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With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti you can buy a slave

Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 03/23/2008
Yes a rag tag group of slaves in revolt toppled a weak and fragile French hold on the colony. After that people forcibly brought there had to fend for themselves and were economically strangled by almost all other nations. The U.S. did not emancipate slav … (see comment)
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With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti you can buy a slave

Comment in News (4 diggs, 1 reply) - on 03/23/2008
In Haiti they are called Restavek, which loosely translates to "servant." Its a fairly common practice that borderlines on slavery but its extremely taboo to bring the subject up amongst Haitians. Its the elephant in the room and quite frankly in Haiti th … (see comment)
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New Version of Miro - Internet TV / Torrent Downloader

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 03/21/2008
Miro is all about what you make of it. How you use it and why you do. I replaced my TV with Miro and will never go back, now if they would just give our Apple TV's for free... (see comment)
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