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“I am building in Dubai, Korea, China, Las Vegas, etc … and doing fine. However, the Oil Companies are ripping off the world including the United States… This war in Iraq is insane and the U.S. has already spent 950 billions in Iraq, and is unable to rebuild New Orleans after hurricane Katrina…”
Personalities in the Haitian world of politics, show business, books, music.
Interviews on FRANKLY FOMBRUN’S CARL’S CORNER shown:
Ernest Bennett, Anthony Georges Pierre, Alfred Mentor, Moushi Widmaier, Joel Widmaier, Jacky Ambroise, Marcel Alexis, Francois Adrien, Serge Rodrigue, Eveline Pierre, Flore Lindor Latortue, Jeffrey Dread, Selma Fonseca, Patrick Valmé, Jan Sebon, Lucky Pierre, Nansy Pierre-Louis, Mushy Widmaier, Joel Widmaier, Jacky Ambroise, Harry Fouché, Ed Lozama, Dr. Rudy Moise, Miami Councilman Jacques Despinosse, Talk Show Host Hearnst Phanor, Nicole Reyes Telasco, Odette Roy Fombrun, Elizabeth Guérin, Philippe Chamy, Public Defender Bennett Brummer, Assistant Public Defender Madsen Marcellus, former Haitian Secretary of State in the 70s Jean-Robert Estimé have already been on :
My perception of Brazil and that of many Haitians in Haiti and in the Diaspora is that BRAZIL is the land of exotic opportunities involving Soccer, Samba, and Sensualism. Similarities exist between Haiti and Brazil in the racial context, music, food, and religion. The African influence is dominant in Bahia on the north side of Brazil which is now called Salvador, where many descendants of African slaves live. Every New Year's day by the thousands, in these parts of Brazil, African vodou practicioneers dress in white and head to the ocean to honor the spirit of their ancestors just like the small village of Soukri near the city of Gonaives, Haiti . In Brazil, African traditions are not just confined to Salvador. Rio has those traditions as well as other parts in Brazil. Every Saturday night candles burn in ceremonies for the Vodou gods. Of all the Latin-American countries Haiti and Brazil are steeped in the practice of the Vodou religion. In Haiti, every year on August 15h, Vodou practitioners gather in Soukri, Haiti to honor the spirit of their ancestors. The ceremony coincides with Assumption Day, a Roman Catholic holiday. Carnival and soccer are passions of the first order in Brazil and Haiti. Cuba as well in carnival, but to a lesser extent in soccer, is ingrained in vodou and the Santeria religion due also to a majority of its population which is of African descent. To the south of Brazil the European influence prevails where the climate is cooler and closer inland to Argentina. I remember as a teenager in Haiti that my siblings would jokingly emphasize, when we read about the racial lynchings in the U.S.of A. that due to our “latino” features, Brazil would be an ideal country to immigrate instead of racist U.S.A. In the 1940s the Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda, of Portuguese descent, having a recording contract with RCA, was the queen of South of the Border songs and dances which were promoted in Hollywood, California, with all the trimmings to satisfy a U.S., race-conscious predominantly Caucasian public, ignoring Latin-America's strong Indian and African heritage. America began adopting Carmen Miranda’s style of dress as the latest fad. In 1955 I saw one of her last live shows at the world famous Tropicana nightclub in Havana, and she died of a heart attack a few months later on August 4, 1955. Carmen Miranda was 46 years old. I went to Brazil (Rio and Sao Paulo) for a visit in 1976, 1983, and in 2003. I found out that dancing seriously one samba song took a good forty-five minutes to an hour to accomplish. The drums never stop in Brazil and if one wants to be a good sport, one does not stop dancing... Carnival in Brazil is non stop samba as well as in Haiti where it’s non-stop “konpa.” In Brazil the common language is Portuguese and not Spanish, although Spanish is useful in responding to the Brazilian's usual greeting "multo obligado" (much obliged). I would reciprocate with ”mucho gusto" in Spanish. Both Portuguese and Spanish, being romance languages, there is at once an affinity of cultures and therefore human warmth and friendship. In 1976, out of my many casual experiences in Brazil, one had to do with wine. One night, having a "feijoada" (a national Brazilian meal with a mixture of 28 types of meat) for dinner, I asked for the most popular Brazilian wine to go with that meal. To my chagrin the bottle brought by the waiter was called "Chateau Duvalier". Of all places all the way in Rio, I was being haunted by memories of Haitian dictators Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier (although to be fair, excluding the name Duvalier, this wine had no connection with the Duvalier family of Haiti. (I made sure after that sumptuous dinner to have a "batida" which is a Brazilian drink made of a sweet rum and juice flavors, to wash down this wine and forget the meaning of its name. The wine steward still received a good tip and he was forgiven for the innocent role he played in his choice of beverage, being unaware that I was from Haiti. What's in a name? No use blaming the messenger. The next day for lunch I tried a "churrascaria" which is a variety of Brazilian grilled meat, but I made sure I picked a Cabernet which had no connection with the name Duvalier... In Brazil, most Brazilians do not go hungry. Food is plentiful and cheap just like in the United States of America, and every meal is a feast. I wish I could say the same for Haiti.(TO CONTINUE TOMORROW). Thank you Hallan.
RECEIVED FROM AUTHOR
Mireille Sylvain David
Bonjour Carl, I hope this note will find you well. Your effort to let your readers express their opinion is commendable and reassuring for the new generation. Here is my analysis of Jean-Claude Duvalier’s talk. Many will see it more as an opinion than an analysis. I respect their choice. Best regards, Mireille _____________________________ It is very distressing that Jean-Claude Duvalier’s insignificant talk has raised so many issues. Again, a little scathing report of no passing interest has demonstrated the inexistence of any political leadership in our country. We must not let ourselves become emotional to this repeatable usage of words which his father, Papa Doc tactically showered upon us for more than 14 years. If a fraction of the allegations of corruption and crimes against the Duvalier’s regime is taken seriously, Mr. Duvalier should have been behind bars for life. Because we are living in an era where a judicial system can send to jail the street criminals, but can also, quickly and quietly blend into enlightened politics the miasma of a corrupted chief of state. Accusations of corruption have become routine in Haiti. So regardless of proof , high ranking officials and politicians, not only Jean-Claude Duvalier, have always left the country with the wealth of the people while investigations still seem to be waiting the dawn of time. The Executive and the judicial branches in Haiti have always undermined the public opinion and confidence. The cloud of corruption has never stopped neither the politicians nor their followers. In fact, the more corrupted a politician is, the better the so called “Haitian society” welcomes him. Everyone wants to be seen in his living room or riding with him in his brand new car or ready to marry his children. The fact that Jean-Claude Duvalier asked for a public pardon does not mean that he is rebuilding the public’s confidence. We all remember that the near complete loss in public confidence during his regime has been part - I said part- of his fall from power. The current political moments and previous military coups have shown that the country has never had a government that has essential confidence in itself and the real support of the majority. The avenues adopted by Mr. Duvalier, such as his recent insignificant Parisian speeches are precisely “ironically significant” danger for a nation which has no reason to trust and every reason to suspect. I don’t believe that remorse or political survival can free suspicions but I do believe that earnest voices in a governing coalition can occur and help the healing and restoration of what was obviously destroyed. In an effort to build a democracy “à l’Haitienne”, we need to remember that power after all, is based on trust, not corruption.
MIREILLE SYLVAIN DAVID
HAITIAN
“CNN HERO”
BOBBY DUVAL
(standing rear with cap)
ON
JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER’S APOLOGY TO HAITI.
“ Sa padon’w va fè pou nou ? ”
Bobby Duval, a former Haitian soccer star who was starved and tortured while locked up for 17 months under the Duvalier regime for speaking out against human rights abuses, said it was the first time he could recall the former dictator apologizing for his regime's atrocities. But Duval said it did not go far enough.
"He killed thousands of people, stole money and destroyed the psyche and heart of a people. This guy should be in jail and I'm just waiting for him to come back so that can happen," said Duval, who now runs a sports outreach program. "I don't accept his apology."
In the radio address, broadcast across the country on Saturday and Sunday, Jean-Claude Duvalier described himself as "broken by 20 years of exile" but "reinvigorated" by what he claimed was growing support among younger Haitians for his small National Unity Party.
"The watchword is already launched, the instruction is given. Militants and militant sympathizers of the National Unity Party be ready. We live ... in waiting of the revival," Duvalier, 56, said.
He did not say if he if would seek to return to his homeland.
In recent months, a few loyalists have been campaigning to bring Duvalier home from exile, launching a foundation to improve the dictatorship's image and reviving his political party in the hope that he could one day return to power democratically. Duvalier's party has no seats in parliament.
The address — delivered in French, not the Haitian Creole of the country's poor masses — was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the election of his father and predecessor, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Named president for life at 19 after the death of his father in 1971, Duvalier now lives in France and reportedly supports himself with handouts from friends.
PRESIDENT PRÉVAL’S
ANSWER
Haiti wants funds, not Duvalier’s apology.
Duvalier must face justice, Haitian president says.
By Joseph Guyler Delva
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier must face justice regardless of whether his countrymen forgive him for his misdeeds, Haitian President René Préval said on Tuesday.
Préval was responding to a weekend plea for forgiveness from the exiled former president, whose regime is believed to have killed thousands of Haitians and embezzled millions of dollars in public funds.
Préval said the decision whether to forgive Duvalier lies with the Haitian people, who suffered under his totalitarian regime. But he said the current administration would continue legal proceedings to recover government funds from Duvalier, who has lived in France since his ouster in 1986.
"It is true, he has asked for forgiveness. But at the request of my presidency, Jean-Claude Duvalier's assets have once again been frozen," Préval told a news conference shortly before leaving Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New-York.
"We are putting in place what is needed so that Duvalier's trial may begin in order to recover state funds he has misappropriated," said Préval. "Demand for forgiveness is one thing but justice is another."
The United Nations and World Bank launched an initiative last week to make it easier for governments in developing countries to recover stolen assets stashed in rich countries by corrupt leaders. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the bank was in the early stages of working with Haiti to recover funds stolen by Duvalier.
In a taped statement broadcast on local radio stations, Duvalier acknowledged his government was responsible for wrong-doing.
"During my presidential term, my government caused physical, moral or economic prejudice to people," Duvalier said from exile in Paris. "I solemnly take the historic responsibility to ask the Haitian people to forgive me."
FLED TO FRANCE IN 1986
His father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, seized power in 1957 and bequeathed it to his son on his deathbed in 1971.
The Duvaliers governed with an iron fist and a gangster militia known as the Tontons Macoutes, exercising life-or-death power over the population until Baby Doc fled to France amid a popular uprising in 1986.
Duvalier urged his followers in the National Unity Party to mobilize, and vowed to return to assume a political role in his impoverished homeland.
Several politicians and human rights activists said Duvalier should be tried for atrocities.
"It is unacceptable that Duvalier is trying to make a comeback as if the population had to forget the awful crimes he had committed in this country," said human rights activist Jean-Claude Bajeux. "The Haitian people won't buy that."
The leader of the Fusion party, Victor Benoit, said Duvalier has a right to return if he agrees to face justice.
"Jean-Claude Duvalier is talking about national reconciliation, but that is exactly what his father was saying while preparing to massacre scores of innocent citizens," Benoit said. "And the same atrocities continued under his son, who is presenting himself as the country's next savior."
But others said Haiti was more secure during the Duvaliers' reign.
"Under the Duvaliers, you could sleep in the streets or on the gallery of your house if you were not fighting the government," said Joanel Jean-Jacques, a 64-year-old man sitting outside his home in the Delmas district.
"My family and I felt secure and we were working and peacefully earning our life," he said. "Now the majority of the population can't even eat once a day."
Comme tu verra dans cet essai il y a des endroits qui tiennent la compétition pour le jour des morts :
-New York City - Halloween parade
-Oazaca, Mexico , the day of the dead
-Roseau, Dominica Creole Festival
-Grand Rivière. Haiti Jour des Guédés
Cheers,
Jean Hervé
Haiti Festival Season:
A Wonderful Experience for All
By Jean H Charles
Haiti, from May 1st to November 1st is an enchanted island, one on which Haitians whether from Haiti or the Diaspora and those few tourists who have a taste for the adventurous can make the trek from village to village, completing the circuit of the Haitian Religious Festival. It is a mixture of voodoo practice, Catholic religious fervor and pure frolic and carnival fun that may remind the more scholarly of those pilgrimages offered in the Middle Ages. The festival season starts on the 1st day of May in the picturesque city of Jacmel. There, St Jacques and St Philippe preside, sharing the day with a national holiday in Haiti: the Labor Day. The trip to Jacmel from Port au Prince, the Capital of Haiti, is a wonder in itself. The majestic mountains seem to play hide and seek with you, with fruit merchants along the way begging you to take home baskets filled with giant apricots, passion fruits big as an orange and baby banana as succulent as a natural candy. Jacmel’s festival is a mélange of color and sound, a mingling of the solemnity of high mass with the gaiety of a street fair, a music festival and a family reunion. The priests of the surrounding villages celebrate mass together with the pastor of the town in a festive atmosphere, with dancing and singing in the church. Merchants from near and far set up their tents to sell food, clothing and arts and crafts while those family members who have been away from Jacmel make a point of returning home for this special celebration. You will find an open house policy when it comes to food and drink, that is, after food has been distributed to the town poorhouse. Revelers dance under the stars well into the night to the sounds of bands that are competing for first place as best in the town. From Jacmel, the pilgrims flock to the center of the country, to St Michel de ‘Attalaye, to celebrate the Archangel St Michael on May 8th. Connoisseurs of festivals agree that this one is a big one worthy of seeing. It is a must for those who want to pay homage to the mighty St Michael. From the center of the country, the pilgrims trek to the south, to a village called Baconois and the celebration of St Yves on May 19th. Hardcore revelers can then travel on to Camp Coq in the northern part of Haiti to celebrate Our Lady of Mediation on May 24th. In June there is a major festival celebrated not only in Haiti but also in the Haitian Diaspora. It is rare not to find the Haitian American immigrant who does not travel to the Graymore Monastery in Rockland County, New York, on June 13th to implore St Anthony for a lost love’s return, a new job, a sick child’s healing or an American visa for a family member in Haiti. The villages that celebrate St Anthony in Haiti are numerous: Les Perches in the northeast, Petite Riviere de Nippes in the south and the Parish of St Anthony in Port au Prince. June 24th marks the date of a major festival that takes place all over Haiti. St John the Baptist is a major figure in both the Catholic faith and the voodoo rituals. Depending on where they live in Haiti, Haitian pilgrims travel either to Le Trou in the north or Tiburon in the south to offer prayers to St John the Baptist on that festive day. From there, we jump to July, when the festival season is in full force. Our Lady of Mont Carmel is celebrated on July 16th in the village of Saut D’eau, and this is a major national celebration. Indeed, the village of Saut d’Eau, which is in the center of Haiti, is a picturesque village in its own right, with a waterfall said to have a magical curative power. We rush than into a cascade of festivals that follows from week to week: St Marguerite in Port Margot on July 20th St Jacques le Majeur on July 25th at La Plaine du Nord. This is by far the biggest celebration, akin to that of St Jacques the Costello in Spain; pilgrims come from all over Haiti and the Diaspora to implore St Jacques for a favor. The St Jacques Fiesta is followed by the St Anne celebration in Limonade on July 26th in northern Haiti. This, too, is a major celebration during which revelers spend up to 15 days in the village offering candles, food for the poor and money for the church and celebrating with big orchestras. The musical competition between the two major musical bands from Cap Haitian (Tropicana versus Septentrional) is a yearly happening that is discussed for months after the event. The winner of the competition enjoys a full year of goodwill--which translates into better bookings all throughout the year. The St Martha Fiesta on July 29th in Marmelade a picturesque village in the mountain of the North of Haiti reminds you of Vail in Colorado. Marmelade a peasant village has its own satellite dish for internet, a magnificent lyceum, paved streets, running water, electricity and a vibrant bamboo industry, compliments of a native son who make good for himself. René Preval, the actual President of Haiti spent his time in between power creating a model village that could and should be the model for the other 140 small towns of Haiti. By that point, you may feel exhausted by all the celebrating, and be ready for a quick visit back home. But hurry back to Haiti because August is also a peak month for celebrations. It starts with the St Suzanne Festival on August 11. This picturesque village that bears the same name, flanked in the mountain is a hidden treasure. There, another native son who became Haiti Central Bank Governor wired the town for internet communication, paved the mountain roads, offered computer skills to the youth in his own house and welcome and charm the visitors with good food, open arm and piano recitals. The mother of all festival days is August 15th, the day of Our Lady of Assumption. It is celebrated in all the major cities of Haiti, such as Cap Haitian, Cayes, and Port au Prince. But the best places for fun and adventure are in the picturesque villages of Petit Goave, in the south, or the border town of Ouanaminthe in the north. In Petit- Goave the well wheller In this last village, Dominicans descend en masse into Haiti to celebrate in fraternity a day with no border and no division between two nations that share the same island yet barely speak to each other during the rest of the year. The religious procession on the eve of the celebration all through the town provides the reveler with a healing process much deeper than several years of psychotherapy. At the end of August, on the 25th, we celebrate St Louis in Quartier Morin and St Louis in northwestern Haiti and Jérémie in the south. Revelers also refuse to miss a visit to the festival of St Rose, nicknamed Gran’ St Rose, which is celebrated on the 30th of August in Grande Riviere, Pilate and Leogane. In the voodoo pantheon, St Rose is the Saint with the key to open the doors to Paradise. She is also the provider for women of a new husband or a better boyfriend. With the coming of fall, the festival season begins to slow down. But it doesn’t end, with these major celebrations taking place - On September 24th, the festival of the Archangels St Raphael and St Gabriel takes place in the village of St Raphael. On September 30th, the festival of St Jerome takes place in Petite Rivière. On October 4th the picturesque mountain village of Ranquitte receives revelers who come to celebrate St Francis of Assisi. The end of festival season comes on November 1st with all Saints Day and the Day of the Dead. It is a time for family reunions and to pay homage to those who have passed away. The village of Grande Riviere du Nord is the only place in the whole country that turns this remembrance into a time for joy, with music, bands, voodoo ceremonies and celebration. If, on or around November 1st if you miss the day of the Dead in Oazaca, Mexico or the Halloween parade of Greenwich Village in New York City or the Creole Festival in Roseau Dominica, you can catch the spirit of the departed ones in Grande Riviere du Nord, Haiti with all the voodoo rituals mixed with the Catholicism fervor. While the official festival season ends in November, the Christmas and Carnival seasons are right around the corner, running from December to February, and are followed by the Rara Festival season, a rural carnival with a strong touch of voodoo, that runs from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday. But this is a material for another journey and you must hurry back to Haiti because May1st is around the corner to start over the renewal process. In light with Barbara Ehrenreich’s latest book Dancing in the streets, the collective joy of the festival that you find in Haiti during the Fiesta season, or the Carnival period in Trinidad or Brazil explains the particular characteristics of these countries “Where the spirit of solidarity, joy and union helps to fight both oppression and depression”. To those of you are tied of the melancholic sterility of the Calvinism and of the Protestantism, come to Haiti or ( for that matter to Trinidad) and enjoy the ecstatic rituals of the collective joys that will keep your psychiatrist away while you will enjoy the pure frolic of the joy of living. Haiti has been given much negative publicity in the past few years yet; it is an island that is happily engulfed in its own annual Festival Season from May 1st to November 1st. Those festivals have been taking place for generations, with no violence, no crime, and not even petty thefts. Festival Season is a time for renewal, reveling and enjoyment. Haiti welcomes you to its Festival Season. Challenge the naysayer, prepare yourself for the next Haiti Fiesta season and come back home a new you. AIDNOH Inc will facilitate your festival trip to Haiti in connection with major travel tours all over the world to provide eco setting accommodations that will meet the standard of comfort, convenience and habitability. Jean H Charles holds a Master Degree in Social Work from Columbia University and a Law Degree from Tulane University. Before migrating to the United States in 1969, he studied Law and Diplomacy at the State University of Haiti. He is a student of the mores and the ethos of the Haitian people. He is the Executive Director of AIDNOH Inc( Association for the Integrated Development of Haiti) an organization dedicated to make Haiti hospitable to all in particular to the neglected peasant population.
COMING THIS WEEKEND
In Miami
THE TWO FOLLOWING EVENTS:
Both events below, although different: AEDAP and UNITED FIRST FINANCIAL will take place the same night in the same hotel, on Friday September 28, 2007. Hopefully, those Haitians coming to AEDAP at FLORE LINDOR LATORTUE’S get together and wishing to meet ROBERT BRUTUS of UNITED FIRST FINANCIAL may have that opportunity. ROBERT BRUTUS is partly Haitian, but raised in the UNITED STATES.
I will be there at 5.00 p.m. on Friday, September 28, 2007, and anyone wishing to talk to me can ask the Front Desk to connect them to Carl Fombrun’s room. I will stay overnight at the Sheraton Hotel.
Flore Lindor Latortue and Robert Brutus are two young interesting and dynamic individuals who deserve the support of CARL’S CORNER and all of us in the South Florida community.
Carl
1) AEDAP
FLORE LINDOR LATORTUE
Invites you to its first One Night
Leadership Retreat Fundraising Dinner.
On Friday September 28, 2007
With Special Artists:
Luigi Lin D’Or, Harry Metellus and the Beautiful
Gina Dupervil & DJ Fredo Desbas
All Artists performing for a great Cause.
AEDAP
The Sheraton Miami Mart
711 NW 72nd Avenue
Miami, Florida
Friday Fundraising Dinner $75.00 per person
One Night Stay in Hotel
Leadership Retreat $200.00 per room.
For more information please call 305- 308-2889
2 ) UNITED FIRST FINANCIAL
Invites you to their annual VIP event in Miami, Florida
Friday, September 28th 2007
Sheraton Miami Mart - North Ballroom - 711 NW 72 Ave. - Miami, FL 33126
Learn what the banks aren’t telling you. Use banking principles in your favor.
Seating is limited - Please RSVP by calling
Robert Brutus
305 502-1065
Chavez rails at teen-age breast implants gift fad. By Saul Hudson President Hugo Chavez railed against a new trend in beauty-conscious Venezuela, giving girls breast implants for their 15th birthday. "Now some people think, 'My daughter's turning 15, let's give her breast enlargements.' That's horrible. It's the ultimate degeneration," Chavez said late on Sunday on his weekly TV show that lasted a record eight hours. Venezuela is well known for its beauty queens, who have regularly won world crowns, and many women have plastic surgery in the oil-rich country where there is widespread spending on consumer items that would be considered luxuries elsewhere. But Chavez, the anti-US, self-styled revolutionary who came to office in 1999, is seeking to change those attitudes to create what he calls the "new man" to build a socialist society in this South American nation. Chavez complained about the new fad of giving the plastic surgery operation at 15 -- when Latin Americans celebrate a girl's coming-of-age -- during a diatribe against what he says are Western-imposed consumerist icons such as Barbie dolls. While breast implants are advertised on TV and banks offer special credit lines for such operations, if girls do get the enlargements they are not expected to become sexually active afterward. Venezuelans' have a habit of avid consumerism since the 1970s oil boom in the OPEC nation. They have won the nickname of the "Give-Me-Twos" in the tourist destination of Florida for buying double the amount of typical consumers. Breast implants cost thousands of dollars in Venezuela. Chavez's answer? He has told his supporters to give away any extra goods they do not need, urging them to leave out in town squares items such as fans or refrigerators. "I am calling on your conscience, fathers of this country, mothers of this country, they are our sons, they are our daughters," Chavez said. Still, Chavez, who happily describes himself as ugly, may struggle to change Venezuelans' mind-set to spending on plastic surgery. In elevators, at huge, jam-packed shopping malls, women can be overheard openly boasting about their recent, conspicuous operations.
FRENCH SECTION
LE COIN DE CARL
LES GENS HEUREUX…
Bonjour Miami, ses alentours et les « internôtres » qui écoutent
et nous lisent à travers le monde.
CHAQUE JOUR EST À LUI SEUL UNE VIE.
Dieu, le travail et la liberté. Et bonjour, bonjour la vie,
bonjour l’amour,
moi’j vais bien et’j m’habitue.
Les gens heureux n’ont pas d’histoires…Les gens
heureux ils font l’histoire. La ballade des gens heureux sur
LE COIN DE CARL parlant de tout et de rien
continue, dans un verbe
d’arc-en-ciel .
Le temps poursuit sa marche et avec lui avance le monde,
espérons aussi Haiti.
LA PENSÉE
PERMANENTE
« Tu n’as qu’une Patrie au monde.
C’est toi-même. Chante pour elle
Et sois ton but, et sois ta vie.
Les déserts chanteront
pour te répondre en chœur. »
LES MOTS DU JOUR
Un ami est un frère, mais un frère que l'on se choisit.
Emile Faguet 1847-1916
RECU DE
JANINE DE QUÉBEC
Mon cher Carl, Je viens de relire avec beaucoup d'attention, la liste des victimes du régime de François Duvalier. Quel horreur ! J'ai trouvé le nom de plusieurs personnes que je croyais avoir quitté le pays, et je découvre que ces gens là ne sont plus de ce monde. Défendre un tel homme, c'est défendre l'incroyable. Je dois cependant apporter deux rectifications. Jacques Renaud Viau n'est pas mort en Haïti. Voir le paragraphe qui en parle dans "Le prix du Sang". Par ailleurs, Max Renaud Munroe qui accompagnait Jacques Sthéphen Alexis lors de son arrivée en Haïti, avait été fait prisonnier en même temps que ce dernier et ceux qui l'accompagnaient. On n'a jamais su ce qu'il était devenu.Voir le paragraphe qui en parle aussi dans "Le prix du Sang" Félcitations Carl, vous faites du bon travail. Janine de Québec
RECU DE
HENRY DELVA
Ph.D = Plus haut.Delva
CALIFORNIE
Mon frère don Carlo, La lettre ouverte de Loty Malebranche à Georges Michel sur le COIN DE CARL du Mercredi 26 Septembre 2007, est, à ma facon de voir,une superbe analyse, un cour d'histoire et pour terminer, un monument de logique. Loty a, cette fois dans ses écrits, ce savoir de réduire en cendre les arguments proposés, sans pour autant vraiment insulter l’auteur à qui il s'oppose. C’est une qualité qui démontre sa doigté. Je n'ai jamais caché mon refus quant à la réorganisation de notre Armée. Je crois même avoir écrit que si nous en avions les moyens financiers, la construction d'écoles et centres de santé serait la voie morale à suivre. Je tiens à remercier Camille Loty Malebranche tant en mon nom qu'en celui de tous les Haitiens qui pensent que l'Armée a été et sera toujours un cauchemar national. Quant à Donald Trump,le milliardaire Américain des ventes et achats immobiliers qui demande à Bush de se cacher et de se faire oublier, car il représente un désastre pour les États-Unis, il n’y a rien de plus vrai. Si nous étions au 17ème siecle et que Voltaire rencontrait George W. Bush sur le dos d'un âne, avec son habituel sarcasme il s'écrierait : “Voici donc un âne à deux étages.” Merci don Carlo pour le remarquable choix des articles et commentaires publiés. Henry Delva
MA RÉPONSE Mon frère Henry, Merci pour tes commentaires. Toi et moi, nous sommes membres d’un Club de tolérance mutuelle, où nous invitons tous ceux ou celles qui veulent faire de même, à nous accompagner dans cette noble initiative, de former et d’informer à la mesure de nos sentiments et de notre savoir. S’il n-y-a seulement que nous deux “jeunes” septuagénaires à y participer, le COIN DE CARL considère avoir remplit sa mission. Par fausse modestie j’ai mentionné plus devant “s’il n’y a seulement que nous deux à y participer” mais, nous savons déjà, sans citer personne, cette fois, que la liste est remarquable. Ayant vécu dèja un bout de temps ici-bas, connaissant la nature humaine, nous n’avons pas d’illusions farfelues, ni en peintre, ni en peintures. La lettre de Loty à l’éminent historien et ami George Michel, a son importance, et je pense, comme toi, que l’Armée d’Haiti dans notre existence a été un cauchemar; nous sommes peut-être trop vieux dans un monde trop jeune. Au sujet de Loty, il a du mérite dans ses écrits mais, parfois, je l’avoue, ces derniers exigent de moi trois dictionnaires pour bien le comprendre; Loty, le “philosophe”, comme notre ami mutuel l’auteur Gary Klang l’appelle, aura droit probablement un jour à un fauteuil d’académicien.
“TROMPE ET BOUCHE”
Donald Trump est sublime dans ses réactions envers George W. Bush. Et dire que Trump est caucasien, extrêmement riche et Républicain. Exemple à suivre par les petits-hommes (surtout du tiers-monde) qui aspirent, se voient , se croient, sont fiers, d’être des Républicains et des “W” en formation. don Carlo
RECU DE
Camille Loty Malebranche
CANADA
QUELQUES MOTS SUR LE SCIENTISME ET SES IMPLICATIONS SOCIALES Par Camille Loty Malebranche Il existe un scientisme méthodologique et un scientisme idéologique. Le premier se réfère à l’inconnaissabilité du monde en dehors des voies et moyens de la science et ainsi, rejette toute autre mode de connaissance sans nécessairement proclamer l’inexistence de tout ce qui n’est pas pris en compte par la science. Il s’agit dans ce cas, de nier l’accès à toutes dimensions de l’univers non tangibles en dehors de la science et de sa méthode rationnelle, sans nier pour autant la possibilité de ces dimensions. C’est donc une posture intellectuelle dubitative face aux autres moyens de connaître ou de constituer un savoir et non une négation catégorique de l’objet de ces savoirs. C’est précisément la mise à la question de l’objectivation même de ces dimensions vu leur intangibilité, leur non objectivité. C’est un scientisme gnoséologique. Le second, quant à lui, est l’espace du dogme et de l’acte de foi en une soi disant science mais en fait, en l’expertise de scientifiques déifiés par l’institution sociale, censés représenter la science elle-même. Ce scientisme se distingue du premier par son attitude absolutiste et radicale qui rejette pour inexistant tout ce à quoi la « méthode scientifique » propre à ces experts soutenant cette vision, ne désigne ou ne « prouve » comme vrai. C’est un scientisme doublement idéologique non seulement par ses prétentions ontologiques réductrices mais aussi par ses affiliations à des courants sociaux économiques et politiques, usant de ces experts, ces initiés, pour mystifier les « profanes » et manipuler les consciences, un peu comme une sorte d’avatar du fidéisme religieux. Dans cet ordre d’idées, il suffit qu’un quelconque individu consacré expert, donc scientifique « sachant tout » de l’Afghanistan, vienne pontifier devant les canadiens que l’intervention canadienne en ce pays, est un modèle pour qu’une partie de ladite presse comme une cohue dégonflée, acquiesce son mot sacré entraînant dans l’idolâtrie désinformante, tout un secteur de l’opinion sans plus oser questionner par peur d’être amateurs, les dessous d’inféodation aux États-Unis de l’intervention du Canada! De même en Haïti, il suffit que des « experts » viennent avec des mots laudatifs sur la privatisation des entreprises d’État pour que soit désarçonné tout un pan de la société civile préalablement opposée à ce néolibéralisme économique par peur de paraître profane et non initiée aux arcanes des sciences économiques! Un bel exemple du « racisme de l’intelligence » dont parlait Bourdieu 1! Alors que le scientisme méthodologique reste un exclusivisme strictement gnoséologique d’une catégorie de la communauté scientifique, le scientisme idéologique, ontologique dans ses démarches, exclut du schème de l’Être tout ce qui ne se peut poser en objet par la science tel que l’entendent ses tenants. Néanmoins, nous devons signaler que pour libérer la connaissance humaine - si restreinte vu notre ignorance de la plupart des vérités et dimensions de l’univers et du monde, cette petite part de l’univers où vit et agit l’homme - il faudrait vraiment que sans se confondre, sans s’enchevêtrer, la science et l’intuition, la foi et le mythe, chacun dans son champ, puissent se déployer dans un véritable holisme cognitif sans basculer dans les déblatérations sacrales ou messes savantes, généralement pseudo scientifiques d’une certaine caste voulant davantage le pouvoir que le partage des connaissances, à l’instar de certains experts pontifes parfois endoctrinés et stipendiés, et qui, même dans les faits humains et sociaux, si couramment atypiques, osent au nom de la science, parler ex cathedra, induisant souvent en erreur par leur refus fanfaron de leur propre limite qui n’est en fait qu’une part des limites humaines, lesquelles faisaient si sagement dire à Popper 3 que l’une des caractéristiques de la véritable connaissance scientifique, c’est son éventuelle falsifiabilité par le questionnement. Les tenants du pouvoir de la société ayant toujours inventé la sociodicée 2, c’est à dire une théodicée du social posant le type de société en vogue comme dieu au-dessus de tout selon un code de justification de leurs pires méfaits, c’est aux majorités de se donner les moyens de s’informer valablement. Car être désinformé, ou uniquement informé par des journaux constituant la grande presse de l’institution sociale qui fait tout pour maintenir la société injuste dont elle profite, c’est se faire réduire au stade de jouet des tyrans souriants de la ploutocratie qui se dit démocratique sans souci des majorités. Dans un monde passant de la barbarie primitive telle l’anthropophagie à la barbarie de civilisation que sont les méfaits de l’économisme et de l’impérialisme; dans un monde où l’État de droit - loin s’en faut, n’ayant guère éliminé l’écrasement des faibles et l’exploitation plurale des majorités - favorise, à côté de l’égalité juridico-légale formelle des individus, le règne d’une société de privilèges, la construction d’une opinion juste des faits concernant tous, ne doit point être abandonnée aux seuls experts orchestrant l’exclusion de vrais débats rendant accessibles toutes les données et tous les enjeux à la société globale. 1) Bourdieu, texte écrit en 1983 avec pour sous-titre : Classe contre classe, le texte est reproduit dans Le monde Diplomatique, édition d’Avril 2004, p 24. 2) Terme cher à P.A. Taguieff qui l’a utilisé dans son livre La couleur et le sang, avec pour sous-titre, racisme à la française. 3) K. Popper in La logique de la connaissance scientifique.
CAMILLE LOTY MALEBRANCHE
Par le truchement de
LEMANE VAILLANT
CANADA
Non-Violence : " Si quelqu’un te frappe sur la joue droite, tends-lui aussi l’autre "
Quel est bien le sens de ce verset ?
La Bible, est-elle d'application stricte ?
David fut bien un guerrier aimé de Dieu .. Josué aussi !
Mais dans certaines batailles des chrétiens, ce sont les armées célestes qui intervinrent ..
L'Éternel combattra pour vous , et vous : Gardez le silence .. Pas toujours, pas toujours !
La meilleure Défense est l'Attaque : encore une autre théorie agressive marronne et mystifiante !
Enfin,
Les plus “smart” sont ceux-là qui jouent les victimes , en étant les plus agressifs et les plus violents . Mais on n'est pas dupe ! On comprend très bien la marche du monde et comment se font les affaires du monde …
Lemane
Faut-il admettre la double nationalité en Haiti ?
Juste un petit mot dans ce dossier :
Je crois qu'Haiti grandira d'un petit cran en intelligence et en gros bon sens, le jour où sera adopté en Haiti le principe de la double citoyenneté.
Songez que nos ancêtres haitiens furent des déplacés de l'Afrique et de l'Europe côté Paternel, Maternel ou Maitre .
Ethniquement , nous ne sommes pas un Peuple Uniforme dès l'origine .
Il y a de très grands changements et bouleversements utiles et justifiés à opérer en Haiti si l'on veut secouer les pesanteurs sur Haiti et donner des chances et des élans véritables à Haiti .
Dans un pays réfractaire , sauvage et sous-éduqué comme Haiti , une Révolution Tranquille n'est simplement pas possible …
“Aysyen pa manje anyen ki fwèt !”
Lemane Vaillant
Toronto, Canada
EN EL RINCON DE
don Carlo
Que aprendi de ti ?
De tus tratos dia a dia muchas cosas de ti aprendi sobre todo a como tu ahogastes mi vida y acabastes con mi existir.
Fuistes fria y calculadora y tu misma me enseñastes como usas tu mente pensadora para terminar con lo que empezastes.
Estuvistes mas de un año alimentando solo nuestra amistad, negando nuestro amor de antaño, acabando nuestra felicidad.
Aprendi a no confiar en nadie mas, a no entregar alma, mente y corazon; a no mirar jamas a otra mujer con intensa pasion.
Me enseñastes a como tu destruyes una vida tambien un negocio de los dos, aprendi a esconder mis profundas heridas que nunca cicatrizaran en mi corazon.
No era de tu clase!, no tenia tu misma religion, ahora todo se ha ido al traste y yo muero solo en un rincon.
Pero quiero que sepas que a mi tu nunca me llegastes a enseñar como vivir sin ti, como dejarte de amar.
Haz hallado un nuevo amor diferente al que yo te di; aunque me seque de dolor te deseo que llegues a ser muy feliz!
Jorge Rodriguez
SENTIMIENTOS
El amor es como el fuego, si no se comunica se apaga.
El autentico amigo tuyo es el que lo sabe todo de ti y sigue siendo tu amigo.
El unico medio de salir ganando de una discusion es evitarla.
Se necesitan 2 años para aprender a hablar y 60 años para aprender a callar.
KREYOL PALE KREYOL KONPRANN
pa KAL FONBWEN
Nou sonje yè mwen tap di-nou pli gwo skandal administrasyon prezidan Jefra-an mwa desanm lanne 1863 se yon ti fi pèp la ki te rele Claircine, ak 12 rekolt kafe sou tèt-li, ki disparèt 27 desanm lanne 1863. Manman-li shashe-l tou patou e li pa janm jwenn-li. Kèk jou apre pèp la tande bokò touye pitit-la, mete-l nan chodyè, epi manje–li, 31 desanm lanne 1863.
Se menm lobey sa-a nou tande anba prezidan Jan Bètran Aristide, men, tout jwèt se jwèt kroshèt pa ladan-li, mwen pa jan-m di prezidan-an koupab menm zak kriminèl sila-sa-a… Mwen pa gen prèv sou sa . Alos an nou kontinwye ak sa ki vin pase apre wangatè, malfektè, sanzave, tilolit, lougarou, tèt kololo pran la vi jenn ti-fam sa-a ki te rele Claircine e yo manje-li kon yon kabrit boukannnen.
Mezanmi, san bwi ni twonpèt la polis prezidan Jefra-an fand dèyè lougarou-yo e arête 14 moun. Apre gwo envestigasyon la polis lage 6 epi kenbe 8 ladan-yo, 4 gason ak 4 fanm. Pwosè-an koumanse 4 fevriye lanne 1864 ak tout pèp vil potoprens ki tape swiv menm jan ak letranje nan legasyon ak konsila-yo.
Mesyie, 8 sanzave sa-yo, 4 gason ak 4 fanm ak chèf-yo, yon gason ki te rele Congo Pellé, yon fanm Jeanne Pellé, ak pwop kalbass gwo dyol-yo admèt se yo ki te touye Claircine epi souse zo-l tou. Tribinal peyi-an kondane 8 asasen wangatè sa-yo pou peyi san chapo.
9 grenn jou apre, 13 fevriye lanne 1864, anvan malandren yo fè wout pou letènite otorite-yo toupize yo jis lè yo rand fyèl-lo. Menm kretyen vivan ki te gen yon degoutans avè-yo te blije rele Abraham set-ase pou yo jis lè yo lage yo tout nan trou koukouy pou ale jwenn Baron Samdi.
Chire pit sa-a fè kont deblozay tou patou sou la tè akoz yon jounal ayisyen ki te rele “Gazette des Tribunaux” et ki fè kont bwi ak sa. Anplis ekriven etranje ki te bezwen fè kob esplwate move zak sa-a e yo fè kouri bwi tout pèp ayisyen te nan wanga jouk nan kou depi lè blan te brote-nè nwè soti kontinan Lafrik
Men la verite, depi endepandans peyi d-Ayiti vodou pandan yon demi syièk sete sèl relijion majorite ayisyen te pratike. Vè lanne 1860 gouvènman Jefra-an siyen yon konkoda ak le Vatikan e relijion katolik-la retounen an penpan. Epok sa-a anpil ekriven ayisyen denonse Vaudou kon yon relijion pou kanibal. Okipasyon meriken lane 1915 rive pou 1934 otorize cinema Hollywood dekri relijion vodou-an kon yon relijion Satan.
MEZANMI, se la map rete pou jodi-a. Na pale demen si Granmèt la vle.
KAL
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