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Offline ScreenFoo

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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2017, 03:59:55 PM »
what exactly is a tate?  asking for a friend

I believe it's what a tater does, but that's just a contextual guess.


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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2017, 11:10:51 PM »
Yup, China is heavily interested in the entire continent. Been happening for well over a decade. They are starting to make the States look like a kid in school when it comes to overseas investment and natural resource plunder. Watch out capitalism there is a bigger bully on the block.

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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2017, 01:56:43 AM »
I heard that Asian and Middle East countries are buying vast areas of Africa because they want to grow food.
In Israel there are a lot of refugees from Sudan and Eritrea, over the last few years we have employed a few of them and they are nice people and great workers.     I see no reason that setting up a factory there shouldn't  work.      South Africa was a prosperous nation with a African workforce.      Problem in Africa is corruption, elected officials steal the money instead of building infrastructure.
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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2017, 06:36:49 PM »
YEs China are invested in the African continent for a long time already. It`s a continent full of natural resources. Don`t think they invest there just out of kindness. Japan are as well investing heavily in the African continent. We just recently helped a Japanese company setting up a print shop in Angola. They asked me if I would be interested going over there with them and overlook their operation.

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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2017, 08:03:23 AM »
Look into who built and is building the dams (for power) and train system in Ethiopia... Chinese


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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2017, 09:58:02 AM »
I'm not up to date on everything you cats are talking about, but it seems like from what I'm reading here is other countries are moving around the US and could form new trades giving us maybe less of an upper hand, I"m I correct or wrong here?
PS I know we can't compete on low cost wage workers here
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Re: Products from Ethiopia?
« Reply #21 on: February 13, 2017, 10:01:50 AM »
not sure if you are wrong,  but I think companies are looking for the lowest wage workers which is why they are looking at africa