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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
I really don't get involved in the political threads, but the remarks of the UN's Secretary General just struck me as typically non-committal, followed by a tag-line regarding collaboration in the strictly symbolic sense. What a useless organization.
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Are you serious or are you ironic? I tend to assume the first, but I am not sure.
@ von Tonner,
EU-nations buy chicken from African nations to prices they dictate, take the filets for themselves, send back the wings and legs to Africa and sell them at prices so that local farmers trying to sell their own chicken cannot compete with these dumping prices and face bancruptcy, which causes havoc on African agricultural economy. Many other goods are being traded in this way, too. The EU calls that economical developement. I call it assistance to mass murder and destabilizing of social and national structures, because that's what it is in the end.
Or look at american companies like Sonex, which together with Candian Barrick Gold has established a cartel in the region around Rwanda and Uganda and exports minerals and tropical woods at conditions dictated by America, and is suspected by many of acting in the name of the military complex of the US. Not to mention the political and military intrigues the Us over the past 50 years have been massively engaged in.
It is not only the chinese and the russians. The Europeans and Americans are at least as guilty, if not more -due to their longer time of messing up activity in this region.
I am a realist, and i do not believe in the good of man - I eventually believe in some good in some men only. therefor I see no hope for Africa, it will become the hellhole of this and the next century, at least in those places were it not already is.
A brutally open and insightful read is this book, which I consider to be one of the best of the author. But be warned, it is a good method to create depressions, since it if filled with mutilation, genocide, masskilling, war and utmost brutality - the daily routine in many parts of Africa.
http://www.amazon.de/Afrikanische-To...4259445&sr=8-7