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numlock

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Mar 13, 2006
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The most important question:

Do regular Africans get any benefit from the mining of the innumerable minerals that the world depends on for various electronics?

The whole question of "conflict" diamonds or "conflict" tantalum or "conflict" this or "conflict" that is pretty irrelevant, considering the entire sub-saharan region has been getting raped of it's resources for centuries.

Where is the freaking social responsibility to make sure that a continent as rich in minerals as Africa, actually benefits in some tangible way from what is mostly western corporations taking stuff?

isnt it better to continue to rape them and then debate whether the aid we "give" them could be decreased.

i wonder how rich africa (ala sarah palin) really is or could really be withour westerners plundering it
 
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