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Osama bin Laden, A.K.A.
CIA Asset "Tim Osman"


http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bin_laden_osman.html


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Niger Delta Militants give Boko Haram 14 days to stop killing or face war


http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os5620.html


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Not too late: 105-year-old man ties the knot

Publisher: NTVKenya
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
Copyright: 2011
Publisher Website: http://newsinkenya.com/5099/not-too-late-105-year-old-man-ties-the-knot
Language: English


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There was a rare ceremony in Migori where a 105-year-old man tied the knot. The man married his 65-year-old sweetheart in a ceremony held at a catholic church in Rongo. The ceremony was witnessed by among other people his children and grandchildren.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOqFSrQFaA&feature=youtube_gdata

Op, write your soulmate a note, tell her how intense your feelings are for her and ask to give you a future opportunity to make a friendship if she becomes free. Don't disrepect her present relationship. Tell her something slick like her happiness is paramount and that you are willing to wait to the next lifetime to shower your love on her. Some women like to have suitors on deck, but don't over inflate her ego! Sooner or later you may get your chance. Man up and try not to blow it.


May her womb be intact on your wedding night.

Reasons You Are Not Married


http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/09/20/reasons-you-are-not-married/

Brazil learnt their lesson being in debt to the World Bank and IMF. Their government paid off all the loans and are no longer debt slaves to these vampire organizations and her economy is healthy and robust.

Strong pounded yam and good bushmeat in their father's village

There are strong Yoruba influenced groups in the States.







Ekaabo





Welcome to the official website of Oyotunji African Village and Orisa-Vodou Spiritual Lineage. This site will inform those who choose to know more about the history of our village, deepen their understanding of Yoruba Orisa culture, view our historical photographs and access the annual Reading of the Year.

http://www.oyotunjiafricanvillage.org/?id=1

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Adefunmi

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

[b]Libya begging the colonial puppet masters for the frozen funds





September 24, 2011

Libya PM Calls on World to Help in Rebuilding

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Libya's de facto prime minister on Saturday called on the United Nations to unfreeze all frozen Libyan assets and urged the world community to stand beside his nation in its difficult road to reconstruction and national reconciliation.
To loud applause, National Transitional Council premier Mahmoud Jibril addressed the U.N. General Assembly, saying he was saddened by the thousands who had died in the fight to topple Moammar Gadhafi and whose "sacred blood was shed to write a new history for a new Libya."
In his first address to the world body since Gadhafi's ouster from 42 years in power, Jibril spoke from the same rostrum where, two years earlier, Gadhafi ripped apart a copy of the world body's charter during a lengthy rant. Jibril ridiculed that as "a pathetic theatrical move."
"A new Libya is coming to life," Jibril said, one that seeks to rebuild and reach out to the global community. He said the new nation's vision is one of "a state of democracy, ruled by a clear unambiguous constitution setting forth rights and obligations, that does not discriminate between male or female, one community or another, one political belief or another, or east or west."
Jibril spoke as the former rebels pushed into Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, in central Libya, on Saturday. NTC officials promised to announce an interim government in a week. The NTC has struggled to form a Cabinet, with debates still ongoing about several key issues, including the distribution of ministries between the west and east of the country. The east, from where the rebellion against Gadhafi gained momentum, was long marginalized under the ousted regime.
Jibril alluded to those challenges in his speech, saying that one key issue was agreeing on the rules of participation in the new government and juggling the expectations of the Libyan people as well as the expectations of the world community.
He said that "national unity without a united land, without national reconciliation, is a dream" and that it was of the "utmost importance" to put to a referendum a draft constitution that would guarantee rights for all in Libya. He did not, however, discuss timing.
Jibril, in urging the world community to back the NTC, said the unfreezing of some assets already has been ordered but vast sums are still withheld. That "does not rise to what is required in order to assure reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country," he said.
Libya's foreign assets, which are in the range of $110 billion, were largely frozen as part of a series of U.N. and Western sanctions on the now-ousted regime shortly after the civil war began in mid-February.
The Libyans have complained that the release has been moving slowly and that they are in dire need of money, not just to pay salaries and cover expenses, but also to begin the extensive reconstruction necessary after the conflict. Huge expenses were also expected to overcome the underdevelopment that prevailed during Gadhafi's regime.
The OPEC member was producing about 1.6 million barrels of crude oil per day at the start of the war, but that output largely ended during the war. Experts and analysts estimate it could take at least a year for them to reach comparable levels.
"The assets freeze on our funds must be lifted as urgently as possible," Jibril said, urging the Security Council to take action to unblock the assets. He assured the world that while pockets of resistance remained, the old regime was now history.
Jibril said the country faced daunting challenges aside from cementing a political structure.
"We do not claim to have a magic wand, as Moammar Gadhafi claimed when he looked at himself in the mirror and suddenly discovered that he is an almighty prophet with a solution to every problem on earth, except for Libya's problems," said Jibril.
Four decades of Gadhafi rule left 20 percent of the population living in poverty, created the region's worst educational and health care systems, left a collapsing infrastructure and unemployment among youths at over 30 percent, he said. "These are the solutions handed us by Moammar Gadhafi," he said. [/b]

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Patrick Makau of Kenya crossed the finish line to win the 38th Berlin Marathon on Sunday with a record-breaking time of 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds.



By JERÉ LONGMANBERLIN — Patrick Makau of Kenya set a world record on Sunday by winning the Berlin Marathon on a flat, searing course in 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds.

Kenya swept the day with Florence Kiplagat winning the women’s race in 2:19:44. Paula Radcliffe of England, the women’s world record holder, ran her first marathon in nearly 23 months after giving birth to her second child and easily qualified for the 2012 London Games with a third-place finish in 2:23:46.

Makau, 26, won the Berlin race for the second consecutive year and became the second man to run 26.2 miles under 2:04. The previous record of 2:03:59 was set by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia on this same Berlin course in 2008.

“A new generation is coming that is running very well,” said Makau, who shaved 70 seconds off his previous best of 2:04:48, which was the 2010 Rotterdam Marathon.
In a dramatic moment Sunday, Gebrselassie stopped running for about a minute just before 17 miles, after Makau made a break. Gebrselassie bent over and appearing ill or exhausted. He rejoined the race after about a minute but stopped running before the finish.

At 38, Gebrselassie’s chances of making the Ethiopian marathon team for the 2012 London Games appear to be over. He has now dropped out of his last two marathons, stopping in New York at 16 miles in November with a knee injury; he then retired from running for a brief time.

He is considered by many the greatest distance runner of all time, and has two Olympic gold medals at 10,000 meters (1996 and 2000), but another, more permanent retirement might follow Sunday’s disappointment.

Meanwhile, Makau is on the rise. Last year, in the rain, his socks bunching in his shoes, Makau won in Berlin in 2:05:48. But Sunday, the weather conditions were more accommodating — sunny and 53 degrees — and Makau’s victory , orchestrated by a phalanx of pacesetters, became inevitable after a breakaway at 16.7 miles (27 kilometers).

He might have run a second or two faster, but he had to jump over a small advertising placard in his final strides to align himself with the tape at the finish line.

“This has been the greatest day of my running life,” he said. “When I woke up, my body didn’t feel very good. As the race went on, I felt better. At 25 kilometers, I felt I could break the world record. It’s a great thing to beat Haile, one of my heroes.”
In winning Sunday’s race, Makau established himself as an early favorite at the London Olympics, especially after the reigning Olympic champion, Sammy Wanjiru, a fellow Kenyan, died in a mysterious fall in May.

At the Boston Marathon in April, Kenyans Geoffrey Mutai (2:03:02) and Moses Mosop (2:03:06) ran faster than Makau’s Berlin time, but the Boston course does not qualify for a world record because of its elevation drop and its failure to meet international requirements for a loop course.

There was some consolation for Mosop, his wife, Kiplagat, won the women’s race. Irina Miktenko of Germany, the Berlin winner in 2007 and 2008, finished second Sunday in 2:22:18.

Kiplagat completed her first marathon since dropping out in Boston. She was the 2009 world cross-country champion and the 2010 world half-marathon champion.

The men’s race had six pacemakers in a v-shaped formation, leading a pack of five elite runners. By 16.7 miles, the pacemakers were down to two, paving the way for the remaining contenders, Makau and Gebrselassie.

Makau then moved from one side of the road to another and made a decisive break. Gebrselassie slipped behind and then stepped off the course, put his hand over his stomach and bent over, as if he were going to throw up.

But 51 seconds later, desperately needing a fast time to preserve his shot at making the Ethiopian Olympic marathon team, Gebrselassie jumped back into the race. One pacemaker, then another, eventually drifted back to assist him, but he could not complete the course.

By 18.5 miles, Makau had dropped his final pacemaker and was on his own. In April, he had fallen at the London Marathon but recovered to finish third in 2:05:45. That did not happen on Sunday as Makau ran unimpeded, arms swinging wide, drawing away with a muscular style that made him the fastest marathoner in history.
Meanwhile Radcliffe, 37, had mixed feelings about finishing third, a placement that came after a difficult year of a thyroid illness and back problems.

“I’m some ways, I’m happy; in other ways, I’m disappointed with third place,” Radcliffe said. “It’s been a tough year. With everything I had to go through, I should accept this. At least I have an Olympic qualifying time. Now I have to build on that for London.”


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Patrick Makau of Kenya poses with compatriot Florence Kiplagat as they celebrate their victories in the 38th Berlin Marathon in Berlin September 25 2011 Kenyan Patrick Makau shattered the world men s marathon record by 21 seconds on Sunday[/b]

3 Arrested in the ABSU Gang Rape Case, one more suspect named



Written by Elombah.com



Saturday, 24 September 2011 11:29


http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8261:3-arrested-in-the-absu-gang-rape-caseone-more-suspect-named&catid=3:newsflash&Itemid=57

[b]Hot off the newswires ,



Racist Mercenary Rats Slaughtering Blacks In Libya
By Samuel Dowell
9-23-11

The following stories document how the NATO 'rebels' are bringing 'democracy' to Libya, Blacks In Libya Still Targeted By Anti-Gaddafi Forces - Killings, Beatings, Abuse


One quarter of indigenous Libyans are black Africans. In addition to that, there were over 1 million workers from Sub-Saharan African countries, including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria, in Libya at the start of the uprising. On September 13th, Amnesty International reported that:
"'Widespread, but largely unfounded reports that Gaddafi forces were relying on Sub-Saharan African mercenaries to fight the opposition put them at heightened risk in areas that fell under the control of the NTC. Racist and xenophobic rhetoric, already frequent before the unrest, increased as a result of the breakdown of law and order." (p.80)(Link)
"The allegations about the use of mercenaries proved to be largely unfounded. Many captured al-Gaddafi fighters, including those interviewed by Amnesty International in Benghazi and Misratah, were in fact Libyan nationals, including individuals from places such as Sabha in the south-west of Libya and from the Tawargha region east of Misratah. Due to their black skin and Sub-Saharan African features, they were mistaken for foreign mercenaries. However, NTC officials did little to correct the false assumption and instead fed the flames of hatred and resentment.(p.83)
"NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil claimed in media interviews that Colonel al-Gaddafi was using 'African mercenaries' against his own people. Such claims were especially irresponsible in the climate of insecurity and fed existing racism and xenophobia in Libya and signaled that abuses against foreign nationals would be tolerated by the NTC. (p.83) Further, "NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil promised to 'close the borders in front of these Africans'. (Statement by Mustafa Abdel Jalil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX09Lq73e94)(p.89)
"When al-Bayda, Benghazi, Derna, Misratah and other cities first fell under the control of the opposition in the third week of February, house raids, killings, lynching and other violent attacks were perpetrated by supporters of the "17 February Revolution" against individuals believed to be foreign mercenaries on account of their skin color.p.82)
Throughout the 6-month conflict, Sub-Saharan African nationals were attacked on what have proved to be largely unfounded suspicions that they were foreign "mercenaries" hired by Colonel al-Gaddafi, and it hasn't stopped.
Tawergha, A City Of 20,000 Blacks In Libya Emptied By 'Rebels'
http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7627/2011-09-14.html
Now in Control, Libyan Rebels Take Revenge
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=33315
Black Lives Are Cheap In Libya
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2011/09/19/black-life-is-cheap-in-libya


Torture, Lynchings, Beheadings Of Blacks In Libya
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=345541
Blacks Hunted Down And Murdered In Libya
http://dailytimes.com.ng/blog/when-west-encourages-genocide-and-xenophobia
Blacks in Libya - Dehumanization of blacks in Libya

http://www.afriquejet.com/blacks-libya-dehumanization-blacks-in-libya-2011091622497.html

Nigerians Being Slaughtered In Libya
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2011/sept/13/editorial-13-09-2011-001.html
Killing of Blacks in Libya By NATO-backed Rebels Continues
http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7623/2011-09-13.html (New York)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26643 [/b]

@babeface3


http://www.naijapals.com/ had a copy of it last week, I didn't save the link.

More debt slave corruption.


Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant/slave to the lender.


Ask yourself, what has the World Bank done for European countries (particularly Greece) on the brink of economic destruction?

[b]A Continental Shift for African Art

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What Leaders Look Like: A Continental Shift

By HOLLAND COTTER


If you still think that African art is not your thing, there’s an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum that may change your mind. It’s called “Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures,” and it’s as beautiful to look at as a show can possibly be.

It’s a perception changer in other ways too, as it argues, through demonstration, against basic misunderstandings surrounding this art. African art has no history? No independent tradition of realism? No portraiture? All African sculpture looks basically alike, meaning “primitive”? African and Western art are fundamentally different in content and purpose? Wrong across the board.

Art from sub-Saharan Africa is some of the oldest known, dating back tens of thousands of years. In the exhibition the oldest pieces are naturalistic, portraitlike terra-cotta heads from southwestern Nigeria from the 12th century.

Before the modern era, ancient African chronicles were passed on by word of mouth, from storyteller to storyteller, and many sculptures, early and late, embody centuries-old accounts of real people and real lives. They compress them into a visual shorthand the way oral tradition compresses generations-long narratives.

Even a quick stroll through this exhibition’s eight sections, each devoted to a different West or Central African art tradition, confirms African art’s variety, in a stylistic spectrum stretching from detail-perfect representation to near-abstraction. And as to African art’s pertinence to Western concerns, suffice it to say that almost all the sculpture in this exhibition is asking a question that is foremost on the mind of many Americans in the early stages of the presidential campaign: what are the qualities we want and need in our political leaders?

To ease our way into all of this, the show begins with a comparative look at political power portraits from Africa and the West: a 17th-century brass head depicting a ruler of the kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, and a carved marble bust of the Roman emperor Octavian, who called himself Augustus, from around A.D. 5.

Augustus’ portrait is of a familiarly naturalistic type; we know his name because it was written down and is found on many identical portraits. The naturalism of the Benin head is highly stylized, and the name of the ruler unknown, lost with the spoken histories erased by colonialism.

Despite their differences, though, neither “portrait” is more or less realistic than the other. Augustus is depicted as a Greek Apollo with a Roman haircut. The Benin king, wide-eyed and plump, almost bursting with good health, conforms to an African ideal of regal well-being. Both portraits commemorate real people who lived and died, but are, before all else, abstract emblems of ethical standards to be emulated and political power to be revered.

And since political power was usually accompanied by wealth throughout Africa, as everywhere else, the ruling elite drew on top-rank talent and technology when commissioning art. This is evident in the Benin royal portraits and in the terra-cotta heads produced in the Yoruba capital, Ife, also in Nigeria, between the 12th and 15th centuries.

With their soft, grave naturalism, these heads have an automatic appeal to the Western eye, and the seven examples in the show are simply out of this world. All have similar sensuous features: full lips, almond eyes and all-over patterns of vertical striations, read by some experts as cosmetic scarring, by others as representing shadows cast by beaded veils attached to royal crowns.

Despite the similarities, each face is subtly particularized, suggesting that they were all inspired by living models, though exactly who they may have been and how these portraits — if they are portraits — were meant to function remain mysteries.

But one thing is sure: many of them predate colonial contact. This means that realism in art, which the West tends to view as its distinctive accomplishment, developed independently in Africa, though there, with so many other rich options available, it was only sporadically esteemed.

Terra-cotta sculpture also flourished among the Akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast in the 17th and 18th centuries, but sometimes in semiabstract form. In memorial shrine effigies of honored individuals made in the Kwahu region of Ghana, for example, the head, balanced atop a long neck that is also a body, is as flat as a plate and tilted upward so that small, pinched facial features look to the sky.

These images, doll-like and audacious, probably correspond more closely than Ife work does to popular ideas of what “African art” is suppose to look like. But they depart from expectations in another way: like much Akan clay sculpture, they are believed to have been made by women, earth being a female element.

True or not, it’s nice to think that the two memorial sculptures in the show identified by name came from female hands: one is of an 18th-century queen called Nana Attabra, button-eyed, smiling, her hair in snail-shell curls; the other of her daughter Afukwa, a formidable, broad-browed presence with a no-nonsense stare.

Over all, there are almost as many heroines as heroes in the show, which has been assembled with scrupulous care by Alisa LaGamma, a curator in the museum’s department of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and set in one of the most ingenious installations I’ve seen at the Met in years. Designed by Michael Lapthorn, it’s a serpentine path of walls pierced by windows that give glimpses of what you’ve just seen and frame attractions ahead.

That said, no frame is large enough to contain the famous carved wood superheroine known as the “Bangwa Queen.” With her rocket-blast headpiece and loose-limbed, just-landed stance, this sculpture from the Grassfields region of Cameroon is the show’s Wonder Woman.

Her fame derives partly from the starry Western collections, including Helena Rubenstein’s, she has passed through since she left her Cameroonian royal shrine in the late 19th century. But of course her real story lies back there, where she was less an object than a living being, a priestess, with a name and a personality. The name and the shrine are long gone. The live-wire personality — explosive, ecstatic — sizzles on.

And I could go on and on about the other objects Ms. LaGamma has chosen, from Chokwe masks, mainly from Angola, proposing reality-based ideals of unearthly female beauty, to magnificent royal portraits, each of a specific monarch but all nearly identical in appearance, carved by Kuba sculptors in what is now Congo.

Anyone familiar with African art knows these Kuba images. But from a different cultural source in roughly the same region, the Hemba people, comes far less familiar material, and a lot of it: a group of 22 standing 19th-century wood figures that together end the show with a kind of hushed coup de théâtre.

They all depict venerated leaders who, after death, came to function, in sculptural guise, as interfaces between the material and spiritual realms. As if their new roles required undistracted concentration, the individual sculptures were kept in chapel-like huts accessible only to living leaders of exemplary character who would someday join their ranks.

The dynamic of Hemba art, like that of so much African memorial art, is one of variety within sameness. Beneath local differences of style, all the images have uniform elements, including an outsize head, a capacious container for both soul and mind, and an expression of stoically exalted calmness, which gains particular poignancy in the several sculptures that have been damaged — either broken or eaten away by moisture and insects — over time.

Hemba communities experienced an even more drastic degree of injury under colonialism. Families dispersed, heroic leaders disappeared, spiritual assurances shattered. Some commemorative sculptures survived in homes until the 1960s, when African poverty and a hot art market conspired to take them to Europe for sale.

The Hemba sculptures at the Met, arranged in two concentric circles, are one of the great sights in the museum these days. Together and separately they are, like so much else in the show, examples of objects as sophisticated in form as they are nuanced in meaning. Their beauties are tremendous, but so are their lessons on qualities that leaders who would be heroes must have: one being moral sobriety; two others, implicit in Mr. Lapthorn’s design, being transparency and a capacity for looking backward and forward from wherever you stand.


“Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures” remains through Jan. 29 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org.


African Chronicles more photos

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/09/23/arts/design/20110923_AFRICA.html[/b]

NNEKA - My Home (official video)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI5TZOfjj8



Official video of Nneka's first single "My Home" off of her 3rd album "Soul Is Heavy"

Britain's slumdogs: The ragged and filthy East End children of just 100 years ago living a life of grime

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017054/Britains-Slumdogs-The-ragged-filthy-East-London-children-just-100-years-ago-living-life-grime.html

Unflippingbelievable



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[b]In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out

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More than 20,000 people were expelled from their homes, a report says



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An evicted woman showed proof of her family's land ownership.

In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out
By JOSH KRON
KICUCULA, Uganda — According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner.

People here remember it quite differently.

“I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside,” said Emmanuel Cyicyima, 33. “The houses were being burnt down.”

Other villagers described gun-toting soldiers and an 8-year-old child burning to death when his home was set ablaze by security officers.

“They said if we hesitated they would shoot us,” said William Bakeshisha, adding that he hid in his coffee plantation, watching his house burn down. “Smoke and fire.”

According to a report released by the aid group Oxfam on Wednesday, the Ugandan government and a British forestry company forcibly expelled more than 20,000 people from their homes here in recent years, emblematic of a global scramble for arable land.

“Too many investments have resulted in dispossession, deception, violation of human rights and destruction of livelihoods,” Oxfam said in the report. “This interest in land is not something that will pass.” As population and urbanization soar, it added, “whatever land there is will surely be prized.”

Across Africa, some of the world’s poorest people have been thrown off land to make way for foreign investors, often uprooting local farmers so that food can be grown on a commercial scale and shipped to richer countries overseas.

But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming.

The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar market trading carbon-credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which contains mechanisms for outsourcing environmental protection to developing nations.

The company involved, New Forests Company, grows forests in African countries with the purpose of selling credits from the carbon-dioxide its trees soak up to polluters abroad. Its investors include the World Bank, through its private investment arm, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC.

In 2005, the Ugandan government granted New Forests a 50-year license to grow pine and eucalyptus forests in three districts, and the company has applied to the United Nations to trade under the mechanism. The company expects that it could earn up to $1.8 million a year.

But there was just one problem: people were living on the land where the company wanted to plant trees. Indeed, they had been there a while.

“He was a policeman for King George,” Mr. Bakeshisha said of his father, who served with British forces during World War II in Egypt.

Mr. Bakeshisha, 51, said he was given land in Namwasa forest in Mubende district in 1997 by a local kingdom through his father’s serviceman association. Mr. Bakeshisha lived happily on the property for years, becoming a local administrator and ardent supporter of President Yoweri Museveni. In a neighboring district, people had been living on land the company would later license since the 1970s.

Tensions brewed. The company and government said the residents were living illegally in a forest. Residents said they had rights. Community members took the company to court in 2009 and a temporary injunction was issued, barring evictions. Nevertheless, Oxfam and residents say, evictions continued.

Residents were given until Feb. 28, 2010, to vacate company premises while soldiers and the police kept surveillance. Company officials visited, too. From time to time a house would be burnt down, villagers said. Then came Feb. 28, a Sunday.

“We were in church,” recalled Jean-Marie Tushabe, 26, a father of two. “I heard bullets being shot into the air.”

“Cars were coming with police,” Mr. Tushabe said, sitting among the ruins of his old home. “They headed straight to the houses. They took our plates, cups, mattresses, bed, pillows. Then we saw them getting a matchbox out of their pockets.”

Homeless and hopeless, Mr. Tushabe said he took a job with the company that pushed him out. He was promised more than $100 each month, he said, but received only about $30.

New Forests says that it takes accusations that settlers were forcibly removed “extremely seriously” and will conduct “an immediate and thorough” investigation.

“Our understanding of these resettlements is that they were legal, voluntary and peaceful and our first hand observations of them confirmed this,” the company said in a response to the Oxfam report.

A Ugandan government spokesman said residents in Namwasa were illegal encroachers, but he acknowledged and deplored the use of violence to remove them, saying it was done by corrupt politicians and police officers operating outside the law.

Olivia Mukamperezida, 28, said her house was among the first in her community to be burned down. One day in late 2009, she said, her eldest son, Friday, was sick at home, so she went out to find medicine. Villagers suddenly told her to rush back. Everything was incinerated.

“I found my house when it was completely finished,” she said. “I just cried.”

Ms. Mukamperezida never found the culprits. She buried Friday’s bones in a grave, but says she does not know if it is still there.

“They are planting trees,” she said.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: September 22, 2011


A previous version of this article misstated the name of HSBC, a global banking and financial services organization.
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Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution! (The Last Poets)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpo11TxSdVg&feature=related

Resistance in Libya: Imperialism will be buried in Africa

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Qaddafi had amassed the necessary funds for the establishment of three African banks … It was this move, more than even Libya’s vast oil wealth that made Qaddafi and the Al Fateh revolution a target for this invasion.
In addition, Qaddafi had amassed the necessary funds for the establishment of three African banks – the African Monetary Fund (AMF) to be situated in Cameroon, the Central African Bank to be situated in Nigeria and the African Investment Bank to be established in Libya. It was this move, more than even Libya’s vast oil wealth that made Qaddafi and the Al Fateh revolution a target for this invasion. Africa was on the brink of a huge and empowering breakthrough, which, as far as the Western capitals were concerned, had to be prevented at any cost.



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Thousands of Blacks, whether Libyans or sub-Saharan Africans, have been arrested, accused of fighting for Qaddafi as mercenaries, and lynched by rebels. This Nigerian man was arrested Sept. 17. – Photo: Francois Mori, AP




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The neo-colonial conquerors – President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Libyan National Transitional Council head Mustafa Abdel-Jalil and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain – celebrated their invasion of Africa and their takeover of Libya and its fabulous wealth. – Photo: Philippe Wojazer

The grand chess board.


U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-building-secret-drone-bases-in-africa-arabian-peninsula-officials-say/2011/09/20/gIQAJ8rOjK_print.html

[b]Nigeria: How Citizens Sell Own Kidneys Abroad

Abdulkareem Baba Aminu, Hussain J. Ibrahim and Solomon Chung

17 September 2011

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Samson Eghosa, 31, grew up in Benin, Edo State. As soon as he hit his teens, a cousin sold the idea of 'travelling out' to him.



After series of criminal acts, the duo raised enough money to head for Italy, where Eghosa faced the harsh reality there which included odd jobs, always being on the run from the law and pressure from home to send money which wasn't regularly coming.

After four years of 'hustling' on the back alleys of Rome, Eghosa was told by a South African acquaintance of a man who is a middle-man for kidney donor seekers.

A meeting was immediately set up by Eghosa's South African acquaintance with the middle-man in a restaurant, where in an atmosphere he describes as routine, a direct offer was made to him. "The man just flat-out made an offer to me," wrote Eghosa to Weekly Trust in an e-mail. "He offered the equivalent of about $10, 000.00 so I agreed."

The man Eghosa describes as having a professional mien now proceeded to lay out the risk involved in the operation. But there was no real need for him to do so because Eghosa's desperation and need for the cash involved has made him quite willing to face death if need be. "I didn't care," he says. "I had a lot of things to take care of in Nigeria and the money would come in really handy. So I agreed. A date was set and we met again with the middle-man and the South African (who collected some commission from the middle man)."

Eghosa says he was taken to a hospital-like place which could just be an improvised facility that will enable the operation to take out his kidney go on successfully. But reality began to dawn upon him when after the operation, as he says, "I wasn't really looked after during recovery time. Some weeks later and my stitches were still painful. The worst aspect of it all was when I sent half of the money home, an uncle of mine who was to collect it and take to my mother absconded with the cash. He still hasn't been heard from. The remaining is still with me."

That was four months ago. Now, he says, "I fall very sick every now and then, but I hear it might not be connected to my operation. I'm currently doing jobs like crazy so I'll be able to go back home."

Eghosa is one of many Nigerians who are giving out their kidneys to those in desperate need, though not for humanitarian reasons but for cash, fuelling business in the sale of human parts. Like the popular 419 which Nigerians have exported abroad and which foreigners have come to use as a brand to unfairly profile Nigerians, the sale of kidneys by desperate Nigerians is becoming another national export and a brand that threatens to further entrench the country's image as full of money-seeking citizens with no scruples.

Now, mostly in locations in Malaysia and India, Nigerians in droves, according to the estimate made by a source familiar with the trade, line up to be tested in the hope that their kidneys would be deemed good enough to be donated to a sick person. The two Asian countries that have become favoured destinations of Nigerians have also become favoured places of treatment for Europeans and Americans for diseases related to the kidney.

The trade involving Nigerians is old. Dr. Amaechi Nwaokolo a former intelligence officer who has worked on the desk of the Nigerian/Indian bilateral trade and made several visits to India says it has been on since the 90's and intelligence sources have known that Nigerians sometimes line up to be tested so they can sell their kidneys. "But this does not mean that the government should start wasting money to form an agency like NAPTIP to check the trend in the sale of human organs, because it will not work. The underlining problem, especially among desperate Nigerian youths is poverty and lack of employment. If this problem is not fixed, it can only continue to get worse."

A common thread in the tale of sources who agreed to provide information for this story is they had reached the end of their tether and they needed money urgently to salvage not only their own lives, but that of their loved ones.

Mike, also from Edo, sold his kidney in Malaysia and returned back to the country recently. Like Eghosa, he says he was paid $10, 000.00 for his kidney. He says he was left with no choice because it was either he sells one of his kidneys or sits down to watch two of his younger sisters who just graduated from a sewing school become prostitutes because they have no money to set themselves up. He now feels a sense of justification for his action even though he now worries that he is still young and at any time in the future his remaining kidney might not be able to serve him if he falls sick.

Mike says there were a lot of people in the queue in Malaysia, most of them Nigerians, who have gone to sell their kidneys. Like him, those who took the risk needed money desperately to start something that will turn their lives around. Back in the country, he now thinks of a suitable business that will keep him out of the reach of poverty forever.

Nevertheless, he stands the risk of losing forever the boundless energy which is nature's gift to a youth like him. Dr Ayodele K.A Kehinde, a London-trained nephrologist and CEO of HealthPro Hospital in Lagos and Abuja says, "While it is very much possible for such individuals to live a normal and active life, such lifestyle is sometimes demanding in many respect." He says poor dietary and lifestyle habits can overwork a single kidney, causing diminished kidney function, leading to failure. So to live with a single kidney, one needs resources.

Kehinde says of kidney donation and sale: "It is not entirely new. The fact is available ones donated are not usually enough. Even the developed nations do it. It is also happening in some countries like India, Bangladesh, Iran and others. Personally, I don't really support such trade in organs. These organs are priceless possessions given to you by God, for free. So, why sell? It is better donated for free. However, in some places such trades do pay off, so there are different angles to view it from. For example, the Iranian system and the black market demonstrate one important fact: The organ shortage can be solved by paying living donors."

Dr. Kehinde also told Weekly Trust that only Iran has been able to eliminate the shortage of transplant organs. "That country has a very good, working legal payment system for organ donation."

While such donations by individuals might be waved away as a personal decision, a larger worry looms in the air which is more sinister. Dr. Nwaokolo recalls the infamous saga of the 90's involving alleged mad man Clifford Orji who roams Lagos streets but in whose haunt were found various human parts by security agencies. "Even though he is said to be mad," says Dr. Nwaokolo, "there were strong suspicion in security circles that he could be a front man for people who deal in the illicit sale of human organs."

While that saga is now past, a regular occurrence in Nigerian streets is that of dead bodies deposited on the streets with eyes or some vital organs of the victims plucked out. Nigerians have come to identify such as the handiwork of ritualists.But Dr. Nwaokolo warns against reaching such hasty conclusion, "Because we could inadvertently be creating a cover that will take our attention away from human organ thieves and their cohorts." Will this trade diminish and die out or will it add to Nigeria's list of abhorrent exports?[/b]

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[b]Brazilian Lover Has 50 Children with Wives, Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law!



Monday, September 19, 2011 5:13

A 90 year-old Brazilian farmer is claiming to be a father of 50 children conceived by his first wife now deceased, his 2nd wife and her sister and the ladies mother, known as his mother-in-law.
Meet Luiz Costa de Oliveira, from Campo Grande, Brazil who lost his first wife, with whom he had 17 kids. The widower then married Maria Francisca da Silva, who helped him raise the kids. He had a second batch of 17 kids with her. And de Oliveira didn’t stop there but he did keep it all in the family.
Maria Francisca’s sister, Ozelita, spent a lot of time in her sister’s home giving the large family a hand with house chores. Ozelita eventually became romantically involved with her sister’s husband, Oliveira, and gave birth to 15 of his children. And if you are good at counting that makes 49 children which are cousins and siblings all at the same time.
But the Brazilian lover didn’t stop there but did continue to keep it all in the family.
Francisca María, mother of the da Silva sisters also succumbed to Oliveiras’ latin lover ways, and gave him a son which makes for a total of 50 children. Now the retired farmer has 100 grandchildren and 30 great grand children and everyone is on friendly terms just check out the photo here.
Oliveira told Brazilian news sources that he doesn’t know everyone’s name at his home; he also mentioned there might be a chance that there are more children ‘spread around,’ as he was always one to ‘enjoy female company’.
Oliveira’s family lives divided in two houses. Despite being 90 years old, Oliveira is healthy, strong, has no ailments and says he misses his days of Casanova.

Published in Notitas de Noticias [/b]

Libya: Gaddafi forces claim to have captured British 'mercenaries'

A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi has claimed that 17 "mercenaries", including what he called French and British "technical experts" had been captured in the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8772710/Libya-Gaddafi-forces-claim-to-have-captured-British-mercenaries.html

Good info here, please don't chuck it in the rubbish bin, thank you.


World Bank Policies "enabling" African Land Grab

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