There’s only one answer to this — world caliphate. /s
Seriously, read the rest of this op-ed, which is thinly disguised as a news story. Haves vs Have-nots, Global Warming, Globalization, waaah, waaah, waaah. I’m a little surprised the joker didn’t mention US ethanol subsidies. Oh, and compact fluorescents, TARP, fiat money...
I thought this was written about the United States. We are sitting on pour own Molotov cocktail of rising food and fuel prices and the dipstick is pushing for higher taxes and bankrupting us with his Obamacare.
Of course Most Americans don’t get as much fun out of rioting and murder as the Africans do, but if we shut down the entitlements the same people will cause the same problems.
He is descended from an entire continent of the "Eat your own seed corn" culture.
On a smaller scale, we saw it during Katrina. Now we will see it on a continental scale.
Africa Population (2009) = 1,000,000,000
U.S.A. Population (2010) = 307,000,000
“this op-ed, which is thinly disguised as a news story.”
Who knows? The original draft might have been a good piece of journalism before the UPI editors censored it. Now it’s just a silly cookie cutter piece that blames the usual suspects - global warming, foreign corporations, Big Oil.
No mention of the ethanol boondoggle, which has crowded out land for food production and encouraged the clearing of forests in the third world.
And what about the selloff of African natural resources to the Chinese government? Would the sensibilities of the Chinese or corrupt African dictators have considered that too sensitive?
"Tunisia has long seemed a gracious outpost of moderation and stability in the developing world: solidly pro-Western, extending a perpetual welcome to foreign sun worshipers. But when word came that the government was raising the price of bread by over 100%, the facade of stability cracked. Riots erupted last week, starting in outlying regions and spreading to Tunis, the capital. As mobs composed mainly of teen-agers and young men in their 20s rampaged through the city streets, smashing shop windows, and attacking post offices and banks..."
This was published in the January 16 issue of TIME... in 1984.
Yes...it is a devilish set up for world communism.