Doomsday Prepping - in Haiti?
Six months after the massive quake that struck Haiti, I visited the country to raise funds for Médecins Sans Frontières. Leaving the hotel after dark was only for those who were seeking to dramatically shorten their lives. Violent gangs were already on the scene and running the show.
A photographer for Der Spiegel returned to the hotel one evening just as darkness descended on Port-au-Prince and he was visibly shaken having come across the dead bodies of two children on the drive back. When his driver enquired as to what had happened he was told, ‘they were caught stealing food and executed.’
And now, even though Haiti has not completely collapsed (they still have some food, some electricity, some diesel and petrol) the situation on the ground is essentially Mad Maxian.
Try serenading these motherfuckers with KOOMbaya when they stop by and help themselves to your dinner and engage in a little ‘in and out’ with your women folk.
Doomsday prepping is FUTILE. When the financial system and global supply chains implode there will be no food - no electricity - no diesel and petrol. Darkness will descent upon the world and the gates of hell will open.
If you have food you will be a target for the starving hordes. They will rip your face off and they will rape your women - then they will skin you and your family and eat you.
Fortunately The Men Who Run the World have been planning for this outcome, and they are doing their very best to ensure it does not come to this. We really need to thank Bill Gates, Fauci, Trudeau, Ardern and all the others (including Sasha) who have given of their time to make extinction happen. They are unsung heroes.
And the A-Vaxxers call them evil. That’s cuz A-Vaxxers are just as stupid as Vaxxers.
UN warns of starvation catastrophe in Haiti
The United Nations is warning about the imminent danger of starvation in an enclave of Haiti’s Capital, which is under the thumb of street gangs, who control it with an iron fist.
Gang-ravaged Haiti nearing ‘point of no return’, UN warns
Haiti, where rampant gang violence has surged in recent weeks, is approaching a “point of no return” leading to “total chaos”, the United Nations special representative to the troubled Caribbean nation warned today.
“As gang violence continues to spread to new areas of the country, Haitians experience growing levels of vulnerability and increasing scepticism about the ability of the state to respond to their needs,” Maria Isabel Salvador told the UN Security Council.
“Haiti could face total chaos,” she said, adding that international aid was desperately needed to avoid that fate. “I urge you to remain engaged and answer the urgent needs of the country and its people.”
Salvador cited cholera outbreaks and gender-based violence alongside a deteriorating security situation, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince, with authorities struggling to cope.
The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti faces severe political instability, while swathes of the country are under the control of rival armed gangs who carry out widespread murders, rapes, and kidnappings.
The armed groups have been battling for control of Port-au-Prince and clashes have intensified as the gangs attempt to establish new territories.
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A Kenyan-led force authorised by the UN has failed to push back the gangs. The mission has around 1000 police officers from six countries but was intended to have 2500.
In a report seen by AFP, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that further international support was “required immediately to allow the national police to prevent the capital slipping closer to the brink”.
Haiti’s Ambassador to the UN, Ericq Pierre, said his country was “slowly dying”.
“The Republic of Haiti is slowly dying under the combined action of armed gangs, drug traffickers, and arms dealers,” he said, calling on his partners to “help rid the country of the gangs that are terrorising the population”.
The report detailed the upsurge in violence, with the UN recording 2660 homicides in the three months from December 2024 - a 41.3% increase over the previous quarter.
Anti-gang operations resulted in 702 people killed in that time, of which 21% were estimated to be innocent civilians, the report said.
Gender-based violence also recorded an alarming increase, with 347 incidents reported in the five months to February 2025, according to UN data.
Collective rape was the most common violation, accounting for 61% of cases.
- Agence France-Presse
In other news…
The Death of the English Pub - Canary in the Coal Mine
As the post-war boom gave way to the stagflation of the 1970s and the depression of the early-1980s though, that pub culture began to slowly wither. By the 1990s, the campaign group CAMRA began to raise the alarm about pub closures. Initially, the concern was with rural pubs with small catchment populations, which were unable to increase footfall to offset rising costs. Today, the economic blight on pubs (and other hospitality businesses) has infected every area of the country.
What's "Normal" in a Hyper-Normalized World?
Now that the entire economy depends on these hyper-normalized speculative bubbles for its "growth" and "wealth," there is a profound fear of a future based not on artifice but on the real world.
Being Certain About Uncertainty
This week I set out to write an essay about uncertainty, but I began to feel less certain what to write about exactly. Everything is up in the air. It feels like we have passed that ominous point I talked about a few weeks back: a tipping point marking a definitive end to a major phase in the human saga with the beginning of the next still out of clear sight.
Noam Chomsky says the unvaccinated should just remove themselves from society
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-unvaccinated-should-just-remove-themselves-from-society
Think about this for a minute... did Chomsky suddenly turn into Pol Pot?
Or perhaps he was asked to help with UEP... because the alternative... is https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/collapse-and-cannibalism
It's a sad old world at the moment.
When I visit the local supermarket with my wife for our weekly shop, I comment to her that when shortages occur, this place will be like a zoo. People stock their trolleys up with unhealthy and pointless crap, and more often than not, the 'driver' of said trolley doesn't need all those sugars, carbs, and processed shit.
There's barely a level of civility amongst the shoppers, and this is a time of plenty, with shelves stocked with everything one could want. Yes, when shortages occur, even mild ones, it's going to be a violent mess. Strangely, however, when we experienced shortages during the first few months of the COVID pandemic, people were remarkably civil. I guess they were traumatised by the constant barrage of information telling them that we were in the midst of the greatest health threat to humanity.
The demise of the British pub is equally as sad, as for me, as a teenager in the 80s, the highlight of the weekend was the various pub crawls, and seeing how many pubs we could get through ☺
I left the UK 13 years ago, and have only been back a few times. During my visit to my old town in 2015, I was shocked and saddened to see the state of the high street.
Just three of the ten pubs were left. The others were either pulled down, with flats replacing them, or they were just there, boarded up. Our old high street used to have a great mix of shops, from pet stores to hardware stores, and toy shops. In 2015, the area was a mix of empty shops, charity shops, and liquor stores.
If BAU can just hold on for two or three more decades.... one can dream I suppose ☺