"the new Trans-Saharan pipeline being constructed". The pipeline is not new and it is not under construction. This is a decades old project that is still in the planning phase.
I saw a similar map in ZH. It made me wonder what a "Military Agreement" actually meant. Could mean a lot of things, some significant, others not so much.
Respectfully disagree with the implication that absent any outside influence they will do fine by themselves. They need to dial down on the tribalism and the corruption that seems to nullify any aid given to them and bring up the average IQ with better access to food and education (and with a good dose of education about and access to birth control thrown in). I think they are going to need some serious outside help and guidance from someone who has their best long term interests at heart. Not because of misguided altruism but because building up and having strong trading partners and allies is a benefit for your own national interests.
China and Russia seem to have plans for Africa - article:
China and Russia pursue Eritrea for its strategic location in Africa, resources and transport potential
In the same way that Europeans went through the evolution from tribalism to city states / fiefdoms / kingdoms and to nation states the Africans will have to evolve from tribalism to shared national identities and representative government.
They will need some (maybe a lot of) help and guidance to get there.
Maybe China can do it. Article:
Peak China, a declining USA and the future of Africa
A good chunk of Africa south of the Sahara would probably be best served by national borders that reflect the numerous languages and cultures, not the artificial colonial borders placed for administration needs. About 2/3rds of known languages spoken globally are spoken in Africa. That's a whole bunch of diversity.
What a shock it must be to Borrell that the "jungles" see through the "cultured" West and refuse to sell their precious natural resources for beads & buttons.
Josep doesn't understand where his garden of prosperity and culture originated. Much like the people that go to the grocery store can't conceive that the food there has to be grown somewhere else and sent to the store.
They've always seen through the west's fancy words, and they've always understood that the alternative to getting paid in beans and buttons is having the west destroy their countries, one way or another.
Now Russia's come along and shown that their weapons work better than the west's and that they seem to have an actual moral compass.
I'm not going to dispute that map, I think IQ is real and it has real world effects, but even with those numbers, how many Nigeriens from the top 5~10% with an IQ 100+ could be brought together and trained by an effective government? Those people can be factory managers, military officers and government ministers for Africans in Africa. Right now, hundreds of thousands of the most talented young Africans are getting into debt with criminal gangs so they can cross the Mediterranean in rubber rafts in order to sit around on welfare. In a few years, if not already there won't even be jobs for them bagging groceries, loading trucks or flipping burgers.
Anyone who can believe the siren call of neoliberalism qualifies as an idiot (or useful idiot) which was full steam from RJ Hawke onwards, even Paul Keating dreamed of AU as the "wall St of the Asia/Pacific. It's been steadily downhill and now it's indistinguishable scomo/albo combo of fools.
Not being an expert on IQ measurement, but it is the case that many dispute the validity of the testing claiming it is culturally biased and related to educational opportunities. The old nature versus nature argument.
There is a reason that countries like the UK have an open-door policy for the few high IQ Africans to escape through, ...... the West doesn't want Africa's best talent staying in Africa where they might push friends and family to get ideas above their station such as being truly independent nations of free peoples. Instead the West wants them locked into Western companies where they can be shackled as effectively as if they still had chains on.
Yes, there are many examples of Sub-Saharan Africans not being able to maintain the farms and infrastructure after many of the white people left in places like Rhodesia / Zimbabwe and South Africa, which shows what can happen when you have a large low IQ population and a corrupt ruling class.
That said, the leaders of the African nations may be a bit smarter than the average and able to get their act together for the survival of themselves and their own country if they have to.
And finally, even stupid people realize when they are being treated like dogs and don't like it and will fight to free themselves if they ever get the chance.
Wendy, Its completely opposite what you have been indoctrinated to believe by our Oligarch controlled Colonial Empire system. This is just the tip of the IQ iceberg of what you didn't know, you don't know.
Africans & worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') peoples cultivated massively productive 3-dimensional Polyculture Orchards. I come from over 50 years involvement in colonial agriculture & indigenous Polyculture with contacts around the world, so I'm quite impressed with the production of Africa's Polyculture.
SYLVALIZATION (Latin 'sylva' = 'tree') was the abundant foundation of indigenous peoples worldwide. As empires violently spread through invasion, war, genocide & ecological destruction, hungry for the hardwood Oak & other nut & fruit hardwoods for weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. The main productivity loss is the indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors.
Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' (L 'ager' = 'field') 2-8% photosynthesis. Agriculture is all that; settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat') in lives of perpetual slavery & servitude, till the soil washes away & even hay doesn't yield.
Deep Polyculture roots descending many 10s of metres into the substrate mine minerals, pumping, develop extensive nutrient colonies etc all brought to surface production for perpetual food supply.
Polyculture such has kept Middle Africa vibrant regardless of 3,000 years of 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') foreign invasion, extraction, exploitation agriculture & associated deforestation. 3-D multi-layered tree & understory Polyculture, although difficult for the 2-D Linear European mind to fathom is 100 times = 10,000% more productive for food, materials, energy & water-cycle than agriculture.
One example is the once typical ~100 year old White Oak tree, which produced on average with African traditional methods, about 3 tonnes of nuts per year in an area of some 50 square metres (~7 m x 7 m). Once every 10 years a Mast Year will produce some 10 tonnes of nuts. Typically the indigenous Sylva-cultivator brings plant waste, leaves & other carbon & nitrogen rich waste materials to feed the productive trees & understory harvests. Drop sheets placed under the tree at harvest times gather the crop. Trees provide mostly dried nuts & seeds, which require little processing. This concentrated mostly Tree production means little in the way of industrial equipment & much better Return on Investments. Some huge indigenous cities like Tenochtitlan (Mexico city) having 350,000 residents when Cortez the invader arrives is producing most of its own food, materials, energy & water locally in alignment with nature.
Yes Food Forests by David Jacke, employ some of the same technique & are doing excellent work. But as a student of all humanity's worldwide ancient 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') history, I have found these traditions much more productive. Also as a student of Etymology or word & syllabic meanings 'Forest' stems from the same root as 'Foreign' meaning 'Outside' as used from colonial (post-Roman invasion) times with a tone of citizen alienation instead of familiarity for the most productive trees at hand. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-polyculture-orchards
Sounds great, but incompatible with the masses of Africa actually eating as it currently exists today. Mass agriculture can feed mass people but requires a certain style of cultivation. If you can't or won't cultivate that way (save the seeds for future planting, invest in the infrastructure manage water supplies, re new the soil by letting lay fallow etc) you are screwed and won't be able to feed as many people. So either way the pop has to drop to be able to get all food to eat and survive from the polyculture you so greatly admire OR you have to have more food supplies brought in. Food supplies can feed only so many at one time no matter which method is used to generate the supplies. There is the rub in the dream. That's why they tell you not to feed the wild animals, so they do not get dependent on a supply of food where there is none and they don't starve, or have as many offspring. (see the pop. control arguements). So starvation awaits many in Africa, particularly when the West collapses and won't be generating those huge grain hauls currently used to subsidize the pop food sources. We will be seeing that soon. Kissinger was right, who controls the food, controls the people. See Rhodesia to Zimbabwe...or the trajectory of SA with murdering white farmers who actually produce and feed the country.... Not that I knock your dream of balanced ecology. But it only works when the people are in balance with the supplies. Which is why the globalists want de pop. so they can control everyone.
de pop. seems to be very popular these days, which in and of its own is an indication that it is simply a buzzword for everyone to "lazy" of looking beyond the smokescreen of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN. Surely it stands for something real that is part and parcel of the plot THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN is up to. Nevertheless it is rather a miscarriage as LIFE regulates itself even though it might look as though THE HUMAN MIND is the author of results observed, while actually only being a useful servant to LIFE. Which is why LIFE - GOD ALMIGHTY - has created the lifeform men. THE LIE - THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN as its worldly congregation - as it stands in opposition to THE TRUTH - LIFE/EXISTENCE - will eliminate itself in the process of THE TRUTH - GOD ALMIGHTY'S PLAN OF ALL CREATION!
So everyone hating THE TRUTH will go down with its PRIDE, ARROGANCE AND HUBRIS!
Unagnu, Thank you for your read. Its the physiology (not so much "dream") of how nature, biosphere, life & meteorology works. You're still thinking in the 2-D colonial agriculture annual year to year monocrop scarcity paradigm & not working with ecology, wildlife nature with every 'wild' (Old English 'willed') animal as workers in their own specialties. We have a 50 acre property, where Squirrel, Groundhog & BlueJay (bird) supplied with Oak Acorns & Butternuts (kind of Walnut) over the past 40 years planted 90,000 Nut trees, well spaced & sited across 40 acres. Now these huge nut trees are producing massive crops, storing tonnes of water each, building soil, Photosynthesizing & storing energy. Five creeks on this once bone dry farm are now flowing year round, with Beaver, Racoon & Muskrat tending ponds with Aquaculture plants. This 50 acres with Tree & understory energy storage, just upstream west of Montreal & release enjoys Frost-free growing season 2 weeks later in the fall & 2 weeks earlier in the spring compared with its neighbours. 3 short films on POLYCULTURE. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden
The 92-98% Polyculture Photosynthesis of indigenous culture creates cold spots on Continents, which act as Vacuums drawing in warm-moist-Ocean winds inland. Quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surfaces act as Condensation surfaces where 60% of ocean to continent water transfer is made. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snow-precipitation
Yes like all of us the world over, many Africans have been sucked into the $$ consumer junk food vortex. There are still some Indigenous-Knowledge, who keep Sylvalization as the longer vision in their minds. One has to think intergenerationally with 40 & 100 year timelines in mind, whereby typically the elder planted or oversaw planting of Oak, other nuts & fruit trees for the grandchildren & great-grandchildren to benefit from. UNESCO studies (Agro-forestry, Forest-gardens, permaculture, Polyculture Orchard etc.) show how colonial 'agriculture' (L. 'ager' = 'field') with only 2-8% photosynthesis reflects ~95% of solar energy, which pushes winds from the continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert like the Sahara/Sahel. The 99% solar reflected energy from the Sahara/Sahel is what creates & empowers the Hurricanes which hit the Caribbean, Central, South & North America every year. Polyculture Photosynthesis absorption or NOT as agriculture reflection, is the fundamental solar & Climate-Change equation around which all other calculations are secondary.
UNESCO 'desert' studies (eg. Pollen analysis) of 1950-80 on the Sahara/Sahel, Atacama, Gobi, Sinai & other deserts of the world, determined in archeological studies that; all before violent colonization, were once rich Polyculture Orchards with many 1000s of flowing rivers, lakes & millions of streams. When fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarchs commanded their armies & refugee settlers from their own previous mismanagement to invade, cut down the hardwoods & then settle & seed agriculture in the tree-denuded wastelands. The height of the tree as a bio-technology is the basis of Life on earth, directly correlated with our distance from the sun. We have destroyed some 30% of Continental photosynthesis. As we approach
The long 'indigenous' view is difficult when foreign, particularly Canadian mining & forestry 'exogenous' (L. 'other-generated')corporations (largest companies in the world) come to extract resources, command people & leave such often permanent devastation & polluted chemical or radioactive lands. Western powers extract Africa's polyculture 'skin' leaving the earth bare, washing & blowing away in desert, all so we can obsess on our unnecessary consumer goods for a typical year before we have thrown them away in our garbage dumps & toxic sites (11 million toxic sites across Turtle-Island/N. America) & then come back again for more mining & tree destruction. Of course its our welcoming inclusive economy culture in ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, as people which determines our collective intelligence. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Only so good as your rain fall for those 'trees' and wildlife. How about the Kalahari (bush men) or the desserts of Somalia etc where they starve en mass yearly due to dependence on foreign imported food? Hum.. oh dear. The theory doesn't work EVERYWHERE nor does it work if you have the vaunted climate change/drought. Look at the Mid West dust bowl for a recent example. Large parts of the globe are very sparse in food stuff and wild life and CANNOT support their pops. without imports. Or if they have a bad year. See pop. collapse cliff dwellers Anasazi of New Mexico/AZ... and I quote you: It was a tough place to make a living. "Cold, snowy winters give way to hot, dry summers, and periods of relatively abundant moisture are punctuated by sporadic — but sometimes prolonged — periods of drought," wrote a team of Crow Canyon researchers in a 2011 online article. "Living off the land has always been, and continues to be, a challenge, but one that people through the ages have met with extraordinary ingenuity and resilience." And then there is Angor Wat, Vikings in Greenland, Rapa Nuai (sp) of Easter Island, Maya Civilization (drought for prolonged 100 yr plus period), Harrappan civilization in now Pakistan with sophisticated water storage etc went down to drought... Cahokia civilization in what is now IL state. Point is, they could not farm without the water, and regular seasons. Periods of instability in the water available for growing meant doom ... And no, they didn't have the means to tap aquifers far down (drilling wells). While your way has worked, it is merely bring back what the land WAS before deforestation etc. What for example you can do in the Rainforest (so long as you have the RAINS). But as I said, large parts of the world are dry, and don't have water.
Unagnu, 60% of ocean to continent moisture transfer is through condensation of warm-moist ocean winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of living leaf & bark surfaces, drawn in to the continent by the energy vacuum of Polyculture-Orchard photosynthesis. You are describing colonial-empire denuded lands in the MidWest reduced to agriculture scarcity. The 1st Nation Tall-Grass-Prairies also photosynthesize significant amounts of solar energy. In the story of the Wizard-of-Oz, it is Judy's parents who have cut down the Prairie Valley thick Polyculture Trees & Tall-Grass, releasing Solar Energy which turns into the Tornados, which destroy the home. First Nations were violently driven by the millions from their east-coast, Gulf-coast homes & lush Polyculture Orchards & flowing rivers inland where without their livelihood homes & foods, life for even the few survivors is much harder. Rain is only 40% of moisture transfer, only if there are trees to photosynthesize & draw the moist ocean winds inland.
Rainforest refers to trees on clear blue sunny days which are condensing moisture from the air upon their 10s of 1000s of leaves, which then falls as rain under the tree, but not above. Our program is mostly directed to city dwellers to replant Polyculture vertically right where we live, grow Green Roofs, to eat more from deeply rooted mineralized, vitaminized, enzyme-laden tree foods.
My own experience with 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') practices of Polyculture is that we can plant trees in hospitable environments, bit-by-bit such as replanting the Hedgerows between farm fields with such as quick growing Hazelnut, Cherry (production within 3-5 years) etc. We have to plan livelihood for the growers during the whole process.
Photosynthesis on earth is a worldwide equation with every tree planted (particularly deciduous nut & fruit trees) having a beneficial effect everywhere. The more we replant using the Indigenous Polyculture template, the more solar energy we store in matter, energy & water-cycle. During my 20s, I planted some 150,000 Conifer trees for forestry companies. Unfortunately these inappropriate species are the match sticks causing the forest fires of Northern Canada causing such Cardio-Pulmonary issues for millions of Canadians & Americans over 1000 kilometres away.
Because we don't have control over National policy presently, cultivating local economy is our primary task. Here's our corresponding circular Community-Economy Web-Software Program based in Indigenous Economy practices. When people regain control & agency in their own lives through 'community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'), people relax, socialize more & have much fewer babies voluntarily. However as long as people at least produce fecal material, then they are assets, never too many. Here's a set of films, L'or Brun (Brown Gold) we did with Radio-Canada. Methane recovery would provide 30% of all fuel requirements, end wars, create peace, enrich soils, clean rivers & provide energy 'Swadeshi' = 'self-sufficiency'. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/5-biodigestion-toilet
ECONOMIC-INCLUSION, WELCOME & LIFE: We can all be focused on what we’re doing to support life, babies in the womb, elders, handicapped, injured, ill, homeless in our own lives. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors, peoples & 1st Nation people on Turtle-Island/N. America focused upon loving, intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) Circular 'economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture').70% of people today live in multihomes with an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. Within the Multihome humanity's indigenous ancestors, knowing each other & inter-dependent in strong local Circular Economies were renowned & prided themselves on their individual & collective cultural capacity to WELCOME & INCLUDE the stranger, the new child & all to within their midst. Imagine ~100 people with diverse specialized talents, all recognized, accounted-for & included as a powerful force of love & welcome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/C-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute trillions of $ of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions. Extended (really diverse-&-mixed) families form the heart of cultural inclusion for even the unrelated & indeed the whole community. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/C-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
You are confusing southern Africa with Western Africa, which are completely different in terms of environment and geography (and, most importantly, rainfall). Simply put, there are NO large farms anywhere in Western Africa, run by white folks or black people. Likewise, there is very limited access to deepwater ports (for exporting all that agricultural stuff).
That's not accurate at all. IQ at all levels has a strong correlation with economic success. Even between a cohorot of 125 and a cohort of 135, there's a magnitude of difference that is quantifiable.
If you can't be bothered to look at the data yourself read Nassim Taleb's shit on the complete nonsense of claiming IQ to be a statistically significant measure of anything.
Again, psychologists aren't good at math or statistics.
IQ is usually a measure of what are the chances that the individual in question is going to perform well in linear, sequential, reductionist reasoning - because WISDOM AND COMMON SENSE don't have any measurable scale. And as a consequence ANY SOCIETY relying on IQ and a FIAT CURRENCY SYSTEM is relying on a conveyor belt of high level cheaters and swindlers ... among many other things and by extension leading the way towards DESTRUCTION!
Matters are made worse with countries like here in Canada recruiting many of the best and brightest students and professionals to fulfil their over-ambitious points based immigration quotas. The better option for everyone would be to encourage them to say at home and help them improve their own countries.
It used to be send 3rd world countries money and food, the corrupt stole it. Anyone remember the orange UNICEF boxes at Halloween? Now the plan is to bring them into the 1st world countries and destroy entire countries by invasion.
Nutrition has a big impact on mean IQ distribution. That's why Jewish immigrants to the U.S. in the early 20th century scored (in the mean) below Anglos already in the country, and then a few generations later enjoyed a +15 point mean advantage over other Whites. Black Africans would probably match the IQ distribution of other Black populations outside that continent in the right circumstances.
Better nutrition and lower childhood mortality would help Sahal and Sub-Saharan Africa immensely within a generation or two.
To your point, Thomas Sowell pointed out that in the early 20th century, black people from northern cities in the US on average scored better on standardized tests than (impoverished) Eastern European Immigrants. Both Southern whites and blacks (who were very impoverished) tended to do poorly. But, unlike whites, Southern blacks made up a huge proportion of the black population in the US. Sowell's thesis is that the great migration of poor blacks out of the South diluted the relatively better off (but fewer in number) Northern blacks and dragged their culture, IQ, and everything else, down. He claims this Southern culture and poverty affects black Americans to this day.
I'm not sure whether I completely agree with his thesis. But if nothing else, I think his ideas must be grappled with by anyone who wants to make any claim on the heritability of IQ. And it's food for thought about how factors like culture might affect social, economic, and psychological outcomes.
Thesis no one wants to discuss. If White USA is so ray cists and native blacks are 'disadvantaged economically" and it is 'structurally' raycist why do Jamaicans, West Africans and other Caribbean blacks and oh, Nigerians and others of color, do well when they come here despite the so called raycists nature of the Whites? My answer is: they don't embrace victimhood. They don't 'wait' for gimme dats. They aren't wired to think they can't succeed without a hand out nor do they expect one... AND they do want to be successful so they work their azzzs off to get there. Hum. Food for thought. PS. I realize that some will say those who attempt to migrate out of home areas are in and of themselves self selected. So not typical.
PPS. Oh, and maybe they respect themselves and value themselves vs demean themselves. Never see an immigrant that is slovenly in dress, appearance or attitude. Well groomed, dressed appropriately, and ready to go at all times.
It's important to keep selection bias in mind. By that I mean it is usually the most motivated and capable (and male) members of a country who choose to leave and emigrate to somewhere with better opportunities, unless the reason driving immigration is famine, war, etc. (which is what is driving most of the Middle Eastern immigration to Europe). Nigerians are the most financially successful immigrant in the U.S. by a large margin. The reason is because it's very difficult and expensive to get a visa into the U.S. (much less migrate legally) for Nigerians. Those coming are from the far right end of the bell curve of Nigerians in terms of IQ - the 99%ers. It's also why the East Asian immigrants to the U.S. out-achieve the native White populations. There's a billion people in China, and exactly none of those on the left half of their bell curve have the means, motivation, and ability to make the move to the States.
I had some friends from East Africa years ago. They told me back in Africa at the time, the US held regular visa lotteries that anyone could participate in. However, a one-way plane ticket at the time cost around $1000. A normal working-class wage in their country was like $25-50 a month. They said because of the plane ticket alone, not to mention the other costs, pretty much everyone you meet from there was at least middle class and often somewhat wealthy by African standards. I get the impression that what they told me is more or less true for much of the third world.
I think it's important to stress that everyone is potentially susceptible to psychological self-limiting. For instance, math scores tend to be much lower in the US across all racial and ethnic lines than in many other places. I don't think this is because American's are stupid or wired wrong. It seems to be because the general belief in the US is that some people are just naturally good at math, and if you aren't there's not much you can do. So Americans tend to give up quickly when they encounter difficult math. In many Asian countries (where math scores are higher), the belief is that math is like anything else: If you work hard and practice, you'll get better. In my experience, the Asian belief is correct.
I think this false belief about math keeps a lot of otherwise intelligent Americans from going into relatively lucrative STEM fields. And those STEM field jobs end up held by H1B visa holders mostly from Asia. It really isn't good for the US. Or Asia for that matter.
It goes beyond self limiting into culture and self love. That N word we white peepo cannot say which is 'demaning'? they freely and liberally apply to their own group? V. demeaning of themselves. Lyrics of songs from da hood, all about the hos, the xe organs and the like? Demeaning. The dress of the black culture/music? Demeaning. What they celebrate about themselves by putting that out there? Demeaning. It is almost like they are covering up or celebrating their shame and embarrassment or angst and hatred at being black. So they cover it up by projecting out onto Whites their own self hate. Because they can't be / act white or be part of the main culture, because their group culture will turn on them if they are??. If they dress properly speak properly, work for an education instead of sports, or love classical music and not rap or gangsta? It is vicious and hidden and a perfect trap to put themselves down. And I note this: for all its sins, during Segregation the Back Americans had pride in dress, in self. They had doctors, lawyers, business people, historically Black colleges, people to look up to in their own communities. They had jazz clubs and fashion. Fewer Single Moms with kids. They had fewer shootings and violence. Harlem wasn't a hot bed of shooting and crimes. When did they fracture and start sliding? During the Civil Rights movement. And what happened at that time? Oh, that's right! Welfare that penalized INTACT FAMILIES. Have a Dad in the home? Married with kids? No benefits or help for you, no nice (at the time) project to live in. Family destroyed. And it is still that way today. Want food stamps or assistance for your child? Live together? Get penalized. Fewer benes. So therefore Dad moves out and is nothing but a source of child support money and not present in the home or child's life. Add to that the people who could get out got out and never went back to their communities to be 'examples' for the community to look up to and emulate - It really might be that simple. (And yes, there are poor white communities just as bad, see Appalachian communities.)
Agree. Also, the language and logic of multiple choice IQ tests favors those who were educated in the language of the tests. So naturally, 1st generation immigrants will not score as well as their children.
A post above also referenced Nassim Taleb's overly technical takedown of the value of IQ tests.
No, not really. IQ tests are a proxy to measure "g", which is general pattern matching capability. Choosing the correct missing symbol given an incomplete pattern of symbols has nothing to do with education or language. What you're referring to are other proxy measures of "g" - like the military's ASVAB test or SAT/ACT tests for university admission.
During WW1, blacks from the northern states scored higher on IQ tests than southern whites. IQ tests are BS and can't measure what matters for day-to-day life, common sense and wisdom.
IQ tests do measure a meaningful quality in humans. The problem is that people assume it's the only meaningful quality, when that's not what IQ tests are about at all. They measure proficiency in pattern recognition, that's it.
For my part, success in life in the distant past was heavily tied with physical acuity - the ability to fight with a sword, and social proficiency. I rank low on both. They are skills that are completely unconnected to skill at pattern recognition. When someone has physical acuity, they can become an NFL wide receiver; with that acuity and a high IQ, an NFL quarterback; add high social proficiency into the mix, and they can dominate politics. Largely because that's such an unusual package in any one individual.
IQ tests don't measure your intelligence, they measure your ability to do IQ tests. IQ test results are correlated with education levels. Are you telling me that Chinese are brainy and Bhutanese are stupid?
Apart from the brain-drain happening to all of the most enterprising and intelligent individuals making their way to more prosperous countries, this perspective is a serious error of judgment arising from not being able to make the paradigm shift to how people in very different cultures operate. The IQ measurements are slanted towards skills valued in the West, ameliorated with centuries of education towards the promotion of these skills. And the article on abstract thinking illustrates how someone who is intellectual and pondering the relevant issues can completely miss the forest for the trees, and get stuck in one particular paradigm of seeing reality. I have known very intellectual Africans myself (all of them studying for PhD's abroad), and they bring a unique perspective - as do 'white' South-Africans who get the African paradigm to a much greater extent.
Pepa65 you have to careful saying that. You'll start sounding like Kipling who loved India and understood the Indian people and philosophies so well. But he got called 'raycist' for that because he viewed it though his own prism/background. Nonetheless if you want to read an author that 'gets' India and loves India... that's the one. Read Kim. Re-read. The seeds of the modern world are all there... its always been a great Game between powers staged in various places of 'strategic importance'. Now we just add in China to Russia...and shift to Africa.
I've been thinking about it this for a while. I came to the conclusion that by far the worst thing to happen to the United States was becoming the only super power after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It allowed the greediest of our leaders and businesses to run around the world unchecked with no risk and exploit the rest of the world...while at the same time abandoning the citizens at home.
The EU is also probably the laziest partner to have as well. I constantly am reminded the largest business in the EU is a luxury handbag and make-up company. Which says more than I ever could about the continent.
We need superpowers not a superpower. That's the best we can get considering the vile side of human nature. There's no utopia. We just need check and balance.
So if everyone had a nuke we would have peace? Everyone had a gun? I'd prefer utopia where it is just best for everyone to do business and forget about killing the competition.
USSR represented a competing world view (socialism) so of course the elites had to throw us a bone. FDR even wrote about it and was terrified USA could go commie so he told his rich friends they must allow unions, SS, GI bill, health care, and other things for the destitute in order to save Western Capitalism and imperialism. After USSR fell and socialism was thoroughly discredited with lots of help from media and academia, the capitalist elites shackles came off and now were back to Gilded age again. Most people agree that the best time in America was that "balanced" position - FDR until USSR fell for most Americans and Europeans.
Not for the Capitalists however, who actually used to go to jail for fraud and other financial crimes and paid 93% top marginal rates and 35% capital gains under Eisenhower.
This guys are bullshit artists and dont tell whole story. Then why did the wealthy move hell and highwater to change it? Not to mention the fact they now swim in trillions of fed dollars refunded from defense contractors to other Ngos. Third the 1% is 400x wealthier than in the 1950s and should be paying almost 100% of all federal taxes if old schema was used.
The top marginal income tax rate in the 1950s kicked in at $200k a year. I don't know that no one paid it, but it wasn't many because it effectively acted as a $200k a year salary cap.
Your statistics are a bit misleading. In the 1950s, the top 1% took home around a 10% share of the total income and controlled about the same amount of wealth. Today, they take home and control about double those amounts. And their effective rate is actually lower.
Earned income is not where they pay most of their tax. As far as in control of the % of wealth that is impossible to figure out. So much is globally diversified. Toyota, Boeing, Gucci, whatever are represented on every major stock exchange and have a presence on every continent. Everything is financed, insured, sourced, manufactured, assembled and sold somewhere else. I don't know of any major company in the US that is just an American company anymore.
If you were married and filing separately in 1954 and your adjusted income was $200,001that last buck was taxed at 91%. If you made $4001 that last buck was taxed at 22%. There were 24 separate brackets for earned income and I have no idea about the number for dividends, rents and such.
Those were the good old days when the IRS knew how to be bureaucrats and Congress really understood how to foul up a system and then provide ample loopholes by investing in movies, horse racing, booze etc.. I think it was 1988 before Congress closed the credit card interest deduction.
It's tough to be the world's biggest imperialist and then to target imperialists as the bad guys, like France, like Great Britain, like Uncle Sam. "In God we Trust" printed on the US $. What do we do when we think the banks and the WEF are God?
That is what Klaws Schwab's brain, Noah Harari believes. Probably not the scariest guy in the WEF. He just states publicly what Gates and Soros intend to do to save the planet.
Harari is their philosopher telling us human beings have no souls and are just hackable animals. I don't think Gates and the WEF could do what they are doing without the philosophical justification of Harari.
Usury is forbidden by God because it is the fastest way to enslave man. The god the banksters worship is satan. The one hell bent on destroying mankind. He is the master coordinator of this attempt at destruction. Communism, Liberalism, feminism and all the other "isms" are all his attempts at the destruction of mankind.
Ken, God rohibited the Jews from Usury, they limited that to themselves es but charged everyone else. If you worked in the ME you'll find out very soon that Islam prohibits strictly usury to anyone. I was told by a muslim friend that God warns of a war against those who employ usury. Even the Catholic church used to forbid usury and left it to the Jews.
If you have read Dante's Inferno those charging usury are at the lowest level of hell. Nothing can outstrip compound interest. Sooner or later you will loose it all to useless.
The banks in Saudi Arabia "rent" money and so did the Templars.
Ben Franklin's compound interest experiment went on for more than 200 years i think. The interest was used for scholarships.
The historian Barbara Tuchman wrote, "If the jews didn't exist they would have had to be invented." Referring to Jewish bankers during the Medieval period.
Conpound Interest is fine as long as you don't borrow to buy depreciating assets or the interest rate is higher than the appreciation rate of the asset. Charging that dream vacation to Maui is a very bad idea.
Always start to read "Inferno" and then put it down for a decade or more.
I read somewhere or another that in the first quarter of this year that the late fees were higher than the interest payments on credit cards. If true, say goodbye American middle class. We had a good run.
Saudi Banks charge an upfront loan fee and no compound interest. The fee usually amounts to 1.5%. In the Emirates, car loans and small loans are payed off by the Emir every few years.
Christianity had, as you probably know, a Jubilee every seven years to limit the transfer of financed land and collateralized land to the very rich.
Are you familiar with Islamic banking? There is no usury. They don't charge interest on loans, and they don't engage in financial speculation. I'm no expert (nor am I muslim), but it supposedly leads to a much more stable and less exploitive financial system. I don't know why there are no Christian banks doing the same thing since, as you pointed out, the bible is pretty clear on this topic:
Jo-Jo... Islamic banks charge an upfront fee and there is a debate whether it is legal. It is like, I the bank by an item at 100, turn around and sell it to you for 105 on a payment plan. So it is not a yearly compounded interest.
It is the job of the Islamic State to make interest free loans to its citizens regardless of religion, for housing weddings, transportation. This was very evident entirely in Caddafi's Libya. When a person graduated from public schools they could move to higher education or receive a grant to build a 40 acres farm and guided by the Ag ministry. If you did well in college you received a scholarship to best overseas schools abroad. If one married they received the ownership of a small appartment. A new born received a large government grant.
No one was very rich nor poor. Everyone avoided the pathologies of both. Libya had no taxes. Its wealth belonged to the people not a few oligarchs and Usury was forbidden.
Libya, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran have one thing in common, they prohibited Usury.
I feel like it is well understood in the West that our banking system is terrible. It incentivizes bad behavior, and every two or three decades they blow themselves up and take the whole economy down. And we are told we need to constantly bail them out as there is no other viable option. If nothing else, the existence of Islamic banks serve as a demonstration that there actually are other options available.
When a system keeps failing, you must consider the possibility that the failure is a feature not a flaw.
When I was studying the US financial system in College, I noticed an almost identical sine wave curve for the Real Estate Market and the Stock Market both capital gains. The only difference is in their inversion. In other words, when th we Stock Market's bubble was about to pop, the Real EstatecMarket was in the toilet and vice a versa. Those at the very top that hold enough voting Stock to force a removal of a company's board and/or management, and held such power in many strategic industries could affect markets, Blackrock and Vanguard are examples of such influence on Markets.
It seemed to me from the graphs that someone sold high just before a crash, bought at bottom in a undervalued market, then caused a crash. This is the game.
There is no free market, only the road to serfdom or communism.
Dear Simplicius, the quote by Josep Borrel is a funny fake made up by a Russian humorist, he posts ONLY funny political fakes which he made up himself. Here is the original joke https://t.me/lastoppo/2240
And I was wondering why Borrel would have said that the Africans have to chose between hunger and dignity. In the context he supposedly used a phrase like that, he logically would have said, the Africans have to chose between dignity and full stomachs. Alternatively: the Africans have to chose between dignity and hunger on one side and loss of freedom and dependency from Russia while being fed on the other side.
Just cause I got on early, the Mahabharata begins with a gambling game where all the rulers playing the game put their money, their lands and daughters, everything into the big gamble that they would win. Africa, the global south. Asia, the silk road. Ukraine and European security. A lot of chips on the table. President Biden, where are our fallout shelters? Duck and cover or negotiate peace? Why is that so hard?
The positive alternative is to join in the release of world economies and celebrate diversity economically. Aren't we all about diversity? Funny thing that. Guess not. Not for blacks in Africa.
I would like to take a different angle on this story. If you go to Google Earth and find the country of Muritania, from the only airport you will find a John F Kennedy boulevard. The man who was in Muritania asked an elderly cab driver back in 2005, who was John F Kennedy. The cab driver thought for a while, then said: He was a good man who fed the poor. It is true, JFK used to send US surplus wheat to poor nations and deliver it free of charge. Putin is doing the same. Some day there might be a boulevard somewhere in Africa named after Vladimir Putin. But, I will guarantee it there will be no boulevard in Iraq named after G W Bush.
It is time to end the reign of the Globalists and their psychotic bureaucratic servants. It is time, for we, the human race to lift everyone on this planet from the imposed despair of poverty into the plenty of friendship and fair trade.
What is truly happening is simple. We the people have come to realize that we all come from one soul into multiple connected individual souls. We all have felt what has been sacrificed in Ukraine to hurt Russia by soulless criminals and grifters. We share in the pain all of mankind feels.
The last few days, we all scoured for news from Niger, thinking the Globalists with their subhumans servants, better not step on a little country's people because they seek freedom. They'd better not try to prove to the World that they are in charge after, their cowardice and treachery in Ukraine.
I hope the Algerians send in their troops, armer and aircraft to support Niger.
I have been polite so far, so allow me a little transgression. If you hear this Macron then, vas the Faire foutre.
In Karen Armstrong's "The Great Transformation" religious movements (Buddhism, the Prophets, etc.) were formed in response to the suffering and cruelty of war. I'm not seeing that from the Dems which seem to be hell bent on destroying religion and religious regard for people.
There is a reason the cheese in the mouse trap is free...
That said, what Russia is getting out of the free grain give away is the good will and loyalty of the African nations, that they will do business with Russia and the BRICS nations rather than the Western G7 nations. Maybe not at all a bad deal for the African nations compared to what they are currently getting from the West.
I think we might agree. My read is, both Russia and China depend heavily on exports. Western Europe and the US have proven to be insanely unreliable partners to export to. The Global South is currently too poor to take their place. So it seems like the logical thing to do, which is what it seems like Russia and China are trying to do, is to help the Global South enrich themselves by throwing off the people keeping the global South poor. Then Russia and China will have new customers to export to.
Time will tell whether this assessment is correct, but I don't think China, Russia, or any other country, is altruistic. I also see no reason to look for nefarious plots. Everyone seems to be looking out for their own interests. It just so happens the interests of China, Russia, and global South are aligned.
If you go to the bottom of things, nothing is ever absolute and/or perfect. Even if, for instance, in personal life we give away something for free, not even expecting gratitude from the beneficiary, we still gratify ourselves through the act inevitibly. As for the relations between nations and peoples, what you have written about interacting while everyone is looking out for their own interest etc., we don't have to guess about it, Putin has described this as the realistic way of things in international affairs in speeches and intervews, so there.
What you mentioned about the Global South as an export market makes sense. Bring up others who can be your customers and allies makes you stronger.
I am thinking more along the lines of how the people in the USA and Europe have been made wealthy and have the easy life with modern technology by exploiting African labor and resources for far below what their actual value should be.
Example:
How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy
There are examples where Africans could be considered to be savages (Rwandan genocide, 'necklacing' in South Africa, murder of white farmers in Rhodesia and South Africa, etc.) and that probably was the thought back in the days of slave ships and colonialism, but times have (hopefully) changed and it's time to bring the peoples and nations of Africa up to modern standards (if that be at all possible). Or at least give the Africans fair value in trade for their manpower doing the hard and dirty work of extracting the minerals and what the true value of the raw materials are.
So this would be in line with what you said about having new customers to export to (because their living standards would be going up). Paying fair value for African labor and their resources that are being extracted would equal more African customers for their exports.
Assuming that the rich elite leadership of the various African nations do not keep everything for themselves and act to make the lives of their masses of common people better.
The Belt and Road is all about trade. The most efficient trade needs a modern infrastructure.
There is also no reason why Russia shouldn't feed the poor in Africa just as there is no reason why the US and EU shouldn't feed them.
After the terrible earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria a few months ago we completely ignored assisting the Syrians. As if punishing the Syrian people by not offering relief was going to punish Assad.
We are a godless people and are doing much to assist in our own demise trying to harm others. We are acting out the "scorpion and the frog" fable.
I'm in Ontario, commie Canadistan. We all got a big battle ahead of us no matter what country it is. Odds are good that we can turn the tide of evil against us, all in good time in the last inning.
Another excellent analysis. Unfortunately, I tend to believe the Evil Empire wins this one. Niger's Army is small, and ill equipped. And the US has a lot of resources in Africa. And to be blunt, Russia is somewhat busy now. Wagner could raise some merry hell as a covert force, but this is a bit early.
And not to be tacky, but that helps Russia also. Nothing like the colonizing and evil white Western world rolling tanks thru an African country to further the zeitgest. This will pave the ground for the eventual endgame, but France and the US will probably prevail here and now.
During the Peloponnesian war, when Sparta wanted to assist an ally, they wouldn't send an army just a few chosen officers to advise and train the locals.
As Sunzi said, One cat at the hole, and ten thousand mice dare not come out; one tiger in the valley, and ten thousand deer cannot pass through".
Considering Shoigu's claim that 40,000 Russian men are volunteering each month Russia will have no problem lending a hand to Niger, and whomever else needs it.
You may be right, you may be wrong, we'll see. Keep in mind, the infographics above suggest that junta vs interventionist forces would be fairly evenly matched, and the help of Wagner + popular support may be enough to turn the tide.
On another note, there are many uncanny similarities between the Peloponnesian War and the state of the world today, but that's going off on a tangent.
Maybe the Russians can supply some anti-air and anti-armor weapons along with the Wagner troops sent there. Then we'll see if Western air and armor fares any better in Niger than in Ukraine (although to be fair, this time they will be manned by NATO troops rather than Ukrainians) Then it becomes how much in the way of manpower losses France and the US can stand politically. So the current government in Niger does at least stand a chance against an invasion, assuming they have the support of a majority of the people.
You may correct and maybe the west or their proxies will intervene here and "win". But it might well prove a short term advantage and longer term will simply reinforce the longer term trend away from the current neo-colonialist sitauation.
It's way exaggerated of how Russia is busy now. My two buddies, one Army, went for 6 weeks stint to Ukraine last summer, one National Guard, 4 weeks, summer too. Both serve in Central Russia. Since then they were sitting idly in their quarters, never called up again.
We know for sure that Russia have 200k+ ready at all times in Far East, that's the size they use every autumn in exercises (last autumn no exclusion!)
While all of these anecdotes - we can safely presume that Russia is not using more than 1/3 of it's standing forces in Ukraine. So all these myths about Russia on a ropes and/or super busy is just, well, myths
The Rothschild banking cartel must be shitting their pants. Their vast empire is collapsing from Ukraine to west Africa. These evil people are pulling out all stops to control the world. The mRNA bioweapon hasn’t killed enough people and a second or third pandemic will be met with strong resistance.
Yes the EU in particular France is I bet. 😊 Let not forgot many European countries have similar "arrangements" (sic) like France does with Niger. Cut off Rothschild power by cutting off their money-- Powell has done a great job tying the ECB in knots. They are scared, they see things unravelling they can't control. Look at Soros's scaling back. Here in Canada, WEF poster boy Trudeau is starting to pull back financially.
You are correct on Powell. People have yet to understand, that for the first time this June, the US gained its financial Independence from the Crown and their globalist bankers. Powell, is destroying their power, which is their dangerously leveraged Overseas Dollar and its Crypto Currency Ponzi scheme.
Don't forget the massive increase in stillbirths and miscarriages, it's not just dead teens and adults from the clotshots. And every year the numbers will increase.
"Nice country ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it...a real shame."
"the new Trans-Saharan pipeline being constructed". The pipeline is not new and it is not under construction. This is a decades old project that is still in the planning phase.
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Thanks for the update! That map of Russian military agreements with Africa must be keeping western analysts up at night.
I saw a similar map in ZH. It made me wonder what a "Military Agreement" actually meant. Could mean a lot of things, some significant, others not so much.
It isn't as significant as it looks. But it's a portent of things to come.
I'm a great believer in long term trends. Trouble is actual events sometimes move faster! But it is surely as you say, a portent.
Indeed, it is . As you can see here.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/a-new-war-in-africa
I wish Africans all the best in their endeavors.
They have only been around since the dawn of time, it would be nice to see some progress.
Just get the Globalists to get off its chest and it will do fine.
Respectfully disagree with the implication that absent any outside influence they will do fine by themselves. They need to dial down on the tribalism and the corruption that seems to nullify any aid given to them and bring up the average IQ with better access to food and education (and with a good dose of education about and access to birth control thrown in). I think they are going to need some serious outside help and guidance from someone who has their best long term interests at heart. Not because of misguided altruism but because building up and having strong trading partners and allies is a benefit for your own national interests.
China and Russia seem to have plans for Africa - article:
China and Russia pursue Eritrea for its strategic location in Africa, resources and transport potential
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3231129/china-and-russia-pursue-eritrea-its-strategic-location-africa-resources-and-transport-potential
There is plenty of local and native expertise. The challenge as always is to keep the self-enriching psychopaths at bay...
Wendy you seem to have a colonialist (racist) view of Africans.
Tribalism? You mean as in Eastern Europe?
Corruption? As in the EU and USA?
Not all African countries are basket cases FFS.
In the same way that Europeans went through the evolution from tribalism to city states / fiefdoms / kingdoms and to nation states the Africans will have to evolve from tribalism to shared national identities and representative government.
They will need some (maybe a lot of) help and guidance to get there.
Maybe China can do it. Article:
Peak China, a declining USA and the future of Africa
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/blog/2023/peak-china-declining-usa-and-future-africa
A good chunk of Africa south of the Sahara would probably be best served by national borders that reflect the numerous languages and cultures, not the artificial colonial borders placed for administration needs. About 2/3rds of known languages spoken globally are spoken in Africa. That's a whole bunch of diversity.
Have you been to Africa or maybe lived in Africa for a few years to understand that the tribalism of Africans is different from European tribalism.
What a shock it must be to Borrell that the "jungles" see through the "cultured" West and refuse to sell their precious natural resources for beads & buttons.
Josep doesn't understand where his garden of prosperity and culture originated. Much like the people that go to the grocery store can't conceive that the food there has to be grown somewhere else and sent to the store.
Borrell chochea (try use machine translation from spanish slang…)
They've always seen through the west's fancy words, and they've always understood that the alternative to getting paid in beans and buttons is having the west destroy their countries, one way or another.
Now Russia's come along and shown that their weapons work better than the west's and that they seem to have an actual moral compass.
Simplicius: "The problem with Western/European elites is they think everyone in the global south is stupid."
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/IQ_by_Country.png
LOL
Edit: for more info https://wiki.chadnet.org/morality-and-abstract-thinking-how-africans-may-differ-from-westerners
Can you really blame them? Lying to their own people has worked so well for so long, why not for the "brownies"?
It is tough to be an imperialist and attack imperialism, colonialism, and slavery. Big problem for France, Britain, and US.
I'm not going to dispute that map, I think IQ is real and it has real world effects, but even with those numbers, how many Nigeriens from the top 5~10% with an IQ 100+ could be brought together and trained by an effective government? Those people can be factory managers, military officers and government ministers for Africans in Africa. Right now, hundreds of thousands of the most talented young Africans are getting into debt with criminal gangs so they can cross the Mediterranean in rubber rafts in order to sit around on welfare. In a few years, if not already there won't even be jobs for them bagging groceries, loading trucks or flipping burgers.
You've put your finger on it. Even 100 IQ countries like Australia have only mediocre politicians whose incompetence is camouflaged by mineral wealth.
Anyone who can believe the siren call of neoliberalism qualifies as an idiot (or useful idiot) which was full steam from RJ Hawke onwards, even Paul Keating dreamed of AU as the "wall St of the Asia/Pacific. It's been steadily downhill and now it's indistinguishable scomo/albo combo of fools.
Alba loves NAZIs, Sumting Wong with dat!
Not being an expert on IQ measurement, but it is the case that many dispute the validity of the testing claiming it is culturally biased and related to educational opportunities. The old nature versus nature argument.
You make a good point. Certain political ideologies claim Africans have a lower IQ than Westerners, which proves why the continent is so impoverished.
There is a reason that countries like the UK have an open-door policy for the few high IQ Africans to escape through, ...... the West doesn't want Africa's best talent staying in Africa where they might push friends and family to get ideas above their station such as being truly independent nations of free peoples. Instead the West wants them locked into Western companies where they can be shackled as effectively as if they still had chains on.
The typical Nigerian immigrant to the US has a higher income than native born white men.
Nice map. You get an "F" in my class. No legend.
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Yes, there are many examples of Sub-Saharan Africans not being able to maintain the farms and infrastructure after many of the white people left in places like Rhodesia / Zimbabwe and South Africa, which shows what can happen when you have a large low IQ population and a corrupt ruling class.
That said, the leaders of the African nations may be a bit smarter than the average and able to get their act together for the survival of themselves and their own country if they have to.
And finally, even stupid people realize when they are being treated like dogs and don't like it and will fight to free themselves if they ever get the chance.
Wendy, Its completely opposite what you have been indoctrinated to believe by our Oligarch controlled Colonial Empire system. This is just the tip of the IQ iceberg of what you didn't know, you don't know.
Africans & worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') peoples cultivated massively productive 3-dimensional Polyculture Orchards. I come from over 50 years involvement in colonial agriculture & indigenous Polyculture with contacts around the world, so I'm quite impressed with the production of Africa's Polyculture.
SYLVALIZATION (Latin 'sylva' = 'tree') was the abundant foundation of indigenous peoples worldwide. As empires violently spread through invasion, war, genocide & ecological destruction, hungry for the hardwood Oak & other nut & fruit hardwoods for weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. The main productivity loss is the indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors.
Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' (L 'ager' = 'field') 2-8% photosynthesis. Agriculture is all that; settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat') in lives of perpetual slavery & servitude, till the soil washes away & even hay doesn't yield.
Deep Polyculture roots descending many 10s of metres into the substrate mine minerals, pumping, develop extensive nutrient colonies etc all brought to surface production for perpetual food supply.
Polyculture such has kept Middle Africa vibrant regardless of 3,000 years of 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') foreign invasion, extraction, exploitation agriculture & associated deforestation. 3-D multi-layered tree & understory Polyculture, although difficult for the 2-D Linear European mind to fathom is 100 times = 10,000% more productive for food, materials, energy & water-cycle than agriculture.
One example is the once typical ~100 year old White Oak tree, which produced on average with African traditional methods, about 3 tonnes of nuts per year in an area of some 50 square metres (~7 m x 7 m). Once every 10 years a Mast Year will produce some 10 tonnes of nuts. Typically the indigenous Sylva-cultivator brings plant waste, leaves & other carbon & nitrogen rich waste materials to feed the productive trees & understory harvests. Drop sheets placed under the tree at harvest times gather the crop. Trees provide mostly dried nuts & seeds, which require little processing. This concentrated mostly Tree production means little in the way of industrial equipment & much better Return on Investments. Some huge indigenous cities like Tenochtitlan (Mexico city) having 350,000 residents when Cortez the invader arrives is producing most of its own food, materials, energy & water locally in alignment with nature.
The same 50m2 area of 'agriculture' wheat, barley, oats & rye can barely produce only 3 kilograms of seed but requiring labour, equipment & capital expensive clearing, ploughing, seeding, weeding, fertilization, watering, mechanical harvesting, winnowing, processing & storage. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-indigenous-welcome-orchard-food-production-efficiencies
wow!
Sounds very much like food forests, permaculture...!?
Yes Food Forests by David Jacke, employ some of the same technique & are doing excellent work. But as a student of all humanity's worldwide ancient 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') history, I have found these traditions much more productive. Also as a student of Etymology or word & syllabic meanings 'Forest' stems from the same root as 'Foreign' meaning 'Outside' as used from colonial (post-Roman invasion) times with a tone of citizen alienation instead of familiarity for the most productive trees at hand. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-polyculture-orchards
Sounds great, but incompatible with the masses of Africa actually eating as it currently exists today. Mass agriculture can feed mass people but requires a certain style of cultivation. If you can't or won't cultivate that way (save the seeds for future planting, invest in the infrastructure manage water supplies, re new the soil by letting lay fallow etc) you are screwed and won't be able to feed as many people. So either way the pop has to drop to be able to get all food to eat and survive from the polyculture you so greatly admire OR you have to have more food supplies brought in. Food supplies can feed only so many at one time no matter which method is used to generate the supplies. There is the rub in the dream. That's why they tell you not to feed the wild animals, so they do not get dependent on a supply of food where there is none and they don't starve, or have as many offspring. (see the pop. control arguements). So starvation awaits many in Africa, particularly when the West collapses and won't be generating those huge grain hauls currently used to subsidize the pop food sources. We will be seeing that soon. Kissinger was right, who controls the food, controls the people. See Rhodesia to Zimbabwe...or the trajectory of SA with murdering white farmers who actually produce and feed the country.... Not that I knock your dream of balanced ecology. But it only works when the people are in balance with the supplies. Which is why the globalists want de pop. so they can control everyone.
de pop. seems to be very popular these days, which in and of its own is an indication that it is simply a buzzword for everyone to "lazy" of looking beyond the smokescreen of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN. Surely it stands for something real that is part and parcel of the plot THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN is up to. Nevertheless it is rather a miscarriage as LIFE regulates itself even though it might look as though THE HUMAN MIND is the author of results observed, while actually only being a useful servant to LIFE. Which is why LIFE - GOD ALMIGHTY - has created the lifeform men. THE LIE - THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN as its worldly congregation - as it stands in opposition to THE TRUTH - LIFE/EXISTENCE - will eliminate itself in the process of THE TRUTH - GOD ALMIGHTY'S PLAN OF ALL CREATION!
So everyone hating THE TRUTH will go down with its PRIDE, ARROGANCE AND HUBRIS!
Unagnu, Thank you for your read. Its the physiology (not so much "dream") of how nature, biosphere, life & meteorology works. You're still thinking in the 2-D colonial agriculture annual year to year monocrop scarcity paradigm & not working with ecology, wildlife nature with every 'wild' (Old English 'willed') animal as workers in their own specialties. We have a 50 acre property, where Squirrel, Groundhog & BlueJay (bird) supplied with Oak Acorns & Butternuts (kind of Walnut) over the past 40 years planted 90,000 Nut trees, well spaced & sited across 40 acres. Now these huge nut trees are producing massive crops, storing tonnes of water each, building soil, Photosynthesizing & storing energy. Five creeks on this once bone dry farm are now flowing year round, with Beaver, Racoon & Muskrat tending ponds with Aquaculture plants. This 50 acres with Tree & understory energy storage, just upstream west of Montreal & release enjoys Frost-free growing season 2 weeks later in the fall & 2 weeks earlier in the spring compared with its neighbours. 3 short films on POLYCULTURE. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden
The 92-98% Polyculture Photosynthesis of indigenous culture creates cold spots on Continents, which act as Vacuums drawing in warm-moist-Ocean winds inland. Quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surfaces act as Condensation surfaces where 60% of ocean to continent water transfer is made. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snow-precipitation
Yes like all of us the world over, many Africans have been sucked into the $$ consumer junk food vortex. There are still some Indigenous-Knowledge, who keep Sylvalization as the longer vision in their minds. One has to think intergenerationally with 40 & 100 year timelines in mind, whereby typically the elder planted or oversaw planting of Oak, other nuts & fruit trees for the grandchildren & great-grandchildren to benefit from. UNESCO studies (Agro-forestry, Forest-gardens, permaculture, Polyculture Orchard etc.) show how colonial 'agriculture' (L. 'ager' = 'field') with only 2-8% photosynthesis reflects ~95% of solar energy, which pushes winds from the continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert like the Sahara/Sahel. The 99% solar reflected energy from the Sahara/Sahel is what creates & empowers the Hurricanes which hit the Caribbean, Central, South & North America every year. Polyculture Photosynthesis absorption or NOT as agriculture reflection, is the fundamental solar & Climate-Change equation around which all other calculations are secondary.
UNESCO 'desert' studies (eg. Pollen analysis) of 1950-80 on the Sahara/Sahel, Atacama, Gobi, Sinai & other deserts of the world, determined in archeological studies that; all before violent colonization, were once rich Polyculture Orchards with many 1000s of flowing rivers, lakes & millions of streams. When fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarchs commanded their armies & refugee settlers from their own previous mismanagement to invade, cut down the hardwoods & then settle & seed agriculture in the tree-denuded wastelands. The height of the tree as a bio-technology is the basis of Life on earth, directly correlated with our distance from the sun. We have destroyed some 30% of Continental photosynthesis. As we approach
The long 'indigenous' view is difficult when foreign, particularly Canadian mining & forestry 'exogenous' (L. 'other-generated')corporations (largest companies in the world) come to extract resources, command people & leave such often permanent devastation & polluted chemical or radioactive lands. Western powers extract Africa's polyculture 'skin' leaving the earth bare, washing & blowing away in desert, all so we can obsess on our unnecessary consumer goods for a typical year before we have thrown them away in our garbage dumps & toxic sites (11 million toxic sites across Turtle-Island/N. America) & then come back again for more mining & tree destruction. Of course its our welcoming inclusive economy culture in ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, as people which determines our collective intelligence. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Only so good as your rain fall for those 'trees' and wildlife. How about the Kalahari (bush men) or the desserts of Somalia etc where they starve en mass yearly due to dependence on foreign imported food? Hum.. oh dear. The theory doesn't work EVERYWHERE nor does it work if you have the vaunted climate change/drought. Look at the Mid West dust bowl for a recent example. Large parts of the globe are very sparse in food stuff and wild life and CANNOT support their pops. without imports. Or if they have a bad year. See pop. collapse cliff dwellers Anasazi of New Mexico/AZ... and I quote you: It was a tough place to make a living. "Cold, snowy winters give way to hot, dry summers, and periods of relatively abundant moisture are punctuated by sporadic — but sometimes prolonged — periods of drought," wrote a team of Crow Canyon researchers in a 2011 online article. "Living off the land has always been, and continues to be, a challenge, but one that people through the ages have met with extraordinary ingenuity and resilience." And then there is Angor Wat, Vikings in Greenland, Rapa Nuai (sp) of Easter Island, Maya Civilization (drought for prolonged 100 yr plus period), Harrappan civilization in now Pakistan with sophisticated water storage etc went down to drought... Cahokia civilization in what is now IL state. Point is, they could not farm without the water, and regular seasons. Periods of instability in the water available for growing meant doom ... And no, they didn't have the means to tap aquifers far down (drilling wells). While your way has worked, it is merely bring back what the land WAS before deforestation etc. What for example you can do in the Rainforest (so long as you have the RAINS). But as I said, large parts of the world are dry, and don't have water.
Unagnu, 60% of ocean to continent moisture transfer is through condensation of warm-moist ocean winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of living leaf & bark surfaces, drawn in to the continent by the energy vacuum of Polyculture-Orchard photosynthesis. You are describing colonial-empire denuded lands in the MidWest reduced to agriculture scarcity. The 1st Nation Tall-Grass-Prairies also photosynthesize significant amounts of solar energy. In the story of the Wizard-of-Oz, it is Judy's parents who have cut down the Prairie Valley thick Polyculture Trees & Tall-Grass, releasing Solar Energy which turns into the Tornados, which destroy the home. First Nations were violently driven by the millions from their east-coast, Gulf-coast homes & lush Polyculture Orchards & flowing rivers inland where without their livelihood homes & foods, life for even the few survivors is much harder. Rain is only 40% of moisture transfer, only if there are trees to photosynthesize & draw the moist ocean winds inland.
Rainforest refers to trees on clear blue sunny days which are condensing moisture from the air upon their 10s of 1000s of leaves, which then falls as rain under the tree, but not above. Our program is mostly directed to city dwellers to replant Polyculture vertically right where we live, grow Green Roofs, to eat more from deeply rooted mineralized, vitaminized, enzyme-laden tree foods.
My own experience with 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') practices of Polyculture is that we can plant trees in hospitable environments, bit-by-bit such as replanting the Hedgerows between farm fields with such as quick growing Hazelnut, Cherry (production within 3-5 years) etc. We have to plan livelihood for the growers during the whole process.
Photosynthesis on earth is a worldwide equation with every tree planted (particularly deciduous nut & fruit trees) having a beneficial effect everywhere. The more we replant using the Indigenous Polyculture template, the more solar energy we store in matter, energy & water-cycle. During my 20s, I planted some 150,000 Conifer trees for forestry companies. Unfortunately these inappropriate species are the match sticks causing the forest fires of Northern Canada causing such Cardio-Pulmonary issues for millions of Canadians & Americans over 1000 kilometres away.
Because we don't have control over National policy presently, cultivating local economy is our primary task. Here's our corresponding circular Community-Economy Web-Software Program based in Indigenous Economy practices. When people regain control & agency in their own lives through 'community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'), people relax, socialize more & have much fewer babies voluntarily. However as long as people at least produce fecal material, then they are assets, never too many. Here's a set of films, L'or Brun (Brown Gold) we did with Radio-Canada. Methane recovery would provide 30% of all fuel requirements, end wars, create peace, enrich soils, clean rivers & provide energy 'Swadeshi' = 'self-sufficiency'. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/5-biodigestion-toilet
ECONOMIC-INCLUSION, WELCOME & LIFE: We can all be focused on what we’re doing to support life, babies in the womb, elders, handicapped, injured, ill, homeless in our own lives. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors, peoples & 1st Nation people on Turtle-Island/N. America focused upon loving, intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) Circular 'economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture').70% of people today live in multihomes with an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. Within the Multihome humanity's indigenous ancestors, knowing each other & inter-dependent in strong local Circular Economies were renowned & prided themselves on their individual & collective cultural capacity to WELCOME & INCLUDE the stranger, the new child & all to within their midst. Imagine ~100 people with diverse specialized talents, all recognized, accounted-for & included as a powerful force of love & welcome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/C-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute trillions of $ of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions. Extended (really diverse-&-mixed) families form the heart of cultural inclusion for even the unrelated & indeed the whole community. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/C-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are is a web-based Community-Economy software enabling those 70% of all populations still culturally connected in the Multihome as well as those in neighbourhood to:
A) CATALOGUE local individual & business for: talents, goods, services, resources & dreams. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership
B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation
C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS or Both-Sides-Now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published dialogues for reaching formal agreement together as well as conflict-resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Monsanto doesn't want you saving seeds.
You left out the main source of meat protein in Aztec Mexico.
You are confusing southern Africa with Western Africa, which are completely different in terms of environment and geography (and, most importantly, rainfall). Simply put, there are NO large farms anywhere in Western Africa, run by white folks or black people. Likewise, there is very limited access to deepwater ports (for exporting all that agricultural stuff).
Thomas Sowell wrote about how Africa had few suitable places for ports.
Now try to predict individual outcomes by using IQ within the US for example and tell me how that goes.
It's almost all noise after 80.
Psychologists are very bad at statistics and in this case you'd probably have better luck measuring literacy/primary/secondary schooling levels.
That's not accurate at all. IQ at all levels has a strong correlation with economic success. Even between a cohorot of 125 and a cohort of 135, there's a magnitude of difference that is quantifiable.
No they don't.
If you can't be bothered to look at the data yourself read Nassim Taleb's shit on the complete nonsense of claiming IQ to be a statistically significant measure of anything.
Again, psychologists aren't good at math or statistics.
Define "economic success"!
IQ is usually a measure of what are the chances that the individual in question is going to perform well in linear, sequential, reductionist reasoning - because WISDOM AND COMMON SENSE don't have any measurable scale. And as a consequence ANY SOCIETY relying on IQ and a FIAT CURRENCY SYSTEM is relying on a conveyor belt of high level cheaters and swindlers ... among many other things and by extension leading the way towards DESTRUCTION!
Matters are made worse with countries like here in Canada recruiting many of the best and brightest students and professionals to fulfil their over-ambitious points based immigration quotas. The better option for everyone would be to encourage them to say at home and help them improve their own countries.
But that isn't the plan for the NWO.
It used to be send 3rd world countries money and food, the corrupt stole it. Anyone remember the orange UNICEF boxes at Halloween? Now the plan is to bring them into the 1st world countries and destroy entire countries by invasion.
Nutrition has a big impact on mean IQ distribution. That's why Jewish immigrants to the U.S. in the early 20th century scored (in the mean) below Anglos already in the country, and then a few generations later enjoyed a +15 point mean advantage over other Whites. Black Africans would probably match the IQ distribution of other Black populations outside that continent in the right circumstances.
Better nutrition and lower childhood mortality would help Sahal and Sub-Saharan Africa immensely within a generation or two.
To your point, Thomas Sowell pointed out that in the early 20th century, black people from northern cities in the US on average scored better on standardized tests than (impoverished) Eastern European Immigrants. Both Southern whites and blacks (who were very impoverished) tended to do poorly. But, unlike whites, Southern blacks made up a huge proportion of the black population in the US. Sowell's thesis is that the great migration of poor blacks out of the South diluted the relatively better off (but fewer in number) Northern blacks and dragged their culture, IQ, and everything else, down. He claims this Southern culture and poverty affects black Americans to this day.
I'm not sure whether I completely agree with his thesis. But if nothing else, I think his ideas must be grappled with by anyone who wants to make any claim on the heritability of IQ. And it's food for thought about how factors like culture might affect social, economic, and psychological outcomes.
Thesis no one wants to discuss. If White USA is so ray cists and native blacks are 'disadvantaged economically" and it is 'structurally' raycist why do Jamaicans, West Africans and other Caribbean blacks and oh, Nigerians and others of color, do well when they come here despite the so called raycists nature of the Whites? My answer is: they don't embrace victimhood. They don't 'wait' for gimme dats. They aren't wired to think they can't succeed without a hand out nor do they expect one... AND they do want to be successful so they work their azzzs off to get there. Hum. Food for thought. PS. I realize that some will say those who attempt to migrate out of home areas are in and of themselves self selected. So not typical.
PPS. Oh, and maybe they respect themselves and value themselves vs demean themselves. Never see an immigrant that is slovenly in dress, appearance or attitude. Well groomed, dressed appropriately, and ready to go at all times.
You hittin' on all cylinders.
It's important to keep selection bias in mind. By that I mean it is usually the most motivated and capable (and male) members of a country who choose to leave and emigrate to somewhere with better opportunities, unless the reason driving immigration is famine, war, etc. (which is what is driving most of the Middle Eastern immigration to Europe). Nigerians are the most financially successful immigrant in the U.S. by a large margin. The reason is because it's very difficult and expensive to get a visa into the U.S. (much less migrate legally) for Nigerians. Those coming are from the far right end of the bell curve of Nigerians in terms of IQ - the 99%ers. It's also why the East Asian immigrants to the U.S. out-achieve the native White populations. There's a billion people in China, and exactly none of those on the left half of their bell curve have the means, motivation, and ability to make the move to the States.
I had some friends from East Africa years ago. They told me back in Africa at the time, the US held regular visa lotteries that anyone could participate in. However, a one-way plane ticket at the time cost around $1000. A normal working-class wage in their country was like $25-50 a month. They said because of the plane ticket alone, not to mention the other costs, pretty much everyone you meet from there was at least middle class and often somewhat wealthy by African standards. I get the impression that what they told me is more or less true for much of the third world.
I think it's important to stress that everyone is potentially susceptible to psychological self-limiting. For instance, math scores tend to be much lower in the US across all racial and ethnic lines than in many other places. I don't think this is because American's are stupid or wired wrong. It seems to be because the general belief in the US is that some people are just naturally good at math, and if you aren't there's not much you can do. So Americans tend to give up quickly when they encounter difficult math. In many Asian countries (where math scores are higher), the belief is that math is like anything else: If you work hard and practice, you'll get better. In my experience, the Asian belief is correct.
I think this false belief about math keeps a lot of otherwise intelligent Americans from going into relatively lucrative STEM fields. And those STEM field jobs end up held by H1B visa holders mostly from Asia. It really isn't good for the US. Or Asia for that matter.
It goes beyond self limiting into culture and self love. That N word we white peepo cannot say which is 'demaning'? they freely and liberally apply to their own group? V. demeaning of themselves. Lyrics of songs from da hood, all about the hos, the xe organs and the like? Demeaning. The dress of the black culture/music? Demeaning. What they celebrate about themselves by putting that out there? Demeaning. It is almost like they are covering up or celebrating their shame and embarrassment or angst and hatred at being black. So they cover it up by projecting out onto Whites their own self hate. Because they can't be / act white or be part of the main culture, because their group culture will turn on them if they are??. If they dress properly speak properly, work for an education instead of sports, or love classical music and not rap or gangsta? It is vicious and hidden and a perfect trap to put themselves down. And I note this: for all its sins, during Segregation the Back Americans had pride in dress, in self. They had doctors, lawyers, business people, historically Black colleges, people to look up to in their own communities. They had jazz clubs and fashion. Fewer Single Moms with kids. They had fewer shootings and violence. Harlem wasn't a hot bed of shooting and crimes. When did they fracture and start sliding? During the Civil Rights movement. And what happened at that time? Oh, that's right! Welfare that penalized INTACT FAMILIES. Have a Dad in the home? Married with kids? No benefits or help for you, no nice (at the time) project to live in. Family destroyed. And it is still that way today. Want food stamps or assistance for your child? Live together? Get penalized. Fewer benes. So therefore Dad moves out and is nothing but a source of child support money and not present in the home or child's life. Add to that the people who could get out got out and never went back to their communities to be 'examples' for the community to look up to and emulate - It really might be that simple. (And yes, there are poor white communities just as bad, see Appalachian communities.)
Agree. Also, the language and logic of multiple choice IQ tests favors those who were educated in the language of the tests. So naturally, 1st generation immigrants will not score as well as their children.
A post above also referenced Nassim Taleb's overly technical takedown of the value of IQ tests.
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
Taleb argues that an IQ test, as presently administered, primarily identifies good test takers, of which I was one.
No, not really. IQ tests are a proxy to measure "g", which is general pattern matching capability. Choosing the correct missing symbol given an incomplete pattern of symbols has nothing to do with education or language. What you're referring to are other proxy measures of "g" - like the military's ASVAB test or SAT/ACT tests for university admission.
During WW1, blacks from the northern states scored higher on IQ tests than southern whites. IQ tests are BS and can't measure what matters for day-to-day life, common sense and wisdom.
IQ tests do measure a meaningful quality in humans. The problem is that people assume it's the only meaningful quality, when that's not what IQ tests are about at all. They measure proficiency in pattern recognition, that's it.
For my part, success in life in the distant past was heavily tied with physical acuity - the ability to fight with a sword, and social proficiency. I rank low on both. They are skills that are completely unconnected to skill at pattern recognition. When someone has physical acuity, they can become an NFL wide receiver; with that acuity and a high IQ, an NFL quarterback; add high social proficiency into the mix, and they can dominate politics. Largely because that's such an unusual package in any one individual.
IQ is the stupidest comparison method available, doubly so when comparing different languages/education levels/cultures/level of societal development.
How stupid of them :-)
IQ tests don't measure your intelligence, they measure your ability to do IQ tests. IQ test results are correlated with education levels. Are you telling me that Chinese are brainy and Bhutanese are stupid?
Apart from the brain-drain happening to all of the most enterprising and intelligent individuals making their way to more prosperous countries, this perspective is a serious error of judgment arising from not being able to make the paradigm shift to how people in very different cultures operate. The IQ measurements are slanted towards skills valued in the West, ameliorated with centuries of education towards the promotion of these skills. And the article on abstract thinking illustrates how someone who is intellectual and pondering the relevant issues can completely miss the forest for the trees, and get stuck in one particular paradigm of seeing reality. I have known very intellectual Africans myself (all of them studying for PhD's abroad), and they bring a unique perspective - as do 'white' South-Africans who get the African paradigm to a much greater extent.
Pepa65 you have to careful saying that. You'll start sounding like Kipling who loved India and understood the Indian people and philosophies so well. But he got called 'raycist' for that because he viewed it though his own prism/background. Nonetheless if you want to read an author that 'gets' India and loves India... that's the one. Read Kim. Re-read. The seeds of the modern world are all there... its always been a great Game between powers staged in various places of 'strategic importance'. Now we just add in China to Russia...and shift to Africa.
Ursula Von Devil a better deal than China more lies from the bullshiters
Could you share with us a Chinese lie? Just one?
Not a Western allegation, of course, but an actual lie told by the Chinese government, with a link to the original Chinese source.
I bet $100 you can't.
I never said anything about the Chinese lying, what I am saying is the western elites etc are the people lying.
Whoosh!
Can't do it? Even for $100?
How about the huge damages they do with their Road and Belt Initatives? What they ask of the 'host' country will economically exploit them and harm their people/land - see the alternate Nicaraguan canal project....https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-canal-through-central-america-could-have-devastating-consequences-180953394/ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/mystery-surrounds-chinese-investment-in-nicaraguan-canal-project-05262015143309.html https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1670311/chinas-nicaraguan-canal-project-wise-learn-lessons-panama Okay, have I earned ANY Of that money? Cause I see plenty of sleight of hand and PR in this project proposal that is supposed to 'help' and not 'harm' the country and the people... Really and truly is is about power projection NOT helping the country. Same as it with many of the other projects...
It's an entirely imaginary project.
The CCP has told plenty of lies in the past, especially with the cultural revolution.
Really? I'll give you $100 if you find one.
Good luck.
I've been thinking about it this for a while. I came to the conclusion that by far the worst thing to happen to the United States was becoming the only super power after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It allowed the greediest of our leaders and businesses to run around the world unchecked with no risk and exploit the rest of the world...while at the same time abandoning the citizens at home.
The EU is also probably the laziest partner to have as well. I constantly am reminded the largest business in the EU is a luxury handbag and make-up company. Which says more than I ever could about the continent.
We need superpowers not a superpower. That's the best we can get considering the vile side of human nature. There's no utopia. We just need check and balance.
Integrity alone would do!
So if everyone had a nuke we would have peace? Everyone had a gun? I'd prefer utopia where it is just best for everyone to do business and forget about killing the competition.
Me too, but enough research and experience has made me give up my fantasies. It's not about what I want, its pragmatism.
USSR represented a competing world view (socialism) so of course the elites had to throw us a bone. FDR even wrote about it and was terrified USA could go commie so he told his rich friends they must allow unions, SS, GI bill, health care, and other things for the destitute in order to save Western Capitalism and imperialism. After USSR fell and socialism was thoroughly discredited with lots of help from media and academia, the capitalist elites shackles came off and now were back to Gilded age again. Most people agree that the best time in America was that "balanced" position - FDR until USSR fell for most Americans and Europeans.
Not for the Capitalists however, who actually used to go to jail for fraud and other financial crimes and paid 93% top marginal rates and 35% capital gains under Eisenhower.
No one paid the marginal rate. During Ike's terms the top 1% paid about 16% of all federal taxes. Today it's closer to 35% paid.
From Picketty, Saez ...2016 I think they published those stats.
This guys are bullshit artists and dont tell whole story. Then why did the wealthy move hell and highwater to change it? Not to mention the fact they now swim in trillions of fed dollars refunded from defense contractors to other Ngos. Third the 1% is 400x wealthier than in the 1950s and should be paying almost 100% of all federal taxes if old schema was used.
The top marginal income tax rate in the 1950s kicked in at $200k a year. I don't know that no one paid it, but it wasn't many because it effectively acted as a $200k a year salary cap.
Your statistics are a bit misleading. In the 1950s, the top 1% took home around a 10% share of the total income and controlled about the same amount of wealth. Today, they take home and control about double those amounts. And their effective rate is actually lower.
Earned income is not where they pay most of their tax. As far as in control of the % of wealth that is impossible to figure out. So much is globally diversified. Toyota, Boeing, Gucci, whatever are represented on every major stock exchange and have a presence on every continent. Everything is financed, insured, sourced, manufactured, assembled and sold somewhere else. I don't know of any major company in the US that is just an American company anymore.
If you were married and filing separately in 1954 and your adjusted income was $200,001that last buck was taxed at 91%. If you made $4001 that last buck was taxed at 22%. There were 24 separate brackets for earned income and I have no idea about the number for dividends, rents and such.
Those were the good old days when the IRS knew how to be bureaucrats and Congress really understood how to foul up a system and then provide ample loopholes by investing in movies, horse racing, booze etc.. I think it was 1988 before Congress closed the credit card interest deduction.
Filthy fake monarchs are exploiting countries, the US especially and it's all coming to a head.
The world needs a Free America, and people need their countries back!
Oh & BTW, isn't China reeking havoc in Africa?
China seems to have a plan for Africa.
Apparently trading building and maintaining infrastructure for access to resources and raw materials.
10 Things to Know about the U.S.-China Rivalry in Africa
https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/12/10-things-know-about-us-china-rivalry-africa
Peak China, a declining USA and the future of Africa
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/blog/2023/peak-china-declining-usa-and-future-africa
Yep, that's what I meant.
Excellent book - Maoism by Julia(?) Lovell, c.2019
And Thank-you!
It's tough to be the world's biggest imperialist and then to target imperialists as the bad guys, like France, like Great Britain, like Uncle Sam. "In God we Trust" printed on the US $. What do we do when we think the banks and the WEF are God?
You pray some more :)
You pray different or better Gods? :) :)
To be God of ourselves.
That is what Klaws Schwab's brain, Noah Harari believes. Probably not the scariest guy in the WEF. He just states publicly what Gates and Soros intend to do to save the planet.
Harari is their philosopher telling us human beings have no souls and are just hackable animals. I don't think Gates and the WEF could do what they are doing without the philosophical justification of Harari.
Fuck them all...
Usury is forbidden by God because it is the fastest way to enslave man. The god the banksters worship is satan. The one hell bent on destroying mankind. He is the master coordinator of this attempt at destruction. Communism, Liberalism, feminism and all the other "isms" are all his attempts at the destruction of mankind.
God doesn't state a position on usery.
https://www.openbible.info/topics/usury
Let me correct myself. God took no position on jews charging interest to gentiles.
The verse from Matthew encourages lending and usury.
Let me correct myself. God took no position on jews charging interest to gentiles.
Depends on whose God you are talking about. I think Allah would disagree.
Ken, God rohibited the Jews from Usury, they limited that to themselves es but charged everyone else. If you worked in the ME you'll find out very soon that Islam prohibits strictly usury to anyone. I was told by a muslim friend that God warns of a war against those who employ usury. Even the Catholic church used to forbid usury and left it to the Jews.
If you have read Dante's Inferno those charging usury are at the lowest level of hell. Nothing can outstrip compound interest. Sooner or later you will loose it all to useless.
The banks in Saudi Arabia "rent" money and so did the Templars.
Ben Franklin's compound interest experiment went on for more than 200 years i think. The interest was used for scholarships.
The historian Barbara Tuchman wrote, "If the jews didn't exist they would have had to be invented." Referring to Jewish bankers during the Medieval period.
Conpound Interest is fine as long as you don't borrow to buy depreciating assets or the interest rate is higher than the appreciation rate of the asset. Charging that dream vacation to Maui is a very bad idea.
Always start to read "Inferno" and then put it down for a decade or more.
I read somewhere or another that in the first quarter of this year that the late fees were higher than the interest payments on credit cards. If true, say goodbye American middle class. We had a good run.
Saudi Banks charge an upfront loan fee and no compound interest. The fee usually amounts to 1.5%. In the Emirates, car loans and small loans are payed off by the Emir every few years.
Christianity had, as you probably know, a Jubilee every seven years to limit the transfer of financed land and collateralized land to the very rich.
Are you familiar with Islamic banking? There is no usury. They don't charge interest on loans, and they don't engage in financial speculation. I'm no expert (nor am I muslim), but it supposedly leads to a much more stable and less exploitive financial system. I don't know why there are no Christian banks doing the same thing since, as you pointed out, the bible is pretty clear on this topic:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/islamicbanking.asp
Jo-Jo... Islamic banks charge an upfront fee and there is a debate whether it is legal. It is like, I the bank by an item at 100, turn around and sell it to you for 105 on a payment plan. So it is not a yearly compounded interest.
It is the job of the Islamic State to make interest free loans to its citizens regardless of religion, for housing weddings, transportation. This was very evident entirely in Caddafi's Libya. When a person graduated from public schools they could move to higher education or receive a grant to build a 40 acres farm and guided by the Ag ministry. If you did well in college you received a scholarship to best overseas schools abroad. If one married they received the ownership of a small appartment. A new born received a large government grant.
No one was very rich nor poor. Everyone avoided the pathologies of both. Libya had no taxes. Its wealth belonged to the people not a few oligarchs and Usury was forbidden.
Libya, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran have one thing in common, they prohibited Usury.
I guess you are familiar with it then...
I feel like it is well understood in the West that our banking system is terrible. It incentivizes bad behavior, and every two or three decades they blow themselves up and take the whole economy down. And we are told we need to constantly bail them out as there is no other viable option. If nothing else, the existence of Islamic banks serve as a demonstration that there actually are other options available.
When a system keeps failing, you must consider the possibility that the failure is a feature not a flaw.
When I was studying the US financial system in College, I noticed an almost identical sine wave curve for the Real Estate Market and the Stock Market both capital gains. The only difference is in their inversion. In other words, when th we Stock Market's bubble was about to pop, the Real EstatecMarket was in the toilet and vice a versa. Those at the very top that hold enough voting Stock to force a removal of a company's board and/or management, and held such power in many strategic industries could affect markets, Blackrock and Vanguard are examples of such influence on Markets.
It seemed to me from the graphs that someone sold high just before a crash, bought at bottom in a undervalued market, then caused a crash. This is the game.
There is no free market, only the road to serfdom or communism.
Hidden in plain sight - you just said it out loud what the true IDOL THE WORLD WORSHIPS IS! Keep up the good work...
GOD ALMIGHTY BEING THE OPPOSITE!
We allow them to lock us down for our own "safety" and then allow them to decide the best way to dispose of our worthless beings for our own good.
Dear Simplicius, the quote by Josep Borrel is a funny fake made up by a Russian humorist, he posts ONLY funny political fakes which he made up himself. Here is the original joke https://t.me/lastoppo/2240
Nobody needs to parody Borrell & Co - they're a walking parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChVYY80dA6o
Borrell is Kamala without Cackling (SAD! Donald J. Trump)
And I was wondering why Borrel would have said that the Africans have to chose between hunger and dignity. In the context he supposedly used a phrase like that, he logically would have said, the Africans have to chose between dignity and full stomachs. Alternatively: the Africans have to chose between dignity and hunger on one side and loss of freedom and dependency from Russia while being fed on the other side.
Just cause I got on early, the Mahabharata begins with a gambling game where all the rulers playing the game put their money, their lands and daughters, everything into the big gamble that they would win. Africa, the global south. Asia, the silk road. Ukraine and European security. A lot of chips on the table. President Biden, where are our fallout shelters? Duck and cover or negotiate peace? Why is that so hard?
The positive alternative is to join in the release of world economies and celebrate diversity economically. Aren't we all about diversity? Funny thing that. Guess not. Not for blacks in Africa.
NO WAY - THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN is sitting on a pile of SHIT - calling it a house of cards would be an understatement!
ARMAGEDDON is at the door step ... for all those failing to realise it! 2008 is going to look like a birthday party!
I would like to take a different angle on this story. If you go to Google Earth and find the country of Muritania, from the only airport you will find a John F Kennedy boulevard. The man who was in Muritania asked an elderly cab driver back in 2005, who was John F Kennedy. The cab driver thought for a while, then said: He was a good man who fed the poor. It is true, JFK used to send US surplus wheat to poor nations and deliver it free of charge. Putin is doing the same. Some day there might be a boulevard somewhere in Africa named after Vladimir Putin. But, I will guarantee it there will be no boulevard in Iraq named after G W Bush.
It is time to end the reign of the Globalists and their psychotic bureaucratic servants. It is time, for we, the human race to lift everyone on this planet from the imposed despair of poverty into the plenty of friendship and fair trade.
What is truly happening is simple. We the people have come to realize that we all come from one soul into multiple connected individual souls. We all have felt what has been sacrificed in Ukraine to hurt Russia by soulless criminals and grifters. We share in the pain all of mankind feels.
The last few days, we all scoured for news from Niger, thinking the Globalists with their subhumans servants, better not step on a little country's people because they seek freedom. They'd better not try to prove to the World that they are in charge after, their cowardice and treachery in Ukraine.
I hope the Algerians send in their troops, armer and aircraft to support Niger.
I have been polite so far, so allow me a little transgression. If you hear this Macron then, vas the Faire foutre.
Yes, the Spiritual Revolution is clippty clopping moving ahead. Stay the course.
In Karen Armstrong's "The Great Transformation" religious movements (Buddhism, the Prophets, etc.) were formed in response to the suffering and cruelty of war. I'm not seeing that from the Dems which seem to be hell bent on destroying religion and religious regard for people.
va te faire foutre is the correct way to write it... :)
Thanks, "te" is correct, however, the English auto correct keyboard got me.
Don't worry, I fully agree both ways!!! :)
Faire foutre just doesn't translate well into English. In English the Eff bomb is a verb, adjective, gerund and expletive to be used just cuz I can.
With that said; Macron and all the EU and NATO can "va se faire foutre" themselves with 12" sticks of TNT.
I think of Macronster as a clown in a suit, a shadowy front for Rothchild and Associates.
I wish someone would try to 'enslave' me through the dastardly tactic of paying for my groceries no-strings-attached. They're getting expensive!
There is a reason the cheese in the mouse trap is free...
That said, what Russia is getting out of the free grain give away is the good will and loyalty of the African nations, that they will do business with Russia and the BRICS nations rather than the Western G7 nations. Maybe not at all a bad deal for the African nations compared to what they are currently getting from the West.
I think we might agree. My read is, both Russia and China depend heavily on exports. Western Europe and the US have proven to be insanely unreliable partners to export to. The Global South is currently too poor to take their place. So it seems like the logical thing to do, which is what it seems like Russia and China are trying to do, is to help the Global South enrich themselves by throwing off the people keeping the global South poor. Then Russia and China will have new customers to export to.
Time will tell whether this assessment is correct, but I don't think China, Russia, or any other country, is altruistic. I also see no reason to look for nefarious plots. Everyone seems to be looking out for their own interests. It just so happens the interests of China, Russia, and global South are aligned.
Is that your understanding?
If you go to the bottom of things, nothing is ever absolute and/or perfect. Even if, for instance, in personal life we give away something for free, not even expecting gratitude from the beneficiary, we still gratify ourselves through the act inevitibly. As for the relations between nations and peoples, what you have written about interacting while everyone is looking out for their own interest etc., we don't have to guess about it, Putin has described this as the realistic way of things in international affairs in speeches and intervews, so there.
What you mentioned about the Global South as an export market makes sense. Bring up others who can be your customers and allies makes you stronger.
I am thinking more along the lines of how the people in the USA and Europe have been made wealthy and have the easy life with modern technology by exploiting African labor and resources for far below what their actual value should be.
Example:
How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara
There are examples where Africans could be considered to be savages (Rwandan genocide, 'necklacing' in South Africa, murder of white farmers in Rhodesia and South Africa, etc.) and that probably was the thought back in the days of slave ships and colonialism, but times have (hopefully) changed and it's time to bring the peoples and nations of Africa up to modern standards (if that be at all possible). Or at least give the Africans fair value in trade for their manpower doing the hard and dirty work of extracting the minerals and what the true value of the raw materials are.
So this would be in line with what you said about having new customers to export to (because their living standards would be going up). Paying fair value for African labor and their resources that are being extracted would equal more African customers for their exports.
Assuming that the rich elite leadership of the various African nations do not keep everything for themselves and act to make the lives of their masses of common people better.
The Belt and Road is all about trade. The most efficient trade needs a modern infrastructure.
There is also no reason why Russia shouldn't feed the poor in Africa just as there is no reason why the US and EU shouldn't feed them.
After the terrible earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria a few months ago we completely ignored assisting the Syrians. As if punishing the Syrian people by not offering relief was going to punish Assad.
We are a godless people and are doing much to assist in our own demise trying to harm others. We are acting out the "scorpion and the frog" fable.
You should not confuse "we" as in us with "they" as in them. We are the good and they are the evil subhumans. Best wishes.
Unfortunately I live in the US and dastardly deeds are done by "us" even though those deeds are approved of by "them". Guilt by association.
Best wishes to you, too.
I'm in Ontario, commie Canadistan. We all got a big battle ahead of us no matter what country it is. Odds are good that we can turn the tide of evil against us, all in good time in the last inning.
Another excellent analysis. Unfortunately, I tend to believe the Evil Empire wins this one. Niger's Army is small, and ill equipped. And the US has a lot of resources in Africa. And to be blunt, Russia is somewhat busy now. Wagner could raise some merry hell as a covert force, but this is a bit early.
And not to be tacky, but that helps Russia also. Nothing like the colonizing and evil white Western world rolling tanks thru an African country to further the zeitgest. This will pave the ground for the eventual endgame, but France and the US will probably prevail here and now.
During the Peloponnesian war, when Sparta wanted to assist an ally, they wouldn't send an army just a few chosen officers to advise and train the locals.
As Sunzi said, One cat at the hole, and ten thousand mice dare not come out; one tiger in the valley, and ten thousand deer cannot pass through".
Considering Shoigu's claim that 40,000 Russian men are volunteering each month Russia will have no problem lending a hand to Niger, and whomever else needs it.
Russia is busy??? compared to NATO and the US?😳 This will come down to available resources and there Russia wins hands down.
You may be right, you may be wrong, we'll see. Keep in mind, the infographics above suggest that junta vs interventionist forces would be fairly evenly matched, and the help of Wagner + popular support may be enough to turn the tide.
On another note, there are many uncanny similarities between the Peloponnesian War and the state of the world today, but that's going off on a tangent.
Maybe the Russians can supply some anti-air and anti-armor weapons along with the Wagner troops sent there. Then we'll see if Western air and armor fares any better in Niger than in Ukraine (although to be fair, this time they will be manned by NATO troops rather than Ukrainians) Then it becomes how much in the way of manpower losses France and the US can stand politically. So the current government in Niger does at least stand a chance against an invasion, assuming they have the support of a majority of the people.
You may correct and maybe the west or their proxies will intervene here and "win". But it might well prove a short term advantage and longer term will simply reinforce the longer term trend away from the current neo-colonialist sitauation.
It's way exaggerated of how Russia is busy now. My two buddies, one Army, went for 6 weeks stint to Ukraine last summer, one National Guard, 4 weeks, summer too. Both serve in Central Russia. Since then they were sitting idly in their quarters, never called up again.
We know for sure that Russia have 200k+ ready at all times in Far East, that's the size they use every autumn in exercises (last autumn no exclusion!)
While all of these anecdotes - we can safely presume that Russia is not using more than 1/3 of it's standing forces in Ukraine. So all these myths about Russia on a ropes and/or super busy is just, well, myths
"Change is in the air, in the rising of the sun
Change is in the air, when the day is nearly done
And I don't know if it's illusion
Don't know if I see truth
But it's something that I must believe in
And its there when I reach for freedom..."
Freedom, like life, is an illusion - as is democracy.
Life is about squeezing through the gaps.
Whilst maintaining balance.
The Rothschild banking cartel must be shitting their pants. Their vast empire is collapsing from Ukraine to west Africa. These evil people are pulling out all stops to control the world. The mRNA bioweapon hasn’t killed enough people and a second or third pandemic will be met with strong resistance.
Yes the EU in particular France is I bet. 😊 Let not forgot many European countries have similar "arrangements" (sic) like France does with Niger. Cut off Rothschild power by cutting off their money-- Powell has done a great job tying the ECB in knots. They are scared, they see things unravelling they can't control. Look at Soros's scaling back. Here in Canada, WEF poster boy Trudeau is starting to pull back financially.
You are correct on Powell. People have yet to understand, that for the first time this June, the US gained its financial Independence from the Crown and their globalist bankers. Powell, is destroying their power, which is their dangerously leveraged Overseas Dollar and its Crypto Currency Ponzi scheme.
Boom! The Theory of Everything certainly seems correct!
Don't forget the massive increase in stillbirths and miscarriages, it's not just dead teens and adults from the clotshots. And every year the numbers will increase.