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Dow above 13000…where are you Papaille?

2012-08-14T21:03:33-05:00

Papaille, where are you?

They are at it again........and they are screaming and terrified that their free ride will be taken away from them when the year finish......Will the funny money last?

Haiti & Jamaica

2012-12-22T15:20:04-05:00

[youtube]http://youtu.be/sB1_dkcn_0Q[/youtube]

Building private home in Haiti

2013-02-26T22:53:51-05:00

I’m looking to build a house in Haiti, but I have no idea the steps I should take to get the process going. I know the government is issuing permits under strict regulations, but how do I even go about contacting them? I’m hoping anyone who built a home or a business in Haiti would give me a few advise. The land I'm looking to built on is up north in Ouanaminthe. Route national #1 cuts right thru the land. It’s about 30min from the Dominican Republic and not too far from Okap and labadee. I’m mainly looking to find a good and reputable construction company to do the whole construction work.

Haitian House For Rent To Support Haiti Poor

2013-02-25T16:49:56-05:00

House for Rent in Petion-ville, Montagne Noire Haiti.

Privacy, quiet, and awesome mountain views.

The house income suports the Haiti poor.

Please Private Message for Details.

Mabou Loiseau, 5 years old polyglot

2013-02-25T02:05:17-05:00

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Indeed, she has a bright career waiting her.

Immigration Update

2013-02-24T23:45:38-05:00

The Rise of Asian Americans

Report Author:

Pew Research Center

Original Date of Publication:

2012 Jun

Asians have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the United States, according to this study from the Pew Research Center, The Rise of Asian Americans. The study reveals that Asian Americans also have the highest income, are the best-educated and are the fastest-growing racial group in America. They are more satisfied than the public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success.

A century ago, most Asian Americans were low-skilled, low-wage laborers crowded into ethnic enclaves and targets of official discrimination. Today, they are the most likely of any major racial or ethnic group in America to live in mixed neighborhoods and to marry across racial lines. More than six in ten adults ages 25 to 64 who have come from Asia in recent years have at least a bachelor's degree. This is double the share among recent non-Asian arrivals.

These milestones of economic success, educational attainment and social assimilation have come to a group that is still majority immigrant. It is projected that by midcentury, one in 10 American residents will be of Asian descent.

Mississippi Finally Ratifies the Amendment to Ban Slavery —

2013-02-21T08:45:10-05:00

Nation
Mississippi Finally Ratifies the Amendment to Ban Slavery — 148 Years Later
By Kharunya ParamaguruFeb. 19, 2013 29 Comments

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/19/mississippi-finally-ratifies-the-amendment-to-ban-slavery-148-years-later/#ixzz2LXakI4cp

Here’s an outcome the producers of the movie Lincoln probably never expected: it indirectly led to the official ratification of the 13th amendment to ban slavery in Mississippi, nearly 150 years after its adoption.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/19/mississippi-finally-ratifies-the-amendment-to-ban-slavery-148-years-later/#ixzz2LXaaeQw2

CSPAN w/ Randall Robinson, author of Unbroken Agony

2013-02-07T23:56:01-05:00

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/310247-1

Randall Robinson, author of Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.

Discussing his general views on America's policies and the topic of Haiti pops up many times in this discussion. Interesting to listen to.

Best to listen the whole 3 hours if you have the time.

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Guess Who!

2013-01-28T11:21:59-05:00

Guess who!

Who do you think gave this speech on the floor of the Senate.

Was it: Karl Rove or GW Bush or Ronald Reagan or Mitt Romney or Bush SR?

Maybe Trent Lott or Rick Santorum or Orrin Hatch?

Perhaps it was a Radical Rightwing, Tea Party, Flag Waving, nut!

So who do you think it is?

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE March 16, 2006

Mr/Ms. X.

"Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. That is ‘‘trillion’’ with a ‘‘T.’’ That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.
Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead, interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans—a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.

But we are not doing that. Despite repeated efforts by Senators CONRAD and FEINGOLD, the Senate continues to reject a return to the commonsense Pay-go rules that used to apply. Previously, Pay-go rules applied both to increases in mandatory spending and to tax cuts. The Senate had to abide by the commonsense budgeting principle of balancing expenses and revenues. Unfortunately, the principle was abandoned, and now the demands of budget discipline apply only to spending.

As a result, tax breaks have not been paid for by reductions in Federal spending, and thus the only way to pay for them has been to increase our deficit to historically high levels and borrow more and more money. Now we have to pay for those tax breaks plus the cost of borrowing for them. Instead of reducing the deficit, as some people claimed, the fiscal policies of this administration and its allies in Congress will add more than $600 million in debt for each of the next 5 years. That is why I will once again cosponsor the Pay-go amendment and continue to hope that my colleagues will return to a smart rule that has worked in the past and can work again.

Our debt also matters internationally. My friend, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, likes to remind us that it took 42 Presidents 224 years to run up only $1 trillion of foreign-held debt. This administration did more than that in just 5 years. Now, there is nothing wrong with borrowing from foreign countries. But we must remember that the more we depend on foreign nations to lend us money, the more our economic security is tied to the whims of foreign leaders whose interests might not be aligned with ours.

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘‘the buck stops here.’’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.

Island of Baba catches in Populariy

2012-12-19T12:09:19-05:00

Legalization of gay marriage sends Saba’s popularity soaring

Read more: http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/645699.html?utm_source=Caribbean360+Newsletters&utm_campaign=97d556c5d1-Vol_7_Issue_156_News12_19_2012&utm_medium=email#ixzz2FWAxcjsW
THE BOTTOM, Saba, Wednesday December 19, 2012 – The diminutive Dutch Caribbean island of Saba has become a haven for gay couples and seen its popularity soar since legislators legalized same-sex marriages in what was already considered a gay-friendly destination.

On December 4, Xiomar Alexander Gonzalez and Israel Ernesto Ruiz exchanged vows in a civil ceremony at the island's courthouse, marking the first ceremony of its kind in the region and reportedly triggering a flood of enquiries from gay couples in other Dutch Caribbean islands.

As part of the Netherlands, which in 2001 became the first country to approve same-sex marriages, the islands of Saba, Bonaire and St Eustatius are obliged to recognize such unions. While Bonaire and St Eustatius have stopped short of legalizing these marriages, Saba welcomed the move.

"We've seen it as a human rights issue," said openly gay Saba council member Carl Buncamper. "It is important to give the partners equal rights when it comes to inheritance and other benefits."

Saba's trailblazing stance has been applauded by gay couples who have indicated that gays frequently face taunts, threats and even death elsewhere in the Caribbean, with many countries in the region enforcing colonial era buggery laws.

Bonaire and St Eustatius are expected to follow Saba’s lead, but the Netherlands is giving those islands more time in the face of local opposition. Their governments have been urged to help communities get used to the idea of gay marriage in the meantime.

St Maarten, Curacao and Aruba are also obliged to recognize same-sex marriages, but don't have to legalize them because they have a more autonomous relationship with the Netherlands.

Aruba has reportedly struggled to recognize same-sex marriages. In 2005, the island's Superior Court ordered the government to register the union of two women who complained that their 2001 marriage in the Netherlands wasn't recognized locally.

Meanwhile, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe are expected to debate the issue soon, as France prepares to vote early next year on whether to legalize same-sex marriages. Click here to receive free news bulletins via email from Caribbean360. (View sample)

Read more: http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/645699.html?utm_source=Caribbean360+Newsletters&utm_campaign=97d556c5d1-Vol_7_Issue_156_News12_19_2012&utm_medium=email#ixzz2FWB4awTQ..

May be a far fetch... but Who thinks that Baba's model might follow in one of the plans to increase business & tourism in Haiti? What say you, Gunner?