Walter Duranty’s rag continues to cover itself with dung.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“not to be taken literally”
And yet, the very next day …
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/two-juveniles-among-four-people-arrested-for-the-brutal-murder-of-farmer-attempted-murder-on-his-wife/ar-AA1eMlZH
Most of sub-Sahara Africa is a mess papered over by Western loans, which will never be repaid, used to gain access to raw materials to support the battery fantasies of the elite.
Most of sub-Sahara Africa is a mess papered over by Western loans, which will never be repaid, used to gain access to raw materials to support the battery fantasies of the elite.
No. Tropical and Southern Africa is a low productivity region which has over the last two generations had a history of policy which tends to favor, perversely, urban sectors over agriculture. Street crime is a problem, especially in southern Africa. Improvement in per capita product since 1960 had been slow to minimal. Tyrannical government is much less of a problem than failed states (Somalia, Southern Sudan, Central African Republic, the Congo). There have been few interstate wars over 60 odd years, somewhat more in the way of troublesome insurgencies. Mostly, places are run by political machines run by people drawn from each country’s business and professional element (with an abnormal number having worked for international agencies). Life expectancy and literacy are much improved since 1960, with about 60% of the population over 15 able to read and write and the life expectancy at birth reaching 60 years. Net “Official Development Assistance” varies a great deal from country to country in its significance but is typically around 5% of gross national income.
No clue what a ‘battery fantasy’ is. The degree to which consumption in Africa is propped up by overseas aid tends to be correlated with the suppression of domestic production due to internal disorders, not big mineral deposits.
AD: Latest case circling the drain is Zambia. There are many others. Zimbabwe stands out and South Africa can barely keep the lights on.
The same publication that tut-tutted over Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In a Small Town”, claiming it was a racist dog-whistle call for violence against the left— is the same Times claiming that when South African leftists sing about killing white people, it’s just a figure of speech, nothing to see here.
But then why should we be surprised? As you rightly noted, Don, the Times has been covering for genocidal leftists since Duranty lied about Stalin’s Holodomor.
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