#Western exploitation

[nammythings]

Why the West Is Obsessed with Africa

…and why Burkina Faso is at the center of it all If Africa reclaims what’s rightfully hers, the global balance of power shifts. Permanently. The West knows this. That’s why it’s obsessed, not with Africa’s people, but with its resources. From gold and cobalt to solar real estate and shipping corridors, Africa holds the raw materials of the 21st-century economy. And the more African nations like…

[oldshowbiz]

German Westerns Produced in Yugoslavia? They're Coming to Canada.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

[hussyknee]

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Showcase example of why I am deeply skeptical of Eat The Rich types. Too many of y'all are like this fuckhead who has no clue what rich requires eating.

Also for context: Ron Perlman has been acting since 1975. Studio exec Bob Igor made $27 million last year from Disney alone, just one of his streams of annual income, which includes but is not limited to stocks, real estate and consulting.

[thefallenangelsgang]

Currently doing a batshit insane tour of Ralph Fiennes acting credits because apparently this man has bewitched me body and soul.

[nando161mando]

Australian employment advert 🙃

[romanceyourdemons]

sometimes i’ll mention exploitation film to people in whatever context and all disgustedly they’ll be like why would anyone ever want to watch an Exploitation Film, that sounds so gross. well my brother it sounds like you have simply not found the right subgenre of exploitation film for you!!

[guiltyonsundays]

Incredible sequence of posts on the dash just now

[originalgravity]

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: Eden: It's an Endless World! エデン

by Hiroki Endo

[four-white-trees]

WHY A WESTERN, NO. 8?!

[the-feathered-consort]

Kikia when she wakes up feeling full of confidence and does her skincare routine:

[workersolidarity]

Modern Pirates of the African Coast

"Okay, what do you do with this money?"

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"The money? I use to buy ammunition and speed boats, and the rest to take care of our families. Because we do our jobs. That is why we are doing this dirty job."

"You come to exploit here and don't want to employ me. That is why, that is the major reason why we are doing this. You don't want to employ us and you are exploiting from us."

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I find this very sad. These people have ZERO prospects for their future from the moment they were born. Their country has been used, abused and had the wealth sucked out of it over the last 4 centuries, continues to be exploited to the extreme and they grow up in harder circumstances than Westerners could ever fathom. They take from this a lesson: their lives are meaningless to the powers-that-be and if they want any shot at wealth or security, then they must fight to the death to take it.

Is it really surprising then that some of these men with no future and no security turn to kidnapping, smuggling and extortion to give their lives some meaning?

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 7, 2003, Django was released on DVD as part of the Spaghetti Western Collection boxset by Blue Underground.

Here's a new drawing of Franco Nero to celebrate!

[falseandrealultravival]

Dialogue with Gemini (24) The CFA franc and French domination of Africa

President Macron of France

My question:

The CFA franc that France circulates in Central and West Africa makes it difficult for the covered regions to export and forces them to donate 50% of export profits to France. This is a convenient way of colonizing. France is a stingy sting, but are there any other Western countries that have a similar system?

フランスが中央アフリカ、西アフリカで流通させているCFAフランは、適用地域の輸出を難しくし、さらに輸出利益の５０％をフランスに供出させるシステムである。これは体の良い植民地支配の手段であろう。フランスはアコギであるが、フランス以外にも西欧諸国で、同じようなシステムをとっている国が他にもあるだろうか？

Huggingface’s answer:

Yes, there are examples of Western European countries other than France that maintain similar monetary systems in the areas that were once colonies. Some of these countries and regions are listed below.

1. Portugal and Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, and Timor-Leste: These regions still use the escudo, a currency circulated when they were former Portuguese colonies. These regions continue to use the escudo rather than issuing their currency.

2. Spain and Equatorial Guinea: Equatorial Guinea was once a Spanish colony and still uses the Spanish currency, the euro. It does not issue its own currency.

3. Netherlands and Caribbean countries: Caribbean countries such as the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and Curacao used the Dutch currency, the guilder. The euro is still widely used in these regions.

4. United Kingdom and Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and Saint Helena: The British pound is in circulation in these regions. Some regions issue their currencies, but they maintain a fixed exchange rate system with the pound.

These Western countries can maintain their economic and political dominance by maintaining similar monetary systems in their former colonies.

Impression:

Although not as blatant as France, European countries are still exploiting Asia and Africa through their semi-colonies.

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[almostlookedhuman]

Just a series of films that I watched during February.