For those interested in third world poverty in Africa

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/151

Here is a fascinating speech at TED, one of the few that is not part of the liberal freakshow on parade that it usually is.

He offers a lot of support to what I have said arguing that it is liberal hubris to assume that saving the third world and leftist politics need to go hand in hand.

He makes a point that I actually forgot. Most third world countries actually have more natural resources at their disposal than the US. South America and Africa definitely do. Our wealth has been generated symbolically through free trade and capitalism, and theirs has been stifled and kept from the people by communism and other forms of dictatorship.