[eastbay]

SS, funny. You and I posted this often overlooked remittance factoid simultaneously. Almost. Beat you by one minute.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ainan', 'T')he average IQ in Haiti is 72. That's borderline retarded. There's no hope for Haiti, any money spent will be money down the drain.

[2cher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ainan', 'T')he average IQ in Haiti is 72. That's borderline retarded. There's no hope for Haiti, any money spent will be money down the drain.

[lotrfan55345]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ainan', 'T')he average IQ in Haiti is 72. That's borderline retarded. There's no hope for Haiti, any money spent will be money down the drain.

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', 'T')hough I really don't understand how these calculated average IQs have any sort of validity

[lotrfan55345]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hey don't as far as I can tell but you won't get any argument that many of these sun belt banana republics have a borderline retardation problem.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', 'I')s that you, Rush? Be careful, your ignorance is showing. Haiti, the only nation to overthrow their shackles. Spartacus wishes. And punished for 200 years because of it.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', '
')
Haiti, the Jewel of the French Empire, able to supply the world with coffee and sugar.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', '
')
Haiti, the Jewel of the French Empire, able to supply the world with coffee and sugar.

[eXpat]

US to evacuate 45,000 Haitians to Central Florida
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')RLANDO, Fla. -- The American Red Cross says a plan to bring 45,000 evacuees from Haiti to Florida, and 4,000 of those to Orange County, is not set in stone. The Red Cross clarified Friday who could be involved in a plan to move people out of Haiti.

The Red Cross is preparing for two things: the repatriation of Americans living in Haiti and the possibility of a mass migration of Haitian nationals.
The American Red Cross has seen massive migration into the U.S. from areas like Kosovo and Bosnia in the past, but no determination has been made yet in the case of Haiti. But the repatriation of Americans has already begun. Eyewitness News was told that it includes people like missionaries who may have already been working in Haiti before the quake.

The U.S. citizens are being brought into South Florida through Miami and Homestead, where their identities can be verified. Thursday night, five flights arrived with 190 Americans on board.

“I think that we will continue see U.S. citizens coming in over the weekend and through the beginning of next week. And that would be our first focus and first wave and, I think, as the conditions are assessed in Haiti and some decisions are made both with our federal government and the Haitian government about what’s best for their citizens,” Director of Emergency Services Becky Sebren said.

Americans continued to arrive in South Florida Friday afternoon and, as the United States plans its strategy to help Haiti, the state closest to the island nation is taking center stage with a plan to bring tens of thousands of refugees to Florida and approximately 4,000 to Orlando.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', 'U')S to evacuate 45,000 Haitians to Central Florida
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')RLANDO, Fla. -- The American Red Cross says a plan to bring 45,000 evacuees from Haiti to Florida, and 4,000 of those to Orange County, is not set in stone. The Red Cross clarified Friday who could be involved in a plan to move people out of Haiti.

The Red Cross is preparing for two things: the repatriation of Americans living in Haiti and the possibility of a mass migration of Haitian nationals.
The American Red Cross has seen massive migration into the U.S. from areas like Kosovo and Bosnia in the past, but no determination has been made yet in the case of Haiti. But the repatriation of Americans has already begun. Eyewitness News was told that it includes people like missionaries who may have already been working in Haiti before the quake.

The U.S. citizens are being brought into South Florida through Miami and Homestead, where their identities can be verified. Thursday night, five flights arrived with 190 Americans on board.

“I think that we will continue see U.S. citizens coming in over the weekend and through the beginning of next week. And that would be our first focus and first wave and, I think, as the conditions are assessed in Haiti and some decisions are made both with our federal government and the Haitian government about what’s best for their citizens,” Director of Emergency Services Becky Sebren said.

Americans continued to arrive in South Florida Friday afternoon and, as the United States plans its strategy to help Haiti, the state closest to the island nation is taking center stage with a plan to bring tens of thousands of refugees to Florida and approximately 4,000 to Orlando.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', 'T')he Two Things Americans will never
hear about Haiti:

That Slaves successfully overthrew their Masters/Napoleans
best general and that Fidel Castro is sending massive numbers
of Doctors and Aid.

The most curious aspect of this story is that no one has said a single word to recall the fact that Haiti was the first country in which 400,000 Africans, enslaved and trafficked by Europeans, rose up against 30,000 white slave masters on the sugar and coffee plantations, thus undertaking the first great social revolution in our hemisphere. Pages of insurmountable glory were written there.

[mcgowanjm]

As a Mississippi/Southerner I am all too familiar with
Slavery.

The largest all black town in America, Mound Bayou,
was just miles South of my town.

That said, I'm also familiar with Haiti as my best friend's
Doctor Father went there in my second grade for a year
and I grew up playing in his home full of Haitian Artworks.

Like America's slaves, worse, the Haitians were never indemnified
for anything they did. And after burning down the Haitian infrastructure to obtain their freedom (and how would slaves
get the wherewithall to fight against Napolean Armies?), were
then given onerous loan terms (sound familiar?) in order to
be recognized.


* 1794 French First Republic abolishes slavery[5][8]
* 1799 New York State abolishes slavery
* 1799 in Scotland, by an act of the Parliament of Great Britain (39 Geo.III. c. 56).[9]

[edit] 1800-1900

* 1802 The emperor Napoleon re-introduces slavery on French colonies growing sugarcane. [4]

Martinique, along with all other Caribbean Islands kept
slavery until:

There is little historiographical debate about the slave liberation process under the Second Republic. All sources and authorities agree that emancipation resulted directly from the revolution of 1848.

And of course those who waited 'til the dust cleared' were
then treated better. Axciom: The first to revolt always
suffer the most and are given the least quarter afterwards.
See Whistleblower goes to jail. Only one in the UBS/American
NonTaxpayer Case, for details. Examples must be set.

Finally, note how the Abolition Slavery Timeline dovetails
with the Winners/Losers in the Empire/Revolution Game from
1790-Today.

And a BTW-Haitians can't afford things like bullets/tasers.
Cold Steel is what they got for crowd control. And speaking
of Haitian Gov't, where is it?


Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, exiled in South Africa since 2004, said Friday he was ready to return to help rebuild the country in the wake of the devastating earthquake.

The 56-year-old former priest was Haiti's first democratically elected leader.....

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', 'T')he poorer the country, the lower the IQ scores--it's not about the people themselves, it's about what they were born into.

[Cloud9]

Poor nutrition lowers IQ giving malnourished populations less where with all to pull themselves out of poverty.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/47533.php

[eXpat]

Help generously, He is gonna make sure the money is expent wisely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMf68i4rz8&NR=1

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', 'H')elp generously, He is gonna make sure the money is expent wisely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMf68i4rz8&NR=1

[Tyler_JC]

Why are they still worrying about water?

25 C17 cargo planes operating 5 missions a day can drop 2 million gallons of water on Haiti.

One cargo ship can do the same.

It's absurd that the logisticians can't figure this out.

[tex123]

If we only restore Haiti to it's pre-quake state, we should not even bother digging the suffering out from the rubble nor feed the hungry. It only prolongs the inevitable.

[Revi]

We have to do something. I have a feeling that all we'll do is to give out a bunch of food and water, some tents and then we'll all forget about Haiti, Like we did after the last hurricane season.