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 Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 2:58pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
LIBYA AND THE HYPOCRISY OF WESTERN GOVERNMENTS Legitimizing a coup: Western governments have openly interfered in the affairs of the legitimate Libyan Government and have called on Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi’s removal by force. France, the U.S. and other EU members have recognised the mixed bag of anti-Libyan armed militia as the “legitimate” government in Benghazi, paving the way for foreign military intervention and the imperialist division of Libya in the same way Iraq has been divided by the U.S. and its allies. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, went as far as calling for the assassination of al-Qaddafi. France, of course, offered armed security to the Tunisian dictator (Zine Ben Ali) to crush the pro-democracy protesters before he fled the country. Meanwhile, U.S. secretary of State, Hillary Clinton offered “assistance to anyone” against al-Qaddafi “who wishes to receive assistance from the United States”, but not for those who are struggling for democracy. “We are reaching out to the opposition inside and outside of Libya”, Clinton said recently. The U.S. and its allies are inciting an internal conflict and using it as an opportunity to serve U.S. imperialist interests. Arming the militia: Using Libyan seized assets, the U.S. has begun arming the militia – through the brutal regimes of Saudi Arabia and Egypt – with anti-tank rockets, assault rifles, mortars and ground-to-air missiles. The timing of the insurrection in Libya is not coincidence and is designed to deflect attention away from the legitimate popular uprisings against U.S.-installed dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere in the region. The aim is to create a humanitarian crisis and justify military invasion. Indeed, the U.S. has a history of using civilian lives to justify aggression. In Iraq the U.S. created the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, and still is. The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is another. [b]Qaddafi's record: It should be pointed out that while al-Qaddafi has recently cooperated with the U.S. and other European governments, he is an independent and an anti-imperialist leader. After liberating Libya from the rule of the imperialist stooge King Idris El-Senusi in1969, he nationalised Libya’s oil and used the oil revenue to free Libya from the clutches of imperialism-induced poverty. Under al-Qaddafi, Libya has “a medium-high per capita income of 12,000, six times greater than that of Egypt” (IL Manifesto, 25 February 2011). Al-Qaddafi used the oil revenue to raise the living standards of Libyans. Libya has the highest Human Development Index (HDI) of any country in Africa – which measures life expectancy, education and living conditions. Like most politicians, al-Qaddafi is not a saint, but nothing justifies U.S. violence and murderous invasion. Demonizing Qaddafi: Al-Qaddafi has been demonised and characterised in racist terms by Western politicians and media. He was framed as a “terrorist” and attacked. In 1986, the U.S. attacked Libya with massive aerial bombings designed to assassinate al-Qaddafi. It was a classic act of state-sponsored terrorism that killed hundreds of innocent people, including al-Qaddafi’s infant daughter. The two-decade long U.S.- and Britain-sponsored sanctions devastated Libya’s economy.[1]. Qaddafi and the Arab regimes: In addition, al-Qaddafi is loathed by all the despotic Arab regimes, and their recent submission to U.S. dictates to recognise the violent anti-Libyan Government militia and support the U.S. war agenda against Libya is just a case in point. They believe that a war against Libya will divert public attention away from their own illegitimate and despotic regimes and provide cover for more brutality.[/b] http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62550.shtml |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 2:45pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
MORE US BACKED DICTATORS: KING FAHD BIN 'ABDUL - 'AZIZ King of Saudi Arabia King Fahd bin 'Abdul -'Aziz is the absolute monarch of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fahd and 2000 related royals rule with an iron grip of medieval feudalism. Control over the lives of their citizens is total and arbitrary. Torture is common, and amputation is frequently ordered by the courts. Women have few rights, and adultery by women is punished by death by stoning. Executions by hanging are public -- there were at least 60 such executions in 1994. The main opposition is from Sunni Islamists, and hundreds are in prison. Saudi Arabia is supported by the United States and other western democracies because of the enormous oil wealth that lies below the country's desert sands, its pro-West stance, and the royal family's staunch anti-fundamentalist position. The irony of American policy in Saudi Arabia is that the US, the world's most vocal advocate for democracy, supports one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world. [b]ADOLF HITLER Chancellor of Germany As German bombs fell on London and Nazi tanks rolled over US troops, Sosthenes Behn president and founder of the US based ITT corporation, met with his German representative to discuss improving German communication systems. ITT was designing and building Nazi phone and radio systems as well as supplying crucial parts for German bombs. Our government knew all about this, for under a presidential order, US companies were licensed to trade with the Nazis. The choice of who would be licensed was odd, though. While the Secretary of State gave the Ford Motor Company permission to make Nazi tanks, he simultaneously blocked aid to German-Jewish refugees because the US wasn't supposed to be trading with the enemy. Other US companies trading with the Third Reich were General Motors, DuPont, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Davis Oil Co., and the Chase National Bank. President Roosevelt did not stop them, fearing a scandal might lead to another stock market crash or lower US moral. Besides, the same companies that traded with Hitler were supplying the US with its armaments, and some corporate leaders threatened to withdraw their support if Roosevelt exposed them. Henry Ford was a good friend of Hitler's. His book -- The International Jew -- had Inspired Hltler's Mein Kampf. The Fuhrer kept Ford's picture in his office, and Ford was one of only four foreigners to receive Germany's highest civilian award. As for Sosthenes Behn, at the end of the war, he received the highest civilian award for service to his country -- the United States of America.[/b] GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET President of Chile Augusto Pinochet deposed democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1973, and buried Chile's 150 year old democracy. "Democracy is the breeding ground of communism", says Pinochet. The bloody coup, in which Allende was assassinated, [b][/b]was carefully managed by the CIA and ITT. Tens of thousands of Chileans have been tortured, killed, and exiled since then, according to Amnesty International. A U.S. congressional delegation was told by inmates at San Miguel Prison that they had been tortured by "the application of electric shock, simultaneous blows to the ears, cigarette burns, and simulated executions by firing squads." Despite Chile's bad human rights record, the U.S. government continued to support Pinochet with international loans. Even the state-sponsored car-bomb assassination of Chile's former Ambassador to the U.S., Orlando Letelier, did not convince the U.S. to break with Pinochet. In 1988 a plebiscite refused to extend Pinochet's rule, so he altered the constitution to reduce the powers of the incoming elected President, and left himself head of the armed forces. All the other South American dictators are gone but Pinochet has found the perfect solution: Chile now has the squeaky-clean sheen of democracy yet he still has his finger on the trigger.[/b] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 1:57pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
THE UNITED STATE'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH MURDEROUS DICTATORS AND HATRED FOR DEMOCRACY By Ghali Hassan. Axis of Logic. Axis of Logic exclusive Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 Introduction Millions of people around the world are overwhelmed and encouraged by the popular uprisings against U.S.-imposed dictatorship regimes in the Arab world. Yet what is lacking is any serious examination of the complicity of the U.S. government and its allies in supporting murderous regimes. Far from promoting stability and democracy, the U.S. is the source of instability and an enemy of democracy. To serve its imperialist interests, the U.S. government backed and financed murderous dictators around the world. From the fascist Augusto Pinochet in Chile to the criminal regime of François Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) in Haiti to the corrupt Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic to the murderous Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to the criminal Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) to Indonesia’s mass murderer Suharto to the vicious Shah Reza Behlavi in Iran. Today, the U.S. love affair with murderous dictators and oppressive regimes – including Colombia, the murderous regime in Iraq, King Abdullah of Jordan, the criminal regime of Zine Bin Ali in Tunisia, the oppressive and illegitimate despotic regimes in the oil-rich Gulf Sheikhdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, and Saudi Arabia), the torturous regime of Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the fascist regime in Israel – continues to be an open secret. By financing and arming murderous dictators and despots against their own people, [b][/b]the U.S. is able to strengthen its power, exert total domination and exploit vital resources at the expense of the local population. Any murderous regime – criminal, religious extremist or fascist – will do as long as it is not independent and is committed to serve U.S. imperialist interests. The relationship is a master and servant relationship. In order to receive U.S. backing and U.S. financing, a regime must be brutal, oppressive and prepared to use violence against its own population. In reality, the U.S. has a near total monopoly on supporting murderous dictators. The U.S. government love affair with murderous dictators is matched only by its hate for democracy and democratic principles. While the U.S. government publicly claims to promote democracy, development and human rights, in reality the U.S. government despises democracy, development and human rights. Democracy is only allowed if it serves U.S. imperialist interests. In countries throughout the world, the U.S. has worked to destabilise and undermine democratically-elected governments. Hence, the U.S. government is widely hated for its role by ordinary people struggling against dictatorial regimes, for democracy, freedom and equality.[/b] http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62550.shtml |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 1:27pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
MORE OF AMERICA'S FORMER BOSOM BUDDIES: MOBUTU SESE SEKO President of Zaire When Zaire's first elected President, Patrice Lumumba, appeared to be getting too close to socialism, US companies feared they might lose control of Zaire's precious cobalt, copper, and diamonds. So the CIA stepped in, assassinated Lumumba, and replaced him with Mobutu Sese Seko. Since 1965, Mobutu has been the US's main man in Central Africa. Mobutu has amassed an estimated $5 billion personal fortune at his nation's expense. He is perhaps the only world leader who could pay his national debt from his own bank account. In fact, there seems to be no division between his pocket and the national treasury. In 1974, when the US sent $1.4 million to assist troops fighting a civil war, Mobutu pocketed the entire sum. And no foreign company sets itself up in Zaire without a tribute to Mobutu. Although Zaire has more resources than most other countries in the region, it is the fifth poorest. Malnutrition takes the lives of one-third of Zaire's children, and one child out of two dies before age five. But Mobutu has vowed to keep the world safe for democracy and according to Amnesty International, in the name of anti-communism, he imprisons and tortures, often without trial, anyone who threatens his power base. While some members of Congress grumble about giving assistance to Mobutu, they continue to reward his work against communism and his warm reception of American corporations. GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA Chief of Defense Forces, Panama The US command post for covert Latin American operations is located in the Canal Zone where a series of figurehead presidents, some backed by General Manuel Noriega, had involved Panama in US intelligence operations. General Noriega became commander-in-chief of the National Guard in Panama in 1983, and for the next six years was more powerful than the President. He was the kind of ruthless leader the US favored in the rest of Central America. Noriega first met with then CIA Director George Bush in 1976, while Noriega was collecting $100 thousand a year as a CIA asset. Their friendly relationship persisted even after Noriega's drug dealing was revealed by a 1975 DEA investigation. During the Reagan era, Noriega collaborated with Oliver North on covert actions against Nicaragua, training contras and providing a transshipment point for CIA supported operations that flew weapons to the contras and cocaine into the US. But he fell foul of the US when he failed to support their plan to invade Nicaragua -- they withdrew aid and imposed sanctions. In 1987, a Miami grand jury indicted him for drug-trafficking, and the CIA tried to destabilize his regime. Noriega warned Bush that he had information which could change the course of the 1988 US elections and the CIA backed off. When Noriega annulled Panama's 1989 elections, citing CIA interference, Bush renewed attempts to unseat his one-time ally. Critics called Bush's failure to support an abortive 1989 coup "indecisive", but his response to that criticism, the December 1989 invasion of Panama, led to world condemnation. Noriega eventually surrendered to face US drug charges. The invasion of 26,000 American troops led to over 4,000 Panamanian deaths and installed a regime with similar close links to drugs, plus a willingness to alter Panama Canal treaties to serve US interests. Noriega was taken prisoner and stood trial in Miami on charges of drug trafficking and was sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment. He is still in a Florida jail contemplating the irony that he was once also the protégé of the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Meanwhile the legal office of the President the US installed in his place was discovered to have connections with 14 companies that had laundered drug money. MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLEVI Shah of Iran [/b]1953 was a busy year for Allen Dulles. Even as he readied the CIA for a coup in Guatemala, his agents were toppling the liberal left government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq and paving the way for the Shah of Iran. With Dulles' encouragement, the Shah made the Iranian people an offer they couldn't refuse -- join his party or go to jail. Thousands who refused to yield were imprisoned or murdered.[/b]During regional elections in 1954, the Shah's agents raided a religious school and hurled hundreds of students to their deaths from the roof. [b]His regime received 100% of the vote that year, in an election which registered more votes than there were voters. The Shah's subsequent solidification of power led to an iron fisted rule enforced by fear and torture. His secret police agency, SAVAK, was created in 1957 and managed by the CIA at all levels of daily operation, including the choice and organization of personnel, selection and operation of equipment, and the running of agents. SAVAK's torture methods included electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails. Iran under the Shah became a devoted US ally and a base for spy operations on the border of the Soviet Union. But eventually, the Shah was overthrown in 1978 by an indigenous people's revolution that held sway until fundamentalist religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile and reasserted his power during the 1979 US hostage crisis. [b]POL POT Commander of the Khmer Rouge The bombing of Cambodia by the US from 1969 to 1972, left 600,000 civilians dead, millions of refugees, tens-of-thousands dying from disease and starvation, and the Cambodian economy and culture in ruins. Cambodians blamed the US and the puppet regime of Lon Nol for the country's destruction, and gradually sided with the guerrilla army of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, which finally defeated Lon Nol, and took power in April, 1975. Once in power, Pol Pot emptied the cities, forcing the people into the countryside. Virtually all educated people were killed and more than 1.5 million people perished in this "holocaust". Only when the Khmer Rouge was ousted by Vietnam in 1979, did the terror stop. Washington took steps to preserve the Khmer Rouge as a counter force to the Vietnamese. International relief agencies were pressured by the US to provide food and humanitarian assistance to the Khmer Rouge, which had fled to Thailand, and the US sent military aid as well. In 1982, in an effort to isolate the Vietnamese, the US forced together the three contending anti-Vietnamese groups, insisting that the Khmer Rouge be part of the negotiations. Cambodia continues to suffer from the devastation produced by both the US bombing and the Khmer Rouge atrocities. Pol Pot is considered to still be the power behind the Khmer Rouge, which has a strong presence in Cambodia today, thanks to the US.[/b] |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 1:10pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
AMERICA'S SUPPORT FOR THE WORLD'S WORST DICTATORS (compiled in the 1990s) : P.W. BOTHA President of South Africa During P.W. Botha's first term as President, the former Secretary of Defense altered the structure of government, giving the military and police unprecedented power. To justify this, he pointed to increasingly vocal discontent among South Africa's disenfranchised blacks, the large number of black states In Africa, and a so-called "growing Marxist" threat in the region. South Africa, he said, was engaged in a "total war' and must develop a "total strategy" to fight the battle. South Africa's apartheid regime was quietly supported by the US government, despite a UN boycott and Congressional efforts to reduce US investment there, Ronald Reagan significantly increased military expenditures in the country. But few Americans realized that Botha's total strategy against blacks had turned his nation into a ruthless aggressor. When Portugal withdrew from its colonies in Mozambique and Angola, Botha, claiming he wanted to strengthen capitalism on the continent, financed the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR) against the country's popular government. [/b]The MNR, who receive direct training from South Africa, cut off the ears, noses, and limbs of civilians. After killing their parents and raping young women in front of 10 year old boys, they recruited these boys to fight. [/b]In 1989, P.W. Botha suffered a stroke and later resigned. [b]In early 1990 his successor, F.W. De Klerk, watching as international sanctions ruined S. Africa's economy, legalized political opposition parties and freed several important black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela who had been imprisoned for 27 years for political activities against apartheid. Apartheid finally fell when Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa. CHIANG KAI-SHEK President of Taiwan The Chinese civil war pitted Mao Tse-Tung's Communists against Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalists. The US-backed Chiang, but when he couldn't do the job they also supported Japanese troops fighting the Communists, even before WWll had ended. Hated for his wanton cruelty, corruption, and decadence, Chiang did not enjoy the support of the Chinese people; entire divisions of the Nationalist army defected and fled to the island of Formosa (Taiwan). A presidential commission appointed by Harry Truman reported after Chiang's arrival there that his forces "ruthlessly, corruptly, and avariciously imposed their regime on the population. Under Nationalist rule, 85% of the population was disenfranchised, but the onset of the Korean War and the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era led the US to declare that the tiny island represented the real government of China. The US was crucial in keeping mainland China out of the UN until 1971. Chiang gave the World Anti-Communist League (an international organization with links to Nazis, drug smugglers, and the CIA) its first home, permitting WACL members to use a military academy there to train troops for Latin American military coups. President Carter tried to cut US ties to WACL, but Ronald Reagan received campaign funds from the group, and WACL became involved with training and supplying contras in Argentina and Taiwan. Chiang Kai-Shek died in 1975, but many of his policies continue in Taiwan. [b]GENERAL SAMUEL DOE President of Liberia Samuel Doe came to power in a bloody 1980 coup, a Master Sergeant in military gear. Today, he is a self-made General in a suit, living on US aid and corporate kickbacks. But while Doe and his cronies live in luxury, the rest of Liberia dwells in squalor. Under his regime, the gross domestic product has decreased by 13%, the country's health statistics are among the world's worst, 80% of the population is illiterate, all opposition parties but one were forbidden to participate in the 1985 national elections, and those who protest these inequities are jailed or killed. Doe, a pro-American anti-communist, received $500 million in U.S. aid between 1980 and 1985. When Congress threatened to cut off funds because of Liberia's human rights abuses, Doe requested "American financial advice" as a show of good will. The U.S. sent 17 accountants, bank examiners, and economists to help Doe balance his budget, but they realized a difficult task lay ahead when they learned that Doe had purchased over sixty $60,000 Mercedes Benz cars for his government ministers and had given the Liberian soccer team $1 million for winning a match against rival Ghana. Ultimately Doe refused to allow access to records concerning 40% of Liberia's funds, for this "second budget", revenues from gasoline and lodging taxes, goes directly into the President's bank account. The American advisors returned home in 1989, mission not accomplished, and Samuel Doe remains in office, despite early 1990 rumblings of rebel plots against him.[/b] HALIE SELASSIE Emperor of Ethiopla Emperor Halie Selassie may have been a better king to the animals of Ethiopia than to its people. In 1973, during the height of a drought in which 200,000 Ethiopians died of starvation, Salassie fed beef to his Great Danes. Selassie was a fairer ruler than many of those around him. For example, as a young provincial governor, he only took 50% of his peasants crops while other governors were taking 90%, and in the 1950s as few as 100 political prisoners were tortured in his jails at one time. But, under his long rule, Ethiopia remained in the dark ages. Just after his overthrow in 1974, the annual per capita income was $90, the literacy rate was 7% and Ethiopia was the poorest nation in Africa. Under Selassie, Ethiopia received more US aid than any other African country and Washington purchased a $2 million yacht for the Emperor. When Selassie faced an uprising in the province of Eritrea, the US sent advisors and arms to help him smash the revolt. In return for our support, Selassie provided the United States with a naval oasis in the Red Sea and a place for a strategic communications station. [/b]Selassie's kindness to his animals was his downfall; he was overthrown when photos of him feeding his dogs during the 1973 famine were circulated among his outraged troops. IAN SMITH Prime Minister of Rhodesia [b]lan Smith promised the whites who elected him Prime Minister of Rhodesia in 1982 that he would keep Rhodesia white, at any cost. To stop the black guerrilla fighters trying to overthrow his regime, Smith rationed food for Africans whom he believed were feeding the guerrillas. This cruel measure only served to starve the already undernourished black population. Studies found that over 90% of Rhodesia's black children were malnourished and nutritional deficiencies were the major cause of infant death. Smith rounded up blacks into concentration camps he called "protective" villages. Believing that ignorant people were less likely to revolt, he cut funding for black education, spending $5 on each black child compared to $80 on each white child. His all white Parliament passed a law protecting officials who took actions for the suppression of "terrorism", enabling the police and military to commit atrocities. An international trade boycott against Rhodesia arose, but while the US publicly condemned the government, it continued to do business there. In 1971, President Nixon lifted the chrome embargo against Rhodesia at a time when there was a surplus of chrome in the US. Blacks were eventually given the right to vote for some officials, but the opposition to Smith's government grew so strong that he was ultimately forced to give up some power to blacks. In 1979, Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, a country primarily ruled by blacks. [b]GENERAL SUHARTO President of Indonesia Indonesia is a totalitarian state and its uncontested ruler for over 20 years, General Suharto, is one of the most brutal dictators in history. After a CIA organized coup brought him to power in 1965, Suharto, decided to purge every communist subversive from Indonesian soil. General Nasution, a close associate of Suharto, called for the extermination of three million Indonesian communist party members, and with the CIA supervised the murderous purge. Paratroopers would arrive in a region with a list of "subversives" and provide it to local vigilante groups. Using machetes and other crude weapons, the vigilantes would hack the alleged subversives to death. Entire populations of towns and villages were herded to central locations and massacred. Children would be asked to identify communists who would then be executed on the spot. In addition to the half million people who were killed outright after the coup, another 750,000 were arrested and tortured. Ultimately, one million people died in one of the most savage mass slaughters of modern political history. The US continues to this day to train and arm the Indonesian military with the latest high-tech equipment. (Suharto resigned in 1999 after mass public protest)[/b] [b]RAFAEL LEONIDAS TRUJILLO President of the Dominican Republic The US occupied the Dominican Republic in 1916 and created the National Guard to put Rafael Leonidas Trujillo into power. The fact that Trujillo was court-martialed for kidnapping and rape in 1920 did not impede his rise to power or taint his relationship with the US. As dictator of the Dominican Republic for 30 years, Trujillo had a penchant for self-adulation, and put his personal stamp on everything, including the capital, village water pumps, and homes for the aged. Trujillo won the 1930 presidential election with more votes than there were registered voters, but because he was anti-communist, Washington was happy. He invoked anti-communism to justify mass deportations, torture and summary executions. Workers who asked for wage increases were labeled communists, and shot on the spot, as were farmers who tried to stop Trujillo from confiscating their land. He eventually controlled over 80% of the country's sugar plantations, using slave labor provided by neighboring Haiti to keep profits high. In 1937, he decided to blame depressed sugar prices on the Haitian workers, and massacred 20,000 them. Trujillo was finally assassinated by the CIA in 1961 after he attempted to have President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela murdered because of his criticism of Trujillo's brutal regime. It was only then that the Marine Corps made public the fact that our ally Trujillo was a convicted ra.pi.st.[/b] |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 12:46pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
US SPONSORED DICTATORS CONTINUED (list compiled in 1995): GENERAL SANI ABACHA President of Nigeria General Sani Abacha is a corrupt and repressive dictator in the oil-rich country of Nigeria. Supported by oil wealth, Abacha has tried to cover his repression under a mantle of democracy by allowing fraudulent elections which only serve to guarantee his continued control. During elections in 1994, Chief Moshood Abiola, considered to be the likely winner, was arrested and placed in prison before the rigged results were announced; Abacha retained control. More than 100 government executions occurred in 1994, and numerous pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by police. Shell Oil provides most of the country's wealth by extracting oil from the Ogoniland region, while in the process causing severe environmental destruction and devastating the local economy. More than 700 Ogoni environmentalists protesting the destruction of their way of life, were executed in recent years. The greatest travesty occurred in November 1995, when environmental leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 associates, were hanged despite an international outcry. Shell supported Abacha's policies by its silence. Despite an outcry that Nigerian oil be boycotted, the US government refused to do so. IDI AMIN General of Uganda Amin was one of the most notorious of Africa's post-independence dictators. A former heavyweight boxing champion in Uganda and a non-commissioned officer in the British Army there, Amin caught the attention of his superiors because of his efficient management of concentration camps in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s, where he earned the title of "The Strangler". Because of his loyalty to Britain and his strongly anti-communist stance, Amin was picked by the British to replace the elected Ugandan government in a 1971 coup. While in power, he earned a reputation as a "clown" in some circles in the West, [b]but he was no joke at home. Amin brutalized his people with British and US military aid and with Israeli and CIA training of his troops. The body count of his friends, the clergy, soldiers, and ordinary Ugandans rose daily, but the West ignored his cruelty. As he continued to demand more aid and sophisticated weapons, he finally lost support. In 1979, his quest for more power lead him to invade Tanzania. In retaliation, he was overthrown by an invading Tanzanian / Ugandan army. Amin fled to Saudi Arabia, where he now lives a quiet life in a modest villa outside Jeddah, looking after his goats and chickens and cultivating his vegetable garden. Traditional Arab garb has replaced the bemedalled Field Marshal's uniform of his heyday. COLONEL HUGO BANZER President of Bolivia In 1970, in Bolivia, when then-President Juan Jose Torres nationalized Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by US interests, and tried to establish friendly relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union, he was playing with fire. The coup to overthrow Torres, led by US-trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary Hugo Banzer, had direct support from Washington. When Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications, US Air Force radio was placed at their disposal. Once in power, Banzer began a reign of terror. Schools were shut down as hotbeds of political subversive activity. Within two years, 2,000 people were arrested and tortured without trial. As in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, the native Indians were ordered off their land and deprived of tribal identity. Tens-of-thousands of white South Africans were enticed to immigrate with promises of the land stolen from the Indians, with a goal of creating a white Bolivia. When Catholic clergy tried to aid the Indians, the regime, with CIA help, launched terrorist attacks against them, and this "Banzer Plan" became a model for similar anti-Catholic actions throughout Latin America. FULGENCIO BATISTA President of Cuba Cuban Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista first seized power in a 1932 coup. He was President Roosevelt's handpicked dictator to counteract leftists who had overthrown strongman Cerardo Machado. Batista ruled or several years, then left for Miami, returning in 1952 just in time for another coup, against elected president Carlos Prio Socorras. His new regime was quickly recognized by President Eisenhower. Under Batista, U.S. interests flourished and little was said about democracy. With the loyal support of Batista, Mafioso boss Meyer Lansky developed Havana into an international drug port. Cabinet offices were bought and sold and military officials made huge sums on smuggling and vice rackets. Havana became a fashionable hot spot where America's rich and famous drank and gambled with mobsters. As the gap between the rich and poor grew wider, the poor grew impatient. In 1953, Fidel Castro led an armed group of rebels in a failed uprising on the Moncada army barracks. Castro temporarily fled the country and Batista struck back with a vengeance. Freedom of speech was curtailed and subversive teachers, lawyers and public officials were fired from their jobs. Death squads tortured and killed thousands of "communists". Batista was assisted in his crackdown by Lansky and other members of organized crime who believed Castro would jeopardize their gambling and drug trade. Despite this, Batista remained a friend to Eisenhower and the US until he was finally overthrown by Castro in 1959. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Dictators/Friendly_Dictators.html |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 12:35pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
here is a chart listing all the US backed military dictatorships (scroll down to see it) -it shows the amount of debt owed at the start of their dictatorship and the amount owed to the IMF by the end: http://www.blissful-wisdom.com/imf-and-us-sponsored-dictatorships.html |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 12:17pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
A History of Friendly Dictators by Dennis Bernstein and Laura Sydell from Eclipse Enterprises trading card series, 1995 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html These dictatorships "are democratic America's undemocratic allies. They may rise to power through bloody ClA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other US agencies. US military aid and weapons sales often strengthen their armies and guarantee their hold on power". http://www.blissful-wisdom.com/imf-and-us-sponsored-dictatorships.html Friendly dictators as of 1995: Abacha, General Sani ----------------------------Nigeria Amin, Idi ------------------------------------------Uganda Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal ----------------------------Brunei Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti Duvalier, Jean Claude-----------------------------Haiti Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King ---------------------Saudi Arabia Franco, General Francisco -----------------------Spain Hitler, Adolf ---------------------------------------Germany Hassan II-------------------------------------------Morocco Marcos, Ferdinand -------------------------------Philippines Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez ---El Salvador Mobutu Sese Seko -------------------------------Zaire Noriega, General Manuel ------------------------Panama Ozal, Turgut --------------------------------------Turkey Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza ---------------Iran Papadopoulos, George --------------------------Greece Park Chung Hee ---------------------------------South Korea Pinochet, General Augusto ---------------------Chile Pol Pot---------------------------------------------Cambodia Rabuka, General Sitiveni ------------------------Fiji Montt, General Efrain Rios ---------------------Guatemala Saddam Hussein ------------------------------------Iraq http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/04/10/Exclusive-Saddam-key-in-early-CIA-plot/UPI-65571050017416/ Salassie, Halie ------------------------------------Ethiopia Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira --------------------Portugal Somoza, Anastasio Jr. --------------------------Nicaragua Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -------------------------Nicaragua Smith, Ian ----------------------------------------Rhodesia Stroessner, Alfredo -----------------------------Paraguay Suharto, General ---------------------------------Indonesia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igp9g-AlQ_g&feature=related Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -----------------------Dominican Republic Videla, General Jorge Rafael ------------------Argentina Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed ----------------------Pakistan |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 12:10pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
DICTATORSHIPS WHICH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND HAS SUPPLIED MEGABILLION DOLLAR LOANS TO: Countries that were, or are, under a Military dictatorship whilst being members of the IMF/World Bank have incurred megabillion dollar debts, leaving the country facing anywhere from 15 to 95 times more debt compared to debts prior to IMF support. Here is a two minute, cartoon explanation narrated by John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney, Had No Congressional Oversight http://www.alternet.org/rights/131153/seymour_hersh:_"executive_assassination_ring"_answered_to_cheney,_had_no_congressional_oversight/?page=entire [b]According to John Perkins, former IMF Economic Hit-man; leaders of 'non-member' and 'member' IMF nations, who neither need the IMF loans nor desire to accede to World Bank terms, are first economically coerced, then threatened or assassinated, and if that doesn't work, are replaced through US covert, instigated revolution or outright 'military intervention'. Remember Vice President Dick Cheney set up the covert 'assassination ring', where US Seals were commanded to assassinate specific foreign executives. At the time dictatorships agree to accept huge IMF loans, they are bound by certain trade conditions. They must agree to these specific conditions or face economic coercion and/or military intervention by NATO and/or US forces. It is these specific trade conditions which leave the country beholding to World Bank and World Trade Organization policies - policies which bring the country economically to its knees. Local working citizens are then faced with underpriced, imported goods flooding their marketplace. Former local manufacturing and farming industries are replaced with a handful of corporate enterprises. Local citizens soon face increasing taxation where none existed before. Thus, while corporate profits leave the country, hundreds of thousands of locals are left unemployed and exploited.[/b] http://www.blissful-wisdom.com/imf-and-us-sponsored-dictatorships.html |
| Politics › Re: The World's Infamous Dictators… And How They Met Their Violent Ends by cap28: 12:01pm On Oct 22, 2011 |
A LIST COMPILED BY AN AMERICAN CITIZEN IN 2003 OF US SPONSORED DICTATORS WORLDWIDE ALONG WITH THE ATROCITIES THEY COMMITTED: US-sponsored Murderous Dictatorships:http://www.tomveatch.com/dictatorships.html |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Obama Sends 100 Military Advisers Against Kony's Rebels In Uganda by cap28: 11:24pm On Oct 21, 2011 |
BlackLibya:i know bro, the first time i watched it i reacted similarly. dont worry many of us are waking up, we are not going to let these europeans and these paid house negroes use us for target practice anymore. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 10:30pm On Oct 21, 2011 |
Sagamite:chimp - not only are you ugly you are also not very bright - I just explained to you in plain english that the Honorable brother leader Muammar al Qadaffi transformed Libya from one of the world's poorest nations to a nation with the highest standard of living on the african continent and somehow you still managed to miss that very glaring acheivement and ask me what he acheived for the libyan people - i dont blame you - you are not fully human therefore your level of comprehension is still at a very rudimentary stage. Oh did i mention that Libya was also under economic sanctions from the west for 12 years and yet the Honorable Brother leader was still able to provide all of his citizens with free education, free healthcare and free housing - something your own country has never been able to acheive. you say there's no big deal about using black oil to develop a nation - why hasnt your own nation done the same thing ? Libya was such a prosperous nation that many africans (many of whom were nigerians) emigrated there to escape the grim poverty of their own countries the man made river project was definitely not a "glory project" it was a sophisticated water supply system which not only served as a regular source of drinking water to the libyan people but it also doubled as a hi tech irrigation system which enabled libyans to irrigate their land and grow their own crops freeing them from their previous dependency on food imports from western nations. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 8:15pm On Oct 21, 2011 |
Sagamite:Mutant chimp can you in your wildest dreams achieve one zillionth of what gadaffi achieved - dont forget that he led a nation at the age of 27 and transformed it from being one of the poorest in the world to one whose human development index as at january 2011 was higher than saudi arabia, brazil, czech republic and all of the countries of africa - a man who master minded the building of the great man made river which currently supplies drinking water to the entire nation of libya as well as neighbouring tunisia and egypt despite the fact that libya is located in an arid region. a man who donated 400 million dollars towards the purchase of a satellite for africa which enabled african nations buy their own satellite and stop having to rent from the europeans at the cost of $500 million a year - this is the man that an ugly mutant like yourself has the temerity to mock - i can only look upon that your ugly mug and laugh with derision as you are not worthy of my anger. chimp, when your superiors are discussing know your place and only speak until you have been spoken to - its not that difficult, leave the grown up talk to your superiors and stick to your usual chimp like utterances of "cretin" and "moroon" - capisce?. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 3:25pm On Oct 21, 2011 |
buzugee:europeans dont care about europeans and yet they provide jobs, free public school education (in the UK) up to secondary level, subisidise agriculture in order to ensure food is cheap, utilise govt funds to build and maintain roads, houses and schools provide heavily subsidised govt housing for low income earners (in the UK), subsidised healthcare (in the UK) subsidised transport services (in the UK) unemployment benefits and child care allowances for couples or single parents and you have the nerve to say euroopeans do not care about europeans - but when it comes to you an african country they (the western financial institutions and govts) advise you to cut spending on education, healthcare, cut jobs, create mass unemployment and misery in other words they advise you to leave your own people to wallow in poverty while they provide for their own. they are happy to take your cheap oil and buy up vast tracts of your land for a pittance but the minute you attempt to provide for your own people you become public enemy no 1 because as far as they are concerned africans do not deserve to live like their counterparts in europe and america. for your information europeans work as a united front to ensure that they remain at the top of the totem pole of power - thats why they are running the world - they work as one unit - dont you see how they came together and ganged up on libya - 40 european nations against one african nation - do you think the igbos, yorubas and hausa are capable of uniting to face down a common enemy? the truth is the europeans created a world order which would ensure that they always remained at the top of the totem pole - its only now that there is currently an ongoing challenge to their world hegemoney which is coming from china and that is why they are provoking all these wars in resource rich areas - the objective being to force china to abandon their investments in africa. contrary to your view that reliance on others equates to victimhood and neediness most people recognise that the strength of a people comes from interdependent relationships - NATO is powerful today because it is united not divided - this is a very important point that you have failed to understand |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 11:41am On Oct 21, 2011 |
Sagamite:Mutant Chimp have you considered increasing your daily dose of anti depressants? I think it will help reduce the waves of despair that overwhelm you each time you look in the mirror  |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 11:35am On Oct 21, 2011 |
eaxes:So true bro, but i must say that nigerians are among the most foolish, many other africans seem to be well aware of the agenda of the west - if you speak to ghanaians, south africans, ugandans and people from the ivory coast they are very clued up but when you speak to nigerians the level of ignorance is mind blowing - consider the fact that most of the fools that have been rejoicing over gadaffi's death do not even understand that this whole saga has never been about democracy but only about european/american hegemony and control over natural resources, many of the fools on here know absolutely nothing about world issues having spent years in some backwater colleges learning how to be meek slaves - no wonder religion is big business in nigeria - these fools are so s.tupid that even if the truth is staring them in the face they still dont get it. the irony of the whole thing is that these same fools turn around and wonder why no one respects them - every where you go in the world as an african you are disrespected, african americans and people from the carribean dont even want to be identified as african because of how africans and particularly nigerians have continued to allow themselves to be exploited, fooled and dominated by europe and america. dont you see how the fools re-elected a known theif and then were shocked when he rewarded them by carrying on with his looting of the country with his cronies even if gadaffi's wife is worth 10 quadrillion dollars it does not matter - why? because her late husband provided the masses of libya with a standard of living that the average nigerian in nigeria can only dream of. I say to those fools posting fake stories about gadaffi's wife - what have your own leaders done for you? did you enjoy free education up to university level, did you receive a monthly unemployment benefit from the govt? do you eat three square meals a day? are you living in a rent free accommodation? stupid fools - there is more suffering and smiling to come, just wait. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 9:35am On Oct 21, 2011 |
lee007:you are already condemned to die in a place which is even worse than a zoo - the banana republic aka nigeria where 70% of the population live on the equivalent of $1a day despite the country's vast oil wealth, the funny thing about people like you is that you actually think you live in a democracy simply because every 4 years those criminals allow you to vote in another set of criminals to make your life a living hell- no wonder most people look down on africans -most of you i.diots are so foolish it beggars belief. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 1:40am On Oct 21, 2011 |
MarcAnthon:f.uck off , do i care what you think of my "preoccupation with cesspit" - get ready for africom - they need your resources but they dont need you because you are in the way - get that through your thick skull |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 1:16am On Oct 21, 2011 |
emmatok:Look at your cess pit of a country where indians, lebanese and chinese people treat you like slaves on your own soil - are you not ashamed? your govt colludes with foreigners and sells off all its utilities at bargain basement prices while the rest of you are left to live like vermin in filthy slums - why couldnt the nigerian govt provide one quarter of what gadaffi provided for his people - no jobs, no electricity, no hope, no future - just a bleak future of despair and misery - thats all you have to look forward to - but dont let me stop you from enjoying your democracy - continue to kiss the feet of those bas.tards that sold your birthright to europeans and americans, continue to praise them and thank them for keeping you on the IMF and World bank plantation - foolish i.diots. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 1:06am On Oct 21, 2011 |
youngarm:You are a prize fool - if gadaffi is a mass murderer what does that make NATO who have killed over 50,000 people in libya by dropping depleted uranium on them? Dumb animals liek you deserve to rot and die of starvation in that cess pit you call nigeria, i pray that you starve to death once the fuel subsidy has been removed - may you never find the money to feed yourself and your family when the price of food stuffs goes through the roof you fool. why dont you ask yourself why Nato stands by and watches blacks being beheaded by the NTC or is that too much of an effort for your brain? you love china eh - why not move there - most of their people live like animals condemned to a life of near slavery with no freedom of speech and in constant fear - why hasnt the US invaded to free the oppressed masses of china? You try and carry guns against the nigerian govt and lets see whether your beloved nato will raise a finger to help you - YOU ARE CONDEMNED TO DIE IN GRIM POVERTY UNDER THE HEEL OF NATO, THE IMF , THE WORLD BANK AND THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS WHO OWN YOUR LEADERS!! SO PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!!! |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 12:35am On Oct 21, 2011 |
duduspace:I can see that you are very very naive about world affairs - did you not know that the US and britain triggered the genocide of the tutsis - Paul Kagame a CIA asset and current president of Rwanda shot down a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Habayarima who was a hutu -knowing full well that this would lead to revenge attacks on his own people - but he did it anyway under instructions from the US and britain in fact a french court even found him guilty of causing the genocide of his own people in collaboration withe britain and the US. Goodluck Jonathan was allowed to win the presidential elections as long as he supported the libyan and ivory coast invasions which he did dutifully. Have you read Japan's history - clearly you havent? The Japanese are an intelligent race of people who were smart enough to never allow themselves to be colonised or enslaved - they drove out the christian missionaries from their country and retained their culture, religion and language as a result they are not plagued by the same inferiority complex and slave mentality that many africans sufffer from to date. Infact Japan's success as a nation is more to do with their intelligence, unity, self pride and spirit of resilience which unfortunately africa lacks due to over 5 centuries of slavery, colonialism and neo colonialism. The europeans are so frightened of them that after the second world war they were banned from being allowed to have a standing army. the libyan people are now firmly in the grip of NATO, the IMF, the world Bank and the international banking cartel - you really think Nato spent billions of tax payers money for the fun of it? dont you think they will want a return on their investment? |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 11:08pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Sagamite:Your trainer has done a good job teacing you how to do things that we humans do without thinking about it - tell me mutant chimp - how long did it take you to learn how to use a computer and a mobile phone |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 10:58pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Quote from: duduspace on Today at 08:35:13 PMWhen i hear africans speak like this it makes me cringe with embarrassment - ever heard of the slave trade? ever heard of colonialism? ever heard of neo colonialism - the IMF, world bank? No? well all of the above are the reasons that western powers are running the world today - okay? not the fairy stories that you seem to be wrapped up in. and your analogy of the west being an "elder brother" to africa would be laughable if it werent so tragic - i thought elder brothers look out for the well being of their younger siblings - tell me do you call enslavement of millions of people a "brotherly" gesture? how about the financing of war, coup detats, the propping up of dictators all over the world, the dropping of depleted uranium, white phosphorous, nerve gas and napalm on unarmed men women and children is that the kind of thing an elder brother does to protect the interest of his younger sibling? I said and continue to repeat that this people are not perfect and are probably more selfish than us individually but you continue to not pay attention to that part of what I'm saying, you can only focus on a perceived agenda that this is all about exploitation and I do concur that there is a lot that past generations of the west need to answer for.ever heard of jim crow? ever heard of red lining, ever heard of COINTELPRO? something tells me your answer is likely to be no. If Ghadaffi did not turn guns on his own people, there would be no UN resolutions, everyany evidence to prove gadaffi ever gunned down his own people? if yes, kindly post it here on NL for the world to see, as that would mean you know something the entire western corporate media doesnt, dont know if you know this but the US has access to satellite systems which track the movement of air traffic - dont you find it odd that they didnt produce one shred of evidence in the form of satellite pictures as evidence? Like I pointed out to Roland, why didn't they go after Nelson Mandela, Mbeki or even Zuma? why aren't they going after any leader who is well known to have the support of his people? Whenever any ruler turns guns on their own people for crying out against injustice, I am comfortable with any means by which they are toppled. Such is the case of Ghadaffi.why would they go after Mandela when he had already done a deal with them and had agreed that whites would retain control over south africa's economy while a few blacks would be given political positions? Let me let you in on a little secret - south africa is still run and controlled by whites not blacks, the likes of zuma and co are mere front men - thats why zuma voted in favour of the no fly zone over libya. The world is not perfect, has never been and I doubt will be in my life time, even if you know he is doing wrong you would think twice about attacking someone with a nuclear bomb, you basically just hope and pray that level of power is attained with a certain level of responsibility. He can end up destroying the world and yu've got to live with that, its simple self preservation and common sense.but the US did not think twice about dropping two atomic bombs on japan even after it had surrendered. The uprising in Bahrain was either not as popular as in Libya or the people there did not hold out as long. If the UN didn't intervene in Benghazi the death toll was starting to stack up badly and those people were suffering, I don't think I'd appreciate any Nation who had the power to do something but chose to stand back at that point just because their predecessors had made mistakes in the past, the body stack is mounting again in Syria and if they finally get a UN resolution passed and go in, the same uproar about western intervention will start but do you know for how long Assad has been killing his people now?Thats weird the bodies were stacking up very quickly in rwanda and i dont remember america lifting a finger to help anyone in that country do you? I also dont recall the UN mentioning about intervening in DRC where the body count to date is 6 million dead and counting - why is that ? with regard to Bahrain again no intervention - why? infact not only has there not been any intervention in the case of bahrain - the saudi police have even been drafted in to KILL even more of the protesters but america remains strangely silent - why? talking about bloodbaths in benghazi - have you seen all the videos of black libyans and black immigrants being beheaded like animals by the NTC? how come the western media has remained silent about this ? these beheadings have been takign place way before NATO even started dropping bombs on libya - why is the west silent about these killings? After the US's image took a battering with their unilateral action in Iraq, I don't think any country will intervene in another country now without a UN resolution and that is what has delayed action in Syria. The Russians and the Chinese do not care about life all they are interested in is the money so they will continue to oppose the US and Europe just cause they want to gain some relevance in international affairs while the body count continues to stack up.the US image took a battering - you must be a comedian? you need to watch a video in which a US general tells the world how the US govt had planned since the late 90s to take down 7 countries in less than 5 years - libya was no 2 on the list after iraq - it was all premeditated - so you think the US's intervention in libya and iraq had nothing to do with money - you must be on another planet - libya has the largest oil reserves in the whole of africa, its oil and banking system is not run or controlled by western interests, it has a multimillion underground man made river which western multinationals cant wait to privatise - the list goes on - you dont know the half of it. talking of body counts - what do you say about an entire town of black libyans which was wiped off the face of the earth for being pro gadaffi - a town of 30,000 people - what do you say about that? If Abacha had become a problem in Nigeria and we took up arms against him, I would have welcomed anyone who chose to stand with Nigerians at that point in time even if it were the devil himself who came from the pit of hell to help.No western power will ever come to defend any group of nigerians who seek to overthrow the nigerian govt - you know why? because the nigerian govt are western stooges who have already sold nigeria to the IMF and the world bank - remember biafra? why didnt the west save the biafrans from the northerners - didnt they sit back and watch 3 million igbos die of starvation after being blockaded by the nigerian army? Didnt they sit and watch while obasanjo terrorised the people of the niger delta, odi and gbamaratu, you really think these europeans give a damn about you? you really think they want the best for you? hahahahaha - how naive of you. Until the despots of the developing world start to recognize that their people also have fundamental human rights to self determination, I say ride on to the "West" as you call them. The day they go after a Democratically elected government with the support of its people, my opinion will change and then we can have a different discussion about what they are doing wrong.the despots of the developing world as you call them were all put in office by the west lets take a look at them: paul kagame of rwanda - butcher and CIA asset Museveni of uganda - butcher and CIA asset campaore of burkina faso - butcher and Sarkozy puppet biya of cameroun - butcher and Sarkozy puppet Ouattara of Ivory coast - butcher and Sarkozy puppet Bongo of Gabon - Sarkozy puppet Africa has been bought paid for and sold to the western powers, the only african nations that remained free of western control were libya and zimbabwe - libya has now been taken down - its just zimbabwe left now, |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 9:34pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Sagamite:bro the only good thing about your face is that you could easily audition for a part in star trek without needing any make up - that forehead man, that forehead IS HUUUUUUUUGE one thing that puzzles me though is you were ranting on another forum about how ugly alex wek is but mate have you tried picking up a mirror ? i mean i could understand if you were good looking but you really are hideous - you've got the kind of face only a mother could love by the way how's the hunt for a girlfriend going |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 9:15pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Sagamite:Jeez you've got one hell of a hideous face mate -no wonder you're so damn angry at the world, if i looked like that i'd be just as crazy as you - can i ask you a personal question are you part mutant part chimp? Im really intrigued by the fact that i failed to figure out that your demented ranting was down to the fact that you are not one of us. wow - a real life mutant with a forehead the size of an over ripe melon - who would have guessed |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 9:07pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Horus:I didnt realise chimps have also learn how to take pictures of themselves using mobile phones - wonders shall never end!! |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 9:04pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Horus:Yikes !!! it could give the hunch back of notre dam a run for his money - no wonder its so miserable and lonely - boy that forehead alone - i can understand why it prefers to take pictures in the dark |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Have Libyans Made A Huge Mistake By Removing Gaddafi? by cap28: 7:56pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Sagamite:Listen very carefully you ugly chimp faced, half wit, in a million years you and your entire lineage of ugly god forsaken chimpfaced bastar.ds will never achieve one zillionth of what brother leader Muammar Al Qadaffi acheived in his lifetime, you are a lonely parasitic half wit who is too weak and cowardly to have a life, you therefore spend your entire life on a computer gettnig into e fights (because those are the only kind of fights you will ever be capable of getting into without being beaten to a bloody pulp) you do this in order to release all that pent up frustration of living a lonely, sex free life It must be hell being you as you have been condemned to a miserable, pathetic existence as a tragic internet warrior. remember i told you on one post once that you and your family of bast.ards are not fit to eat Qadaffi's sh.it - my feelings remain the same on that issue. |
| Foreign Affairs › No Substantial Evidence That Gadaffi Is Dead by cap28(op): 7:42pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Mainstream Media: "Gaddafi Captured" - "Gaddafi Dead"; But Yet Again No Proof Provided Posted: 2011/10/20 From: Mathaba This man brought justice and freedom to Libya. He fought against the West his whole life. He is not a coward "hiding in a hole" HeyU Quality Ads By MKERone Be careful with the information provided by mainstream media! They are claiming that Muammar Gaddafi has been captured, others "confirm" he was very badly injured and died. Al Jazeera, after the massive credibility loss it suffered when the fake Green Square footage they broadcast internationaly was exposed, seems to be cautious in its latest article and relays the information they claim to have received from Libya, without giving any confirmation. They even add: "NATO and the US state department said it cannot confirm any reports. Meanwhile in Benghazi, crowds gathered in the streets to start celebrating the reports of Gaddafi’s death." Al Arabiya, also known from its pro-NTC and pro-NATO views and for spreading falsified and/or fake reports, seems to confirm Gaddafi's dead, as if they themselves saw Brother Leader captured and dead. They even say that Gaddafi was found hiding on a hole and begging the rebels not to shoot him. This clearly reminds us of Saddam Hussein. He was alledgedly also hiding in a hole. This is totally false and is aimed at undermining Gaddafi's revolutionary image! They want people to be disappointed by this coward attitude and to reject any feeling they had for him, feel betrayed, and shift their minds. Can you picture Gaddafi hidding in a hole? I personally can't! This man brought justice and freedom to Libya. He fought against the West his whole life! He is not a coward. Look at him in this video going around Tripoli in an open air car without security, during April, while NATO was bombing the city day and night, without fear. On the other hand I would not be surprised to learn that in such a war situation Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama would hide in a hole and beg for their cowardly and valueless lifes and even pee in their pants! But not the Revolutionary Brother Leader Gaddafi! All those allegations are based on a picture… That can be, as it previously happened, a FAKE. And on AbdelHakim Belhadj confirmation… can anyone trust him? Western media relay this information as they did for Khamis Gaddafi's dead (man's incredible, he died 8 times but is still alive), Moatassem was abducted, Saif Al Islam was killed 3 times and do you remember that Gaddafi was already killed a few month ago? Let's wait and see if this information about his death is confirmed or not. And I don't mean confirmed by Western media! But by Libyan Resistance sources! We all know whose interests Western media serve. They would confirm anything their masters tell them to! They confirmed Osama Bin Laden's death based on a fake picture (that was quickly exposed as a fake on the Internet), apologized for that "mistake" but still confirmed he was killed with absolutely no proof! They didn't even question the thing! When thousands of reports on the Internet were reporting him as dead since 2001, I personally do not believe this news which is denied by other Jamahiriya sources. So many lies, One thing to take into consideration, is how NATO and its mercenaries use this type of PsyOps in order to locate their enemy. When they came up with the fake report of Moussa Ibrahim being abducted and under rebels custody, their aim was to have Moussa Ibrahim contacting Arrai TV, locate the call and bomb and kill him, and hopefully also Gaddafi if the two men were together… knowing that, we will probably have to wait a couple of days to have final confirmation. NATO and NTC are ready to do anything, they are totally desperate! Remember when illegitimate NTC leader confirmed Green Square footage was fake, but helped the rebels entering Tripoli ? Let's wait my friends! Time will tell… ALLAH, MUAMMAR, LIBYA WA BAS |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 5:56pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
The Ku Klux Klan in planes aka NATO have dropped tonnes of depleted uranium, white phosphorous and cluster bombs on the Libyan population, while their infantry of anti black racists on the ground have carried out a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing- wiping out entire towns populated by black libyans or other black africans and they will continue in their ethnic cleansing campaign until not one black person is left alive in that nation. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 5:39pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
We Africans are destined to repeat history once again because we have failed to understand who are our friends and who are our enemies - we must therefore suffer once again at the hands of the same people who have kept us enslaved for 5 centuries. We are destined to face the same fate as the native indians of america - complete annihilation. In our own case it will be so much easier for the europeans to decimate us because we we wont even put up a fight like the brave people of Libya. my only happiness is that the very people who rejoice today will very soon weep in despair when they realise what lies in store for them at the hands of the demonic forces of europe and america. A courageous man who fought for the dignity of his people has been killed today and some africans rejoice these same people have not asked themselves why the likes of biya, bongo, obiang, museveni, campaore remain entrenched in power despite terrible atrocities that they have perpetrated against their people, these same people even fail to come closer to home and ask themselves why NATO did not intervene in nigeria when obasanjo sent soldiers to odi and gbamaratu to drop bombs on unarmed men, women and children, they also fail to ask themselves why the west did not intervene to prevent the execution of Saro Wiwa at the hands of the abacha govt and they also fail to ask themselves why the UN stood back and watched while almost a million people were slaughtered like animals in rwanda but for some incomprehensible reason actually beleive that the west intervened in Gadaffi's case on humanitarian grounds. Even europeans now know that this is one of the most atrocious and evil attacks ever meted out on a sovereign state in modern history. why is it that criminals like obasanjo and IBB who have done nothing but collaborate with foreigners to rap.e and plunder their own country are allowed to prosper and go from strength to strength while a man who took his country from being one of the poorest in the world to one with the highest standard of livign in africa is hunted down like an animal and murdered in cold blood in front of the entire world? is there a God at all? RIP brother leader Muammar Al Qadaffi. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Gadhafi Captured? On CNN (Pictures) by cap28: 4:59pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
May Muammar Gadaffi's soul rest in perfect peace and may the Libyan Jamahiriya regroup and fight to regain control over the great nation of Libya and its vast oil reserves. Brother leader you were the only african leader with the courage, the vision and the understanding to try to unchain africa from 500 years of servitude to europe and america - you will remain a visionary and martyr to the pan african movement in the same way that patrice lumumba and thomas sankara were. I pray that many africans who are now rejoicing and jubilating live long enough to experience the starvation, war, poverty and despair that NATO and their allies are now determined to bring to the entire african continent. |
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