British Mercenary Given Death Sentence In Africa

By ewingsc ⋅ June 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, fascism

Two mercenaries, one of them British, were sentenced to death by a Congolese court yesterday for allegedly killing their driver.
Joshua French, 28, who has dual British and Norwegian nationality, and Tjostolv Moland, 29, a Norwegian,
face execution by firing squad after being found guilty of espionage and murder.
Both worked as security [...]

The Media Is Lying To You About Pirates

By ewingsc ⋅ May 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, Poverty, fascism

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South Africa To Kick Homeless Off Streets Before World Cup

By ewingsc ⋅ March 30, 2010 ⋅ One comment
    Posted in: Africa, Economics, Education, Environment, Health, News, Poverty, censorship

Thousands of homeless people are being forced off the streets of South Africa to hide the scale of poverty there from World Cup fans.
[ ... those precious precious dollar bringing European based World Cup fans ... ]

More than 800 tramps, beggars and street children have already been removed from Johannesburg and sent to [...]

How Food & Water Are Driving A 21st-Century African Land Grab

By ewingsc ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Economics, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, Poverty

Ethiopia is only one of 20 or more African countries where land is being bought or leased for intensive agriculture on an immense scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.

Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13 million people needing food aid, [...]

Nigerian Militants Attack Shell Oil Pipeline

By ewingsc ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, fascism

LAGOS — Nigerian militants calling themselves the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) said Sunday they had attacked a major Shell oil pipeline in the volatile Niger Delta, in a statement obtained by AFP.
The group said the overnight attack “successfully disabled the trunk line belonging to Shell in the swamp of Obunoma” in the oil-rich Rivers State.
Shell [...]

Thatcher’s Coup

By ewingsc ⋅ February 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics

Timeline : Simon Mann
The events that led to the British mercenary being jailed in Equatorial Guinea for plotting to overthrow the government

2003
May-December: The coup plot is hatched in London and Cape Town.
A syndicate of financiers is drawn in, including Sir Mark Thatcher, then living in South Africa, who helps buy a helicopter
(though he claims he [...]

Wars Getting Less Dangerous ( report )

By ewingsc ⋅ January 31, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, South West Asia, The Arms Trade

A report says wars are less deadly than they once were and national mortality rates have continued to decline, even during conflicts, due to smaller scale fighting and better healthcare.
The report by a Canada-based project sponsored by four European governments also dismissed a widely-cited figure of 5.4 million people killed in wars in the Democratic [...]

Nigeria Rebels Threaten Attacks On Oil Industry

By ewingsc ⋅ January 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Science, Free Energy, Geopolitics, News

[ ...  for not sharing their obscene profits ]

[ Nigeria's main rebel group attacked a jetty used by oil tankers in Lagos Harbour ]

Nigeria’s strongest militant group has threatened to unleash “an all-out assault” on the oil and gas industry after calling off a three-month ceasefire.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) [...]

U.S. Indicts Four Israelis In Armaments Bribery Case

By ewingsc ⋅ January 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Economics, Geopolitics, The Arms Trade

The United States Justice Department indicted 22 businessmen, including four Israelis, on Tuesday in an arms sting.
[ neat ...   ...  like in 'Lord Of War' ]

The businessmen are suspected of attempting to bribe a person they thought was the defense minister of an African country in order to secure a multimillion-dollar contract to supply his [...]

Blackwater / XE Behind Terrorist Bombings In Asia & Africa?

By ewingsc ⋅ January 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Geopolitics, News, South West Asia

(WMR) — WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out “false flag” terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian Research and Analysis Wing [...]

Africom – Latest U.S. Bid To Recolonise The Continent Of Africa

By ewingsc ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, News

January 9, 2010
Harare — AFRICAN revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country’s imperialist interests.

Towards the end of last year, the US [...]

U.S. & NATO Expanding Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean

By ewingsc ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ One comment
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Geopolitics, News, South West Asia

[ ... and why ?  It's because they're such great guys who want to spread Democracy 'n' stuff  ]

By Rick Rozoff
Global Research, January 8, 2010
In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia – counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and drone missile attacks in Pakistan – the United States and its NATO allies have [...]

Federal Reserve : A Criminal Cartel In Which The World Is Silent About

By ewingsc ⋅ January 9, 2010 ⋅ One comment
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Economics, Geopolitics, South West Asia

THE FEDERAL RESERVE: A CRIMINAL CARTEL IN WHICH THE WORLD IS SILENT ABOUT
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
No one wants to admit, especially not our elected politicians that the problem, which is destroying and ripping the United States and globe apart, is the Federal Reserve System, but this writer suspects that many of those who sit [...]

Over Populated World? Do The Maths. Just Another Scam. ( video )

By ewingsc ⋅ January 5, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Economics, Featured, Geopolitics, Health, Media, News, Science, South West Asia

Scam, scam, scam, scam,  scam.
Roundly dedicated to these saps who still believe that what humanity will eventually just have to do in order to survive is to – in the future – somehow carve a few billion of us of the face of the planet like fat off last week’s christmas ham.
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9271

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What They Won’t Show You On Television

By ewingsc ⋅ January 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Economics, Geopolitics, Health, Media, News, Science, South West Asia

More Must-Watch Documentaries Than You Can Shake A Stick At
The documentaries below reveal the parts of reality that we are not supposed to talk about;
the parts of reality that contradict common sense, but still go on unquestioned by the global media cartel and unanswered by our governments.
Spread the Word.
http://www.sprword.com/mustwatch.html
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Earning The Disgust Of Your Kids

By ewingsc ⋅ January 3, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments
    Posted in: 911, Africa, BUSH IMPEACHMENT WATCH, Economics, Geopolitics, Economics, MELTDOWN NEWS, Media, Middle East, News, South West Asia

Back when the distant ancestors of rich fucks were busily getting other people [ through force ] to pop lots of stones on top of each other somewhere in the Fertile Crescent Valley -

- so that they just might might then beam their dying spirit to some particular star of note that they saw in [...]

The World According to Monsanto

By ewingsc ⋅ November 25, 2009 ⋅ One comment
    Posted in: Africa, Economics, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, News, Science

High Quality || Part 1 of 10

If You Flip Over The Rock Of American Foreign Policy …

By ewingsc ⋅ November 4, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments
    Posted in: Africa, Economics, Geopolitics, South West Asia

… it’s not a pretty picture.
invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments …
occupations … suppressing movements for social change …
assassinating political leaders … perverting elections …
manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” …
economic and political sanctions [...]

The Predator War

By ewingsc ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ 15 comments
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Geopolitics, News, Science, South West Asia

[ Predators : The Assholes of the Sky ]
On August 5th, officials at the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Virginia, watched a live video feed relaying closeup footage of one of the most wanted terrorists in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the [...]

Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth

By ewingsc ⋅ October 27, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Geopolitics, News, South West Asia

by Michel Chossudovsky
From Globalresearch

[ ... almost threw up in my own mouth when I heard Obama had been given the peace prize.
All that smooth-talking mannequin has done so far is emulate the planet fisting policies of his ape-minded predecessor, Bush II ]

When war becomes peace,
When concepts and realities are turned upside [...]

Arundhati Roy on What Kind of Resistance is Acceptable

By ewingsc ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments
    Posted in: 911, Africa, Economics, Geopolitics, Media, South West Asia

This from Arundhati Roy and DroppingKnowledge.org
Brief, articulate, relevant and to the point.
What’s happening here is happening everywhere.

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The Northern Imposed Imbalance (video)

By ewingsc ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Economics, Geopolitics, Media, News, South West Asia

[ Kind of speaks for itself ... ]

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Africa: U.S. Military Holds War Games on Nigeria, Somalia

By ewingsc ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ One comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, News

 
Africa is the next “Middle East”, in terms of resources to be exploited.
That’s the reason “Africom” was created in the first place.
[h/t What Really Happened.com]

 
-In addition to U.S. military officers and intelligence officers, “Unified Quest 2008″ brought together participants from the State Department and other U.S. government agencies, academics, journalists, and foreign military officers (including [...]

African Development Hindered by Vast US Corporate Interests in Continent’s Land, Resources

By ewingsc ⋅ August 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, News

[Like a clueless bloated tick that's rammed itself into the neck of a shriveled cow standing in a desiccated field somewhere,
the first world creates and perpetuates the third world.
End of story.
'National Interests' are not 'National' Interests.
They are 'International' Interests.
(And people wonder why there's bother in the world)
This from [...]

Tons of Imperial Fun: Hillary Pours Oil on Somalia’s Fire

By ewingsc ⋅ August 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
    Posted in: Africa, Geopolitics, News

WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD
 07 AUGUST 2009 21:55

There is apparently no path blazed by George W. Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. Surges, assassinations, indefinite detention, defense of torture, senseless wars and rampant militarism — in just a few short months, we’ve seen it all.
To this dismaying record of complicity and continuity, we [...]