you keep evolving in response, we will just keep evolving
       faster!"
       >
       > Lockdown approach = "We will (by preventing transmissions)
       prevent you from evolving, so that we don't need to evolve
       either!"
       >
       > The immunity approach is, at its core, a manifestation of
       progressivism (and hence equating the acquiring of more and more
       immunity with strengthening). The lockdown approach is a
       manifestation of regressivism (and hence equating the acquiring
       of more and more immunity with adulteration).
       >
       > Regressivism must defeat progressivism if we are to break the
       cycle.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 21145--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Haiti
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 26, 2023, 4:58 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/calls-haiti-intervention-mount-no-053102904.html
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       > Haunted by previous failures in Haiti and worried about
       getting stuck in a deadly quagmire, the international community
       is reluctant to answer a UN call for a special intervention
       force, experts say.
       >
       > "There is a strong case for deploying an international force
       to Haiti, but it could be a very risky mission," said Richard
       Gowan, an analyst at the International Crisis Group.
       >
       > "The gangs are well-armed and there is no clear exit strategy
       if a mission does deploy," he told AFP.
       >
       > United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, relaying a request from
       Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, began calling in October
       2022 for an international, non-UN deployment to help support
       police who have been overwhelmed by gangs.
       --- End Quote ---
       Do not confront the gangs at all! Let them rule Haiti! Just
       transport out all Haitians who wish to emigrate! What is so
       difficult to understand about this?
       Best comment:
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       > The best option would be to start an air lift for them from
       Haiti to NYC
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       Re: United Nations
   DIR By: BedBugs
       Date: October 3, 2023, 1:34 pm
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       UN approves sending Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight gangs
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       > The UN Security Council has voted to send a multi-national
       force to Haiti to help combat violence caused by gangs, which
       now control huge parts of the capital Port-au-Prince. The
       security mission will be led by Kenya and will include personnel
       from Jamaica, the Bahamas as well as Antigua and Barbuda. For
       the past year, the UN Secretary-General has been calling for
       such a force to restore law and order and now, for the first
       time in almost 20 years, it appears to be happening. Sena Saylan
       reports.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizG5uBFW8E
       Well, let's hope they don't make things worse again:
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       > Past missions in Haiti The UN's 2004-2017 MINUSTAH mission was
       blighted by sexual abuse and a cholera outbreak scandal, which
       resulted in the death of more than 9,000 people with 800,000
       others sickened. UN soldiers were also accused of fathering
       babies and abandoning them.
       --- End Quote ---
       AP Exclusive: UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests
  HTML https://apnews.com/article/africa-arrests-united-nations-only-on-ap-e6ebc331460345c5abd4f57d77f535c1
       Sexual abuse scandal in Haiti
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_Haiti
       U.N. Admits Role In Haiti Cholera Outbreak That Has Killed
       Thousands
  HTML https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490468640/u-n-admits-role-in-haiti-cholera-outbreak-that-has-killed-thousands
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