THE REASON WHY AFRICA IS SO POOR

The reason Africa is so poor is very simple. In fact, the real question is, why are some countries so rich, while others are so poor? Here is an insanely simple answer. Here it is: HEADSTART!!!! Eurasia (Europe and Asia) got a headstart. Why? Another easy question. Eurasia had something all the other countries didn't: the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent was perfect for growing crops and domesticating animals. Now, because they didn't have to hunt and gather food all day anymore, they were able to have extra time to think and invent things! this is part two to the equation. If anyone knows the story of the Inca Empire and the Conquistadors, the whole reason the Conquistadors were able to take down the Inca Empire was because they had technological advancements. The conquistadors had guns and steel swords, while the Inca Empire had spears and sling shots. No wonder they won! But before the battle, half the Inca Empire had already been wiped out the previous day. WAIT! IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING IN THE TEXTBOOK ABOUT THAT! Of course not! the textbook lies. The conquistadors had brought over anouther weapon, without even knowing it. GERMS! They had been working with certain animals for so long, they had grown immune to certain diseases caused by those animals. But the Incas hadn't ever worked with those animals, so they weren't immune to the germs the conquistadors had brought over from Eurasia. Meanwhile, in Africa, they're trying to domesticate an elephant, which doesn't exactly work. Now remember what I said about headstart earlier? Well, look closely!

11,000 BCE

Hunting and Gathering
Eurasia
Abundance of Species
Domestication
Sedentary Lifestyle
Tons of Food
Axis: East/West
River Civilizations
Technological Advancements

It's a timeline! Who knew? and an acrostic! So basically, the whole reason in summary of why some countries are so rich while others are so poor is because Eurasia got geographically lucky!!! Simple, right? But it's all true. For proof, read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

It is sad how the world suffers from so many maladies. But let us stop to think for a minute of the causes. If the governments of the world, including my own in North America, would consider the needs of the people who send representatives to government, they could solve these problems.
Professional politicians, so many being lawyers/titled Esquires who obey London/the Vatican, care mostly for their own grasping for wealth and power, while the people they supposedly represent be damned.
Government is for protection of its people and to aid them in being safe and earning a living. Governments with central banks controlled and run by corrupt moneychangers care not for these things.
America's "war on poverty," for example, is simply a fraud, with no intention of solving poverty here. Their policies in fact cause misery, poverty, unemployment, destroy our soil, etc. If the governments here, in Africa, and everywhere else would function for the peoples' good, we could solve the world's problems. We would then even prevent wars, if politicians were honest and moral, not warring to control more of the land areas around the world. We need common sense and decency to solve the world's problems.
Sincerely,
Dr. Brooks (ret.) in Georgia, America

IF WE COULD SHRINK THE EARTH'S POPULATION TO A VILLAGE OF PRECISELY 100 PEOPLE

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look
something like the following.

There would be:

• 57 Asians

• 21 Europeans

• 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

• 8 Africans

• 52 would be female

• 48 would be male

• 70 would be non-white

• 30 would be white

• 70 would be non-Christian

• 30 would be Christian

• 89 would be heterosexual

• 11 would be homosexual

• 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's

wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.

• 80 would live in substandard housing

• 70 would be unable to read

• 50 would suffer from malnutrition

• 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth

• 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

• 1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need
for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more
blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are
ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a place of worship without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the
world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead
and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish
someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare, even
in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over
two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

GLOBAL POVERTY AND HUNGER FACTS AND STATISTICS - WORLD POVERTY MAP

Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.

According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The two regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.

Infectious diseases continue to blight the lives of the poor across the world. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004. Every year there are 350–500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million fatalities: Africa accounts for 90 percent of malarial deaths and African children account for over 80 percent of malaria victims worldwide.

Water problems affect half of humanity:

Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day.
More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.
Access to piped water into the household averages about 85% for the wealthiest 20% of the population, compared with 25% for the poorest 20%
.

Number of children in the world
2.2 billion

Number in poverty
1 billion (every second child)

The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.

World gross domestic product (world population approximately 6.5 billion) in 2006 was $48.2 trillion in 2006.

The world’s wealthiest countries (approximately 1 billion people) accounted for $36.6 trillion dollars (76%).
The world’s billionaires — just 497 people (approximately 0.000008% of the world’s population) — were worth $3.5 trillion (over 7% of world GDP).

Low income countries (2.4 billion people) accounted for just $1.6 trillion of GDP (3.3%)
Middle income countries (3 billion people) made up the rest of GDP at just over $10 trillion (20.7%).

The total wealth of the top 8.3 million people around the world “rose 8.2 percent to $30.8 trillion in 2004, giving them control of nearly a quarter of the world’s financial assets.”

In other words, about 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s financial assets in 2004.

An analysis of long-term trends shows the distance between the richest and poorest countries was about:
. 3 to 1 in 1820
. 11 to 1 in 1913
. 35 to 1 in 1950
. 44 to 1 in 1973
. 72 to 1 in 1992

The 2007 Human Development Report (HDR) from the United Nations Development Program notes that,

“There are still around 1 billion people living at the margins of survival on less than US$1 a day, with 2.6 billion—40 percent of the world’s population—living on less than US$2 a day.”
For much of the 1990s and early 2000s, it was understood that roughly half of humanity had been living on about $2 a day.

Sobering to say the least but together we can turn it around