Africa - the 7-year-old's solution

[Swoop]

That sounds like Tony Bliar. It's not just dictatorships. Even democracy has its fair share of wankers.

Quite true, but even in "democratic" parts of Africa there is the diversion of money/backhanders and all other forms of corruption that takes funds away from "the people".

No wonder aid charities are withdrawing from certain countries (Somalia for instance) because their aid never reaches those who need it.

[mashman]

Why can't the world be as simple as the Teletubbies?
Wake up when the sun rise and sleep when the sun goes down.
Eat food that automatically pops out from a magical toaster.
Watch TV all day.
Run around a peaceful garden, dancing with the butterflies.

Life is not fair :-(

I'd buy that for a $. Shame that TPTB believe that money is the only way to galvanise a society, do your fair share whilst you don't get remunerated for that fair share and you wonder why people are unhappy... Have a look around, it just doesn't work, never has, never will, even the banks have failed (but they're private and don't have to give a shit, which they really really don't)... to the point where even a 7 year old can see it.

We only have ourselves to blame if we can't AFFORD a life? bullshit. The ONLY reason we have ourselves to blame, is because we allow money to run our lives, both personal and professional and that's at all ends of the social scale (PAH one human is worth more than another, blind, sovery very blind and ignorant and stupid). Deny it all you like, but that's EXACTLY what's happening in this day and age. Imagine what could be achieved if we didn't have financial constraints, think in terms of Cancer research, Social Development, Education, Healthcare, Science and Technology, Infrastructure etc... but people won't think about it, because that's not how it works... Like i say, OUR own fault... that or you're all incapable of free thought anymore

The dipshits at the top spend all of their time focussing on why their financial, social and economic policies aren't working... GO FIGURE... and the only solutions they can muster are, get loans from financial institutions, cut funding for services, streamline departments til there's no knowledge left, become more efficient, do better, be like them ... b o l l o c k s!!!

My 7 year old daughter can see this, 1 down, 2 to go lol... Africa just being 1 example of financial failing... and then they have the gaul to blame the people... waaaaa ha ha haaaaaa...

[EJK]

Oh here is Richard Branson's idea.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/...nt-in-Zimbabwe




Invest in Mugabe?



Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...............

[mashman]

Oh here is Richard Branson's idea.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/...nt-in-Zimbabwe

Invest in Mugabe?

Don't they realise there's a recession on? So they want to rebuild Rhodesia eh! Why wouldn't you want to rebuild a country that was flattened by it's own elected officials, whilst leaving those same officials in power... ethnic cleansing I think they called it. But they've gotta have a fundraiser first WTF!!!

When you measure humanity in $$$ value, then you've kinda missed the point... Mugabe would be the last person i'd want to give my business to.

[puddytat]

Most of the countries that are on the brink of ,or already in a state of chaos seem to be countries that do most of thier deals via Baksheesh or bribes....seems to be a cultural thing. I agree with Mashman that money only makes this practice easier,a bit difficult to stick a goat or a sheep or a child in you back pocket.
Often I see a good example of this in the Police forces, usually a ramshackle mob,sloppy & weilding sticks.
Personally as callous as it seems, Id leave 'em to it....its thier responsibility to ensure the survival of thier culture & state & if theyre too fucking ignorant to wear a rubber on thier willy,or so fucking stupid to risk thier survival because of some 2000 year old religion,well isnt that Darwinism?Or is it Karma?

Let us not forget the minerals.....

[avgas]

Oh here is Richard Branson's idea.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/...nt-in-Zimbabwe
Invest in Mugabe?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...............

But investment properties are so cheap there.
Not to mention the hookers.

[admenk]

That sounds like Tony Bliar. It's not just dictatorships. Even democracy has its fair share of wankers.

There I was having a nice day, and you go and mention Tony Blair.......

[mashman]

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto...ls-un-meeting/

ha ha haaaaa, someone might wanna look into the timeframes for the delivery of the MDG's, the goal posts may, just may, have shifted... I don't think these guys really have a clue what to do, but I do hop they're having fun spending the money they receive...

[puddytat]

Aaaah man....all those gazillions spent & the problems just seem to get worse. I do tend to agree that we might want to focus a bit closer to home though.
I do get the feeling that Politicians & the U.N are good at coming up with plans & press releases, but do they honestly think they'll work? Much easier to open youre mouth & sound like youre going to do something, but I struggle to remember when they had a result.
But its oh so easy to criticise ....as I sit warm, dry & with a full tummy.

[jonbuoy]

True. A group of countries wrote off about US40 billion of debt about 5 years ago from what I remember. And they still can't make ends meet... pffft, what do they do with it all...

Swiss bank accounts. They could be as rich as America was huge natural resources and tourism, problem is so much gets sent offshore by the people in charge. They know us soft headed westerners won´t see them starve to death.

[Max Preload]

Meh you'll never fix Africa.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

[mashman]

Swiss bank accounts. They could be as rich as America was huge natural resources and tourism, problem is so much gets sent offshore by the people in charge. They know us soft headed westerners won´t see them starve to death.

That's just global business practice isn't it

[scissorhands]

Introduction: Why study Hegel?

"...the State 'has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State... for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges.'" Author/historian William Shirer, quoting Georg Hegel in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959, page 144)

In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure. The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box.

Hegel's dialectic is the tool which manipulates us into a frenzied circular pattern of thought and action. Every time we fight for or defend against an ideology we are playing a necessary role in Marx and Engels' grand design to advance humanity into a dictatorship of the proletariat. The synthetic Hegelian solution to all these conflicts can't be introduced unless we all take a side that will advance the agenda. The Marxist's global agenda is moving along at breakneck speed. The only way to completely stop the privacy invasions, expanding domestic police powers, land grabs, insane wars against inanimate objects (and transient verbs), covert actions, and outright assaults on individual liberty, is to step outside the dialectic. This releases us from the limitations of controlled and guided thought.

When we understand what motivated Hegel, we can see his influence on all of our destinies. ... Hegelian conflicts steer every political arena on the planet, from the United Nations to the major American political parties, all the way down to local school boards and community councils. Dialogues and consensus-building are primary tools of the dialectic, and terror and intimidation are also acceptable formats for obtaining the goal. The ultimate Third Way agenda is world government. Once we get what's really going on, we can cut the strings and move our lives in original directions outside the confines of the dialectical madness. Focusing on Hegel's and Engel's ultimate agenda, and avoiding getting caught up in their impenetrable theories of social evolution, gives us the opportunity to think and act our way toward freedom, justice, and genuine liberty for all.

Today the dialectic is active in every political issue that encourages taking sides. We can see it in environmentalists instigating conflicts against private property owners, in democrats against republicans, in greens against libertarians, in communists against socialists, in neo-cons against traditional conservatives, in community activists against individuals, in pro-choice versus pro-life, in Christians against Muslims, in isolationists versus interventionists, in peace activists against war hawks. No matter what the issue, the invisible dialectic aims to control both the conflict and the resolution of differences, and leads everyone involved into a new cycle of conflicts.

We're definitely not in Kansas anymore Dorothy.

[puddytat]

So we're damned if we do & damned if we dont

[rustyrobot]

External debt of different countries of the world, measured in US$ (from CIA World Factbook via Wikipedia). Suddenly Africa is not looking so bad. One day, someone (China) is going to want that money back...