One Example Of The Barbarism Of Corporatocracy
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Money flows uphill: An update from Cité Soleil | rabble.ca. by Paul Jackson & Joegodson Deralcine
Here’s an excerpt from the above linked-to article:
“Enter the foreign NGOs. The Haitian oligarchy has absolutely no interest in the poor once they leave the sweatshops. However, they don’t mind if a bunch of humanitarian suckers want to come to the island and immunize a few. Build a hospital, a school, feed them if you feel like it. Anyone with a few dollars in his pocket is welcome into Haiti to do whatever he likes as long as it doesn’t interfere with the wage or working conditions. You can’t get near that. No NGO that wants to remain in business is able to say this.”
And here’s an excerpt from my online response to the above linked-to article:
“When Canada, France and the U.S. attacked Haiti, I determined to not forget it, which I wasn’t going to do of course. But who can keep focussed on all of the corporatocracy’s atrocities from year to year? So, While you don’t uncaringly forget about things like the corporatocracy’s invasion of a small, defenceless nation like Haiti, you do find yourself distracted continuously [by] each new, successive atrocity and it all blurs. I just didn’t want that to happen with Haiti. And so I [focussed] on it as best I could.
“That hasn’t involved much more than paying attention to articles on alternative media websites like rabble, and giving myself the task of reading up on the subject, but I felt that that was better than nothing at all. I urge others out there to do that minimum as well. Then mention Haiti as an example of imperialism, with Canada right in the middle of it, when you’re talking to people you know. Because people should know about the ‘myth’ of Canada, that supposedly nicer, more civilized country north of America.”
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Coffee! I do not have a dedicated blog about coffee. I don’t yet blog frequently enough for that, I feel. As well, I don’t consider myself expert enough. I know that that doesn’t necessarily matter if the blog is done half decently. But that’s how I feel. In lieu of such a blog, I have my coffee posts scattered throughout this blog and easily available to you. To find them, click on the link at the bottom of the coffee post you read that says “Explore posts in the same categories.” That’s poorly expressed, but you get the idea. It ought to say “Explore other posts in this category.” But WP isn’t immune from the plague of illiteracy sweeping the planet.
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Disappeared! Going forward, I will more closely track interactive sites where I post commentary and the post doesn’t get accepted. I never submit commentary that is unacceptable to reasonable, decent people. The politics I espouse and talk about may offend many, but that’s different. Also, It’s one thing when a nasty organization disappears my posts. But it’s another thing altogether when an organization that I consider useful and on the side of ‘the people’ disappears my posts. Then again, Gatekeepers are everywhere (hint: Click on the word ‘gatekeeper’ in the tag cloud). Click on the word ‘censored’ in the tag cloud to see posts that I submit to various discussions but which never appeared or appeared and then disappeared. I won’t always know why my posts are disappeared. But so what? Let’s see what’s going on out there. Right?
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Tags: corporatocracy, democracy, Haiti, riches for the strongest
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