and that's where i wanted to start with raj patel. in stuff and start to talk about haiti to read the corporate media does a good job of getting there and showing us the horror of what is happening and you should demand of all the networks they stick with it so that we know people do care, people are hungry for information about what is happening to our fellow and sister human beings in haiti. i think it is proven over and over again. so we are seeing this natural catastrophe and fold, but put this in the context of the politics of this poorest country in the western hemisphere. >> haiti was an inspiration. it's important to remember haiti was the site of the first slave rebellion, and the gabelli in 1974 is something that we need to absolutely continue to be inspired by. but for that, it has been relentlessly punished by the year up and in the united states. it is a country that has been through a prolonged occupation by the united states. and the weapons the united states most recently leveled against haiti have been predominantly e