And then demand the “developed” world to come and fix it for them. There was a clip a few years back of a Chinese Official in South Africa meeting with a higher up there. South Africa wanted money / helps and assistance for their country. The Chinese Official said
“When Apartheid ended. You had a working water system and sewers in the larger cities and towns. You had the most stable electrical grid in all of Africa. You had maintained roads connecting these larger cities and towns. A train and rail system. Why did you break it? Why did you vandalize it? Why did you ruin it?”
A stance the West needs to take with the “developing” world in many cases.
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My parents worked in Liberia, West Africa, for 8 years before I was born. The mission radio station and clinic where my dad (an engineer) and mom (a nurse) had worked, were both later destroyed. My father said the radio station’s most listened to segment of the day was Winnie the Pooh stories that they read to increase their audience. They claimed it was for the kids, but it was plain to those who lived there that the stories were right at the mental level of most of their adult audience.
Liberia shipped liquid latex across the ocean, and then imported rubber goods like tires, belts, and hoses. The industry had determined that even though that was horribly inefficient, it was a pipedream to think that they could make anything worthwhile from that native raw material, there in West Africa. There weren’t enough White people over there to even build and keep a vulcanizing plant running to make bulk rubber. They shipped raw unprocessed latex out of the country because the rubber goods industry saw that the African’s could not be trusted even to process the latex, to add value to it there, without being ruled by colonial powers.
I wouldn’t doubt that those sons of Ham first started frying with looted transformer oil back when it was all PCB oil. Transformer oil is still mostly mineral based and not intended for human consumption. Some of it also contains toxic fluorine. It is designed to take high heat but is not to be used for cooking food. SMH
When we lived in the ROK there was a street vendor (“Miss Lee McDonald”) who was very popular. One day her cart tipped over somehow and the oil went all over the road (very nasty road). After it congealed, she scooped it up, put it back and kept using it. That was the last time I ate street vendor Yaki mandu.
And then demand the “developed” world to come and fix it for them. There was a clip a few years back of a Chinese Official in South Africa meeting with a higher up there. South Africa wanted money / helps and assistance for their country. The Chinese Official said
“When Apartheid ended. You had a working water system and sewers in the larger cities and towns. You had the most stable electrical grid in all of Africa. You had maintained roads connecting these larger cities and towns. A train and rail system. Why did you break it? Why did you vandalize it? Why did you ruin it?”
A stance the West needs to take with the “developing” world in many cases.
My parents worked in Liberia, West Africa, for 8 years before I was born. The mission radio station and clinic where my dad (an engineer) and mom (a nurse) had worked, were both later destroyed. My father said the radio station’s most listened to segment of the day was Winnie the Pooh stories that they read to increase their audience. They claimed it was for the kids, but it was plain to those who lived there that the stories were right at the mental level of most of their adult audience.
Liberia shipped liquid latex across the ocean, and then imported rubber goods like tires, belts, and hoses. The industry had determined that even though that was horribly inefficient, it was a pipedream to think that they could make anything worthwhile from that native raw material, there in West Africa. There weren’t enough White people over there to even build and keep a vulcanizing plant running to make bulk rubber. They shipped raw unprocessed latex out of the country because the rubber goods industry saw that the African’s could not be trusted even to process the latex, to add value to it there, without being ruled by colonial powers.
I wouldn’t doubt that those sons of Ham first started frying with looted transformer oil back when it was all PCB oil. Transformer oil is still mostly mineral based and not intended for human consumption. Some of it also contains toxic fluorine. It is designed to take high heat but is not to be used for cooking food. SMH
Very interesting anecdote, thank you!
Ick. Reminds me of gutter oil, in China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6VHobCLQA
When we lived in the ROK there was a street vendor (“Miss Lee McDonald”) who was very popular. One day her cart tipped over somehow and the oil went all over the road (very nasty road). After it congealed, she scooped it up, put it back and kept using it. That was the last time I ate street vendor Yaki mandu.