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morpheus24:
@ Igbo2011
Keep your head buried in those history books and continue to regurgitate historical events. That's Cap28's camp. You guys need to go teach World history classes 101 and stop wasting peoples time reminiscing about pinochets, sandanistas, juntas, che guevara, The bay of pigs, cuban revolutions, Banana plantations in central America and CIA operations in nicaragua.

Human beings tend to explain their existence through misery and suffering or conjure up a "devil" or "boogeyman" to expalin away their failures

cap28:
sis, thanks for this,  im honoured 

guys  - thanks for the nomination - im overcome with emotion 

my own nomination is igbo 2011 though.

Beaf:
He isn't a conspiracy theorist. He is smart, you need to stop watching CNN (4th branch of the government) and find alternative media.
MORPHEUS24 is the one.

We do not need any conspiracy theory addled types or those that might inhale psychedelic stuff before logging on.

On December 11, the West African country of Ivory Coast held its first legislative elections in 11 years, with all 225 seats in the National Assembly at stake.


The balloting follows disputed presidential elections which, earlier this year, resulted in the installation by imperialist powers of Alassane Outtara as president. (See “Former IMF economist installed as Ivory Coast president”)

The Constitutional Council of the former French colony did not declare Outtara the winner until May 6—nearly a month after previous president Laurent Gbagbo was captured on April 11 by French special forces acting under orders from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and with the political support of the US. The raid was carried out with tanks, armored personnel carriers, and attack helicopters that bombed Gbagbo’s compound.

This aggression was the last in a long line of interventions by France in its former colony, to which it dispatched troops in 2002. During the months between the November 2010 elections and the installation of Outtara in May, French and UN troops seized the Felix Houphouet-Boigny airport and stood by while Outtara’s forces massacred Gbagbo supporters in the western town of Duékoué.

Gbagbo is now being brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, for crimes allegedly committed by his government after the 2010 presidential elections. While Outtara has promised punishment of guilty parties “in every camp,” none of his own partisans have been arrested.

Gbagbo is the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC, but belongs to a long line of former stooges of the imperialist powers who are deposed on “humanitarian” grounds after outliving their usefulness. America and France have now turned to Outtara and the legislative elections to safeguard their interests.

Only 36.5 percent of the country’s 5.7 million registered voters turned out in to vote in the December 11 elections, which were little more than window dressing for the rule of French—and behind it, US—imperialism. Outtara’s Rally of Republicans (RDR) took an absolute majority with 127 seats, while the Ivory Coast Democratic Party (PDCI) of former president Henri Konan Bedie received 77.

Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) boycotted the elections.

The Ivorian legislature has just one house, to which deputies are supposed to be elected every five years. However, no legislative elections had been held since 2000, under conditions of civil war and rebellion in the north of the country.

The Ivorian Constitution, in effect since August 2000, gives the Assembly a list of powers common in bourgeois democracies—the authority to establish rules for issuing money, laws governing national and local elections, policies on teaching and scientific research, laws governing union and property rights, and organization of national defense.

However, it also gives the country’s president authority to temporarily enact by “ordinance” laws that he cannot get passed in the Assembly. He can impose a national budget through this means if the Assembly does not pass one within 70 days of its introduction.

Having won a majority in the Assembly, Outtara will be able to keep up a democratic facade without having to resort to such measures. A former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, he is well known and closely tied to global finance capital.

The French daily Liberation reported that the RDR’s victory is likely to increase tensions between it and the older Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI). The RDR originally split from the PDCI in November 1994, but made a pact with it last year that the PDCI would get the prime ministership in the event of an RDR win. Instead, Outtara has retained Guillaume Soro, a former rebel in the north of the country, as his PM.

Liberation quoted a Burkinabe observer who described Outtara and Soro as “accomplices,” who work together so that “Outtara assures the resumption of economic activity, and Soro takes care of reforming the army and security.”

Under Gbagbo, who had close ties to the French Socialist Party and the social-democratic Socialist International, the interests of global finance capital were well represented in the country. A May 2007 US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks noted that Ivory Coast had lowered its corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 27 percent the previous year. The cable enthused that “the government does not use tax, labor, environment, or health and safety laws to impede or distort investment” and that it “actively encourages foreign investment through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, takeovers, or startups.”

Diplomatic cables from the US embassies in Paris and Abidjan document close collaboration between French and US diplomats on manipulation of Ivorian politics. They also document secret meetings between Outtara and French officials at the Elysee palace in 2009 and 2010.

In a February 2010 cable, a French official tells the “Africa-watcher” from the US embassy in Paris that the government of France “must visibly recede into the background.” The plan was not to reduce France’s role but to hide it, out of fear that there would otherwise be violence against the 14,000 French citizens in Ivory Coast.

French Foreign Minister Francois Fillon has since given press conferences in which he rejects the term “recolonization” but talks about “consolidating economic relations” and promises celebrations of Bastille Day in Ivory Coast.

Yet another cable describes the announcement of Outtara’s candidacy in 2007: “Ouattara noted that there are no problems between Cote d’Ivoire and France and invited French citizens who ‘wrongfully’ and ‘disgracefully’ had to depart Cote d’Ivoire to return if they wanted to.” He announced his candidacy in Paris rather than Ivory Coast, a choice the US embassy found “interesting.”

justwise:
I was in Zimbabwe when Zimbabwe was good and was there when Zimbabwe went down dramatically, so i witnessed it, felt the hardship as a student then, i'm still in touch with all my friends and course-mates including those who managed to escape to South Africa and the UK.

You know nothing about Zimbabwean prob, you keep googling up garbage online to paste here. Arguing with you is waste of time and energy because you don't know jack.

omokay01:
Its 165 naira in a Mobil Filling station in Ado oooooo Na only God go help us for this country!

muhsin:
Same price here in Kano metro. May God save us; may HE break the neck of PDP and its oligarchs, amin. By His grace, GEJ will lack peace of mind till the end of his tenure as president. Stupidest president Nigeria ever had.

cap28:
the role they have designated for africa is - supplier of cheap raw materials and cheap labour and consumer, any attempt to industrialise and become self sufficient is smashed and crushed ruthlessly - WAKE UP.

olas2u:
Resource rich countries are meant to be one the richest in the world like Australia ,but not Africa

paniki:
Cap is going to like this thread. It will be a meeting place for proponents of victimhood

panafrican:

Civil war, Boko Haram, genocide, division, confusing Democracy, natural resource plundering, crippling World Bank and International Monetary Fund  policies, puppet presidents, you name it!

Onlytruth:
My friend permit me to tell you pointblank that YOU ARE NOT IGBO. hehe

We have seen your type here before. Every Igbo adult knows our history in Nigeria.

Why are some of you so shameless? You come here to accuse innocent foreign powers of crimes you commit on fellow Africans.

Nadanbata:
@ Igbo2011

Dont blame them o. Its hard to see, but when you do it clicks. These people dont even care for their own citizens oo no country of allegiance nothing 50 million Americans are on "FOOD STAMPS".

Onlytruth:
I'm not even talking about Biafra; I'm talking about NIGERIA in January 1966.
Like I keep telling you conspiracy theorists, Nigerian history is REAL and can almost be palpated.
There are facts everywhere in Nigeria about how Northern Nigerians killed other Nigerians (Igbos mainly) over things they know nothing about. One can count about 30 -50 of such riots in Northern Nigeria.
In all of them, Igbos die, and Northerner never apprehend and punish the perpetrators.
Heck they don't even apologize.
And then some people come here telling me about America and Israel.
Nna make una go pick book read, about NIGERIA.

Onlytruth:
Oh, my friend you fail me!
So, you mean you don't even know some of the most important Nigerian history, and you are here parroting some conspiracy theory?
mehn!

Onlytruth:
Please can you conspiracy theorists tell me how these are responsible for Gideon Akaluka's beheading and the massacre that follow; how a cartoon in Denmark led to mass murder in Nigeria; and how innocent youth corpers died because Buhari lost an election?

In the videos you shared, it showed that people inside those countries stood up to the power brokers and kicked them out. Why haven't Nigerians been able to do the same?
Why did Nzeogwu's revolution fail and why did tens of thousands of innocent Igbos get massacred for it?
More importantly, why are there no remorse by the perpetrators of that genocide even today?

When you answer these questions and link them to America and Israel I will start to listen.

cap28:
Pakistan has nukes and they are an ally of China.

I agree with you - it is too late -Obama recently met with Israeli Defence minister to discuss their planned attack on Iran:

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28355

cap28:
^^^^
thanks for posting afro blue.

You have to laugh at the level of ignorance coming from some posters on here who continue to defend this monstrosity known as the zionist state of israel.

They own the international banking cartels and the western corporate media and they control the US and british govts.

They are now pushing the world towards a third world war because of their infinite craving for power and world domination.

my question is - can they be stopped or is it too late?

Onlytruth:
In the world of conspiracy theory, anything is possible, that is why I am more interested in HISTORY. What ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
From history, I know, that in the era of "modern" African state, African Muslims have killed more Africans than America, and Israel combined. An uneasy stalemate is holding in Dafur as we speak, where Arab Africans have attempted to ethnically cleanse black Africans in an o.r.gy of violence.

Northern Nigerian muslims have killed more Nigerians than any foreign country could ever attempt without provoking a military response from Nigeria.

So, I feel very insulted when Africans (black) come here to parrot conspiracy theories they hardly understand.

Why not simply tell your African Muslims to repent and toss the mass murdering Koran into the abyss in the interest of Africa's peace and unity. No, they won't! They would prefer the boogie man's story instead. SMDH!