The New Dark Age

11 August, 2010 — HLLN

Recommended HLLN Link: Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE ( Entire one hour WBAI broadcast, here- bit.ly/cu8xzL)

Sean Penn and Wyclef Jean: Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti bit.ly/bhT38H

In 2004 Wyclef voiced support for Haiti rebels as “freedom fighters” including DEA suspected drug dealer, Guy Philippe bit.ly/9ZyocR and convicted death squad leader, Louis Jodel Chamblain bit.ly/aZHYXV

In this post

– Audio Interview Link: Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn , August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE

– Ezili Dantò: A thorough investigation is necessary: Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault

– Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault – bit.ly/9iBaLz

Ezili Dantò interviewed on New York’s Wakeup Call about Wyclef & Sean Penn

Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE

A thorough investigation is necessary: Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault

“The idea that human activity can cause seismic activity is widely accepted in the scientific community …the connection between oil production and earthquakes dates back to at least the 1920s, when geologists in South Texas noted faulting near the Goose Creek oil field…A 1967 human-triggered earthquake in western India linked to the Koyna Dam registered a 7.0 earthquake.” ( Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake? by Ezili Dantò of HLLL bit.ly/74Klj3)

Ezili Dantò’s Note: This breaking msnbc.com (August 10, 2010) news that the “Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault” – bit.ly/9iBaLz makes these two old Ezili Dantò articles even more relevant…

– Did Gulf oil drilling destabilize faultline cause Haitiquake by Ezili Dantò of HLLN / bit.ly/dlUoCG

– Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake? by Ezili Dantò of HLLN bit.ly/74Klj3

Wish we had some resources to hire an extensive private investigation report from expert geologists, law experts in the area, et al, that could be used in court, if applicable. The death of 300,000 by an “unknown” crack in the earth, while Haiti is under occupation of foreigners, ought not to be left un-investigated…

Wish I knew a team willing to take this up on Haiti’s people behalf? Just thinking outloud. Productive ideas or a volunteer qualified investigators and researchers, welcomed.

Ezili Dantò of HLLN August 11, 2010

Drilling can set off earthquakes by CRACKING the earth floor, so mining and drilling are indeed possibilities in the Haiti earthquake. Port-au-Prince, Haiti has not had an earthquake in 239 years. Also the fact that USSOUTHCOM held an earthquake drill just ONE DAY prior to the Haiti earthquake disaster leads many into suspecting that it may also have been engineered. The story about an unknown fault(system) sounds like a rather lame cover up as well. Those same geophysicists suggest that Port-au-Prince shouldn’t be rebuild but move north (so the oil companies can start drilling the major oil field in the Bay of Port-au-Prince ?). BP was drilling at a previously unknown depth of 35,000 feet, also sometime before the earthquake and report “something happened”. BP supplies the US military with its oil. 20,000 US troops landed in Haiti 48 hours after the earthquake and we know it wasn’t to do search and rescue or to remove the rubble because the people died in mass, the rubble is still there. Just 200 people were rescued by foreign militaries. So now, the trick is to find a credible geophysicist that’s not, even remotely, on big oil’s payroll ?????

“A New York Times report confirmed drilling for oil sets off earthquakes and detailed how a drilling project near San Francisco and a similar project in Basel, Switzerland were shut down over concerns they triggered damaging earthquakes. Both diggings involved fracturing hard rock more than two miles deep.

…And if, as the oilman said, there’s not the “slightest doubt natural-gas drilling causes earthquakes” and there was drilling in addition to the mining of gold, copper, coal, uranium and iridium, stealthy going on behind the UN guns, then the question becomes, which of the coup detat countries – US, France, Canada – using the UN proxy occupation to drill for oil, gas and to dig for gold, iridium, marble, granite, et al, helped cause the earthquake?”

Was that the reason for the US delay in getting to the survivors?

…Was there more pressing concerns of cover-up to attend to, before the modern world and the all-seeing cameras headed to Haiti, got to Haiti? What were the thousands upon thousands of UN soldiers, from the 9,000 in Haiti, posted outside of Port-au-Prince doing that they did not appear on the scene to help with the rescue? Where were they? These soldiers get paid and tell all and sundry they are in Haiti to “help” Haitians and have been paid billions of dollars in five years, over $600 million per year for the “help.” Where was this help?

We seem to always be “helped” to death while the private sector uses the military to secure profit…It seems that what the US is doing is securing the land for itself, preferably without the presence of black Haitians. (Travesty in Haiti – False aid, false charity, false orphanages, false benevolence and The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won’t Expose.)” ( Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake? by Ezili Dantò of HLLL bit.ly/74Klj3; Did Gulf oil drilling destabilize faultline cause Haitiquake by Ezili Dantò of HLLN bit.ly/dlUoCG)

Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault New data finds unmapped fault was responsible for magnitude-7.0 temblor

A previously unmapped fault was responsible for the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, not the fault originally blamed for the temblor, scientists announced Tuesday.

The massive earthquake was responsible for the death of more than 200,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless.

When the quake hit, scientists thought there was little doubt about the culprit, said geophysicist Eric Calais of Purdue University, at the American Geophysical Union’s Meeting of the America’s conference in Brazil.

The Enriquillo fault was quickly blamed, but new data, has revealed a more complicated picture.

“The fault responsible for the earthquake was not the Enriquillo fault, but it was a new fault,” Calais said. “This was such a big surprise that I thought all our calculations were wrong.”

Since the earthquake, several teams of geoscientists have deployed instruments in the region to provide a detailed, up-close view of how the ground moved during the quake. Researchers analyzed the instrument readings, studied satellite images, investigated offshore evidence and made field assessments of the stricken region.

Earthquakes typically occur along faults, cracks in the rocky plates of the Earth’s crust. A 25-mile-long fault segment ruptured during the quake.

The plates that make up the Earth’s crust move relative to one another, most of the time at an imperceptibly slow pace — on average plates move between 0.4 and 4 inches per year, which is about as fast as fingernails grow. In the case of the Haiti quake, the Caribbean and North American plates slide past one another in an east-west direction. This is known as a strike-slip boundary, or a vertical fracture where the slabs have mostly moved horizontally.

The preliminary reports suggested that the earthquake that devastated Haiti occurred at the Enriquillo fault that runs right through Haiti and is situated along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates. This was based on preliminary observations and previous studies suggesting this fault was primed for a rupture.

The research team found, however, that some of the faults in the area where moving in unexpected directions. The Enriquillo fault is what’s known as a vertical fault, but the new data suggests that the earthquake did not happen on a vertical fault, Calais said.

“Most of the slip, if not all, was on the unmapped fault, not the Enriquillo,” Calais said.

The Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system (EPGFZ) has not produced a major earthquake in recent decades. The EPGFZ is the likely source of historical large earthquakes in 1860, 1770 and 1751, though none of these has been confirmed in the field as associated with this fault.

Scientists aren’t sure exactly how dangerous this unmapped fault is. It may be possible that the unmapped fault is part of a whole fault system that was not known before, and there is ongoing research to learn more.

“We need to know that for hazard assessment,” Calais said. “It’s critical.”

Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE (Entire one hour WBAI broadcast, here- bit.ly/cu8xzL)

Sean Penn and Wyclef Jean: Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti bit.ly/bhT38H

In 2004 Wyclef voiced support for Haiti rebels as “freedom fighters” including DEA suspected drug dealer, Guy Philippe bit.ly/9ZyocR and convicted death squad leader, Louis Jodel Chamblain bit.ly/aZHYXV

Forwarded by Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network