Why Somalia is so poor? – The Potent Dirty Weapons used.

[Apollo]

You can read any piece of literature and draw the wrong conclusions and thus go astray. Europe has no natural resources whatsoever, how does a continent with the most natural resources becomes the poorest and the one with the least the richest? this is the key foundation question you have to get right, history doesn't lie and all your answers are there.

There was a time Europe was throwing their faeces out the windows in the dark ages, how did they get out of it? there were those just like you at that time many infact describing them as barbarian's that would never come out and they were at war with each other and darkness longer then anyone else in this world.

It's actually very simple, if your poor with resources, an empire hungry for it, would come in and take it out, but they can't do neither without building infrastructure to move it out and investing in the means, regardless if they are rogue or not, your people will learn those trades as they will be used to carry out those tasks (knowledge transfer), this is the foundation you build upon, to get out of poverty.

wealth depends on trade, depends on infrastructure, depends on investment, which you can only get if you have resources or something worth to move, hence you back to the premise of this thread, Somalia has it, but is blocked from it, something unprecedented in history.

If you travel to large places in Somalia, even up in Sanaag you have people that produce ridiculous surplus stuff, but they cannot move it due to horrifically poor infrastructure and hence it all goes to waste, the guy doesn't get any richer, won't be able to employ much people, and the services are lost to all, this is a classic story up and down the country, a sort of death spiral.

None of these people have the expertise, nor the kind of money to undertake such a project, the facilitation of corruption/destabilization's are other potent weapons used to ensure only the very brave would undertake such a task, provided they get foreign funding, which no one will give you for free.

''Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.''
''IQ and the Wealth of Nations''
''Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty''

Africa is naturally fucked, just accept it.

 

[Inquisitive_]

''Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.''
''IQ and the Wealth of Nations''
''Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty''

Africa is naturally fucked, just accept it.

The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, he whom believes the people are 'hopeless' is the most 'hopeless' himself.

Then again I look at your 'liberal elite' status and think perhaps your an Europhile atheist, which means your hopeless useless beyond believe anyway, beggars believe why you would even comment on Somali affairs.

Posting some quackademic theoretical book with no practical value nor historical basis, doesn't bring much value to the discussion, I could post you likewise many surviving nuclear warfare books written by dudes that live in their mothers basements, quickademic meaningless polemics.

 

[Inquisitive_]

Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U.S. oil companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions of acres of the Somali countryside.

According to documents obtained by The Times, nearly two-thirds of Somalia was allocated to the American oil giants Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips in the final years before Somalia’s pro-U.S. President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown and the nation plunged into chaos in January, 1991.

Industry sources said the companies holding the rights to the most promising concessions are hoping that the Bush Administration’s decision to send U.S. troops to safeguard aid shipments to Somalia will also help protect their multimillion-dollar investments there.

Conoco Inc., the only major multinational corporation to mantain a functioning office in Mogadishu throughout the past two years of nationwide anarchy, has been directly involved in the U.S. government’s role in the U.N.-sponsored humanitarian military effort.

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-01-18/news/mn-1337_1_oil-reserves
http://www.globalresearch.ca/somalia-the-real-causes-of-famine/25725

Those are the contracts used to ban every other country from investment, these include China, Japan, Turkey and any other nation that is thinking about this.