Any business promoting a project will spend money on whatever medium that will achieve such promotion, which is just plain common sense. It is ludicrous to suggest that this automatically makes such promotion dishonest, or fraudulent. Facts determine this.

Second, it is an indictment of social engineering and the type of people who push it that they believe that the third world should be kept as is, so they can have some sort of living museum piece.

All people have the right to aspire to better things.

We can only hope that the governments of the countries involved allow projects to go ahead, and ignore these pompous, condescending bastards.

The film DISCLOSES that Gabriel Resources partly financed it in the first ten minutes. Someone wanting to deceive people would not disclose that. And may I add, GR had absolutely no editorial control over the film.

It’s tiresome to point out some study, report or article which proves a point I’m trying to make only to have some bozo quoting sourcewatch.org back at me in lieu of a decent argument against it.

Backpacking through asia I constantly hear comments from middle-class trendies about how happy the country peasants, are comments and/or implications about how evil development is… but if you actually chat to the people in poverty none of them think it is quant or fun. They all want development. And they all want to be able to afford to go to the dentist or buy new clothes or send their children to university.