ENSLAVED AFRICANS CONTINUE TO BE USED AS PAWNS AND LACKEYS OF WESTERN IMPERIALISTS LIKE FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES:
IT WAS JUST YESTERDAY THAT FRANCE INVADED, OCCUPIED AND REMOVED A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT IN IVORY COAST, THEY ARE NOW BACK AGAIN TO CONTINUE WHERE THEY STOPPED - WHERE IS ALL OF THIS LEADING TO? WHEN WILL ALL OF THIS END, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WHEN WILL COMATOSE AFRICANS WAKE UP AND REALISE THAT THEY ARE BEING RE-ENSLAVED?
WE ARE NOW AS AFRICANS EXPERIENCING THE REPETITION OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885 MINUS THE CONFERENCE, THE MOST TRAGIC PART OF IT IS THAT OUR ELITE ARE ACTIVELY COLLABORATING IN OUR RE-ENSLAVEMENT.
AFRICAN LACKEYS GO AND DIE FOR A CAUSE THAT WILL NEVER BENEFIT YOU OR YOUR GRAND CHILDREN, SEND YOUR YOUNG MEN TO DIE FOR EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN MINING CORPORATIONS THAT ARE HELL BENT ON MILKING MALIAN NATURAL RESOURCES DRY, GO AND DIE FOR NOTHING - STU..PID FOOLS, THIS IS WHY ILLITERACY IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO HUMAN CIVILISATION, HAD IT BEEN THAT THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN HAD A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM THE NIGERIAN GOVT WOULD NEVER GET AWAY WITH SENDING YOUNG NIGERIAN MEN TO DIE FOR NOTHING.
HANDS OFF MALI YOU EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DEMONS ALONG WITH YOUR WEST AFRICAN LACKEYS AND SLAVES WHO ARE RUSHING TO HELP THE WHITE MAN STEAL THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF A FELLOW AFRICAN NATION
SHAME ON ANY AFRICAN WHO SUPPORTS THIS DAYLIGHT ROBBERY AND WESTERN ANNEXATION OF A SOVEREIGN AFRICAN STATE!!!!
stup.id slaves of western imperialism - go and secure mali's gold, uranium and other valuable minerals for US and French corporations - africans due to poor education and lack of exposure will forever remain slaves of the europeans.
what business does nigeria have fighting a war against their fellow africans on behalf of france and the united states ? this is another chapter in the long saga of US/EU invasion and occupation of the african continent under the pretext of fighting a fictitious war on terror - a war that was created right out of central casting studios in hollywood.
nigerians stop beign cowards and pawns of the europeans - who created al qaeda? if you can answer that question you have already gone halfway to resolve the problem of boko haram in nigeria.
[b]Hands off Mali! 15 January 2013 The World Socialist Web Site denounces France’s war in Mali as an act of imperialist piracy. After mass bombings of cities in northern Mali that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians, French tank columns crossed into Mali yesterday from the Ivory Coast. Mali is the fourth country attacked by France in two years, after Libya, the Ivory Coast and Syria. Of these countries, all but Libya were former French colonies. Explanations for this war given by President François Hollande and other French officials—that France aims to defend Mali’s “democracy” from Al Qaeda, and not what Hollande called France’s “fundamental interests”—are cynical lies. French imperialism is setting out to reestablish a dominant position in West Africa, using military force to assert its interests. The war in Mali emerges directly out of the 2011 war in Libya. The rebel forces in northern Mali that France is fighting include fighters allied to the Al Qaeda-affiliated forces who helped NATO overthrow and murder Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, as well as ethnic Tuareg soldiers who served in the Libyan army and fled to Mali after the NATO victory. They also include Malian army deserters who joined the revolt against the unpopular coup regime in the capital Bamako. French imperialism is pressing the advantages opened up to it by Gaddafi’s defeat. With the Gaddafi regime destroyed and hundreds of billions of dollars of Libyan oil money seized by Western banks, African regional organizations funded by Gaddafi have collapsed and the US and France are rapidly setting up military bases throughout Africa. France’s NATO allies are promising to assist in Mali, hoping to get their share of the spoils. Paris is also exploiting the rottenness of the West African national bourgeois regimes, which are lining up to provide cannon fodder for its wars. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, installed by means of the 2011 French war in the Ivory Coast, is backing Paris in Mali. Senegalese President Macky Sall, who came to power last year after US- and French-backed protests against President Abdoulaye Wade, will also send troops to Mali, along with Nigeria, Niger and Ghana. In this submission to neo-colonial rule by the West African bourgeoisies, the Algerian regime plays a key role. Fearing Al Qaeda-linked forces against whom it fought the 1990s Algerian civil war, or an upsurge of the working class like those that toppled the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents in 2011, it is seeking to reach an accommodation with its former colonial master. Last month, Algiers signed multi-billion-euro contracts with France during Hollande’s state visit. Now it has thrown open its airspace to French warplanes bombing Mali. Sitting on its $200 billion cash hoard of proceeds from energy sales, the Algerian ruling elite is offering Paris a deal. If French imperialism safeguards its privileges, Paris will receive new markets in Algeria to replace French consumer markets, which are collapsing as Hollande intensifies his anti-worker austerity policies. The reactionary role of the African bourgeois regimes once again demonstrates the impossibility of liberating the African countries from imperialism outside of the struggle for socialist revolution across the continent and internationally. Hollande’s Socialist Party has collapsed in the polls due to its austerity policies and its decision to continue the wars of the preceding president, the widely despised Nicolas Sarkozy. Now it has launched its own bloody imperialist war. The petty-bourgeois parties that called for an unconditional vote for Hollande in last year’s elections, the Left Front and the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), bear political responsibility for the war in Mali. The brief, perfunctory criticism of the war posted by the NPA on its web site does not alter its continuing support for Hollande. In the course of several decades, these forces and the Third World bourgeois nationalists have shifted so far to the right that they now support imperialist war. It is increasingly clear that the period of decolonization was merely a historical interlude, bound up with the political aftershocks of the Russian Revolution, which produced a powerful wave of anti-imperialist struggles. The post-Soviet period has seen a wave of imperialist wars—from Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Balkans in the 1990s and 2000s to the explosion of wars following the working class overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 in the so-called “Arab Spring.” As the International Committee of the Fourth International foresaw in 1991, against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR, “The ongoing and de facto partition of Iraq signals the start of a new division of the world by the imperialists. The colonies of yesterday are again to be subjugated. The conquests and annexations which, according to the opportunist apologists of imperialism belonged to a bygone era, are once again on the order of the day.” Now, in the approach to the 100th anniversary of World War I, the world is witnessing a new eruption of French and world imperialism. However, Paris’ ultimate ambition—a return to its heyday in the early twentieth century, when it reigned over 100 million colonial slaves, stretching from West Africa to the Middle East and East Asia—is a reactionary illusion. Paris’ support for the unpopular Malian regime, whose army is dissolving in the field against the Islamists, and its broader offensive to restore French influence throughout North and West Africa will only sink it deeper into the quagmire. French imperialism cannot re-impose colonial shackles on the workers and oppressed masses of Africa, nor can it tie the working class in Europe to a policy of endless austerity to pay for war. By launching its aggression against Mali, it has set the course for a rendezvous with disaster. The watchword of politically conscious workers will be: French troops out of Africa! Alex Lantier [/b]
The War on Mali. What you Should Know: An Eldorado of Uranium, Gold, Petroleum, Strategic Minerals … By R. Teichman Global Research, January 15, 2013 News Beacon Ireland
The French government has stated that:
“it would send 2,500 troops to support Malian government soldiers in the conflict against Islamist rebels. France has already deployed around 750 troops to Mali, and French carriers arrived in Bamako on Tuesday morning…..
We will continue the deployment of forces on the ground and in the air…..
We have one goal. To ensure that when we leave, when we end our intervention, Mali is safe, has legitimate authorities, an electoral process and there are no more terrorists threatening its territory.” [1]
So this is the official narrative of France and those who support it. And of course this is what is widely reported by the mainstrem media.
France is supported by other NATO members. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed that the US was providing intelligence to French forces in Mali. [2] Canada, Belgium, Denmark and Germany have also publicly backed the French incursion, pledging logistical support in the crackdown on the rebels. [3]
If we are to believe this narrative we are misled again about the real reasons. A look at Mali’s natural resources reveals what this is really about.
Mali’s natural resources [4] (emphasis added)
Gold: Mali: Africa’s third largest gold producer with large scale exploration ongoing. Mali has been famous for its gold since the days of the great Malian empire and the pilgrimage to Mecca of the Emperor Kankou Moussa in 1324, on his caravan he carried more than 8 tonnes of gold! Mali has therefore been traditionally a mining country for over half a millennium.
Mali currently has seven operating gold mines which include: Kalana and Morila in Southern Mali, Yatela, Sadiola and Loulo in Western Mali, and mines which have recently restarted production notably Syama and Tabakoto. Advanced gold exploration projects include: Kofi, Kodieran, Gounkoto, Komana, Banankoro, Kobada and Nampala.
Uranium: encouraging signs and exploration in full swing. Exploration is currently being carried out by several companies with clear indications of deposits of uranium in Mali. Uranium potential is located in the Falea area which covers 150 km² of the Falea- North Guinea basin, a Neoproterozoic sedimentary basin marked by significant radiometric anomalies. Uranium potential in Falea is thought to be 5000 tonnes. The Kidal Project, in the north eastern part of Mali, with an area of 19,930 km2, the project covers a large crystalline geological province known as L’Adrar Des Iforas. Uranium potential in the Samit deposit, Gao region alone is thought to be 200 tonnes.
Diamonds: Mali has potential to develop its diamond exploration: in the Kayes administrative region (Mining region 1), thirty (30) kimberlitic pipes have been discovered of which eight are show traces of diamonds. Some eight small diamonds have been picked in the Sikasso administrative region (southern Mali).
Precious stones consist of the following and can be found in:
Circle of Nioro and Bafoulabe: Garnets and rare magnetic minerals Circle of Bougouni and Faleme Basin: Pegmatite minerals Le Gourma – garnet and corindons L’Adrar des Ilforas – pegmatite and metamorphosing minerals Hombori Douentza Zone: quartz and carbonates Iron Ore, Bauxite and Manganese: significant resources present in Mali but still unexploited. Mali has according to estimates more than 2 million tonnes of potential iron ore reserves located in the areas of Djidian-Kenieba, Diamou and Bale.
Bauxite reserves are thought to be 1.2 million tonnes located in Kita, Kenieba and Bafing- Makana. Traces of manganese have been found in Bafing – Makana, Tondibi and Tassiga.
Other mineral resources and potential in Mali
Calcarous rock deposits: 10 million tonnes est. ( Gangotery), 30 million tonnes est. ( Astro) and Bah El Heri ( Nord de Goundam) 2.2 Million tonnes est.
Copper: potentialities in Bafing Makan ( Western Region) and Ouatagouna ( Northern Region) Marble : Selinkegny ( Bafoulabe) 10.6 MT estimated reserves and traces at Madibaya Gypsum: Taoudenit ( 35 MT est.), Indice Kereit ( Nord de Tessalit) 0.37 MT est. Kaolin: Potential estimated reserves ( 1MT) located in Gao ( Northern Region) Phosphate: Reserve located at Tamaguilelt, production of 18,000 t/per annum and an estimated potential of 12 million tonnes. There are four other potential deposits in the North of 10 million tonnes. Lead and zinc: Tessalit in the Northern Region ( 1.7 MT of estimated reserves) and traces in Bafing Makana ( Western Region) and Fafa (Northern Mali)
Lithium: Indications in Kayes ( Western Region) and estimated potential of 4 million tonnes in Bougouni ( Southern Region) Bitumen schist: Potential estimated at 870 million tonnes, indications found in Agamor and Almoustrat in the Northern Region. Lignite: Potential estimated at 1.3 million tonnes, indications found in Bourem ( Northern Region) Rock Salt: Estimated potential of 53 million tonnes in Taoudenni ( Northern Region) Diatomite: Estimated potential of 65 million tonnes in Douna Behri ( Northern Region) Mali’s Petroleum potential already attracting significant interest from investors
Mali’s Petroleums potential has been documented since the 1970’s where sporadic seismic and drilling revealed probable indications of oil. With the increasing price of global oil and gas resources, Mali has stepped up its promotion and research for oil exploration, production and potential exports. Mali could also provide a strategic transport route for Sub-Saharan oil and gas exports through to the Western world and there is the possibility of connecting the Taoudeni basin to European market through Algeria.
Work has already begun to reinterpret previously gathered geophysical and geological data collected, focussing on five sedimentary basins in the North of country including: Taoudeni, Tamesna, Ilumenden, Ditch Nara and Gao.
So here we have it
Whatever is reported by the mainstream media, the goal of this new war is no other than stripping yet another country of its natural resources by securing the access of international corporations to do it. What is being done now in Mali through bombs and bullets is being done to Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain by means of debt enslavement.
And the people suffer and die
The Guardian reported 2 days ago [5] :
“The human toll has not yet been calculated, but a communique read on state television late Saturday said that at least 11 Malians were killed in Konna.
“Sory Diakite, the mayor of Konna, says the dead included children who drowned after they threw themselves into a river in an effort to escape the bombs.
“Others were killed inside their courtyards, or outside their homes. People were trying to flee to find refuge. Some drowned in the river. At least three children threw themselves in the river. They were trying to swim to the other side. And there has been significant infrastructure damage,” said the mayor, who fled the town with his family and is now in Bamako.”
Who knows what the death toll is today.
God help any country and its people with natural resources to be exploited.
By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria - January 17, 2013 (LD-Tony Cartalucci)
Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French "intervention" in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria - the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization of Libya in 2011.
In last week's "France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali" report, it was stated specifically that: "As far back as August of 2011, Bruce Riedel out of the corporate-financier funded think-tank, the Brookings Institution, wrote "Algeria will be next to fall," where he gleefully predicted success in Libya would embolden radical elements in Algeria, in particular AQIM. Between extremist violence and the prospect of French airstrikes, Riedel hoped to see the fall of the Algerian government. Ironically Riedel noted: Algeria has expressed particular concern that the unrest in Libya could lead to the development of a major safe haven and sanctuary for al-Qaeda and other extremist jihadis. And thanks to NATO, that is exactly what Libya has become - a Western sponsored sanctuary for Al-Qaeda. AQIM's headway in northern Mali and now French involvement will see the conflict inevitably spill over into Algeria. It should be noted that Riedel is a co-author of "Which Path to Persia?" which openly conspires to arm yet another US State Department-listed terrorist organization (list as #28), the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to wreak havoc across Iran and help collapse the government there - illustrating a pattern of using clearly terroristic organizations, even those listed as so by the US State Department, to carry out US foreign policy." Now, it is reported that "Al Qaeda-linked" terrorists have seized American hostages in Algeria in what is being described by the Western press as "spill over" from France's Mali operations.
The Washington Post, in their article, "Al-Qaida-linked militants seize BP complex in Algeria, take hostages in revenge for Mali," claims: "As Algerian army helicopters clattered overhead deep in the Sahara desert, Islamist militants hunkered down for the night in a natural gas complex they had assaulted Wednesday morning, killing two people and taking dozens of foreigners hostage in what could be the first spillover from France’s intervention in Mali."
The Wall Street Journal, in its article, "Militants Grab U.S. Hostages in Algeria," reports that: "Militants with possible links to al Qaeda seized about 40 foreign hostages, including several Americans, at a natural-gas field in Algeria, posing a new level of threat to nations trying to blunt the growing influence of Islamist extremists in Africa.
As security officials in the U.S. and Europe assessed options to reach the captives from distant bases, Algerian security forces failed in an attempt late Wednesday to storm the facility." The WSJ also added: "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. would take "necessary and proper steps" in the hostage situation, and didn't rule out military action. He said the Algeria attack could represent a spillover from Mali." And it is military action, both covert and incrementally more overt, that will see the West's extremist proxies and the West's faux efforts to stem them, increasingly creep over the Mali-Algerian border, as the old imperial maps of Europe are redrawn right before our eyes.
Image: The French Empire at its height right before the World Wars. The regions that are now Libya, Algeria, Mali, and the Ivory Coast all face reconquest by the French and Anglo-Americans, with French troops literally occupying the region and playing a pivotal role in installing Western-friendly client regimes. Also notice Syria too, was a French holding - now under attack by US-British-French funded, armed, and backed terrorists - the same terrorists allegedly being fought in Mali and now Algeria. ....
Meanwhile, these very same terrorist forces continue to receive funding, arms, covert military support, and diplomatic recognition in Syria, by NATO, and specifically the US and France who are both claiming to fight the "Free Syrian Army's" ideological and very literal allies in North Africa.
In reality, Al Qaeda is allowing the US and France to intervene and interfere in Algeria, after attempts in 2011 to trigger political subversion was soundly defeated by the Algerian government. Al Qaeda is essentially both a casus belli and mercenary force, deployed by the West against targeted nations. It is clear that French operations seek to trigger armed conflict in Algeria as well as a possible Western military intervention there as well, with the Mali conflict serving only as a pretense. [/b]
So what are you saying Nigeria should do? Sit back and let the ISLAMISTS overrun Mali? Do you think an Arab Islamist fanatical govt sitting in Bamako will leave Nigeria alone? I don't give a hoot if France or the US are clandestinely sponsoring such groups. WHY ARE THEY (the Arabs) ALLOWING THEMSELVES To be used against Africans? And WHY should Nigeria fold her arms? Our job is to go there and disperse them. Send them back to Algeria or Libya, NOT let them spread to Nigeria and West Africa.
As for the Chinese, THEY BETTER GET IN ON THE ACT or THEY WILL LOSE OUT on their investments. Why should that be our problem? It is not our job to protect Chinese investments in Africa either. If China can see what the west are doing, why doesn't she start counter measures to checkmate tiny France's machinations? Is France richer or more powerful than China? China certainly has the resources to shake things up a little.
Instead she leaves countries like Nigeria and co to sort their way out of the debacle. If China has interests in Africa, she should not be aloof as these things are happening. But Nigeria will NOT sit back and allow Arab Islamic fanatics any control of any land in West Africa. We are not going to Mali to protect France's interests. We are going there to protect OUR interests, as the leading nation of a secular, tolerant, pluralistic sub-region.
don't worry that yawn will soon turn into screams of horror - do you think Mali is the only west african country earmarked for US/EU intervention?
keep dreaming.
this is just the beginning.
its like you didnt read what i posted in one of my previous posts - nigeria is still under british control and therefore our intervention in mali is purely as an errand boy on behalf of britain/EU, we are not in mali of our own volition - we do not call the shots -europe and america call the shots we have been instructed by our masters to go in and secure mali's natural resources on behalf of our masters, we are merely being used as canon fodder, if you are still refusing to wake up to the reality of what it means to be a client state of europe and america then i can not help you.
the uprising in mali was instigated by france and america - all those weapons that flooded mali - where did they come from - who is financing these so called islamists? dont forget that al qaeda which overthrew Qadaffi in libya was armed and funded by the CIA, this same group relocated to syria and are now trying to overthrow the syrian govt - who is financing and arming them? how come the US supports al qaeda in syria and libya but not in mali or algeria? dont you think there are serious inconsistencies in the west's stories about this so called war on terror? is it possible to suppport terrorists in one country and denounce the same terrorists in another country?
dont worry china will respond to all these provocations very soon and the US will be the biggest losers because their entire economy is dependant on china buying their worthless treasury bond - once china gets fed up of this arrangement and decides to ask for their 2 trillion dollar debt to be repaid it will be curtains for america.
Rossikk: You have cotton wool stuffed in your head, not a brain.
I knew that before you were born.
Show us HOW that is occurring in this instance. (Mali)
How does allowing Islamic fanatics to overrun and destroy Timbuktu and Mali, make it better?
the mali invasion by france has nothing to do with the so called war on terror and everythign to do with saving europe and america's imminent economic collapse - europe and the united states are implementing a plan that was created in the early 2000s in order to stymie chinese investment in africa and slow down the chinese economic growth that is now threatening the united states world hegemony.
Rossikk: Who has threatened Nigeria's territorial integrity, your stup.id worthless babboon?
MY PRAYER FOR YOU IS THAT THOSE US DRONES DESCEND ON YOUR COMPOUND THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND THAT NIGERIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IS INDEED BEING THREATENED - dumbarse!
And we should believe you because
because unlike you i have a functioning brain
What are your qualifications? Are you a political scientist?
like i said unlike you - i have a functioning brain
Why are you using western items like computers and the internet, ASSSHOLE??
dumbarse westerners built their entire civilisation on the knowledge they stole from africa
If France has commercial interests there, why should she not defend them?
You do realise it's not a crime to hold commercial interests? Aturu.
even if that commercial interest leads to genocide, mass poverty and total destruction of african people? for that response alone you deserve to be sterilised.
Rossikk: I can only link you to world class research. Shame it's wasted on a peabrain.
Why are you using their internet and computers? I bet you have on an imperialist shirt and trousers too. And an imperialist watch. You're even typing in an imperialist language. Can't you type in your language? Did Nigeria, the ''agent of imperialism'' not educate your worthless behind? Where would you be without the education Nigeria gave you? Not in the village counting chickens and tapping palm wine? Compound idiot. Without Nigeria, you would be nothing, so stfu.
TYPICAL WEAK ARGUMENTS USED BY DUMB FOOLS WHO HAVE REFUSED TO CONFRONT THE HARSH REALITY OF THEIR EXISTENCE AS AFRICANS LIVING UNDER THE SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
fool - are you aware that a nigerian invented the internet?
also did you know that the chinese invented gunpowder but that didnt stop the europeans from using it for their own benefits enablign them to conquer the entire world, it doesnt matter who invented this or that - what matters is what you do with the invention, as you can see the europeans used gunpowder which they did not invent to conquer the world.
Rossikk: So Nigeria should go and fight USA and France otherwise she is not a fast growing economy? The USA has stationed troops througfhout Europe and Asia for decades. Has that stopped those regions from growing? India has over 50o million illiterated. Has that stopped them from progressing? Your problem is your inferiority complex. And your parents are bastards for you to dare use that term here.
see this ignorant wanna be intellectual - no nation can ever call itself a powerful nation UNLESS IT CAN DEFEND ITS TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY YOU ST.UPID DUMD MUTHERFCKING I.DYAT - HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE ?? THOSE BOUNDARIES DRAWN IN 1885 BY EUROPE ARE STILL WHAT DICTATES AFRICA'S DESTINY, UNTIL AFRICAN NATIONS CAN BREAK FREE FROM THOSE BOUNDARIES EVERYTHING AFRICANS TRY TO DO IS FUTILE.
DUMMY DO YOU THINK THAT EUROPE IS READY TO GIVE UP THE RICHEST CONTINENT IN THE WORLD WITHOUT A FIGHT?
I KNOW YOU ARE TOO ST.UPID TO UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH OF THAT STATEMENT.
WHAT IS FRANCE DOING SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DEPLOYING TROOPS TO MALI?
Rossikk: Why don't you provide your own research debunking their 'lies'? Shouting frantically like a lunatic is not debunking. Oh sure the World Bank has its own problems, but simple things like GDP analysis, economic projection etc, are based on verifiable research, and thus cannot be disputed without countervailing information/research on YOUR part. So what's stopping you from conducting your own study, since right now you have nothing to show apart from a big loud mouth?
where is your own research and verifiable facts mutherfckr?
aside from quoting your imperialist masters like the world bank and other agents of imperialsism such as PCW where are your own facts coming from? fck off!
FreeGlobe: you are wasting your time with that numbskull. He is the most disgraced personality on nairaland for his mental deficiency, just slap your own sense into him and move on.
the guy is the biggest mutherfcking piece of delusional shi.t i have ever come across in my life,
the united states is stationing troops all over africa as we speak, france is bombing and killing innocent malians in order to consolidate their control over mali's gold and various other valuable natural resources and this bas.tard is here talking bull.shi...t about nigeria being the fastest growing economy in africa? and to think this ba.stard has the nerve to call people illiterates - how is it that an economy is growign but over 70% of its population are submerged in poverty, rosikk or whatever you call yourself - fck off!!!
Rossikk: Dunce, who said anything about Nigweria being ''so powerful''??
It's obvious some of you here are on hard drugs. You can't even follow a simple discussion/debate. Or is it an IQ problem?
mutherfckr - you have been quoting your enslavers who are filling your empty head with BS about how your economy is projected to be the fastest growing economy by 2011 to 2050 - these are the same scum bags who run and control the world bank and the IMF two major organisations that have got your economy in a choke hold and have reduced the average african to a pauper in his own country, but like the brain dead dumb a,,rse you are you continue to loyally repeat the lies of these modern day enslavers did you have a lobotomy recently? is this the reason for your gross stupi.idity?
Rossikk: Sure... they are only a 'center of fraud' when they give positive news about Nigeria. The minute they pronounce it a cesspool with no hope, suddenly they become your friends and you quote them profusely. Psychopathic, self-hating dunce.
you are a delusional mutherfckr - if nigeria is so powerful why has it alllowed france to invade and occupy mali? mutherfckr can you answer that simple question?
''A new report by Price Waterhouse Coopers highlights some of the profound global economic shifts we at Quartz believe are well underway.
The sages at PwC forecast that between now and 2050:
The fastest growing economy will be… Nigeria. Followed by Vietnam, India, and Indonesia. Chinese growth will slow down due to a rapidly aging population and rising labor costs.''
you are a mutherfcking dumbarse !!! which world is nigeria leading?? stop smoking skunk - its bad for your brain cells dude!!!
nigeria can not even defend its territorial integerity hence the invasion of the entire african continent by france, USA and britain - wakey wakey - africa is being re colonised while you are still having wet dreams about nigeria leading the world hahahahahaha !!!!!!
Rossikk: You're an embarrassment. PwC has all the resources its needs to undertake financial research and make economic projections, and asking ''what business'' one of the world's major financial institutions has projecting economies, is truly the height of illiteracy. Kindly stop embarrassing yourself.
Excerpts:
PricewaterhouseCoopers (trading as PwC) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
It is the world's largest professional services firm and the largest of the "Big Four" accountancy firms measured by 2012 revenues. PwC has offices in 776 cities across 158 countries and employs over 180,000 people. It had total revenues of $31.5 billion in FY 2012, of which $14.9 billion was generated by its Assurance practice, $7.9 billion by its Tax practice and $8.7 billion by its Advisory practice.
The firm was formed in 1998 by a merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. The trading name was shortened to PwC in September 2010 as part of a major rebranding exercise.
As of 2012 PwC United States is the fifth-largest privately owned organization in the United States.
This is the company you're calling a ''jobless junk organisation''?
I rest my case.
you better stop spouting garbage - so , because PCW are based in london that makes them legit? you must be a fool, remember enron? where are they today?
did you know that the city of london is the headquarters of fraud? you better wake up from your coma my friend!
FreeGlobe: negro please, PWC is an accounting firm at best, they should stick to their job. Am not an illiterate ok? I don't accept everything because of names attached, Nigeria has lived through several projections from even more credible organizations in the past and still in deep shhhit. The one I believe is the one that says over a hundred million Nigerians live on less than $2 dollars a day. That is what you see when you walk the streets of Nigeria. for you to think Nigeria will lead world economies in just 2050 here without any stable electricity in 2015 is a huge joke and only fables that appeal to light brained individuals like you!
thank you!
imagine quoting hopeless agents of imperialism who have had their shackles on your neck and ankles for the past 100 years. what is the world bank's track record in africa? so many fake individuals forming intellectual on this forum!
Rossikk: ^^Look at this unemployed drug addict calling PriceWaterhouse Coopers a ''jobless junk organisation''. Pray, what does that make you? Illiterate crackhead.
Oh, and Nigeria IS growing economically following on past projections. Recent World Bank pronouncements indicate falling poverty rates, and an expanding middle class. Not that a drunk like you would notice.
still quoting world bank and price waterhouse cooper of all people !!
agents of imperialism - when are you going to wake up and realise that these people are your enslavers?
obadiah777: NOW YOUR BRAIN IS STARTING TO WORK. LOL. AND IT IS NOT A THEORY. IT IS REALITY. NIGERIA CANT EVEN TRY IT. WE WILL BE ATTACKED IMMEDIATELY WITH NO NEGOTIATIONS. AMERICA WILL BE ON OUR SOIL THE NEXT DAY ATTACKING AND BOMBING ASO ROCK. WITH AFRICA THEY FEEL THEY CAN DO WHATEVER BECAUSE THERE IS NO RESISTANCE. WITH IRAN THEY HAVE TO STRATEGIZE BECAUSE IRAN IS STRONG AND HAS STRONG ALLIES. AND THAT MY FRIEND IS WORLD POLITICKS. ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE. THIS IS WHY THEY WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY OPEC MEMBERS TO OWN SUPERIOR WEAPONRY. ONCE YOU HAVE SUPERIOR WEAPONRY YOU CANT BE CONTROLLED. YOU ARE A POTENTIAL USUSRPER
keep dropping the knowledge Obadiah - many nigerians are as blind as anything they will never see the handwriting on the wall even if it is staring them in the face.
The US economy is only staying afloat because the US dollar is the world reserve currency and all major commodities are traded using the US dollar - once america loses that position their economy will go down faster than the titanic because china and all other major creditors will start offloading the dollar and this will cause the value of the dollar to collapse, if the dollar collapses the US will now be forced to pay for its imports using other currencies and that will mean that the cost of living in america will skyrocket - this is why america has sent troops to africa - it is in a fight to the finish over our resources with china in order to preserve its position and dominance.
Mali and the Scramble for Africa A New Wave of Barbarism
By Ben Schreiner Global Research, January 14, 2013
The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening penetration into Africa.
According to the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Pentagon plans on deploying soldiers to 35 different African countries in 2013. As NPR reports, upwards of 4,000 U.S. soldiers will “take part in military exercises and train African troops on everything from logistics and marksmanship to medical care.” (The Malian army officer responsible for the country’s March coup just so happened to have received U.S. military training.)
Of course, the U.S. military already has a significant on-the-ground presence in Africa. For instance, the “busiest Predator drone base outside of the Afghan war zone” — with 16 drone flights a day — is located at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.
But as the Army Times notes, “the region in many ways remains the Army’s last frontier.” And in order to satiate the U.S. appetite for global “power projection,” no frontiers are to be left unconquered.
Thus, as a June report in the Washington Post revealed, the preliminary tentacles of the U.S. military already extend across Africa. As the paper reported, U.S. surveillance planes are currently operating out of clandestine bases in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya, with plans afoot to open a new base in South Sudan.
The Post reported further that, “the Pentagon is spending $8.1 million to upgrade a forward operating base and airstrip in Mauritania, on the western edge of the Sahara. The base is near the border with strife-torn Mali.”
And with such assets already in place, the Pentagon was in position to not only “second” France’s intervention into Mali, but, as the New York Times reported, to weigh a “broad range of options to support the French effort, including enhanced intelligence-sharing and logistics support.”
Illuminating what such U.S. support may come to eventually look like in Mali, J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington and a senior strategy advisor to AFRICOM, commented: “Drone strikes or airstrikes will not restore Mali’s territorial integrity or defeat the Islamists, but they may be the least bad option.” A rather ominous sign, given that employing such a “least bad option” has already led to the slaying of hundreds of innocents in the U.S. drone campaign.
Of course, much the same as with the drone campaign, the Pentagon’s push into Africa has come neatly packaged as an extension of “war on terror.” As a June Army Times report notes, “Africa, in particular, has emerged as a greater priority for the U.S. government because terrorist groups there have become an increasing threat to U.S. and regional security.”
But what intervention hasn’t come to be justified by employing some variant of the ever handy “war on terror” refrain? As French President François Hollande declared on Friday, “The terrorists should know that France will always be there when the rights of a people, those of Mali who want to live freely and in a democracy, are at issue.”
“The ideology of our times, at least when it comes to legitimizing war” Jean Bricmont writes in his book Humanitarian Imperialism, “is a certain discourse on human rights and democracy.” And, we might add, a certain cynical discourse on combating terror.
Naturally, then, the notion that the West’s renewed interest in Africa is derived from an altruistic desire to help African states combat terrorism and establish democracy is rather absurd. It was the NATO alliance, lest one forgets, that so eagerly aligned with Salifi fighters to topple Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Moreover, it is this very same military alliance that is now simultaneously cheering Salifists in Syria, while bombing them in the AfPak region, Somalia, Yemen, and now Mali.
Clearly, only those practicing doublethink stand a chance of comprehending the ever shifting terrain of the Western “war on terror.”
Indeed, for once the veils of protecting “democracy” and combating “terror” are lifted, the imperial face is revealed.
Thus, the imperative driving the renewed Western interest in Africa, as Conn Hallinan helps explain, is the race to secure the continent’s vast wealth.
“The U.S. currently receives about 18 percent of its energy supplies from Africa, a figure that is slated to rise to 25 percent by 2015,” Hallinan writes. “Africa also provides about one-third of China’s energy needs, plus copper, platinum, timber and iron ore.”
What’s more, as Maximilian Forte contends in Slouching Towards Sirte, “Chinese interest are seen as competing with the West for access to resources and political influences. AFRICOM and a range of other U.S. government initiatives are meant to count this phenomenon.”
And this explains NATO’s 2011 foray into Libya, which removed a stubborn pan-Africanist leader threatening to frustrate AFRICOM’s expansion into the Army’s “last frontier.” And this explains the French-led, U.S. supported intervention into Mali, which serves to forcibly assert Western interests further into Africa.
Intervention, we see, breeds intervention. And as Nick Turse warned back in July, “Mali may only be the beginning and there’s no telling how any of it will end.”
All that appears certain is a renewed wave of barbarism, as the scramble for Africa accelerates.
Ben Schreiner is a freelance writer based in Wisconsin. He may be reached at bnschreiner@gmail.com or via his website.
$ 80,000 on a plastic piece of rubbish in a country where many people are having their homes repossessed on a daily basis and where 47 million american citizens are living on food stamps, money can never buy class.
[quote author=~Bluetooth]ThankGod these guys have some cash to spend to augment their khoi-khoism else they would have been stranded all their lives.[/quote]hey why so horrible?
focus on your real enemy - europe and the united states that are currently invading and occupying your continent as we speak - the real enemy of progress in not inter ethnic strife but the white man who is using divide and conquer to keep you enslaved, wake up from your s.tupidity and face your real enemy.
Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist who has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, and the Intelligence Newsletter. He is the author of Genocide and Covert Activities in Africa 1993-1999 (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999), an expose of U.S. and French intelligence activities in Africa's recent civil wars and ethnic rebellions. He served as an on-air East Africa analyst for ABC News in the aftermath of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Mr. Madsen has appeared on 60 Minutes, World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20, MS-NBC, and NBC Nightly News, among others. He has been frequently quoted by the Associated Press, foreign wire services, and many national and international newspapers.
Mr. Madsen is also the author of a motion picture screen play treatment about the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. He is a former U.S. Naval Officer and worked for the National Security Agency and U.S. Naval Telecommunications Command.
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I wish to discuss the record of American policy in Africa over most of the past decade, particularly that involving the central African Great Lakes region. It is a policy that has rested, in my opinion, on the twin pillars of unrestrained military aid and questionable trade. The military aid programs of the United States, largely planned and administered by the U.S. Special Operations Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), have been both overt and covert.
ACRI, ACSS, and the covert programs all involve the use of private military training firms and logistics support contractors that are immune to Freedom of Information Act requests. More troubling than these overt problems are those that involve covert assistance to the Rwandan and Ugandan militaries. Sources in the Great Lakes region consistently report the presence of a U.S.-built military base near Cyangugu, Rwanda, near the Congolese border. The base, reported to have been partly constructed by the U.S. firm Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, is said to be involved with training RPF forces and providing logistics support to their troops in the DRC.
The increasing reliance by the Department of Defense on so-called Private Military Contractors (PMCs) is of special concern. Many of these PMCs -- once labeled as "mercenaries" by previous administrations when they were used as foreign policy instruments by the colonial powers of France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa -- have close links with some of the largest mining and oil companies involved in Africa today. PMCs, because of their proprietary status, have a great deal of leeway to engage in covert activities far from the reach of congressional investigators. They can simply claim that their business in various nations is a protected trade secret and the law now seems to be on their side.
THE DESTABILIZATION OF AFRICA
America's policy toward Africa during the past decade, rather than seeking to stabilize situations where civil war and ethnic turmoil reign supreme, has seemingly promoted destabilization. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was fond of calling pro-U.S. military leaders in Africa who assumed power by force and then cloaked themselves in civilian attire, "beacons of hope."
In reality, these leaders, who include the current presidents of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Angola, Eritrea, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo preside over countries where ethnic and civil turmoil permit unscrupulous international mining companies to take advantage of the strife to fill their own coffers with conflict diamonds, gold, copper, platinum, and other precious minerals including one that is a primary component of computer microchips.
Some of the companies involved in this new "scramble for Africa" have close links with PMCs and America's top political leadership. For example, America Minerals Fields, Inc., a company that was heavily involved in promoting the 1996 accession to power of the late Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, was, at the time of its involvement in the Congo's civil war, headquartered in Hope, Arkansas. Its major stockholders included long-time associates of former President Clinton going back to his days as Governor of Arkansas. America Mineral Fields also reportedly enjoys a close relationship with Lazare Kaplan International, Inc., a major international diamond brokerage whose president remains a close confidant of past and current administrations on Africa matters.
One of the major goals of the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD), a group fighting the Kabila government in Congo, is restoration of mining concessions for Barrick Gold, Inc. of Canada. In fact, the rebel RCD government's "mining minister" signed a separate mining deal with Barrick in early 1999. Among the members of Barrick's International Advisory Board are former President Bush and former President Clinton's close confidant Vernon Jordan.
Currently, Barrick and tens of other mining companies are stoking the flames of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Each benefits by the de facto partition of the country into some four separate zones of political control. First the mineral exploiters from Rwanda and Uganda concentrated on pillaging gold and diamonds from the eastern Congo. Now, they have increasingly turned their attention to a valuable black sand called columbite-tantalite or "col-tan." Col-tan is a key material in computer chips and, therefore, is as considered a strategic mineral. It is my hope that the Bush administration will take pro-active measures to stem this conflict by applying increased pressure on Uganda and Rwanda to withdraw their troops from the country. However, the fact that President Bush has selected Walter Kansteiner to be Assistant Secretary of State for African, portends, in my opinion, more trouble for the Great Lakes region. A brief look at Mr. Kansteiner's curriculum vitae and statements calls into question his commitment to seeking a durable peace in the region. For example, he has envisaged the splitting up of the Great Lakes region into separate Tutsi and Hutu states through "relocation" efforts and has called the break-up of the DRC inevitable. I believe Kansteiner's previous work at the Department of Defense where he served on a Task Force on Strategic Minerals and one must certainly consider col-tan as falling into that category -- may influence his past and current thinking on the territorial integrity of the DRC. After all, 80 per cent of the world's known reserves of col-tan are found in the eastern DRC. It is potentially as important to the U.S. military as the Persian Gulf region.
The U.S. military and intelligence agencies, which have supported Uganda and Rwanda in their cross-border adventures in the DRC, have resisted peace initiatives and have failed to produce evidence of war crimes by the Ugandans and Rwandans and their allies in Congo. The CIA, NSA, and DIA should turn over to international investigators both signals intelligence and human intelligence evidence in their possession, as well as overhead imagery, including thermal imagery indicating the presence of mass graves and when they were dug. There must be a full accounting before the Congress by the staff of the U.S. Defense Attaché's Office in Kigali who served there from early 1994 to the present time.[/b]
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