Posted on 11/19/2008 9:16:18 AM PST by Calpernia
Agitprop. Can't defeat the charge so just "agree" to set it aside. Commie.
Thank you for fantastic research, Calpernia.
Pinging for Historical Archives.
Thanks for the ping :)
That would be Beth Davis Charlton, who helped Tidgwell with the forward of the autobiography. Sure would be nice to know when the other 3 girls were born. Mark was born in 1950.
The US (I assume that’s what you meant be “we”) stole Iraq’s oil? How so?
Very interesting. The plot just gets thicker and thicker.
My ironic reference was to the constant claims that we are in Iraq to steal their oil. We have spent hundreds of billions in Iraq, and what oil they have we BUY from them.
We didn’t get anything out of invading Iraq, financially.
The author’s claim is that the rebuilding of the economies of Europe in the early 50s was being financed by money stolen from African and Asian colonies.
I was merely pointing out that with few exceptions after 1850 the cost of running a colony was considerably higher than the amount collected in taxes and other income there. They were not a financially profitable investment. Colonies were popular for quite other reasons.
Thanks for your clarification. It just didn’t sound right! You were too subtle for me.... ;-)
Look at it this way. Could we invade and conquer most African countries, loot the place and turn a profit?
Of course not. You don’t get rich looting places that are dirt poor. In fact, most African countries usually can’t afford dirt.
Many Africans were actually quite prosperous in the 16th and 17th centuries. They thrived on the export trade.
Of course, they were exporting Africans.
>>>Colonies were popular for quite other reasons.
Control and selective breeding.
>>>Could we invade and conquer most African countries, loot the place and turn a profit?
Don’t forget Africa was being mined for the diamonds. The human trafficking and slave labor was still a huge issue (and profitable).
He knew W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Carl Van Vechten, Lena Horne, W.C. Handy, Mirian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, Leadbelly, Joe Louis, Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And they knew him as well.
Also Fidel Castro. He went to Cuba in the spring of 1961.
Hey! How much you want to bet he was part of that school trip! He was a teacher at Mercer Island School! That school was part of the Student Travel Club that took trips to Cuba!
Malcom X was there in 1961. Fidel met with the black community in Harlem to recruit them in 61.
I wonder if Obama is actually a ‘little younger’ vs. ‘a little older’.
I wonder if that 1961 Cuba trip Paul Robeson took is what got his passport pulled?
Wow. The connections are freaking amazing. If it were a fiction novel, it would be considered too contrived.
Meant to add - maybe his father WAS that Cuban!
African diamonds are located in very small specific locations. One could certainly capture and hold those spots and extract the diamonds profitably. What one cannot do is conquer and rule vast areas of countryside profitably.
The only guy I’m aware of who ever did it was Leopold of Belgium in the Congo Free State, and he did it by methods the Nazis might have flinched at.
Conquest and rule of a vast, poor country is just not profitable, unless there is some resource there in great demand elsewhere.
I saw that story posted here too. That was when we were trying to put Malcolm X in Washington (because Obama looks like him). Then that Cuban story came out.
We weren’t able to put Malcolm X in Washington at the right time; but we can get all of them in Cuba at the right time!
::shakes head:: Off to the kitchen with me. Later.
Which is why the ‘colonies’ work out better.
It’s like an Agatha Christie mystery except no one has been murdered, that I know of...
(I shouldn’t say that it’s too bad some bombs didn’t go off in Cuba at that time, should I?)
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