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Chapter 44
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A typical city such as Washington D.C. in this way resembles the city we all
live in, namely, the world city. In the middle of both cities there is an 80%
colored slum and poverty, and on the outskirts we have placed the affluent
white suburbs: Europe, North America, Australia, who own most of the industry
and business inside the ghettos of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, but
nevertheless refuse to pay taxes to this "city" although they take home huge
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Therefore Washington, like the world ghetto, gets poorer and
poorer and it becomes necessary to send foreign aid in order to give back a
little of what has been taken out. In the 1970's, areas within the capital of
this affluent country were treated as hunger emergency districts. Today the
city looks more like a civil war zone with drug wars unequalled outside the
Third World. | | |
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Despite the fact that European countries give three to four
times as much foreign aid as the US (Sweden, Norway and Holland
give 0.8-1.0% of their GNP, the United States is at the bottom with
less than
0.2% of GNP), most Americans feel that theirs is a generous
country and therefore get offended by the anti-American anger of
the Third World - just as they don't understand the anger of their
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The ignorance reflected in their elections of presidents who
often stand alone against all other nations in not admitting the
need to give back some of the super profits derived from uneven
trade, loans, under-priced raw materials, etc, is like their
ignorance about their own capital beyond the beautiful tourist
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The crimes we fear from poor countries, such as kidnappings and
terrorism, long ago
became everyday life in Washington, which has had up to 2,000% more
armed robberies a year than similar cities in Europe and 50% more
murders than all of Great Britain.
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One out of ten inhabitants in black areas of the
city was reported a drug addict one year by Washington Post.
These two - addicts who first attacked me, but later invited me to
stay with them - live
only three blocks from Congress, whose white dome can be seen in
the background.
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Although the members of Congress dare not go on foot to their homes after
work, they continue to increase military expenditures in a paranoid fear of the
rest of the world, but make constant cuts in social and welfare appropriations.
Of what
use is the bulletproof flak jacket when death comes from the heart?
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A
month before I lived with these addicts, a cop was shot in their hallway, and a
woman was murdered in this very room - the last glimpse she got of this
stronghold of democracy and freedom.
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