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Article #1138Re: Can we learn something from Easter Island?
From: Don Quijote
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:41
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:41
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dbohara@mindspring.com (Parallax) wrote in message news:<792abaf9.0401041039.3a78c8b8@posting.google.com>... > The problems Africa to which Diamond refers have nothing at all to do > with limited resources but to weird politics. Africa easily has the > resources to feed itself several times over if it was organized > better. That's where politics plays a role--to keep 'em down... ;) HOW POLITICS WORKS (This little, tiny story is part of a series, in which I explain to my little daughter how things work.) Politics works like this: Big People of Big Country buy Big People of Little Country, who, by the way, will be elected in "democratic elections" thanks to big bucks; Big People of Big Country give big loans to Little Country (of course, to buy "made in Big Country"); Big People of Little Country pocket a big chunk and invest it in the Big Country, without ever investing in real development (education, health, the environment, etc); Little People of Little Country work for ever to pay back what they never got; Big People of Little Country thank Big People of Big Country in the name of Little Country, and promise to repay the big debt; and Little People of Little Country get big promises, just like Little People of Big Country. And they lived happily ever after... http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote
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