QUOTES OF THE DAY If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money.
New England Proverb *** It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets.
Genoese Proverb DR.
CHARLES J.
FOMBRUN CEO, REPUTATION INSTITUTE.
Last Friday April 25, 2008 was the opening ceremony at the UN of the International Brands Festival & Economy Integration Forum by MC: Ms Tang Yuan.
The opening remarks were by Dr.
Noel Brown, President, Friends of the UN, and the Keynote Speaker was Dr.
Charles J.
Fombrun.
ANNUAL GALA DINNER HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA Thursday April 24, 2008 It was a pleasure to be present at this successful gala and a wonderful dinner at the luxurious Radisson hotel in downtown Miami. The honorees were old friends such as Viter Juste, Marie-Josée Ledan, Carmeleau Monestime.
The Master of Ceremonies was that popular and well-known moderator of WPLG, Channel 10 News in Miami, Calvin Hughes. Board Chair Karen Basha Egozi welcomed the guests and the invocation was pronounced by Father Reginald Jean-Mary, to be followed by Executive-Director Gepsie M.
Metellus.
Acknowledgements were by Thomas Eugene, Vice-Chair, Jean Renazile, Dinner Chair, Jean Renazile, and Marie Pascal, Auction Chair.
The presentation of awards to the three Haitian community pioneers Viter, Marie Josée and Carmelau was framed into two giant power point screens.
The musical entertainment was provided by Jesse Jones Jazz Band with vocalist, Ginou Oriol.
I had the privilege of having a dance that night with lovely Ruth Estriplet of Hands by Carrefour, a non-profit organization.
SANT LA’ s mission is “to empower, stabilize and strengthen South Florida’s Haitian community by providing free access to information and existing servicesto ensure its transition from a struggling immigrant community to a successful and stable community.” Carl’s Corner’s photos A vibrant Haitian community !
Carl Fombrun with Gepsie M.
Metellus, Executive-Director of SANT-LA.
Leonie Hermantin, Deputy Director LAMBI FUNDS of Haiti, Carl Fombrun, Calvin Hughes, News Anchor at WPLG, Channel 10, Miami, Florida.
(l to r) Internationally-known Haitian artist Lionel Laurenceau, Carl Fombrun, Reverend Fritz Bazin of the church LES MARTYRES D’HAITI.
Carl Fombrun with Jean-Jean St.
Amand, owner and CEO of PAX VILLA FUNERAL HOMES in Miami and Haiti.
(l to r) Herntz Phanord CEO/President HAP GROUP INC.
WSRF 1580 AM, Carl Fombrun, Kevin Burns, North Miami Mayor, Honoree Carmeleau Monestime, Professor Jean-Claude Exulien.
3) (l to r) Herntz Phanord, Carl Fombrun, “a blooming flower”, US Representative Jacques Despinosse.
(l to r) Mrs.
Calvin Hughes, Carl Fombrun, Calvin Hughes, News Anchor, Channel 10.
Carl Fombrun and Nènè Jeudy who were respectively Alexandre Pétion and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in the play ‘ENDEPENDANS’ AT THE James L.
Knight Center.
Dr.
Marie-Denise Gervais and Carl.
(l to r) Wilfrid Pressa, CEO RADIO RCH in Homestead, Marie-Florence Siclait Bell, REPUBLICAN PARTY’s activist in Florida, Carl Fombrun, Patrice Destin PUBLIC RELATIONS personality, VOCALIST Ginou Oriol.
Carl Fombrun in-between the two Philippeaux brothers: On the left, Bobby, Owner and CEO of ISLAND TV, on the right Gerard, a public servant in Florida and former member of the Haitian Diplomatic corps.
3) Carl Fombrun and dance partner Ruth Estriplet.
(l t r) Marie Florence Siclait Bell, Carl Fombrun, Ginou Oriol.
(l to r) “A Blooming Flower”, Carl, Wilfrid Pressa.
(l to r) Hernstz Phanord, Mayor Kevin Burns, Carmeleau Monestime, Jean-Max Benjamin.
RECEIVED FROM Myriam Nader, New York Hey Don Carlito!
How is everything with you?
Just to tell you that I really enjoyed reading CARL’S CORNER of Friday 25 April 2008 !
Keep it up ! Your show on island TV will be really awesome!
Wish I could see it! My regards to you and to my dear friend Georges Sami Saati, "le capitaliste du peuple" ! All the best, Myriam THE BLOOMING ARAB-HAITIAN-AMERICANS FLOWERS WITH CARL ( l to r) Bolina, Myriam, Carine NEW YORK CITY’S HAITIAN DAY PARADE COMMITTEE P.
O.
BOX 863 WALL ST.
STATION NEW YORK, NY 10268 Tel.
(347) 210 - 3167 www.Haitianparade.com April 23, 2008 Dear Honorable Fombrun, On behalf of the Haitian Day Parade Committee, I would like to invite you to the 2008 Haitian Day Parade & Festival in New York City.
Truth be told, the month of May is Haitian Heritage Month.
May has great historical and cultural traditions that all Haitians are proud to make aware of and to pass on to future generations.
With that in mind, for the past six years we have been closing the month with the Haitian Day Parade & Festival.
The commemoration for this year will even be larger and better with the presence of the best Haitian musical bands, dancers, beautiful floats, marching band and the likes.
In addition, we will seize the opportunity to honor in the Parade the founders and major contributors of the Haitian music: the late great Nemours Jean-Baptiste, Webert Sicot, Issa El Saieh, Dodofe Legros, Toto Bissainthe, Michel Degrottes, Joe Jack, Rene Saint-Aude, Raoul Guillaume, Joe Trouillot, Gerard Dupervil, Roger Colas, Rene Audain, Ti Roro, Jean Gesner Henri (Coupe Cloue), Guy Durosier, Martha Jean-Claude, Pepe Bayard, Antoine Rossini Jean Baptiste (Ti Manno), Lumane Casimir, Ansy Derose, Miriam Dorisme, comedian Theodore Beaubrun (Languichatte Debordus), and some late political and community activists such as: Jean Dupuy, Journalist Jean L.
Dominique, Footballer Emmanuel Sanon and Honorable Wilson Desir.
There will also be a religious ceremony honoring these great legends.
The Archbishop Guy Sansaricq will be presiding over the mass that will take place on Saturday May 24 at 12:00 (Noon), at Saint Gregory Church located at the corner of Brooklyn Ave & St.
John's Pl.
in Brooklyn. The Parade will be held on the following day, Sunday, May 25, 2008 (Memorial weekend) in "Little Haiti" on Toussaint Louverture Blvd, a.k.a.
Nostrand Ave and the Festival will be held at Nostrand Park as well as Nostrand Ave between Farragut Rd.
& Foster Ave. The committee extends an invitation to you to join us in the making of the 2008 Haitian Day Parade & Festival an outstanding celebration.
United We Stand!
Very Truly Yours, Ernest Emmanuel President & CEO MY ANSWER Dear Ernest Emmanuel, I am really touched by this gesture. Due to previous engagements I am unable to attend. However, I will post it on CARL’S CORNER for others who may be interested.
All the best, Carl IN MIAMI Ringo Cayard allies rally HAITIAN AMERICAN support.
( l to r) Ringo Cayard, Carl Fombrun, friend, and Ringo’s brother in better days.
More than 60 people showed their support for Ringo Cayard, a powerbroker accused of racketeering, theft and money laundering.
Posted on Thu, Apr.
24, 2008 (l to r) Carl Fombrun with Miami Herald’s Myriam Martinez, Carl Juste, and Trenton Daniel.
BY TRENTON DANIEL tdaniel@MiamiHerald.com A month after public-corruption detectives locked up Rulx ''Ringo'' Cayard, the Miami-area political kingmaker kept mum as he watched his allies plead his innocence Wednesday.
''I believe this is a man with integrity,'' singer Farah Juste told about 60 people who showed up to listen to a panel of supporters.
``The community feels like this is a political case.'' Wearing a charcoal-colored suit, Cayard greeted a who's who of Haitian community leaders with hugs and handshakes Wednesday night at the Jean-Jacques Dessalines Center in Little Haiti.
The usually outspoken powerbroker did not address the charges.
Cayard, director of the Haitian American Foundation Inc., faces more than 20 charges of racketeering, theft and money laundering.
He is also accused of using fake records of HAFI's board meeting to give himself a $300,000 bonus.
T h e foundation is a well-known social services agency in Miami-Dade's Haitian community, and Cayard has long been its public face.
The agency received almost $2.9 million in county contracts and grants between 2002 and 2006, when county leaders cut funding after learning of the criminal probe.Cayard's arrest in March by public-corruption detectives with the Miami-Dade Police Department capped a sweeping investigation of the foundation's finances over the past 2 ½ years.
Cayard -- the nephew of a Haitian coast guard commander who once shelled the palace of dictator Francois ''Papa Doc'' Duvalier -- has been one of the more high-profile voices in local Haitian politics over the past 25 years.
He's also been a go-to guy.He's been a political ally to County Commissioner Dorrin Rolle and Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, among others.
Diaz placed Cayard on a city bond-oversight board.
But it was the Haitian community that demonstrated its support for Cayard Wednesday.
Defense attorney Milton Hirsch declined to comment on details about the case.
But he said he was ready to defend his client against some ``very serious allegations.'' ''We will defend the good name and innocence of Ringo Cayard,'' Hirsch said.
One question that came up more than once was Cayard's defense fund.''What are we talking about money-wise?'' said activist ''Teacher'' Carline Paul.
''I'm terribly expensive,'' Hirsch quipped.
``We will need lots of financial support.'' After his March 20 arrest, Cayard posted bail at $300,000, initially set at $500,000.
As part of his bail, Cayard was placed under house arrest.
It would be up to a judge to determine if Cayard's presence at the Wednesday meeting violated these conditions.
Hirsch said Cayard got permission from the county's Pre-Trial Detention Center to attend.
Trial is set tentatively for June 30, 2008 CACEC A DATE TO REMEMBER The Center for Artistic and Cultural Events in the Haitian Community CACEC presents an exceptional variety concert on MOTHER’S DAY.
This event will take place on Saturday, May 10 th 2008 at
6 >> 00 p.m.
and will feature a selection of the best artists in town. An evening with the stars sharing our affection, gratitude, and memories.
305.233.7215 cacecone@aol.com MARCEL ALEXIS CEO OBAMA’S MOM Barack Obama may have written a book about his absent father .
The winner by far: Obama's mother , both for her unusual first name and for her life story . Ann Dunham Wikepedia Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro ( November 29 , 1942 – November 7 , 1995 ), known as Ann Dunham, and later as Ann Sutoro was the mother of United States Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama .
Dunham was an anthropologist who later specialized in rural development .
Born in Kansas , Dunham attended high school near Seattle, Washington and spent most of her adult life in Hawaii .
Early life Ann Dunham was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas while her father was in the military.She was named after her father, who reportedly gave his daughter and only child his name because he had wanted a boy; however, she was referred to as "Ann".
Her parents, Stanley Armour Dunham (born on March 23, 1918, raised in El Dorado, Kansas died February 8, 1992—buried in the Punchbowl National Cemetery ) and Madelyn Dunham (née Madelyn Lee Payne) (who was born in 1922 and raised in Augusta, Kansas and is still living in Honolulu, Hawaii ), met in Wichita, Kansas and married on May 5, 1940.People who know the family say that the shape of Obama's face strikingly resembles that of his maternal grandfather.
After the Pearl Harbor attack her father joined the Army and her mother worked at a Boeing plant in Wichita.
At the end of World War II she moved with her parents to California , Texas , and Seattle, Washington , where her father was a furniture salesman and her mother worked for a bank.
The family moved to Mercer Island, Washington , in 1956 so that 13-year old Ann could attend the high school that had just opened[, where teachers Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman taught the importance of challenging societal norms and questioning authority.
Dunham took the lessons to heart; "She felt she didn't need to date or marry or have children".
A classmate remembers her as "intellectually way more mature than we were and a little bit ahead of her time, in an off-center way.
The family tree of Ann Dunham (and therefore Barack Obama) has been connected to Winston Churchill , Bertrand Russell , George W.
Bush , Gerald Ford , Lyndon Johnson , Harry Truman , James Madison , Dick Cheney , Brad Pitt and confederate general Robert E.
Lee .
First marriage Dunham moved to Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii at Manoa , where she studied anthropology .
There she met Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.
, a graduate student from Kenya and the school's first African student, in a Russian class.When they became engaged, both sets of parents opposed the marriage, with Barack, Sr.'s father in particular objecting.
"He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman", Obama recalls his mother saying, in Dreams from My Father .
Nevertheless, the couple married on February 2 , 1961 in Maui , Hawaii .
Dunham has been described by her friends as "a fellow traveler .
We were liberals before we knew what liberals were," and as "the original feminist ".
Barack was born in Hawaii on August 4 , 1961 .
Ann was 18 at the time.
In an interview, Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years.
The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics." Ann and Obama, Sr.
divorced in 1965, when he left for Harvard to continue his education.
After finishing his degree in economics at Harvard he returned to Kenya and obtained a position in the Kenyan government.
Friends report that later in life, he became bitter and frustrated.
He was killed in an automobile accident in 1982.
Second marriage Two years after the divorce, when her son was five, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro (ca.
1936-1987), an Indonesian oil manager, whom she met at the East-West Center on the University of Hawaii campus.They moved to Jakarta, Indonesia in 1967 after the unrest surrounding the ascent of Suharto .
Soetoro and Dunham had a daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng , on August 15 , 1970 .
In Indonesia, Dunham enriched her son's education with correspondence courses in English, recordings of Mahalia Jackson , and speeches by the Rev.
Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
When the young Obama asked to return to Hawaii for upper school rather than stay in Asia with her she agreed, despite the decision being painful for her.
In 1971, at the age of 10, Barack was sent back to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, where he achieved a scholarship to the prestigious Punahou School .
In the 1970s , as Dunham wished to return to work, Soetoro wanted more children.
"He became more American, she once said, as she became more Javanese."They divorced in the late 1970s.
Post-second marriage Dunham was not estranged from either ex-husband, and encouraged her children to feel connected to their fathers.
She returned to graduate school in Honolulu in 1974 , while raising Barack and Maya.
When Dunham returned to Indonesia for field work in 1977 with Maya, Barack chose not to go, concentrating on his struggle to define himself; Dunham again acquiesed, despite it being personally painful for her.
Having been a weaver , Dunham was interested in village industries, therefore moved to Yogyakarta , the center of Javanese handicrafts .
In 1992 she earned a Ph.D.
in anthropology from the University of Hawai'i with a dissertation titled Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.
Dunham then pursued a career in rural development championing women’s work and microcredit for the world’s poor, with Indonesia’s oldest bank, the United States Agency for International Development , the Ford Foundation , Women’s World Banking , and as a consultant in Pakistan.
She mingled with leaders from organizations supporting Indonesian human rights , women's rights , and grass-roots development .
In 1994 Ann Dunham was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and uterine cancer ; she moved back to Hawaii to live near her widowed mother.
She died in 1995 at the age of 52.
Her son, starting his first campaign for public office, was not present at the time of her death.
Following a memorial service at the University of Hawaii, Barack and his half-sister Soetoro-Ng placed her ashes in the Pacific Ocean on the south side of Oahu .
Religion Dunham's best friend in high school has said that she "touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue.In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father Barack Obama wrote, "My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess.
In a land [Indonesia] where fatalism remained a necessary tool for enduring hard-ship.
she was a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism.In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope Obama wrote, "I was not raised in a religious household.
My mother's own experiences.
only reinforced this inherited skepticism.
Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones.
And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I've ever known."[However, in 2007 Obama described his mother as "a Christian from Kansas." "I was raised by my mother", he continued.
"So, I’ve always been a Christian." Also in 2007, he said in a speech, "My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew.
But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution."Maya Soetoro-Ng, when asked if her mother was an atheist, said, "I wouldn't have called her an atheist.
She was an agnostic.
She basically gave us all the good books—the Bible , the Hindu Upanishads and the Buddhist scripture, the Tao Te Ching —and wanted us to recognize that everyone has something beautiful to contribute." Dreams from My Father She helped her son write his memoir Dreams from My Father while she was battling cancer.
Obama wrote: During the writing of this book, she would read the drafts, correcting stories that I had misunderstood, careful not to comment on my characterizations of her but quick to explain or defend the less flattering aspects of my father's character.Obama noted in the book that it was Ann rather than his natural father who taught him about his African American heritage.
She would come home with books on the civil rights movement, the recordings of Mahalia Jackson , the speeches of Dr.
King .
When she told me stories of schoolchildren in the South who were forced to read books handed down from wealthier white schools but who went on to become doctors and lawyers and scientists, I felt chastened by my reluctance to wake up and study in the mornings… Every black man was Thurgood Marshall or Sidney Poitier ; every black woman Fannie Lou Hamer or Lena Horne .
To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
Obama noted in the book that he might have written a different book if he had known she was dying when he wrote it:I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book—less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life.
In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder.
I won't try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still.
I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.
RECEIVED FROM JEAN SEBASTIEN QUALO Hello Carl and Abdullah, Sometimes there are things that are just Evil, mean spirited and ugly.
Hillary in her quest for the White House is doing anything necessary to win and it is showing.
Another former Clinton cabinet member has endorsed Sen.
Obama. Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, whose long friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton goes back to the days when Reich and Bill Clinton were Rhodes Scholars together at Oxford, endorsed Obama. Reich's endorsement comes after former Clinton Energy Secretary and Ambassador to the UN Bill Richardson endorsed Obama last month.
Hillary Clinton supporter James Carville of suggested Richardson's endorsement of Clinton opponent was an act of betrayal, comparing him to Judas. Reich, now a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said in his blog that the former first lady "has offered solid and sensible policy proposals" but added that "Obama's strike me as even more so." COMMENTS FROM Abdullah Bin Carl and Jean-Sebastien, I sense an orchestrated mediatic campaign aimed at discrediting Obama while propping Clinton up. It is sublte but I can still sense it.
I haven't gotten totally on board with Obama myself because I don't want to fall back into the trap that I have for so long been able to free myself from: a view of politics as being on the level and as catering to the electorate. Obama may be sincere in wanting ot make some of those changes, but I feel that some of it is still just going to come out as having been idealistic at best.
Naturally I am inclined more to Obama than Clinton because he is fresher and she has so many skeletons out there already, it may be devastating to find out about the ones that have not yet surfaced.
Hillary Clinton initiated the negative campaigning but the press let her off the hook about it after she complained that Obama was receiving preferential treatment from that same press.
Hilllary Clinton supported the war.
Hillary Clinton warded off scandals such as Whitewater during her time as First Lady.
Hillary Clinton lied about an event that she was not apt to forget the details of.
Hillary Clinton's family allowed that lie to be trumpeted as an actual accomplishment.
Peace to you and yours.
Abdullah IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE LE COIN DE CARL PARLANT DE TOUT ET DE RIEN 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. » La pensée du jour A chemin battu il ne croit point d'herbe.
AU FIL DU SOUVENIR VIDÉO: Le Jean-Claudisme au pouvoir CLIQUER YOU TUBE VIDEO: 28th Anniversary of the VSN RACHEL MOSCOSO DENIS RECONNUE PARMI 8 PERSONNALITÉS par la revue “ FINENESS DESIGN & PUBLISHING” New York Anthony Cherubin Fineness Design & Publishing P.O.Box 100065 Brooklyn, NY 11210 718-909-7952 • 718-252-9362 findepub@yahoo.com Commentaires de Carl Fombrun COMPLIMENTS, très chère Rachel.
Tu le mérites bien, et je suis VRAIMENT fier de t’avoir comme une très chère amie, dans les défilés de tous les jours au profit de la culture haitienne.
Toujours plus haut !
Avec toute la sincère affection de celui qui t’aime beaucoup.
Carl-Henri RECU DE CARL SCHOMBERG, HAITI Carl-Henri.
Je vais te raconter une petite histoire qui m’est arrivée dans le temps quand j’étais jeune.
Et bien jadis quand la vie était belle et bon marché, j’arrive a Santo- Domingo avec 2 amis et nous louons une chambre a 3, nous payons 30 $ pour nous 3 donc 10 dollars chacun.
Le maitre d’hôtel voulant entretenir les bonnes relations Haïtiano-dominicaines remet 5 dollars au garçon avec ordre de nous les remettre, mais ce petit groom futé empoche 2 dollars et nous remet a chacun 1 dollars ce qui fait que nous avons payé 9 dollars chacun, or en calculant 9$ x 3 = 27 $ plus les deux dollars empochés par le garçon ca nous donne 29 $.
Ca fait des années que j’essaie de comprendre ou est passe l’autre dollar.
Einstein a dit qu’un problème sans solution, est un problème mal pose .
Si c’est vrai, les problèmes de certains pays qui paraissent sans solution ne seraient-ils pas mal posés ?
Carl Schomberg.
RECU AU COIN DE CARL DE SONNY SÉRAPHIN, TAIWAN (quelques extraits) Cher Carl, Au point ou nous en sommes je ne vois pas comment cette bombe peut être désamorcée à court terme ou même à moyen terme sans un changement général d'attitude. Oui, cette situation de déchéance est d'abord le résultat de l'irresponsabilité de René Préval, du Premier ministre Jacques Rdouard Alexis et ses ministres, et celle des sénateurs et députés irresponsables aussi.
CES GENS PENSENT POUVOIR CRÉER DES EMPLOIS ET NOURRIR LE PEUPLE HAITIEN AVEC DES SLOGANS.
UNE BÊTISE QUE J'AI DÉNONCÉE EN MAINTES FOIS DÁJÀ dans un passé recent.
MACHAN-N SLOGAN !!! Mais c'est aussi le résultat de l'indifférence totale et de la démission de la société civile en général, enfermée comme elle l'est dans sa tour d'ivoire et dans sa suffisance.
Je parle aussi bien des citoyens de l'intérieur que de ceux de l'extérieur.
Dans les deux cas, les comportements et les discours sont les mêmes.
MOI J'AI RAISON, C'EST L'AUTRE QUI A TORT.
Alors, tout le monde a raison et tout le monde a tort en même temps.
L'année 2008 EST L'ANNÉE DES REVENDICATIONS DE TOUT LE PEUPLE HAITIEN.
CETTE ANNÉE NOUS DISONS: NON! J'ai fort souvent souligné le fait que si je suis en exil à Taiwan et traité en pariah aussi bien par Haiti à travers son ambassade ici que par Taiwan à travers son ministère des Afffaires Etrangères, mes compatriotes eux, ceux qui crèvent de faim dans le pays et qui y sont meprisés et traités en pariah, sont soumis à l'exil dans leur propre pays.
Une situation extrêmement désagréable!
Et tout le monde s'en fout pas mal.
CETTE SITUATION N'EST PAS ACCEPTABLE ET NOUS N'ALLONS JAMAIS L'ACCEPTER.
TROP C'EST TROP !
Je parie que vous commencez tous à comprendre finalement le sens de ce message.
JE N'AI JAVAIS VU DE MA VIE AUTANT D'ÉGOISME ET D'INSENSIBILITÉ CHEZ MES FRÈRES ET SOEURS.
ANNEE 2008, ANNÉE DE SOLIDARITÉ AVEC TOUT LE PEUPLE HAITIEN. TROP C'EST TROP. “AN NOU APRAN'N RANMASSE KARAKTÈ NOU.” Bien amicalement à tous, Sonny Séraphin (Taiwan) PROMOTEUR DE CHAMPIGNONS MÉDICINAUX ANTI-CANCER À TRAVERS LE RENFORCEMENT DU SYSTÈME IMMUNITAIRE.
ON CASSE ET FRACASSE À MONTRÉAL (recu sur le COIN DE CARL) À qui la faute? Alorsque les Haitiens du Sud et de la capitale venaient tout juste de provoquer des soulèvements populaires contre la vie chère au point qu'on eut à étiquetter leurs émeutes d'actes téléguidés par quelque concitoyen , en exil en mal de pouvoir , voilà qu' au Canada , de jeunes montréalais se payent le luxe de casser et de fracasser à qui mieux mieux, à la suite d'une victoire du club de hockey 'Canadiens' sur l'équipe des 'Bruins' de Boston par le pointage de cinq à zéro dans une série préliminaire (1/8 de championnat) de quatre victoires sur un maximum de sept rencontres pour la conquete ultime de la tant convoitée COUPE STANLEY . Si la tendance à la casse devait se maintenir aux lendemains des trois autres finales devrait-on y trouver aussi des bouc-émissaires tels que les séparatistes , les gangs de rue ,…les immigrants et , vu que nous y sommes , le ressac anglophone (English backlash) ~=pour ce que ça vaut ,avant le fait . Rien n'est plus faux , plus simpliste , et outrageant que d'adpoter pareille analogie . En Haiti , on est en face d'une société désarticulée ,dépourvue des services les plus essentiels qui ~= dans le cadre de ce dépravement institutionnel~=trouve, dans la crise socio-industrielle causée par l'appat du lucre des sociétés bien nanties , une bougie d'allumage pour enflammer la colere des masses enflammées . Au Canada , il s'agit dune société qui a partie liéee avec la crise agro-pétrolifère qui déferle ses tentacules suffocantes sur le système sociographique et l'ordre géopolitique des pays sous-développés offrant à sa jeunesse sans souci des loisirs dispendieux , encadrés des géants de la malbouffe et décorés des temples des 'designers ' aussi bien dans l'enceinte des jeux que dans les alentours immédiats .En retour du plaisir de jouir de la victoire de l'équipe locale , ces jeunes bien repus et bien vetus ne trouvent d'autres moyens de souligner leur bonheur sportif qu' en cassant et fracassant sur leurs chemins autant de symboles possibles de cette opulence financière qui les a nourris...leur a accordé amphithéatre et autres faciités immobilières , soutenu l'équipe et fait de leur cité la capitale rutilante de la francophonie sur le plateau continental nord-américain. Une analogie est-elle encore à l'ordre du jour?
Il faudrait plutot conclure que la nature humine ~=-dans tout ce qu'elle a de plus contradictoire~=reste immuablement ondoyante ,diverse , imprévisible et indomptable : trop gatée et choyée , elle devient ingratement irresponsable et suicidaire ; négligée , elle est une bombe à retardement capable d'entrainer sans crier gare des 'tsunamis' et des 'lavalasses' de destruction sans égard aux pertes humaines et matérielles que ce déferlement peut engendrer en comparaison avec les ravages de la désolation qui était le lot préalable d'une majorité désabusée. Au fait , à Montréal , il y a eu arrestations qui seront automatiquement suivies de poursuites légales et judiciaires sur la base de la présomption d'innocence . Pas un seul coup de feu ou une seule perte de vie humaine !
En Haiti , les gaz lacrimogènes et les balles en caoutchouc d'une force onusienne ont fait des blessés et ...des morts . Si , par hasard , vous étiez un partisan de la casse ,soyez certain que vous ferez partie du prochain mouvement migratoire vers les paradis ou ça fracasse à l'abri et à la faveur des 'droits constitutionnels de la personne' : 'Appelez mon père!
', s'écria, avec autant de nonchalence que d'arrogance mais sans repentence , un jeune émeutier montréalais mis sous arret , en direction du panier à salade … S'agirait-il du …bouc-émissaire qui aurait laissé faire...?
Quel pourrait donc etre celui des Haitiens en colère ?
Le 'PASÉ PRAN M ' prémonitoire de Préval n'aurait-il pas fait de lui ,sur le théatre des opérations , un vulgaire bouc démissionaire ?
Et d'Aristide ?
Un bouc 're -misère'* ou , pourquoi pas , ' remissionnaire'* * On casse ; on fracasse ...à Port-au-Prince!
À New Dehli aussi ; Au Caire ; À Libreville ; En Indonésie...!
meme sur le passage de la flamme olympique en route pour les Jeux de Pékin. Pierre-Eddy Toussaint Pour le 160e anniversaire de l'abolition définitive de l'esclavage en France.
Le maire de Paris devrait annoncer la mise en place d'un important monument au général Dumas.
(recu sur le COIN DE CARL) Par Claude RIBBE Le Maire de Paris, M.
Bertrand Delanoë, devrait annoncer vendredi 25 avril 2008 en fin de matinée, à l'occasion du 160e anniversaire de l'abolition définitive de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises, et en présence d'une délégation de l'association des amis du général Dumas, sa décision d'installer prochainement un important monument en hommage au général Dumas, père de l'écrivain, né esclave à Jérémie (Haïti), premier général afro-descendant de l'histoire de France et militant des droits de l'Homme, pour remplacer une statue détruite pendant l'Occupation, sur ordre des gestapistes français, pour le compte de l'Allemagne nazie.
La statue initiale d'Alphonse de Moncel de Perrin installée en 1912, n'avait jamais été inaugurée officiellement, malgré un décret du président Poincaré (pris quelques jours avant la naissance d'Aimé Césaire).
Elle était inspirée d'un tableau de Louis Gauffier montrant le général majestueusement appuyé sur le célèbre fusil de chasse dont il se servait à la guerre.
Officieusement, une inauguration avait été organisée par le dessinateur Francisque Poulbot au printemps 1913.
La décision de M.
Delanoë qui était attendue depuis plusieurs années, n'est évidemment pas sans rapport avec les démarches entreprises par l'écrivain Claude Ribbe, par ailleurs président et fondateur de l'association des amis du général Dumas, et biographe du héros (Alexandre Dumas, le dragon de la reine , Paris, 2002) qui se bat depuis six ans pour qu'un monument soit réinstallé sur la place du général-Catroux à Paris (17e) et plus généralement pour que la mémoire du général Dumas soit réhabilitée.
Il avait prononcée une allocution dans ce sens, au Sénat, à la demande de M.
Christian Poncelet, lors des cérémonies de transferts des cendres d'Alexandre Dumas au Panthéon en 2008.
EN EL RINCON DE don Carlo ¿Mi Corazón Ha ido A dormir?
¿Mi corazón ha ido a dormir?
¿Las colmenas de mi trabajo parado los sueños, el waterwheel de la mente han funcionado seco, cucharadas que daban vuelta vacías, solamente sombra adentro?
No, mi corazón no está dormido.
Es despierto, de par en par despierto.
No dormidos, no soñar-sus ojos se abren que miran de par en par las señales distantes, escuchando en el borde del silencio extenso.
Antonio Machado Kreyol pale, Kreyol konprann Kal Anri Kristof Fonbwen se yon fiskal konsèvatè ak kamyonèt Toyota-li-a ki genyen 25 lane.
BAGAY YO PRAL GATE !
Par Jean Erich René erich@mondenet.com Tem kase moso mete lan zorey nou.
Preval al koute flatè ki dil jete Alexis.
Men konye ya li pa fouti jwen-n yon Premye minis.
Tout jwè vole kite tab la.
Doub sis vle mouri lan men Preval.
Yo youn pa wè kouman yo pwal fè pou kenbe kiyè fè cho sa-a lan men yo, menm pou yon ti moman.
Gen 3 bagay ki fè yo pè.
An nou kómanse pa pi gro wa
1 >> - Pwoblèm dwóg la Nou pata sipoze sa, Peyi Dayiti blanch kon koton ak poud.Poud anba kaban-n.
Poud lan komisarya polis.
Poud andedan presbitè.
Poud ki pa rete ak poud!
Lan semen-n grangou sa-a men-m se pi rèd.
Tout gro barak dwòg yo se andedan la polis la menm yo chita.
Se yo ki gen zam, se yo ki tire.
Tolki wolki yo lan dyòl yo yap farinen.
Lapolis ak yo, 2-tan 3 mouvman tout baba, amèn.
Se sak fè yo pa fouti arete Guy Philippe.
Lòt jou lè yo desann Pestel anvan yo rive Ti Guy te gentan jis Lekòbera.
Sak kapab al pran-l.
Avyon paka desan-n la, ni elikopte ni bato.
Leta lan dwòg la, komesan ladan-l tou.
Sak ka fimen siga limen lan 2 bout sa-a.
Tout kout tanbou ou tande kat bal la-a tout se kaka chat dèyè bwèt.
Se 2 moun-Preval anvi mete Premye Minis: Paul Denis ak Ericq Pierre.
Atansyon pa blie Ericq Pierre di non-l gen yon q ladan-l.
Sa fèl 2-q.
Pa okipe-n de sousou bèkè kap graje la.
Yo pa tabak lan pip la.
Ericq 2-q se yon vye biwokrat rat ki nan tout enstisyon entènasyonal e nan tout leta.
Se yon nèg ki chaje ak konpleks li pa ka lidè li pa gen lidèchip.
Mouche Paul Denis Chèf OPL, premye pitit gason Mao, Ti frè Poutine, ki pa manje anyen ki frèt, li move kon konn morèl, rale kò-l lan kous pou Primati ya.
Li di li pa wè tèt li lan salmanaza sa-a Kouman li pwal fè chita Vila Dakèy poul kite vagabon san zave, san zazil ap paweze dwòg lan peyi ya, ou byen pou li kite atoufè, san manman Aristide yo kontinye ap kraze brize ak fè zak malonnèt.
Dwòg dilè yo di Paul Denis: - Depizopa, mò rèd, wet sa lan san-w.
Grate kote-k grate-w.
Retire ko-w al kanpe byen lwen.
Si-w leve menm nap fout kreve je-w.
Paul Denis vole gagè.
2 >> - Pwoblèm idantite Tèt Eric Pierre cho kon vè lanp.
Epa jodiya ya, lap fè la viron-n dede poul chita lan Primati ya.
Premye fwa-a, yo voye-l tounen pou pwoblèm Batistè-l ke li te korije.
Se yon batiste PEYIZAN li te genyen.
Li te fèt lan yon seksyon riral yo rele Sasye, Bass Ginode.
Li te korije non gran papa-l tou ki te rele Aselóm.
Li pat vle yo te griyen dan sou li.
Konplèks sa-a ap minen yon pakèt moun lan peyi ya.
Gen menm gro militè ki te rive General, se ak batistè ti frè yo , yo te enskri lan akademi militè.
Isit lan Kanada gen yon gro doktè lè lap fè fèt lakay li, li sere manman-l lan yon chanm, paske li pa kon-n pale franse.
Se dilere sa-a!
Gen lòt kandida ki gen doub nasyonalite.
Yo bayo kanè, yo renmèt yo bay paran yo.A la traka papa, tankou Profesè Manigat ta di.
Ou kwè peyi sa-a ap chape?
Pwoblèm sou pwoblèm.
Ka sou Ka.
3 >> - Pwoblèm diri Tonnè krakra-m, izèdeze, diri ya se yon bwa pa manyen li ye.
Men Preval konpran-n diri se drapo la-l desan-n li lan Palè Nasyonal a 6 zè di swa.
Demen maten a 8 tè li monte pi rèd.
Machan-n yo di moun ki vin-n achte yo: -Tann diri 43 goud prezidan Preval la, sa nou gen lan men nou la, se 51 goud li ye.
Fout demaske-n devan-m lan.
Ban-n tafyate, se sou nou fout sou!
Preval fout kon-n fè diri poul bay pri diri ya.
Li gen jaden diri lan Palè ya.
Talè-m pa di nou ansan-m ak tout Preval nou wan sa Kasayòl te di bèf la.
Premye Minis tonbe pou diri men pri diri pa tonbe.
Kilès ki toro wa?
Se diri!
Pwoblèm diri ya kanpe tchèl.
Li pa brinding kò-l.
Jou vanse bare Preval.
Men-m Premye Minis li pa ka lonmen.
Men pèp la deja arimen kò yo pou yo pran la ri ankò.
Mèkredi moun gran Savan-n lan Okay te sonnen kò-n lan bi rasanbleman pou yo di Preval yo pa bliye-l.
Se lan yon ti twou yo rete yap gade-l pou yo wè sa lap fè ak yo.
Kite ko, pran ka, vièj pete je-m Preval pa wè anyen lan zafè diri ya, e li pap fout fè anyen tou.
Malèt li deja fèt , se bon jan van lap tan-pou-l monte Mamlad.
Dayè depi 2 avril lè vagabon yo te kraze baryè Palè ya pou yo te al pase pran-l, pitit fi li ki te ansent, tap fè jouda lan fenèt la, te espante, li sot tonbe de pye long.
Li fè avotman.
Li pèdi pitit la-a.
Depi lè sa-a Preval dekouraje.
Li te vle vire dol pou-l ale se Anbasadè La Frans, Brezil, Etazini ak chèf Minuchta-a ki bat do-l kidi-l li paka fè yon bagay konsa.
Sa-a se yon jwèt ti moun.
Se pa sèl Ayiti ki gen pwoblèm grangou ak la vi chè.
Malgre tou Preval pa wè li pa tande li pa gen anyen ki kenbe-l lan Palè Nasyonnal.
Se ale pou-l ale.
Se lè lap fè.
Pèp ayisyen pran lan 3 wa : - Wa gentan konnen (si Preval gen solisyon grangou) - Wa kite sòt (dèske nou te vote Tonton Nwè-l) - Wa yan (diri, pa gen pri kap desan-n) Bagay yo pwal gate!
Se mwen menm Kenge ki di sa.
Fout mwen yon kalòt si-m manti.
MEZANMI se la ma-p rete pou jodi-a. Na pale denmen si Granmèt la vle.
