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2005-07-12 Africa: Subsaharan
Paved With Good Intentions
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Posted by Steve 2005-07-12 14:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 the July 2, 2005 concerts were "the greatest thing that's ever been organized, probably, in the history of the world."

Maybe Normandy, but before there was Normandy there was the wholesale converstion of the US consumer economy in 3 years.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-12 18:07||   2005-07-12 18:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Then again there was the removal and rebuilding of the Soviet factories to the east of the Urals.... hummmm
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-12 18:08||   2005-07-12 18:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ..I remember reading somewhere some years ago that every major famine since the mid 1800s has had its roots in political or military conflict of some sort, and I'm beginning to think that's the case.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-07-12 20:52||   2005-07-12 20:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Poverty exists in many places. Natural disasters can occur anywhere. Starvation however is an intentional political acivity: North Korea, Zimbabwie, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cambodia, Ukraine.....
Posted by john">john  2005-07-12 21:41||   2005-07-12 21:41|| Front Page Top

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