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Conrad Black has a new piece up over at the National Review. I'd encourage you not to give it anymore hits; the central argument of the piece is that colonization was the West's great gift to the world. Here is the money quote:
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans. The Philippines and Cuba and, during the piping days of the U.S. Marines' occupations (even if they were deployed at times by the United Fruit Company), Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic were all better off under the Americans.Now, I could certainly dispute this claim, but this is Mr. Black's ...
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NINE members arrested on Monday 2nd July 2012 finally appeared in Western Commonage Court 5th July 2012. They were granted bail of $50 each and will reappear in Court on 18th July 2012. All of the members had to seek medical attention due to the poor custody conditions. Sibongile Lumbile being in bad shape as [...]
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Government recently announced that it will gradually raise the electricity tariffs it charges mining firms so that by 2015 they reflect the true cost of producing power : "We would like to see a situation where all the mines pay cost-reflective tariffs and we want to see this migration by 2015". No more subsidies. The tragedy of Zambia is that mining companies are actually subsidised in Zambia. Especially, if you consider the environmental damaged. The external cost of mining in Zambia means that taken together - we are subsidising pollution and externalisation of large profits to Swiss accounts.
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I thought I might re-post this column here in light of the government considering the ending of free ARVs in Botswana. This was first published in New Internationalist.
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Project Management has been cited as a skill which many iHub community members would like to develop. It is a skill which, when applied correctly, results in efficiency and higher quality of output. In response to this demand, we have arranged for a series of talks and workshops starting July 2012. We will have talks by [...]
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A guest post about a recent visit to Gabon
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Conrad Black has a new piece up over at the National Review. I'd encourage you not to give it anymore hits; the central argument of the piece is that colonization was the West's great gift to the world. Here is the money quote:
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans. The Philippines and Cuba and, during the piping days of the U.S. Marines' occupations (even if they were deployed at times by the United Fruit Company), Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic were all better off under the Americans.Now, I could certainly dispute this claim, but this is Mr. Black's ...
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