The corporations (and through them the Chinese Politburo) gobble up the resources and import most of their labor from home, often with the laborers forming settlements. The laborers do not fraternize with the locals and gobble up most of the resources and land: sound familiar?
A place like Gorongosa could provide the locals with jobs and could help the government gain foreign investment it craves.
Last, if you want to see what real neocolonialism is, ask the Chinese: the Chinese typically don't hire local labor in any of the vast mining operations they have anywhere in Africa and they do not have any non-Chinese holding high office. (CONTD)
Yeah, well that just confirms my point: the new colonialism is back.... and they are now Chinese, American (what is new) Russsian etc. So, no, i dont believe in the 'philanthropist'.
I do. As I said earlier, Greg Carr is probably worth a good few million dollars (he invented voice mail.) He doesn't have to lift a finger to help, but he does (read about Andrew Carnegie if you want proof that this is nothing new.)
The point I was trying to make is that of all the dirty dealers, China is likely the dirtiest. America, I will admit, is no saint, but at the very least the businesses hire locals to work the land.
The comments are very insightful. I don't know fraud66, but I agree that corporations are accountable for the rapes in Congo! (according to a presentation made by WILPF yesterday in New Haven, CT.)
I am white and English but live in South Africa. I watched this in the hope that I would see something about Gorongosa, which I am planning to visit next year. Instead I get propoganda for Americans who know nothing about the rest of the world. This park and it's redevelopment are well publicised in Africa and Europe, it is probably unknown in USA because it is not marketed by Wilderness Safaris.
sniktawk: sorry, i know you posted this 1 year ago... but i just came across your comment and, god, are you right... I was born in Mozambique and my heart just breaks from watching the cues of 'new colonialists' banging at Mozambiques' doors... now the American 'philanthropist'... just want to cry! Bet he is sniffing future business... maybe my problem, but i'm just very skeptical..
First, maybe if Arab traders had not started the African slave trade in the Middle Ages, maybe if Europe did not exploit a weakened Africa in the 19th century Mozambique would be telling a different tale, let alone Gorongosa (note how the lingua francas in 2/3 of southern Africa are Portuguese, English, and Afrikaans and even now these are the languages of advancement.)
Second, Greg Carr is independently wealthy: he could be sitting on his fat butt in the Greek Isles like half of the European elite. Instead he is in a nation that consistently ranks as one of the poorest and simultaneously has an earth shattering rate of HIV. Infrastructure in that country is awful: it does not have the diamond industry of neighboring Botswana or the much sounder economics of South Africa.
What is known about Mozambique in the US is 1) its horrific poverty and 2) its horrific poverty. A damned fool would have to be BLIND not to notice the stats of a nation where the average life expectancy is 35, and blinder still not to see the poor using SOUTH AFRICA'S national parks to cross over and maybe get a better life (if they do not encounter park rangers or lions first.) The US does know about the situation through charities that operate there, mostly church based.
Use your head: Mozambique does not have a lot of options except for selling its resources at rock bottom prices or attracting tourists. Personally, if I were Mozambican, I would want option B. Tourist dollars from national parks can generate billions of dollars for the economy and strengthen infrastructure, plus encourages diversification of business, and later, long term growth. Kruger National Park generated 30 million dollars last year.
White mother fuckers are always doing documentaries on how 3rd world nations are destroying their environment or the earth. You never see them doing any documentaries on how they're coporations are destroying the earth.
fraud66,actually, there are many documentaries on how corporations are raping the Earth.You might want to eg. read the German "Der Spiegel" (translations).And stop this nonsense "white versus black" because there are only a handful of genes that code for outside differences between us - otherwise we r 99.8% identical.
Chinese are the sneaky dirtiest bastards... I praise Japanese Korean all the Asian except Chinese
sissy19802007 1 year ago
what about the amazon forest?? the Arctic, they are all gonna be nothing by 2100 maybe. god bless this guy.
roquemoz1 2 years ago
The corporations (and through them the Chinese Politburo) gobble up the resources and import most of their labor from home, often with the laborers forming settlements. The laborers do not fraternize with the locals and gobble up most of the resources and land: sound familiar?
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
A place like Gorongosa could provide the locals with jobs and could help the government gain foreign investment it craves.
Last, if you want to see what real neocolonialism is, ask the Chinese: the Chinese typically don't hire local labor in any of the vast mining operations they have anywhere in Africa and they do not have any non-Chinese holding high office. (CONTD)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Yeah, well that just confirms my point: the new colonialism is back.... and they are now Chinese, American (what is new) Russsian etc. So, no, i dont believe in the 'philanthropist'.
pseudonym1964 2 years ago
I do. As I said earlier, Greg Carr is probably worth a good few million dollars (he invented voice mail.) He doesn't have to lift a finger to help, but he does (read about Andrew Carnegie if you want proof that this is nothing new.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
The point I was trying to make is that of all the dirty dealers, China is likely the dirtiest. America, I will admit, is no saint, but at the very least the businesses hire locals to work the land.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Did 60 minutes give credit to this video??
The comments are very insightful. I don't know fraud66, but I agree that corporations are accountable for the rapes in Congo! (according to a presentation made by WILPF yesterday in New Haven, CT.)
hraisz 3 years ago
I am white and English but live in South Africa. I watched this in the hope that I would see something about Gorongosa, which I am planning to visit next year. Instead I get propoganda for Americans who know nothing about the rest of the world. This park and it's redevelopment are well publicised in Africa and Europe, it is probably unknown in USA because it is not marketed by Wilderness Safaris.
sniktawk 3 years ago
Great insight...
sirngeti 2 years ago
sniktawk: sorry, i know you posted this 1 year ago... but i just came across your comment and, god, are you right... I was born in Mozambique and my heart just breaks from watching the cues of 'new colonialists' banging at Mozambiques' doors... now the American 'philanthropist'... just want to cry! Bet he is sniffing future business... maybe my problem, but i'm just very skeptical..
pseudonym1964 2 years ago
First, maybe if Arab traders had not started the African slave trade in the Middle Ages, maybe if Europe did not exploit a weakened Africa in the 19th century Mozambique would be telling a different tale, let alone Gorongosa (note how the lingua francas in 2/3 of southern Africa are Portuguese, English, and Afrikaans and even now these are the languages of advancement.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Second, Greg Carr is independently wealthy: he could be sitting on his fat butt in the Greek Isles like half of the European elite. Instead he is in a nation that consistently ranks as one of the poorest and simultaneously has an earth shattering rate of HIV. Infrastructure in that country is awful: it does not have the diamond industry of neighboring Botswana or the much sounder economics of South Africa.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Sniktawk,
What is known about Mozambique in the US is 1) its horrific poverty and 2) its horrific poverty. A damned fool would have to be BLIND not to notice the stats of a nation where the average life expectancy is 35, and blinder still not to see the poor using SOUTH AFRICA'S national parks to cross over and maybe get a better life (if they do not encounter park rangers or lions first.) The US does know about the situation through charities that operate there, mostly church based.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Use your head: Mozambique does not have a lot of options except for selling its resources at rock bottom prices or attracting tourists. Personally, if I were Mozambican, I would want option B. Tourist dollars from national parks can generate billions of dollars for the economy and strengthen infrastructure, plus encourages diversification of business, and later, long term growth. Kruger National Park generated 30 million dollars last year.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
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pseudonym1964 2 years ago
White mother fuckers are always doing documentaries on how 3rd world nations are destroying their environment or the earth. You never see them doing any documentaries on how they're coporations are destroying the earth.
fraud66 4 years ago
fraud66,actually, there are many documentaries on how corporations are raping the Earth.You might want to eg. read the German "Der Spiegel" (translations).And stop this nonsense "white versus black" because there are only a handful of genes that code for outside differences between us - otherwise we r 99.8% identical.
DrainExpress 4 years ago 4
white people feel that they know all
the wars are stared by them(fuck withe people)
elrevoltoso 4 years ago
fuck you, your just as ignorant as the KKK and Neo Nazi pieces of fucking garbage that go around spouting the inverse garbage that you are.
67152 4 years ago
you are just black racists...
105km 3 years ago
people the parasites of the earth poor mother earth :(
poisonman1234 4 years ago