| They are still doing what Rhodes did today. Its just done differently - Give a loan to the poor African country in dollars. Expect the loan to be repaid in dollars. Where is the poor African country going to get dollars? Here is the (simplified) road map- 1. "Educate" bright Africans on Wall St. 2. Send them over to tell the "uneducated" how to generate dollars by selling national assets - land, mining rights, oil fields, ports, spectrum, bank savings, pension funds, insurance funds etc etc back to Wall St approved firms in the West. 3. Teach them how to use the loans to buy goods and services from Wall St approved firms in the West, instead of building up local manufacturing or agricultural capacity. Goal being dependency not independence. 4. Provide free "training" for local military/intelligence. Make them dependent on Western MIL complex for everything. When locals start organizing and resisting - use them to topple and protect masters assets. 5. Buy and use media to repaint the whole story 6. Use Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class to trap as many important locals in "golden cage" lifestyles so their brains rot focusing on leisure/endless consumption/luxury/celebs/sports/entertainment. This cycle is not sustainable naturally. And keeps breaking down in various ways. The hope is with each iteration more people recognize how to break out of it faster and create better alternatives. |