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Category Archives: Africa
Africa’s Golden Age Ending Before It’s Begun
The image below comes from NASA in 2012. It shows Africa at its peak, before the great electrical grid collapse of the dark continent. The African Power Grid is Collapsing, Starting in South Africa; Why? In recent years South Africa’s … Continue reading
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China’s Dizzy Decline Will Lead to War
China is heading for economic decline as its working age population crashes before the nation can find the innovation and worker productivity it desperately needs. China has been trying to make up for its ongoing decline by the accumulation of … Continue reading
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Why Did Black Africans Invent Slavery?
Human slavery originated as a by-product of tribal warfare in ancient Africa. Tens of thousands of years ago in ancient Africa, tribal warfare was a way of life. The biggest problem for the conquering tribe was what to do with … Continue reading
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More Black Babies Die; More Black Babies Live
In the US, more than 10 black infants out of a thousand die, from one cause or another (see image). That is about twice as many infant deaths as we find in most other races in the US. But if … Continue reading
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Black History Month: Will it Ever be Black Future Month?
Or put more clearly: Do black people have a future? Every year as the US once again celebrates “Black History Month,” everyone tries to ignore the fact that blacks still lag in educational achievement, in life expectancy, in wealth and … Continue reading
Why Do Black People Act This Way?
Two Black Teenagers Murder 63 Year Old Man On His Morning Walk Yesterday morning in Charleston, South Carolina, a 63 year old man who was married to the provost of the College of Charleston, was shot to death by two … Continue reading
Those Brilliant Black People from Jamaica and Nigeria
Average national IQs can only tell us so much. In Europe/Anglosphere and East Asia average IQs run “high,” in sub Saharan Africa average IQs tend to run “low,” and everywhere else is somewhere in between. When you are looking for … Continue reading
A Complex Family Heritage
The discovery of a new ancient human ancestor is still in its primitive stages. But early indicators hint that the ghost population shared a common ancestor with Neanderthals, modern humans and Denisovans around a million years ago. And at some … Continue reading
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South Africa: No Country for Free Men
Following the Downward Path Zimbabwe was a prospering country in 1980 when the government changed. Its currency was the equivalent of the UK pound, food production and exports were abundant. Workers were well paid with money that was worth something. … Continue reading
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Conscious Processes, Chocolate, and Strange Attractors
The panorama of evolutionary biology reveals evolved consciousness at many levels — from bacteria pursuing food to theoretical physicists performing mind experiments to determine the constituents of matter in the universe. The quality of inference varies widely between different species, … Continue reading
Where Electric Power is in Short Supply
In sub Saharan Africa, across MENA, and in large parts of Asia, many millions of people must live without reliable access to electric power. For most of these countries the problem is that the humans who live in these countries … Continue reading
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Homicide Near and Far
A bit of research will reveal that most of the US cities with high crime rates also host significant numbers of black residents — who are usually highly sequestered within particular neighborhoods. The graphic below indicates the type of statistical … Continue reading
South African Power Company Eskom in Death Spiral
Eskom is now in a death or debt spiral – or arguably both – as it engages in a stand-off with the government. __ Antigone Miltiadous A few years after South Africa changed to a popular rule system of government, … Continue reading
The Future Belongs to Women of Child-Bearing Years
If your country has no women of child-bearing years, it has no future without massive immigration. But if you import large numbers of young people who are not compatible with your culture and your technological level of culture and infrastrucuture, … Continue reading
South Africa Walking Down Zimbabwe Path of Ruin
South Africa is repeating Zimbabwe’s fatal mistakes In neighbouring Zimbabwe, violent land seizures authorised by Robert Mugabe in the 1990s sent the country into a spiral of decline from which it has never recovered. __ Express In the documentary “Farmlands,” … Continue reading
Why Do Blacks Destroy Almost Everything They Inherit?
Is it really true that African blacks leave a trail of violence, poverty, and destruction wherever in the world they go? And if it is true, why? … no one will talk about the painful fact that most African and … Continue reading
Vibranium Asteroid Disappears Over Wakanda
Warning: The following is a work of plagiaristic satire. Read at your own risk! According to the mainstream narrative, the asteroid “disintegrated” over southern Africa. But our overseas correspondents report that it actually disappeared under mysterious circumstances in tightly controlled … Continue reading
What’s Holding Blacks Back?
It Feels Good to Be a Victim … blacks, inevitably, suffer from a classic post-colonial inferiority complex. Like insecure people everywhere, they are driven by a private sense of personal inadequacy to seeing imaginary obstacles to their success supposedly planted … Continue reading
Forced Sterilisation of African Women: Can We Stop It in Time?
If the people of one continent of Earth continue to pursue exponential population growth over the next century, the population of the planet could easily double or even triple. Radical environmentalists are feeling increasingly threatened by the inability of African … Continue reading
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You Say Wakanda; I See Zimbabwe
A recently released Marvel Comics fantasy film, Black Panther, is experiencing a brisk box office trade. By all accounts it is a rousing action film, with colorful costumes and striking computer special effects. But something interesting is happening in the … Continue reading
Mind Where You Go: Travel Risk
Traveling is fun, but it can be risky. In many countries of the world, rates of crime and communicable disease can be much higher than in most countries of Europe and the Anglosphere. Kidnappings, dangerous infections, corrupt law enforcement, and … Continue reading
Are People with Low IQs Doomed to be Left Behind?
Lower intelligence is a limiting factor when it comes to education, employment, and economic success but IQ has nothing to do with dignity, friendliness, compassion, honesty and a host of other positive human attributes. Access to all the opportunities imaginable … Continue reading
Can Africa Rise Above Its Poverty and Low IQ?
Curse of Poverty and Low IQ The poverty of sub Saharan Africa is a perpetual problem which has long troubled western global analysts. Since the days of Albert Schweitzer, charitable persons and institutions from the advanced world have been lavishing … Continue reading
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Africa’s “Complex Transition” Into the Modern World
Darkest Africa and for Very Good Reasons When President Macron of France suggested that black Africa has “civilisational problems,” he was immediately attacked by the usual suspects of the politically correct mindset. But Macron was merely saying in a polite … Continue reading
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Emerging Ghost Malls, Hotels, Office Buildings and Cities of Africa
We usually think of China when contemplating “ghost cities” and other ghost real estate properties. But the Chinese propensity to build infrastructure far in advance of actual demand is not limited to the Middle Kingdom. The Chinese Communist Party wants … Continue reading
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