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Friday, April 27, 2012

The contours of the New Slavery

...many thanks to the source:
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the land matrix:
These are the partners and sponsors:
...have nothing to do with Ethiopia; neither related nor directly affiliated with the latter and its opponents;

...and therefore no reason to be biased towards Ethiopia and its regime;
BUT look at the summary-graphic-outcome of the Data analysis,
and where the contours of the deals converge and congest:
This is not a fairy tale, a phantasmagoria or an Armageddon prophecy but concrete data!

...giving a clear picture of our plight where the contours of the coming slavery are running and alarming!

...Is this not REASON and RATIONALE enough for any living MIND with the slightest claim of being an INTELECTUAL to get aware of the fact where we AFRICA/ with ETHIOPA getting the lead of being enslaved /will end up!

...The PEOPLES are always ready to shake off their burden; it is thus not worth mentioning the load they have to live with!

Always scrambling for our rich and "poor" AFRICA!
The last century was the colonial Zenith of the WEST!
The coming century screams to be the new colonial Omega of the EAST!
LEST AFRICA RISES UP TO TAKE ITS OWN FATE IN ITS OWN HANDS!

LEST THE AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL LIVE UP TO ITS CONSCIENCE
AND NOT TO ITS SHAMELESS OPORTUNENESS!

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Land Matrix

The Land Matrix is an online public database of large-scale land deals. It provides a visualisation of records documenting land deals since 2000. The data you can explore represent about 50% of the entire data base. The remaining deals are being crosschecked and added, together with new data provided, on an on-going basis. The visualisations offer overview of the data as well as giving full access to the public database down to the level of an individual deal. ... Read more

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We documented 1,008 deals since the year 2000
amounting to 76,329,194 ha of land
which equals the size of half of Western Europe
10% of investors account for
79% of the acquired land
48% of the land acquired is in Africa

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"When the idea formed of Divinity is the fruit of true spiritual culture, its intimate re-action on the inner perfection is at once beneficial and beautiful. All things assume a new form and meaning in our eyes when regarded as the creatures of forecasting design, and not the capricious handiwork of unreasoning chance. The ideas of wisdom order, and adaptative forethought,—ideas so necessary to the conduct of our own actions, and even to the culture of the intellect,—strike deeper root into our susceptible nature, when we discover them everywhere around us. The finite becomes, as it were, infinite; the perishable, enduring; the fleeting, stable; the complex, simple,—when we contemplate one great regulating Cause on the summit of things, and regard what is spiritual as endlessly enduring. Our search after truth, our striving after perfection, gain greater certainty and consistency when we can believe in the existence of a Being who is at once the source of all truth, and the sum of all perfection. The soul becomes less painfully sensible of the chances and changes of fortune, when it learns how to connect hope and confidence with such calamities. The feeling of receiving everything we possess from the hand of love, tends no less to exalt our moral excellence and enhance our happiness. Through a constant sense of gratitude for enjoyment—through clinging with fond trustfulness to the object towards which it yearns, the soul is drawn out of itself, nor always broods in jealous isolation over its own sensations, its own plans, hopes, and fears. Should it lose the exalting feeling of owing everything to itself, it still enjoys the rapture of living in the love of another,—a feeling in which its own perfection is united with the perfection of that other being. It becomes disposed to be to others what others are to it; it would not that they too should receive nothing but from themselves, in the same way that it receives nothing from others."

Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State action; 1792(CHAPTER VII.
Religion)

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