CULTURAL QA 12202326
Again, the untiring Vedalam, climbed up the tree and waited to tell another
story to Vikramdityan on 26 12 23
Q1 Is life really unfair?
G: Conclusion: When life is sweet say thank you and celebrate ; when it
is bitter ,say thank you and grow : Quotation
KR I scanned through the political analyst and G approval, (analyst
is one everybody daily sees in many channels of television, every night and
day, blabbering something, relevant or not.
This kind of fairness and unfairness had arisen in the last 10
years only who are 90-2000 kids. The jargons are copied from the west. Had
they perceived the HINDU literatures, they would have understood what is
the peace. One cause is their parent.
Marriage life has to be planned; child bearing has to be
planned; we as couple shall know how long to postpone the issues and later,
spend a lot of their wealth to attain all of them. Now will there be
fairness to their lives? So gauging life is unfair to me is a pain caused
by themselves. Even a few, with all the strength GOD had given them, misuse
all of them, and spike the people and the society, and then ask, IS LIFE
FAIR TOME? So, life is fair to all; but we are not fair to life; and
question and quote with those unfair quotes above. Be happy and dance in
ECR clubs when life is fair according to one; then when problem strikes,
because of their own bad habits, say thank you and grow in the hospital,
street, and office and fail, as one cannot reach the levels. I had written
numerous times NANDRUM THEETHUM PIRAR THARA VAARA; IT MEANS NO ONE FROM
OUTSIDE ARE THE CAUSES OF RISE AND FALL; your own making; but has he
understood that? NO; because of haughtiness and ego or brain-drain. So, the
moment the hurt heart sees some thing aligned to that state of mind, is
read, it becomes an article to publish. A 20 may but not the aged. Because
he did not grow as quoted above. VEDAM SAYS THAT EVERY IMPACT OR EFFE\CT,
HAD ARISEN ONLY OF HIS OWN CAUSE. Life is an atomic chain of cause and
effect only; If you set the cause, effect will come normally. Life is a
bliss; have you not seen AMUL BUTTER ADVT IN MOUNTROAD ARTS COLLEGE?
Q2 Are there any facts that are extremely scary to know?
KR This Q and the status of the both answerers are to be viewed.
1 Who raised 1st line Q? Anthony an unknown 24- or 25-year-old (attracting
80 years old and forcing so many 80+ to get attracted, with fond hope) who
reads picture kids stuff in Japan called MANGA {The word "manga" comes from
the Japanese word 漫画 (katakana: マンガ; hiragana: まんが), composed of the two
kanji 漫 (man) meaning "whimsical or impromptu" and 画 (ga) meaning
"pictures". The same term is the root of the Korean word for comics,
manhwa, and the Chinese word manhua.} AND so, writes as, “studied Haki (one
piece power)” which means,” One Piece is a Japanese manga series written
and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shu Eisha’s
Shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump since July 1997, with its
individual chapters compiled in 107 tank Obon volumes as of November 2023.
Now all of you understand the knowledge bank provided by a 25-year-old
copied by an 80 for the readers. Without going through all these, the word
“ZOHNER” attraction alone made this publication; what is that? Glassman
coined the term "Zohnerism" to refer to "the use of a true fact to lead a
scientifically and mathematically ignorant public to a false conclusion".
Now 2+2 makes =4; right? Many Q and A go only like Zohnerism. For example,
how many would have read DIHYDROGEN MONO OXIDE AS IF THERE IS ONE CHEMICAL,
THEY DID NOT STUDY IN THE COLLEGE? 2 HYDROGEN AND ONE OXYGEN IS h2O @
WATER. And that paradesi says water is poisonous as Zohnerism in manga? Q
and A quora in majority is Zohnerism, I am telling right from the
beginning. Now are you going to drink water or not?
Q3 What capital cities of the world were poorly chosen?
KR Another Zohnerism. Helsinki as capital o for that matter,
selection of capital of any small islands, including so many islands and
even Singapore is only out of the necessity, in the history and only Q like
people only murkily think that way.
What forced for that capital then? Emperor Alexander I of Russia
moved the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki on 8 April 1812 to reduce
Swedish influence in Finland and to bring the capital closer to St
Petersburg. Helsinki delights travellers with its sea-facing landscape,
diverse architecture, world-famous design, and Nordic cuisine. Finland's
capital is compact enough to explore on foot, and many reputable hotels are
in the center of the action. Helsinki is well-known for its innovative art,
culture and architecture, so it's no surprise that underneath the city's
surface, a unique subculture is on the rise. And while techno music and
underground dance parties are nothing new for Helsinki, what is notable is
the vast number and variety of these events. The 1952 Olympic Games shot
Helsinki to international fame. During the Cold War, Helsinki served as a
significant stage for the easing of relations between the superpowers when
it hosted the 1975 OSCE meeting. Do I have to continue more for this stupid
Q and A?
Q4 If the Earth is round, why are houses built on a flat foundation?
G answer: Now, we build houses on a flat foundation because the Earth is
so big that its curvature is very small over short distances. The Earth has
a radius of about 6,400 kilometres, which means that its circumference is
about 40,000 kilometres.
KR I don’t wish to say it is repeat. The brilliant answer is a joke or
humour. May continue in Quora in future you will learn why hydrogen s not
falling on you from SUN etc.
Q5 Do you have any examples of dictators that actually did their
country good?
KR Gaddafi the mad dog gave free electricity etc? This book does not
speak about any free freedom etc as , at least the beneficiary should have
fought the revolters in 2011,{ Gaddafi's last words as he begged for mercy:
'What did I do to you? ‘As National Transitional Council fighters fought
their way into Sirte, radio intercepts spoke of ‘an asset' in the besieged
city. But no one knew until the final moments that the deposed dictator was
within their grasp: Peter Beaumont and Chris Stephen (Book available in
shops and amazon) Osama Swahili is bearded and wears his hair long, tied
back in a thick ponytail. A soldier with the National Transitional
Council’s fighters in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, his English is
fluent from his time living in west London. Until the fall of Sirte –
Muammar Gaddafi’s home city – Swehli was one of those who listened in to
the radio frequencies of the pro-Gaddafi defenders of the besieged city.
Twelve days ago, the Observer encountered Swelhi at a mortar position in
Sirte close to the city’s still contested television station at the edge of
District Two where the Gaddafi loyalists would be trapped in a iminishing
pocket. “We know some of the call signs of those inside,” Swehli explained,
as men around him fired mortars into the areas still under Gaddafi control.
“We know that call sign ‘1’ refers to Mo’atissim Gaddafi and that ‘3’
refers to Mansour Dhao, who is commanding the defences. We have an inkling
too about someone known as ‘2’, who we have not heard from for a while and
who has either escaped or been killed.” That person, he believed, was
Abdullah Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief.
“There is someone important in there, too,” Swelhi said, almost as an
afterthought. “We have heard several times about something called ‘the
asset’ which has been moved around the city.” Precisely who and what “the
asset” was now is clear, even if most government fighters in and around the
city could not believe it at the time. They were convinced that Libya’s
former leader was in all likelihood hiding in the Sahara Desert. But the
asset was Gaddafi himself, who would die in the city, humiliated and
bloody, begging his captors not to shoot him.
Already the last minutes in Gaddafi’s life have gained a grisly status. A
spectacle of pain and humiliation, the end of the man who once styled
himself the “king of the kings of Africa” has been seen on the ground,
surrounded by men with weapons shouting “God is great” and firing in the
air, before being lifted on to a pickup truck as men around him shout that
the ruler for more than four decades should be “kept alive”.
There are other clips that complete much of the story: Gaddafi slumped on a
pickup truck, face smeared with blood, apparently unconscious; Gaddafi
shirtless and bloody on the ground surrounded by a mob; Gaddafi dead in the
back of an ambulance. What is not there is the moment of his death – and
how it happened – amid claims that he was killed by fighters with a shot to
the head or stomach. By Friday, the day after he died, the body of the
former dictator once so feared by his Libyan opponents was facing a final
indignity – being stored on the floor of a room-sized freezer in Misrata
usually used by restaurants and shops to keep perishable goods.
If there is an irony surrounding the death of Muammar Gaddafi, it is,
perhaps, that he should have met his end in Sirte, a city more than any
other associated with his rule. Gaddafi was not born in the city itself but
in Bou Hadi, a sprawling, largely rural area of farms and large villas on
the city’s outskirts.
The conflict around the city – during the long siege that began in
September 2011 – reveals another nature of Sirte that must have made it
attractive to Gaddafi. There are concrete walls within walls, compounds
within those barriers, easy for Gaddafi and his protectors to defend. For
those attacking Sirte they seemed for a while to be insuperable obstacles,
not least the long barrier blocking access to the vast plaza of the
Ouagadougou conference centre.
During the weeks of the siege, life on the Gaddafi side of the lines in
Sirte was thrown up in fragments, as disjointed as the last moments of
Gaddafi’s life. There were small counter-attacks as the government forces
crept forward, sometimes with rocket propelled grenades that burst in the
air or crashed into buildings. At other times machine-gun fire rattled into
the bullet-pocked facades of offices, banks, schools or villas. But it was
at night that Gaddafi’s forces were most active. They probed for weak
positions. There were rumours of cars attempting to break out as the net
closed.
Twice the Observer heard accounts of sightings of a car belonging to
Mo’atissim Gaddafi. And with each day fighters posed the same question to
which they could not supply an answer: why was it that those fighting on
the Gaddafi side would not give up? It is only now, after Gaddafi’s death,
that any sketchy details of how he lived on the run have begun to emerge
and, indeed, who was ultimately responsible for his safety. How Gaddafi
came to be in Sirte – if not the reason that he went to one of the few
locations still strongly supportive of him – remains murky. It is believed
he fled from Tripoli shortly before it fell in August.
Motorcades carrying his wife and daughter to Algeria, and at least one
other son to Niger, were spotted and the details leaked to the media by
Nato. But the convoy carrying the dictator appears to have been missed. For
his escape, Gaddafi had only one highway to travel – leading south of the
capital to Beni Walid, 90 miles from Tripoli, the only highway not in rebel
hands. A further detour would then have been necessary to avoid the rebels
who were pushing in all directions out of the coastal city of Misrata,
involving the convoy driving south-east, deeper into the Libyan desert, to
the only traffic junction leading to Sirte at Waddan. This city, which fell
to the rebels last month, was under 24-hour surveillance, according to the
Pentagon, with drones keeping a close eye on the chemical weapons store
five miles north of the city – home to Libya’s remaining stockpile of nine
tonnes of mustard gas.
The rebels were deeply divided over where Gaddafi was. Some believed he had
fled on one of the convoys carrying his wife and other sons that were
spotted crossing south to Niger and east to Algeria. Misrata’s Shaheed
brigade set up a special unit, suspecting that Gaddafi had been trapped in
the capital by the speed of the rebel advance and for the last two months
they have been carrying out raids in Tripoli hoping to find him.Still
others thought he had driven to the fabled Bunker, a possibly mythical
concrete complex constructed deep in the desert by the dictator for such an
emergency. They were all wrong.
The truth of Gaddafi’s last movements has now been revealed by one of his
inner circle who travelled with him on his last convoy: Mansour Dhao –
number “3” in the pro-Gaddafi radio codes – a former commander of Libya’s
Revolutionary Guards. And like Gaddafi, Dhao was not supposed to be in
Sirte. Instead, it was widely reported that Dhao had fled Libya in a convoy
of carsheading for Niger. But as the weeks of the siege of Sirte went on,
it became clear this was not true. Even as it was revealed that Gaddafi and
his fourth son Mo’atissim were dead, Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director
of Human Rights Watch, stumbled across an injured Dhao in hospital, who
confirmed he had been in the same convoy with Gaddafi when the former
Libyan leader had been captured and his son killed.
A day later Dhao was interviewed by a television crew. What Dhao had to say
contradicted not only some previous understanding of who was conducting the
war on Gaddafi’s behalf but supplied the first description of how events
had unfolded on Gaddafi’s last day. While it was believed that Gaddafi’s
son Khamis had directed the regime’s attempts to put down the rebellion
against it, Dhao insisted that it was Mo’atissim. Not only that, Mo’atissim
took control of his father’s safety, making all the key decisions until the
end. “He was in charge of everything,” said Dhao. His face heavily bruised,
Dhao insisted it was Mo’atissim who organised each movement of Gaddafi as
he was ferried between safe houses for the two months since the fall of
Tripoli, moving location on average every four days before becoming trapped
in Sirte, the monument that became his living mausoleum.
Crucially, it has been Dhao who has provided the most compelling account
yet offered of Gaddafi’s last day of life as he attempted to leave the last
pocket in the shattered seaside District Two to reach the countryside
beyond Sirte’s eastern boundary.
“Gaddafi did not run away, and he did not want to escape,” Dhao said. “We
left the area where we were staying, to head towards Jarif, where he comes
from. The rebels were surrounding the whole area, so we had heavy clashes
with them and tried to escape towards Jarif and break out of the siege.
After that the rebels surrounded us outside the area and prevented us from
reaching the road to Jarif. They launched heavy raids on us which led to
the destruction of the cars and the death of many individuals who were with
us.
“After that we came out of the cars and split into several groups and we
walked on foot, and I was with Gaddafi’s group that included Abu Bakr Yunis
Jabr and his sons, and several volunteers and soldiers. I do not know what
happened in the final moments, because I was unconscious after I was hit on
my back.” Some things do not ring true. According to Dhao, Gaddafi was
moving f om place to place and apartment to apartment until last week, but
given the state of the siege of Sirte at that stage it seems unlikely that
he could have entered the city from outside. The net was closing around the
last loyalists who were squeezed into a pocket, surrounded on all sides,
that was becoming ever smaller by the day.
Dhao made no mention either of the attack on the Gaddafi convoy by a US
Predator drone and a French Rafale jet as it tried to break out of Sirte,
attempting to drive three kilometres through hostile territory before it
was scattered and brought to a halt by rebel fighters. It is possible that
Dhao did not know that the first missiles to hit the Gaddafi convoy as it
tried to flee came from the air.
What is clear is that at around 8am on Thursday, as National Transitional
Council fighters launched a final assault to capture the last remaining
buildings in Sirte, in an area about 700 metres square, the pro-Gaddafi
forces had also readied a large convoy to break out.
But if Dhao was not aware of the air strike, then neither did Nato’s air
controllers and liaison officers with the NTC fighters know that Gaddafi
was in the convoy of 75 cars attempting to flee Sirte, a fact revealed in a
lengthy statement on Friday.
“At the time of the strike,” a spokesman said, “Nato did not know that
Gaddafi was in the convoy. These armed vehicles were leaving Sirte at high
speed and were attempting to force their way around the outskirts of the
city. The vehicles were carrying a substantial amount of weapons and
ammunition, posing a significant threat to the local civilian population.
The convoy was engaged by a Nato aircraft to reduce the threat.” It was
that air attack – which destroyed around a dozen cars – that dispersed the
convoy into several groups, the largest numbering about 20. As NTC fighters
descended on the fleeing groups of cars, some individuals jumped from their
vehicles to escape on foot, among them Gaddafi and a group of guards.
Finding a trail of blood, NTC fighters followed it to a sandy culvert with
two storm drains. In one of these Gaddafi was hiding. Accounts here differ.
According to some fighters quoted after the event, he begged his captors
not to shoot. Others say he asked of one: “What did I do to you?” But it is
what happened next that is the source of controversy.
What is certain from several of the clips of video footage – most telling
that shot by Ali Algadi – is that Gaddafi was dazed but still alive,
although possibly already fatally wounded. The question is what happens
between this and later images of a lifeless Gaddafi lying on the ground
having his shirt stripped off and propped in the back of a pickup truck and
the next sequence which shows him dead.
Here the accounts differ wildly. According to one fighter, caught on
camera, he was shot in the stomach with a 9mm pistol. According to doctors
not present at his capture and ambulance staff, Gaddafi was shot in the
head. Some NTC officials have said anonymously he was “killed after
capture”, while others have said he was killed after capture in a crossfire.
If there are suspicions that Gaddafi was summarily killed, already raised
by Amnesty and UN human rights officials, they have been deepened by the
death, too, of his son Mo’atissim in even more dubious circumstances. He
was filmed alive but wounded
smoking a cigarette and drinking from a bottle of water, before the
announcement that he also had died. On Saturday, in the cold storage unit
where Gaddafi’s body was being stored as the family demanded its release
for burial, those filing in to film his corpse were less bothered about how
he had died than the legacy of his 42-year rule. “There’s something in our
hearts we want to get out,” Abdullah al-Suweisi, 30, told Reuters as he
waited. “It is the injustice of 40 years. There is hatred inside. We want
to see him.”}
Number 2: Lee Kuan Yew KR Salute him 108 times.
Number 3: Park Chung-hee KR NO sir
Number 4: Qaboos bin Said al Said, or Sultan of Oman for short.
KR A commercial man who need not do anything to his country
Number 5: Thomas Sankara KR I don’t think there are greater things to be
spoken about a young military man of age 34 capturing power by revolt,
succumbing to revolt after 4 years. 4 years revolution cannot alter the
history. K Rajaram IRS 26 12 23
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 at 11:45
Subject: CULTURAL QA 12-2023-26
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CULTURAL QA 12-2023-26
All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 26-12-2023.
Selected quora answers generally interesting are included .Still they need
not be 100% correct answers.
Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, former ITS on 26-12-2023.
Q1 Is life really unfair?
A1 Aashish Kumar Dimri, News and Political Analyst3y
Childhood : When Ratan Tata was young , his parents Naval Tata and Sooni
Tata went through a divorce that really impacted him and his younger
brother. His parents remarried and he faced a kind of unwanted ragging from
others. [1]
Youth : When he was growing up, his father wanted him to be an
engineer;while he was interested in being an architect. It impacted
relationship between father and son.
Love: He was all set to marry his sweet heart; but her parents did not like
their daughter to relocate to India; they both got separated.[2]
Job: He had to face lots of opposition for his out of box business ideas .
Although, he worked hard at various levels- shop floor to various
department.
Leadership: When he took leadership of this great company; there were many
who were sceptical as he was seen as inexperienced. Well, there were
already many renowned business leaders around- Ajit Kelkar, Rusi Modi, Nani
Palkivala and Darbari Seth. [3]
Tussle : He had to take on many business rivals all his life and also once
known friends. [4]
But:
Childhood: Navajbai Sett, his grand mother raised him and his younger
brother with earnest love. He always credits her for showering him and his
brother with utmost love and care.
Youth: It was Navajbai Sett, his grand mother ;who supported him to change
his engineering stream and thus he graduated in architecture from Cornell
University.
Love: He does not regret his bachelorhood and enjoys his privacy with
dignity and prosperity. Well, Ratan Tata is passionate about his life -
flying , driving , pets and flora and fauna.
Job: He never treats any job as inferior. No wonder, any legitimate work
enriches his knowledge. One may find him easily intermingling with global
elite to common citizens.[5]
Leadership : He is among the most respected global icons across the world.
Powerful political and business leaders to common citizens all admire him .
No wonder, JRD Tata found him as a worthy successor to lead Tata Sons.[6]
Tussle: Well, it is very difficult to destroy good will earned him. He
always gives importance to good will (and dignity) to wealth, power or
publicity.[7]
Conclusion: When life is sweet say thank you and celebrate ; when it is
bitter ,say thank you and grow : Quotation
Q2 Are there any facts that are extremely scary to know?
A2 Anthony, Studied at Haki (One Piece power) (Graduated 2019)Updated
3y
In 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner presented his science fair project to
his classmates, seeking to ban a highly dangerous chemical from its
everyday use.
The chemical in question? Dihydrogen monoxide.
Throughout his presentation, Zohner provided his audience scientifically
correct evidence as to why this chemical should be banned.
He explained that dihydrogen monoxide:
Can cause severe burns while it’s in gas form
Corrodes and rusts metal
Kills countless people annually
Is commonly found in tumors, acid rain, etc.
Causes excessive urination and bloating if consumed
Zohner also noted that the chemical is able to kill you if you depend on it
and then experience an extended withdrawal.
He then asked his classmates if they actually wanted to ban dihydrogen
monoxide.
And so 43 out of the 50 children present voted to ban this obviously unsafe
chemical.
However…this chemical isn’t typically considered toxic at all.
In fact, dihydrogen monoxide is simply an unconventional name for water.
Nathan Zohner’s experiment wasn’t a legitimate attempt to ban water, but
instead an experiment to get a representation of how gullible people can
really be.
Also, all of the points that Zohner used to convey his point were 100%
factually correct; he just skewed all of the information in his favor by
omitting certain facts.
One journalist eventually dubbed this event as ‘Zohnerism’, where true
facts are used to mislead people towards false conclusions.
And this occurs a lot more often than you think, especially when
politicians, journalists, etc., use proven facts to persuade people into
believing false claims.
The fact that people can mislead, and be misled so easily, is highly
unsettling.
My note- I have selected this QA for the meaning of the word‘Zohnerism’
Q3 What capital cities of the world were poorly chosen?
A3 Susanna Viljanen, Knows Finnish14h
Helsinki, Finland.
The White City of North is extremely beautiful and nice place, but Finland
is a serious case of post-glacial rebound
The crust of the Earth is rising and sea is retreating after the Ice Age.
Helsinki was originally founded in the mouth of river Vantaa, providing a
harbour for both seabourne traffic to abroad and riverbourne traffic to
inland. A good site, huh?
Within merely 100 years, the crust of the earth had risen so much that the
mouth of the river Vantaa had evolved into a waterfall, effectively cutting
the riverbourne traffic inlands off, and the sea fjard
(Vanhankaupunkinselkä) had become so shallow it was dangerous to navigate
for oceangoing vessels.
So the town was moved to the current place in 1628. But the post-glacial
rebound is still very much present, and the seabed rises up 50 cm each
century. Not only does Helsinki gain new land each year, but also fairways
get shallower, harbours, piers and jetties rise up, straits between the
islands get narrower and shallower, and some straits get un navigable
completely.
Moreover, Helsinki has been founded on a cape, and it is an awful
cul-de-sac traffic-wise. Fortunately Helsinki has good public transport,
and car is not really needed in the city.
The main freight harbour was moved to Vuosaari ten years ago, and nowadays
only passenger ferries and leisure boats use the four old harbours any more.
The rise of the earth’s crust is perfectly observable in one human life. It
is very much evident in the archipelago - and it is the strongest in
Ostrobothnia, where earth can rise for one metre in a century.
Q4 If the Earth is round, why are houses built on a flat foundation?
A4 Silk Road,10h
A flat plane on a round Earth would cause the edges to hang over, causing a
lack of balance and structural stability.
“If the Earth is round”?
OK flat earther, Earth is definitely round, and there's a lot of evidence
to prove it.
For example, you can't see the North Star from the Southern Hemisphere,
because it's hidden by the Earth's curvature.
You can also see the Earth's shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse, and
it's always round.
And of course, we have satellites and astronauts that have taken pictures
of the Earth from space, and they all show a spherical planet…etc
Now, we build houses on a flat foundation because the Earth is so big that
its curvature is very small over short distances.
The Earth has a radius of about 6,400 kilometers, which means that its
circumference is about 40,000 kilometers.
That means that for every kilometer you travel along the surface of the
Earth, you only go down about 8 centimeters.
That's less than the height of a soda can.
So over the distance of a typical house, the curvature of the Earth is
negligible. You wouldn't notice any difference if you built your house on a
flat or a curved foundation.
We also build this way because it's easier and cheaper to do so.
Building a curved foundation would require more materials and more
complicated engineering.
It would also make it harder to fit furniture and appliances inside the
house. And there's no real benefit to building a curved foundation, because
it wouldn't affect the stability or comfort of the house.
The only reason to build a curved foundation would be to match the shape of
the Earth, but that's not necessary or practical.
The Earth is round, but houses are built on a flat foundation because it
doesn't matter and it's simpler.
Q5 Do you have any examples of dictators that actually did their
country good?
A5 Health Daily Advice,18h
There’s quite a few. If you are from the West, some of these might shock
you. If you are not, well, enjoy the ride :)
Number 1: Muammar Gaddafi.
Gaddafi when he was a lot younger. Quite handsome, right?
Gaddafi is often portrayed as a bad guy, and as Ronnie put it “the mad dog
of the Middle East”
But that is in fact, not true.
Let’s take a look at some of the luxuries that Libyan citizens had during
his rule
1: Free electricity.2: Free housing.
3: Free healthcare. Not only free healthcare, but the best free healthcare
in Africa and the Arab world.
4: A high GDP per capita for two decades before the West started
sanctioning Libya.
5: A portion of the money made from oil sales went directly into the bank
accounts of Libyan citizens.
6: If healthcare in Libya was not sufficient, the state would finance the
entire trip to a foreign hospital.
I could go on and on, but those are just six things.
Also this
Libya had the highest rating on the Human Development Index in Africa while
Gaddafi ruled it.So while he might be portrayed as a bad guy, he was
actually a really good leader.
Number 2: Lee Kuan Yew
A young Lee Kuan Yew
Lee. Kuan Yew was the Prime Minister of Singapore for three decades. In
those three decades, he transformed the undeveloped city state, which had
no natural resources, not much land area and a small army, into a shining
example of a developed country. But he did this with many challenges facing
him, like the multiculturalism of Singapore. The population was a
collection of Malays, Chinese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Indonesians and many
more ethnic groups.
While he did implement dictatorial measures, such as muffling the press,
outlawing protests and arbitrarily detaining people, he still holds the
title of “The Least Brutal Dictator in History”. He did not kill a single
person during his three-decade-long rule. Torture was not implemented
either.
Before he took the mantle of leader, Singapore was nothing more than a
collection of plastic houses and shanties. Look at Singapore now.
Quite the success story, isn’t it?
Number 3: Park Chung-hee
Park Chung-hee. Slick haircut, right?
Park Chung-hee didn’t exactly come to power by democratic means. He made
himself leader in a military coup. But unlike many leaders of military
juntas, he was not a selfish blowhard who worked only to enrich
himself. Instead,
he enriched his country, South Korea.
He developed South Korea’s banking sector, business sector, and enriched
the country with a policy of export-oriented industralization.
To give you some perspective, when he came to power, the GDP per capita in
South Korea was a miserable 59 dollars. When his rule ended, it was 1,000
dollars.
Unfortunately, he was betrayed and assassinated in 1979, before he could do
any more good to South Korea.
And as a bonus, he defended South Korea from communism.
Number 4: Qaboos bin Said al Said, or Sultan of Oman for short.
Looking quite dashing in a military uniform there.
When he took power way back in 1970, Oman was the poorest country in the
Arab world. Now, it gained the nickname of “The Switzerland of the Middle
East”. All thanks to this man.
Oman, like many other Arab countries, is rich mainly due to oil exports,
but added to that, Oman also has a developed banking and finance sector. Hence
the nickname. Oman also serves as one big negotiating table, due to its
policy of military neutrality.
In 1970, Oman had just three or four schools. Now it has over a thousand,
and a few universities, the most famous one being named after him. Also in
1970, the average GDP per capita in Oman was 345 dollars. Now, it is 15,000
dollars. Qaboos still rules Oman, and continues to improve it.
While other Arab countries constantly squabble, Oman quietly sits and looks
by, enjoying its wealth.
Number 5: Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara. Humble military uniform.
Sankara achieved many great things during his short rule.
He ordered the planting of million upon millions of trees, in order to
prevent desertification. He lowered his own salary, and rid the government
of most of its corruption, which was a giant problem. He connected the
country via roads, and built housing for the citizens of his country. He
made it self-sufficient in farming. And he saved the country from French
dominance.
He renamed the country from Upper Volta, its colonial name, to Burkina Faso.
He composed the national anthem, and designed the flag of Burkina Faso.
Unfortunately, he was killed in a military coup, which was, predictably,
sponsored by the French. It installed a brutal dictator who impoverished
the country and was a puppet of the French.
So, those were the top five dictators who did their country good.
EDIT: After some research, I came to the conclusion that Lee Kuan Yew had
in fact not rigged elections. Even the fiercest critics of his don’t say
that he did. I am sorry to spread that misinformation around. THIS IS VERY
IMPORTANT!
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