Good article on the ridiculousness that was Live 8.

locoguano · Jul 5, 2005

saltyone said:

That will never happen. You have studied them, I've lived with them. There is no way they will ever amount to anything.
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not anytime soon.. but they have cheap labor and alot of raw materials... recipe for economic boom...

saltyone · Jul 5, 2005

locoguano said:

not anytime soon.. but they have cheap labor and alot of raw materials... recipe for economic boom...
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Dumazulu stick fighters in Hluhluwe area, 1996.

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Univers, sans-serif]CANNIBALISM IN THE AFRICAN CONGO [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, Univers, sans-serif]

Nearly all the tribes in the Congo Basin either are or have been cannibals; and among some of them the practice is on the increase. Races who until lately do not seem to have been cannibals, though situated in a country surrounded by cannibal races, have, from increased intercourse with their neighbours, learned to eat human flesh. Soon after the Station of Equator was established, the residents discovered that a wholesale human traffic was being carried on by the natives of the district between this station and Lake M'Zumba. The captains of the steamers have often assured me that whenever they try to buy goats from the natives, slaves are demanded in exchange; the natives often come aboard with tusks of ivory with the intention of buying a slave, complaining that meat is now scarce in their neighbourhood. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that they prefer human flesh to any other. During all the time I lived among cannibal races I never came across a single case of their eating any kind of flesh raw; they invariably either boil, roast or smoke it. This custom of smoking flesh to make it keep would have been very useful to us, as we were often without meat for long periods. We could, however, never buy smoked meat in the markets, it being impossible to be sure that it was not human flesh.
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Engert, who is evidently an intelligent and highly observant traveller, and incidentally a brilliant photographer, adds:

"Cannibalism is far from being dead in Africa, for it is almost impossible to control the natives in the bush. I remember one District Officer standing at his door one night, listening to the drums, saying to me: 'They are chopping someone.' 'Why don't you do anything about it?' I asked. 'How can I? If I try to send my native policeman, he will only pretend he has been; he would be much too frightened to go. We take action if we have proof, or if we find bones."
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They are destined for great things. It will not be long until they are training astronauts and developing new cures for diseases.

locoguano · Jul 5, 2005

They are destined for great things. It will not be long until they are training astronauts and developing new cures for diseases.
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Dont use an exception to describe the norm...

saltyone · Jul 5, 2005

locoguano said:

Dont use an exception to describe the norm...
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:rofl: :rofl:

saltyone · Jul 5, 2005

Here are some interesting stats:

The State of the world population: 2004 report that is being released today suggests that life expectancy at birth for South African males in 2004 is 45.1 years while the life expectancy for females is reported as 50.7 years. The total population is estimates to decline from 45.2 million in 2004 to 40.2 million in 2050. Other estimates provided include at TFR of 2.61 and HIV prevalence rates for the sexually active population of 18.1 for males and 23.5 for females. It is also stated that the South African GDP may decline by 17% by 2010. This raises several issues that warrant discussion with the Department of Social Development about some of the assumptions and assertions in the report
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http://www.statssa.gov.za/news_archive/17sep2004_1.asp

GDP Gross Domestic Product. A measure of the value of domestic goods and services produced by an economy over a period of time, such as a year. Only output values of goods for final consumption and investment are included because the values of primary and intermediate production are assumed to be included in final prices. GDP is sometimes aggregated and shown at market prices, meaning that indirect taxes and subsidies are included; when these have been eliminated, the result is GDP at factor cost.
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West Africa

WEST AFRICA [23] 1980 1985 1990 1992
GDP as percentage of total GDP (172 countries), at market prices
Benin 0.014 0.009 0.009 0.010
Burkina Faso 0.015 0.011 0.013 0.013
Cameroon 0.076 0.075 0.056 0.050
Cape Verde 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.002
Central African Republic 0.008 0.006 0.007 0.006
Chad 0.007 0.007 0.006 0.006
Congo 0.017 0.019 0.014 0.013
Cote d'Ivoire 0.102 0.063 0.050 0.046
Equatorial Guinea 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
Gabon 0.043 0.033 0.028 0.025
Gambia, The 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002
Ghana 0.045 0.041 0.032 0.031
Guinea 0.003 0.003 0.014 0.013
Guinea-Bissau 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
Liberia 0.011 0.010 0.006 0.005
Mali 0.016 0.010 0.013 0.013
Mauritania 0.007 0.006 0.005 0.005
Niger 0.026 0.013 0.013 0.011
Nigeria 0.937 0.730 0.165 0.134
Sao Tome and Principe 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Senegal 0.030 0.023 0.029 0.028
Sierra Leone 0.011 0.012 0.004 0.003
Togo 0.011 0.007 0.008 0.008
TOTAL WEST AFRICA[23] 1.387 1.084 0.479 0.425
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East and South Africa

E. & S. AFRICA[27] 1980 1985 1990 1992
GDP as percentage of total GDP (172 countries), at market prices
Angola 0.000 0.000 0.031 0.027
Botswana 0.010 0.010 0.016 0.017
Burundi 0.009 0.010 0.006 0.005
Comoros 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
Djibouti 0.003 0.003 0.002 0.002
Eritrea 0.001 0.004 0.003 0.003
Ethiopia 0.016 0.060 0.044 0.044
Kenya 0.073 0.055 0.043 0.036
Lesotho 0.004 0.002 0.003 0.003
Madagascar 0.041 0.026 0.016 0.014
Malawi 0.012 0.010 0.009 0.008
Mauritius 0.011 0.010 0.013 0.014
Mayotte 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Mozambique 0.020 0.023 0.007 0.006
Namibia 0.022 0.012 0.012 0.012
Reunion 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Rwanda 0.012 0.015 0.012 0.007
Seychelles 0.001 0.002 0.002 0.002
Somalia 0.006 0.008 0.005 0.004
South Africa 0.793 0.499 0.544 0.539
Sudan 0.068 0.093 0.046 0.027
Swaziland 0.006 0.003 0.005 0.005
Tanzania 0.052 0.062 0.013 0.012
Uganda 0.013 0.035 0.022 0.013
Zaire 0.145 0.065 0.041 0.037
Zambia 0.039 0.020 0.017 0.014
Zimbabwe 0.054 0.041 0.035 0.023
T0TAL E.&S. AFRICA[27] 1.413 1.071 0.947 0.876
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North Africa

NORTH AFRICA[5] 1980 1985 1990 1992
GDP as percentage of total GDP (172 countries), at market prices
Algeria 0.426 0.523 0.305 0.216
Egypt, Arab Republic of 0.231 0.313 0.180 0.161
Libya 0.358 0.247 0.148 0.145
Morocco 0.190 0.116 0.132 0.128
Tunisia 0.088 0.075 0.063 0.070
TOTAL N. AFRICA[5] 1.293 1.274 0.828 0.000
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http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/stats02.htm

With such a decline since 1980, I don't see a bright future for any of these nations.

saltyone · Jul 5, 2005

Let's not forget how loving and peaceful they are in most parts of africa.

By Muslim standards, Egypt is almost moderate. No place in the world are Christians more brutally persecuted than in Sudan, Africa's largest country. In 1989, militant Islamic military officers seized power over the democratically elected government and declared a virtual jihad against southern Sudanese "infidels" -- which is to say, against Christians and animists. A scorched-earth policy was adopted in southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, scene of some the most horrifying religious persecution since the holocaust. Whole villages have been bombed, burned and looted. Many inhabitants have been relocated into concentration camps where they have been starved until they agreed to convert to Islam. Christians have been subject to torture, imprisonment and assassination. Enslavement, rape, deprivation of water and systematic starvation are also commonplace. As a result of these policies, more people in Sudan have been murdered than in Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda combined.
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Several Christians and Westerners have been killed in violent attacks as anti-Christian violence spreads throughout the mainly Islamic, impoverished African nation, Barnabas Fund said Friday Dec. 19.

The Barnabas Fund, which supports Christians in the Islamic world, identified Italian nun Annalena Tonneli, known as the Mother Theresa of Africa, as among those Christians murdered in recent weeks along with several other missionary workers.

Sister Tonneli, who had served in Somalia for thirty years "founding a TB hospital, orphanages and schools," was killed October 5 by two armed men in front of the hospital, said Barnabas Fund in a statement seen by ASSIST News Service (ANS).

Soon after British couple Richard and Enid Eyeington, working for SOS Children's villages in Somaliland were shot dead October 20 by several gunmen in their home inside the school compound, while watching television, added the organization.

Last month a Kenyan Christian working for the Seventh Day Adventist mission in Gedo, South West Somalia, was reportedly murdered by Islamist radicals, although no more details were given. The Barnabas Fund said "the attacks appear to be deliberately anti-Christian and anti-Western," and are likely linked to radical Somali Islamist group, Kulanka Culimada, which threatened violence earlier this year.
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There has been little media coverage in the press regarding the travesties that have been occurring in South Africa since the end of apartheid. The black-controlled ANC government, in power since 1994, has done nothing to stop or punish the innumerable crimes perpetrated by the white-hating black mobs that now roam the streets and the farmlands leaving behind a trail of rape, pillage, and murder. The press has commented recently on the murders of Zimbawean farmers, but the number of these murders pale in comparison to the number of South African white farmers who have been murdered by blacks since the end of Apartheid and which are being ignored by the press. Over 1500 farmers have been murdered, with attacks, beatings, and attempted murders numbering many thousands more.
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[size=+1][size=+1]However, Coezteeís hopes for the future are threatened by the low intensity warfare being waged against the Afrikaner people by radical blacks of the "Azania People's Organization" or AZAPO.[/size] [size=+1]There are 40,000 white farmers in South Africa. Over 1200 have been brutally murdered since 1994 - the year the Marxist African National Congress, backed by the United Nations, European Union, Russia, China and the U.S. State Department, took power.[/size] [size=+1]Add to this another 6,000 attacks and the white Boer Afrikaner farmer is easily the highest at-risk murder group on Earth. The ANC has responded to this crisis by blaming whites and putting a ban on crime statistics because they scare off foreign investment.[/size] [/size][size=+1]"I won't hold my breath waiting for Oprah to call, or Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter or Al Sharpton," Coetzee told WorldNetDaily.[/size]
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Remember Rwanda? The tiny East African country, about the size of Rhode Island, broke into our consciousness for a few months exactly four years ago, when we sat watching on our television sets, horrified, as the brutal genocide exploded there. The scale and swiftness of the killings were unheard of: In a country with little more than 7 million people, more than 500,000 were slaughtered in 100 days, mostly minority Tutsis by the majority Hutus. Nearly 2 million others fled in terror.
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In addition Holocaust In Rwanda looks at the challenge the Rwandan holocaust presents to the Christian church. The killers did not merely kill people in churches, they killed church workers - pastors, ministers, priests and nuns. However, the most shocking aspect of the anti-Christian mass murders was how many people responsible for the slaughter were trusted members of the congregations. On many occasions even priests, nuns and ministers were directly involved in the genocide! Several heads of denominations co-operated with the Interahamwe by betraying their Tutsi congregations and co-workers into the hands of mass murderers.
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And when will they learn to keep it in their pants?

As the HIV epidemic deepens in Africa, it is leaving an economically devastated continent in its wake.

More than one-quarter of working-age adults are infected with HIV in some communities in sub-Saharan Africa, a statistic that brings profound economic repercussions for families and communities.

Families that must care for a member who is ill with AIDS often deplete monetary resources that would otherwise be used to cover necessities and to invest in children's futures.

And when AIDS claims the lives of people in their most productive years, grieving orphans and elderly must contend with the sudden loss of financial support, communities must bear the burden of caring for those left behind, and countries must draw on a diminishing pool of trained and talented workers.

Anita Alban, an economist for the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), cites a study of urbanites in Cote d'Ivoire that showed families with a member sick from AIDS cut spending on their children's education in half and reduced food consumption by about 40 percent as they struggled to cover health expenditures that soared to four times their usual level.

According to studies in Cote d'Ivoire's largest city, Abidjan, Uganda's Rakai district, and Tanzania's Ziwa Magharibi region, families cope with these losses largely with cash and in-kind transfers from other families, a support infrastructure that reflects the interdependence of African society.
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/aids/stories/economic.impact/

DR. GLENDA GRAY, Perinatal HIV Clinic: HIV's prevalence amongst children in 1992 was 6 percent. And recently we did a survey, and we found that up to 40 percent of kids admitted to our hospital every day are HIV-infected. And last year, 75 percent of all our guests in these wards were HIV-related. So almost half of the children admitted to our wards in any one day are HIV-infected.
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FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Adult figures are equally staggering. Almost one in four pregnant mothers are believed to be infected with HIV, infected by heterosexual contact. Some 10 percent to 12 percent of all South Africans are HIV positive. (Singing) At the same time, both government and non-government organizations have pushed extensive awareness campaigns. AIDS is the subject of this Zulu school chorus. (Singing) And the whistle-stopping love train. In broadcasts, billboards and posters, South Africans are warned about the dangers of HIV And AIDS. There's plenty of evidence that the awareness campaign is working. 98 percent of South Africans say they're aware of HIV, AIDS, and how it's transmitted. However, there's little evidence that that awareness is translating into changed behavior. For example, fewer than one in ten women report using a condom during their last sexual encounter.
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United Nation's population division released a report where they took into account new numbers available on the rate of infection of AIDS around the world. And they produced a very startling and very tragic analysis which essentially shows that in Africa, where now currently 26 million people are infected with AIDS, there is going to be an absolutely cataclysmic impact on the make-up on the structure of the African population for the foreseeable future as a consequence of this, with life expectancies falling to the levels that have not been seen in Africa since the 1950's, with the population growth rate diminishing, and with overall 47 million people expected to have died of AIDS in Africa from 1986 until the year 2015.
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/jan-june00/aids_safrica_5-22.html

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Good article on the ridiculousness that was Live 8.

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