Economic concepts.
Well westerners at the moment, you think they are prospering, but when there is lesser employment opportunities to earn an economic living, where do you think the wealth will come from to purchase the slave labor imported goods from those countries. Or do you think Governments just ramp up the money printers. You see: total garbage, all you are doing is what is known as parasitic existence and it is unsustainable. Total destructive to be honest.
With all the mineral resources of Africa, is all worthless without the knowledge and motive force to harness it, so we go back to primitivism and tribal wars, or is that what some want?
Pericles;
Small indulgence: on this thread: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=4010
Your Knowledge about the Magnacata if you can help. Thanks

Perhaps we should stop sending aid to Africa. According to Bashir Goth the blecks don't need help from whites. I wonder if Goth knows the white race is dying under the weight of the "multicultural" society.

South Africa is going great guns under the bleck regime so maybe Bashir is right. The whites in South Africa are lapping it up. Never had it so good.

Hi Kay
yes..I watched it. Fascinating stuff.. how they can show the public all the video of the 'anglo's and catch them but the video of the ME thugs.. wellll that's a different story eh.. 5 weeks.. etc..only 2 arrests.....

As I watched that incident..with the brace and manly 'No 8' launching out on probably the most stupid of a 'king hit' that missed its target by at least 2 meters.... and then all of the 'swarm' sinking the boot into Anglo Australians (by proxy) again..and again..and again... and then AGAIN... and still not satisfied the other 'brave' bloke with the iron bar.. just HAD to have a whack at him so hard that it bent the bar...

SELF DEFENCE tips... for those who might encounter such a thing themselves.

1/ RUN like hell while yelling for help, but..if cornered....

2/ Try to take the first attacker out with a hard punch to the throat, upward thrusting palm to the nose, (or groinkick) then CLING to him and drag him into any corner situation where u can use his (hopefully) limp body as a shield between you and the rest of the crazed animals until police arrive.(in our dreams)

3/ If a running attack, move to meet the first with a flying scissor kick to the groin or upper body. (Practice this at home, both legs, and do stretches (like touch toes) to loosen up tendons on the upper inner thigh which restrict leg movement during kicks)

4/ A hard crunching downward kick on the knee of an attacker should hold them up for a while.

5/ a) If attacked with a bat or bar.. move quickly INTO the attacker while he is swinging, reducing the swing power. Then, throat or nose or goin attack.
OR
5/ b) If u can step back while he swings, then after the weapon passes you, step in and use his momentum to throw or unbalance and put down. (followed by throat punch)
6/ "1-2" practice a hard straight Jab followed by a crunching right to the jaw.

tubley

Great analogy. The world is a set of scales, I agree, and a most unbalanced one at that.

Pericles

Not only do the rich increase their wealth directly at the expense and on the back of the poor, as pointed out by tubley, but also at the expense of the environment. Economic growth, whilst having many benefits, never occurs without an associated cost.

You ask of tubley, "How do you suppose that it is possible for China, the fourth-largest economy in the world, to grow at 9% p.a., if it can only be at the expense of another country? Just that growth itself - in your fantasy one-wins, another-loses scenario - would wipe out the total GDP of a dozen small countries. Ask yourself, why hasn't this occurred?"

Actually, this is exactly what is occurring. While the West and Asia have become richer, over 50 countries in the world - mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet states - have seen a decline in average income levels and an increase in the numbers of people living on less than a dollar a day.

Within China, the rapid economic growth is also costing dearly. Millions of farmers have been forced to leave their farms and move into the cities where most of them struggle to find work and end up living in abject poverty. China’s air quality, soil contamination, and water pollution are now amongst the worst in the world and its levels of waste generation have now surpassed that of the United States.

World GDP might be increasing for now but the correlating negatives of environmental damage and resource depletion will eventually slow it to a halt. That is, if the shrinking of our currently plentiful supply of cheap labour, on which high growth rates are dependent, hasn't done so first.

tubley & bronwyn -- your knowledge of economics is sadly lacking. Economics teaches that trade brings gains to both people. A simple example... I have spare food, you have spare clothes, we exchange my spare food for your spear clothes and we are both better off. Trade is a positive-sum game... when one side wins, the other wins also. Simple economics.

Around the world, countries with good institutions have been growing well (in wealth, life expectancy, education, health outcomes etc). This is true in Africa too. Their outcome has nothing to do with whether they have resources or were colonized... it has to do with the policies that those countries put in place.

Bronwyn actually says (presumably as a silly joke) that over 50 countries of the world have seen a decline in living standards. Simply untrue as any passing look at statistics and reality will show. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at such ignorance.

In China people are choosing to move into the cities because they have higher incomes in there, not being forced. Indeed, the government it trying to get them to stay in the countryside! It seems bronwyn takes ignorance as a virtue to be shown with pride.

Then she goes on to say that economic growth is caused by cheap labour. I give up. Simply untrue as a point of fact... but what's the point with these people?

John et al.,

I don't feel that you listened to a word of what Bronwyn said. You refer to Bronywn and I as 'these people' as though we are some kind of moronic breed of sub-humans. I therefore find your arrogance as laughable as you find my alleged ignorance.

I just want you to do one thing for me - look around your home, and tell me how many material possessions you can find that were made in third world nations.

It is a fact that the people given the task of making these things work in conditions highly comparable to slave labour. And you somehow believe that these people benefit as we do. You are wrong. I will again point out that my analogy was inclusive of, but not exclusive to, monetary gain.

Tell me this, have you ever been to Calcutta?

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