19 January 2010 By Stephen Lendman
In her book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism," Naomi Klein explores the myth of free
market democracy, explaining how neoliberalism
dominates the world with America its main exponent
exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic
meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or
economic shifts, and natural disasters to impose its
will everywhere. As a result, wars are waged,
social services cut, public ones privatized, and
freedom sacrificed when people are too distracted,
cowed or in duress to object. Disaster capitalism is
triumphant everywhere from post-Soviet Russia to
post-apartheid South Africa, occupied Iraq and
Afghanistan, Honduras before and after the
US-instigated coup, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh,
Indonesia, New Orleans post-Katrina, and now heading
to Haiti full-throttle after its greatest ever
catastrophe. The same scheme always repeats,
exploiting people for profits, the prevailing
neoliberal idea that "there is no alternative" so grab
all you can. On Her web site, Klein headlines
a "Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before
They Shock Again," then quotes the extremist Heritage
Foundation saying: "In addition to providing
immediate humanitarian assistance, the US response to
the tragic Haiti earthquake offers opportunities to
re-shape Haiti's long-dysfunctional government and
economy as well as to improve the public image of the
United States in the region." Heritage notes "Things to
Remember While Helping Haiti," itemized briefly
below: -- be bold and decisive; -- mobilize US civilian and
military capabilities "for short-term rescue and
relief and long-term recovery and reform;" -- US military forces should play
an active role interdicting "cocaine to Haiti and
Dominican Republic from the Venezuelan coast and
counter ongoing efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez to destabilize the island of Hispaniola;" -- US Coast Guard vessels should
stop Haitians from trying "to enter the US
illegally;" -- Congress should authorize
"assistance, trade and reconstruction efforts;" and -- US diplomacy should "counter
the negative propaganda certain to emanate from the
Castro-Chavez camp (to) demonstrate that the US's
involvement in the Caribbean remains a powerful force
for good in the Americas and around the globe." Heritage is an imperial tool
advocating predation, exploitation, and Haitian
redevelopment for profit, not for desperate people to
repair their lives. It disdains democratic freedoms,
social justice, and envisions a global economy "where
freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society
flourish" solely for the privileged, the chosen few,
not the disadvantaged or greater majority. It's for free market plunder,
regulatory freedom, tax cuts for the rich, exploiting
the majority, corporate handouts, and militarized
control for enforcement. It supports the Bilderberg
idea of a global classless society - a New World Order
with rulers and serfs, no middle class, no unions, no
democracy, no equity or justice, just empowered
oligarchs, freed to do as they please under a
universal legal system benefitting them. For the moment, their focus is
Haiti, ripe for plunder, like the second tsunami that
hit coastal Sri Lankans. The December 2004 one took
250,000 lives and left 2.5 million homeless throughout
the region. Klein explained the aftermath at Arugam
Bay, "a fishing and faded resort village" on Sri
Lanka's east coast that was showcased to "build back
better." Not for villagers, for developers, hoteliers,
and other business interests to exploit. After the
disaster, they had a blank slate for what the tourist
industry long wanted - "a pristine beach (on prime
real estate), scrubbed clean of all the messy signs of
people working, a vacation Eden. It was the same up
and down the coast once rubble was
cleared....paradise" given the profit potential. New rules forbade coastal homes,
so a buffer zone was imposed to insure it. Beaches
were off-limits. Displaced Sri Lankans were shoved
into grim barracks, and "menacing,
machine-gun-wielding soldiers" patrolled to keep them
there. Tourist operators, however, were
welcomed and encouraged to build on oceanfront land -
to transform the former fishing village into a
"high-end boutique tourism destination (with)
five-star resorts, luxury chalets, (and even a)
floatplane pier and helipad." It was to be a model for
transforming around 30 similar zones into a South
Asian Riviera to let Sri Lanka reenter the world
economy as one of the last remaining uncolonized
places globalization hadn't touched. High-end tourism
was the ticket - to provide a luxury destination for
the rich once a few changes were made. Government land
was opened to private buyers. Labor laws were relaxed
or eliminated. Modern infrastructure would be built,
and public opposition suppressed to let plans proceed
unimpeded. The same scheme followed
Hurricane Mitch in October 1998 when Honduras,
Guatemala and Nicaragua were hardest hit. In Sri
Lanka, Washington took the Mitch model to the next
level - beyond individuals to corporate control over
reconstruction. Business ran everything. Affected
people were shut out. Klein called it a new type
corporate coup mother nature made possible. Now again
in Haiti with an idea of what's coming. Powerful business interests
constructed a blueprint from housing to hotels to
highways and other needed infrastructure. Disaster
relief went for development. Victims got nothing and
were consigned to permanent shantytowns like the kinds
in most Global South cities and Global North inner
ones. Aceh and other affected areas adopted the same
model. A year after the tsunami, the NGO
Action Aid surveyed the results in five Asian
countries and found the same pattern - residents
barred from rebuilding and living in militarized
camps, while developers were given generous
incentives. Lost was their way of life forever. The same scheme played out in New
Orleans with unfettered capitalism given free reign.
With considerable Bush administration help, mother
nature gave corporate predators a golden opportunity
for plunder. Prevailing wage rates for federally
funded or assisted construction projects were
suspended. So were environmental regulations in an
already polluted area, enough to be designated a
superfund site or toxic waste dump. Instead,
redevelopment was planned. As a previous article explained,
New Orleans had ample warning but was unprepared. The
city is shaped like a bowl, lies below sea level, and
its Gulf coast is vulnerable. As a result, the
inevitable happened, affecting the city's least
advantaged - the majority black population targeted
for removal and needing only an excuse to do it. The
storm wiped out public housing and erased communities,
letting developers build upscale condos and other
high-profit projects on choice city land. It was right out of the Chicago
School's play book, what economist Milton Friedman
articulated in his 1962 book, "Capitalism and
Freedom." His thesis: "only a crisis - actual or
perceived - produces real change. When a crisis
occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas
that are lying around...our basic function (is) to
develop alternatives to existing policies (and be
ready to roll them out when the) impossible becomes
the politically inevitable." Friedman believed that
government's sole function is "to protect our freedom
from (outside) enemies (and) our fellow-citizens.
(It's to) preserve law and order (as well as) enforce
private contracts, (safeguard private property and)
foster competitive markets." Everything else in public hands
is socialism, an ideology he called blasphemous. He
said markets work best unfettered of rules,
regulations, onerous taxes, trade barriers,
"entrenched interests" and human interference, and the
best government is practically none - the wild west
because, in his view, anything government does
business does better so let it. Ideas about democracy,
social justice, and a caring society were verboten
because they interfere with free-wheeling capitalism. He said public wealth should be
in private hands, profit accumulation unrestrained,
corporate taxes abolished, and social services
curtailed or ended. He believed "economic freedom is
an end to itself (and) an indispensable means toward
(achieving) political freedom." He opposed the minimum
wage, unions, market interference, an egalitarian
society, and called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi
scheme on earth." He supported a flat tax favoring the
rich, and believed everyone should have to rely on
their own resources to get by. In a word, Friedmanomics preaches
unrestrained market fundamentalism. "Free to choose,"
he said with no regard for human needs and rights. For
him and his followers, economic freedom is the
be-all-and-end-all under limited government, the
marketplace being the master. Applied to New Orleans, it meant
permanent changes, including removing public housing,
developing upscale properties in its place,
privatizing schools, and destroying a way of life for
thousands of disadvantaged blacks expelled from their
communities and not allowed back. Klein called Friedman's thesis
"the shock doctrine." Applied to Russia, Eastern
Europe and other developing states, it was shock
therapy. For affected people, it was economic and
social disaster under Friedman's prescription for
mass-privatizations, deregulation, unrestricted free
market predation, deep social spending cuts, and harsh
crackdowns against resisters. It's disaster
capitalism, business is booming, and Haitians will
soon feel its full fury under military occupation. Haiti - Beleaguered, Occupied,
and Stricken by a Disaster of Biblical Proportions Since the 19th century, America
dominated Haiti. Before the quake, a proxy
paramilitary Blue Helmet force occupied the country,
dispatched not for peacekeeping but iron-grip control.
Worse still, it was the first time ever that UN forces
supported a coup d'etat government, the one Washington
installed after US Marines kidnapped President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, forcibly exiled him to Africa,
and ended the political, economic and social reforms
he instituted - in areas of health, education, justice
and human rights. Ever since, conditions for Haitians
have been nightmarish, and now the quake and further
misery ahead from the Pentagon's iron fist and greater
than ever exploitation. Obama's top priority is control,
underway immediately after the Pentagon took over the
Port-au-Prince airport, reopened it after its brief
closure, and set up a temporary air traffic control
center. Military personnel now decide what gets in or
out, what's delivered, how fast, and according to
unconfirmed reports, they slowed arriving search and
rescue equipment, supplies, and personnel, except for
what other countries managed to send in types and
amounts way short of what's needed. As a result,
trapped Haitians perished, whereas a concentrated,
sustained airlift, including heavy earthmoving and
other equipment, might have saved hundreds or
thousands more lives. The 1948 - 49 Berlin airlift
showed how. For nearly 11 months, western allies
delivered what rose to a daily average of 5,500 tons,
providing vital supplies for the city's two million
people. Today, the Pentagon has far greater
capabilities. If ordered, massive amounts of virtually
everything could be expedited, including heavy
earthmoving equipment and teams of experts for every
imaginable need. The result would have been vast
numbers more lives saved, now perished because little
was done to help, except for heroic volunteers
providing food, water, and medical care, and Haitians
who dug out survivors with small implements and their
bare hands. On January 15, Reuters reported
that the Port-au-Prince 9,000-foot runway escaped
serious damage and could handle big cargo planes
easily. Immediately, food, water, medicine, rescue
crews, and other specialists began arriving from
Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, China, and elsewhere, but
very little from America, including vitally needed
heavy equipment. Haiti has very little of what's
needed. Instead, the Pentagon sent in
thousands of Marines and 82nd Airborne Division
paratroopers (a 10,000 force contingent once in
place), armed killers, not humanitarian personnel and
regular supplies to sustain them. Larger numbers may
follow to be supplemented by UN Blue Helmets and
Haitian National Police under Pentagon command. A
long-term commitment for militarized control is
planned, not humanitarian relief, reminiscent of the
20-year 1915 - 1934 period when US Marines occupied
and ravaged Haiti. Throughout the country, the lives
of nine million people are at stake. Of immediate
concern, are the three million in Port-au-Prince and
surroundings, devastated by the quake and unable to
sustain themselves without substantial outside help. Central also is Haiti's
government, now crippled, including one report saying
the senate building collapsed with most of the
lawmakers inside. It's not clear who's alive or dead
in either National Assembly chamber, the cabinet, or
other government posts. It hardly matters, however,
under US military control leaving President Rene
Preval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive mere
figureheads. Once full control is established,
the immediate shock subsides, and the media lose
interest, reconstruction will be implemented for
profit, not poor Haitians left on their own in
communities like Cite Soleil and Bel Air or
permanently displaced for what developers have in
mind. Efforts will focus on upscale
areas and facilities for the Pentagon, US officials
and selected bureaucrats. Before the quake, the Preval
government was weak, ineffective, and uncaring about
Haiti's vast needs. He effectively ceded power to
Washington, the UN, and the large imperial-chosen NGO
presence in the country. In addition, Aristide's Fanmi
Lavalas party was banned from the scheduled February
2010 parliamentary elections (now cancelled or
postponed), and was earlier excluded from the 2009
April and June process to fill 12 open senate seats,
resulting in a turnout below 10%, and mocking a true
democratic process. Now, millions of Haitians hang by
a thread. As one of them put it, "tout ayiti kraze,"
the whole country is no more. The government is
inoperative. Port-au-Prince is in shambles. People are
struggling to survive, 100,000 or more likely dead, a
toll sure to rise as disease and depravation claim
more. Those in poor communities are on their own.
Rescuers are concentrating on high-profile, well-off
areas, but without earthmoving equipment can do little
to save victims. The problem - Washington
obstructionism and indifference to human suffering and
need. On January 15, Al Jazeera
reported that aid agencies are struggling under
difficult conditions and inadequate supplies, let
alone how to distribute them throughout the capital.
As a result, frustration is growing with little help,
no shelter, decaying bodies still unburied, the threat
of disease, and the stench of death everywhere with no
power, phones, clean water, food, and everything
millions need. Sebastian Walker, Al Jazeera's
Port-au-Prince correspondent said: "A lot of people have simply
grown tired of waiting for those emergency workers to
get to them. Thousands of people are streaming out of
the city towards the provinces to try to find supplies
of food and water, supplies that are running out in
the city." On January 16, Al Jazeera
headlined "Haiti: UP to 200,000 feared dead." About
50,000 bodies have been collected, according to
Haiti's interior minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, and
he anticipates "between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in
total, although we will never know the exact number,"
nor how many more will expire in the weeks and months
ahead, unnoticed and unreported. On January 17, Al Jazeera
headlined, "Aid teams struggle to help
Haitians....amid difficulties in distributing relief
supplies to those who need it most. Sebastian Walker said delivering
supplies stacking up at the airport has been extremely
problematic: "This comes down to the complex
issue of who is in charge here. The US military has a
great deal of control over the number of flights that
are landing here. We heard that a UN flight carrying
aid equipment had to be diverted because the US was
landing its own aircraft there. The question of just
who makes the decision over how to distribute the aid
seems to be what is holding up the supplies." The Pentagon decides, of course,
and that's the problem. Obama also urges "patience,"
saying "many difficult days (are) ahead," without
explaining his obstructionist uncaring role. The result is reports like this: -- from Canada's CBC As It
Happens broadcast interview with an ICRC spokesperson
saying he spent the morning of January 15 touring one
of the hardest hit areas, and "In three hours, I
didn't see a single rescue team;" -- a same day BBC interview with
an American Red Cross spokesperson complained about
aid delivery - that arriving planes carried people,
not supplies, and amounts at the airpot weren't being
delivered; - the Canada Haiti Action Network
calls Port-au-Prince a city largely without aid
because areas most in need aren't getting it; further,
in nicer neighborhoods, dogs and extraction units
arrived, but 90% of them are just sitting around,
perhaps because of no earthmoving equipment to reach
victims; -- another report said a French
plane carrying a field hospital was turned away, then
later allowed in; meanwhile, Israel got carte blanche
for its own field hospital, able to handle 500
casualties daily, so it begs the question - why praise
Israel for (selectively) helping Haitians when it
murders Palestinians daily, keeps the West Bank
isolated and locked down, Gaza under siege, and denies
critically ill residents exit permission for treatment
unavailable from Strip facilities, leaving them to
perish; and -- various reports say US forces
are preventing flights from landing; prioritized are
landing US troops, repatriating American nationals,
and perhaps starving poor Haitians to death; dozens of
French citizens and dual Haitian-French nationals
couldn't leave when their scheduled flight to
Guadeloupe couldn't land; an angry French Secretary of
State for Cooperation, Alain Joyandet, told reporters
that he "made an official complaint to the Americans
through the US embassy." UN Office of Coordination for
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Report on Haiti Relief On January 15, OCHA reported as
follows: "Logistics and the lack of
transport remain the key constraints to the delivery
of aid. Needs are still being identified as access
becomes possible and as assessments begin to take
place. Displaced populations are
currently scattered across multiple locations where
there is open space. Temporary shelters urgently need
to be established. Fifteen sites have been
identified for distribution of relief items. World
Food Program reached 13,000 people today with food,
jerry cans and water purification tablets." OCHA continued, saying: "A total of (only) 180 tons of
relief supplies have arrived in-country so far.
Operations are heavily constrained due to the lack of
fuel, transport, communications and handling capacity
at the airport. Some flights are being re-routed
through Santo Domingo airport (far from Port-au-Prince
in the Dominican Republic) which is also becoming
congested." In its latest January 16 report,
OCHA repeated that airport logistics remain a
challenge, the result of re-routed flights,
congestion, lengthy offloading times, the lack of
transport and fuel, no storage facility, and the
airport "now packed with goods and teams" not being
delivered. Three million Haitians need help,
but the World Food Program distributed high energy
biscuits only to 50,000. Around 50,000 are getting hot
meals. Major health concerns include
untreated trauma wounds, infections, infectious
diseases, diarrhea, lack of safe drinking water and
sanitation, and Haitians with pre-existing condition
like HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cancer aren't being
treated. Up to a million people need
immediate shelter and non-food aid, including clean
water, blankets, kitchen and hygiene kits, plastic
sheeting and tents. "As of 16 January it is estimated
that fuel for humanitarian operations will only last 2
to 3 more days before operations will be forced to
cease." There have only been 58 live
rescues so far among the many thousands trapped
beneath or behind rubble. OCHA launched a Flash Appeal
for $575 million "to cover 3 million people severely
affected for six months." Sixteen EU nations are providing
aid but not enough. America is doing practically
nothing. One nation delivering heroic help
is Cuba, but little about it is reported. Despite its
own constraints, it's operated in Haiti for years, and
now has over 400 doctors and healthcare experts
delivering free services. They work every day in 227
of the country's 337 communes. In addition, Cuban
medical schools trained over 400 Haitian doctors, now
working to save lives during the country's gravest
crisis. It's no small achievement that Cuba, blockaded
and constrained, is responsible for nearly 1,000
doctors and healthcare providers, all of whom work
tirelessly to save lives and rehabilitate the
injured. According to China's Xinhua News
Agency: "Cuban aid workers have taken
charge of (Haiti's) De la Paz Hospital, since its
doctors have not appeared after the quake," perhaps
because many perished, are wounded, or are trapped
beneath or behind rubble themselves. Cubans are working despite a lack
of everything needed to provide care except for what
its government managed to deliver. Dr. Carlos Alberto
Garcia, coordinator of its medical brigade, said Cuban
doctors, nurses and other health personnel are working
non-stop, day and night. Operating rooms are open 18
hours a day. Independent reports now say
Washington is trying to block Cuban and Venezuelan aid
workers by refusing them landing permission in
Port-au-Prince. The Caribbean Community's emergency
aid mission is also blocked. On January 15, the US
State Department confirmed that it signed two
Memoranda of Understanding with the remnants of
Haiti's government putting Washington in charge of all
inbound and outbound flights and aid offloading in the
country. For years, Cuba has sent doctors,
nurses and other healthcare providers to countries in
need worldwide, winning hearts and minds for its free
highly professional services. It provides national
healthcare for all its people, and now has about
25,000 doctors in 68 countries. In addition, over
1,800 doctors from 47 developing states graduate
annually from Cuban medical schools, return home, and
provide quality care for their people. Major Media Misreporting Ignoring Haiti's long history as
a de facto US colony, the major media report a
sanitized version of today's catastrophe. For example
on January 14, The New York Times cynically
editorialized: "Once again, the world weeps for
Haiti." This is the same paper that lied in a March 1,
2004 editorial after US Marines forcibly exiled
Aristide, saying: -- he resigned; -- sending in Marines "was the
right thing to do;" and -- they only arrived after "Mr.
Aristide yielded power." It also blamed him for "contribut(ing)
significantly to his own downfall (because of his)
increasingly autocratic and lawless rule," and accused
him of manipulating the 2000 legislative elections and
not "deliver(ing) the democracy he promised." In fact, other than a brief
period after its liberating revolution (1791 - January
1, 2004), the only time Haiti was democratically
governed was under Aristide and during Rene Preval's
first term. Aristide, in fact, was so beloved, he was
overwhelmingly reelected in 2000 with a 92% majority
and would be equally supported today if allowed to
run. In fact, when he's most needed and wanted,
Washington won't let him return. In media coverage of Haiti's
disaster, the greater story is suppressed, the one
that matters, that puts today's tragedy in context: -- 500 years of repression;
slavery under the Spanish, then French, and since the
19th century as a de facto US colony; -- deep poverty and human misery,
the worst in the hemisphere; -- despotic rule, occupation,
exploitation, starvation, disease and low life
expectancy; and -- now now a disaster of biblical
proportions getting Times headlines like: "In Show of Support, Clinton Goes
to Haiti" Omitted was that it was for a
brief airport photo op, America's usual show of
indifference to human suffering, in this case, the
result of US imperialism, not as a benefactor the way
The Times and other major media portray. "Officials Strain to Distribute
Aid to Haiti as Violence Rises" In fact, Haitians have been
remarkably calm, no thanks to Washington that's
slowing aid delivery, providing very little of its
own, and offers little more than militarized
occupation, armed killers, including Xe (formerly
Blackwater Worldwide) mercenaries, notoriously savage
brutes. "Looting Flares Where Authority
Breaks Down" Looting? People are suffering,
starving, dying, desperate because America sends
fighters, not food; Marines, not medical aid; combat
killers, not compassion, caring, and kindness; and
diplomats, not doctors or human decency. "Government Struggles to Exhume
Itself" Calling it "comparatively stable"
ignores that Preval's government is a proxy for US
interests and no longer functioning. Pentagon killers
are now in charge. "Bush, Clinton and Obama Unite to
Raise Money for Haiti" After the December 2004 tsunami
struck East Asia, the Bush administration spearheaded
a similar campaign, raised over $1 billion, and used
it for corporate development, not people needs. Obama
backs a similar scheme (Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund) in a
show of contemptible indifference to human misery and
chose two co-conspirators for his plan. The Bush administration
engineered the February 2004 coup ousting Aristide,
established police state rule, and immiserated nine
million Haitians. For his part, Clinton kept an iron
grip throughout his presidency instead of supporting
Aristide's political, economic and social reforms. He's now UN Special Envoy to
Haiti heading an Obama administration neoliberal
scheme featuring tourism, textile sweatshops, sweeping
privatizations and deregulation for greater cheap
labor exploitation at the expense of providing
essential needs. He orchestrated a plan to turn
northern Haiti into a tourist playground and got Royal
Caribbean Cruise Lines to invest $55 million for a
pier in Labadee where the company operates a private
resort and has contributed the largest amount of
tourist revenue to the country since 1986. More still is planned, including
a new international airport in the north, an expanded
free trade zone, a new one in Port-au-Prince, now
delayed, various infrastructure projects, and an
alliance with George Soros' Open Society Institute for
a $50 million partnership with Haitian shipper Gregory
Mevs to build a free-trade zone for clothing
sweatshops. In addition, the Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI) has $258 million in commitments,
including the Better Work Haiti and HOPE II projects,
taking advantage of duty-free Haitian apparel exports
to America to encourage greater sweatshop
proliferation. According to TransAfrica's
founder Randall Robinson: "That isn't the kind of
investment that Haiti needs. It needs capital
investment. It needs investment so that it can be
self-sufficient. It needs investment so that it can
feed itself." It also needs debt relief, not another
$100 million the IMF just announced adding more to a
$1.2 billion burden. Above all, Haiti needs democratic
governance freed from US control, military occupation,
and the kind of oppression it's endured for centuries
so its people can breathe free. It doesn't need two past and a
current US president allied with Haiti's elites,
ignoring economic justice, exploiting Haitian labor,
ignoring overwhelming human desperation, militarizing
the country, crushing resistance if it arises, and
implementing a disaster capitalism agenda at the
expense of essential human needs, rights and
freedoms. The only good new is that the
Obama administration granted undocumented Haitians
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months. They
can now work legally and send remittances to family
members. It affects 30,000 ordered deported and all
non-US citizens. During the Bush administration
and throughout Obama's first year in office, repeated
calls for it were refused. Now after 80
representatives and 18 senators, Republicans and
Democrats, and the conference of Roman Catholic
bishops sent appeals, Obama relented for Haitians in
America as of January 12. New arrivals will be
deported unlike Cubans under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment
Act (as amended), a "wet foot/dry foot" policy under
which those interdicted at sea are returned home, but
others reaching shore are inspected for entry, then
nearly always allowed to stay. TPS aside, Haiti faces crushing
burdens - deep poverty, vast unemployment,
overwhelming human needs, severe repression, poor
governance, Washington dominance, a burdensome debt,
and much more before the January 12 quake. Now the
disaster, militarization by the Pentagon, and disaster
capitalism soon arriving besides what's already
profiteering. It's been Haiti's plight for
generations, the poorest hemispheric nation in the
area most under Washington's iron grip and paying
dearly for the privilege. Stephen Lendman is a Research
Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
He lives in Chicago and can be reached at
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