AVATAR/HAITI FROM A BLACK PERSPECTIVE
The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective
by Ezili Danto
In order for consumerism, corporate greed and imperialism to work there must
be a narrative. A narrative that claims to be about the common good, about science, development, advancement, education.
In that way, although it is just a regular sci-fi movie with the same ol' plots and the same white hero narrative, I take the time here to analyze the Avatar movie because if James Cameron was looking to tell a story from the point of view of people of color, he fell short. The racist subtext effaced that desire.
"Once upon a time, trees were sacred things in Haitian/African culture, looked upon as living energies that provided strength to the people. Thus, cutting down trees was relatively a taboo. But these core Africanist values were scorned and desecrated by the influences of Western colonialism and Christian missionaries on traditional Vodun. These core values were uprooted during the anti-Vodun Rejete campaigns (1940-41) as a means for the Catholic Church to get rid of Vodun as its rival religion and philosophy in Haiti and as a way for the US to clear peasant Haitians off lands they wanted to acquire for their agricultural initiatives in Haiti in the 1940s during the post-U.S.-occupation presidency of Elie Lescot (1941-46).
The Catholic Churches' brutal anti-superstition campaigns in the 1940s, which made it alright to destroy trees that holds up not only the land but a culture, adds to deforestation in Haiti. For, once these core values were broken down and substituted with foreign ideals (senility?) - foreign psychology irrelevant to Haitian survival, things in Haiti for the vast majority, as Chinua Achebe, would put it: began to "fall apart..." (Ezili's HLLN on the Counter-Colonial Narrative on Deforestation, See also - Hatian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) on the causes of Haiti deforestation and poverty.)
I went and saw the Avatar movie looking to find a redeeming deeper meaning in it as so many on this Ezili/HLLN list had such divergent opinions.
[For complete article reference links, please see source at Open Salon here.]
First, let me say, what I am about to write is not an attack on anyone. It's what I think, from my point of references, after seeing the movie.
I thank everyone who expressed an opinion on the movie. Those of us who are concerned with human rights, environmental degradation, corporate greed will find that the Avatar movie is a parable and metaphor for how Western culture, corporate greed, consumerism, white privilege and imperialism is destroying the earth through wars for oil, occupations for taking "the other world's" resources and minerals, through mining, clear-cutting, taking down the environment without regards to the human being and the ecology that's destroyed. So, if you are a moviegoer, this is not a bad choice and I recommend the movie for that. I also recommend the movie as a study of the white savior complex. It's very instructional in that way.
I've done Haiti work all my life and have run into the "assimilated" white savior who feels so assimilated and "Haitian" he can insist on his cultural empathy as credential for LEADING the indigenous Haitian to liberty!
Ezili's HLLN has always maintained that the best function of friends of Haiti is not to strum dependency but load our gun and also to go to Washington and push their own to change their policies towards Haiti. No one can give another his/her liberty. We Haitians, we Blacks, we Africans must take what's ours, own our own liberty, as all human beings must. Otherwise it's charity, degrading and meaningless.
The movie is also worthy as a study because one can see the analogy to Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan and every other place where the US/Euros have gone to invade, conquer and plunder in the name, of course, of bringing democracy or humanitarian aid or bringing civilization and God!
In an interview, James Cameron reportedly said he was writing from the indigenous point of view. If I took him seriously, and let him look through my eye, this is what he would see:
A real life example of what happened to the fictional Na'vi people in the movie is happening to Haiti right now. The US military took down president Aristide, deported him to Central Africa, and took over Haiti with hired thugs and death squads, then used the UN and the NGO squads to deflect charges of terror, racism and imperialism. Meanwhile the UN is protecting not Haitian rights and sovereignty but the right of the NGOs, corporate greed, sweatshops, trans-national corporations' right to privatization of Haiti's assets - blang (gold, iridium, copper, oil, diamonds, marble)- and the mining and oil companies to do as they please in Haiti. How greed and imperialism destroys the environment...The Avatar movie is a good analogy, a good parallel for this. In it, we see the mad preppy corporate guy, head of the mining operation who employs a small army of former marines for security and directs them to attack the Na'vi people because his company wants the blang -a mineral called unobtainium - that's underneath the soil in Pandora where the Na'vi people live.
In the Avatar movie, the fictional cultural expert played by Sigourney Weaver is the expert who is wiring the humans’ brains into the bodies of Na'vi avatars to try to win the indigenous people’s trust; building schools in the Na'vi people's world and trying to "educate them," all, on behalf of the mad preppy corporate guy so to befriend them, manipulate them and convince them that the more civilized thing to do is to leave their ancestral lands where the life-force of their mother Goddess and Tree of Souls (ancestors) live and go elsewhere. Manipulating for corporations’ profit. If the anthropologist team doesn't succeed with their psychological brainwashing then the mad preppy will just get his military forces to crush the Navi’s with tanks and bombs. Sounds familiar?
Some years ago, in the essay entitled, Ezili's HLLN Counter-Colonial Narrative on Deforestation, I wrote:
“Once Haiti's natural zones for agriculture were confiscated by big agribusinesses and pushed off their ancestral lands, disenfranchised peasants had no choice but to go into the harsher lands in the mountains or wherever they could, to try to grow some food to feed their families, while a small group of the world's rich - such as the procession of US lumber companies in the 19th century and then, in the 20th century the procession of US lumber, sugar and fruit companies paid large sums to corrupt government officials to cut down pine, mahogany, cedar, oak and other trees for access to the Haitian forests and peasant lands in order to pillage Haiti's resources, under the guise of "development," "job creation" or "anti-superstition."”
Yes, the Avatar movie is a good analogy to colonialism, and the role of the missionaries, development folks and USAID experts of modern day and may be seen in that light.
But as entertainment, that's a matter of taste. And for me, except for the very beginning when the spectacular scenery and 3-D experience was so riveting, the analogy is much too life-like to the situation of Haitians vis-à-vis the US/Euros for the entertainment value to mean much.
Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington is the white hero who enters the Navi's land, learns, in three months, all their secrets, becomes a super-Na'vi and is able to return and save them from the attack of his crazy nation's war mongers.
It's relevant to note that the main Na’vi characters are voiced by four Black actors: Zoë Saldaña who plays the warrior princess Neytiri; CCH Pounder who plays Mo'at, the Na'vi shaman (spiritual leader) and Neytiri's mother; Laz Alonso who plays Tsu'Tey, the young warrior prince, Neytiri's betrothed and heir to the chieftainship of the Omaticayas, Neytiri’s clan; and Peter Mensah who plays Akwey, leader of a plains clan of Na'vi; as well as Wes Studi, a Cherokee, who plays Eytukan, the father of Neytiri and the supreme leader of the Omaticaya clan of Pandora. The evil humans are white.
The movie is a fantasy from the point of view of white people. At the end the white man leads, just as he would lead as a colonizer, but this time he leads the natives from the inside. The hero is always a hero in any world and he’s always white. That’s why Danny Glover found it impossible to do a movie about the Haitian revolution with Jean Jacques Dessalines and Toussaint Louvertures as the heroes.
Frankly, I found the Avatar movie patronizing and no, Jake was no more than a white outsider who comes in and does his Tarzan thing. The racial subtext of the movie was extremely blatant.
This was my first 3-D experience and that was dazzling and I agree the scenery is spectacular...at the beginning.
The 3-D IMAX is stunning viewing and combined with the lush green scenery, the message that we need to protect our environment, wild life, respect other people's cultures and way of life, and control the profit-driven military-industrial complex makes Avatar worth the time. But it gets so, so typically racist, violent, violent, violent - literally and psychologically - and despicably so.
When the Omaticaya clan’s Tree of Voices and the Ancestors fell, that genocide resonated. It reminded me of how the Catholics in Haiti, destroyed the mapou trees in Haiti because in Haitian Vodun each village compound/Lakou, each family had a tree with the spirit and life of their ancestors. But in the 1940s rejete massacre in Haiti, the US sponsored the burning down of the most sacred of trees and the psychological devastation still hasn't left the Haitian psyche to this day. So much so that trees became, for many, just wood for charcoal burning! I cringed when that Navi tree went down. The Will Heaven and Annalee Newitz reviews have it correct, this is no more than a white savoir movie where the "assimilated white" becomes the messiah for the "savages."
Here's a few other parts that grated my nerves to no end:
In the movie, the white man is the ONLY one who can pray to the Na'vi’s mother goddess (Eywa) and she HEARS him, not her own people 's prayers and grief but HIM. The Jake character prays to Eywa to intercede on behalf of the Na'vi in the coming battle and when the battle seems lost, suddenly the creatures of the forest start to help attack the expendable corporate soldiers fighting for blang - (Gold and sugar in Haiti and the Americas during the African Holocaust and oil, gold and iridium right now under UN proxy occupation for the US). We hear Neytiri yelling – “Eywa heard you Jake, Eywa heard you!”
The white man mates with Neytiri, the most beautiful, most powerful warrior princess in the realm but he expects her intended, Tsu'Tey, the young warrior prince, the king-to-be to meekly accept the fait accompli and fly with him because now he's a super-Na'vi after having been the ONLY one to tame and ride the Toruk, an immensely powerful red flying beast that only five Na'vi have ever tamed in their history.
The Toruk is recognized by the Na’vi people as the most ferocious beast in their realm. When Jake, the white hero character, swoops down from above astride the red Toruk, he becomes not just a mythical hero, he becomes Eywa –the mother Goddesses’ - chosen one, the white messiah, and now he wants the young warrior king of the Na'vi people, Tsu'Tey whose character is voiced by the Black actor, Laz Alonso, and whose princess, voiced by the Black actress, Zoë Saldaña, he's mated with to meekly ACCEPT, submit to him as leader of the Na'vi battle AND to TRANSLATE FOR HIM as he addresses the new King’s people and revs them up for war against the humans! The parallel emasculation of the Black man here cannot be more obvious.
Dr. Grace Augustine played by Sigourney Weaver, says at one point in defending the Na’vi tree "This isn't some pagan Vodun, this is their home and destruction of the Hometree will affect the biological connection to nature's lifeforce of all Na’vi organisms." Something like that.
This is the same anthropologist who, later on, in the movie would be rushed to the Tree of Souls and Mo'at, the Na’vi high priestess, for healing through the making of a sacred connection to nature's lifeforce to save her. The whole chanting ritual and raising up of sacred energies pretty much looked like Vodun (in Haiti, Vodun means lifting up "sacred energies".)
If James Cameron was indeed doing what he said he wanted to do and writing from the indigenous point of view, if I took him seriously, than I would not have to see how Grace, the white woman's life was made to be so important that in the middle to their grieving of all that they had lost from the shock and awe attack upon their village, that HER HEALING was the priority. She's so important to Jake, the whole village that's just lost its beloved king and perhaps thousands upon thousands of their people, take time to value THIS LIFE above all else and sit in unison to chants for her wellbeing! But alas, Dr. Grace dies. But wait, all is not lost. Her life is so unique and valuable, that her lifeforce gets to be DESERVING enough to join into the collective Navi's Goddess (Eywa) vibration.
This is such an obvious white fantasy in a long, long line of the noble white savior films. After the Sigourney Weaver character's Hollywood demonization of Haiti's sacred way, her demeaning "Pagan Vodun" comment, it would have been poetic justice if Cameron truly wanted to speak from "the others" point of view, if the good doctor's spirit had NOT gone directly into the blissful Navi Eywa collective soul but spent some time in some Christian purgatory or some such place!. For that privilege too reminded me of the foreign Vodun converts who come into Haitian culture and claim our ancestors, priesthood and to be Vodun spirit masters in just one generation of submission.
If I were to take James Cameron's sci-fi movie seriously I'd say it was Richard Pryor who once remarked, Do you have any dreams? They’ll want them too.
Ezili Dantò/HLLN
Rev. Ajabu
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thanks so much for this post. i have not even read it all closely yet, but i am so happy that someone "out there" GETS IT.... i have been interested in haiti's culture and history since 2004 when Aristide's departure didnt seem to make sense. i immediately recognized haiti in avatar, what with the voudon and trees, etc. and, i went to avatar for the first time today, and was even more moved. now, i come here. i had just told my partner that i went to the movie with that i had been searching on the web for the haiti/avatar connection....BECAUSE I KNEW IT RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
but, i couldn't find anything.
enough blabbering
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?????
HOW DO I FIND THE SOURCE?
Reverend
I will comment on Avatar later but I just could not resist discussing the people who went to Sen Landrieu's office to wire tap the phones. A reporter named O'Keefe was the one who dressed up like a pimp with his White whore and went into an ACORN office and created the appearance of fraud by ACORN. Now they face criminal charges for pretending to be telephone repairmen in order to get into Sen Landrieu's office.
O'Keefe and his thugs were praised by Fox News idiots, many Republican Congressmen, and of course by our own Jayson.
ACORN was exonerated and now we see how Republicans operate in order to embarrass our president at any cost. The ACORN scam backfired and now they are going to jail with the Landrieu scam. There is no doubt they were digging up dirt from Landrieu's office in order to embarrass Obama once more.
The Republicans cannot play fair and win because they are liars and deceivers who will not stop until they bring down this president at any cost. Now they look like the idiots they have always been. They are good at lying and distorting the truth but they have never been able to govern in the best interest of America.
I have said to Dawn, please name one thing that the Republicans have passed that resembles such monumental bills like Medicare and Social Security. They are good at stealing elections, lying about healthcare, lied to go into Iraq, and Bush reigned over the worst presidency since Herbert Hoover. They do not play fair. They wasted precious time pretending to want a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage but after Bush was re elected, not one mention of gay marriage. The Christian conservatives and evangelicals were used to get out the vote for Bush; but no amendment against gay marriage.
The other time Republicans squandered precious time was the period in which they tried to impeach Clinton. They spent big dollars and still didn't impeach him.
The O'Keefe caper is the type of operation that Republicans have descended to in order to defeat Obama. They got caught again. Thank God ACORN is cleared. Let us hear your comments Jayson.
john
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tMozJlQiN8ftSj0s8tLx31g&output=html
The above link lists donations to Haiti.
To counter the nonsense of this blog. The USA and business is pouring aid into the country of Haiti. Ultimately, for Haiti to be able to support its people, it must do it through commerce. Commerce will be developed through the seed money raised in response to this disaster.
Regarding all the resources that people are "taking" from Haiti, Haiti received a billion dollars of US aid for the years 2006 and 2007, and total exports were about 300 million. There is a TINY export business in minerals, but it is tiny. This is not some massive western rape of this poor nation.
There were clearly lots of missteps in Haiti, beginning with the French colonization and slave importation, followed by US occupation. They have never had a stable government, and the corruption and fraud are widely reported.
Referencing the prior post regarding the "wonderful" Cuban physicians... Cuba has a massive world propaganda effort underway to try to present their totalitarian President in a positive light. There is a two tiered medical program in Cuba. One that they show to willing anti-American accomplices, like Michael Moore, and the one that they provide to their population. Here is the real story about medicine in Cuba: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
Watch this. http://www.moorewatch.com/index.php/weblog/comments/the_truth_about_cuban_health_care_exposed_on_hannity_colmes/
The truth about Cuban physicians is that they have been defecting in droves.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/19/AR2007021901045.html
Finally, the difference between a free market capitalist and a socialist is that a free market capitalist looks at massive government programs such as medicare and social security as necessary evils. They are a safety net for those who cannot or will not work to provide for themselves. They are not something to be celebrated.
In the mind of a conservative, the fewer and smaller the programs, the better. The more people employed in the private sector, the better. Only private sector employment is sustainable. Public sector employment is like a blood sucking leech to private employment. Sometimes necessary. Always a little disgusting.
I will not be back and forthing with the ignorance that is portrayed as truth on this blog. It isn't worth it.
I will only counter the foolishness with documented facts.....in case there is someone other than John reading this blog....which I highly doubt. I can't let minds full of mush be led by minds full on venom.
Freedom Rider: Useless Aid
By Margaret Kimberley
Created 01/27/2010 - 01:02
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
“The time has come for a new paradigm: No donation without agitation.” The United States has succeeded in plunging mainstream disaster “relief” into disrepute. “No donations to groups like the Red Cross, who sit on millions of dollars but do nothing but hand out blankets and move victims away from their homes in order to convenience the powerful.” And, especially, no donations to any group associated with George Bush or Bill Clinton.
Freedom Rider: Useless Aid
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
“Dollars must come with demands of non-interference in Haiti’s affairs and demands of accountability to charitable organizations.”
A telethon hosted by celebrities succeeded in raising more than $57 million in funds for the relief of Haiti earthquake victims. Yet that sum and the many millions more donated by individuals around the world will do little to relieve Haiti’s plight.
Haitians are living in their latest hellish incarnation created by American meddling and the crushing of that nation’s democracy. As long as the United States directs Haiti’s affairs, and empowers a corrupt elite instead of the will of the masses, suffering will continue whether caused by natural or human-made disaster.
The scenes of devastation, death and injury move most human beings first to empathize and then to take some action in order to help. The sad stories tug at the heartstrings and the miraculous tales of survival lift the spirit. However, in the absence of an infrastructure built by Haitians to help Haitians, the images do nothing but create a kind of twisted voyeurism. Bringing change to Haiti should not be the equivalent of gawking at a crash on the side of the highway.
“An illegitimate government whose very existence is opposed by the population is incapable of building new homes or treating the injured.”
Haiti is still ruled by a clique of criminals put in place by the United States government. Lavalas, the party supported by a majority of citizens, is barred from participation in the electoral process that is now a sham. An illegitimate government whose very existence is opposed by the population is incapable of building new homes or treating the injured. Haitians have already begun to scatter throughout the country in search of food and shelter, despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars have been donated to help them.
The sad fact of the matter is that individuals cannot help Haiti or end human suffering anywhere on earth unless their assistance is combined with political action. The dollars must come with demands of non-interference in Haiti’s affairs and demands of accountability to charitable organizations. If the Red Cross doesn’t even spend all of its enormous contributions, as it shamelessly did after the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the Asian tsunami, then donors must stop giving before the next disaster strikes.
“The ‘bottleneck’ in Port au Prince was a direct result of the militarization of aid to Haiti.”
If American aid to Haiti comes in the form of military occupation, then even reputable organizations are unable to do their jobs adequately. Doctors Without Borders [1] has had a presence in Haiti for many years, but flights containing 85 tons of their medical supplies were diverted to the Dominican Republic. Precious time was lost in the process of retrieving life saving medicines and equipment from another country.
The much talked about airport “bottleneck” in Port au Prince was a direct result of the militarization of aid to Haiti.The United States army decided who would be permitted to land and who would not. While VIP flights were given priority and created the diversion of medical supplies, the environmental group Greenpeace gave Doctors Without Borders use of a ship to carry less urgent equipment, allowing the medical group to prioritize delivery of its most desperately needed cargo.
It seems cruel to advise against helping human beings in need, but we have seen this movie many times before and we know the ending. The time has come for a new paradigm: “No donation without agitation.” No donations to groups like the Red Cross, who sit on millions of dollars but do nothing but hand out blankets and move victims away from their homes in order to convenience the powerful. No donations must be made to any group headed by a Bush or a Clinton. The old presidents’ old boys club did nothing for the Gulf Coast victims of hurricane Katrina. It would be not only a waste but a terrible wrong to give them another opportunity to collect funds which never seem to be used for people who need it.
“The time has come for a new paradigm: ‘No donation without agitation.’”
This earthquake should be the last instance of easy text message philanthropy. Instead of pressing a few buttons, concerned people should ask questions and make demands. Current and former American presidents should not be allowed to grandstand when their policies made life hell for Haitians in the first place. The first president Bush ousted president Aristide, Clinton restored him to power only after promises of “market reform” and Bush the younger kidnapped him and tossed him out of his country. Yet a Bush and a Clinton now have the nerve to pose for photos and behave as though they are interested in helping the very people they crushed.
There will always be hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes. They are the inevitable results of nature at work. Starvation, illness and displacement are inevitable only if the people who create those conditions are permitted to continue their actions without opposition. It can be a waste to send money, even if the cause is a righteous one. Let us make this the last time we take the easy and useless way out.
Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgandaReport.com.
Well said! On every level. Those from the First World with a Messianic complex need to read it as much as the commercial exploiters and outright racists.
Peace
D
January 14, 2010
US Quake Test Goes "Horribly Wrong", Leaves 500,000 Dead In Haiti
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
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'.
The Northern Fleet has been monitoring US Naval movements and activities in the Caribbean since 2008 when the Americans announced their intention to re-establish their Forth Fleet that had been disbanded in 1950, and which was responded to by the Motherland when later that year a Russian flotilla led by nuclear powered cruiser Peter the Great began their first exercises in this region since the ending of the Cold War.
Though virtually unknown to the American people, the use, and perfection, of earthquake weapon technology has a decade's long history that began with the former Soviet Unions exploding of a 10 megaton nuclear bomb in September, 1978 and then `redirecting' its shockwave towards Iran where it resulted in a catastrophic 7.4 magnitude earthquake, an event which hastened the downfall of the US backed regime headed by the Shah.
This attack upon Iran by the Soviets was countered by the Americans in April, 1979 when they unleashed one of their newly developed `atomic powered' earthquake weapons against the former communist Nation of Yugoslavia which resulted in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake.
Since the late 1970's, the United States has `greatly advanced' the state of its earthquake weapons and, according to these reports, now employees devices employing a Tesla Electromagnetic Pulse, Plasma and Sonic technology, along with `shockwave bombs' they have previously been accused by Russia of employing in their war against the Afghan peoples when one of these `devices' was exploded in Afghanistan in March, 2002 triggering a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake..
Interesting to note in these reports are their stating that the earthquake weapons test conducted by the US Navy this week in the Caribbean that destroyed Haiti was `most probably' based upon the same type of Tesla technology held responsible for the catastrophic January17, 1995, 6.8 magnitude earthquake that laid to waste the Japanese city of Kobe, and which the mysterious Aum Shinrikyo cult had warned 9 days prior was going to occur, and as we can read:
"Aum's charismatic guru, Shoko Asahara, predicted the Kobe quake nine days before the event. In an 8 January 1995 radio broadcast, Asahara stated "Japan will be attacked by an earthquake in 1995. The most likely place is Kobe." Hideo Murai, the late Science and Technology minister for Aum Shinrikyo also adhered to this view. Murai - said to have been the most intelligent Japanese who ever lived - was murdered in a Yakuza orchestrated assassination shortly after speaking on the record to foreign news correspondents.
"Murai presented his allegation in an April 7 1995 news conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club in Japan. In answer to questions about the Kobe quake, Murai said "There is a strong possibility of the activation of an earthquake using electromagnetic power, or somebody may have used a device that applied force inside the Earth." The Aum leadership believed the Kobe quake an act of war: "The City of Kobe was hit by a surprise attack…" they claimed, adding the City was an "…appropriate guinea pig."
Note: The Aum Shinrikyo religious order was destroyed shortly after their releasing of this information to the public when blamed for the March 20, 1995 sarin gas attack upon the Tokyo subway system which resulted in 11 of their members, including their leader, being sentenced to death. FSB reports on Aum Shinrikyo further state that their knowledge of the planned use of these `doomsday' devices was gained from the US computer hackers belonging to the Branch Davidian religious order who had penetrated some of the American defense establishments most secret files and resulted in their, likewise, being completely destroyed in what is now known as the Waco Siege ordered by then US District Attorney, and currently Obama's US Attorney General, Eric Holder.
The Tesla weapons being developed by the United States are based upon the research of Nikola Tesla who was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla is also credited as the inventor of modern radio by the US Supreme Court.
To Tesla's earthquake weapons research conducted in the early 20th century we can further read:
"He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one; ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it.
Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police were called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could have laid the building in the street. And, with the same vibrator he could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River in less than an hour.
Tesla claimed the device, properly modified, could be used to map underground deposits of oil. A vibration sent through the earth returns an "echo signature" using the same principle as sonar. This idea was actually adapted for use by the petroleum industry, and is used today in a modified form with devices used to locate objects at archaeological digs."
Important to note at this point are that modern day experiments seeking to discredit Tesla's earthquake weapons technology have been directed against structures designed to withstand the effects of earthquakes, buildings which in the early 20th century, like those in Haiti today, were not built to withstand such resonance. A most critical difference when viewed in the light of the US Navy's testing of 2 of these earthquake weapons this past week and where in their Pacific test it resulted in a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hitting the area around the Northern California city of Eureka causing no deaths, their Caribbean test has caused an estimated 500,000 innocents to die.
Equally important to note are these reports stating that `more than likely' the US Navy had `full knowledge' of the catastrophic damage this earthquake weapons test could potentially have upon Haiti and had pre-positioned their Deputy Commander of their Southern Command, General P.K. Keen, on the island to oversee relief efforts if needed.
To the end result of these weapons being tested by the United States, these reports warn, are for the Americans planned destruction of Iran through a series of catastrophic earthquakes designed to bring down their present Islamic regime.
Most unfortunately in all of these events are the peoples of Haiti, who are suffering under conditions so horrible, that even in the best of scenarios, their functioning as a viable Nation has completely come to an end, and for reasons and purposes they have no comprehension of at all as they have become just the latest victim in the New Great Game that will decide the winners and losers of this 21st Century.
© January 14, 2010 EU and US all rights reserved
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their `agents' against us has been a longstanding misinformation/ misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report "Who Is Sorcha Faal?".]
Dawn
We are not alone on this blog. You are praying that others don't read or put entries on this blog but as you can see, they do. You are such an expert on everything, including a small Black nation called Haiti.
I am still waiting on you to enlighten us on this blog of one great thing that the conservatives accomplished when they were in power following the Newt Gingrich movement. When the Republicans controlled during Reagan, BushI and Bush II administrations, did they produce any long lasting policy that the nation can be proud of. I am talking about great bills like Social Security and Medicare.
Conservatives are engaging in stupid criminal tactics to embarrass Democrats and president Obama; the Okeefe mess backfired and Fox News praised him for what he did to ACORN. Many Tea Partiers and other Republican conservatives spoke highly of O'Keefe. You conservatives will destroy yourselves as you try to destroy president Obama and the Democrats. You should be ashame of the Conservatives in this country. They are all dirty anti American demons and God will deal with them.
You will agree with me one day when I say that the word Conservative is synonymous to KKK, skin heads, Fox News, Confederates, John Birch Society, and Tea Partiers.
If Haiti can pay Reparations to France then the U.S. can pay Black Americans whose ancestors were slaughtered by White terrorists.
john
"The Blamer-in-Chief"
Again, Pres. Bananas blames everyone else for HIS FAILURES.
His Speech was FULL of Misdirectives, Direct LIES, and more mis-information.
Dr. Zaius- If I were you I'd ask for my money back with this CLOWN.
YOU got SUCKKA'D- You voted for a Plastic suit.
Obama is simply "managing his own Spectacle"!
That night's speech WAS A WASTE OF TIME.
Obama- DOESNT GET IT. Just like YOU DONT GET IT.
It's not about Partisanship!
YOU can't lie, over and over again top the American people, threaten thier livelihoods, attack small business, and tell people of faith that we are ignorant for clutching onto our bibles and guns.
Obama can do nothing but "Re-arrange the Deck Chairs on the Titanic" at this point- and HE IS THE ONE STEERING FOR THE ICEBERGS!!!
It is great entertainment- watching this HYPOCRIT and the IDIOTS HE FOOLED in TOTAL PANIC MODE!!
Obama CLAIMED he would LEAD---- He is TOO AFRAID to lead and that is the problem.
HE claimed HE WOULD CHANGE THE TONE IN WASHINGTON- He has acted in the most PARTISAN manner, LOCKING OUT the other side of the isle.
Thats NOT WHAT INDEPENDENTS VOTED FOR!!
OBAMA is in fact- A TOTAL FAILURE!.
AMERICA HAS NO LEADER RIGHT NOW
and OBAMA is a FRAUD...
Example of a HUGE OBama LIE- He says he had this "brilliant idea"---oh, really??-- it's a "Bananas" Spending Freeze"
...oh, but it's only in a couple of areas....
and...now we are going to draw up ANOTHER 800 BILLION DOLLAR JOBS" "err, kick backs to liberals" spending bill! WHAT A PHONY LIAR!!!!!!
THIS GUY IS A TOTALLY UNFIT TO LEAD!
IT's Liberalism on display and it the best thing that could have happened to this country!!!
I love it!!
Hahahaha!!!!
Jayson
Jayson Jayson
Try to calm down. You should have had a heart attack when Bush was in office. He ran into the iceberg and wrecked our Titanic. It is so strange how you conservatives want to forget our documented history of the absolutely worst president since Hoover. Obama is just getting started. He would have passed healthcare by now if the Republicans didn't block it. He would have had jobs created if he didn't have to spend so much time on healthcare. In spite of the Republican lockstep blockade of all bills that the Democrats and Obama offer, we will still be successful just as Bill Clinton was. Remember, Clinton succeeded even though those idiots tried to impeach him. Just think what Clinton could have accomplished if he didn't waste precious taxpayers money fighting the Republican impeachment.
You can talk gloom and doom about Obama but this is only his first year. What did Bush and the Republicans do in 8 years. Tell me, what can you say that dumb drunk did in 8 long years. I guarantee you Obama will deliver. If he will stop trying to recruit those racists anti American conservatives and start kicking some serious ass, then and only then will he succeed.
I would have closed the base down where Ben Nelson is from and I certainly would have reminded Joe Lieberman that the U.S. is still sending Billions to Israel. I think that would have gotten his attention. Cut some of those Billions to Israel because we really can't afford it anyway.
As far as Republicans are concerned, Obama will have to do like Lyndon Johnson and close some military bases in the red states and I guarantee you those conservatives will straighten up and do what is right for America.
The people of America did not vote for them to lead the Democratic majority. Just because Obama and the Democrats don't adopt the failed proposals of the Republicans [tax cuts for the rich, capital gains tax cut for the rich, less government, and tort reform]. They tried all of this under Bush and look where our Titanic ended up. Do they think we are stupid. They never opposed one thing that Bush offered and look what happened when Obama took over. We had a 3 $Trillion deficit when Obama was sworn in. Why didn't your conservative Republicans avoid all of that waste and spending. And you are complaining about Obama, the one who steered us from hitting another iceberg. How ungrateful and foolish you conservatives are.
I found out that Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt and Bush daddy raised it higher than Jimmy Carter and Bush the drunk raised it higher than Clinton. Obama will do fine. He has to crush his enemies and take no prisoners. If he keeps up the pandering to the conservatives, he will go down and go down fast.
The tone of his speech last evening seems like he has seen the light. All he has to do is put his foot up the Republican's butts and keep his foot there throughout his second term and he will be a great president.
Wishing and hoping for failure by Obama is so pitiful. One thing I do know, the Republicans have not produced one great thing for America when they were in power. Look how great Clinton and Roosevelt were. Lyndon Johnson got Medicare and the Civil Rights Bills through. There is not one great achievement the Republicans can be proud of. They dwelled on a constitutional amendment against Gay Marriage and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. And you have the nerve to complain about Obama after 12 months in office.
He avoided an economic meltdown, he slowed the loss of 700,000 jobs a month under Bush down to less than 100,000 a month now. Over 2 million Americans are working today that would not have been if Obama didn't take over. Many cities have services and salaries for cops and teachers because of the stimulus. What a great president in just one year.
You just can't stomach a Black man as commander in chief. Suck it up! Watch this brother turn our country around in the right direction. He will be victorious in spite of the Republican blockade.
john
Could this explain how the US military was first on the scene after the earthquake, but last to bring disaster relief supplies? Food for thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhJfkh0e3l0
Interesting and long read. Well worth the time. But, hey, who has the time to read? The best place to hide information is to put it in writing, right? HAARP is for real folks.
http://www.orgone.org/articles/ax6-harp.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
Reverend
I hope our conservatives watched our president take on questions from the Republican House members in Maryland. If you watched Fox News you would not hear all of Obama's answers because of interruptions and Fox News distorted interpretations. If you watche C-Span or MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberman, and Chris Matthews, you would have been amazed how Obama can handle so many subjects. He made the Republicans look like the idiots they truly are.
He tackled health care, the deficit, the budget, energy, and bipartisanship. Who came up with the idea of having Obama speak directly to his enemies on national television? Obama looked good while the Republicans looked weak and stupid.
For example Dr Tom Price of Georgia said that the Republican health care plan would cover the Americans who don't have health insurance, reign in the cost of healthcare, address the insurance idustry abuses and it wouldn't cost the taxpayers a dime. Obama's response was straight and to the point: "There is no way you can insure millions of the uninsured and do it without it costing nothing. That is not true." There was nothing Tom Price could say because he was lying.
Another point was that the Republicans want an across the board tax cut. Obama said, "we can't give the Republicans 80 to 100% of what they want. Politics don't work that way. Whenever they get 40 to 50% of their ideas through, they say that they are left out of the process. For example, across the board tax cuts could include Billionaires. Obama said that he might not agree with giving Warren Buffett a tax cut. So you can see why it has to be some compromise and a willingness to work out a plan that every side can get something. But the Republicans have demonized him [Obama] so much that their constituents will not tolerate them working with this president. They have made it impossible to be bipartisan.
Republicans are dumb. They had control of the House, the Senate, the White House, and the Supreme Court and not one time did they try to help the 47 million uninsured Americans. Now, all of a sudden they want to have input and are the experts on healthcare. How hypocritical, when they had the chance to do something, Republicans did nothing.
Democrats have been trying to provide universal healthcare since Harry Truman and Republicans have fought against it at every turn.
They do not have one thing to show for the time they were in power. We can point out a lot of disastrous moves by them: Obama inherited a 1.2 Trillion dollar deficit, the national debt was 8 Trillion in Jan 2009, Clinton handed Bush a 2 Billion dollar surplus, they passed a new Medicare Plan that wasn't paid for, they started two wars that were paid with supplements, they cut taxes on the riches 2% of Americans and at the end of the Bush term there was a Great Depression staring us in the face. Who in his right mind would let those idiots take the lead on anything. They are proven dummies.
Obama brought us out of that crisis and the job losses are 100,000 per month instead of 700,000 a month when Bush left office. Wall Street is stabilizing, and the GDP rose. We know the conservative Republicans don't want to revisit the Bush years and we can certainly understand why.
Remember, you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time [Jayson and Dawn].
John,
I saw President Obama's address to the republicans as a positive step forward. For the republicans to even invite the President to their meeting was a hurdle cleared. And for the President to accept was even greater. I pray that this encounter is the first step of many that the representatives of the people start to work together for the benefit of the people. God bless.
Dawn,
I didn't know you were into rap music. The boon can cause the bust. Or the bust can make necessary the boom. Bush inherited the boom, and his policies, basically fighting two wars, made the economy a bust. President Obama inherited the bust, and so had to start to spend in order to recover the boom. The question is how to sustain it. I would venture to say that as long as we deal with a capitalist system there will always be ups and downs in the economy. Maybe we should look at the system. What say you?
Reverend,
There is a sincere lack of understanding of history or economics on this board.
Theree is too much hate and intolerance not to mention craziness on this board.
I thought I would help out at least with a little education.
You seriously have people who read this who are way way out there. They're not worth talking to, but they need some education.,
Interesting that the President is turning into a fiscal conservative. He'll get it. I hope you do too. It's pretty clear that the government stimulus isn't working......again,
I read John's posts and my eyes roll back in my head. The ignorance and lack of economic education is beyond breathtaking in an "educated" man. I have to start with simple economic theory. I'll keep you posted with the educational raps being developed by the economics department at GMU. They realize how pathetically dumbed down our population is. You have to start somewhere.
But then there are the people here who suggest that the USA used HAARP to destroy Haiti and there are people who suggest that somehow we could deliver aid to 2 million homeless people WITHOUT the assistance of the US Military (right!) My best friend is on the ground in Haiti and she will testify that no aid would be happening in Haiti without the ground work having been laid by the military.
And then there is the female Satan who somehow thinks we shouldn't be sending the billions we are sending to the Haitians. What a blackhearted bitch. There is no other word for her.
Shame shame shame.
Final economics 101 comment. This bust would have been significantly less devastating had we not put millions of Americans into homes they had negative equity in. The housing boom, which was government subsidized and encouraged.....led to a worldwide bust. It would not have happened.
And Ajabu, I won't debate it with you, but in a socialist system, you will only have DOWNS. There is not one. Not one. Repeat. Not one socialist system that has created even close to the wealth that capitalism has created. You can see it plain as the nose on your face, yet you refuse to acknowledge it. You can't debate someone like that.
What we can encourage once again, is a society where people realize that they need education and savings to create capital and prudent investment of that capital will create opportunity for real wealth. It is the ONLY way that works for individuals, and only wealth of individuals can fund a government or a private economy.
Economics 101.
Dawn,
Our good conservative Christian. What has gotten into you? Who are you calling a "black hearted b _ t _ h? Is that good language for a conservative Christian? My sister you need prayer. I am praying for you. God bless.
You think I need prayer and that hideous woman suggests that we should abandon all that suffering. You are a twisted man.
Dawn
The stimulus did work. If we did not have the Stimulus Package, many local police, firemen, and teachers would have been laid off. The conservatives like Congressman Gingrieh of Ga was standing in a photo of a Ga company that got Stimulus funds. That has been duplicated all over the country. The very conservatives who oppose the Stimulus are seeing it work in their own districts.
The reason why the jobs are not increasing is because nobody knew how devastating the Bush years were. At least we don't lose 700,000 jobs a month like during Bush's term in 2008, now we lose about 80,000 jobs a month. That is not success according to you conservatives.
I may not know economics but I do know that George Bush inherited a 2 Billion dollar surplus from Clinton and handed Barack Obama another Great Depression. Please explain those economic points.
Barack Obama has some of the most brilliant economists advising him. He is brilliant like Bill Clinton, I will follow the Obama plan. Why should anybody in his right mind follow Republican conservatives who have failed every time they had a chance to govern.
Reagan left a higher deficit than Jimmy Carter, Bush I left a high deficit but less than Reagan's, Bush II left a higher deficit than Clinton. All of your conservative leaders have failed because they do not know how to govern. There is not one thing you [Dawn] can show us that your conservatives did during their terms that positively impacted the American people.
We had constitutional amendments against Gay Marriage, impeachment of Clinton, Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and finally we had the worst economy since Herbert Hoover's Great Depression.
Your economics 101 says nothing. Do you advocate the conservative economic model? You must be out of your mind. Remember, I told you that there is a serious mental problem there.
So tax cuts for the richest Americans and cut capital gains is the economic model of the conservatives. Clinton raised taxes and boy did we hit the jackpot.
Capitalism can produce a lot of wealth but the problem is that there is a bottom [the poor Americans] on the other end of the spectrum. They have no health insurance, they live in ghettos, shanties, trailer parks, or just plain homeless. Socialist governments give those unfortunate citizens a footing and meet their most basic needs. Again, socialism deals with the least of these that are God's people. Capitalism doesn't give a damn.
Go to the nearest trailer park and lecture them on the greatness of capitalism in America.
Have a good day Dawn because 47 million Americans will die in 2010 because they have no health insurance. Sleep well in your bathysphere of luxury and comfort while children in America look like the Haitians.
john
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
Here, John, I'll simplify for you again.
In your fool world, John, we will all live like Haitians, who that bitch on this board thinks we should just let starve. And I am the one who gets the lecture from the fake Christian minister who thinks the greatest sin you can have in this life is the sin of being white. I suspect that the Chinese will have a use for a Board certified physician and an MBA when they take us over. I can't imagine what they'll do with you.
Dawn,
So you think it is a sin to be white? We might be getting to the crux of your disorder. Say more.