Preventing Future Terrorism in Finland

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During these dangerous times of high tensions, terrorism could quickly end if Finland’s military were trained to form what is known in Latin American military circles as a Prevention Wing of the Military. This military unit would be comprised of Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) experts. The purpose of this IDT group would be to practice the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the advanced TM-Sidhi program in group twice a day.

Extensive peer-reviewed research and military field-tests worldwide show that proper application of these programs bring about measurable decreases in crime, terrorism and war, and improvements in quality of life, which are thought to be tangible signs of the reduction of societal stress. These changes are measurable from such statistics as reduced terrorism and conflict, crime rates, accidents, hospital admissions and infant mortality.

In highly stressed areas of the globe, establishment of large groups of IDT experts have also increased economic incentives and growth of prosperity. Entrepreneurship and creativity increase as well. Also, on a global scale when large groups of civilian experts gathered from 1983 to 1985, terrorism-related casualties decreased 72 per cent and international conflict decreased 32 per cent. Moreover, such positive changes in social trends take place within a few days or weeks after IDT is introduced.

The IDT approach has been used during wartime, resulting in reduction of fighting, reduced war deaths and casualties, and improved progress toward resolving the conflict through peaceful means. IDT is totally unlike any other defense technology in that it does not use violence in an attempt to quell violence.

It is the high collective stress levels in each country that ultimately fuel the never ending terrorism and war. If dangerous levels of collective stress and frustration are reduced by applying IDT, then governmental leaders and citizens will be more capable of finding constructive and orderly solutions to the irresolute issues that have kept them at odds for generations.

With greater civic calm, citizens’ aspirations will rise and a more productive and balanced society will emerge. Then violence as a means for change and/or as an expression of discontent will naturally subside.

The powerful IDT human-resource-based defense technology disallows negative trends and prevents enemies from arising.

No enemies means no war or terrorism and full security, as well as a happy, productive and normal life for everyone.

For these reasons, the IDT approach is advocated by the Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP). This non-profit organization hosted an international conference in Kiev, Ukraine (see: https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit/). Renowned Ukrainian leaders Lt. General (Ret.) Vasyl Krutov, former chief of the Ukraine Anti-Terrorism Center as well as Academician Dr. Sergiy Maksymenko, a distinguished Ukrainian research scientist are among the impressive list of participants who spoke at or voiced their support for the conference. Others included: President Joachim Chissano of Mozambique, who applied innovative IDT programs to end that nation’s civil war; retired Ecuadorian Lt. General José Villamil, who also applied IDT to end war between Ecuador and Peru; Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; and Mr. Mohd Khalid Naseemi, the founder and Director-General of the Afghanistan Environmental Society.

IDT is a way for the military of Finland to prevent conflict and terrorism by deploying a proven, simple human resource-based technology, with minimal training and costs needed to implement it. It would cost about as much as one modern fighter jet.

Recent events show that IDT is desperately needed. There is truly no other solution. Leaders in Finland would be wise to read the proceedings of the GUSP conference and learn how to best rapidly establish perpetual peace.

About the author:

Dr. David Leffler has a Ph.D. in Consciousness-Based Military Defense and served as an Associate of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (http://www.strongmilitary.org) and lectures and writes worldwide about IDT.

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Ecuadorian Ambassador Leopoldo Rovayo Visits the Governor of Kano State

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Ambassador of Ecuador to Nigeria, HE Leopoldo Rovayo, met with Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Executive Governor of Kano State, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano and Malam Umar Farouk Rabiu, President of Kano State Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.

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London terror attack near the UK Parliament: What we know now

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LONDON — Three people were killed and 20 others were wounded Wednesday in a terrorist attack at Britain's Parliament that sent crowds of tourists and lawmakers running for their lives.

The victims included a police officer who was stabbed at the House of Commons and died despite the efforts of doctors and a passing government minister to save him.

What happened?

The incident began when a man used a car to run down several pedestrians on the iconic Westminster Bridge. At least one woman was killed by the vehicle and others were left with "catastrophic injuries," according to police. The driver then rammed his car into the Parliament gates and fatally stabbed a police officer as he tried to enter the building.

Victims

British police said three people were killed, including one police officer and a woman. Twenty people, including three police officers, were wounded.

What we know

  • An attacker struck pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge and then crashed near Parliament.
  • A man armed with a knife tried to enter Parliament. He stabbed and killed a police officer before he was shot and killed by police.
  • Twelve people were treated for serious injuries. Eight others suffered less serious wounds.
  • Police said the attack, which came on the first anniversary of the Brussels terrorist attacks, was terrorism.
  • Prime minister, London mayor vow Britons will not be intimidated.
  • President Donald Trump promises full assistance to Britain.
  • Counterterrorism police sent to British offices and institutions in New York City.

Two other victims were struck by a 4×4 vehicle that plowed into people walking on nearby Westminster Bridge. Some of the pedestrians suffered "catastrophic" injuries, doctors said. A woman was pulled alive from the River Thames below the bridge with serious injuries.

The assailant, who is thought to have been acting alone, was brought to the ground by a gunshot and also died.

Twelve people were treated for "serious injuries" at hospitals, and eight others were treated for less serious injuries at the scene, said Pauline Cranmer, deputy director of operations for the London Ambulance Service.

The assault came on the first anniversary of terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, that killed 32 people, and police said Wednesday's incident was also terrorism.

Prime Minister Theresa May called the attacker a "sick and depraved terrorist" and said, "The location of this attack was no accident."

"The terrorist chose to strike at the heart of our national capital," May said in a nationally televised address outside 10 Downing Street.

May announced that Parliament would meet as scheduled on Thursday and said Londoners refused to allow "the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart."

"Let me make it clear today," she vowed. "Any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure."

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Kickstarter supports font development for dyslexic readers

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Who wants to be a President? This presidential race is a more noble cause to bring a helpful font to dyslexic people around the world. To make it easier for dyslexics to read, Christian Boer and partner Robert Walder have started a quite remarkable crowdfunding project. The noteworthy Kickstarter campaign is giving individuals and companies the chance to put Dyslexie Font on the world map.

With different levels of donations, supporters can bring the popular letter style to their school, town, city or a President level donation gives Dyslexie font to a whole country as a gift. The Dutch font designer Christian Boer together with his partner Robert Walder hope to make reading easier by spreading Dyslexie Font around the world. And they are well on the way.

Launching during 'Dyslexia Awareness Month’, the crowfunding project is part of Dutch Design initiative and a collaboration organized by the Dutch Design Foundation and Kickstarter.

The young graphic designer Christian Boer is dyslexic and developed the font in the first place to make reading easier for himself. Demand and awareness quickly grew for the font. Even Pixar Studios has worked with the font and used the font in the books by American actor Henry Winkler.

Christian Boer, Dyslexie Font founder:“I know too well the frustration of running into a great wall of letters. The next generation should not have to struggle to climb over the reading wall like I did. In the past, reading slowed me down. But, the font has helped me and others using my font to move forward towards unlocking information and discovering talents. My hope is to put the font in the hands of those young and old to help ease the frustration of dyslexia. With the font, students can focus more time on dreams and talents, instead of burning energy reading an email, newspaper or text message.” 

Crowdfunding will help deliver on the dreams and deliver the font worldwide. Supporters connecting with the dyslexia and the cause, can become the hero of their city, state (US) or country. Funds raised in the Kickstarter will be used to develop the software toolbox to simplify daily reading and use on various devices such as a PDF reader, mobile app, and browser converter. After a short few days, Boer and Walder have gained momentum. A third of the Kickstart amount required for development has already been received from an enthusiastic public.

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Ecuador to continue supporting OPEC’s efforts

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In view to the "historic meeting" the 171th summit of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held in Vienna, where it was agreed to reduce crude oil supply by approximately 1.2 million barrels per day, with a maximum production of 32.5 million barrels per day from 1st January 2017, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility Ecuador, Guillaume Long said his country will continue to encourage the works of OPEC.

"OPEC demonstrated its cohesion and continued relevance in the 21st century. Today was a very important day for our organization and for Ecuador, "said the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister via twitter account, after the OPEC meeting. This agreement has a validity of six months, with possibility of extending another six months.

Speaking to media, hours before the meeting, Guillaume Long explained that "what is sought is to stabilize…. Nobody is expecting the prices like it was 3 or 4 years ago for more than 100 dollars / barrel ", but of course "to balance prices so that we do not have those swings that have been so devastating for us, the exporting countries, "

Chancellor Long stressed the importance of this agreement, he then indicated that with an excess of oil that slam the prices of a barrel of oil which is generating "a lack of planning on the energy issue is a very strong disinvestment and when there is disinvestment, the impact is seen two or three years later. Suddenly, there is a drop in supply and the prices soar up”.

"It's an endless cycle that we must try to correct. That is why OPEC was conceived and the reason why it was created more than 50 years ago, we have to demonstrate today that we are still in force in this 21st century”

 The Ecuadorian Embassy in Nigeria stressed that this agreement is profitable for Ecuador, Nigeria, other OPEC countries, other exporting countries and the global economy for it will stimulate investment in the oil industry and boost the economy.

For more information please contact: Contact: Khoze Clement Tel: 08036467657, 09054545425 E-mail: fliponclems@yahoo.co.uk, fliponclems@gmail.com Facebook: Ecuatorianos en África Embajada en Nigeria.

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Spain in front of a historic crossroad

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For more than 40 years in the political arena of Spain two parties had been dominating, the People’s Party and the PSOE Party (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), which alternated in power. The last catalytic elections of December 20, 2015 resulted in a significant weakening of these traditional political forces and the emergence of new antiregime parties. Thus, the People’s Party of Mariano Rajoy got the lowest percentages since 1993 (28.72% of votes and 123 seats out of the 350 of the Parliament, compared to 44.6% of the votes and 186 seats in 2011), while the PSOE Party of Pedro Sanchez recorded the worst result in its history (22% of the votes and 90 seats, compared to 28.73% of the votes and 110 seats in the previous elections of 2011).

The emergence of the left party Podemos of Pablo Iglesias – product of the so-called movement of the “Indignant” – and of the center-right party Ciudadanos of Albert Rivera (which was supported by some mass media), in the third and fourth place respectively with high percentages (20.6% of the votes and 69 seats and 14% of the votes and 40 seats), shows the end of the forty-year-old two-party system and marks a new period for Spain.

This result, of course, is due largely to the economic crisis in Europe. The anti-popular austerity policy which was faithfully implemented by the government of Mariano Rajoy in the past four years, combined with a corruption scandal regarding his party, transformed the party map of Spain and led to the emergence of a new four-party political scene.

The new parliamentary reality, where no party has an absolute majority, leads inevitably either to a coalition government that the majority of Spaniards seems to prefer or to new elections. After four years of governance with strong majority, Spain is now facing the prospect of some kind of political instability that torments the other European countries as well, since the fragile government coalitions and the traditional parties that dominated the political scene for decades, feel strongly the pressing effects of the years of economic hardship and the growing wave of immigration.

The new Spanish government, whenever it may occur, with or without new elections, shall immediately be confronted with very serious problems and challenges. Although this European economy came out of the recession and entered the road to recovery, it will take several years, without regressions, to recover the lost ground. Otherwise, if the Spanish economy gets into reverse mode again, this precarious recovery will resemble the suspended step of the stork.
The country is beset by the second highest unemployment rate (21.18%) in the Euro-zone following Greece, and the unemployed Spaniards are more than five million. Poverty increases on a daily basis and threatens to disintegrate the social web of the country. “Poverty is the worst form of violence” once Mahatma Gandhi declared. With the applied vast neoliberal policies the gap between the rich and the poor is constantly growing. In 2013, 22.2% of the households, based on the most recent data of the National Statistics Institute (INE) of Spain, lived below the poverty line, i.e. their income was less than 60% of the mean national disposable income. Many people are living today without heating and without electric power, countless families face eviction and have no other residence (34.680 first houses, that is 95 a day, were confiscated in 2014 by the banks to be sold, according to the INE), many pensioners cannot pay for their medicines. Also, more than one in three children – or 2.6 million – are now faced with the risk of poverty and social exclusion, according to the most recent data of the European Commission. The high percentages of the long-term unemployed combined with the drastic cuts in expenditures on health and education have led more families and children to poverty in spite of the financial recovery.
The public debt is continuously showing an upward trend and based on the latest official figures, is at 98.8% of the GDP, approaching the high level of 100% of the GDP that reached or exceeded in the years 1900 and 1909. The “informal economy” is estimated at 25% of the GDP, i.e. 235 billion Euros that have not been declared, thereby depriving the Spanish State from some very substantial financial resources.

Meanwhile, the new Spanish government shall have to tackle the urgent issue of Catalonia. The election of the separatist Carles Puigdemont, who shall be responsible for starting the process of independence, to the presidency of Catalonia, is a resounding wake-up. “We need to commence the process to create an independent State in Catalonia, so that the decisions of the Catalan Parliament are sovereign”, he declared on Sunday 10th January 2016, under the cheering of the Members, only hours before the Catalan Parliament elected him head of the local government and successor Artur Mas.
The direct consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia, which is the richest region of Spain with a product of about 200 billion Euros, shall undoubtedly be extremely painful: without Catalonia, Spain shall lose 16% of its population, 25% of its exports, and 19% of its GDP according to the OECD.
More than 586,000 companies are based in Catalonia – out of those 2,150 large companies employing more than 200 workers each, such as Gas Natura and the giant of garments Mango. In Catalonia there is the factory of the Volkswagen group as well producing cars of the brand Seat.
Besides, Barcelona is by far the first tourist destination across the country and one of the leading worldwide, with net proceeds from the arrival and stay of tourists reaching tremendous heights. Meanwhile, both in the commercial and the industrial sector, Barcelona is perhaps the most fundamental pillar of the Spanish economy.
The tendency of Catalonia for independence, this should be emphasized at this point, was born and acquired gigantic dimensions due to the austerity policies imposed by Brussels and mainly Berlin on Spain and of course throughout the Euro-zone. This is the main reason why the Catalans want to become at least autonomous. They want to have their own laws and their taxes not to go to Madrid to pay the austerity programmes. The reasons for the apparent break-up are therefore primarily financial.
In conclusion, the extreme austerity policies have hurt obviously and heavily Spain, like other countries in the Euro-zone. Therefore it is needed by the new Spanish government, which will be faced with a historic crossroad, to formulate a very clear progressive policy that will be built upon the re-examination of the Constitution, the direction of specific popular social reforms, the inhibition of uncontrolled privatization suffering, among other things, from issues of transparency, and the protection of the first housing to low income groups. The effective combat against tax evasion and financial crime is also needed, as well as the appropriate restructuring of the production model and the significant easing of major structural imbalances, such as unemployment, budget deficits, and the public debt.

About the author
Isidoros Karderinis was born in Athens, Greece in 1967. He is a novelist, poet and economist with postgraduate studies in tourist economy. His articles have been republished in newspapers, magazines and sites worldwide. His poems have been translated in French and have been published in literary magazines. He has published seven books of poetry and two novels. Five of which have been published in the USA and in Great Britain.

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14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization

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 Did you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today!

When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of French colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the French colonial elite in Paris got so furious, and in a historic act of fury the French administration in Guinea destroyed everything in the country which represented what they called the benefits from French colonization.

Three thousand French left the country, taking all their property and destroying anything that which could not be moved: schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were crumbled; cars, books, medicine, research institute instruments, tractors were crushed and sabotaged; horses, cows in the farms were killed, and food in warehouses were burned or poisoned.

The purpose of this outrageous act was to send a clear message to all other colonies that the consequences for rejecting France would be very high.

Slowly fear spread through the African elite, and none after the Guinea events ever found the courage to follow the example of Sékou Touré, whose slogan was “We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.” Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a tiny country in West Africa, found a middle ground solution with the French.

He didn’t want his country to continue to be a French dominion, therefore he refused to sign the colonisation continuation pact De Gaulle proposed, but agree to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits Togo got from French colonization.

It was the only conditions for the French not to destroy the country before leaving. However, the amount estimated by France was so big that the reimbursement of the so called “colonial debt” was close to 40% of the country budget in 1963.

The financial situation of the newly independent Togo was very unstable, so in order to get out the situation, Olympio decided to get out the French colonial money FCFA (the franc for French African colonies), and issue the country own currency.

On January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing his country own currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first elected president of newly independent Africa. Olympio was killed by an ex French Foreign Legionnaire army sergeant called Etienne Gnassingbe who supposedly received a bounty of $612 from the local French embassy for the hit man job.

Olympio’s dream was to build an independent and self-sufficient and self-reliant country. But the French didn’t like the idea.

On June 30, 1962, Modiba Keita , the first president of the Republic of Mali, decided to withdraw from the French colonial currency FCFA which was imposed on 12 newly independent African countries. For the Malian president, who was leaning more to a socialist economy, it was clear that colonisation continuation pact with France was a trap, a burden for the country development.

On November 19, 1968, like, Olympio, Keita will be the victim of a coup carried out by another ex-French Foreign legionnaire, the Lieutenant Moussa Traoré.

In fact during that turbulent period of African fighting to liberate themselves from European colonization, France would repeatedly use many ex foreign legionnaires to carry out coups against elected presidents:

  • – On January 1st, 1966, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, an ex-French foreign legionnaire, carried a coup against David Dacko, the first President of the Central African Republic.
  • – On January 3, 1966, Maurice Yaméogo, the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, was victim of a coup carried by Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, an ex-French legionnaire who fought with French troops in Indonesia and Algeria against these countries independence.
  • – on 26 October 1972, Mathieu Kérékou who was a security guard to President Hubert Maga, the first President of the Republic of Benin, carried a coup against the president, after he attended French military schools from 1968 to 1970.

In fact, during the last 50 years, a total of 67 coups happened in 26 countries in Africa, 16 of those countries are French ex-colonies, which means 61% of the coups happened in Francophone Africa.

Number of Coups in Africa by country

Ex French colonies  Other African countries
Country  Number of coup Country number of coup
Togo 1 Egypte 1
Tunisia 1 Libye 1
Cote d’Ivoire 1 Equatorial Guinea 1
Madagascar 1 Guinea Bissau 2
Rwanda 1 Liberia 2
Algeria 2 Nigeria 3
Congo – RDC 2 Ethiopia 3
Mali 2 Ouganda 4
Guinea Conakry 2 Soudan 5
SUB-TOTAL 1 13    
Congo 3    
Tchad 3    
Burundi 4    
Central Africa 4    
Niger 4    
Mauritania 4    
Burkina Faso 5    
Comores 5    
SUB-TOTAL 2 32    
TOTAL (1 + 2) 45 TOTAL 22

As these numbers demonstrate, France is quite desperate but active to keep a strong hold on his colonies whatever the cost, no matter what.

In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said:

“Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [world] power”

Chirac’s predecessor François Mitterand already prophesied in 1957 that:

 “Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century”

At this very moment I’m writing this article, 14 African countries are obliged by France, through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank under French minister of Finance control. Until now, 2014, Togo and about 13 other African countries still have to pay colonial debt to France. African leaders who refuse are killed or victim of coup. Those who obey are supported and rewarded by France with lavish lifestyle while their people endure extreme poverty, and desperation.

It’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billion dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out.

We often accuse African leaders of corruption and serving western nations interests instead, but there is a clear explanation for that behaviour. They behave so because they are afraid to be killed or to become victim of a coup. They want a powerful nation to back them in case of aggression or trouble. But, contrary to a friendly nation protection, the western protection is often offered in exchange of these leaders renouncing to serve their own people or nations’ interests.

African leaders would work in the interest of their people if they were not constantly stalked and bullied by colonial countries.

In 1958, scared about the consequence of choosing independence from France, Leopold Sédar Senghor declared: “The choice of the Senegalese people is independence; they want it to take place only in friendship with France, not in dispute.”

From then on France accepted only an “independence on paper” for his colonies, but signed binding “Cooperation Accords”, detailing the nature of their relations with France, in particular ties to France colonial currency (the Franc), France educational system, military and commercial preferences.

Below are the 11 main components of the Colonisation continuation pact since 1950s:

#1.  Colonial Debt for the benefits of France colonization

The newly “independent” countries should pay for the infrastructure built by France in the country during colonization.

I still have to find out the complete details about the amounts, the evaluation of the colonial benefits and the terms of payment imposed on the African countries, but we are working on that (help us with info). 

#2. Automatic confiscation of national reserves

The African countries should deposit their national monetary reserves into France Central bank.

France has been holding the national reserves of fourteen African countries since 1961: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

“The monetary policy governing such a diverse aggregation of countries is uncomplicated because it is, in fact, operated by the French Treasury, without reference to the central fiscal authorities of any of the WAEMU or the CEMAC. Under the terms of the agreement which set up these banks and the CFA the Central Bank of each African country is obliged to keep at least 65% of its foreign exchange reserves in an “operations account” held at the French Treasury, as well as another 20% to cover financial liabilities.

The CFA central banks also impose a cap on credit extended to each member country equivalent to 20% of that country’s public revenue in the preceding year. Even though the BEAC and the BCEAO have an overdraft facility with the French Treasury, the drawdowns on those overdraft facilities are subject to the consent of the French Treasury. The final say is that of the French Treasury which has invested the foreign reserves of the African countries in its own name on the Paris Bourse.

In short, more than 80% of the foreign reserves of these African countries are deposited in the “operations accounts” controlled by the French Treasury. The two CFA banks are African in name, but have no monetary policies of their own. The countries themselves do not know, nor are they told, how much of the pool of foreign reserves held by the French Treasury belongs to them as a group or individually.

The earnings of the investment of these funds in the French Treasury pool are supposed to be added to the pool but no accounting is given to either the banks or the countries of the details of any such changes. The limited group of high officials in the French Treasury who have knowledge of the amounts in the “operations accounts”, where these funds are invested; whether there is a profit on these investments; are prohibited from disclosing any of this information to the CFA banks or the central banks of the African states .” Wrote Dr. Gary K. Busch

It’s now estimated that France is holding close to 500 billion African countries money in its treasury, and would do anything to fight anyone who want to shed a light on this dark side of the old empire.

The African countries don’t have access to that money.

France allows them to access only 15% of the money in any given year. If they need more than that, they have to borrow the extra money from their own 65% from the French Treasury at commercial rates.

To make things more tragic, France impose a cap on the amount of money the countries could borrow from the reserve. The cap is fixed at 20% of their public revenue in the preceding year. If the countries need to borrow more than 20% of their own money, France has a veto.

Former French President Jacques Chirac recently spoke about the African nation’s money in France banks. You could check out the video of him speaking about the French exploitation scheme. He is speaking in French, but here is a short excerpt transcript: “We have to be honest, and acknowledge that a big part of the money in our banks come precisely from the exploitation of the African continent.”

#3.  Right of first refusal on any raw or natural resource discovered in the country

France has the first right to buy any natural resources found in the land of its ex-colonies. It’s only after France would say, “I’m not interested”, that the African countries are allowed to seek other partners.

#4. Priority to French interests and companies in public procurement and public biding

In the award of government contracts, French companies must be considered first, and only after that these countries could look elsewhere. It doesn’t matter if the African countries can obtain better value for money elsewhere.

As consequence, in many of the French ex-colonies, all the majors’ economical assets of the countries are in the hand of French expatriates. In Côte d’Ivoire, for example, French companies own and control all the major utilities – water, electricity, telephone, transport, ports and major banks. The same in commerce, construction, and agriculture.

In the end, as I’ve written in a previous article, Africans now live On a Continent Owned by Europeans!

#5. Exclusive right to supply military equipment and Train the country military officers

Through a sophisticated scheme of scholarships, grants, and “Defence Agreements” attached to the Colonial Pact, the Africans should send their senior military officers for training in France or French ran-training facilities.

The situation on the continent now is that France has trained hundreds, even thousands of traitors and nourish them. They are dormant when they are not needed, and activated when needed for a coup or any other purpose!

#6. Right for France to pre-deploy troops and intervene military in the country to defend its interests

Under something called “Defence Agreements” attached to the Colonial Pact, France had the legal right to intervene militarily in the African countries, and also to station troops permanently in bases and military facilities in those
countries, run entirely by the French.

French military bases in Africa

When President Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire tried to end the French exploitation of the country, France organized a coup. During the long process to oust Gbagbo, France tanks, helicopter gunships and Special Forces intervened directly in the conflict, fired on civilians and killed many.

To add insult to injury, France estimated that the French business community had lost several millions of dollars when in the rush to leave Abidjan in 2006 the French Army massacred 65 unarmed civilians and wounded 1,200 others.

After France succeeded the coup, and transferred power to Alassane Outtara, France requested Ouattara government to pay compensation to french business community for the losses during the civil war. Indeed the Ouattara government paid them twice what they said they had lost in leaving.

#7. Obligation to make French the official language of the country and the language for education

Oui, Monsieur. Vous devez parlez français, la langue de Molière!

A French language and culture dissemination organization has been created called “Francophonie” with several satellites and affiliates organizations supervised by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

As demonstrated in this article, if French is the only language you speak, you’d have access to less than 4% of humanity knowledge and ideas. That’s very limiting.

#8. Obligation to use France colonial money FCFA

That’s the real milk cow for France, but it’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billion dollars from Africa to its treasury.

During the introduction of Euro currency in Europe, other European countries discovered the French exploitation scheme. Many, especially the Nordic countries, were appalled and suggested France get rid of the system, but unsuccessfully.

#9.  Obligation to send France annual balance and reserve report.

Without the report, no money. Anyway the secretary of the Central banks of the ex-colonies, and the secretary of the bi-annual meeting of the Ministers of Finance of the ex-colonies is carried out by France Central bank / Treasury.

#10. Renunciation to enter into military alliance with any other country unless authorized by France

African countries in general are the ones with will less regional military alliances. Most of the countries have only military alliances with their ex-colonisers! (Funny, but you can’t do better!).

In the case France ex-colonies, France forbid them to seek other military alliance except the one it offered them.

#11. Obligation to ally with France in situation of war or global crisis

Over one million Africans soldiers fought for the defeat of Nazism and fascism during the Second World War.

Their contribution is often ignored or minimized, but when you think that it took only 6 weeks for Germany to defeat France in 1940, France knows that Africans could be useful for fighting for la “Grandeur de la France” in the future.

There is something almost psychopathic in the relation of France with Africa.

First, France is severely addicted to looting and exploitation of Africa since the time of slavery. Then there is this complete lack of creativity and imagination of French elite to think beyond the past and tradition.

Finally, France has 2 institutions which are completely frozen into the past, inhabited by paranoid and psychopath “haut fonctionnaires” who spread fear of apocalypse if France would change, and whose ideological reference still comes from the 19th century romanticism: they are the Minister of Finance and Budget of France and the Minister of Foreign affairs of France.

These 2 institutions are not only a threat to Africa, but to the French themselves.

It’s up to us as African to free ourselves, without asking for permission, because I still can’t understand for example how 450 French soldiers in Côte d’Ivoire could control a population of 20 million people!? 

People first reaction when they learn about the French colonial tax is often a question: “Until when?”

For historical comparison, France made Haiti to pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 (almost one century and half) for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery and the liberation of the Haitian slaves.

African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left

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Remnants of colonial influence in Africa today: A crime against humanity?

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In the face of an obvious international injustice that decorates the global society today, even in the 21st century, so many questions flood the mind of the normal and average African mind. Irrespective of efforts not to be left “enslaved” for the second time by the tragic memories of the colonial past, one is curious to know if colonialism has really ended. YES will be a very audacious answer. The indices are clear.

It is unbelievable yet true to go through the streets of European countries, like Paris and see the concentration of the young African energy wasting on the road sides. Many stand under the heat of the harsh weather, whether hot or freezing cold temperatures sell nuts and the like, in order to feed. Don’t be surprised that most of them are graduates from universities in Africa. If this high concentration managed to find their ways in the central cities of Europe, some can only manage to reach the jungles of areas like the north of France in Lille.

But the most fundamental question remains, why is the African energetic youth perishing in the midst of the natural abundance that Africa is blessed with, even at this modern age? We are not talking of Africa of the pre-independence era; we are talking about the African youth of today, when technology has facilitated the seconds-by-seconds sharing of information. Yet, Africa, not just as a continent, but as a people is nowhere to be found in the frontline of the human society liberated from the prehistoric era. It is only in Africa today you can find towns and villages that have no electricity to lighten the nights, yet the deposits of the primary resources that generate light are located in Africa. Uranium, for example, which constitutes the majority of the primary element that is used in most French nuclear production companies, which generate electricity 24/7 in France comes from African countries like Niger and Chad. Very ironically and shockingly, the countries from where this natural resource is extracted, not just have no RIGHT, or rather were robbed of their RIGHT to benefit from it, but also have no electricity that brightens their night. And so, recalling what a former minister of energy, Jean-Louis Borloo said recently on this subject about electrifying Africa: “…as night falls and Europe and other western countries are brightened by electricity, Africa plunges into darkness…”!

Why should Africa still be plunged into darkness when night falls in this century? Why will Africa, richly and fabulously blessed with natural resources will still be groping in poverty today? Why will Africa, with all her efforts to develop her continent will still at this modern time, be deserted, and her young energy and youth enslaved in Europe and America, brain-washed to accept the throneness that “nothing good can come from Africa”? There may be so many destabilizing reasons and elements responsible for this situation. Largely from the Africans themselves, namely, the refusal to wake-up from her sleep and take the bull by the horn. But then and largely, most of the fundamental elements are skilfully systematised by the colonial powers even before over 90% of Africans living today was born, in what is called “colonial agreement”.

I find some of these elements in the following article by Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN and I wish to share it with anyone who has the love of Africa at heart. Happy reading.
Chimaobi Clement EMEFU, CSSp.

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Severe cold causing havoc on railway, public transport

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On Thursday morning temperatures ranged from -26 in the south to -32 degrees Celsius in the north of Finland, causing many problems with the national rail system.

A train from the western town of Kokkola to Helsinki was cancelled and several regional trains were replaced by buses on Thursday morning.

At 8 am Thursday national rail service VR announced that its passengers should be prepared for delays and possible cancellations and that schedules would get back to normal as soon as possible.

VR is posting updated traffic bulletins in English about eventual delays and cancellations.

Delays between Turku and Helsinki

Trains in the southwestern part of the country are also experiencing problems. At least two scheduled trains between Turku and Helsinki were cancelled Thursday morning.

An Intercity train from Helsinki to Turku scheduled to leave at 10:02 am was cancelled and replaced by a bus.

The arrivals and departures of both local and long distance trains in Helsinki are experiencing delays between a few minutes up to nearly an hour.

Metro, buses in Helsinki frozen

Public transport in greater Helsinki, where temperatures were at about -20 degrees on Thursday morning, have also seen delays and cancellations of buses and scheduled metro departures due to the bone-chilling weather.

The cold temperature has caused malfunctions to the metro’s door mechanisms.

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Ukraine MP grabs Prime Minister and sparks huge brawl during parliamentary debate

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Dramatic video has emerged showing an MP present his country’s prime minister with a bunch of flowers before lifting into the air, sparking a huge brawl in parliament.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk had been delivering his annual report to cabinet when an opposition MP Oleh Barna approached the podium with a bunch of what appears to be roses.

Mr Barna then picked up Mr Yatsenyuk and attempted to carry him off, before members of Yatseniuk’s People Front wade in to protect their PM, prompting a fight in the chamber.

Reuters reports that Barna had been collecting signatures from fellow MPs for a resolution of no confidence before approaching Yatsenyuk with the flowers.

Last year, there were several scraps in the pugnacious Ukrainian parliament – including one during a debate about the downed MH17 airliner and a battle between deputy lawmakersover the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine.

 

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