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pendo89:
Are you an archive of some sort? you got lots of historical material with you.

Just a voracious reader.

EA was representing in my city this past weekend.

ING MIAMI MARATHON
Tightest win in ING Miami Marathon history

The closest — and largest — ING Miami Marathon ended with a Kenyan outsprinting an Ethiopian by a quarter of a second

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/30/2614171/tightest-win-in-ing-miami-marathon.html

The trials of a reluctant superpower

By David Pilling

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In 1793 the Emperor Qianlong airily dismissed the emissary of King George III on the grounds that China was the self-sufficient centre of the world and had no conceivable need of imports. Modern China should be so lucky. As well as foreign technology, Beijing now requires foreign oil, foreign copper, foreign iron ore and heaps of other foreign commodities to sustain its “Made in China” transformation.
That is why Chinese companies and Chinese workers find themselves in distant foreign lands that the Qing dynasty emperor would have considered beneath his contempt. It is why, for example, 25,000 Chinese are in Sudan and South Sudan, the latter a recently created country that is China’s seventh most important oil supplier.


Such faraway involvement comes at a price, one occasionally paid in blood. Last weekend 29 road construction workers were kidnapped by rebels in the border region of Sudan. One person is missing, possibly killed. In a separate incident, 25 Chinese construction workers in the Sinai region of Egypt were released yesterday after being held hostage by assailants. These are not rarities. In October, 13 Chinese sailors were killed on the Mekong river in Thailand.

Protecting one’s citizens abroad is tough for any nation. But it may be harder for China, a reluctant superpower that wants to maintain the illusion of having a low international profile. That desire is butting up against reality as China’s commercial needs suck it into a troubled world. The truth came home to many last year when Beijing scrambled to evacuate no fewer than 35,000 Chinese workers from Libya, another oil exporter with unfortunate politics.

At least Libya is still one country. In Sudan, Beijing has been pulled into a nasty tussle between Khartoum and Juba, capital of South Sudan, over the sharing of oil revenues. Most Sudanese oil is in the south, but needs to be piped through the north. Beijing has remained loyal to Khartoum even though its government is headed by Omar al-Bashir, a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity. The roads Chinese workers are helping to build near the border have allegedly been used by Sudanese troops in their campaigns against rebels. Neutrality comes in many flavours.

Japan, Asia’s first modern power, had similar problems. Like Chinese nationals, the Japanese were seen as a soft touch for eliciting ransom money. Like Beijing, Tokyo tried to play the non-interventionist card, most notably in 1973 when it broke with the US and swore undying friendship to Arab nations. They obliged by turning the oil spigots back on. Rather inventively, Tokyo called its combination of economic expansion and political neutrality “omnidirectional diplomacy”.
China too has a push-me pull-you diplomacy. It has about 850,000 workers abroad, with hundreds of thousands in potentially volatile corners of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Rachel Shoemaker, a risk forecaster at Exclusive Analysis, says Beijing has worried for years about the exposure of its workers in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. It has quietly encouraged the establishment of “private” security firms, often set up by former People’s Liberation Army officials and staffed with “retired” members of China’s security forces. Some such operatives may have been sent to Sudan to help in the rescue effort, according to some reports.

At home, Beijing made a show of calling in Sudan’s chargé d’affaires for a dressing down. Xie Hangsheng, vice foreign minister, professed to being “deeply shocked” at the turn of events. (What, Sudan dangerous?) To some Chinese it looks as if the great Chinese nation is being given the runaround by a ragtag army. One contributor to Weibo, a micro-blogging site, recalled past Chinese humiliations, saying they were the result of weakness. “Now we have an aircraft carrier, fourth-generation war planes and the second-highest gross domestic product,” he said. “Do we still have to tolerate this?”

That is a dilemma for a country keen not to over-reach. Some naval officials have suggested China will need foreign bases if it is to protect its interests. Ms Shoemaker says that would go against the official ideology since 1949, which maintains that only a colonial power needs a foreign military presence. She thinks a younger generation of Chinese leaders may one day have less trouble squaring the circle.

Even in Africa, where some leaders have embraced China as a no-nonsense alternative to meddling former colonial powers, Beijing gets a mixed reception. In Addis Ababa this week the African Union unveiled its new headquarters, a $200m apparition conjured up by Beijing in miraculous time. To at least some delegates it looked more like a symbol of Chinese power than benevolence.
Jia Qinglin, a politburo member, tried to reinforce China’s non-interventionist message to the gathered African leaders. “We maintain that all countries, big or small, are equal and we are opposed to the big, strong and rich bullying the small, weak and poor,” he said. The one category of nation he didn’t mention was the big, strong yet still poor. That is China. It is arguably the first of its kind in history.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=860073.msg10099903#msg10099903 date=1328129606]Who are they again?

Russians, right?

I was reading about them some years ago.

[/quote]Mongrels.

Brother from the U.K. told me about them online a few years ago.

The Thirteenth Tribe

by Arthur Koestler

THE KHAZAR EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/13trindx.htm

eGuerrilla:
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Thanks for the sup.

I can remember in my youth the older brothers in the movement teaching us to read a minimum of two hours a day.



http://www.nathanielturner.com/blackpantherpartyplatpro.htm

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bpp.html

23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation.

5. We want education far our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.

We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.

>>>It is the Colonial Pact that set-up the common currency of Franco phone countries, the CFA franc, which demands that each of every 14CFA member states must deposit 65%(plus another 20% for financial liabilities making the total of 85%) of their foreign exchange reserves in an ”operations account” at the French treasury in Paris.
The African nations therefore, have access to 15% of their own money for the development activities every year. If they are in need of their money as they are, they borrow from their own 65% in the French treasury at commercial rates.
Wait, that’s not all: there is a cap on the credit, extend to each member country equivalent to 20% of the public revenue in the preceding year. So if the country wants to borrow more than 20%, too bad, they can’t get it. Surprisingly, the final on CFA arrangements belongs to French treasury, which invests the African countries’ money in its own name on the Paris Bourse (The stock exchange).
-It’s also the Colonial that demands that France has the first right buy or reject any natural resource found in the land of the Franc phone countries. So even if, the African states could not get the best princes elsewhere, they cannot sell to anybody, until France says it doesn’t want those natural resources.


Absolutely revolting in this day and age.

Sometimes I think that Mugabe should step aside but in reality there are no leaders to fill his anti-colonial shoes.

Bankers are still getting bonuses while Europeans feel the pinch just like in the former or 'present' colonies.



Europe's lost generation: how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/28/europes-lost-generation-young-eu



Steve Richards: We are in a new era, but bankers haven't noticed
At no point did Hester consider that he already had enough money and so would forgo his bonus

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-we-are-in-a-new-era-but-bankers-havent-noticed-6297278.html


The situation is not neat, but a mess. All political leaders, here and abroad, are feeling their way to a new era after the previous one closed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. In the meantime, we are in a state of flux. Symptoms of transitional change are everywhere. They include the election of a coalition here in 2010, President Sarkozy's announcement of a financial transaction tax in France as his socialist rival establishes a commanding lead in the presidential contest

pendo89:
did u say dollars??
mmh!

Western media has been dogging this looter family for a few months now.

Well worth the viewing time.

GEJ has invited them into 9ja!


The History of the Khazars

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=228963

@lefulefu

Be careful o, there are some mad freakazoids in yankeeland!


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Equatorial Guinea squad receive million-dollar bonus


By Piers Edwards


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Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue hands over the money to the Equatorial Guinea squad on Tuesday afternoon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16709557.stm

2003 BBC Interview

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3231585.stm

Former Black Panther patches together purpose in Africa exile

In America, Pete O'Neal was an angry man, an ex-con who found a kind of religion in 1960s black nationalism. In a Tanzania village, he's been a champion of children.


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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-black-panther-20120129-html,0,2641122.htmlstory


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Photos

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party


Black Panther Manifesto

http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/speak/rights/bpmanif.htm





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January 30, 2012

Man Says Nigeria Kidnapping Like 'an Action Movie'

BOWDON, Ga. (AP) — As the car an American man was riding in idled in traffic in a remote Nigerian town, two men appeared, one of them shooting the Georgia man's security guard five times, while the other forced him into a tiny getaway car that sped away.

The car weaved through traffic on side roads and then sped to a main road, where police, known there as "mopols," had erected a roadblock. Greg Ock's captors crashed through the barricade and traded fire with a truck of police officers, who narrowly missed the 50-year-old Ock.

"I felt like I was in an action movie," Ock told The Associated Press at his west Georgia home on Monday, a day after he returned to his family. As they were speeding away from the police, he said he told his guards: "I was more afraid of mopols than you guys."

Ock was kidnapped on Jan. 20 in Warri, a main city in the Niger Delta, an oil-rich area where foreign firms pump 2.4 million barrels of crude oil a day. After being held seven days, he was released on Friday.

Ock worked in construction for decades, landing gigs all over the U.S. and as far away as Abu Dhabi. He loved the work, the camaraderie and the pay, which helped him support a wife and four daughters.

He landed in the Nigerian town of Sapele in September 2010 to begin one of his more adventurous assignments, maintaining gas turbines and other heavy machinery for Marubeni Corp.

It was tough work and the perks weren't enticing. The food was bad, he said, and the heat was unbearable. But he had chances to leave the "little prison" of the company's base camp, often going on Sundays with co-workers and a security guard to a golf course, or to neighboring Benin to eat at a Chinese restaurant.

His journey the day he was ambushed wasn't nearly as adventurous. He went with a driver, a security guard and a company secretary to a clinic in Warri, where he would get a checkup for a recent bout with malaria.

He took out some cash from an ATM, hopped in the car and tuned his iPod to Don Henley as the driver waited in traffic. What happened next seemed to unfold in a flash.

A gunman ran up to his vehicle and yelled "die, mopol, die" as he fired five bullets into the guard. The other gunman ordered Ock out of the car and pushed him toward a tiny red Audi.

"They told me we were an easy target. We didn't have tinted windows and only one mopol," he said. "They told me they wanted a white guy anyways."

They escaped the city, and one of the kidnappers then called Ock's boss and demanded about $330,000 for his safe return.

They drove about an hour, arriving at a squat shack where he was forced into a small room. He shared the room with two or three guards, a plastic chair, piles of dirty dishes, some scattered clothes and a mattress blocking the window.

The men dulled his senses by forcing him to smoke marijuana and drink Baron Del Valle red wine at all hours. He didn't have many food options, either. Early in his captivity, Ock said he asked for boiled eggs. From then on, he got four eggs in the morning and four at night. As a snack, he got apples.

He was told few details about the negotiations his captors were working with his company, adding to his unease. When he was able to sleep, his captors often woke him by cranking an odd mix of local music and Dolly Parton classics from a stereo.

"I was on the edge all the time," he said.

After a few days, he decided to escape. He found a butcher knife resting in a bowl and reached for it when he thought his captors were sleeping. They weren't. One alerted the others, who "slapped me around a bit" and chained him tighter to his chair. Despite the beating, Ock said he wasn't tortured.

The next morning, a guard pulled out a gun and threatened to kill his captive. Ock called his bluff.

"I told them I didn't care," he said. "I've had a good life."

On Thursday, Ock could tell the negotiations were heating up. His captors were celebrating and drinking moonshine. Two of the men left the house around noon, returning five hours later with wide smiles.

Around 3:30 Friday morning, the men dumped Ock in a desolate area with about $12 to hail a scooter to the nearest police station. Once there, he called his boss and his wife to let them know he was OK.

Ock said he wasn't told by either his captors or his company whether a ransom was paid.

"But they seemed happy," he said. "They let me go for a reason — and I don't think it was because they were out of eggs."

Marubeni Corp. on Monday declined to comment on how Ock was released. U.S. embassy officials also declined to offer any details, citing privacy concerns.

He returned home on Sunday morning, arriving at Atlanta's airport to a rapturous greeting from family and friends. There, a limousine drove him the 60-mile route to rural Bowdon. Someone told Ock to peek out the sunroof as they approached, and when he did he saw about 500 people gathered to celebrate.

Among the gifts he received was a plastic bag with only an egg and an apple. The friend who offered it to him joked that she didn't know if he wanted breakfast or supper, so she brought both.

Ock has no plans to return to Nigeria, instead looking for work closer to home. But his wife Teresa said she doubts his kidnapping will scare him from working another faraway gig.

"It's in his blood to travel," she said. "He may work here for a while. But I know him. He'll get to itching to leave."

For now, Ock is catching up on sleep and making up for lost time.

"It's taken a while to process it all. For us, too," Teresa Ock said. "We're just so thankful for the prayers, from our church, from our community, from everyone who prayed for him."

She glanced at her husband, who summoned an impish smile.

"I guess I've got to go to church now," he said.

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Europe's Losing Game
By Stephen Lendman
1-30-12

Partnering with America has consequences. Europe's paying by shooting itself in the foot.

On January 23, EU representative for foreign and security affairs, Catherine Ashton, broke the news. She announced an "unprecedented" anti-Iranian oil embargo, effective July 1 and immediately from new contracts.

The ban covers crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, oil related business, equipment and technology, selling Tehran refined products, new investments, and dealing with its central bank.

Europe buys up to 20% of its oil from Iran. Ending it means greater strain on economically stressed countries. Making up lost volume won't be easy. Putting lipstick on this pig doesn't wash.

Alternatives are few and far between. Claiming Saudi Arabia can compensate is false. Iran's reserves are third largest globally. No combination of Gulf states can replace its shipments.

Seyyed Emad Hosseini, Iran Majlis (parliament) Energy Committee spokesman said:

Iran's "powerful and oil sanctions imposed by European countries will only harm the European Union because Iran can easily prove its oil supremacy in the Middle East region."

MP Nasser Soudani said "Europe will burn in the fire of Iran's oil wells, the structure of (Europe's) refineries is compatible with Iran's oil," so what's their alternative.

Moreover, expect oil prices to spike. Economic damage will follow. Weak EU nations will crater. Policy makers behind this scheme should be fired and replaced.

It gets worse. On January 28, Soudani said Iran's Majlis (parliament) Energy Committee finalized a bill to "halt all oil exports to European countries as long as they continue to ban oil imports from Iran."

Moreover, another clause forbids importing goods from countries imposing sanctions. If adopted, EU oil shipments may end in days. Vital supplies will be lost. Rogue EU countries will be left high and around 20% dry.

Sanctions cut both ways. Iran's extracting its own price. Going along with America is misguided. Policy makers in other countries know better. China's Foreign Ministry said "blindly pressur(ing) and impos(ing) sanctions on Iran are not constructive approaches."

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said:

"We have very good relations with Iran, and we are putting much effort into renewing Iran's talks with the 5+1 (the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany) mediators' group. Turkey will continue looking for a peaceful solution to the issue."

Too bad Ankara isn't like-minded on Syria and wasn't firm against join NATO's anti-Libyan alliance. As a result, its credibility falls short.

Rogue EU states gave Iran an ultimatum. Like Washington, they're using its alleged nuclear threat to pursue regime change plans. Direct intervention may follow if other measures fail. In response, Iran's hitting EU nations where it hurts.

At the same time, its saying partner with America's belligerence and suffer the consequences. As a result, some EU nations may have second thoughts.

Others already dismissed sanctions, including Russia, China, Brazil, India, and perhaps Japan and South Korea. Expect growing numbers to join them. Partnering with Washington's self-destructive. Wiser nations refuse when their own interests are sacrificed.

Washington's also harmed in other ways. It's showing up in non-dollar denominated bilateral trade agreements. America relies on global dollar hegemony.

China excludes dollar transactions in numerous bilateral deals. So do many other countries, including Russia, Brazil, India, Argentina, Indonesia, Iran, UAE, South Korea, Malaysia, Syria, Cuba, Belarus, Venezuela, and others.

In fact, swap agreements are proliferating. In 2009, seven Latin American nations established the Bank of the South. They include Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Plans are to include all regional countries, outside the dollar, IMF and World Bank. Part of it's establishing a new SUCRE currency within the Union of South American Nations, independent of America.

Moreover, oil-rich Middle East countries plan their own monetary union and common currency. In the late 1990s, Asia's Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) promoted financial cooperation among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

ASEAN swap agreements expanded to the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM), regional bond markets, and bilateral swap deals. China's arrangement with Japan is especially significant given their mutual trade volume. It also promises others regionally away from the dollar, weakening it in the process.

While China, Japan, India, Brazil, Russia and other developing countries build strong bilateral and multilateral ties, America's making more enemies than friends.

In May 2009, Nouriel Roubini warned about a dollar decline. It'll take a decade or longer, he believes, but could happen sooner if America doesn't "get its financial house in order."

Moreover, the more other countries diversify, the faster it'll happen. It's only a matter of time as long as Washington's wicked ways continue. So far, there's no ending them in sight.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman..com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.

India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President

Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with lead pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly.

The workers were enraged enough to kill Regency’s president K. C. Chandrashekhar after their union leader, M. Murali Mohan, was killed by baton-wielding riot police on Thursday. The labor violence occurred in Yanam, a small city in Andra Pradesh state on India’s east coast. Police were called to the factory by management to quell a labor dispute. The workers had been calling for higher pay and reinstatement of previously laid off workers since October. Murali was fired a few hours after the police left the factory.

The next morning, at 06:00 on Friday, Murali went to the factory along with some workers and tried to obstruct the morning shift, local media reported. Long batons, known as lathis in India, were used by police who charged the workers, injuring at least 20 of them, including Murali. He died on the way to hospital, according to The Times of India. Hundreds of workers gathered outside the police station and demanded that officers be charged with homicide.

Curfew and other civil orders were imposed in Yanam because of the uprising that ultimately lead to the murder of the Regency president a few hours after being attacked with led pipes. Police reported that rioters also torched several vehicles outside the police station. Eight Regency Ceramics workers were injured in police firing that followed; the condition of two of them is critical. More than 100 protesters have been arrested.

India’s factory workers are the lowest paid within the big four emerging markets. Per capita income in India is under $4,000 a year, making it the poorest country in the BRICs despite its relatively booming economy.

At Regency Ceramics, workers went on strike Jan. 1 over the wage dispute. The management had reportedly decided to slap a restraining order on five workers and managed to obtain an order from a high court saying that the striking workers should not come within 220 yards, more than the size of two football fields, from the factory.

Once news of Murali’s death spread, the factory workers allegedly destroyed 50 company cars, buses and trucks and lit them on fire. They ransacked the factory. Residents joined hands with around 600 workers, while others were enroute to Chandrashekhar’s house.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/01/27/india-factory-workers-revolt-kill-company-president/

@coldhearts


Please don't tire. I like your ideas. Yes, I'm aware of their mixed economic model but fundamentally their government is authoritarian. Let's keep this ball rolling.




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The image Microsoft doesn't want you to see: Too tired to stay awake, the Chinese workers earning just 34p an hour

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266643/Microsofts-Chinese-workforce-tired-stay-awake.html#ixzz1l0daPPZi



300 Chinese Foxconn Workers 'Threaten Mass Suicide' At XBox Plant, Reports Claim

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/10/300-chinese-foxconn-workers-threaten-mass-suicide_n_1196345.html

THE USA IN GHANA AND NIGERIA

http://aangirfan..com/2012/01/usa-in-ghana-and-nigeria.html





Azorka Boys and Bamba Boys: the coming Boko Haram in Ghana?


http://www.modernghana.com/news/374814/1/azorka-boys-and-bamba-boys-the-coming-boko-haram-i.html

coldhearts:
@afro-blue,
why so blue?, it is simply a gift and i'm sure you have good manners and often say "thank you" when given a gift. 
I cant follow your train of thought in that write up, sorry.
I favor self reliance but i also favor cooperation with china (why- because this whole arrangement can be made to favor both sides greatly if done wisely)
what is the color of happiness again, is it yellow?- be afro-yellow ok  ; on a second thought- the "blue" suits you better 

Fact check: is it  really neocolonialism or do we have a log in our eyes?

- us owes china trillions, it is paying by attracting chinese to the us with faster visa processing and oil importation, africa is not doing any different.
- Australia has a mining boom, thanks to china, why wouldn't africa want that.
- developed countries are making countless trips to china to secure deals with china but china comes to africa willingly
- lastly, we know it is not wise to fight a billion army strong so we would rather make peace and i hope we keep it that way, no need for us to prove a point

if this is neo colonialism, then it is safe to say that most of the world is colonized by china

I like to see a blue sky when I awaken in the morning, but let's stay on topic.
You can't follow my train of thought? How hard is it to comprehend that this repressive communist regime is not giving out free gifts out of the kindness of their hearts?



Yes, we agree on self reliance and forming equitable alliances but China is not playing fair. They rely on slavery like factory conditions and prison labor camps to manufacture products. One has to wonder how many of these products installed in the 
new AU building were produced in these slavery factories. Chinese workers have been committing suicides in protest and starting to mount movements which are quickly squashed by the military.

Happiness is freedom from the central banking cartels in the City of London, Belgium, and Switzerland which have most of the world locked up in debt slavery.

You can call me Afro Yellow if that tickles you fancy, but just don't call me late for my meal of egusi and pounded yam. 

Australia? This is an poor example to use for debating purposes, being that Aboriginal land was confiscated by the European cabal, and now China is trying to do the same thing in Africa by stealth . Yes, Australia has a mining boom but is suffering social problems as a result. Alcoholism, drug use and divorces are on the rise.

Fight a billion? No, just a few elite Euro families that run China and own most of the wealth in the world. And the U.S. just an bankrupt colony and is the global military police of this cabal.

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THE BOOK THE CHURCH DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ


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Pentagon’s Black Budget Tops $56 Billion

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagons-black-budget-tops-56-billion/




Inside the Black Budget

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01patc.html?pagewanted=all


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The Intellectual Class must be very careful with their words and brainpower.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat

Lasinoh:
Whoosao!!!!
Nigerian sheep has gone back to fasting and praying!!!!
Ode-JO dey kamkpeeeeeee!!!!
Labour has been settled!!!!

No more noise!!!!

LOL, u comical dude.



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@pendo89

" @ Afro your FBI mind is working overtime.Scary reading what you come up with."






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@coldhearts

" At first, i was going to er on the side of caution but that building looks georgous in actual form and cost $200million, so here is my take - God bless China."

The Chinese Communists are atheists like the European banking cabal supporting their rise.


" Fact: Yes it is a symbolic building but it doesn't discredit the African Union. It could have been built by Africans and still be compromised in terms of security and espionage. Espionage happens all the time in places like this and are bound to occur regardless of who builds the place.
Now if you are building a place, isn't it best to seek experts in architecture and security?.
Also, there is also the language barrier between Africa and China, which, often times explain the labor force ratio but i'm sure that can be worked out with time, All relationships have their shortfalls. we just have to be prudent with China."


Since when did the laws of nature change? Is it now possible to get something for nothing? 'He who pays the piper (drummer in this instance) calls the tune.' Self reliance wins every time. There is enough African talent and brainpower these days to design and construct a modern facility of this stature.

"Every country should be able to show some development for its resources, wouldn't you agree?"

Without a doubt, wholeheartedly. African leaders have been terrorized by Western intelligence agencies post physical colonialism. There are several past articles of kleptomania of African heads of state throughout the decades. It's a crying shame that more vital capital is sitting in the banks of London, Switzerland, Dubai, and elsewhere outside of the continent than being utilized at home.


"China was bold enough to start rebuilding of Angola, neither the west nor Africa had the guts to."

If Angola didn't have large deposits of petrol I doubt that we would would see China participating in their progress. Central bankers have just about squeezed every drop of blood out of the West with their fiat money, debt schemes and wars for profit.


"Yes, we are free but that is only a matter of what your definition or rather perception of freedom is. Also why shouldn't they have helicopter landing in such a nice building?

Helicopters rides and luxury while in many cases there is insufficient clean drinking water back at home? While people are starving because of crop failure and drought? Luxury while the elite take away fertile tribal farmland and sell it to those outside of the continent?


"good things fit nicely into my culture abeg, i don't know about yours"

In all possibility my in-law participated in the building of such helicopter.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft

The AU And The Tragedy Of A New Headquarters By Chika Ezeanya


January 28, 2012 - 07:20


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By Chika Ezeanya

On the 28th of January, 2012 African countries will collectively descend to a new low on the global index of state sovereignty, territorial integrity and actual independence of nations. On that day, Chinese President Hu Jintao will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to commission the new $124 Million African Union Headquarters built and donated to the continent by China. Termed “China’s gift to Africa”, the edifice was constructed by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation with over 90% Chinese labor.

It is to the discredit of the African Union and therefore, every individual and country within that regional body that in 2012, a building as symbolic as the African Union Headquarters is designed, built and maintained by a foreign country, it does not matter which country.

The ancient and modern history of donation of buildings and structures from one nation to another is filled with intrigues and subterfuges, conquests, diplomatic schemings, espionage and counter espionage, economic manipulations, political statements and dominations. The construction of the Trojan horse by Odysseus and its ‘donation’ resulted in the Greek conquest of the ancient city of Troy after 10 years of unending skirmish.

In building the Basilica in Rome – termed the “greatest of all churches of Christendom,” contributions from faithfuls were emphasized rather than donations from friendly nations. Even the gift of the Liberty Statue from France to the United States on occasion of the latter’s independence was a joint effort, whereby over 120,000 Americans led by Joseph Pulitzer contributed funds for the construction of the pedestal in 1885.

In rare glimpse into the matter, the book Architecture of Diplomacy, Jane C. Loeffler reveals the underlying diplomatic maneuverings and political ramifications that defines the construction of American embassies all over the world . The author states that building an embassy requires “as much diplomacy as design.” Loeffler enumerates factors seriously considered in the construction of an American embassy building and they include “World politics, American agendas, Architectural politics, cultural considerations, security” and several others.

Common sense dictates that in an era of increasing exploitation of Africa’s natural resources by foreign powers including China, that the African Union, rather than the apparent submission signified by acceptance of the construction of its headquarters by China, will be an organization advocating for fairness in the relationship that exists between the continent and the global powers.

Should security considerations be included, then the question arises as to how African heads of state and government could hold confidential meetings in a building they have no idea how it was wired. What guarantee do African governments have that every word uttered in the new headquarters in Addis Ababa is not heard in Beijing? What evidence negates the suspicion that all activities in the just completed building are not replayed on a large screen in Beijing as Chinese secret service agents watch?

Culturally, indigenous Bantu culture abhors dependence on others for sustenance. A favorite Swahili proverb of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere’s is “Mgeni siku mbili; siku ya tatu mpe jembe” which means “treat your guest as a guest for two days; on the third day give him a hoe.” Indigenous African tradition largely abhors dependency of any kind. It is frowned upon for a man not to thatch his rooftops well before the rainy season, or to stay back while others are going to the farm, except he is bedridden. Add this to the logic espoused in Archtitecture of Diplomacy, and one reasonably concludes that it is unacceptable for Africans to accept a building from China that will house what should be the landmark of the continent’s achievements and its aspirations for the future.

Clearly, much indiscretion was exercised by the African Union officials in the acceptance of the offer of a new headquarters from China. The African Union has since deviated from the ideals of its founding fathers when in the 1960s Kwame Nkrumah and other great African leaders sought to establish an organization that would protect the geographical contiguity and territorial integrity of African nations. Emperor Haile Selassie in his historic 1963 speech stated clearly that the Organization was founded because “Africa has been reborn as a free continent and Africans have been reborn as free men. The blood that was shed and sufferings that were endured are today Africa’s advocates for freedom and unity.”

Contrary to his predecessor’s commitment to the continued freedom of the continent from imperial forces, Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi - currently being accused of selling huge swathes of Ethiopian land to foreign countries – on a tour of the facility boasted of how he single handedly lobbied Chinese officials to build the new headquarters and how he exempted taxes on all Chinese imported construction materials.

Gleeful at the opportunity for African heads of state to indulge in their lifestyles of conspicuous consumption during meetings and summits, AU Projects Director Fantahun Hailemikael reports that among the several luxuries of the building is a “helicopter landing pad so visiting dignitaries will be flown from the airport.” Of course the dignitaries will be spared the sight of the slum that much of Addis Ababa is. They will be flown from the airport to the AU building and from there to Sheraton Addis, reportedly the best of its kind around the world.

While the African Union think it has gained from China by moving into its new ultra-modern facility, the reality is that the continent has lost tremendously in all matters worthy of reasonable consideration. The move to reverse the derogatory perception of Africa and Africans by all non-Africans has suffered another major setback. The resultant effect will be the continued political and economic manipulation and domination of the region by the West, and now China, and soon the rest of the non-African world.

Chika blogs at www.chikaforafrica.

good drop, thanks for the knowledge.



JusticeForAfrica's channel


http://www.youtube.com/user/JusticeForAfrica


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Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War: The Role of the IMF

by F. William Engdahl


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28900


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China is deep in the mix of things. A former Chicago reporter did some enlightening stories on them.

And yes I read about the chocolate child abuses.

http://www.skolnicksreport.com/chinese.html


http://www.skolnicksreport.com/rcsp.html


http://www.skolnicksreport.com/

I read these articles early this morning about the slave like working conditions in China. Beware of this Trojan horse Africa.




'Forced to stand for 24 hours, suicide nets, toxin exposure and explosions': Inside the Chinese factories making iPads for Apple

'Working excessive overtime without a single day off during the week'
'Living together in crowded dorms and exposure to dangerous chemicals'
Two explosions in 2011 in China 'due to aluminum dust' killed four workers
Almost 140 injured after using toxin in factory, reports New York Times

By MARK DUELL
Last updated at 8:10 AM on 27th January 2012


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092277/Apple-Poor-working-conditions-inside-Chinese-factories-making-iPads.html





In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1

Khazars, the men behind the curtain? An historical & Contemporary perspective for REAL!!!

http://vaticproject..com/2012/01/khazars-men-behind-curtain-historical.html

Who are the men behind the curtain?


http://vaticproject..com/2012/01/khazars-men-behind-curtain-historical.html