"GREAT TEACHER: ONE WHO OPENS YOU
TO NEW POSSIBILITIES AND NEW EXPERIENCES!"
The world around you and before you has somehow survived a True abyss of Isolation! So if you apply your mind to the concept of what is true and great, you will understand that the obstacle you have to overcome is : How to transcend the environment in which you grew up. If yo succeed, you will build a great world for the future generations! And if you can't conquer this obstacle, then God forbid, you fail big time! I maintain that these are incredible times which can call for the temporary suspension of our best and most time honoured Axioms, Customs, Precedents and Judgements. This moment and hour might be just one of those rare occasions. So I speak not only to your mind but also to your heart!
Professor Sachs explains: There we had a community meeting sitting in the dirt. And I asked the people what had happened this season, and they told me something quite stunning. At planting time, an agriculture collective provides some fertilizer and seed. The farmers grow the crop. And then at the end of the growing season, this enterprise buys the cotton back from the farmers at the world market price. This year, the farmers were told, well, you have just given us your crop and now you are deeper in debt because the value of your crop is less than the input we gave you four months ago. So these farmers literally worked for months only to be deeper in debt at the end of the season. The cotton process were so low because we have heavily subsidized twenty five thousand American cotton growers in a scheme that the World Trade Organization has declared illegal.
Now, for cotton growers in Brazil it lowers their incomes and creates terrible hardships, but in Mali it kills people. Because these people have no incomes, there is no nurse in the village. There is no school. And I turned to the Chief, Have any children died recently? I asked. And I will never ever forget his response. He waved his hand in violent disgust. "So many! So many!" He said before lowering his head and walking away! And then the village piped in that they are losing children all the time because they get hungry, and then infection comes, and then the child is dead.
We are not merely leaving these people to their fate but actually driving them to greater and greater poverty without any sense of responsibility because we are not even compensating in other ways. Where' s the other aid??!! Where's the "Oh, yes, we have to do it for our farmers, but there is what we can do for you!??" So that is Mali. But at the G8 Summit Tony Blair got it absolutely right that day, and President Bush made a good statement also, saying it was all the more important to redouble our efforts in the fight against poverty and not let Terrorists take away from that Agenda! The G8 leaders committed to double the aid to Africa. A welcome step but a long way from what the world had promised. But we honour Professor Sachs, and his work and display this Post for 2 days!
Good night and God bless!
SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless
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