Fixing Africa's problems

[Slick]

CCC said:

I think most of us in the more developed nations fail to realize that in order for one group to live in luxury someone else has to live in poverty. If the entire world industrialized like say, the United States, then the US wouldn't be able to maintain the level of opulence it has grown accustom to.

Have you come across this articles?

www.antipasministries.com/oldnews/vol7no2.html

Sounds like you have.



MAKING THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD "TOE THE LINE" FOR THE EMPIRE'S MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

The fact of the matter is, as in Indonesia, Guatemala, etc., governments in most of the developing world can be easily seized (i.e., co-opted), held at minimum expense and made to serve the economic interests of the American, Western European and Japanese multinational corporations. All it takes is the cooperation of the local military, the local police, the local business establishment - and a smattering of "hangers-on" (but no more than 20 percent of the population, lest there be two many "locals" involved with whom the multinationals must divvy up the profits)...

THE "INTERNATIONALISM" OF THE NEW WORLD ELITE

The extravagance and lavish life-styles of the elites which govern this empire - from those who sit in the board rooms of Ford Motor Company, Siemens, Shell, etc., to the "tin horn dictators" and thugs who hold the empire together in the developing world - seem to know no boundaries of shame and modesty. It's an elite of American entrepreneurs, Chinese yuppies, two-career Mexican couples, German investment bankers, French bureaucrats, Italian clothiers, Russian Mafia chieftains, "Third World" police chiefs, etc. who feel that they have more in common with their counterparts in Hong Kong, Mexico City, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Brussels, Bogota and Buenos Aires than have with their own fellow countrymen.

National boundaries and national loyalties no longer have any hold on this elite. In describing this aristocracy of wealth, Robert Reich, in his book, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, writes:

"(These people have) ... slipped the bonds of national allegiances, and by so doing (have) disengage(d) themselves from their less favored fellows."

They no longer feel the need to promote what's good for the nations which gave them birth; their loyalty lies with what's best for the Empire and the multinational corporations that hold this empire together. There is little regard here for national constituencies and national workers. [/u][/b]

I think there's an ounce of truth in that.

[CCC]

Observer said:

Have you come across this articles?

www.antipasministries.com/oldnews/vol7no2.html

Sounds like you have.



MAKING THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD "TOE THE LINE" FOR THE EMPIRE'S MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

The fact of the matter is, as in Indonesia, Guatemala, etc., governments in most of the developing world can be easily seized (i.e., co-opted), held at minimum expense and made to serve the economic interests of the American, Western European and Japanese multinational corporations. All it takes is the cooperation of the local military, the local police, the local business establishment - and a smattering of "hangers-on" (but no more than 20 percent of the population, lest there be two many "locals" involved with whom the multinationals must divvy up the profits)...

THE "INTERNATIONALISM" OF THE NEW WORLD ELITE

The extravagance and lavish life-styles of the elites which govern this empire - from those who sit in the board rooms of Ford Motor Company, Siemens, Shell, etc., to the "tin horn dictators" and thugs who hold the empire together in the developing world - seem to know no boundaries of shame and modesty. It's an elite of American entrepreneurs, Chinese yuppies, two-career Mexican couples, German investment bankers, French bureaucrats, Italian clothiers, Russian Mafia chieftains, "Third World" police chiefs, etc. who feel that they have more in common with their counterparts in Hong Kong, Mexico City, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Brussels, Bogota and Buenos Aires than have with their own fellow countrymen.

National boundaries and national loyalties no longer have any hold on this elite. In describing this aristocracy of wealth, Robert Reich, in his book, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, writes:

"(These people have) ... slipped the bonds of national allegiances, and by so doing (have) disengage(d) themselves from their less favored fellows."

They no longer feel the need to promote what's good for the nations which gave them birth; their loyalty lies with what's best for the Empire and the multinational corporations that hold this empire together. There is little regard here for national constituencies and national workers.

[/u][/b]

I think there's an ounce of truth in that.

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no I hadn't but thanks for the info!!!

[quartermetis]

CCC said:

There wouldn't be corrupt politicians without outside forces funding their bank accounts. Look at what the oil industry has done to Equatorial Guniea. Its a small country with a population of several hundred thousand people and enough oil reserves for everyone in the country to be millionaires instead its leaders live like kings, as do the foreigners employed by international companies. They have private gated compounds surrounded by poverty. Its very hard to get people in an industrialized first world nation to do things like pick fruit for pennies on the dollar so that a substantially large money making population can have oranges in the middle of winter. The wealthy and middle class need the lower classes to maintain and have the opulent variety that they have. People always complain about foreigners working at fast food facilities, but you can't get the average teenager in America to work at a burger joint anymore, but they want the latest video game. Capitalism, Communism, Democracy may all look good on paper and in theory, but unfortnately man is inherently corrupt and self centered so these ideals and thoeries don't tend to work out as planned in real life.

I have to agree, The vast majority of the world has to suffer in order for a smaller minority to enjoy a lifestyle of opulence.

[CooCooCachoo]

I'm glad I don't live in a country with

1. Aids

...Oh wait, yes I do.

2. Famine

...This is true. We're a bunch of fat-asses.

3. Constant wars

...I don't know. My country has constantly been at war for the last 100 years. In just about every area of the globe.

4. Belief in magic and lack of education

...Yeah, well, where I live, they're looking to get Creationism taught in schools. And some judges in the South belief in this magical Jesus fellow, and want to post his "Holy Word" outside courtrooms where they sometimes adjudicate death.

...I'm not sure what Africa is teaching their kids.

5. Racism

...Yeah. I'm glad to live here in the good ol' USA where racism is never a problem.

[CCC]

CooCooCachoo said:

I'm glad I don't live in a country with

1. Aids

...Oh wait, yes I do.

2. Famine

...This is true. We're a bunch of fat-asses.

3. Constant wars

...I don't know. My country has constantly been at war for the last 100 years. In just about every area of the globe.

4. Belief in magic and lack of education

...Yeah, well, where I live, they're looking to get Creationism taught in schools. And some judges in the South belief in this magical Jesus fellow, and want to post his "Holy Word" outside courtrooms where they sometimes adjudicate death.

...I'm not sure what Africa is teaching their kids.

5. Racism

...Yeah. I'm glad to live here in the good ol' USA where racism is never a problem.

I often wonder if the rest of the world is waiting for the populations in African to destroy themselves so that we can move in monopolize on the natural resources and set up a bunch of gated golf course country club communities in the jungles and highlands. While prancing around with our pet lion cubs.