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Post by OtishOtish on May 20, 2015 0:55:03 GMT 3
the title continued: "Meets Local Greed and Stupidity".
This sort of thing has now become routine, and hardly anyone in Africa who is in a position to do anything really cares. (Kenya, as an "important gateway to East Africa" is doing its bit in the self-destruction business.):
www.nation.co.ke/news/Kenyan-ivory-seized-in-Singapore/-/1056/2721932/-/wsrfmrz/-/index.html
While Africa sleeps, Chinese are banking on the fact that as soon as elephants and rhino become extinct, ivory and rhino-horn will be incredibly expensive; that is driving a lot of the greed that is finishing our wildlife while we cheer Kung Fu for loaning us (at high rates) money to build this and that, money to buy the latest quickly manufactured crap, ... Here's an interesting article:
www.takepart.com/feature/2015/03/24/china-endangered-species-banking-extinction-poaching-elephants-tigers-rhinos
Another one:
networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/51309/chinese-elephant-massacre-africa-extinction-looms
And the reaction in Africa? Slumber. Snore. Assist.
Incredibly astonishing. It's like standing on two feet away from rail-tracks, watching a train-wreck happen in slow motion, and seeing comfortable looks on all the faces around ... the passengers happily playing Draughts with the shiny, new, pieces of cheap plastic they just got from new friends.
Still, on the other things, some are showing signs of waking up:
www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-We-should-be-careful-not-to-be-tied-to-corrupt/-/440808/2722724/-/k9vlu1z/-/index.html
One day people will cry "foul!". But on what reasonable basis does one claim rape after years of bending over saying, "I don't care! Stick that tarimbo right in the butt---I'll always bend over for it---just make sure the cheap junk and the chicken keep coming".
Tarmac on roads, bits of steel forming rail lines, cheaply-manufactured junk. These are easy to replace. In fact, as a direct result of industrial progress, they get easier to replace as time goes by. Extinct species are a different matter. |
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Post by jakaswanga on May 21, 2015 20:39:42 GMT 3
I do not know whether you merely want to be provocative. But it has escaped you, apparently, that in 95% of the African countries, there is an active rebellion underway. --How does one account for the socio-political phenomenom REBELLION? when everybody is in slumber? |
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Post by kamalet on May 22, 2015 8:36:33 GMT 3
History repeating itself...why should we complain? Should we not just sit back and be students of history?
The colonialists came with the bible, roads and railway lines and for sport found it fun to shoot elephants, rhinos and lions! When they did all this they were the 'bwanas' and 'mensahib' civilising the African!
The chinese are the latter day colonialists building roads and railways and luckily not giving us bibles (or the tipitaka) for religion seems the only thing we need no help with. So the chinese like the early colonialist will prefer the more humane killing of animals for "trade" as opposed to sport!
When African is able to build its roads and railways, it could just about save its wild animals!
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Post by podp on May 22, 2015 9:48:18 GMT 3
History repeating itself...why should we complain? Should we not just sit back and be students of history? The colonialists came with the bible, roads and railway lines and for sport found it fun to shoot elephants, rhinos and lions! When they did all this they were the 'bwanas' and 'mensahib' civilising the African! The chinese are the latter day colonialists building roads and railways and luckily not giving us bibles (or the tipitaka) for religion seems the only thing we need no help with. So the chinese like the early colonialist will prefer the more humane killing of animals for "trade" as opposed to sport! When African is able to build its roads and railways, it could just about save its wild animals! the red high light is the river that flows to the ocean. it gets replenished when it rains. what is driving us to despair is the river that flows to the desert. where we flow there is no regeneration, only destruction awaits us. Ayi Kwei Armah tried in 2000 Seasons and The Healers to warn us. he laments “Spring water flowing to the desert where you flow is no regeneration [...] Giver of life, spring whose water now pours down, pours down destructions road [...] your future is destruction”. The desert can only take but never gives; therefore no spring water changes the desert. The invaders are depicted as annihilators: “whatever waking form they wear, the stench of death pours ceaselessly from their mouth. From every opening of their possessed carcasses comes deaths excremental pus”. The voice questions: “would you have your intercourse with these creatures from the graveyard?” www.letterkunde.up.ac.za/argief/50_1/05%20Fubara%20WEB%2003.pdfso it was refreshing to also read todays' Nation I think it is fair for Kenyans to be reminded that not only is their country corrupt, it is probably more corrupt than they imagine. We hear there is a whole battalion of senior politicians, civil servants, jobbers, and ne’er-do-wells who do nothing else but connive, conspire, and plot to steal public money. They are also setting up the embryo of a gangster state where those in power conspire to use their authority and official resources to take by force the property of other Kenyans. I get the sense that the old corruption and looting has regrouped and loosed itself on us with a new fury. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We-are-in-deep-trouble-over-graft/-/440808/2724892/-/fqm0m6/-/index.html....we are in deep trouble. All Kenyans must demand to be part of the solution |
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