I'm on record from way earlier in the thread that he lives. I don't think he's smart enough to get through the first border crossing because I don't think he's figured out he actually will need a visa. But the jeep dies on Aug 28.
quote:I think I'm going to have to disagree with your premise. I urge you to read King Leopold's Ghost, and learn about the colonization of Africa. Or look into the death of the first democratically elected president of Congo, after it's independence, at the hands of the CIA and Belgians. Another good book to read is In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell. Much of what we see in violent areas of Africa, they learned from muzungu.
I believe the theories that Africa was where man originated.
I also believe we've been fleeing it for our entire existence for a reason.
quote:I've read a number of books on the Rwandan Genocide. The reason for the fighting between the Hutus and Tutsis? Because the Belgians thought the Tutsis facial features were more like theirs, so they assumed they were superior, and gave them the good jobs, education, etc, creating much envy and jealousy among the Hutus. And if you are referring to the behavior by Paul Kagame and the Tutsis since the genocide, they've been given a pass by our government to do pretty much what they want, in Eastern Congo, out of guilt for not doing anything intervene in the genocide. Bill Clinton-black lives matter? Go back to 1994 and see how much they mattered to him.
Wait, you think somehow we taught violence to the Zulus and the Xhosa and the Bantus and the Tutsis, etc?
It's been non-stop genocide over there long before a white man ever went up the Nile.
quote:quote:I've read a number of books on the Rwandan Genocide. The reason for the fighting between the Hutus and Tutsis? Because the Belgians thought the Tutsis facial features were more like theirs, so they assumed they were superior, and gave them the good jobs, education, etc, creating much envy and jealousy among the Hutus. And if you are referring to the behavior by Paul Kagame and the Tutsis since the genocide, they've been given a pass by our government to do pretty much what they want, in Eastern Congo, out of guilt for not doing anything intervene in the genocide. Bill Clinton-black lives matter? Go back to 1994 and see how much they mattered to him.
Wait, you think somehow we taught violence to the Zulus and the Xhosa and the Bantus and the Tutsis, etc?
It's been non-stop genocide over there long before a white man ever went up the Nile.
I've been to Congo four times, live in Zambia. Did people not get along before colonization? My guess is like all of humanity there was conflict, but when you see photos of people who have been butchered with machetes, google the Congolese whose hands and legs were cut off by Leopold's troops for not delivering enough rubber and ivory.
Where I'm working, when Zambians were finally allowed to attend seminary and become ministers, the Scottish missionaries would allow them to wear suits to preach, but not shoes, in an attempt to humiliate them and remind them they were inferior. Not quite as brutal as what's discussed above, but certainly not right. I guess my points is, I don't necessarily think we have the market cornered on moral superiority.
quote:I learned we were taught very little about the European colonization of Africa in school. I really recommend King Leopold's Ghost, one of the best books I've every read. It's estimated that during Leopold's personal ownership of Congo, 10,000,000 Congolese were killed.quote:quote:I've read a number of books on the Rwandan Genocide. The reason for the fighting between the Hutus and Tutsis? Because the Belgians thought the Tutsis facial features were more like theirs, so they assumed they were superior, and gave them the good jobs, education, etc, creating much envy and jealousy among the Hutus. And if you are referring to the behavior by Paul Kagame and the Tutsis since the genocide, they've been given a pass by our government to do pretty much what they want, in Eastern Congo, out of guilt for not doing anything intervene in the genocide. Bill Clinton-black lives matter? Go back to 1994 and see how much they mattered to him.
Wait, you think somehow we taught violence to the Zulus and the Xhosa and the Bantus and the Tutsis, etc?
It's been non-stop genocide over there long before a white man ever went up the Nile.
I've been to Congo four times, live in Zambia. Did people not get along before colonization? My guess is like all of humanity there was conflict, but when you see photos of people who have been butchered with machetes, google the Congolese whose hands and legs were cut off by Leopold's troops for not delivering enough rubber and ivory.
Where I'm working, when Zambians were finally allowed to attend seminary and become ministers, the Scottish missionaries would allow them to wear suits to preach, but not shoes, in an attempt to humiliate them and remind them they were inferior. Not quite as brutal as what's discussed above, but certainly not right. I guess my points is, I don't necessarily think we have the market cornered on moral superiority.
Dang. I didn't know all that.
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I believe that the Jungle Book is set in India.
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Just how expensive is African international data roaming?
quote:I would have a SAT phone, PLB, various cell phones, every frequency of radio, signal mirror, carrier pigeon, and a telegraph machine. Not that any of that would help when it really matters.quote:
Just how expensive is African international data roaming?
Its not necessarily a question of cost, but getting a signal in many places is not possible
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https://instagr.am/p/BHk1X5yDHDU
quote:quote:I would have a SAT phone, PLB, various cell phones, every frequency of radio, signal mirror, carrier pigeon, and a telegraph machine. Not that any of that would help when it really matters.quote:
Just how expensive is African international data roaming?
Its not necessarily a question of cost, but getting a signal in many places is not possible
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Just how expensive is African international data roaming?
quote:quote:I would have a SAT phone, PLB, various cell phones, every frequency of radio, signal mirror, carrier pigeon, and a telegraph machine. Not that any of that would help when it really matters.quote:
Just how expensive is African international data roaming?
Its not necessarily a question of cost, but getting a signal in many places is not possible