Danny Glover Blames Haiti Earthquake on global warming and climate change

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That would depend on where that hypothetical earthquake struck. There are parts of the U.S vulnerable to massive earthquakes which are not in major earthquake zones, you know.

Even in around the massive New Madrid Seismic Zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone) which has had huge quakes, I doubt they're prepared enough to avoid a massive catastrophe.

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Global warming and climate change aren't to blame, but instead 200 years of western and especially French punitive debts and racism directed at the island nation, leaving it in poverty and under the rule of corrupt, incompetent leaders.

Not to say France was wonderful, but of course the population of Haiti have nothing to itself in its politico-economical situation? There isn't a corrupter if there isn't a corruptible. If you wanna play that game, we can also speak of the US there, and, yes, of the Haitians themselves, with Jean-Bertrand Aristide they gave their confidence to a guy that screwed them, they let him own them. I'm not sure that always making victim of people in bad shape is a good thing. That said, I'm not saying that to put a blame on them, that's the last thing that I wanna do and that's the last thing they need today, but because you open that game, and with some distance on the event, people may consider this.

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Please welcome Moron No. 5:

"I also believe this is dividing the nation…to where the nation sees him react so rapidly on Haiti and yet he couldn’t react rapidly on Afghanistan. He couldn’t react rapidly on Ft. Hood. He couldn’t react rapidly on our own airplanes with an underwear bomber…it doesn’t make sense. [...] Three different events and Haiti is the only one. I think personally that it deepens the divide to see him react this rapidly to Haiti." -- Glenn Beck

This country, I swear..

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what an idiot.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

'Celebrity' in saying something stupid shock.

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Global warming and climate change aren't to blame, but instead 200 years of western and especially French punitive debts and racism directed at the island nation, leaving it in poverty and under the rule of corrupt, incompetent leaders.

Not to say France was wonderful, but of course the population of Haiti have nothing to itself in its politico-economical situation? There isn't a corrupter if there isn't a corruptible. If you wanna play that game, we can also speak of the US there, and, yes, of the Haitians themselves, with Jean-Bertrand Aristide they gave their confidence to a guy that screwed them, they let him own them. I'm not sure that always making victim of people in bad shape is a good thing. That said, I'm not saying that to put a blame on them, that's the last thing that I wanna do and that's the last thing they need today, but because you open that game, and with some distance on the event, people may consider this.

I say that is it especially France's fault because of the punitive embargoes and reparations France forced on Haiti (and already underdeveloped slave island) after its independence:

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Global warming and climate change aren't to blame, but instead 200 years of western and especially French punitive debts and racism directed at the island nation, leaving it in poverty and under the rule of corrupt, incompetent leaders.

Not to say France was wonderful, but of course the population of Haiti have nothing to itself in its politico-economical situation? There isn't a corrupter if there isn't a corruptible. If you wanna play that game, we can also speak of the US there, and, yes, of the Haitians themselves, with Jean-Bertrand Aristide they gave their confidence to a guy that screwed them, they let him own them. I'm not sure that always making victim of people in bad shape is a good thing. That said, I'm not saying that to put a blame on them, that's the last thing that I wanna do and that's the last thing they need today, but because you open that game, and with some distance on the event, people may consider this.

I say that is it especially France's fault because of the punitive embargoes and reparations France forced on Haiti (and already underdeveloped slave island) after its independence:

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I know, but you can't always blame the past, of course France's behavior harmed them, but 1st we haven' been alone, according to what I've heard from guys who study the question US had their part with the Duvalliers, and 2nd, Haitians gave their trust to a man that fooled them, and harmed them a lot too. Also, I think to this woman there trying to convince people to stop deforestation there, something that harmed them a lot in the natural disasters they experienced recently and that harmed their country a lot.

What I mean is that, we can't sum it up to: all is France's fault, things are a bit more complex, especially for the most recent periods. It isn't serving them to let them in pure victimization I think.