US Quake Test Goes Horribly Wrong, Leaves 500,000 Dead in Haiti

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by Canuckistan

I guess it's plausible. I often confuse Tehran with Port au Prince.

It's easy to do- the people who live in both cities are brown.

[snopes]

Sometimes people accuse us of conspiring to keep their letters to the editor out of the newspaper.

Sometimes they are correct.

Take, for example, the recent letter that claims the U.S. military used secret weapons to cause the earthquake in Haiti. According to the letter writer, military personnel are also steering tornadoes and hurricanes with laser beams so they can direct the damage where they please.

The claims, probably spawned by late-night talk radio, haven’t yet shown up on snopes.com, so we can’t confirm their validity. Snopes is a Web site devoted to debunking or confirming the validity of claims.

http://www.decaturdaily.com/detail/53074.html

[Ana Ng]

The claims, probably spawned by late-night talk radio, haven’t yet shown up on snopes.com, so we can’t confirm their validity.

Really? No other way? How do you guys do it?

[snopes]

Comment: BIG OIL BEHIND HAITI QUAKE?

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’�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.”

[lyriccoloratura]

Where is this from?

LC

Originally Posted by snopes

A grim report prepared by the Russian Northern Fleet for Prime Minister Putin is stating today that the catastrophic earthquake that has devastated the Island of Haiti was the ‘clear result’ of a United States Navy test of one of its ‘earthquake weapons’ planned to be used by the Americans upon the Persian Nation of Iran but had gone ‘horribly wrong’.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/11904..._In_Haiti.html

It would be nice if authors of such crocks could at least get their verifiable facts correct. The island is not named Haiti. The country is.