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Originally Posted by VRM
I'm glad you went and did some follow-up research - maybe next time you will do it BEFORE posting the spam of the day.
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If people stopped reposting crud from the flood that pours into their inboxes from other people reposting crud that flooded into THEIR inboxes (repeat as many times as you like), the contents of the internet would fit on a single floppy disc.
I find it amazing how often a thread like this can go on and on and on before someone simply looks up a fact that counters the entire point of the discussion. As you say, simply posting 'something' that 'someone' sent you 'because it was interesting' is rarely a service to anyone downstream.
Haiti is near-hopeless for so many reasons it's hard to count them all. The damage done by centuries of misrule and abuse of the population and resources may not be un-doable by any reasonable effort. Certainly the efforts of my great-uncle, who has spent nearly 50 years there teaching and organizing communities, hasn't made much of a dent.