No, but if you can't afford it, it might as well be rocket surgery. Some of these villages are literally dirt poor.
An aquifer is a fixed resource. Once you get too many water hookups, you either exhaust the aquifer or a regional / municipal water authority declares a moratorium on hookups. This happened in Santa Barbara county, California, in the mid-1970s. This put a crashing stop to any further housing development, and the remaining finite supply of housing became subject to scarcity and rising prices (from the relocation wannabees living in the Los Angeles bowl). Families who had lived there for generations were literally forced out of their homes because they couldn't pay the increased taxes from the increased property valuation.
Zambia has about half the population of California and nearly twice the land area, so they are in relatively good shape. But the capital, Lusaka, is currently going through a drought and a good many wells are dry because the water table has lowered. My stepchildren live with their own borehole, but now they have to purchase water by the tank truck because the hole is dry. I might say "everyone should have a Land Rover," but reality intrudes on idealism.
From my observations and reports, America is NOT trying to turn Africa into anything, except maybe open-pit mines. The people are merely neglected as being of no concern. This is probably a Godsend in some ways, since we have little good to offer now that we are awash in Wokeism. Africans, by contrast, are adherent Christians and many admire Donald Trump.
But you are entirely correct that the "problem" is not one of technology. As I see it, the problem is a lack of finances for education and small business investment. The expenses do not need to be immense (paper, pencils, and books for schools). They are quite capable of applying themselves and prospering. With education and prosperity, they will come to a better insight as to the relation of policy and economics, and (hopefully) make better political choices. Right now, the U.S. is mainly interested in collecting lapdogs as foreign aid clients. Some countries perceive this and openly reject it. They get put on the Shit List, but their integrity should be applauded.
Key point to keep in mind. The Africans have a mixed opinion of China. The Chinese offer great aid deals and infrastructure projects...but they have been found wanting in the quality of their product---and the locals are not happy with the Chinese tendency to colonize by immigration, rather than hiring locals. (With a population of 20 million in Zambia, for instance, It wouldn't take long for unrestricted Chinese immigration and breeding to overwhelm the demographics and overturn the governance. Something similar happened to Fiji with the immigration of Indians.) By contrast, Russia has a good reputation for honest dealing without demanding boot-licking. I guess I am saying the U.S. needs to stop treating Africans like Rubes to be fleeced, and treat them with respect. Stop with the bullying. The Africans really resent and detest that---but they really like Americans.
Africa can be a multi-racial land with no racial tensions. Zambia is that way, and the relief is simply wonderful. Nobody cares about color. This is what they can teach US.
No, they're not "throwing spears at animals and at each other." That kind of ignorant disparagement is neither kind nor honest.
That is the problem of giving valuable gifts to a people who are desperately poor. When it is a question of eating, the well is a resource to be liquidated. They have no idea what it cost---nor could they ever have any such idea. It is outside their experience. For them, carrying water by foot from the nearest stream costs nothing, but food must be paid for.
This means that the underlying economic situation must be improved, along with the local educational level. It's not just Africa. Criminals in the largest U.S. cities steal automobile catalytic converters simply to get the platinum. It's no different.
If it were only a few hours/day it would be next to heaven. The "load-shedding" in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, has sometimes been 12 or more hours per day. Lusaka is perfectly modern...so long as there is electricity. With no power, there is also no electric range, and people must cook outside on charcoal grills. The situation is so undependable that my stepchildren had to invest in solar power cells and a storage battery unit. Even crappy technology is a head above better technology that doesn't work.
Yes. And that is the reason that going through the government is to be avoided. Nothing but delay and graft. Some of it cannot be avoided, of course, but going through NGOs is simply getting into bed with corruption.
For what it's worth, the African locals have a low opinion of Bill Gates. Bad experience with his vaccine impositions. Part of the reason they did not line up in droves for the Covid-19 "vaccine." They may not be First World, but they are not stupid.
Good on him! It is surprising to the point of horrifying how much can be done for very modest sums of money in Africa. People talk blithely about "human investment," yet overlook perhaps the most fertile environment in the world. Africa is seen mostly as a source of natural resources, ready to be plucked at almost a swindler's rate. Good Works are left up to immense bureaucratic organizations. The idea of giving the people a hand up and nurturing their education and businesses is largely unknown. Supposedly, that is the business of the established governments, who pursue "donors" and "investment" to accomplish this---usually by establishing fancy ministries and functionaries who wear 3-piece suits and drive around in Mercedes-Benzes.
They are lucky to have groundwater in Kenya that is close to the surface. But the nasty price to pay downstream (so to speak) is the exhaustion of the aquifer. This is now happening in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Most boreholes are about 50 meters in depth, and a recent heat wave and drought has dried them up. The government needs to face up to the need for aqueducts to supply more water from rivers, drainage canals to disperse the seasonal floodwaters, storage cisterns to save water against a non-rainy day, and extension of the municipal water treatment and sewage system. As usual, the local officials are paralyzed with lack of vision and planning, and no budget. Either Westerners approach them to help, or they wait to be importuned by the Chinese (not a good option, based on past disappointments). They need dreadfully to have their national internet service (Zamtel) upgraded to modern standards (and equipped with backup generators). Adequate electrical power is also a chronic problem.
The exchange rate is now at 21 kwacha to the dollar. Zambia is a delightful place to visit, warm climate, friendly people, English-speaking, good food and accommodations, and gorgeous natural sights (e.g., Victoria Falls). It is starting to be "discovered" by Westerners with money. Mineral wealth galore. (The Kagem Mine in the Copperbelt is perhaps the world's largest emerald mine.) And "with money" can mean as little as a thousand dollars. They drive on the wrong side of the street, but you can't have everything.
I have a high regard for reality. Imagining it is the first step on a bad path, which is really all I was trying to get across (bad cognition). I wasn't intending to extend that beyond her slippery grip on reality. But it seems you are on the losing end of this discussion, because more information is coming out about the "manifesto" (really a diary) and the released pages have been confirmed by at least one news outlet.
Very strange to take your position on the pages' veracity, because the observers take this as being a huge embarrassment for the Woke who promote transgenderism and are trying to blame gun owners and Christians for driving this snowflake into her actions. Why would you want to oppose this embarrassment of Wokeism?
The President as head of State is the ultimate authority on access and need to know. Any attempt by Congress to create a law to curtail this authority would be an unconstitutional attempt by one branch of government to dictate the behavior of another independent branch.
If the President is not the ultimate authority, who is? Congress? An unelected bureaucrat? If this can be true for matters of security classification, then what stops it being true for everything?
There is no way I can avoid seeing that judge's name as "En-gorgon." His hair makes me think of Medusa, anyway.
I've examined it through the lens of all the evidence and an understanding of engineering. No reason to doubt what happened. Whenever I find someone intending to "educate" me, I have generally found someone who is simply ignorant of such things as civil engineering, aircraft engineering, and aeronautics. Plenty of declarations of what is "impossible" or "inevitable," when no such truth exists. And a strange desire to trivialize the hundreds of airplane deaths that occurred, while having nothing to say about the thousands of victims on the ground.
Mind you, I'm only talking about the events themselves. The jury is still out on the ultimate responsibility for the plan.
Well, I can't help this. You defend one mythological idea with another mythological idea. Nothing but anti-Semitism and anti-Mason bias.
Then your fantasy is getting in the way of honesty, and you have a psychosis. What else can be said if you think you have a brain and I don't---and your only comeback is an insult that you want to elevate to objective reality.
You would have been honest and accurate if you had simply said, "I don't like what you have to say."
Oh, sure. They could have outsourced it to a demon of Ba'al. As long as you are going to imagine a reality, you are no better than that trans-murderess. I have read elsewhere that her hatred was socially comprehensive, and that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Why don't you put your imagination on hold and see what finally comes out?
That is very true. Whatever it was, the effect was unconvincing.
As though the actual vs. imaginary sex of a "trans" person makes any difference to anyone, or to the facts of the case. So-called "gender dysphoria" is mainly a sign of a complete crisis in personal identity.
The scientific method is to take the evidence at hand without prejudice. Sadly, life is not always equipped with audio-cameras. I've attended countless funerals, yet never saw anyone die. Do I conclude they didn't die, only because I hadn't seen them die?
It is not the scientific method to throw out the evidence and replace it with supposition or fantasy. In fact, in these cases, it amounts to paranoid psychosis.
Not a shill. I engage in argument, and many of you folks don't like to pursue that argument. After running into repeated ignorant arguments, I have little respect for the "Truth" version of events. I think it has to do with self-identifying with the Truth Narrative. If the Truth Narrative is shot full of holes, it means that the person holding the Narrative has been something of a fool---or just possibly innocently ignorant and took up with a shiny argument...and who wants to admit that?
It wasn't clear what the person was originally and I took his photo as being a male unsuccessfully mimicking a female. What difference does it make, anyway? You have a great talent for focusing on the inessential.
So, the physical paper with the writing in ink isn't "evidence"? Isn't "real"? Does this mean that the truth value of anything is evidence-free? And we can claim that proffered evidence is simply not "real" if we don't want to think so? This is interesting...from a group psychology standpoint.
Ha, ha. You are the one reduced to making insults. That's all the insight you have? Insults?
Not a shill. Just someone who questions the unquestionable.
Those were the days when "destroyed" had a tangible meaning. Reference the works of Kublai Khan, and Tamerlane. Also the destruction of Carthage.
If something like Operation Paperclip had happened long ago, and all the evidence had been effaced, how would you know it had happened, yourself? It is a logical conundrum to make claims about what happened, when all knowledge is obliterated. The simple answer is that the Khazars dissipated as a people and a society, and interbred with other peoples, to lose any genetic or ethnic uniqueness. Such information can always be lost. If you talk about the breedlines of dogs, for example, you always come back to the fact that thorough-going mongrelization would simply revert back to the primitive wolf.
(In any case, Operation Paperclip brought us von Braun and his team from Peenemunde, without whom we would not have had the Saturn V to take us to the Moon. It is silly to continually bring it up in tones of menace.)
Of course the Deep State is the opposing force. Why would you even ask that question?
People here are prone to instance the work of Satan as the source of the evil we face. I have no disagreement with that, but I think they don't take that claim very seriously. Satan is the Prince of Lies and his greatest power is not to induce demonic evil, but to beguile with lies and deception. The greatest lie and deception we face from our opposition is the idea that they are supremely powerful. This is carefully cultivated by them. Those who don't suspect are nevertheless enthralled by The Narrative. Those who do suspect are not enthralled by the news content or propaganda---but they are enthralled with the fear that they are nearly omnipotent, just as you have shown. I don't take it for granted that they are as powerful as they want us to think (and, make no mistake, they want us to think that). Their fear, anxiety, and panic is because they dread us discovering that deception.
Of course it is a scarcity mentality. What mentality can you have when you are on the brink of starvation most of the time? What we regard as a trivial expenditure, they regard with awe as riches. For them, a "plentiful mentality" would be to have the benefits of the poorest level of our welfare system.
Frankly, I don't understand what a "plentiful mentality" is supposed to be. I grew up learning frugality the personal way. Frugality is not thriftiness. Thriftiness is the ability to make inexpensive purchases for value received. Frugality is the ability not to make purchases. You absolutely have to put your family first, because NO ONE is going to take care of it except you. The clan is second priority. The "community" is third priority (if there is anything left for a third priority). The region or the nation? Lofty dreams.