US is sending 10,000 troops to Haiti. Is there oil there too?
Posted on January 17, 2010
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The US is sending 10,000 troops to Haiti. A recent 20 billion barrel oil discovery puts Cuba in the big league of oil producing nations. Since we have troops everywhere else on the planet where oil can be found (except for Russia), including the recent opening of seven new military bases in Colombia near the Venezuela border, I can only conclude the world oil companies are about to discover oil reserves in Haiti as well. Telling me we are sending troops to Haiti to help in the aftermath of the earthquake devastation makes little sense to me as we have other organizations that could be of greater help there in this crisis.
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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=eb695eff-2fd4-4e85-96a8-49e2a21a1abf
Read this:
“The oil world has generally assumed that Cuba’s offshore fields, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, may contain around five billion barrels of oil and 283 billion cubic metres of natural gas, based on a study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The USGS said those numbers were the mean of estimates that went no higher than 9 billion barrels of oil and 595 billion cubic metres of gas.
But Tenreyro said Cuba’s oil potential was much higher.
Speaking only about an oil belt north of the island, he told reporters on Oct. 16 “this belt now has resources, calculated not hypothetical, of more than 20 billion barrels.”
“They are the reserves. That could be multiplied several times,” Tenreyro said.
The geology of the oil belt extends to a basin further north where much larger structures hold the promise of oil, he said.
“The effect of the (belt) is reflected in this zone in the presence of enormous structures - enormous,” Tenreyro said. “Here we’re talking about structures of 80, 100, 120 square kilometers. Therefore, the reserves multiply practically several times and the resources, too.”
Further out in the Gulf, Tenreyro said, there were structures that were part of the same geological formations off of Mexico and the United States that had produced giant finds such as Mexico’s Cantarell and Poza Rica fields.
All these “geological elements” indicate “that we are talking about a new oil province - an oil zone that has not been drilled nor has it been touched,” he said.
The potential is there, Tenreyro said, for “giant and super giant oil fields.”
“The perspectives are very important,” he said. “This is not a game.”"
US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html
THE RIGHT TESTICLE OF HELL: HISTORY OF HAITIAN HOLOCAUST
January 18, 2010 at 8:27 am (Corrupt Politics, Haiti, Holidays)
Blackwater before drinking water
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/
Here it is folks:
“There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin.
“There is also good evidence that these very same big US oil companies and their inter-related monopolies of engineering and defense contractors made plans, decades ago, to use Haiti’s deep water ports either for oil refineries or to develop oil tank farm sites or depots where crude oil could be stored and later transferred to small tankers to serve U.S. and Caribbean ports. This is detailed in a paper about the Dunn Plantation at Fort Liberte in Haiti.
“Ezili’s HLLN underlines these two papers on Haiti’s oil resources and the works of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin in order to provide a view one will not find in the mainstream media nor anywhere else as to the economic and strategic reasons the US has constructed its fifth largest embassy in the world - fifth only besides the US embassy in China, Iraq, Iran and Germany - in tiny Haiti, post the 2004 Haiti Bush regime change.”
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=164997
US troops take over palace as Haiti aid effort steps up a gear
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6994013.ece
It was the most spectacular deployment so far in the US military’s operation to bring relief to Port-au-Prince, and brought a crowd of quake victims rushing to the iron railings of the palace hoping for handouts
But it was not welcomed by some in the crowd who saw the arrival as an affront to Haitian sovereignty.
“I haven’t seen the Americans in the streets giving out water and food, but now they come to the palace,” said Wilson Guillaume, as some of the homeless living rough in the Champ de Mars square before the palace shouted abuse at the Americans.
“It’s an occupation. The palace is our power, our face, our pride,” added Feodor Desanges, another bystander.