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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:12 AM Original message |
Why are Haitians eating dirt? |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. Lots of people are starving. It's the 'new world order', or something. |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Huh!? Dirt pancakes?? That isn't FOOD!!!!! |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:05 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. No shit. I've been posting links for weeks, and NO ONE gives a shit. |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:11 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Post your threads in the Latin America forum. Lots there on Haiti. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. They do. US subsidized food is part of the problem. Better to |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:19 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. If they are, they wouldn't be eating fucking dirt! |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. I don't understand. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. The same reason farmers here stop growing things |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
52. US farm income is at record levels |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Rice farmers were driven out of business because imported rice |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Because the imported (US-taxpayer-subsidized) rice sells for less, so the local farmer's |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. It's explained in the article |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. The House passed it, FWIW, which may be not much... |
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TheFriendlyAnarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:51 PM Original message |
Costs more to grow it than it does to buy it, |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
3. Same reason the Irish starved in 1847 |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. No it isn't the same reason!! Ireland had a potato blight! POISON in the fields and the |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:14 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Ireland exported food & ag products to England throughout |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:20 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Only some parts.... most starved to death or left the country. n/t |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:44 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Most of the land in Ireland at the time was held by a small |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:45 PM Response to Reply #33 |
47. Yes. It was the dependence on a sole crop |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #24 |
54. Hannah you know your facts. I got your back, here. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:20 AM Response to Reply #16 |
28. There was ownership by the wealthy |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:21 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. There was no food for the potato farmers. Millions starved. n/t |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:36 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. It wasn't that simple |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
30. ENGLAND had the blight; Ireland didn't |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
50. So, they're not starving because corn is being used for fuel? |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. This just pisses me off no end. |
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BunkerHill24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
6. Bill Clinton had an opportunity to fix Haiti....he squandered..darn! |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Oh? Unlike helping to stage coups, like the Bush clan? |
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BunkerHill24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:09 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. I don't have to explain No-thing to you, Noth'in.... |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
46. Of course you don't sweetheart. You can just post idiotic statements you can't back up |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:55 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. So did your Saint Ronnie and Saint Poppy |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
10. Bill in Congress to cancel Haiti's debt |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
11. The causes of the crisis |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:44 PM Response to Reply #11 |
44. Interesting article. |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
13. Something's wrong with this picture, all right |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
18. Free trade results in poverty and starvation |
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Doctor Cynic (965 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:21 AM Response to Reply #18 |
39. To be more precise, one-sided trade does. |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
23. Go over to DU's Latin America forum. Lots of research there. |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
25. Haiti's Food Crisis Has Its Roots in Pigs, Rice and Globalization |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
32. how to help |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Charity is fine - as a stopgap. But the question is, why is 80% |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:13 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. i'm not trying to answer that question |
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GuvWurld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
35. This is exactly what Naomi Klein wrote about in Shock Doctrine |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:11 AM Response to Original message |
36. I guess this is the Hatian equivalent of Green Teeth. |
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Doctor Cynic (965 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
38. This definitely calls for anti-dumping duties. |
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gear_head (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
40. being dependent on the US is a mistake |
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Doctor Cynic (965 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:49 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Yeah! Let's drastically reduce global food production in one fell swoop! |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:11 AM Response to Original message |
42. Japan has no truck with "free" trade horseshit with its rice market |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #42 |
53. eridani got the right answer in one note |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
43. Don't they have any imported lapel pins? |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
45. One day the truth about what has been done to Haiti |
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ShaneGR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
48. Honestly, because I personally have met and talked to dozens of Haitians in south Florida |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
49. Why is Haiti starving? This picture says alot... |
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LBJDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
51. Inflation of grain prices |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
55. to the top |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-19-08 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
56. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", it is very enlightning. |
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