tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555933156452512072.post7084943402699788901..comments2023-08-02T03:16:30.293-07:00Comments on Wanton Speculations, keeping in mind 'Pobody's Nerfect': Billy the Bully?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341772869310911892noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555933156452512072.post-57638930966116031122015-10-11T18:57:21.477-07:002015-10-11T18:57:21.477-07:00Cheers for the comment. Ironically, while the west...Cheers for the comment. Ironically, while the western model is to provide aid (indefinite aid in the African continent's case), often with ittle oversight, communist China seems to have found the right formula in Africa by supporting business and commerce. The capitalists are getting aid wrong whereas the communists are getting capitalism right. Dambisa Moyo discusses this and much more in depth in her scholarly works, How the West was Lost http://dambisamoyo.com/publications-articles-videos/books/how-the-west-was-lost/<br />and Winner Take All http://dambisamoyo.com/publications-articles-videos/books/winner-take-all/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01341772869310911892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555933156452512072.post-45762614158886248082015-10-11T17:16:31.755-07:002015-10-11T17:16:31.755-07:00Africa has tons of natural resources and so does L...Africa has tons of natural resources and so does Latin America. The world has poured trillions into African countries, Mexico, and Latin America, but the continents/countries are still violent, corrupt, uneducated, poor, etc. In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson built schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan from the donations given by Americans. Currently, schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan are being blown up or burned down and these countries continue to be ruled by violence and corruption. We need to listen to people like Dambisa and Alonzo, who have lived for many years in some of the countries receiving extensive aid. If Bill Gates really wants to help then he should stop fueling the corruption with money and start listening to Dambisa and others who have better and proven ideas and solutions.unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014096553773551260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555933156452512072.post-24823325614755538742015-10-09T10:17:52.622-07:002015-10-09T10:17:52.622-07:00The above blogpost about ‘Bill (Gates) the Bully?’...The above blogpost about ‘Bill (Gates) the Bully?’ relates to the untidy aid scene in Nepal, a country overrun with ‘donor darlings’. The close-mindedness of the aid entrepreneurs to the effects and damage of their activities in Nepal is puzzling. Do they truly appreciate and admire the enchanting country in which they operate and attempt to effect change?<br /><br />If so, can these aid agencies and aid agents then please allow themselves the proper oversight and consideration of cultural and societal values and issues, at least enough to skirt treacherous complications including dysfunctional elements of the status quo?<br /><br />Conversely, do they realize (despite the best of intentions, which are not in doubt) that they are often abetting dysfunction and thereby prolonging the lethal suffering of the honest people of Nepal? If so, then with all due respect, how do they justify their continued presence here and the deathly ramifications suffered by the population?<br /><br />May the misguided of the aid workers, donors and I/NGO staff who've traveled overseas to change Nepal please give renewed consideration to the trekker's maxim, "The Himalaya might change you, please don't change the Himalaya."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01341772869310911892noreply@blogger.com