Stranglehold of Imperialism: Inflicting Hunger and Hardship in Africa
CST Research
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In late June, Kenyan President William Ruto backtracked on a tax-hiking finance bill after protests left at least 20 people dead and more than 150 injured when police opened fire with live ammunition.
According to Patrick Gathara of The New Humanitarian, the youth-led protests were triggered by a range of proposed new taxes that will increase the financial burden on families already struggling with rising prices.
In response to the ongoing nationwide protests that led up to the aforementioned incident, Ruto said he would withdraw the bill as “members of the public insist on the need for us to make more concessions. The people have spoken.”
Fine words, but Amnesty International had previously reported that 21 social media activists had been abducted by state security agents as the government moved to curb the growing dissent.
Ruto has withdrawn the bill and sacked cabinet members to appease the demonstrators. Whether it will remains to be seen.
Triggering a multi-trillion-dollar debt crisis
In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. This, despite the IMF’s own research showing austerity worsens poverty and inequality.
Days into the shutdown of the global economy in April 2020, the IMF and World Bank were facing a deluge of aid requests from countries in the Global South. Apparently, financial institutions had $1.2 trillion to lend.
Prior to that, in late March, World Bank Group President David Malpass said that poorer countries would be ‘helped’ to get back on their feet after the lockdowns.
However, such ‘help’ would be provided on condition of the acceptance of a booster shot of neoliberalism:
For those countries that have excessive regulations, subsidies, licensing regimes, trade protection or litigiousness as obstacles, we will work with them to foster markets, choice and faster growth prospects during the recovery.”
Two years later, in an April 2022 press release, Oxfam International insisted that the IMF must abandon demands for neoliberal-driven austerity as hunger and poverty continued to increase worldwide.
According to Oxfam, 13 out of the 15 IMF loan programmes negotiated during the second year of the COVID event required new austerity measures such as taxes on food and fuel or spending cuts that could put vital public services at risk. The IMF was also encouraging six additional countries in Africa to adopt similar measures.
Kenya and the IMF agreed a $2.3 billion loan programme in 2021, which included a three-year public sector pay freeze and increased taxes on cooking gas and food. More than three million Kenyans were facing acute hunger as the driest conditions in decades spread a devastating drought across the country. Oxfam said nearly half of all households in Kenya were having to borrow food or buy it on credit.
It was similar in Cameroon, Senegal and Surinam, for example, which were required to introduce or increase VAT, a tax that disproportionately impacts people living in poverty.
In Sudan, nearly half of the population live in poverty, but it was directed to scrap fuel subsidies, which would hit the poorest hardest.
Oxfam and Development Finance International also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion between 2022 and 2027.
Many governments are nearing debt default and being forced to slash public spending to pay creditors and import food and fuel. The world’s poorest countries were due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.
Oxfam has shown that low- and middle-income countries paid $106 billion in debt repayments and interest to G7 countries in 2023.
In a recent article, journalist Thin Lei Win shared a comment from Professor Raj Patel, member of the International Panel of Experts on Food Systems (IPES-Food). He is reported as saying:
Debt servicing at these insane interest rates is making it even harder for countries to make sure the hungry are fed. In Kenya, a neoliberal government has met its citizens’ hunger not with food but with violence and tax increases. This is, alas, an augury of the world to come.”
According to the recently released report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, one in 11 people went hungry in 2023 and more than one in four were cutting back on the quantity and quality of the food they consume.
One in five people faced hunger and more than a half were eating less or nothing at all for days at a time.
Thin Lei Win notes that soaring inflation and stagnant incomes have put healthy food out of reach for many people, while a reliance on global markets to feed the population has made them hostages to either spiking import bills or market volatility.
Solutions
Aside from releasing nations from their heavy debt burdens, the solution involves boosting the resilience of local food systems. With nearly 30% of the world food insecure and 42% unable to afford a healthy diet, it is essential to challenge and move away from a global food regime that relies on corporate-controlled supply chains, creates food insecurity (not least in Africa: see the online article Destroying African Agriculture) and uses debt and dependency to leverage compliance with the demands of powerful agribusiness conglomerates.
That much is made clear in the new report Food From Somewhere (IPES-Food) that argues for building food security and resilience through ‘territorial markets’. It notes that the past three years have seen big cracks emerge in global commodity markets and corporate-controlled supply chains resulting in supply chain chaos, lost harvests, volatile food prices and empty shelves.
The authors say:
Feeding a hungry world requires resilient and robust food systems. In this comprehensive review, IPES-Food finds that a fundamental shift towards close-to-home food supply chains (‘territorial markets’) offers a more resilient, robust and equitable approach to food security.”
The report notes that a wide variety of vibrant food provisioning systems exist beyond corporate-controlled supply chains:
From public markets and street vendors to cooperatives, urban agriculture to online direct sales, food hubs to community kitchens; territorial market channels are contributing to feeding as much as 70% of the world’s population every day. They are based around small-scale producers, processors and vendors, rooted in territories and communities, and play multiple roles within them. Yet they are continuously overlooked.”
Territorial markets are the backbone of food systems in many countries and regions, and the report highlights how they build resilience on multiple fronts, including ensuring access to seasonal, diverse, more nutritious foods and diets, demonstrating high degrees of resilience and adaptability to shocks, providing decent prices and steady incomes for small-scale producers and enhancing environmental sustainability by promoting low-input, biodiverse farming.
They also sustain traditional food cultures and foster community connections, solidarity and social capital.
However, governments are propping up fragile, disaster-prone global supply chains through agricultural subsidies, trade and investment agreements, tax breaks and food supply infrastructure skewed towards large-scale, industrial export agriculture.
The report adds:
At the same time, corporate power continues to grow, eroding traditional practices and food cultures, co-opting local and territorial chains and reshaping diets around staple commodities and ultra-processed foods.”
It concludes that public procurement and state purchasing should be redirected to schemes that support sustainable small-scale producers and subsidies should be shifted to invest in the infrastructure, networks and people that underpin territorial markets, including public marketplaces, collectives and cooperatives.
Moreover, local markets need to be protected from corporate co-optation. This involves breaking up supply chain monopolies and encouraging sustainable, biodiverse farming practices and diverse healthy diets.
By moving towards food sovereignty in this way, we can not only avert future food crises and the ramping up of a debt-trap strategy but also challenge a food regime that has its roots in a persistent colonialism and imperialism facilitated by the imposition of neoliberal trade policies and World Bank/IMF directives at the behest of global agribusiness interests.
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“Many governments are nearing debt default and being forced to slash public spending to pay creditors and import food and fuel. The world’s poorest countries were due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.”
This is starting to affect western governments, to placate people on benefits, they will have to cut the overseas aid budget as government borrowing is maxed out. At the moment the cost of servicing western debts is more then they spend on defense.
So politicians will have to answer the question, who do we take care of our own people or people who live in other places, especially if other places have seen their population rise fourfold in the past twenty years
Couldn’t bear to continue reading after “IMF COVID -19 Loans”
RAGE! DOWN WITH THESE PARASITES!!
How to encourage migration to Europe – top suggestion from WEF – starve the bastards out of Africa.
Don’t look now, but they’re also trying to “starve the bastards” out of Europe. Maybe Atlantis will rise in time to catch the European migrants?
Here’s hoping Howard (alliteration unintended). The imaginary disappearance of the actual arctic ice sheet may cause the actual appearance of the imaginary continent so watch this space, anything can happen in the next half century.
The latest comments (below, down to and including mik
Aug 1, 2024 11:33 AM) show that CST’s theme (Africa in Debt Bondage to World Bank) has echoed in readers’ minds: EU$A in Debt Bondage to World Bank.
We are all Africans now.
Also inflicting poisoning on us:
“But don’t worry, folks. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has got our backs. They’ve set the acceptable daily intake of glyphosate in our drinking water at a level that’s only … checks notes … 7,000 times higher than the European standard. Because nothing says “We care about public health” quite like allowing a generous helping of herbicide.
“For food, the EPA in the United States has set the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) for glyphosate at 1.75 mg/kg body weight/day, which is significantly higher than the standards in Europe (0.5 mg/kg) and Canada (0.3 mg/kg).11 Even more alarming is that these standards only consider direct glyphosate toxicity, completely overlooking its potential impact on gut health.”
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/07/30/truth-about-grains-in-our-food-system.aspx
“Also inflicting poisoning on us:”
I think it’s called The Rasputin Model of extermination: full spectrum, incremental lethalities, delivered across many platforms (war, food, water, pharmaceuticals, radiation, stress, air pollution, post-hypnotic suggestions…) to catch us all as we scurry…
“They’ve set the acceptable daily intake of glyphosate in our drinking water at a level that’s only … checks notes … 7,000 times higher than the European standard.”
It’s okay, however, because the Glyphosate* is cancelled out by the Fluoride… much like C*V*D cancelled the Flu, back in the day… I assume…. right? Well, of course.
*Which has got be a human-sterilizing agent, on top of whatever else it does…
Despite all its progressive double-talk, EU is a nest of vipers. It
-. is unelected and does not seek consensus of its members
-. allows genetically mutilated foods and corollary poisons, and is the base of Bayer/Monsatan; only Russia is holding the fort
-. fails to require, and prohibits, labelling of such monstrosities.
EU standard for labelling additives including legibility – E followed by 3 or 4 digits – is a joke.
One explanation for the massive rise in young people’s colon cancer rates… And the jab might further expedite the development.
If for no other reason, US, the West, G7, War Empire must be defunded by the people of each country involved in never ending exploitation and extraction of world resources/wealth. This sh*t has been going on, in the public’s faces, post WW2 for over 75 years.. A modicum of research reveals these facts. That MSM never discusses any of it is no excuse. The UN has been a G7 puppet agency which is a shell op for the World Bank and IMF, a shell op for Western imperialism. They continue as the prow of 1% imperialist empire. The 1%’s msm’s job is to keep Western citizen’s minds cemented in settler colonialism, conceded to war & exploitation empire as a daily, acceptable, way of life for their societies.
Without US troops in 800+ bases across the world and the CIA/Spy/NATO provocateurs acting with impunity, authorized by ignorant voters, this sh*t would not be happening and the world would remain localized regions of self sufficiency. Imagine G7 populations voting control over policies that keep this monster operating. The dismantling of the US War Machine + socializing the FED to a public service oriented functionality, would move over $2 trillion/year of revenues from the 1%’s Casino fire money laundering operations, into defunded public services.
This is not rocket science. It’s Common’s Sense that is within our authority to discuss, design, and implement. Plus absolute limits to poverty and wealth.
The system can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
It’s unfair, of course, but the ideal inflection-point, at which to have struck, to undermine The Fuckers in Charge… was a few centuries back. I guess that’s one advantage of Institutional Continuity. Can we name one genuinely Progressive (pro-Human) Institution, older than a few decades, if any…?
The structural nightmare: greed and hatred and genocidal superiority complexes are MUCH more seductive and stable “values” to rally around, in the long term, than peace, love and fellow-feeling.
The Good News: all you’d need to seriously monkeywrench TFIC plans, now, would be to merely STOP consuming the tools they are using to build the Techno-Gulag. Stop buying the newest pocket-computing-surveillance devices, stop feeding their LLM-demons, stop falling for the psychological programming of their immersive games and Hollywood blockbusters/ TV zombie-fruit… stop gulping their pills…
.. and, yet, can we even manage THAT much rebellion?
Yes we can! No cell fone, cash & check, bike commuting, Win7, organic keto, exercising, water drinking fools like myself can defund their Casino that relies are our sucker participation. Yes we can!!!
Win7! Ha ha!
I’m writing this, stubbornly, on a Windows 8-powered PC. It takes 15 minutes, sometimes, to write and send a three-sentence email… but convenience isn’t everything.
You can roll back that piece o’sh*t 8 machine easily, if the processor is intel gen 6 or earlier. Just use one of your old windows7 license numbers. driver and update packs are available online from MS.
“ Just use one of your old windows7 license numbers.”
Hmmmmm. License numbers? What are those? laugh
I DO have two other machines (running Windows 10 and 11) that I use only for editing (video and audio)… but never online; virgins to the Garbage Net.
My phone is a Nokia brick from pre-2010 (if I were in my 30s I’d call it my birth control phone).
Semi-Luddite.
I salute your grass-fed red meat flag, too!
The Treasury used to be, and managed by a competent congress, they went as far as they could, until that is the Fed stepped in and created that grade A disaster we now have to account for.
So rebel away young rebel, but the end is not that near for young rebels so be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
“So rebel away young rebel”
Young? Ha ha! Bless you….
I’m not wishin’ it, i’m workin’ it.
Even if we had, nature would have evolved another evil to fill the new niche we’d created.
That’s sort of how it works.
“Even if we had, nature would have evolved another evil to fill the new niche we’d created.”
The original Evil is still a self-replenishing resource and our biggest problem: Psychopathy.
I wonder if Psychopathy is A) a result, like the Habsburg chin,of unrestrained inbreeding? and B) produced deliberately (ie, the “aristocratic” inbreeders see Psychopathy as a super power and inbreed in order to “keep the flame alive”)? Wouldn’t that be a twist that explained everything…
Both, obviously.
LOL
Mind blowing !
They’re using Conman Sense.
and HOW are they going to be defunded when they shoot protesters?
We the people are the ones who approve all action on our behalf. There’s a million ways to eliminate the authority of FAKE republics. Stop voting. Stop paying taxes. Massive Consumer General Strikes, and on and on. Stop feeding the beast and it will starve.
Africa debt is small fry.
from there own website.
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Of the $8.4 trillion President Trump added to the debt,
$3.6 trillion came from COVID relief laws and executive orders, $2.5 trillion from tax cut laws, and $2.3 trillion from spending increases, with the remaining executive orders having costs and savings that largely offset each other.
The largest bills include $1.9 trillion from the 2020 CARES Act, another $1.9 trillion of ten-year borrowing from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and a further $2.1 trillion of borrowing from the Bipartisan Budget Acts of 2018 and 2019, which mainly increased discretionary spending. The bipartisan Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 enabled an additional $500 billion of borrowing, mainly from the repeal of various Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes and other bipartisan tax cuts. Other significant legislation added a combined $350 billion to the deficit.
In terms of executive actions, President Trump’s unilateral expansion of various tariffs raised about $445 billion over ten years, largely offsetting the cost of other actions such as the termination of the ACA’s cost-sharing reductions funding and a prescription drug rebate rule (which was ultimately repealed).
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-did-president-trump-add-debt
dont worry they gave you 1500$.
in the U.K they gave people 600£ and put the gas electric food up 40%.
Love it when they claim he was draining the swamp but really it was you they was draining (you).
There is what the West might call An Avenging Angel stalking Territorial Markets: geoengineering. Allowing for natural drought-deluge cycles, there is nevertheless a kind of climatic cycle entirely man made – mostly by the US imperialists.
There just happen to be devastating “natural” events at precisely the right moment to destroy a given area’s crops. This is happening in Africa, in South America, even in Europe at a time when all three continents are attempting to develop territorial sovereignty so as to free themselves from the terrorism of the IMF and World Bank.
Must watch documentary: Stealing Africa ⎜WHY POVERTY? ⎜
People will have very different take away from it. Some will say, you see….classic, Africa’s corruption….or….it’s all about filthy greedy corporations…..another ones ….no, no, no, that’s imperialism at its finest.
None of this is true. People are unable to discern the truth because their World View prevents them to see the truth.
About World View: How rule the world. Lecture at the FSB (cued, watch 4 min (preferably the whole))
So, fundamentally it is not about “Stranglehold of Imperialism…..”. Present day Imperialism is enabled by Capitalism.
Call spade a spade, of course, if you can see it, and/or, if you are not contaminated with the worst disease of our age: Superficiality.
We are all getting it from behind, some more some less, depending on how much anyone can take it and that depends on his world view. Not many people can say they’ve been raped, unfortunately, most just want more lube.
admin,
links to videos are currently wrong.
They seem fine to me.
Strange, they are still wrong on my computer.
Anyhow, here are links:
youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU
youtu.be/kuf9d3sci-w?t=3239
The right video is posted it’s just your browser showing you the last video it cached & not the one you embedded. Just clear your cache and it will prob be fine.
Sometimes, the Youtube vids will display a different image than what the linked video is supposed to show. Don’t know why.
Africa = massive resources, vast land area, cheap labour, corrupt leaders, water and good climate.
Of course the $UITURD$ will $alivate, $uck and $wallow.
Pre-soak, wash, rinse…repeat
That the average woman in Africa has 4.7 children is convrniently overlooked.
Will you elaborate on that statement of yours because it implies an attitude revealing a “superior” modern European view. Please prove me wrong.
One word -Sustainability.
The population of Africa has a double rate of 27 years.
S.A. and Zimbabwe being models of indigenous success ?
Takes two to make a baby, and often the female must submit. Or else!
“….often the female must submit”
Are you implying African women don’t like sex?
They might like sex, but they don’t want another child.
Big, important difference.
Sure, it’s possible.
Also, they might had ovulation and the urge was just unbearable.
I just want to say, the realm of possible in this case is big.
Africa is the richest continent on the planet in terms of resources. In theory there could be as many as 10 well-red children in every family. But the Western Imperialists will not leave Africa alone – they want its resources for themselves so these resources can then be sold back to the people. Katanga, part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is arguably the single richest point on the planet, a treasure trove of “Rare Earth” elements.
“Katanga, part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is arguably the single richest point on the planet, a treasure trove of “Rare Earth” elements.”
Ah, but people are generally immune to such info because it contradicts the “intuitive” (propagandized) explanation for African misery: the bad luck of being African!
So who signs the contracts that keep Africans in poverty ?
Not the very rulers of the countries involved?
“Not the very rulers of the countries involved?”
…who are very clearly installed by the Ruling Structure?
Here’s a little narrative illustrating how embarrassingly easy it is for The Actual Owners to remove any “African Leader” who isn’t producing the desired results in the required time frame…
1— “[John ] Magufuli promoted COVID-19 misinformation and misinformation related to vaccination during the pandemic in Tanzania.” — The Economist in March 2020.”
One year later…
2—- “Magufuli died on 17 March 2021 at 6 p.m. EAT (15:00 UTC), according to a statement read out by vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan, who was sworn in as his successor two days later. He was the only President of Tanzania to die in office.” (Wiki)
3—Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television. Mr Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and rumours had been circulating about his health.”–BBC
For “foreknowledge” bonus points:
4—- Reuters “fact check” (as of mid-2020) “The African leader who said positive coronavirus results came from samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw did not die of cardiac arrest. Magufuli has been in office since 2015 and on June 16, 2020, dissolved parliament ahead of elections in October, in which he will seek re-election”
And, of course, we’re all aware of the CIA’s very effective Patrice Lumumba escapade…
Steven. You are well aware that was exactly my point.
The rulers of these impoverished countries live in inconceivably elaborate palaces paid for by their compliance in the sale of the family silver and of the disposable population.
Until they decide not to comply……
If they’re happy to accept their 30 pieces of silver it’s up to the people to take control of it.
To be honest, I’m much more concerned with the situation in UK.
Quite surreal that you suggested the other day that I might be living in 1933 Berlin.
And today the PM confirmed that I am…..
Keir……..Is that really you ?
“Steven. You are well aware that was exactly my point.”
Didn’t catch that; it looked more like you were victim-blaming on a massive scale.
“The rulers of these impoverished countries live in inconceivably elaborate palaces paid for by their compliance in the sale of the family silver and of the disposable population.
Until they decide not to comply……”
How does this not apply, with equal poignancy, to “us” and everybody else under the Iron Boot? The only “revolutions” I’ve noticed (beyond the brief little ray of sunshine when Iceland temporatily jailed bankers) were the “Color Revolutions” engineered by the Iron Boot-owners (starting in 1917).
Africa-blaming is fun, but is it fair? I know plenty of Africans: smart, educated, “modern” as you like. They just aren’t in possession of a world class army capable of rebuffing NATO.
Re: Berlin: I shouted at a disembarked busload of fasco-compliant sheeplings in early 2021. “But these are the RULES,” a sheepling complained, right back at me (in German). I marched away in a huff; staircase wit hit me about 30 seconds too late.
Missed opportunity!
All the more reason to dehumanise the people, characterise them in “social science” as retards, corrupt and militarise criminals, etc. Well-funded “rebel groups” – e.g. M23 and Boko Haram (No Books), how imaginative – have been wreaking havoc for decades.
Some time ago I recall reading an article claiming that over a certain period of time that African nations had accrued debts to the IMF of just under $200bn with the added burden of the so called “Structural Adjustments” plus interest. However, over that same period of time the value of Metals, Minerals and Munchables (food products like Chocolate, Tea, Strawberries at Xmas etc) were a tad under $1 trillion. Bought for pennies too, think Uranium from Niger or Congolese Coltan often sourced using child labour but marked up to high heaven in added value when it hits Western Markets. Meanwhile we’re told these Africans are just a bunch of feckless beggars barely able to look after themselves without our Christian Charity.
How China Lifted 800 Million People Out of Poverty
China Center for International Knowledge on Development. Yu Jiang. (86-10) 5751-2390. [email protected]. Over the past 40 years, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty, accounting for more than 75 percent of global poverty reduction
https://www.worldbank.org › en › news › press-release › 2022 › 04 › 01 › lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience
In 1960 a French writer predicted all the above. He compared two great and recently liberated sets of people: post-War Africa and post-War China. Africa, having emerged from WW2 relatively unscathed, was in a much better situation than China which had been devastated by the Japanese invasion followed by civil war with a so-called “Chinese Nationalist” U$ proxy army, Yet the Frenchman predicted that Africa would go down and China would rise: because Africans imitated their Anglo-American-European Zio Capitalist predators, whereas China embraced the Communist ideal of equality.
Vote Communist in the next election. If communism has been culturally genocided in your country, set up a cell and issue a manifesto. TINA (There Is No Alternative)..
L’Afrique noire est mal partie by agronomist René Dumont 19621.
Those Chinese billionaires – and there are plenty of them – don’t seem too worried about equality. If they were good communists they would share their wealth out equally with their comrades.
Do you own nothing? Or if you do own stuff, why not share it out? Set a good example and give it to us commenters here at OffG !!
After all, true communism does not allow for individual property rights, so give up yours.
“……..“civil war with a so-called “Chinese Nationalist” U$ proxy army,……”
As far as I known real communists shall not lie or deceive.
France was a primary parasite.
“Vote Communist in the next election.”
Ah, Communism! The “cure for capitalism” derived from the writings of a member of the European Haute Bourgeoisie (actually crypto-Industrialist), buried, with the ceremonial grandiosity of a Duke, in the ancestral heart of Colonialist Capitalism… strangely enough. The “forbidden” writings force-fed to precociously Oedipal sophomores of The Capitalist West for generations… strangely enough!
I fall for this gambit hook, lie and sinker!
And maybe if we all clamor for it in the coming days of Planned Economic Destruction (and reset)… we can get in line for UBI that we can earn on a Technocratic Social Credit System as beta-tested by China…! Monthly “meat” rations and all!
Fucking yay.
See enlightened economist Richard Werner and learn.
“See enlightened economist Richard Werner and learn”
Pay attention to what Power does, not what Power claims to will do (via “trusted” figures)… and learn
“See enlightened economist Richard Werner and learn”
Pay attention to what Power does, not what Power claims that it will do (via “trusted” figures)… and learn. More than enough historical precedents to chose from.
Yes and werner exposes many of those precedents and a lot of economic cons and dodges from the inside. And don’t worry, I take what I need and move on where I want.
Downvotes (13) and my critics (below) make some powerful points. Nevertheless, China lifted hundreds of millions of its people out of poverty to become the largest economy in the world. (And incidentally, the country with the largest number of Christians).
“The dogs yap but the caravan goes its way” — Arab Proverb.
Yes, it’s a model of communism.
How many people on this forum would last the night without disappearing ?
Still, once you’ve got rid of those pesky troublemakers every morning is a glorious new dawn.
Swings and roundabouts.
“Nevertheless, China lifted hundreds of millions of its people out of poverty…” Like the “miracle” of Germany’s development after WWll, right? And Japan’s. It’s always the same game. And it explains why China was a key, and fully compliant, actor, in the FauxVid1984 hoax. The Illusions are interlocking and mutually-supportive but easy to see through when one takes a step away from the propaganda and tests the framework with logic. I had a “communist” academic acquaintance who bragged, one Xmas, c. 2017, on Faceboot, that the Soviet Union managed to provide the workers with everything they needed for a comfortable life: no hunger, no poverty! I had to point out that it only worked because the Soviet Union was able to exploit African labor/ resources: the poverty was simply magnified and passed on to African (or Third World) partner-economies. Communist regimes have always been pyramidal hierarchies with Capitalists at the top. The Workers always pay the price for the power and comfort of their bosses; the workers of poorer partner-economies then shoulder the burden of the meager comforts of the worker-society, above them, in the global hierarchy. Communist or Marxist tenets are pretty lies that appeal to the idealists… on paper. Like ALL campaign promises. People are fundamentally gullible: Advertizing of every flavor works on them; even “Anti-Capitalist” advertizing which happens to be generated by Capitalists. And the “anti-Fascist” advertizing which happens to be generated by Fascists. Why are we so trusting/ gullible? I thik it must be The Religion Gene. A just system would feature no Billionires (or Trillionaires: the elephant in the room). Fair pay for hard work. To each according to her/his energy and talent, from each according to his/her mathematical ability to contribute. Good faith negotiations. Usury forbidden. Everyone’s freedom of choice and expression in balance… Read more »
A while back, the Chinese leader decided to find out how the asian tiger economies made so much progress. He did and copied the idea- lots and lots of small, independent local banks. Decentralisation is the answer, you don’t have to be communist to get out of poverty, just understand the magic money tree trick.
You have to wipe out corruption, cronyism and nepotism.
On strangleholds: Huma Abedin recently engaged to George Soros’ son Alex
Abedin’s (47) first husband Weiner is 64 while Alex is 38, but the latter woker and inherits his old father power grab. ‘Love’ on last sight. No more need for official servers in the toilet a la Hillary.
Your closing sentence has the makings of a vulgar joke– a double-entendre conflating “official servers in the toilet” with a hasty Hillary/Huma tryst in the guise of a restroom break.
But I don’t want to lower the tone with such tawdry innuendo. 😉
Speaking of blatant racism, did you get a load of Trump at the “Black Journalists” conference. Dude might as well have said the N word. And then his sycophants and of course MAGA cult did their best to justify his racism by telling everyone they’re racists too. Funnier than hell. This is a sociological study in the making. Amazingly, I still think Harris is either going to have to get kicked to the side, or she’s going to lose, she is that bad.
“The n-word”, bloody nigger muricunt.
You sound as stupid as your fucking name.
One has to wonder about the point of having algorithm-enhanced Mods, at all, if any randomly idiotic commenter can refer to another commenter as a stridently racist slang term. So which words or concepts are, algorithmically, off the table…? Some guidance, Mods…?
Sometimes they slip through. Nothing compared to the demented stuff you don’t see. Schlomo is one of many
Ha! Fair enough! BUT… erm… can you dispatch an operative to TASE the boor? Just enough to teach him a lesson…?
The “Black Journalists” conference is by definition “racist.” Everything is “racist” these days, and it matters less and less, because it’s a stick/schtick people are increasingly tired of being beaten with.
One word: BIS
I thought that the cradle of civilisation would be able to look after itself ?
The Chinese bloke is quite right, in many respects, except he doesn’t appear to have factored-in how deliberately fractured most of the African countries are. And they’re fractured for good reason too; it makes the tremendous bounties of resource wealth easier to plunder when the buggers are at each others throats. BIG money has been spent by the Filthy-rich Euro-Royal Houses, and the Oppenheimer Diamond and Gold Consortium/s. to ensure that the Africans, throughout the continent are well and truly divided … it just makes it easier to loot the countries. And, if ever you have independently-minded upstarts, like Gadaffi, Lemumba, Sankara, et. al. well if the targeted MI6/CIA/MOSSAD cultivated savages don’t sort-out the cheeky buggers, there’s always the US/BRIT/FRENCH/GERMAN Military/ies to bludgeon the rascals to a stand-still. It’s been happening for centuries now …
The irony here is hilariously caustic: China has been a colonial resource and subject of “The West” since c. The Opium Wars. Where did China’s high tech capabilities come from? Why were Chinese engineering/ tech students allowed to study at Ivy League institutions during the latter phases of The Cold War (Nixon era) if China was (and is) an “enemy”? How does a country that didn’t even have its first Industrial Revolution until the final decades of the 20th century claim enough parity, with The US/ EU, to “threaten” either body if not for the help of The Hidden Hand(s)? “Over the past 120 years, China has attempted industrial revolution four times. Given the country’s rapidly rising status as an industrial power, what happened over the past 35 years that differed from its three previous failed attempts at industrialization?” Well, of course, there always has to be THE ENEMY to fear/ hate, in order to hold the Narrative of “Murrka” (or The West) together… but it can only be THE ENEMY if it isn’t just an agrarian 17th century “power”. Like The Soviet Union, which was strangely decrepid/ docile by the time Gorbie was used as a charming beard to supposedly help “ease tensions”. The “tensions” were theater. Nixon (via Kissinger) was feeding officials of “Red China” all kinds of goodies/ bribes via back channels, calling it “detente”… a rather grandiose simulation quite similar to his other “achievement” in the fantasy realm (something to do with the moon, I think)… The Anglo-American sphere has been the only Superpower for several centuries. They are in charge of this theatrical production which is put on, in all cases, to confuse/ mislead/ diffuse the world’s Serfs (us). The mineral-rich nations of Africa would be every bit as advanced, technically, as parts of China… Read more »
As the “smug” Chinese guy in the video says, you have to develop and take care of what is given to you.
The Chinese historically have intentionally been to some degree self-limiting in regards to technology. Modern China has been very good in terms of learning, developing and maintaining new technologies; most of Africa not so much.
“Modern China has been very good in terms of learning, developing and maintaining new technologies; most of Africa not so much” and “The Chinese historically have intentionally been to some degree self-limiting in regards to technology” To the second citation: Are you somehow mistaking the Chinese for the Amish? “To some degree self-limiting” is a very delicate way of saying that China was technologically primitive until VERY recently. But let me guess: you think it’s owing to intrinsic “Asian Wisdom,” right? Not a lazy stereotype at all! But the facts are a little more bluntly unflattering. When China’s first (post 1980) “Industrial Revolution” is discussed, it’s often discussed in terms of the markets China learned to appeal to… whereas the actual discussion should, traditionally, center on scientific and/or engineering advances (the “Industrial” part of “Industrial Revolution”) kickstarting the “revolution”. In fact the “miraculous growth” was in Aid Packages (overt and covert) from the same old Control Structure. China gets one set of “loan” conditions, the nations of Africa get a very different set of conditions. Outmoded 20th century anti-China propaganda focused on the nonsense of China representing a “threat” (like “the Soviets”) to “The West”. Contemporary pro-Chinese propaganda is much more subtle and aimed at younger believers: Canadian, post-Trudeau, propagandist Matthew Ehret Kump writes propaganda for a thing called the China Channel (hosted on the LA Review of Books site). Kump works under various names; on his substack, where he garned a following by saying the “right” things about FauxVid1984, he pushes pro-China propaganda alongside pro-Blockchain propaganda. As an author (“Matthew JL Ehret”) he publishes as an “historian” with a calculated bias that targets the history-ignorant young and grows bolder with every book, eg 2018’s “The Time Has Come for Canada to Join the New Silk Road: A Blueprint for… Read more »
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More to the point: China has a long history of building and maintaining a Civilization, one of the world’s greatest. Black Africa, not so much.
Just leave Africans alone to develop their own ways based on their roots. All European “civilisations” and now the Chinese do, is fuck them up further. Let them be. Modern, mostly extremely destructive technology and our evil financial systems are all we can “offer” them. They and other parts of the Global South will be the future of mankind. And we and the Chinese will be as nothing because we and our soooo superior systems are addicted to power supplies with populations who will be totally helpless and panicking without them.
As I posted above, S.A. and Zimbabwe being the zenith of this indigenous proficiency ?
It’s the banksters again demanding taxes on food and other necessities, while people are already struggling to feed their families. It’s called genocide.
First it’s African, then the West.
Bring war, famine and strife and use it to kill off the indigenous people or force them to flee or enslave them. It’s a win win for the Satanic Cabal as they force Africans en masse on an already overcrowded Europe and other parts of the world furthering the extension of the Kalergi Plan and leaving Africa wide open for the Technocratic take over of it’s land and precious resources.
It is well said. The Cabal is reluctant to feed people. They are doing similar things in Europe, killing the farming etc.
One of the young Western educated Leaders:
“William Ruto‘s first year: he promised to make life easier for Kenyans, but things got worse”.
Just in case you weren’t aware, the scamdemic and the mass mandated vaccination programs imposed on billions throughout the planet was a “medical IMF.”
The WHO “Pandemic Treaty” is a method of ensuring that all countries will have continuous biomedical debt as future pandemics are declared.
And that is just the tip of Depopulation program iceberg.
These very sick people presently in charge of the IMF, WHO, BIS, et al just love making money from murder and misery.
Karma is a real bitch if you don’t know…
“Karma is a real bitch if you don’t know…”
I’m afraid “Karma” is a meme we were given, like the Christian “eye of a needle” riff, to placate us with assurances that Divine Justice will always prevail. As far as I can see, though, mass murderers like Kissinger and Bush keeping dying peacefully, in their sleep, at grand old ages, and lauded in flowery obituaries… while decent people often have horrific fates befall them.
I think “Karma,” like secular Justice, is up to justice-driven humans to serve up.
We need to shake off these placating fairytales…
“Karma” whereby the divine interacts with its parts and brings the necessary remedy. eg; Imagine your body’s immune system destroying a foreign agent or insult introduced therein.
Prehaps you could ask CST Research to do one on the U>K or europe
the question is would you print it.>?
Oxfam (also known as support a pedo to go exploit overseas) has a lot to answer for.
Very careful with using them as a form of statistics.
No reason to question the data. It is based on data that’s in the public realm –
“Oxfam has tracked and reviewed the publicly available IMF COVID-19 loan documents associated with all 130 loans made to these countries as of March 15 2022.”
If you doubt it, go through the documents and check it for yourself.
Why do you ask that?
CST has written much on the UK/Europe and OffG has published it.
Post africa
was green
then ? don’t know, how
we know
300 years ago
family
claimed all lands
took a while. mind
So the Covid event was a device of globalist control and repression.
Local food networks are better for everyone and increase food sovereignty.
It’s a good article but there’s nothing new here. Industrial Society has its trajectory and will take control of land and resources through stealth or by force. In the future, local food will be the only food worth eating, and industrial/chemical garbage will continue to poison the masses.
The purchase of large areas of farmland by rich weirdos is another symptom of the underlying issue. Access to land is fundamental to healthy agricultural communities and inequality in land “ownership” or stewardship prevents many folk from Scotland to Surinam from claiming their birthright and having a piece of land to subsist on.
For you, there may be “nothing new here”. Fine. But let’s not be too dismissive and be more positive and constructive. The article offers data and links to reports with info and real-world examples of projects that are trying to develop food sovereignty. Reports and data that took months to collate and put together. And projects that took years to develop in Africa, India and elsewhere. I think it is good to get this information out there. Sure, many people will not be inclined to click on the links and read reports, but the article offers quick, concise insights. This piece will appear elsewhere and hopefully reach out to people who may think there is something new and of value for them.
It’s a much nicer feeling to read an article signed by a human (Colin S Todhunter) than by CST Research, even if the quality is the same. Just saying..
Maybe there’s a reason for it.
On the ball