(03-07-2018 03:42 PM)Easy_C Wrote: Martin Armstrong weighed in: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/inter...-of-facts/
Quote:In the case of South Africa, the shortage of water is very real. The people will rise up against the politicians for their careless mismanagement of the situation. The smart way to head that crisis off is to blame the white farmers at the precise moment when you need to divert the masses from the shortage of water. You always have to create the enemy. In Germany, it became the Jewish banks, then the Jewish merchants, and finally, all the Jews. Before that, to save money, the German state began to execute veterans from World War I who were costing too much money to maintain. They took them from the hospitals and executed them.
Day Zero has been pushed to next year.
We initially suspected this was a political maneuvre like the power shortages in ESKOM a few years ago, to drive up tariffs and prices for water and electricity.
The DA can then alienate Patricia De Lille (mayor) who they've been trying to get out for a while. This is without going into the investment motives of the various water based companies.
Then you consider that the Western Cape pipe leakage is 15% (confirmed by chemical and civil engineers at a presentation last night; European levels), it seems that the water crisis was not as big of a crisis as we thought.
You can't compare an ethnically homogenous country such as the US with the democrats blaming the classes with South Africa and all the various tribal power struggles happening while they try to alienate the minority.
This guy has very basic understanding of the situation and I think he is talking shit.
The Democratic Alliance is considered the 'white' party of RSA. They are responsible for the water crisis. They won't blame the white farmer and alienate their voter base; whites and middle class blacks who don't fall for ANC rhetoric.
There have been no negotiations for pipelines to pump water from adjacent provinces as the Northern and Eastern Cape (both ANC provinces) both have droughts. KwaZulu Natal came close to a drought and were saved by the rain. The climate there is tropical allowing for rainy summers as opposed to the Western side of the country.
I acknowledge Martin Armstrong's 'status' but he is giving his opinion, not actually providing any basis for it.
That's exactly what it is, an opinion.
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.
Is the drought real? Yes
Is it politically motivated? Perhaps (the dealing of it, not the cause of course)
It's more of internal DA politics raising funds through this situation for 2019 elections instead of blacks vs whites. Every single political action here is a piece of the puzzle towards 2019.
But hey, sometimes it's easier to just think that.
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