Zimbabwe to use gold coins as tender to reduce use of US dollars
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I give it a week until we start seeing the headlines about Zimbabwe's brutal dictator that needs to be stopped in order to secure democracy for the people. Never forget what happened to Libya and many others.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeded Robert Mugabe in 2017, and while he is not a "nice guy" he is far from being as bad as Mugabe. "Democracy" is purely for idiots who think that the dictatorship of the masses is a good thing. The people need to get politically smarter before any improvement will happen. Now that we have seen how the West tinkers in foreign lands, I don't think Western involvement would be to the good.
The gold coin is a good idea. In zim dollars, the price would be astronomical, so it would be used as a repository of wealth, not a medium of daily commercial exchange.
Gold will destroy the FED
road to roota
I think they will have a very hard time keeping those in circulation for daily use.
I know if I had access to them I would be hoarding their gold.
U know it’s bad when backwards shithole Africa is doing something we should’ve done years ago
Africa is a shithole because
Everyone else is their pimp and stole their resources.
Way too many different languages. Too many tribes cannot understand each other to work together.
Corrupt governments that the Cabal now owns. This means the Cabal owns their resources now.
There is a reason why other countries hate the west dude.
Putin hates the west as well.
That doesn’t matter man!
Others who didn’t live there still stole their resources.
Those who stole the resources are the ones who rewritten history.
Has the Cabal not fucked up what is true or not true?
How many good guys that the Cabal has made? When in reality they are criminals.
I mean George Floyd was treated like Jesus dude.
I am starting to think the West are nothing but fakers to who act smart and accomplished.
What we have learned during this great awakening.
They are thugs who take credit by stealing and using alternative history to paint a good picture.
They say IQ is special. But can we believe them now?
They could be lieing about that as well.
Let’s think about this logically now.
It’s the west who had some of their most smartest scientists. Try to push the idea that mask work!
That standing 6 feet apart works.
How many western scientists have pushed climate changed???
When that’s a hoax as well!
We don’t know the truth about Africa. We only know what the west wants us to see.
Western "intelligence" agencies have funded and armed "resistance" movements and political opponents to destabilize African nations. Mercenary groups and private intelligence agencies have also been used to prop up division and competing warlords to keep these nations divided and chaotic. The Middle East, Central and South America and the Southeast Asian countries have all felt the impacts of these tactics. This is all for business interests to remove natural resources from these areas. The reason for all the chaos in Africa and many of these other countries is not organic. If allowed to develop without the seeds of disharmony and chaos, the third world countries would not be third world countries. This isn't about ethnicities and internal strife, it is about keeping them suppressed as a source of wealth and income for global elites. ALL human beings have the same potential. The same tactics we are seeing today that have been used to destroy our Western first world nations has been used for possibly 400 years to suppress the third world nations. The only countries that would be experiencing third world status organically are those with no natural resources.
Reasons 1 and 3 are two halves of the same coin. The corrupt governors get kickbacks from facilitating the rape of resources.
Reason 2 is bogus. There are only two native vernaculars in Zimbabwe and the national language is English. The few vernaculars is not a political or economic advantage. There are probably a dozen vernaculars in neighboring Zambia, but the national language is English, and everyone (including plenty of foreigners) gets along just fine. The economy is starting to boom, now that the Lungu government is gone. Many languages not a problem...if you speak English.
As for the West, I am now beginning to despise what we have become, behind our backs.
Read here.
They are many languages dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa
Not in Zimbabwe. And the number of languages (or vernaculars) in Zambia probably are more than a dozen. I have relatives in those countries, I've been there, and I think that counts for more than a Wikipedia entry. There is a reverse correlation between the number of languages present and the economic success prevailing. They are related neighbors, by the way.
The point is that your argument is bunk. India has a vast profusion of languages and dialects---but they speak English as a common language and do so in order to get along. English itself has such a range of dialects that it is possible for people at distant ends of the language not to understand one another (as my father found out in a Scottish pub).
Ok dude
How many tribes are there in Africa?
Lots. How many tribes are there in Europe? Also, lots. And if you think America doesn't have "tribes," you have been living elsewhere.
If we are being brutally honest the average intelligence across the continent is near the level of retardation.
IQ is a testing process that is slanted to a particular type of thought process. There are ethnic differences in how minds work, different strengths and weaknesses are present in different ethnic brain structures. The IQ is a western thought process analysis that deals with a certain way of thinking. Orientals typically have a more structured and analytic way of seeing and processing information, the Occidentals are more innovative and explorative. I do not have enough data on African processes to determine their method reasoning, but I have no doubt that it is different. Not better or worse, but different. We have all been seeing things from a particular lens that is biased by our ethnicity derived culture. The end product is that everyone brings different resources and processes to the table. If we recognize and develop these different methodologies we can maximize the human potential. Diversity is a strength to maximize potential, but it can also be used as a weapon to sow discord. If you think that Africans are inferior due to the state of the continent, please see my above post as to why all the chaos has been going on for centuries. It isn't an accident. Western influence in Africa is designed to keep them from progressing. Africa has massive amounts of natural resources that would make it extremely wealthy and powerful. Instead those resources are taken and making some folks that same wealth. Think it is purely coincidental?
Lol...
Ok smarty.
Why dontcha do a little research on:
"IQ levels needed to attain X."
It will fucking open your eyes to everything. Might even 'crystallize' some thoughts.
Historically, several of the most innovative and brilliant minds have failed miserably in IQ tests. Einstein was considered barely functional and could not carry out some fairly simple functions that most "normal" people could easily perform. Nikola Tesla had abnormal sensory issues and anti-social behaviors. Eccentric thought processes do not conform to conventional patterns that are standardized to evaluate intellect. I'm afraid that many of the societal norms that have been established are constructed around a fairly narrow perspective. Problem solving and environmental awareness is more highly developed in primitive cultures, as noted in studies perform in polynesian island natives. Body language is highly developed in many primitive societies that are uncommon in our advanced society. We don't value these aspects of intellect and do not quantify them. There are many factors to intelligence. My point is that we use an IQ test to put people into a category. The people that created this test had a specific point of view and a particular bias toward specific attributes. There are people that cannot read, but are successful in many areas, do you consider that they are morons because they cannot perform an IQ test? I'm not saying that the IQ test has no value, I am merely pointing out that it is not all inclusive of all forms of intelligence.
Yes, you are right. The continent is packed with a billion Einsteins and Teslas.
I'm sure you understand what I am saying. The average human being is pretty ignorant and pretty stupid, but there are brilliant minds in every country. Whether they have a chance to develop or not is not the question. The fact that they would perform terribly at an IQ test is limited by their education and exposure to advanced concepts. The majority of the human population is of average intelligence, hence the "average". IQ tests are designed for specific areas of knowledge and thinking processes.
You haven't spent a lot of time in Africa.
No, not a lot. Only been to two countries. Both poor as hell. Djibouti and Tunisia. What I did find were people doing things that we take for granted with junk and scrap, that I would have never imagined or thought possible. Most of Djibouti chews on a mildly narcotic plant root, but if I was born there and lived there, it would be depressing as hell. Tunisia was a bit more advanced, but they actually have resources, whereas Djibouti has nothing except one port. No other resources. About the saddest place I have ever seen.
I haven't been to Mediterranean Africa, but travelled through Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia. I only spent 15 years on cooperative projects throughout the continent and admit this is only a tiny snapshot in time. We can talk geopolitical, cultural, tribal and geographic reasons for the socioeconomic status of Africa all day long, but the only semi-advanced infrastructure I saw over the course of 15 years is the result of foreign aid and foreign investment. Most of the neocolonial resources have long been overgrown and are in disrepair or have been nationalized and require continuing aid input to maintain operations.
I loved the time I spent throughout Africa and I met some amazing people. I got to work with their top scientists in my discipline, but spent more time out in the rural, mud hut regions. Regardless of the educational level, I was forever dumbfounded by the utter inability of most of the people to discern cause and effect, actions and consequences. Definitely not an IQ measure, but more of an inability to work toward medium and long term goals that THEY defined as important.
Introduction of gold coins might actually help adjust that seeming lack of delayed gratification behavior, yet ironically, the gold standard is primarily a European based construct.
You have far more experience than I do. I guess I must must be a glass half full kind of guy. I tend to believe that most people are good and most people are relatively intelligent. I could be wrong. Lord knows that the more I see of the average American and their knowledge of history, geography, political structure of different types of government, and well... Pretty much everything that doesn't have to do with pop culture. I hate to think that the human race is actually getting dumber, but perhaps it is a matter of priorities. There are extraordinary people with incredible minds. I have met a couple, but I have to admit, they are relatively rare. I run into a lot more average minds. I'm not a genius, but I at least attempt to do most everything myself. Except for writing code, it bores me to tears and I hate it with a passion.
Lol. Ah it’s the IQ argument again. What’s your IQ dude?
You haven't spent much time in Africa or you would know what I refer to.
Yes. Africa is a shit hole. Because it has been invaded countless times throughout history.
It's considered to be the oldest place on earth. Some people believe it's the home base for humanity.
Who knows how many people have come in there? Stole all the resources.
Then rewrote history as they see fit.
What you see now is the AFTERMATH of constant invasion dude. Do you know how many natural resources they have?
Much of Africa is stagnant for a variety of reasons but not for those parroted on PBS. There are pockets of rich resources and those still attract foreign investment because there is no local industry or ability to extract, transport, and refine those resources.
Much of the continent has poor soils and irregular seasonal rainfall. Most of the continent is land locked without a vast river system. Where there are rivers they become garbage laden toilets in addition to the main source of drinking water. Sewage systems and waste disposal and compartmentalization systems are almost non-existent.
Most of the continent is incapable of developing an effective food production and distribution system. This is a recurring, 100% internal problem despite 50 years and more of foreign technical aid to improve production, processing, storage and transportation.
Their political systems make ours look like heaven. All the way up and down the chain, no one has any real power to effect change so every thing becomes an opportunity for graft. The concept of rights and systems of property and law are nebulous because tribal customs have more real influence in society than colonial institutions. There is no safety net. You are truly "on your own".
Most companies I dealt with see Africa as a huge untapped consumer market. The main problem is that there is so little ANYTHING to base functioning economies off of that it is difficult to develop a capitalist consumer base. Few desirable resources. Ineffective transportation and distribution systems. A poor uneducated population. Barely functioning legal systems. These are not post-colonial problems.
Well said.
There is only one way in my view. Start a business to serve others.
Buy some 2008 zim bond notes…gurus are saying when the global currency reset happens a 100T note will be worth $30m. Only costs about $300 right now….Zimbabwe and other countries have crazy assets and precious medals in the ground..Gold backed is the way of the future.
Regular currency notes ? 100 T ?
https://www.ebay.com/b/Zimbabwe-Z-100-Trillion-Paper-Money/162228/bn_60793574