Anyone wanting to know what a Third World dominated Europe or America is going to look like, need look no further than Pakistan, a nuclear power-armed Islamic state which can barely keep its national electricity supply grid in operation.
According to reports, there is no power in all major cities for at least 10 hours a day and up to 22 hours in rural areas.
As a result, there is no clean water in most hospitals and operations have to be cancelled.
Students cannot study for exams, morgues struggle with decomposing bodies, and even the rich complain that their expensive backup generators are straining badly — or, in some cases, blowing up from overuse.
In a bid to quell discontent, Pakistan’s interim government, has ordered civil servants to switch off their air-conditioners and stop wearing socks — reasoning that sandals were more appropriate in such hot conditions.
The crisis has been caused by a convergence of factors, but all ultimately attributable to the fact that a First World infrastructure cannot be maintained by a Third World population.
Firstly, most of the country’s power plants are falling to pieces because of a lack of maintenance. Transmission lines suffer the same problem.
In addition, “power theft,” by rich and poor, is common. Slum dwellers steal power through illegal connections; powerful politicians and government departments simply refuse to pay their bills.
Electricity officials and the police, fearing retribution, dare not cut them off—a scenario which will be familiar to anyone who has had close contact with the Third World in any nation.
In addition, most Pakistan users of what power there is, simply will not pay their bills. The system is paralyzed by $5 billion in “circular debt” — basically, a long chain of unpaid bills that cuts across society, from government departments to wealthy politicians to slum dwellers.
This leaves power providers with no funds to pay for fuel, so their plants slow or shut down entirely.
Although easing the $5 billion “circular debt” is the principal problem, experts say money is only part of the solution. Deep-rooted structural issues, exacerbated by political interference and systemic graft, lie at the heart of Pakistan’s power crisis.
Corruption is notorious in the private power sector, where political supporters win lucrative contracts, often at inflated costs or without even producing a megawatt of power.
In 2011 the auditor general noted that the government had committed to $1.7 billion in such contracts, yet added just 62 megawatts to the national power grid.
Even those supposed to be enforcing the law are breaking it. At one police station in Sindh Province, officers erected an illegal power connection for their air-conditioners. In other areas, electricity company officials are afraid to disconnect defaulters for fear of attack.
About 20 percent of the electricity supply disappears across the country, and up to 33 percent in the worst-affected district, as a result of dilapidated transmission lines or outright theft, said Fariel Salahuddin, a power sector consultant.
The crisis is exacting an economic toll equivalent to at least 4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, according to economists — greater than the estimated economic cost of the Taliban insurgency.
At the same time, government policy is a shambles. Decision-making is centered in the notoriously corrupt Energy Ministry; no major new power plant has been built for decades, and the existing ones are falling into disrepair. As a result, Pakistan relies heavily on expensive furnace oil imports.
Electricity supply problems also plague other Third World nations in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa—but, as the New York Times pointed out, none of those nations possess nuclear weapons, or such a rapidly growing population as Pakistan, estimated at 180 million people.
This then, is the future which awaits the West should it continue down its current path of racial suicide through mass immigration.
Richard Barker
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Is their inability to operate a First World nation somehow the fault of Whites? Otherwise why would they be failing? All races are equal, aren’t they?
Steve
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Liberal thinking will find a way of pinning it on whitey.
MI6 seem to be getting the blame for Woolwich for harassing a poor brother who just couldn’t keep out of trouble.
iole
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Pakistan is a failed state for one clear and simple reason, Islam. As Churchill said,
slovenly business practices, poor methods of agriculture, lack of education and a fatalistic apathy is the norm in most of the country. The inequality between men and women causes an imbalance in society, the lifestyles are totally wasteful and the populace is constantly worried that they may be doing something wrong from an Islamic perspective. In other words the society is a permanent mess where everyone is competing for resources, unlike most of the rest of the World where people work for the public good.
There are many failed states, all of them seem to be Islamic, Bangladesh, Yemen,
Somalia, Afghanistan, Albania etc. The problem always comes back to Islam. It HAS to go.
Steve
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I think the problem with islam is that it’s stuck in the time of mohammed & revolves around him being the perfect man & he must be emulated.
He couldn’t read or write, so while they’re so orthodox I see little scope for progress.
Though they seem quick to use the inventions of the infidel against us.
The Kalashnikov & the Honda moped seem quite popular in Afghanistan along with the utility truck.
Steve
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I suppose if you go to the zoo & give a monkey a computer, it doesn’t follow it’ll get itself on Facebook.
I guess TPTB in Pakistan have different priorities other than supplying electricity to mere members of the poverty stricken public.
The same thing has been threatened here, that we will have power cuts too, so we will have something else in common with the third world.
In the US they have a major bridge collapse every now again because their infrastructure is worn out & not maintained, there have been other accidents too.
frederickdixon
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Corruption is at the root of it. A few years ago the UN named Pakistan as the second most corrupt country in the world; the top spot went to Nigeria but Pakistanis joke that they had to bribe the Nigerians to take first place. I wonder if Pakistanis ever regret the days when they were ruled by the just and incorruptible white sahibs of Britain’s Indian Civil Service?
Anyway, if corruption’s at the root of it, what’s at the root of corruption?
Steve
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Good one!
I’ve met Africans who talk about the good old days of colonialisation & the South African who said in the days of apartheid “I had food but no vote, now I have a vote but no food”.
Franklin Ryckaert
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The failure of the electricity system is the hallmark of any Third World country. That’s why it appeared in South Africa after the fall of Apartheid (= white rule). It’s causes are 1) corruption,2) dishonesty, 3) lack of maintenance. These are all qualities of character that come naturally to non-Whites. They lack a strong structure in their character and their society is simply a reflection thereof. The problem could only be solved by either installing white rule again or replacing the whole population with Whites, thus realistically it will never be solved.