Yeti-Sized musings and speculations from a Samsara Wanderer, Believer in Comedians and Himalayaphile
Friday, May 19, 2017
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Nexit?
Exploiting poverty to extract wealth (and social status through
Virtue Signaling, e.g., ‘look at me Fakebook friends – here in Nepal for
'Disaster Recovery')?
#Nepal #Nexit #GlobalDev #CronySocialism #DeadbeatDonorDarlings #deadaid #boondoggle #aidcorrupts
Nepal is failing through indefinite aid and not in spite of it. This Himalayan nation needs freedom from crocodilian ruling cronies, cancerous bureaucrats and an interfering aid cadre. They are abetting each other and are the biggest beneficiaries of the ‘aid’ they promote and that oozes into and through their offices, hands and pockets with but a trickle if anything left remaining for the people for whom it was targeted. The general population is suffering for lack of opportunity with chronic poverty and a host of other ills and lethal side-effects of dysfunction, corruption and malfeasance.
"The rich have markets, the poor have [cannibalistic, dysfunctional] bureaucrats [abetted by self-serving, deadbeat donor darlings]" -W. Easterly, Researcher of Development Economics, NYU, author of The Tyranny of Experts
Time for a Nexit from the crony ruling class and deadbeat donor darlings? The crony socialism of Nepal’s aid paradigm in collusion with the ruling class gangsters has failed on a massive scale causing enduring harm. Hasn’t six-plus decades of indefinite aid brought enough devastation to the people and culture of Nepal (even more than war, even more than natural disasters)?
Aid entrepreneurs, especially ones without language and culture skills, please consider ceasing and desisting. “Let my people go!” cries Dr. Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid, about indefinite aid in her home country of Zambia.
Can the ghastly destruction of a people, culture and country abetted by indefinite 'aid' intervention by foreign donor darlings continue much longer without total collapse after decades of misguided 'aid' and centuries of ruling class domination (i.e., caste apartheid) that the 'aid' abets?
"Do not go abroad to slay dragons that you don't understand" -John Quincy Adams, 6th US President
“Aid undermines what poor people need most: effective government.” -Angus Deaton, Nobel Prizewinner in Economic Sciences, 2015
“The problem of poverty is not a shortage of experts. It’s a shortage of rights...the most important factor in lifting people out of poverty is allowing free markets and entrepreneurship to flourish...when there's an environment of universal rights for poor people, for citizens of a society, then that does indeed make technical solutions happen." -William Easterly, Ph.D., New York University Professor of Economics, author of The Tyranny of Experts
Friday, May 5, 2017
"The incompetence is mind numbing..."
“The incompetence is mind numbing...The UN/INGO people I encountered were frequently out of touch…anachronistic in their thinking at best and arrogant and incompetent at worst.There is NO accountability in the UN system or international humanitarian system.
[The local people] wanted to help themselves...they are experiencing UN/INGO fatigue...”
-Chelsea Clinton, excerpted from a letter to her parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton, reporting on the state of humanitarian intervention and foreign aid in Haiti after the earthquake of 2010.
Nepal is not different and perhaps even worse off after six decades of indefinite aid that has devastated the people of Nepal, devastated the economy and the country more than any war or natural disaster.
Since the quakes of 2015 the ruling cronies and aid agents have only consolidated power -- meanwhile the real people of Nepal endure chronic poverty and endless suffering.
The people and culture are dying. Dozens of Nepalis return from perilous migrant work abroad every month in body bags for lack of opportunity in Nepal, lack of opportunity and jobs that begins with corruption in the ruling gang aided and abetted by an indefinite aid paradigm.
The ruling class cronies and aid agents are the biggest beneficiaries of 'aid'. Most aid agents have little to no language skills and scant cultural understanding. Still, they typically enjoy a lifestyle in the top echelon of the society they traveled overseas to change.
"The rich have markets, the poor have [cannibalistic] bureaucrats [abetted by deadbeat donor darlings]" -W. Easterly, Researcher of Development Economics, New York University
“Aid undermines what poor people need most: effective government." -Angus Deaton, Nobel Prizewinner in Economic Sciences 2015
"Let my people go!" -Dambisa Moyo, Ph.D., Economist and Author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way
"The best road to progress is freedom's road." -John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
From Reuters news-wire: Obama Administration Sales to Saudi Arabia Top $115 Billion
Arming Saudi Arabia(gasp) –
a monarchy cum totalitarian dictatorship with one of the worst records on Human Rights (e.g., severe oppression of
women, cruel harassment and lethal punishment of homosexual people, persecution
of beliefs and practices outside the ultraconservative cohort in command, silencing journalists, smothering personal expression and so on). Currently, they are bombing
one of the poorest countries in the Gulf, Yemen, a defenseless nation-- and bombing Yemen with weaponry supplied by Obush et al.
...remember when fifteen of nineteen 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia (and how 9/11 illogically led to devastating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq)?
...remember when fifteen of nineteen 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia (and how 9/11 illogically led to devastating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq)?
Was President Obama just
impersonating a Nobel Peace Prize Winner while arming Saudi Arabia(see above Reuters link) and many others?
From a Guardian article by Codepink founding member Medea Benjamin (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy?CMP=share_btn_tw):
From a Guardian article by Codepink founding member Medea Benjamin (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy?CMP=share_btn_tw):
-In 2016, US special operators could be
found in 70% of the world’s nations, 138 countries — a staggering jump of 130%
since the days of the Bush administration.
-Obama authorized over 10 times more drone strikes than
George W Bush, and automatically painted all males of military
age in these regions as combatants, making them fair game for remote controlled
killing.
-Given that drones
account for only a small portion of the munitions dropped in the past eight
years, the numbers of civilians killed by Obama’s bombs could be in the
thousands. But we can’t know for sure as
the administration, and the mainstream media, has been virtually silent about
the civilian toll of the administration’s failed interventions.
#Obamawar #militaryindustrialpsychosis
#militaryindustrialdeathcult #cronymilitarism
President Obama kissing Saudi king's ring. |
President Bush and Saudi King holding hands in a flower meadow. |
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