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Football / CLASSIC Ray Hudson
« on: July 14, 2010, 03:21:50 PM »63
Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / Cleveland Cavaliers T Shirt Giveaway for Cavs vs Heat Home Game
« on: July 13, 2010, 12:48:29 PM »
Apparently all fans can get in free for this game IF they wear this free T Shirt
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Happy Days! Football won yesterday
« on: July 12, 2010, 10:58:26 AM »
Thuggery doh thrive.
SHAME ON HOLLAND!!!
CONGRATS TO SPAIN!!
SHAME ON HOLLAND!!!
CONGRATS TO SPAIN!!
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Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / Cleveland owner shouldn't get mad with Lebron. Just get even
« on: July 09, 2010, 10:26:56 AM »
Instead of writin letter and ting....jes trade Delonte West for free to Miami 
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Holland will be the Minnesota Vikings of World Cup Football
« on: July 06, 2010, 03:55:12 PM »
Always the bridesmaid
NEVER the bride!
3 finals
3 losses.
Oh well
NEVER the bride!
3 finals
3 losses.
Oh well
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Let's hear it for New Zealand
« on: June 25, 2010, 11:16:03 AM »
A team like the Soca Warriors in 2006 that nobody gave any chance to do anything else other than colleck serious goals in dem pweffen
3 games and out and not jes out...but demonstrating without a doubt that they should not be there.
Well....after 3 games...they out. But they didn't lose a game.
They never play attractive football, but they were organized and obviously effective....and they scored 2 goals in the process.
Even though we Soca Warriors had players from premier league, english championship dividision, MLS, and all world coach....I feel we wasn't beatin dis New Zealand squad.
Again...is not like they dominate anybody. Is not like they even play football that was on par with their opponents, but they got their result and went back home undefeated.
Massive respeck to them.
3 games and out and not jes out...but demonstrating without a doubt that they should not be there.
Well....after 3 games...they out. But they didn't lose a game.
They never play attractive football, but they were organized and obviously effective....and they scored 2 goals in the process.
Even though we Soca Warriors had players from premier league, english championship dividision, MLS, and all world coach....I feel we wasn't beatin dis New Zealand squad.
Again...is not like they dominate anybody. Is not like they even play football that was on par with their opponents, but they got their result and went back home undefeated.
Massive respeck to them.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Did USA top Group C?
« on: June 23, 2010, 10:09:30 AM »
I think they did
Both them and England have 5 points....same Goal Difference...but USA score more goals
This means that USA plays the 2nd placed team in Group D?
And England plays the 1st place team in that group
Could be a USA vs Serbia
England vs Germany matchup
Both them and England have 5 points....same Goal Difference...but USA score more goals
This means that USA plays the 2nd placed team in Group D?
And England plays the 1st place team in that group
Could be a USA vs Serbia
England vs Germany matchup
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Small Mag could breathe now
« on: June 23, 2010, 10:02:00 AM »
De buggah mus be was hidin under he bed whole match prayin to queen elizabeth to rescue he team
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Name your All star team after the 1st round of play
« on: June 16, 2010, 04:22:26 PM »
Mine
Enyeyamo - Nigeria
Maicon - Brazil
Onyewu - USA
Carvalho - Portugal
Coentrao - Portugal
Toualalan - France
Sjneider - Holland
Ozil - Germany
Messi - Argentina
Forlan - Uruguay
Gervinho - Ivory Coast
Enyeyamo - Nigeria
Maicon - Brazil
Onyewu - USA
Carvalho - Portugal
Coentrao - Portugal
Toualalan - France
Sjneider - Holland
Ozil - Germany
Messi - Argentina
Forlan - Uruguay
Gervinho - Ivory Coast
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / If Spain finish 2nd in this group
« on: June 16, 2010, 10:06:57 AM »
Guess who dey likely to meet in de 2nd rounds....
Wheeeeeeeeeyyyyyyssssss
Wheeeeeeeeeyyyyyyssssss
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Really poor football on display so far in this World Cup
« on: June 14, 2010, 12:25:16 PM »
I was excited prior to the first game of this World Cup
Now....I actually fallin asleep durin games
This World Cup so far is memorable for the Vuvuzela and the poor quality of football in general (apart from Germany and Argentina thus far)
Italy and Paraguay up next....I anticipatin a nex snore fest. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Now....I actually fallin asleep durin games
This World Cup so far is memorable for the Vuvuzela and the poor quality of football in general (apart from Germany and Argentina thus far)
Italy and Paraguay up next....I anticipatin a nex snore fest. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / 1 more sleep
« on: June 09, 2010, 12:11:50 PM »
Ah cyah wait.....excitement buildin
Tough 2 games right off de bat on Friday
Home team versus in form Mexico
Always dangerous versus mercurial France
BRING IT!!!!
Tough 2 games right off de bat on Friday
Home team versus in form Mexico
Always dangerous versus mercurial France
BRING IT!!!!
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Football / I would love to see Dunga and Ronaldinho go one vs one on Global Television
« on: May 12, 2010, 05:26:46 PM »
Pay Per View Event
10 minutes per half. Most goal win
Let Ronnie embarass he SKONT
And den when he nearly finish wit Dunga, let Dunga have de ball and pelt a blade in he ass.
10 minutes per half. Most goal win
Let Ronnie embarass he SKONT
And den when he nearly finish wit Dunga, let Dunga have de ball and pelt a blade in he ass.
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Football / I have no faith in T&T football anymore
« on: May 04, 2010, 06:04:17 PM »
Jackula suck wha ever expectation life blood it had pertainin to T&T football right outta meh.
I will continue to support MY TEAM and hope against hope that we could pull out a lil result here and there.
But my expectations for the senior mens National football team for the forseeable future is absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. Nil.
Even if we play Guyana, me eh surprised if we lorse.
I eh seein no spark on de horizon. De U20 team did deyself proud in de WC tournament but as much fight as dem yutes show, dem eh ready fuh big time football. As evidenced by the amount of foreign professional contracts members of that team have gotten.
But I will support. And ah still want we to buss everybody tail, at all levels..especially Jamaica.
Difference is now.....I eh expeckin it to happen. Not fuh de immediate future.
Luv yuh T&T....wit a heavy footballin heart.
I will continue to support MY TEAM and hope against hope that we could pull out a lil result here and there.
But my expectations for the senior mens National football team for the forseeable future is absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. Nil.
Even if we play Guyana, me eh surprised if we lorse.
I eh seein no spark on de horizon. De U20 team did deyself proud in de WC tournament but as much fight as dem yutes show, dem eh ready fuh big time football. As evidenced by the amount of foreign professional contracts members of that team have gotten.
But I will support. And ah still want we to buss everybody tail, at all levels..especially Jamaica.
Difference is now.....I eh expeckin it to happen. Not fuh de immediate future.
Luv yuh T&T....wit a heavy footballin heart.
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Football / Who's responsible for Barca's style of football?
« on: April 20, 2010, 03:46:10 PM »
The talk I hear mostly is that Cryuff write de blueprint
But is it from even further back.....from Rinus Michels....Mr Total Football himself?
Is Michels the true architect?
Or did Cruyff take something and make it genius?
But is it from even further back.....from Rinus Michels....Mr Total Football himself?
Is Michels the true architect?
Or did Cruyff take something and make it genius?
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / England to use high altitude tents
« on: April 14, 2010, 03:05:11 PM »
England players are set to sleep in special altitude tents in preparation for this summer's World Cup.
Stars could use Hypoxico's Deluxe Bed-Tent
Source: soccernet.com
The Daily Mail reports that, following extensive tests on the squad, it has emerged that a number of players would benefit from the technology to help acclimatise to the high altitudes in South Africa.
The Altitude Centre in London declined to comment on England's preparations when contacted by Soccernet, but it is understood the company has monitored members of the squad during international duty.
To counter the adverse effects of the South African environment, sleeping in the tents will offer the same benefits, for all players, as training at high altitude.
The tents simulate being at the same altitude as the World Cup final - 1,750m - and do not add to the training load for the players. Sleep would be disturbed for only one or two days at the beginning as they adjust to using the tent.
High altitude results in thinner air and less oxygen, which can accelerate the onset of fatigue. Several countries are apparently planning to use the equipment, which stimulates the production of red blood cells, in preparation for the tournament.
A number of high-profile players, including David Beckham, have used the tents in the past to hasten their recovery from injury.
All dat and still not even a semi final appearance fuh dem.
Oh well....
Stars could use Hypoxico's Deluxe Bed-Tent
Source: soccernet.com
The Daily Mail reports that, following extensive tests on the squad, it has emerged that a number of players would benefit from the technology to help acclimatise to the high altitudes in South Africa.
The Altitude Centre in London declined to comment on England's preparations when contacted by Soccernet, but it is understood the company has monitored members of the squad during international duty.
To counter the adverse effects of the South African environment, sleeping in the tents will offer the same benefits, for all players, as training at high altitude.
The tents simulate being at the same altitude as the World Cup final - 1,750m - and do not add to the training load for the players. Sleep would be disturbed for only one or two days at the beginning as they adjust to using the tent.
High altitude results in thinner air and less oxygen, which can accelerate the onset of fatigue. Several countries are apparently planning to use the equipment, which stimulates the production of red blood cells, in preparation for the tournament.
A number of high-profile players, including David Beckham, have used the tents in the past to hasten their recovery from injury.
All dat and still not even a semi final appearance fuh dem.
Oh well....
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Oddah dan de men who already had contracts like Gay and Hyland...and Leston Paul who did get a trial wit sunderland before de world cup, not a single player from we U19 World Cup team get even a trial with a foreign team?
After dem stellar performances, yuh woulda swear coaches de world over woulda be knockin down dem doors to sign dem up.
Waz de latest wit Hyland anyway? I eh hear a peep bout he since de world cup. He still goin Portsmouth?
After dem stellar performances, yuh woulda swear coaches de world over woulda be knockin down dem doors to sign dem up.
Waz de latest wit Hyland anyway? I eh hear a peep bout he since de world cup. He still goin Portsmouth?
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Leon "Foster" Thomas GOT NEXT!
« on: February 03, 2010, 05:07:08 PM »
Music peeps....check out a young man who simply SICK WID IT!
LEON "FOSTER" THOMAS
Please support. Dis fella is a bess.
LEON "FOSTER" THOMAS
Please support. Dis fella is a bess.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Zuki & Tim Tim take win!
« on: February 02, 2010, 02:47:08 AM »
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Jokes / Trini Smart Men
« on: January 26, 2010, 07:24:23 PM »
Two Trinis wukkin in de same office. One wanted some time off, but knew de boss wouldn’t allow him to take leave.
He decided to act crazy so the boss would tell him to take a few days off.
He hung upside down from the ceiling so the other Trini ask him “Whey you doin’?”
“Ah pretendin to be ah light bulb so de boss will tink ah crazy and give meh time off for ah few days”.
Just then de boss walk in. “Whey d arse you doing?”
“I is ah light bulb” the Trini say.
De boss then said, “Man you stress out. You need ah few days off to recover…go home and come back when you feel better.”
The other Trini start walking out the door too…
De boss ask him “Whey de hell you tink you going?”
The other Trini replied “I going home….ah cyah wuk in de dark.”
He decided to act crazy so the boss would tell him to take a few days off.
He hung upside down from the ceiling so the other Trini ask him “Whey you doin’?”
“Ah pretendin to be ah light bulb so de boss will tink ah crazy and give meh time off for ah few days”.
Just then de boss walk in. “Whey d arse you doing?”
“I is ah light bulb” the Trini say.
De boss then said, “Man you stress out. You need ah few days off to recover…go home and come back when you feel better.”
The other Trini start walking out the door too…
De boss ask him “Whey de hell you tink you going?”
The other Trini replied “I going home….ah cyah wuk in de dark.”
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Jokes / Messaging mom
« on: January 19, 2010, 12:04:50 PM »
A blonde went into a world wide message center to send a message to her mother overseas. When the man told her it would cost $300, she exclaimed:
"I don't have any money. But I'd do ANYTHING to get a message to my mother!"
The man arched an eyebrow (as one would expect) , "anything?", he asked.
"Yes, yes, anything," the blonde promised.
"Well then, just follow me," said the man as he walked towards the next room. The blonde did as she was told and followed the man.
"Come in and close the door," the man said. She did. He then said "Now get on your knees." She did. "Now take down my zipper." She did. "Now go ahead ... take it out ...," he said.
She reached in and grabbed it with both hands ... then paused.
The man closed his eyes and whispered, "Well... go ahead,"
The blonde slowly brought her mouth closer to it and while holding it close to her lips, tentatively said..........
"Hello, Mom can you hear me?"
"I don't have any money. But I'd do ANYTHING to get a message to my mother!"
The man arched an eyebrow (as one would expect) , "anything?", he asked.
"Yes, yes, anything," the blonde promised.
"Well then, just follow me," said the man as he walked towards the next room. The blonde did as she was told and followed the man.
"Come in and close the door," the man said. She did. He then said "Now get on your knees." She did. "Now take down my zipper." She did. "Now go ahead ... take it out ...," he said.
She reached in and grabbed it with both hands ... then paused.
The man closed his eyes and whispered, "Well... go ahead,"
The blonde slowly brought her mouth closer to it and while holding it close to her lips, tentatively said..........
"Hello, Mom can you hear me?"
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General Discussion / The hate and the quake
« on: January 19, 2010, 11:19:32 AM »
The hate and the quake
Published on: 1/17/2010.
BY SIR HILARY BECKLES
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti.
I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption.
Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda, out of both Western Europe and the United States, is the evidence which shows that Haiti's independence was defeated by an aggressive North-Atlantic alliance that could not imagine their world inhabited by a free regime of Africans as representatives of the newly emerging democracy.
The evidence is striking, especially in the context of France.
The Haitians fought for their freedom and won, as did the Americans fifty years earlier. The Americans declared their independence and crafted an extraordinary constitution that set out a clear message about the value of humanity and the right to freedom, justice, and liberty.
In the midst of this brilliant discourse, they chose to retain slavery as the basis of the new nation state. The founding fathers therefore could not see beyond race, as the free state was built on a slavery foundation.
The water was poisoned in the well; the Americans went back to the battlefield a century later to resolve the fact that slavery and freedom could not comfortably co-exist in the same place.
The French, also, declared freedom, fraternity and equality as the new philosophies of their national transformation and gave the modern world a tremendous progressive boost by so doing.
They abolished slavery, but Napoleon Bonaparte could not imagine the republic without slavery and targeted the Haitians for a new, more intense regime of slavery. The British agreed, as did the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.
All were linked in communion over the 500 000 Blacks in Haiti, the most populous and prosperous Caribbean colony.
As the jewel of the Caribbean, they all wanted to get their hands on it. With a massive slave base, the English, French and Dutch salivated over owning it - and the people.
The people won a ten-year war, the bloodiest in modern history, and declared their independence. Every other country in the Americas was based on slavery.
Haiti was freedom, and proceeded to place in its 1805 Independence Constitution that any person of African descent who arrived on its shores would be declared free, and a citizen of the republic.
For the first time since slavery had commenced, Blacks were the subjects of mass freedom and citizenship in a nation.
The French refused to recognise Haiti's independence and declared it an illegal pariah state. The Americans, whom the Haitians looked to in solidarity as their mentor in independence, refused to recognise them, and offered solidarity instead to the French. The British, who were negotiating with the French to obtain the ownership title to Haiti, also moved in solidarity, as did every other nation-state the Western world.
Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance, and institutional development. It was the most vicious example of national strangulation recorded in modern history.
The Cubans, at least, have had Russia, China, and Vietnam. The Haitians were alone from inception. The crumbling began.
Then came 1825; the moment of full truth. The republic is celebrating its 21st anniversary. There is national euphoria in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
The economy is bankrupt; the political leadership isolated. The cabinet took the decision that the state of affairs could not continue.
The country had to find a way to be inserted back into the world economy. The French government was invited to a summit.
Officials arrived and told the Haitian government that they were willing to recognise the country as a sovereign nation but it would have to pay compensation and reparation in exchange. The Haitians, with backs to the wall, agreed to pay the French.
The French government sent a team of accountants and actuaries into Haiti in order to place a value on all lands, all physical assets, the 500 000 citizens were who formerly enslaved, animals, and all other commercial properties and services.
The sums amounted to 150 million gold francs. Haiti was told to pay this reparation to France in return for national recognition.
The Haitian government agreed; payments began immediately. Members of the Cabinet were also valued because they had been enslaved people before independence.
Thus began the systematic destruction of the Republic of Haiti. The French government bled the nation and rendered it a failed state. It was a merciless exploitation that was designed and guaranteed to collapse the Haitian economy and society.
Haiti was forced to pay this sum until 1922 when the last instalment was made. During the long 19th century, the payment to France amounted to up to 70 per cent of the country's foreign exchange earnings.
Jamaica today pays up to 70 per cent in order to service its international and domestic debt. Haiti was crushed by this debt payment. It descended into financial and social chaos.
The republic did not stand a chance. France was enriched and it took pleasure from the fact that having been defeated by Haitians on the battlefield, it had won on the field of finance. In the years when the coffee crops failed, or the sugar yield was down, the Haitian government borrowed on the French money market at double the going interest rate in order to repay the French government.
When the Americans invaded the country in the early 20th century, one of the reasons offered was to assist the French in collecting its reparations.
The collapse of the Haitian nation resides at the feet of France and America, especially. These two nations betrayed, failed, and destroyed the dream that was Haiti; crushed to dust in an effort to destroy the flower of freedom and the seed of justice.
Haiti did not fail. It was destroyed by two of the most powerful nations on earth, both of which continue to have a primary interest in its current condition.
The sudden quake has come in the aftermath of summers of hate. In many ways the quake has been less destructive than the hate.
Human life was snuffed out by the quake, while the hate has been a long and inhumane suffocation - a crime against humanity.
During the 2001 UN Conference on Race in Durban, South Africa, strong representation was made to the French government to repay the 150 million francs.
The value of this amount was estimated by financial actuaries as US$21 billion. This sum of capital could rebuild Haiti and place it in a position to re-engage the modern world. It was illegally extracted from the Haitian people and should be repaid.
It is stolen wealth. In so doing, France could discharge its moral obligation to the Haitian people.
For a nation that prides itself in the celebration of modern diplomacy, France, in order to exist with the moral authority of this diplomacy in this post-modern world, should do the just and legal thing.
Such an act at the outset of this century would open the door for a sophisticated interface of past and present, and set the Haitian nation free at last.
Published on: 1/17/2010.
BY SIR HILARY BECKLES
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti.
I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption.
Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda, out of both Western Europe and the United States, is the evidence which shows that Haiti's independence was defeated by an aggressive North-Atlantic alliance that could not imagine their world inhabited by a free regime of Africans as representatives of the newly emerging democracy.
The evidence is striking, especially in the context of France.
The Haitians fought for their freedom and won, as did the Americans fifty years earlier. The Americans declared their independence and crafted an extraordinary constitution that set out a clear message about the value of humanity and the right to freedom, justice, and liberty.
In the midst of this brilliant discourse, they chose to retain slavery as the basis of the new nation state. The founding fathers therefore could not see beyond race, as the free state was built on a slavery foundation.
The water was poisoned in the well; the Americans went back to the battlefield a century later to resolve the fact that slavery and freedom could not comfortably co-exist in the same place.
The French, also, declared freedom, fraternity and equality as the new philosophies of their national transformation and gave the modern world a tremendous progressive boost by so doing.
They abolished slavery, but Napoleon Bonaparte could not imagine the republic without slavery and targeted the Haitians for a new, more intense regime of slavery. The British agreed, as did the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.
All were linked in communion over the 500 000 Blacks in Haiti, the most populous and prosperous Caribbean colony.
As the jewel of the Caribbean, they all wanted to get their hands on it. With a massive slave base, the English, French and Dutch salivated over owning it - and the people.
The people won a ten-year war, the bloodiest in modern history, and declared their independence. Every other country in the Americas was based on slavery.
Haiti was freedom, and proceeded to place in its 1805 Independence Constitution that any person of African descent who arrived on its shores would be declared free, and a citizen of the republic.
For the first time since slavery had commenced, Blacks were the subjects of mass freedom and citizenship in a nation.
The French refused to recognise Haiti's independence and declared it an illegal pariah state. The Americans, whom the Haitians looked to in solidarity as their mentor in independence, refused to recognise them, and offered solidarity instead to the French. The British, who were negotiating with the French to obtain the ownership title to Haiti, also moved in solidarity, as did every other nation-state the Western world.
Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance, and institutional development. It was the most vicious example of national strangulation recorded in modern history.
The Cubans, at least, have had Russia, China, and Vietnam. The Haitians were alone from inception. The crumbling began.
Then came 1825; the moment of full truth. The republic is celebrating its 21st anniversary. There is national euphoria in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
The economy is bankrupt; the political leadership isolated. The cabinet took the decision that the state of affairs could not continue.
The country had to find a way to be inserted back into the world economy. The French government was invited to a summit.
Officials arrived and told the Haitian government that they were willing to recognise the country as a sovereign nation but it would have to pay compensation and reparation in exchange. The Haitians, with backs to the wall, agreed to pay the French.
The French government sent a team of accountants and actuaries into Haiti in order to place a value on all lands, all physical assets, the 500 000 citizens were who formerly enslaved, animals, and all other commercial properties and services.
The sums amounted to 150 million gold francs. Haiti was told to pay this reparation to France in return for national recognition.
The Haitian government agreed; payments began immediately. Members of the Cabinet were also valued because they had been enslaved people before independence.
Thus began the systematic destruction of the Republic of Haiti. The French government bled the nation and rendered it a failed state. It was a merciless exploitation that was designed and guaranteed to collapse the Haitian economy and society.
Haiti was forced to pay this sum until 1922 when the last instalment was made. During the long 19th century, the payment to France amounted to up to 70 per cent of the country's foreign exchange earnings.
Jamaica today pays up to 70 per cent in order to service its international and domestic debt. Haiti was crushed by this debt payment. It descended into financial and social chaos.
The republic did not stand a chance. France was enriched and it took pleasure from the fact that having been defeated by Haitians on the battlefield, it had won on the field of finance. In the years when the coffee crops failed, or the sugar yield was down, the Haitian government borrowed on the French money market at double the going interest rate in order to repay the French government.
When the Americans invaded the country in the early 20th century, one of the reasons offered was to assist the French in collecting its reparations.
The collapse of the Haitian nation resides at the feet of France and America, especially. These two nations betrayed, failed, and destroyed the dream that was Haiti; crushed to dust in an effort to destroy the flower of freedom and the seed of justice.
Haiti did not fail. It was destroyed by two of the most powerful nations on earth, both of which continue to have a primary interest in its current condition.
The sudden quake has come in the aftermath of summers of hate. In many ways the quake has been less destructive than the hate.
Human life was snuffed out by the quake, while the hate has been a long and inhumane suffocation - a crime against humanity.
During the 2001 UN Conference on Race in Durban, South Africa, strong representation was made to the French government to repay the 150 million francs.
The value of this amount was estimated by financial actuaries as US$21 billion. This sum of capital could rebuild Haiti and place it in a position to re-engage the modern world. It was illegally extracted from the Haitian people and should be repaid.
It is stolen wealth. In so doing, France could discharge its moral obligation to the Haitian people.
For a nation that prides itself in the celebration of modern diplomacy, France, in order to exist with the moral authority of this diplomacy in this post-modern world, should do the just and legal thing.
Such an act at the outset of this century would open the door for a sophisticated interface of past and present, and set the Haitian nation free at last.
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General Discussion / De nex poonks is de bess poonks
« on: January 13, 2010, 06:43:57 PM »
Could go fuh de females too....de bess willy is de bess willy
Ah padnah say de topic of de thread is he pussonal mantra and explain.
Whenever it fresh...no matter who....no matter what....it ALWAYS excitin and NEW and dat is wha does make it de bess.
True or False?
Discuss.
Ah padnah say de topic of de thread is he pussonal mantra and explain.
Whenever it fresh...no matter who....no matter what....it ALWAYS excitin and NEW and dat is wha does make it de bess.
True or False?
Discuss.
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2010 World Cup - South Africa / Why England will not win the 2010 World Cup
« on: January 11, 2010, 04:58:20 PM »
Ah hope ah post dis in de right place.
Nex ting yuh know de thread get merge in a 3 year old thread titled "Football"
Why England will not win the World Cup By Roger Bennett
Special to ESPN.com
(Archive)
SOURCE
It pains me to type this, as it is only January, but all indicators suggest 2010 will not be England's year. On a recent trip to London, the signs of impending disaster were so evident, observing them felt like rubbernecking.
A glance in the window of one of the many bookmakers lining the city's high streets told me all I needed to know. Squeezed in between posters showcasing corpulent darts professionals (in case you missed it, the World Darts Championships finished last week) were omnipresent advertisements for the World Cup in which the English national team had been recklessly installed as 5-1 second favorites behind Spain. Fans of Brazil, the Netherlands and Germany will no doubt be rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
Matteo, an Italian friend I dined with on my first night home, certainly found the odds to be amusing. He laughed as he described how Italian fans made London feel like Rome after the Azzurri's victory in 2006 as he joined thousands of other Italians in a sambuca-soaked Trafalgar Square celebration. After cabbing it home at 4 a.m., Matteo stumbled toward his front door only to be accosted by the taxi driver, who called him back:
Driver: How old are you, son?
Matteo: (nervously stammering) Thirty-six.
Driver: (referring to Italy's marvelous 1982 triumph) So you remember winning the World Cup twice in your lifetime?
Matteo: Yes.
Driver: (eyes wide open in a childlike wonder) Please. I'm begging you. Can you describe to me exactly what that feels like?
Michael Regan/Getty Images
England's Frank Lampard has been far short of his best form in the Premiership this season.
This is the sound of 44 years of desperation and the cab driver is not alone. English soccer fans are amongst the most masochistic in the world. Before every tournament, they begin a familiar ritual, working themselves into a World Cup frenzy of overinflated expectation, cocksure that victory is the nation's destiny. A collective delusion, born perhaps of England's proud position as the original home of the game and host of the Premier League, numbs the nation to the harsh realities of the team's actual tournament record since it lifted the World Cup in 1966 for the first and only time:
Cups: zero
Finals: zero
Semifinals: one
Hearts broken: too many to count or heal.
Italian master tactician Fabio Capello has been imported to shatter this toxic combination of overconfidence and tattered hope. Few doubt he will do better than the team's last foreign coach, the sex scandal-plagued Swede, Sven Goran Eriksson, who came closest to winning a trophy by coming second in a condom manufacturer's man of the year award. Capello's achievements thus far have been commendable, most notably his demystification of Croatia in qualifying. Capello's management of the relentless buzz saw that is the English tabloid media has been even more impressive. He first denounced the team's WAGS, those girlfriends gone wild, and then coolly made it known he has determined the players he will task with penalty-taking duties should the team be faced by its traditional poisoned chalice of a shootout. The wily Italian let no names slip, but the palliative effect of the revelation was as if he had administered a Xanax to an entire nation.
Over the next five months, Capello faces his most critical challenge: finalizing the squad he plans to infuse with sufficient technique and organization to augment the traditional English attributes of passion, physicality, huff and puff. This week he flew back to Italy for knee replacement surgery which will take six weeks to fully rehabilitate. His aching joint may soon heal, but the headaches created by the following interlinked tactical challenges he must unravel will not fade so fast:
Can the captain lead by example?
Capello appointed John Terry as his captain in August 2008, declaring the Chelsea defender's "big personality" to have been the deciding factor in his decision. A series of recent embarrassments caused by some of the seedier aspects of this big personality may have the Italian manager doubting his judgment.
First, a marketing agency retained by Terry's agents circulated an e-mail designed to crudely capitalize on the captain's armband for commercial gain. Herewith a sample quote: "John Terry is: British sporting hero; England's football captain; World Cup 2018 ambassador; Football icon; Dad of the year 2008; Voted as one of the World's most influencial (sic) people."
Terry distanced himself from the e-mail and then walked slap bang into a second scandal: a trap set by the weekend tabloid, News of The World. Three of its journalists posed as businessmen willing to exchange an illicit suitcase full of cash with Terry if he agreed to smuggle them into Chelsea's training facilities for a secret behind-the-scenes tour. The hacks taped their conversation as they asked if the arrangement could be repeated for their colleagues to which Terry responded, "Yeah, but you brief them that they don't speak to no one. 'Cause if anyone finds out, then we can't do it no more." The damage to Terry's leadership credibility was surpassed only by that which the national team captain inflicted upon the English language.
Will true glove be hard to find?
The strikers get the goals, the girls and the cash, but in the modern game, few positions are tactically more critical than goalkeeper. In September, Italian coach Marcello Lippi was asked who the star playmaker was on his team. He deadpanned, "We have our fantasista in goal, his name is Gigi Buffon." England's Italian is not so blessed. His goalies have been so unreliable that he no doubt covets both Tim Howard and Brad Guzan, the options available to Bob Bradley, his American counterpart. Portsmouth's David James has been both unfit and unsettled. The form of Robert Green, Paul Robinson and Ben Foster has been erratic at best, leaving the comparatively raw Joe Hart to become widely touted by default. None of these options will inspire confidence, unless you are a Slovenian striker.
Going backward at forward?
The last team to win the World Cup with a dodgy keeper was Brazil in 2002. Goalkeeper Marcos had the good fortune to leave the tournament with a medal around his neck on that occasion thanks to the explosive offense provided by Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo. England's strike force pales in comparison. Wayne Rooney may be one of the finest all-round players in the world today, but the debate over who should join him has become a national obsession.
Thanks to his support play, the burly Emile Heskey has become an oddity: an athlete who is more of a threat at the international level than in the Premier League. The rest of the options come in all shapes and sizes: the leggy Peter Crouch, pocket-sized Jermaine Defoe and powerful Carlton Cole are all battling it out although none has consistently convinced in an England shirt. Michael Owen is increasingly becoming a sorry sideshow at Manchester United. He may have set the 1998 World Cup on fire, but in his few recent run-outs, he has skulked around the pitch with the demeanor of a former child star crushed by the realization his career glories were all front-loaded.
Is the (World) Class half-empty or half-full?
The task of rounding out his squad is a knotty puzzle for Capello, but the current form of his likely starters is arguably an even greater cause for concern. The core members of his team, deemed by the media, and their agents, to be truly world class, have been anything but. Until recently, the squad appeared to be stocked in central midfield, but Liverpool dynamo Steven Gerrard has been so lackluster that many journalists have begun to wonder if he has become a spent force. Gerrard's uncharacteristic impotence is perhaps the only reason so few have noticed the flat performances Frank Lampard, his partner/nemesis in central midfield, has been turning in for Chelsea. Defensive mainstay Rio Ferdinand is mysteriously crocked and two players who have stayed fit and in form -- Ashley Cole and Rooney -- must fear the effects of this being the most wide-open Premier League competition in recent history. The season looks like as though it will go down to the wire, and by the time the World Cup kicks off, the Algerians may be box-fresh in comparison to a physically exhausted English side.
As bleak as matters may appear for Capello on the soccer front, the good news for the English is, they are already 2010 world champions in darts. The nation gained the only world title it will earn this year when legendary chucker Phil "The Power" Taylor became world darts champion after a comprehensive victory over Australian Simon "The Wizard" Whitlock. With trophy in hand, Taylor barely paused to bask in his own achievement before proclaiming, "I'll help England win the World Cup." The former ceramic toilet-roll maker immediately placed himself at the national team's disposal, offering to aid Capello in preparing his side psychologically by training the side in "what goes through my mind when I'm taking a big shot at the world championship final." The Sun was bullish about this news, bombastically proclaiming "Phil to the Rescue" in a headline that no doubt caused a stampede of housewives in the direction of their local bookmakers to back their team to victory.
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Why England will not win the World Cup By Roger Bennett
Special to ESPN.com
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It pains me to type this, as it is only January, but all indicators suggest 2010 will not be England's year. On a recent trip to London, the signs of impending disaster were so evident, observing them felt like rubbernecking.
A glance in the window of one of the many bookmakers lining the city's high streets told me all I needed to know. Squeezed in between posters showcasing corpulent darts professionals (in case you missed it, the World Darts Championships finished last week) were omnipresent advertisements for the World Cup in which the English national team had been recklessly installed as 5-1 second favorites behind Spain. Fans of Brazil, the Netherlands and Germany will no doubt be rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
Matteo, an Italian friend I dined with on my first night home, certainly found the odds to be amusing. He laughed as he described how Italian fans made London feel like Rome after the Azzurri's victory in 2006 as he joined thousands of other Italians in a sambuca-soaked Trafalgar Square celebration. After cabbing it home at 4 a.m., Matteo stumbled toward his front door only to be accosted by the taxi driver, who called him back:
Driver: How old are you, son?
Matteo: (nervously stammering) Thirty-six.
Driver: (referring to Italy's marvelous 1982 triumph) So you remember winning the World Cup twice in your lifetime?
Matteo: Yes.
Driver: (eyes wide open in a childlike wonder) Please. I'm begging you. Can you describe to me exactly what that feels like?
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England's Frank Lampard has been far short of his best form in the Premiership this season.
This is the sound of 44 years of desperation and the cab driver is not alone. English soccer fans are amongst the most masochistic in the world. Before every tournament, they begin a familiar ritual, working themselves into a World Cup frenzy of overinflated expectation, cocksure that victory is the nation's destiny. A collective delusion, born perhaps of England's proud position as the original home of the game and host of the Premier League, numbs the nation to the harsh realities of the team's actual tournament record since it lifted the World Cup in 1966 for the first and only time:
Cups: zero
Finals: zero
Semifinals: one
Hearts broken: too many to count or heal.
Italian master tactician Fabio Capello has been imported to shatter this toxic combination of overconfidence and tattered hope. Few doubt he will do better than the team's last foreign coach, the sex scandal-plagued Swede, Sven Goran Eriksson, who came closest to winning a trophy by coming second in a condom manufacturer's man of the year award. Capello's achievements thus far have been commendable, most notably his demystification of Croatia in qualifying. Capello's management of the relentless buzz saw that is the English tabloid media has been even more impressive. He first denounced the team's WAGS, those girlfriends gone wild, and then coolly made it known he has determined the players he will task with penalty-taking duties should the team be faced by its traditional poisoned chalice of a shootout. The wily Italian let no names slip, but the palliative effect of the revelation was as if he had administered a Xanax to an entire nation.
Over the next five months, Capello faces his most critical challenge: finalizing the squad he plans to infuse with sufficient technique and organization to augment the traditional English attributes of passion, physicality, huff and puff. This week he flew back to Italy for knee replacement surgery which will take six weeks to fully rehabilitate. His aching joint may soon heal, but the headaches created by the following interlinked tactical challenges he must unravel will not fade so fast:
Can the captain lead by example?
Capello appointed John Terry as his captain in August 2008, declaring the Chelsea defender's "big personality" to have been the deciding factor in his decision. A series of recent embarrassments caused by some of the seedier aspects of this big personality may have the Italian manager doubting his judgment.
First, a marketing agency retained by Terry's agents circulated an e-mail designed to crudely capitalize on the captain's armband for commercial gain. Herewith a sample quote: "John Terry is: British sporting hero; England's football captain; World Cup 2018 ambassador; Football icon; Dad of the year 2008; Voted as one of the World's most influencial (sic) people."
Terry distanced himself from the e-mail and then walked slap bang into a second scandal: a trap set by the weekend tabloid, News of The World. Three of its journalists posed as businessmen willing to exchange an illicit suitcase full of cash with Terry if he agreed to smuggle them into Chelsea's training facilities for a secret behind-the-scenes tour. The hacks taped their conversation as they asked if the arrangement could be repeated for their colleagues to which Terry responded, "Yeah, but you brief them that they don't speak to no one. 'Cause if anyone finds out, then we can't do it no more." The damage to Terry's leadership credibility was surpassed only by that which the national team captain inflicted upon the English language.
Will true glove be hard to find?
The strikers get the goals, the girls and the cash, but in the modern game, few positions are tactically more critical than goalkeeper. In September, Italian coach Marcello Lippi was asked who the star playmaker was on his team. He deadpanned, "We have our fantasista in goal, his name is Gigi Buffon." England's Italian is not so blessed. His goalies have been so unreliable that he no doubt covets both Tim Howard and Brad Guzan, the options available to Bob Bradley, his American counterpart. Portsmouth's David James has been both unfit and unsettled. The form of Robert Green, Paul Robinson and Ben Foster has been erratic at best, leaving the comparatively raw Joe Hart to become widely touted by default. None of these options will inspire confidence, unless you are a Slovenian striker.
Going backward at forward?
The last team to win the World Cup with a dodgy keeper was Brazil in 2002. Goalkeeper Marcos had the good fortune to leave the tournament with a medal around his neck on that occasion thanks to the explosive offense provided by Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo. England's strike force pales in comparison. Wayne Rooney may be one of the finest all-round players in the world today, but the debate over who should join him has become a national obsession.
Thanks to his support play, the burly Emile Heskey has become an oddity: an athlete who is more of a threat at the international level than in the Premier League. The rest of the options come in all shapes and sizes: the leggy Peter Crouch, pocket-sized Jermaine Defoe and powerful Carlton Cole are all battling it out although none has consistently convinced in an England shirt. Michael Owen is increasingly becoming a sorry sideshow at Manchester United. He may have set the 1998 World Cup on fire, but in his few recent run-outs, he has skulked around the pitch with the demeanor of a former child star crushed by the realization his career glories were all front-loaded.
Is the (World) Class half-empty or half-full?
The task of rounding out his squad is a knotty puzzle for Capello, but the current form of his likely starters is arguably an even greater cause for concern. The core members of his team, deemed by the media, and their agents, to be truly world class, have been anything but. Until recently, the squad appeared to be stocked in central midfield, but Liverpool dynamo Steven Gerrard has been so lackluster that many journalists have begun to wonder if he has become a spent force. Gerrard's uncharacteristic impotence is perhaps the only reason so few have noticed the flat performances Frank Lampard, his partner/nemesis in central midfield, has been turning in for Chelsea. Defensive mainstay Rio Ferdinand is mysteriously crocked and two players who have stayed fit and in form -- Ashley Cole and Rooney -- must fear the effects of this being the most wide-open Premier League competition in recent history. The season looks like as though it will go down to the wire, and by the time the World Cup kicks off, the Algerians may be box-fresh in comparison to a physically exhausted English side.
As bleak as matters may appear for Capello on the soccer front, the good news for the English is, they are already 2010 world champions in darts. The nation gained the only world title it will earn this year when legendary chucker Phil "The Power" Taylor became world darts champion after a comprehensive victory over Australian Simon "The Wizard" Whitlock. With trophy in hand, Taylor barely paused to bask in his own achievement before proclaiming, "I'll help England win the World Cup." The former ceramic toilet-roll maker immediately placed himself at the national team's disposal, offering to aid Capello in preparing his side psychologically by training the side in "what goes through my mind when I'm taking a big shot at the world championship final." The Sun was bullish about this news, bombastically proclaiming "Phil to the Rescue" in a headline that no doubt caused a stampede of housewives in the direction of their local bookmakers to back their team to victory.
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Football / Now in T&T football remindin me of de early 80's
« on: January 02, 2010, 09:51:25 PM »
We went through a real lean patch.
Had some decent players like Berta Neptune...Ron La....etc but we National team jes wasn't any good.
Gettin de same feelin now.
At least in dem times, it had a vibrant college league game but not even dat now
Granted, we U20's held their own in the recently concluded World Cup,which is a huge improvement over any Colleges League in de past, but I doh really see any OUTSTANDING players emerging at this time.
It look like a full and possibly prolonged guava season fuh T&T football.
Had some decent players like Berta Neptune...Ron La....etc but we National team jes wasn't any good.
Gettin de same feelin now.
At least in dem times, it had a vibrant college league game but not even dat now
Granted, we U20's held their own in the recently concluded World Cup,which is a huge improvement over any Colleges League in de past, but I doh really see any OUTSTANDING players emerging at this time.
It look like a full and possibly prolonged guava season fuh T&T football.
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Jokes / BILLY DEE WILLIAMS ON TIGER
« on: December 16, 2009, 01:12:35 PM »
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General Discussion / Give Jack he jacket
« on: December 10, 2009, 06:51:44 PM »
I lissenin to I95.5 expeckin a sports program and instead dey have a UNC rally or sumting so.
De spatial advisor torkin up a storm.
I eh go lie....de man doh need no translator again nah. De man articulate yes. Measured and assertive tone.
I eh really payin attention to WHAT he sayin...but HOW he sayin it and he REAL IMPROVE sah. De man soundin almost statesman like.
Like him or hate him, yuh have to admire de fella drive to improve himself.
De spatial advisor torkin up a storm.
I eh go lie....de man doh need no translator again nah. De man articulate yes. Measured and assertive tone.
I eh really payin attention to WHAT he sayin...but HOW he sayin it and he REAL IMPROVE sah. De man soundin almost statesman like.
Like him or hate him, yuh have to admire de fella drive to improve himself.
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Jokes / Rev Al Sharpton blasts Tiger Woods for lack of mistress diversity
« on: December 10, 2009, 05:41:36 PM »
The Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference today to blast Tiger Woods for the lack of diversity among his mistresses. Sharpton claims that the lack of African-American women among Woods' harem will have a negative affect on the black community, specifically young black girls.
Why is it that a man who calls himself black can't bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman? said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem .
What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over?
Shame on you, Tiger Woods! What would your daddy say?
Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today's black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women.
Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines.
Added Sharpton, I'm not asking you to not cheat on your wives, I'm just asking you to give back to your own community
Why is it that a man who calls himself black can't bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman? said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem .
What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over?
Shame on you, Tiger Woods! What would your daddy say?
Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today's black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women.
Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines.
Added Sharpton, I'm not asking you to not cheat on your wives, I'm just asking you to give back to your own community
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Football / Ronaldinho chosen as World Player of the Decade by World Soccer Magazine
« on: December 10, 2009, 12:37:45 PM »
Brazil forward Ronaldinho has been selected footballer of the decade by World Soccer magazine.
The AC Milan playmaker, who won the 2002 World Cup with Brazil and 2006 Champions League with Barcelona, finished ahead of Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo in the voting.
The result, which was announced Thursday, was determined by annual votes taken between 2000 and 2009.
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The AC Milan playmaker, who won the 2002 World Cup with Brazil and 2006 Champions League with Barcelona, finished ahead of Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo in the voting.
The result, which was announced Thursday, was determined by annual votes taken between 2000 and 2009.
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