Monday, May 12, 2014

Nigeria, Africa Civil Wars, AFRICOM, U.S. Drone Attacks, and False Flag Events
By: Ricardo C. Amaral


If history serves as a guide, then here is what must be going on behind the scenes regarding Nigeria.

The United States strategic policy towards the African countries: False Flag Events, country destabilization, Drones attacks, and all kinds of natural resource pillaging, mainly gold and oil...

The US mainstream media is so discredited at this point that is not even funny. You need to be very naïve, and ignorant, to believe in many of their stories.

Basically, US mainstream news is designed for entertainment, and you need to take most of their stories with a grain of salt.

I understand Americans are saturated with so much non-sense that pass in the United States as news that they need the escapism provided by what is supposed to be the news provided by the BBC, CNN (the Cartoon Network) and most of the US mainstream media. News in the United States is nothing more than showbiz designed to entertain the population.

For example in 2012 the NGO Invisible Children’s Kony 2012, a documentary about the sketchy African warlord Joseph Kony, went viral on YouTube, (37 million people watched it in a matter of days), and the US mainstream media did beat that story to death as usual.

That video received a lot of publicity from the US mainstream media, as a piece of real news, but after the video was exposed as a hoax, the mainstream media didn't go back and let the public know that the video was a hoax.

On May 5, 2014, I was watching for a minute CNN (the Cartoon Network), and they interviewed the producer of that video as if that video was real news. They did that to reinforce the latest “false flag event” about the 200 missing girls from Nigeria.

For some reason CNN (the Cartoon Network), a supposed news TV channel, doesn't have a clue that the NGO Invisible Children’s Kony 2012, a documentary that they still are talking about it as if that was real news and not a hoax that got out of hand, because the television networks didn't check if that story was real, or just a hoax.


Kony 2012 Hoax Exposed

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 11, 2012

NGO Invisible Children’s Kony 2012, a documentary about the sketchy African warlord Joseph Kony, went viral on YouTube last week.

Kony 2012 is but another piece of slick propaganda designed to tug on the heart strings – and the purse strings – of ignorant Americans who are clueless about the real reasons why the globalists are now moving into Africa in a big way. Invisible Children’s connections to USAID and thus the CIA should put the effort in context.


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The false flag event in Nigeria is very similar case to the “KONY 2012” that was exposed as a hoax:

KONY 2012 Exposed: African Invasion Psyop: Infowars Nightly News – March 9, 2012


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The Brain Dead Society

For the last 25 years more than 9 million people has died in Africa as a result of very nasty civil wars, and we have had very little news coverage here in the United States all these years about this sea of blood all over many Africa countries, even when the United States was involved as in Angola.

Muammar Gaddafi was the African leader that fought all these years to keep the United States from building military bases in Africa. And that was one of the major reasons the United States wanted to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi.

As soon as Gaddafi was assassinated the United States started building many military bases in Africa. And since then the United States it has built 35 new military bases around Africa to terrorize the African people with drone attacks.

The false flag event “Kony 2012 Hoax” was created by the CIA to create an enemy to justify the idea of sending US soldiers to that part of Africa. And now they are using the same strategy with the phoney story about the kidnapped girls in Nigeria to put boots on the ground. It's easy for these CIA people to stage some kidnapping of 300 girls, and create a “Wag the Dog” scenario just like in the movie.

It's not just a coincidence that Nigeria a country that has a lot of oil such as in Iraq, Libya, and Iran, in November 13, 2013, the United States added 2 Nigerian groups to U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

It's obvious that Nigerian oil is in play, and it's the real reason of what is behind the hoax about the story of the 300 kidnapped girls in Nigeria.

Please wake up people, you don't need to look any further than the history of the United States in relation to the countries of Africa.

Americans never gave a shit about all the civil wars that were happening in Africa the last 25 years were more than 9 million people has died, and probably double that amount have been displaced from where they used to live and became refugees.

Most Americans can't even find where the African Continent is located in a map, never mind Nigeria, and a lot of Americans think that Africa is a country located somewhere around the world.

I understand that Americans doesn't want to use their brain to think, otherwise the United States wouldn't be in such a mess today.

And now they came up with a new false flag event that 300 Nigerian girls have been kidnapped and are being sold as slaves, or something like that.

Americans never gave a shit all these years about the atrocities that happened across Africa where over 9 million people died, and now I am supposed to believe that the US government is concerned about 300 girls who were supposed to be kidnapped by some group in Africa.

I guess we are supposed to play the game with the US mainstream media and the US government, and we are supposed to be outraged with this case of kidnapping in Nigeria.

I know, we are supposed to go along with US “Operation Clueless” that the United States is running around the world for many years including in Africa.


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It's not just a coincidence that Nigeria a country that has a lot of oil such as in Iraq, Libya, and Iran, in November 13, 2013, the United States added 2 Nigerian groups to U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

On November 13, 2013 — Two Islamist groups in Nigeria were added to the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations...Boko Haram and a splinter group, Ansaru, were named to the federal roster of terrorist groups after U.S. officials determined that they had received training and some financing from the Al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa.

First Iraq: they demonized Saddam Hussein, destroyed his entire country, to be able to loot the oil resources of that country. The place still in complete chaos....

Second Libya: they demonized Muammar Gaddafi, destroyed his entire country, to be able to loot the oil, and gold resources of that country. The place still in complete chaos....that has been spreading to other countries in North Africa.

Third Iran: they have been demonizing the leaders of Iran, since 1979, and they have been talking about waging war against Iran for many years, also to loot the oil and gas resources of that country.

Fourth Sudan: they destabilized and created a nasty civil war in the Sudan where more than 2 million people died, and more than 4 million were internally displaced or become refugees as a result of the civil war and war-related impacts. Also again to be able to loot the rich oil resources of that country.

Fifth Congo: the Congo Civil War (also known as the Great War of Africa) began in August 1998, the deadliest war in modern African history, it has directly involved nine African nations, as well as about 20 armed groups. By 2008, the war and its aftermath had killed 5.4 million people, mostly from disease and starvation, the Congo has become a never-ending nightmare, one of the bloodiest conflicts since World War II.

It seems incomprehensible that the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa and on paper one of the richest, teeming with copper, diamonds and gold, vast farmlands of spectacular fertility and enough hydropower to light up the continent...Congo is estimated to possess $24 trillion of mineral resources.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/sunday-review/congos-never-ending-war.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Sixth Angola: The Angolan Civil War lasted from November 11, 1975 – April 4, 2002 with more than 500,000 people dead, and over one million had been internally displaced and became refugees in other countries, and the United States was a major feature of the conflict. Angola is another country with vast natural resources including oil, and gold.

Finally Nigeria, Nigeria has a large Muslim population, and in the last few years Nigeria has been engulfed into sectarian civil war where the homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is inciting a religious crisis by attacking Christian churches in an attempt to destabilize the government. Those attacks have taken more than 1,000 lives over the past year and the volume, lethality and sophistication of the attacks are escalating.

But that is nothing when compared with the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970.

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 – January 15, 1970, was an ethnic and political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The conflict was the result of economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions mainly between the Hausas of north and the Igbo of the southeast of Nigeria. Over the two and half years of the war, 1 million civilians died from famine and fighting.

And guess what?

Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in Africa.

I understand that Americans have been brainwashed with endless terrorist stories, and there's a boogeyman everywhere that's is coming to get America.

But when most of the deception is uncovered, what is behind the mask, it has nothing to do with democracy, or going to help people in need. The real goal is to pillage the resources of all these countries, and also of everybody in sight.
Nigeria false flag event

My best guess is that this kidnapping story in Nigeria was a staged event to justify sending US troops to Nigeria.

When millions of people were being killed in Africa in all these civil wars in the last 30 years Americans never gave a shit about the 9 million Africans who died in all these conflicts.

And now Americans are making all this big deal, because around 300 girls were supposed to be kidnapped.

And they expect me to believe that Americans give a shit about these poor African girls.

More than 2 million people died in the Sudan in the last few years, and there are a lot people who still are dying, because of the civil war in Sudan. And Americans didn't give a shit about this genocide that still is underway in Sudan.

The US mainstream media knows that Americans have more important things to worry and talk about; such as what is happening in the private lives of people like the Kardashians, Justin Bieber, and now Monica Lewinsky. (The blow job girl.)

I bet that at least 95 % of Americans can't find Nigeria in a map.

If Nigeria didn't have the largest oil resources in Africa, then the US mainstream media would not be mentioning the kidnapping of these girls even as a curiosity.

The Boko Haram deal has been going on for years. It's nothing new. This group was placed in the US terrorist list only 5 months ago.

Now they cooked up this deal about the kidnapping of these girls to justify sending US troops to Nigeria, and I would not be surprised if the American troops can even come up with 300 poor girls - just give them a few bucks for them to play their part in this staged event.

This entire charade is about the United States interest in Nigerian oil.

This entire bullshit is about oil, and nothing else.

The US government doesn't give a shit about the 50 million black population that live in the United States, and do you think that they care about 300 poor Nigerian girls in Africa?

If Nigeria had no oil, we would not be having this discussion in the United States, and turn this issue into a big circus.


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AFRICOM and US Drone Attacks in Africa


US Military Moves Into 35 Countries In Africa 2013 – January 5, 2013

Another update on exponentially growing US activities on the continent of Africa - this time an announcement weeks ago that US military would move in over 35 African countries through 2013.The propaganda and military buildup towards a large intervention in Mali for next September continues as well. And there has also been a buildup of French special forces in the region as well as mercenaries. As suspected, Africa will be a big factor in 2013 and the continuing and expanding global war on "terror" - US in 35 African countries 2013


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A discussion about the re-colonization of Africa...about AFRICOM, and so on...

This discussion happened before the United States announced that they were going to build 35 new military bases around Africa.
 

Why the US establishing military bases in Africa? - Africa Today – June 27, 2012

A report from the Washington post has stated the US military have established small air bases in Africa to keep surveillance on some African regions they consider to be a threat from 'Al Qaeda'. Along with air bases there are also trained army personnel.

The operations that take place here are controlled by the US special operations forces, but have a significantly large dependence on private military contractors.

The bases are in Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, and Seychelles.

Many experts believe that the special operation forces which have played a massive role in the Obama administrations national security strategy are working all over the globe, and not just in war zones which bring in to question what the real motives are.


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NATO Fighting Cold War in Libya - James Corbett on RT – April 19, 2011

Independent journalist James Corbett believes it would be naïve to think that China-US rivalry is the only factor playing a role in Libya, but Beijing is certainly concerned about what is going on.

"Chinese investment in Africa has been growing at such an incredible rate over the past several years, and Gaddafi himself has been on record to say that he believes that China will ultimately be the major player in Africa, because Chinese aid to African countries isn't tied to humanitarian concerns the way aid from the West is or, at least, supposedly is," said Corbett.


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United States AFRICOM agenda in Africa...


Libya Proxy Cold War between China & West? - April 20, 2011

Many share the opinion that Washington is pursuing a larger goal than just regime change across the Arab world. RT crosses live to Brazil to speak to Asia Times correspondent - Pepe Escobar - about the role some countries are playing in the uprisings.


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Here is where the troubles for Gaddafi and Libya started, and Benghazi comes to mind....

NATO's mission all along: regime change in Libya and assassinate Gaddafi.



Pepe Escobar: NATO wanted Gaddafi dead all along – October 20, 2011
http://youtu.be/CgN4kCI3nhc

Gaddafi at one point was a hero to the Western world, but for the last year Gaddafi was looked at as a villain. There are many reports explaining the reasons why the change of heart from the Western powers. Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times, helps us understand what happened and what lies ahead for Libya.


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As China build new infrastructure in African countries, and is developing new markets in Africa, in contrast, since the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi the United States built 35 military bases to terrorize the African people with drone attacks.



The First Lady Marks Mother's Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria


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According to Noam Chomsky: “Drone” is a terrorist weapon, and a terrorist generating machine.

Noam Chomsky: 'Drone strikes a terror-generating machine' – May 23, 2013


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US plans to have troops all over Africa


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US drone attacks in several Asian and African countries


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"These Drones Attack Us and the Whole World is Silent": New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War


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The Real New Network

Gaddafi's Murder and International Law – October 20, 2011

Firoze Manji: Nothing in international law allows regime change and assassination of a leader.

The United States strategy is to benefit from creating destabilized states which is chaotic and allows or means that there's no central government that can control anything, we saw that happen in Somalia, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in Libya.

United States and NATO decided on the destruction of Libya, to take away the Libyan assets such as major water supply, oil resources, gold reserves, and much more...


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US drone attacks are immoral, illegal

Drone attacks carried out by the United States are immoral and illegal, says Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at Pan-African News Wire.

"These attacks are carried out in an effort to destabilize the various countries which are targeted through these drone attacks," he pointed out.

"We can see very clearly that this is part and parcel of a broader United States military program towards Africa," Azikiwe added.


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'US drone strikes, indubitable war crime'

A political analyst tells Press TV that the US assassination drone attacks amount to a "war crime" against civilians by a government that claims moral leadership of the world. As the number of casualties by US drone attacks in several countries increases, Washington claims the targets of the drone attacks are al-Qaeda militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years.

To further discuss the issue, Press TV's News Analysis program has conducted an interview with Mike Harris, financial editor of Veterans Today (Arizona), Lawrence J. Korb, senior fellow of American Progress (Washington), and Toby Blome, CodePink peace activist (Washington).


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I understand what you might be thinking about drone warfare the United States is waging around the world, but this is what is really happening in many places around the world, including in the Middle East, in Asia, in Africa, and in many countries in South America.

If you notice, this type of warfare doesn't need a lot people in most bases, and a lot of the people who are piloting these drones are located somewhere inside of the United States, and they are not counted as being part of the army located abroad.

It's a type of warfare a little bit different than the wars fought in Waterloo, WW I, WW II, the Korean War, and in Vietnam.


The Costs of Drone Warfare


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Rise of the Machines: The Military Drones are Coming Home


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The obvious thing to do is to fight back against the drones. It's to find a way to jam the drone software, and that is what people must be trying to do to fight back against this type of technology.

April 4, 2014

How To Kill A Drone: Since Drones Can Kill Americans, Americans Can Kill Drones, Here’s How


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China and Africa


As China build new infrastructure in African countries, and is developing new markets in Africa, a win/win strategy for China and the African countries, and the African people.


The Real News Network

The Rise of Chinese Influence in Africa – August 6, 2013


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Can the U.S. compete with China in African Trading Markets? - April 5, 2013

U.S. investment and trading in Africa is falling short to the growing power of Chinese investors.


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Chinese influence in Africa


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China and Africa | New York Forum Africa 2012 – January 22, 2013


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Brazil and Angola

Brazzil Magazine - June 2003
Brazil and the Angolan Connection”
Written by Ricardo C. Amaral

http://brazilandtheangolanconnection.blogspot.com/2011/10/brazil-and-angola.html


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In a Nutshell:

 
AFRICOM go home, Foreign bases out of Africa – February 19, 2014
Time: 1 hr. 47 min.

AFRICOM GO HOME : No Foreign Bases in Africa is shot within the context of the fiftieth anniversary of the "Independence" of African states (OAS 1963-2013). It's an anti-propaganda, not-for-profit film dedicated to raising public consciousness by opening up a space for discussion and building a sound information base drawn from archival records.

This documentary represents my views, and my views alone, on geopolitical challenges to both Africa and the wider world. The contents of this film can in no way be ascribed to GRILA or any of its members. It addresses Africa's leaders, all PanAfricanists, internationalist and especially the African Youth caught up in the maelstrom of Africa's place in the world.

AFRICOM GO HOME illuminates a vision of freedom that comes down from the mothers and fathers of panAfricanism.

This documentary takes a personal look at how events have evolved in the wake of the signing of the declaration "AFRICOM Go Home" by fifty or so organizations from Africa and Germany that are united in their opposition to the presence of AFRICOM on either African or German soil. The film is a combination of images filmed or taken off the WEB . However, the authors of those images are in no way responsible for the production or point of view of this film.

This video helps us to understand events arising out of the "AFRICOM Go Home" Declaration and what has been achieved since then.

It shines a spotlight on the history and evolution of imperialistic, neocolonial military forces within
Africa over the last fifty years.

It unpacks AFRICOM and how it came into existence, what it means and provides a way of interpreting imperialist rivalries and ambitions on the continent, including why they spy on each other and exposing the contradictions that have surfaced in the "fight against terrorism".

It articulates disbelief in claims of humanitarian goals by those who established AFRICOM for Africa after building a whole network of bases stretching as far as Germany.

It explores contradictions that also arise between Africans and within African organizations as they try to defend themselves within a context of conflicts tied to the pillage of their resources and the appropriation of their ancestral lands.

It examines the urgent need for Pan-African and internationalist resistance as well as the re-politicization of our Youth for future democracy.

The film follows President Obama when he visits Germany and Africa, highlighting the attitudes of various European, American and African presidents as well as AFRICOM's military chiefs. There is also footage on some of the men and women who make up the opposition.

It takes stock of security policies on the continent, paying special attention to the influence of American neoconservatives and how regional power blocs are already putting some of their policies into practice.

AFRICOM GO HOME exposes the machinations of both imperialism and neo-colonialism and shows how they operate to coopt our elites and military leaders as well as civil society organizations. It paints a picture of the damage to which Africans are exposed when these bases take up residence in their midst.

Clearly, our local elites are no less responsible than their foreign bosses for has evolved.

The film urges all parties to review of those bases already cached on the African continent or encircling it as well as NATO's position, the vulnerability and tutelage of the African Union and the presence of a ravenous pack of emerging nations under the rubric of BRIC.

By way of explanation, this video mounts a hypothesis that takes note of the repatriation of Germany's gold which had long been held captive by the US, France and the UK; the now dominant position of China in the global monetary system as well as the reasons why the base was launched so precipitously in Germany. It then goes on to provide reasons for the crisis unfolding in Mali.

This film unveils the AFRICOM base in Germany before the eyes of the world. In doing so, it also draws special attention to the heroic efforts of members of the public and parliamentary representatives belonging to the Linke Party, and acknowledges their court action against AFRICOM's drone strikes and targeted killings.

Beyond the security question, this video demonstrates that the crisis in capitalism as well as endemic under-development are fertile ground for culturalism, integrationism, populism and terrorism which are tools that can both create divisions across the continent and abort sovereignty.

AFRICOM and NATO have concocted formulas that they claim will protect Africa.

However, this film is an appeal for more self-determination and balance in Africa's development. It calls for the reemergence of progressive wings of African states as well as a plan for accelerating Pan-African integration within the context of internationalism and a polycentric world that upholds all of humanity's common "good".
 


Copyright © 2014 by Ricardo C. Amaral - All rights reserved.


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Ricardo C. Amaral
Author and economist

He can be reached at:
brazilamaral@yahoo.com

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