INTRODUCTION
The importance of
Africa in the American New World Order System cannot be
overemphasized. Asad Ismi, writing for the Canadian Center
for Policy Alternatives, reports that -
"Nearly 80% of the
strategic minerals the U.S. requires are found in Africa
including 90% of the world's cobalt, 90% of the
platinum, 40% of the gold, 98% of the chromium, 64% of
the manganese and one-third of the uranium. These
minerals are needed to make jet engines, cars, missiles,
electronic components and so forth and so on. Africa
also accounts for 18% of U.S. oil imports as compared to
25% from the Persian Gulf, with Nigeria and Angola being
the fifth largest and ninth largest exporters to the
U.S. respectively."
This is to say nothing
of other resources including coltan (Africa is at present
the ONLY source of coltan which is ESSENTIAL
in the manufacture of computers, cell phones, and fiber
optics), tin, zinc and the vast amount of agricultural
products that are churned out of Africa by Western-owned
"plantation farms" including timber, coffee, palm oil,
exotic fruits of all sorts, etc. - "plantation farms" where
Africans work as virtual "slave-laborers" much as their
cousins did on the plantations of the "Old South."
But while Africa
remains at the highest level insofar as its strategic
importance to the U.S. is concerned, the peoples of
Africa find themselves consigned to the lowest level of
America's hegemonic pyramid - somewhere between Hell and
Tartarus where Chronis and the fallen angels are chained.
And while much is made of the aid that the West trickles
into Africa, NOTHING is said about the vast amount of
loot that the American elites haul out of Africa each year -
which is INFINITELY higher than the "peanuts" the
West throws at Africa in exchange. The fact is, as Asad Ismi
writes,
"Behind the
shameful peanut throwing [of aid] lurks a deadly Western
policy towards Africa. The U.S. government
has through
the Pentagon, the CIA, the World Bank and the IMF,
systematically demolished African economies
and fueled
eleven wars on the continent with arms transfers and
military training. This genocidal imperial strategy has
killed more than four million Africans and allowed the
U.S.
to attain Africa's abundant natural riches
cheaply."
Ismi continues:
"After twenty years
of [this American policy of economic rape and pillage]
313 million Africans live in absolute poverty
(out of
a total population of 682 million), a 63% increase over
the 200 million figure for 1994. Life expectancy has
dropped by 15% since 1980 and today is 47 years, the
lowest in the world. Forty per cent of Africans suffer
from malnutrition and more than half are without safe
drinking water. Health care spending in the 42 poorest
African countries fell by 50% during the 1980s. As a
result, health care systems have collapsed across the
continent creating near catastrophic conditions. More
than 200 million Africans have no access to health
services as hundreds of clinics, hospitals and medical
facilities have been closed. This has left diseases to
rage unchecked, leading most alarmingly to an AIDS
pandemic. More than 17 million Africans have died of
HIV/AIDS which has created 12 million orphans.
"Between 1986 and
1996, per capita education spending in Africa fell by
0.7% a year on average. Forty per cent of African
children are out of school and the adult literacy rate
in sub- Saharan Africa is 60%, well below the developing
country average of 73%. More than 140 million young
Africans are illiterate
"
A CASE
STUDY: THE CONGO
Reporting on the impact
of the West on one nation in particular - the Congo - the
Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives reports:
"Rarely has Western
savagery been more destructive than in the Congo. After
115 years of Belgian colonialism and U.S.
neo-colonialism, the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) today is a war-ravaged, balkanized country where
an incredible 2.5 million people have died during the
last two and a half years and 2.3 million have been
displaced. OXFAM called this 'the world's biggest
humanitarian disaster'. The catastrophic war which
began in August 1998 has been imposed on the
long-suffering Congolese by U.S. PROXIES Rwanda and
Uganda which have occupied the eastern half of the Congo
and are plundering and looting it with most of the booty
going to the West.
"Genocide and
plunder have been Western policy towards the
mineral-rich Congo since the Berlin Conference of 1885
when European nations divided Africa between them, and
King Leopold II of Belgium got the Congo as his personal
property. Ten million Congolese were killed under
Belgian rule which lasted until 1960. The Congo's
population was cut in half. Belgian domination was
marked by slavery, forced labour and torture aimed at
extracting the maximum amount of ivory and rubber from
the Central African country. The people of the Congo
probably suffered more than any other colonized group.
Their hands were cut off for not working hard enough
and on one day 1,000 severed hands were delivered in
baskets to an official. Women were kidnapped to
force their husbands to collect rubber sap and Congolese
were shot for sport. Such atrocities were documented
by George Washington Williams, an African-American
visiting the Congo, who invented the term "crimes
against humanity" to describe them.
"The U.S. took over the Congo from Belgium in 1960-61
in a bloody coup after the CIA arranged the murder of
Patrice Lumumba, the country's first elected leader
The CIA sent Sidney Gottlieb, its top scientist (under
the code name 'Joe from Paris'), to the Congo with
deadly biological toxins to use on Lumumba
[That plan
failed, but Lumumba was later killed by CIA proxies with
a bullet in the head.] In his place the Agency installed
its paid agent Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko
who continued the looting and killing started by
Leopold, for another 37 years."
U.S.
MACHINATIONS IN THE CONGO
The Canadian Center for
Policy Alternatives elaborates on its report on U.S.
machinations in the Congo:
"Mobutu's unlimited
greed was his undoing. As long as he shared the looting
with the U.S. [and its European lackeys], the Belgians,
the French, the British, the Dutch and the various
Western corporations which dominated the Congo economy,
the U.S. supported him. But, as one observer put it,
'when he kept too much for himself and became an
embarrassment the U.S. was ready to see him overthrown'.
In October 1996, the Rwandan army along with Ugandan
troops [all under the direction of the CIA] invaded
Zaire [the Congo] and by May 1997 had taken over the
country and forced Mobutu to flee. To give the invasion
the cover of a local rebellion, the Tutsi Rwandan forces
called themselves the Alliance of Democratic Forces for
the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL)
[But] as the
Wall Street Journal admitted, 'Many Africans
[correctly concluded that] the Congo rebellion was the
brainchild of Washington from the very start'. Rwanda
and Uganda are the US's 'staunchest allies in the
region'. Paul Kagame, the Rwandan leader, was
trained at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. U.S. Special Forces
had been training the Rwandan army since 1994 in
counterinsurgency, combat and psychological operations.
This included instructions about fighting in the Congo.
Rwandan soldiers were also trained at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina (U.S.), in July-August 1996 (just before the
invasion), in land navigation, rifle marksmanship,
patrolling and small-unit leadership."
CREATING CHAOS IN THE INTERESTS OF THE
AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM
But getting rid of
Mobutu was only part of the U.S. plan; what the U.S. really
wanted to do was destroy the Congo as a coherent nation; to
BALKANIZE it into tiny bits and pieces and parcel
these pieces out as "fiefdoms" to American multinational
corporations who would then be UTTERLY free to loot
and pillage the Congo at will under the cover of chaos -
a chaos that the American elites had deliberately created.
The report from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives
details what happened:
"On August 2,
Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Congo and occupied its
eastern half where they remain today having set up
surrogate 'rebel' armies called Congolese Rally for
Democracy (RCD-Goma created by Rwanda) and Movement for
the Liberation of the Congo (MLC-created by Uganda)
This use of Rwandan and Ugandan [military forces] to
partition the Congo and loot its resources [reveals the
machinations of the American New World Order System
at its worst].
"The U.S. backed
the Rwandan/Ugandan invasion of the Congo and according
to Human Rights Watch apparently justified it. The
Washington Post has reported that U.S. soldiers
were sighted in the company of Rwandan troops in the
Congo on July 23 and 24, 1998."
On the specific matter
of looting, the report goes on to say:
"According to a
U.N. report released in April 2001, Rwanda and Uganda
are looting and plundering the resources of the eastern
Congo and illegally exporting them to the West. The
eastern Congo contains most of the country's minerals.
The looting and extraction of resources has been
accompanied by the "constitution of criminal cartels" in
occupied areas, created or protected by top military
commanders [and given over to various American and
European multinational corporations]
These companies
have been complicit in the extraction of diamonds, gold,
coltan, timber and coffee from the eastern Congo and
illegally exporting [this 'loot'] to the West. According
to the Christian Science Monitor, every day cargo
flights full of diamonds, gold and palm oil leave the
Congo for Kigali and Kampala (Uganda's capital). Seven
to ten such daily flights come into Kigali. Most of
their cargo is loaded on to planes bound for Europe [and
the United States]."
The report emphasizes
the explicit complicity of Western multinational companies
in what's going on; the report says -
"
the illegal
exploitation of the eastern Congo has been abetted by
Western companies, governments, multilateral
institutions and diplomats. [For example], Rwanda's
coltan exports are transported by Sabena, the Belgian
national airline, while Citibank carries out the
required financial transactions. Ramnik Kotecha, the
U.S. Honorary Consul in the eastern Congo,
promotes deals between Rwandan coltan sellers and U.S.
companies. Kotecha himself also deals in coltan.
Uncertified timber from occupied Congo has been imported
by companies in Belgium, Denmark, Japan, Switzerland and
the U.S
The U.N. report also lists 35 companies
illegally importing minerals from the eastern Congo
through Rwanda but does not give the national origin of
these companies [most of which are U.S. multinationals,
or lackey European multinationals operating as
'FRONTS' or 'GO-BETWEENS' for U.S. companies
- and this is especially true insofar as coltan is
concerned]."
The indigenous "war
warlords" who have been installed by agents of the American
New World Order system in various locations throughout the
eastern Congo act in the interests of, and as "cover" for
the Western multinationals. According to Human Rights Watch
(HRW), these "warlords" -
"
have committed
'devastating human rights abuses'
[They]
'have
regularly slaughtered civilians in massacres and
extrajudicial executions' as well as tortured and raped
villagers. As Alison Des Forges of HRW put it in April
2001, 'While [these warlords]
were plundering gold,
looting timber, exporting coffee [much of which is
destined for the yuppie coffee houses of Seattle, New
York and San Francisco] and controlling illicit trade
monopolies in the Ituri district [for the benefit of
their Western masters], their troops were killing and
otherwise abusing the local population'
"
"FAILED
STATES?" - MY ASS!
All this gives the lie
to the claim by many in the Western media that the nations
of Africa are "FAILED STATES" - the plain implication
of such a statement being that these nations are "FAILED
STATES" BECAUSE THE BLACKS OF AFRICA ARE A "FAILED
PEOPLE" - as Gary North and other Christian evangelicals
would have people to believe.
But the fact is, these
states are "failed states" because the West - and most
particularly, the United States - have very purposefully and
deliberately created the conditions to collapse them as
states. Moreover, the fact that these states are ruled over
by brutal THUGS is true precisely and only because
the West has installed these THUGS in power to do
their bidding - people such as Mobutu Sese Seko - and
assassinated all those who would have aligned Africa in the
interests of the African people - leaders such as Patrice
Lumumba.
The report by the
Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives continues; it
signals out a number of "Canadian companies" [many of which
are actually "headquartered" in the U.S., and most of whose
shareholders are actually U.S. citizens] as particularly
egregious:
"Also benefiting
from the war are ten Canadian mining companies with
investments in the Congo. These are: Barrick Gold,
American Mineral Fields (AMF), Tenke Mining, Banro
Resource, Consolidated Trillion, First Quantum Minerals,
International Panorama Resource, Melkior Resources,
Samax Gold and Starpoint Goldfields. These companies
have been awarded valuable concessions in mining copper,
cobalt, gold, platinum and zinc deposits. Even before
Laurent Kabila came to power he had signed deals with
AMF and Tenke Mining. [For example], Barrick Gold and
Banro hold mining properties in eastern Congo under
Rwandan/Ugandan control. Banro has 47 mining concessions
in Sud Kivu and Maniema provinces while Barrick got
exploration and exploitation rights to 'a huge tract of
land' (82,000 sq. km) in Orientale province. As reported
in Le Monde Diplomatique, Barrick and Banro have
been accused of 'funding military operations in exchange
for lucrative contracts'. Banro is also included in the
U.N. list of companies involved in the illegal
exploitation of the eastern Congo. The company is
importing cassiterites (tin ores) from the rebel area
into Canada."
THE
CASE OF GHANA
And it isn't just
Patrice Lumumba of the Congo that the U.S. has deposed in
the interests of the American New World Order System; take
what happened to Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana. In 1966, a
CIA-backed military coup overthrew Nkrumah, Ghana's
President. Hailed as "Africa's brightest star," Nkrumah
called for an anti-imperialist, pan-African organization and
non-alignment in the Cold War. In October 1965, Nkrumah
published his famous work, Neo-Colonialism-The Last Stage
of Imperialism in which he accused the CIA of being
behind most of the crises in the Third World. The U.S.
government reacted by sending Nkrumah a note of protest and
canceling $35 million in aid to Ghana. Four months later,
Nkrumah was overthrown in a CIA-engineered coup.
Shortly thereafter, the
U.S. began intervening in the economy of Ghana with the aim
of subverting it and making it a compliant slave-state in
the American New World Order System. Nkrumah's socialist
system was overthrown, its economy was "privatized" (which
was an euphemism for the sale of Ghana's publicly-owned
industries to American multinationals for pennies on the
dollar). For example, take what happened to Ghana's gold
mining industry: Ghana is the second largest gold producer
in Africa (after South Africa) and gold mining is the
country's main source of income. The U.S. compelled Ghana to
sell its gold mining sector (which under Nkrumah had been
socialized and made the property of all the people) to
Western multinational corporations which now own up to 85%
of the large-scale mining industry. The corporations can
repatriate up to 95% of their profits into foreign accounts
and pay no income tax or duties. This means that Western
companies virtually monopolize Ghana's gold which
contributes little to its economy.
In addition to all
this, subsidies for health and education, which Nkrumah had
mandated, were ended. As a result, Ghana's once stellar
health care and education system have been ruined:
outpatient attendance at hospitals has been reduced by a
third, and in the case of "in-patient" care, Ghanaians, as
one observer put it, "
pay for everything; for surgery,
drugs, blood, scalpel, even the cotton wool." The same is
true insofar as Ghana's education system is concerned where
user fees in education have raised the primary school
dropout rate to 40%.
Today, millions of
Ghanaians are now unemployed, GDP per capita was lower in
1998 ($390) than it was in 1975 ($411); 78.4% of Ghanaians
live on $1 a day and 40% live below the poverty line; 75%
have no access to health services and 68% have no access to
sanitation services.
THE
CASE OF ANGOLA
The Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives reports that another U.S.-made disaster
on the continent of Africa is the 27-year long civil war in
Angola (Africa's longest-running war) which ended in April
2002; the conflict killed 500,000 people and shattered the
country.
The civil war started
with Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975 when the
left-wing, socialist Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola (MPLA) took power, and Washington launched a CIA
covert operation the following July to overthrow it. The
operation was the brainchild of Henry Kissinger who was then
Secretary of State in the Ford Administration. The CIA at
the time was led by George Bush Sr. The CIA plan included
backing a South African invasion of Angola in October and
support for the Union for the Total Independence of Angola
(UNITA), an opponent of the MPLA, led by the brutal Jonas
Savimbi who styled himself a "born-again" Christian. UNITA
was an agent of the United States; its task was to destroy
the MPLA, and it received aid from apartheid South Africa
whose invasion it joined. The U.S. asked for the South
African invasion and helped Pretoria airlift men and
materiel up to the front line so the latter could seize the
capital Luanda and stop the MPLA from establishing itself as
Angola's first independent government. Before South African
forces could reach Luanda, however, Cuban troops landed
there in November and beat back the apartheid army.
The CIA operation spent
$31.7 million on arming UNITA and the South Africans before
being shut down by Congress in 1976; U.S. aid to UNITA
resumed in 1985 under the Reagan Administration and Savimbi
received $250 million between 1986 and 1991. U.S. support
for Savimbi reached a record $50 million in 1989 when George
Bush Sr. became President. As one observer put it,
"Two military
supply flights a day maintained a UNITA campaign that
became increasingly brutal and destructive. Savimbi ...
by this time ... was reduced to naked coercion. Men were
forced to fight for his army, women were dragooned into
sexual slavery and peasant farmers had their food
seized. Those who challenged his authority would be
accused of witchcraft and burnt alive along with their
families."
According to Human
Rights Watch, UNITA forces "engaged in indiscriminate
shelling, long-term sieges that starved civilians, summary
executions, torture, mutilation of the dead, hostage-taking,
and attacks on international relief operations." The
European Parliament denounced U.S. aid to Savimbi and
declared UNITA "a terrorist organization which supports
South Africa." AND DURING THIS ENTIRE TIME, SAVIMBI WORE
HIS CHRISTIAN CREDENTIALS ON HIS SLEEVE AND WAS RECEIVED AS
AN HONORED GUEST ON MANY OCCASIONS IN EVANGELICAL CHURCHES
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. It didn't seem to matter
to people like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell that he was a
butcher: he did his killing in the name of Christ - and
that's all that mattered to the American evangelical church.
Washington's support
for Savimbi continued even after the Cubans withdrew in 1991
and the U.S.S.R. collapsed. The U.S. finally recognized the
Angolan government in May 1993 under Clinton. By then
Savimbi was able to finance his war through diamonds
smuggling; the conflict ended after he was killed by
government troops in February 2002. But by then the U.S.
government had co-opted the government in Luanda and had
brought it into the American orbit where it has now been
made a compliant slave-state in the American New World Order
System.
Today, as a result of
Angola's subjugation by the American New World Order System,
a half a million people in Angola face starvation and more
than a million depend on food aid for survival. In a country
possessed of rich agricultural land, thousands of people
have died of hunger, and more are dying every day, and the
country is dependent on food imports to feed its people
while millions of tons of "cash crops" are exported to
Europe and the United States. According to the BBC, "It is
the worst starvation to hit Southern Africa in over a
decade." 82% of Angolans live in poverty and a child dies of
a preventable disease every three minutes. Like the Congo,
Angola is rich in mineral wealth: it is Africa's second
largest oil producer (after Nigeria) with some of the
largest offshore oil deposits in the world, and its diamond
output is worth about $800 million a year; but none of the
money that results from the export of this mineral wealth
finds its way into the pocket books of the Angolan people;
instead it fills the coffers of the ultra rich in New York,
London, Paris, etc.
THE
AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER
SYSTEM: A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
The report by the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ends on a somber
note insofar as the American New World Order System is
concerned; speaking specifically about the Congo (though
these conclusions could be applied to Africa as a whole),
the report concludes:
"The destruction of
the Congo says much more about the West [and
particularly the United States] than it does about the
Central African country. IT REVEALS MOST CLEARLY THAT
THE WEST [AND MOST PARTICULARLY THE UNITED STATES] IS
LARGELY A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, THE PROSPERITY OF WHICH
IS BASED ON THE GENOCIDE OF THIRD WORLD PEOPLE AND THE
THEFT OF THEIR RESOURCES. The Congo is perhaps the
worst example of this but the West has followed the same
policy in Asia, Africa and Latin America for centuries.
IN THIS SENSE, WESTERN COUNTRIES CAN BE SEEN AS A
MURDEROUS MAFIA LED BY THEIR GODFATHER THE UNITED STATES
FOR WHICH NO AMOUNT OF BLOOD AND WEALTH IS ENOUGH."
THE
AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE TREATED AS "GUINEA
PIGS" BY U.S. AND WESTERN DRUG COMPANIES
Still, the myth
continues to exist - SPECIFICALLY, THAT THE NATIONS OF
AFRICA ARE "FAILED STATES" BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA ARE
A "FAILED PEOPLE."
And just how deeply
this mindset has embedded itself in the thinking of the
white elites is revealed in the fact that multinational drug
companies think nothing of using the people of Africa as
"guinea pigs" in drug trials that would have never been
permitted in the West, and most especially in the United
States. Indeed, there's a lot more to Jeremy Laurance's film
The Constant Gardener than many in the West are
prepared to admit.
The Independent News
& Media (UK) reports that -
"
with dramas of
this kind - such as the 1999 film, The Insider,
which detailed the perfidious dealings of the tobacco
industry - it raises the question of how far fiction
resembles fact. So it is worth examining the background
to The Constant Gardener. The film opens in a
remote area of northern Kenya where Tessa Quayle (played
by Rachel Weisz), the wife of a British diplomat, has
been murdered. Her travelling companion, a local doctor,
has disappeared, and the evidence points to a crime of
passion.
"At the time of her
death, Tessa, an activist and passionate campaigner, was
on the verge of uncovering a conspiracy involving the
testing of a new drug. In personality she was the
opposite of her husband, the mild-mannered Justin Quayle
(Ralph Fiennes), whose chief passion is his plants - he
is the gardener of the title.
"But in his grief,
and goaded by whispers of her infidelity, he sets out to
complete what she started, embarking on a quest to
expose the truth about the pharmaceutical industry.
"What he uncovers,
as the film's blurb puts it, is 'a vast conspiracy,
at once deadly and commonplace, one that has claimed
innocent lives - and is about to put his own at
risk'. At the centre of this conspiracy is the idea
that pharmaceutical companies use African people to test
drugs which are destined to become huge profit-earners
in the West."
PFIZER
PHARMACEUTICAL
The Independent News
& Media goes on to report on one specific company,
Pfizer Pharmaceutical:
"There are a number of
cases in which named companies have been accused of
wrongdoing that partly inspired The Constant Gardener
and which give resonance to the allegations about the secret
testing of drugs on the unsuspecting, and the suppression of
any negative findings.
"In [one of these
cases (1996), people in Nigeria] were suffering from
outbreaks of cholera and measles when a third, even more
deadly, disease arrived: meningitis. The infection
spread quickly through the cramped slums of the city
[Kano] and within weeks thousands of children were ill.
"The outbreak was
not reported in the West but it did not go unnoticed. An
internet message alerted scientists at the research
headquarters in Connecticut, of one of the world's
biggest drug companies: Pfizer.
"The company
reacted swiftly. It chartered a plane to Kano with a new
drug called Trovan that was a potential life-saver and a
potential billion-dollar profit earner. But Trovan had
never been tested on children.
"The Infectious
Diseases Hospital in Kano was under siege from desperate
parents who brought their dying children begging for
help. One of these was Anas, then aged six. His father,
Mohammed, said his son was given a drug by 'a doctor
from overseas' and put to bed. Mohammed assumed the
doctors who treated his son were from Mιdecins Sans
Frontiθrs, an independent medical organisation, who
had arrived several weeks before the Pfizer team.
"Only later when he
examined a card he was given did he realize that Anas
had been included in a trial of the new drug Trovan. The
card was numbered 0001 - Anas was the first. [Anus was
crippled by the effects of the drug.]"
Hundreds of people were
crippled and/or died as a result of this drug trial. What
Pfizer had done was to use the outbreak of meningitis in
Kano as an excuse to test its drug, Trovan - and it did so
without notifying those who took the drug that they were
participating in a dangerous medical trial.
AIDS
AND EBOLA
Cases like this are
rampant everywhere in Africa, and they all parallel rather
closely the plot of The Constant Gardener. But
there's more, and the HORROR of the reality far
exceeds the horror that was revealed in The Constant
Gardener or in the drug trials by Pfizer in Kano - and
touches upon the outbreak of such new and deadly diseases as
EBOLA and AIDS.
Ever since the 1980s
there had been rumors extant in the African-American
community in the United States that Ebola and AIDS were
"manufactured" diseases traceable to experiments by the CIA
and certain American pharmaceutical companies that were
carried out originally in Africa, and later in the gay
communities of New York and San Francisco - the gay
community, apparently, being another "throw-away population"
like the African people. But no one took these rumors
seriously.
In the late 1980s,
however, some scientists began taking these rumors to heart.
At first, most who did so came from the Communist World. For
example, on March 11, 1988 the Moscow World News Service
aired an article lending credence to the belief that
AIDS and Ebola were "manufactured diseases." The broadcast
was later published in its entirety in International
Affairs.
The report cited a West
German company named OTRAG (which was connected to
and financed by the CIA) for having conducted virus
experiments in the Congo that had allegedly led to the
development of "a mutant virus that was a human killer." On
January 24, 1991, the Havana International News Service
made the same claim. The titles of the two articles read
respectively, "Belitskiy on How, Where AIDS Virus
Originated," and "(East) German Claims AIDS Created by
Pentagon."
Intrigued by these
reports, a few brave doctors and scientists in the West
started examining the evidence that the Soviets and the
Cubans had amassed, and - as a result - began reaching
similar conclusions: for example, Dr. John Seale in London,
Dr. Maneul Servin in Mexico, and Dr. Jacobo Segal in Berlin.
But with the collapse of Communism and the chaos that
followed, nothing much ever came of those accusations, and
while these stories continued to generate a great deal of
"play" in the black and gay communities, most people didn't
pay too much attention - after all, who cared about the gays
and the blacks anyway? - or so many whites (behind closed
doors) thought.
SUSPICIONS GROW
Nonetheless, a growing
number of people in recent years who are not members of the
gay and black communities, and whose research cannot be
tainted by the "pinko" label, are beginning to surface who
think that there may be more to the origins of the AIDS and
Ebola viruses than has been made public by the American
government and the American pharmaceutical companies; for
example, Dr. W. John Martin, Professor of Pathology at the
University of Southern California and Director of the
Center for Complex Infectious Diseases, writes:
"All at once, new
viruses and virus-related diseases have threatened the
health of humans and many animal species. How did this
situation arise? Could it be that scientific studies
and the emergence of new pathogens are not totally
unrelated events? ... Open debate on this issue has
been soundly discouraged [by the government and the many
pharmaceutical companies involved in this research].
Opponents to open dialogue ... argue that little good,
and considerable harm would come from a full disclosure
of the facts. Exposing the truth, many believe, would
likely: 1) tarnish the reputations of certain
scientists, 2) make it more difficult to maintain
science funding, 3) promote antigovernment
sentiment, and 4) likely leave many issues
unresolved."
What Dr. Martin is
suggesting here is that - government protestations to the
contrary notwithstanding - there indeed may exist a sinister
and very malignant connection between much of the scientific
research that certain multinational pharmaceutical companies
(Merck, Litton Bionetics, Sandoz, etc.) have been engaged in
over the last thirty to forty years (largely at the
instigation of the U.S. government, specifically DOD and the
CIA) and the emergence of certain deadly viruses which had
never been heard of before (for example, AIDS, Marburg,
Ebola, etc.) - not exactly something to sneeze at coming
from someone of the scientific stature of Dr. Martin.
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz
of Harvard University agrees; he writes:
"Despite its social
and scientific importance, the origin of HIV and Ebola
have been clouded in mysteries. Based on the mass of
circumstantial and scientific evidence ... the theory
that 'emerging viruses' like HIV and Ebola spontaneously
evolved and naturally jumped species from monkey to man
must be seriously questioned."
PROBLEMS WITH THE "PATIENT ZERO" THESIS
None of this, of
course, could ever be admitted to by the government or the
U.S. pharmaceutical industry: neither the experimentation,
nor the apparent indifference of both entities toward the
gay community in the United States, or blacks in Africa. As
a result, the government and the mainline media have
promoted the theory that these viruses had been "latently"
resident in other species (probably monkeys) and then - in
recent years - they somehow or other began "spontaneously"
migrating from one species to another, finally ending up in
man. This, naturally enough, is the theory that the
government and the pharmaceutical companies have promoted.
For example, take the
case of AIDS which no one had ever heard of before the very
late 1970s and early 1980s. The government's theory traces
the AIDS virus back to a certain "Patient Zero"
- one Gaeton Dugas - a gay airline steward who allegedly
contracted the disease in Africa (supposedly from monkeys)
and then spread the disease to other gays in America with
whom he was having sex. This is the theory that was
initially promoted throughout the country by the CDC (Center
for Disease Control). But on closer examination, the theory
is nonsense. First of all, "Patient Zero" lived in Canada
and flew primarily in Canada to Canadian cities, and only
very occasionally to American cities; yet one must assume
that he only had sex in American cities (never in Canadian
ones) because the disease broke out initially only in
certain, specific American cities. The disease did not break
out in Canada until much later.
THE
HEPATITIS B / AIDS CONNECTION
And there is something
more: AIDS broke out for the first time in the United States
in 1978 in Manhattan and then in 1980 in San Francisco - a
time frame which corresponds exactly to a government
sponsored hepatitis B (HB) study in these cities - a HB
study which had been specifically targeted toward gay men (THE
SAME KIND OF VIRAL STUDY THE MOSCOW WORLD NEWS SERVICE
SAID IN OCTOBER OF 1988 WAS CARRIED OUT IN THE CONGO
BY OTRAG, and which "had the potential of being a human
killer").
Now, it's important to
note in this connection that while certain Religious Right
activists have subtly tried to imply (and others, sadly,
have openly declared) that the disease is God's punishment
on the life-style of the gay community, only in the U.S.
is AIDS a "gay disease." Insofar as the world in general is
concerned, over 90 percent of those infected with the AIDS
virus are heterosexuals. It's only in this country that AIDS
is considered (and is in fact) largely a "gay disease."
HOW
STRANGE
How strange!
Why is AIDS largely a "gay disease" in the United States,
but not in Uganda, or the Congo, or Rwanda, or - for that
matter - anywhere else in the world? Why only in the United
States? No one in the government has ever offered a
satisfactory explanation for this - until recently when a
few researchers such as Dr. Martin (USC), Dr. Horowitz
(Harvard), etc. began to follow the path suggested by the
Soviets and the Cubans in the late 1980s, and later by Dr.
Seale in London, Dr. Servin in Mexico, and Dr. Segal in
Berlin; specifically, the connection between certain HB
virus studies in Africa (mainly in the Congo) and shortly
thereafter in the United States, specifically in the gay
communities in New York and San Francisco. The studies
were carried out under the auspices of WHO (the World Health
Organization) and Merck Pharmaceuticals.
What brought these
studies to the attention of researchers like Seale, Servin
and Segal is that wherever these vaccinations were carried
out, shortly thereafter an outbreak of AIDS occurred - and
in the same population that the studies had targeted: gays
in the United States, and heterosexuals in Africa.
In the United States,
AIDS has remained largely a "gay disease" because of the
"closed" or "contained" nature of the gay community, while
in Africa - where the experiments with the HB vaccines were
carried out in the general population - AIDS became a
heterosexual phenomenon.
THE
CORRELATION BETWEEN AIDS AND
THE HB VACCINES IS A VERY STRONG ONE
Thus, the correlation
between AIDS and the HB vaccine is a strong one - and gives
evidence to the thesis behind The Constant Gardener:
that the pharmaceutical industry has been using the African
people as "guinea pigs" in dangerous drug tests - drug tests
which would never be tolerated in the West.
Adding to the evidence
insofar as this correlation (specifically, the correlation
between AIDS and the HB vaccine) is concerned, Harold
Jaffe, deputy director for AIDS science at the CDC and
co-worker Andrew Moss presented data from the San Francisco
HB study that found the virus had been present in the blood
of only 4.5 percent of the study's subjects in 1978 -
shortly after the HB study had begun in San Francisco's gay
population; by 1980 it had jumped to 20 percent; and by 1984
it had exploded into the blood of 67 percent of gay men
there. Hence, from a time when the AIDS virus had been
only just barely detectable in the blood of any gay in the
San Francisco area, AIDS had exploded to the point where it
had taken root in the blood streams of 67 percent of that
population in less than ten years! It's for these reasons
and others that the connection between the outbreak of AIDS
to the HB study in San Francisco in 1976 seems so
irrefutable. The same phenomenon exists in New York! THE
SAME CORRELATION (AND RESULTING PHENOMENA) IS EXTANT IN
AFRICA.
This is precisely
the connection that the Soviets had made back in 1988, and
the Cubans shortly thereafter; this is the connection that
the gay and black communities (as well as black Africans)
are trying to get people to take note of - all to no
avail.
WHAT
WAS GOING ON?
What was going on here?
The work of Dr. Horowitz, Dr. Martin, Dr. Seale, Dr. Servin,
Dr. Segal, Dr. Martin, and many, many others strongly
suggests - and circumstantial evidence strongly supports
this theory - that, as we have already indicated, black
Africans living in the Congo, as well as members of the
American gay community, were the target for viral weapons
experimentation by activists in America's military / medical
/ industrial complex, and agents for the CIA. WHAT ALL
THIS REVEALS IS THE ATTITUDE OF THE ELITES WITH REGARD TO
THE BLACK, AFRICAN COMMUNITY: THAT BLACKS IN AFRICA (WHO,
LIKE THE GAY COMMUNITES IN THE UNITED STATES WERE USED AS
"GUINEA PIGS" IN THESE EXPERIMENTS) ARE CONSIDERED TO BE
NOTHING MORE THAN A "THROW-AWAY" POPULATION; HUMAN TRASH
THAT CAN BE EXPERIMENTED ON AT THE WHIM OF THE WHITE ELITES
IN AMERICA AND EUROPE.
THE
CHURCH COMMITTEE HEARINGS
According to the Church
committee hearings [(i.e., Senator Frank Church of Idaho)
which investigated the activities of America's intelligence
community in the mid-1970s], the U.S. government, working
through the DOD and the CIA, ordered the development and
stockpiling of biological weapons, including
immune-system-destroying viruses functionally identical to
HIV (AIDS). The principal military scientists and
industrialists involved in these projects, which may have
involved Ebola and Marburg-like rhabdoviruses, included
Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute; John Landon
and Robert Ting of Litton Bionetics; Litton Industries
president Roy Ash; research affiliates of MSD (the Merck,
Sharp & Dohme Pharmaceutical Company), including Maurice
Hilleman; and a handful of researchers at the New York
University Medical Center, the New York Blood Bank, the
University of California, and the CDC. Additional
institutions which may have played a role in the development
of such germs during the 1960s and early 1970s include the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Navy's Biomedical
Research Laboratory, Hazelton Laboratories, Inc., the NIAID
(National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases),
and the AEC (the Atomic Energy Commission). WHAT ALL THIS
REVEALS IS THE EXTENT TO WHICH THIS HORRIBLE LACK OF CONCERN
FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA WAS EMBEDED IN THE MINDSET OF
AMERICA'S INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY.
The evidence shows a
channel through which experimental (mutant) viruses, viral
vaccines, other reagents, and drugs flowed between the NCI
[the National Cancer Institute (which the Church Committee
discovered to its dismay in the mid-1970s was a "cover" for
a myriad of intelligence activities insofar as biological
warfare was concerned)] and affiliated testing laboratories
at Litton Bionetics and Fort Detrick (the Army's biological
warfare center) to MSD and its related research laboratories
in New York and Central Africa (i.e., OTRAG). The evidence
suggests that through this channel, the CIA may have
delivered a single roller bottle containing the AIDS viruses
to Merck's hepatitis B vaccines - the very vaccines that
appear to have played a principal role in infecting scores
of human subjects in the early 1970s in New York City, San
Francisco AND THE CONGO.
In other words, the
CIA and various pharmaceutical companies needed human
"guinea pigs" on a large scale for their various programs:
the CIA and the military for their biological weapons
studies, and the pharmaceutical companies for their
vaccines, many of which involved highly experimental and
exceedingly dangerous man-made "retroviruses," which - if
they proved successful - meant untold profits to investors.
The human "guinea pigs" were chosen out of populations which
were "remote" from the world's mainstream, and for which
average people cared little or nothing about. In order to
"cover" the true nature of what they were doing - and the
great danger that was involved - the experimentation was
linked to vaccine programs which provided an altruistic and
philanthropic front for what they were really doing;
specifically the HB vaccine programs in San Francisco, New
York AND THE CONGO. In doing so, they created and
simultaneously unleashed the twin monsters of AIDS and
Ebola.
THE
THEORY OF DOMINIONISM AND
THE AMERICAN CHURCH
In the light of all
this, one might reasonably ask, How is it that America -
presumably a "Christian" country - could justify such
indifference with regard to the people of Africa? The answer
is "DOMINIONISM."
In the mindset of those
who govern the affairs of the American church - and under
whose umbrella the leaders of today's American New World
Order System justify their rule - "DOMINIONISM" is
what makes the world "roll and go." They have appropriated
Genesis 1:26 as their moniker, lifted it totally out of its
biblical context, and they use it as a hammer over the heads
of those whom they seek to dominate: Those at the trigger
end of the gun are "blessed by God;" and those who face the
barrel end of the gun are "cursed by God."
According to Christian
Dominionists, one needs to go no further than an examination
of another's bank account to determine whether one is
walking with Christ or not. God signifies his favor by
giving prosperity to the undertakings of His "elect," and
poverty to those whom He has cursed. Hence the people of
Africa are cursed - and it is in their interest that they
yield up the riches of the continent of Africa (and the use
of their own bodies) to their "betters." This is certainly
the attitude of R.J. Rushdoony, the "father of American
Dominionism." Rushdoony writes:
"The law (i.e., the
'law' that Rushdoony and his cohorts would set up in
their idealized 'Christian state') here is humane and
also unsentimental. IT RECOGNIZES THAT SOME PEOPLE
(BLACKS AND OTHER 'LESSER SORTS') ARE BY NATURE SLAVES
AND ALWAYS WILL BE SO. It requires that
THE
SLAVE RECOGNIZE HIS POSITION AND ACCEPT IT WITH GRACE."
THE
THEORY OF DOMINIONISM AS
IT APPLIES TO THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA
The Theory of
Dominionism treats blacks and other so-called "lesser
people" as "sub-humans" who have no particular property
rights in any part or parcel of the earth they inhabit; they
possess only a "general residency" there, as wild beasts in
the forest. There is not meum and teum ("mine
and thine") among them, so that if the whole land should be
taken from them, there is not a man that can complain of any
particular wrong done to him. THIS IS CERTAINLY THE
CONCEPT THAT HAS BEEN APPLIED TO THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA BY
AMERICA AND AMERICA'S TOADIES IN EUROPE; AND IT CERTAINLY IS
THE CONCEPT OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH. And it is precisely
this theory - as it is applied to Africa - that gives
America's naked imperialism cover for what it is doing.
Indeed, in the "missionary work" of the American church, the
leaders of America's missions have adopted wholesale Rudyard
Kipling's exhortation for "civilized societies" to -
"Send forth the
best ye breed
"To serve your
captives' need
"And save your
new-caught, sullen people
"Half-devil and
half child."
SAVING
AFRICA FOR "CHRIST & THE CHURCH" WHILE
PRESERVING AFRICA FOR AMERICAN EXPLOITATION
Thus it is that, sadly,
many Africans have come to believe - largely because of the
impact of American Christianity on their societies - that
their poverty is their fault; and, hence, their condition as
"low man on the totem pole" insofar as the world is
concerned is their fault as well - AND THIS FACT HAS
BECOME UTTERLY INDISPENSABLE FOR THE UNITED STATES IN
MAINTAINING ITS BRUTISH HOLD ON AFRICA. Sustaining this
belief-system in the minds of African Christians is critical
insofar as America's (and capitalism's) war with the Islamic
World is concerned - an Islamic world that has seen through
all of America's hypocritical drum-beating about democracy
and the equality of man while its corporations lay waste the
rest of the world and treat people of color as less than
human.
In order to combat this
challenge, the United States has cobbled together an unholy
alliance of thuggish "Christian" leaders supposedly intent
on "saving Africa" for "Christ and the Church," while at the
same time preserving the untold riches of the African
continent for American capitalism. One by one, African
states have been taken over by these "Christian" warlords
who are beholden to the United States and its conniving
cousins in Europe. Even Muslim majority states - e.g.,
Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda - are in the grip of these
brutish "Christian" warlords. Speaking on what happened to
Eritrea, Zafar Bangash - a Muslim intellectual - writes that
-
"
for more than 30
years, [Muslim] Sudan helped the Eritreans [who are also
mostly Muslims] in their struggle against the
Amhara-dominated Ethiopia. Tens of thousands of Eritrean
refugees were sheltered in Sudan with little or no help
from the outside world. Once the Amhara-led regime
collapsed in Addis Ababa, a Tigrayan Christian warlord,
a former communist to boot, was installed in power in
1991 by the US."
THREE
OBJECTIVES
Bangash goes on to
report that three objectives are uppermost in America's
mind:
(1) Installing
"Christian" thugs at the head of all the states of
sub-Saharan Africa - thugs amenable to the rape of their
countries (or economic fiefdoms) by the West.
(2) Stopping the
spread of radical Islam - which is unalterably opposed
to the American New World Order System - at the Sudan
(either by breaking off southern Sudan from northern
Sudan or by co-opting the Sudanese government in
Khartoum and bringing it back into the American orbit.
(3) Planting
"Christian" churches throughout sub-Saharan Africa as
enclaves or bastions of American influence in the area.
INSTALLING CHRISTIAN WARLORDS
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
The first goal - that
is, installing "Christian" goons at the head of all the
states of sub-Saharan Africa, thugs amenable to the rape of
their countries (or economic fiefdoms) by the West - has
largely been achieved by the United States, and is best
typified by the removal of African leaders such as Patrice
Lumumba in the Congo and Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
More often than not,
the "Christian" thugs who have replaced leaders like Lumumba
and Nkrumah are people such as Francois Bozize, President of
the Republic of Central Africa, (who reached power in a
bloody takeover coup in 2003; he is the leader of the local
branch of Eglise Christianisme Celeste); Laurent
Gbagbo, President of the Ivory Coast (Gbagbo uses Christian
leaders in his own country to recruit "Christian" youths for
the military); and President Olusegun Obasanjo, President of
Nigeria (Obasanjo is tightly connected to the huge RCCG
church).
STOPPING THE SPREAD OF RADICAL
ISLAM SOUTH AT THE SUDAN
The second goal is best
exemplified in the fight over Darfur in southern Sudan,
which is not at all the struggle that it is painted out to
be in the Western press. The struggle in Darfur is about oil
and American access to that oil. Initially, the U.S. had
hoped to co-opt the Muslim government in Khartoum and make
it a compliant Muslim client-state much as Tunisia and
Jordan are. Norm Dixon explains in Counterpunch Magazine:
"Upon coming to
office in 2001, one of the Bush administration's
earliest foreign policy objectives was to secure a peace
agreement between the southern-based Sudan People's
Liberation Movement (SPLM) and Khartoum, allowing
Washington to lift sanctions [which had been imposed by
the Clinton administration]. Bush appointed former US
senator John Danforth
as his 'special envoy for peace
in Sudan'.
"In July 2002,
Danforth, who led an international 'Trioka' made up of
US, British and Norwegian officials, succeeded with
bribes and threats in convincing the SPLM and Khartoum
to sign a draft peace agreement that promised a
referendum six years or so after a final peace agreement
is signed and an autonomous secular government
in the south (while Islamic law would continue to govern
the northern two-thirds of the country). An informal
cease-fire agreement was reached in October 2002.
"In May this year,
Khartoum and the SPLM agreed that government revenue
from the export of oil from the southern oil fields
would be split between the SPLM-dominated southern
regional government and the central government in
Khartoum. All that remained was for further talks, which
were scheduled to begin on June 22, to finalize
procedures for an internationally monitored cease-fire
agreement and a timeline for implementing the peace
deal."
The resulting stability
would have allowed the U.S. to normalize relations with the
Sudan, and would have permitted U.S. oil companies access to
the oil in the Darfur region. But the effort by radical
Islamists - the Janjaweed - to clear the area of
Christians, and bring southern Sudan under Islamic rule
threatened to undo the process. As a result, Darfurs
majority non-Arabic-speaking, Christian farming tribes
rebelled against Khartoum. While Washington would much
prefer to see the Sudan remain intact and returned in its
entirety to the American orbit, failing that, Washington is
willing to split southern Sudan off entirely from Sudan
proper.
Bangash reports that -
"
the West's aim
is to divide Sudan, separating the southern part where
much of the oil is to be found, from the rest of the
country
"
Bangash continues"
"The advantage,
from the West's point of view, is that it will prevent
the spread of Islam southward [into sub-Saharan
Africa]."
PLANTING CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AS
BASTIONS OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM
The third and final
objective in America's drive to preserve the riches of the
African continent for the coffers of New York's
multi-billionaires - i.e., the planting of Christian
churches that are subservient to American Christianity (and,
hence, the American New World Order System) - is epitomized
by the phenomenal spread of Pentecostal and evangelical
American-style churches throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Like
their counterparts in Latin America, these churches preach
submission to America's puppet-elites in Africa.
The charismatic leaders
of these churches with their rock star sound systems, offer
a plethora of miracles and healings to their followers, and
even riches in this life - as astounding as that might seem
in the poverty-racked world of sub-Saharan Africa. It's a
kind of "TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW" where stories abound
of how entering one of these churches will change one's
life: One may have found constant work, another gained a
visa for the United States, one was able to solve his
financial problems, etc. The core of the message is this:
Submission to Jesus will mean a better life in the "here and
now."
The leaders of these
churches preach that taking personal responsibility for
one's poverty will lead one into a better life - NEVER
MIND THE FACT THAT THE RAPE OF THEIR LANDS BY THE AMERICAN
IMPERIAL SYSTEM MAKES SUCH A POSSIBILITY ABOUT AS REMOTE AS
FINDING A "MONEY TREE" IN ONE'S BACKYARD. In the nations
of sub-Saharan Africa, where social decline and misery are
omnipresent, the promises of these churches may seem like
oracles: You can make it; you can even become rich! Just do
as we say and you will be prospering.
Many churches have
their own TV channels, airing films of miracle healings -
and there is in many of these films a bizarre fascination
with witchcraft and the occult - a fascination that
transcends the Bible and borders on the SATANIC.
Many of the films - most of which originate out of Nigeria -
have become notorious around half of the continent of Africa
and have led to the killing of street children as demoniacs.
THE
AMERICAN CHURCH: "THE POOR
HAVE FAILED BEFORE GOD"
Like their counterparts
back in America, money plays a huge role in these churches;
it is a question of honor to donate hundred-dollar bills.
Indeed, as Dominic Johnson of Taz Magazine
reports -
"Financial success
is the measurable result of righteousness; THE POOR
HAVE FAILED BEFORE GOD; they are bad and have to
take the blame for their poverty themselves."
And just how far this
kind of thinking has seeped into America's puppet churches
in Africa is exemplified by the RCCG church in Nigeria: in
2001, the RCCG proclaimed that God had decided He wanted to
have a thousand millionaires in the church to demonstrate
God's approval of their church. Obviously, the leaders of
the RCCG church had imbibed heavily from the springs of
American Christianity.
The RCCG proclaims the
"Twelve Keys to [Financial] Prosperity," one of which says
that a person must be "WILLING TO GET RICH" - a
proclamation that sounds as if it had been lifted in toto
from one of Bennie Hinn's "spiritual" handbooks. [Bennie
Hinn has held many rallies in Lagos with the support of the
RCCG.]
Johnson writes:
"Thus, personal
enrichment and alignment with the church are closely
linked and offered in the language of business."
Asonzeh Ukah of Ghana,
author of a thesis about the RCCG church, says in an
analysis of sermons by RCCG minister Adeboye, that the -
"
prosperity
gospel of this church consists of a perverted form of
the principle of corruption: 'you can't make something
out of nothing', as in: one has to pay to get, and in
order to get some blessing out of the Lord, one has to
pay Him as well'. This idea is simple and attractive.
Jesus has already done everything that's needed to get
the good things in life. By His poverty and passion, he
has opened a credit for us; we're free to draw from it ,
since He sacrificed Himself for us. SO WHEN YOU'RE
POOR, IT'S BECAUSE YOU DON'T BELIEVE '."
DAUGHTERS OF THE HARLOT
These are the kind of
churches that are being touted back in America as exemplars
of the spread of Christianity in Africa; toadies - all of
them - of the American Church; the kind of churches to which
leaders back in the United States like to link themselves in
order to advertise their credentials insofar as the Gospel
is concerned.
But it's all a FARCE.
Very little of the money that church leaders obtain for
themselves as a result of their so-called concern for Africa
actually finds its way to the poor in Africa. It's just a
device to get their own parishioners to give, or to obtain
financing for their own private "get-rich-schemes" in
Africa.
Get rich! - that's what
the leaders of today's American church want to do. This is
precisely what Pat Robertson was up to in the Congo with
regard to "Operation Blessing," which was nothing more than
a FRONT for his own private "get-rich-scheme"
involving the African Development Co. (ADC) in conjunction
with the late dictator of Zaire (the Congo), Mobutu Sese
Seko. The ADC received a vast forestry and mineral
concession in the Congo, together with a diamond concession
from Mobutu, a mining operation involving the trade in
so-called "conflict diamonds" - the illegal trading of
diamonds mined by child "slave-laborers" who are worked to
death in diamond mines in conditions that even DeBeers of
South Africa would find repugnant - and that's saying a lot.
Robertson used
"Operation Blessing" as a FRONT for garnering
"start-up" funds for the ADC. In April, 1997 two pilots who
worked for "Operation Blessing" charged that planes linked
to Robertson and his ministry flew mostly to haul equipment
for ADC's private diamond operation. Robert Hinkle, the
chief pilot told reporter Bill Sizemore that of about 40
flights within Zaire during the half-year period he was
there,
"Only one or at
most two were related to the humanitarian mission of
'Operation Blessing'. The rest were 'mining-related'. We
got over there and we had 'Operation Blessing' painted
on the tails of the airplanes, Hinkle told the
Virginian-Pilot, 'but we were doing no humanitarian
relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and
flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tdshikapa'."
Robertson continually
tried to portray the brutish dictator (i.e., Mobutu) as a
"good Christian" and a loyal US ally in the war against
international communism. Robertson was wined-and-dined by
Mobutu on the dictator's presidential yacht on more than one
occasion, and entertained often in his lavish estates.
And it isn't just in
the Congo that Robertson has been linked to blood-thirsty
dictators such as Mobutu. Take what Robertson was up to in
Liberia with Charles Taylor, supposedly a "born-again"
Christian. Robertson created a gold mining company called
Freedom Gold Limited in the Cayman Islands in December 1998
in which he was listed as the president and the company's
sole director. He subsequently concluded a mining agreement
with the old Liberian government signed personally by him,
Charles Taylor and key members of Taylor's cabinet on May
18, 1999.
Now, one might ask, Why
did a "freedom-loving, God-fearing man" such as Pat
Robertson sign on the dotted line with Taylor, a U.S. prison
escapee, a Libyan terrorist training camp graduate, a human
rights violator, and a pillager of his own country and his
neighbor, Sierra Leone? The answer is, of course,
ROBERTSON AND TAYLOR ARE CUT OUT OF THE SAME CLOTH; BOTH ARE
ADHERENTS OF THE "GOSPEL OF GREED" PROCLAIMED BY THE
AMERICAN CHURCH.
Taylor's checkered past
notwithstanding, Robertson saw the Liberian dictator as a "BULWARK
OF CHRISTIANITY" standing against the encroaching hordes
of Islam. And, according to the Washington Post -
"Taylor played his
part to the hilt. At a three-day CBN-sponsored 'Liberia
for Jesus' rally in February 2002, Taylor was the star
attraction, lying prostrate on the red-carpeted stage of
Samuel Doe Stadium in Monrovia, the Liberian capital,
and exhorting the crowd to 'Come to Jesus', he told the
crowd, 'I cannot help you; all help comes from God'."
And all this from a man
who employed child-soldiers (many of whom were recruited
from local Christian churches) to keep him in power. The
spectacle was duly covered on The 700 Club. What a
farce! - but again, this is the kind of Christianity that
the U.S. has exported to Africa and upon which it is relying
to "hold off the hoards of radical Muslims" from capturing
Africa for Islam. God help us all!!
SO WHAT
DO WE HAVE HERE?
So, what do we have
here? Plainly, what we have is the American church and the
American New World Order System working hand-in-hand as a
WOMAN RIDING A BEAST! - and we can begin to understand
what F.C. Jennings meant when he said:
"Turning then to
the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Revelation, we
see the whole stage filled with two personalities only:
a 'BEAST'' and a 'WOMAN' ... these two ...
picture ... the future prophetic earth ... there can be
no argument or discussion as to this speaking of both
the CIVIL [political, economic, military] and
ECCLESIASTICAL [religious] conditions that will rule
and characterize that part of the earth that is within
the limits or boundaries of Prophecy. The whole of it
will be filled with what shall answer to this 'BEAST'
and this 'WOMAN'. The two [the 'BEAST'
(which answers to the Civil Power) and the 'WOMAN'
(which answers to the Religious Power) are thus
indissolubly co-related, and tell us to what end all
[this is] trending; and that is that there will
eventually be a one World-Empire and a one World-Church,
and these will cover the whole of what is now called
CHRISTENDOM; the one Empire supporting the one
Church, [as] the 'BEAST' in the picture supports
the 'WOMAN', and the 'WOMAN' is supported
by the 'BEAST' ... "
And this is certainly
the case in sub-Saharan Africa where the American church
(the 'WOMAN') and the American New World Order System
(the 'BEAST') are working hand-in-glove UNDER THE
BANNER OF "CHRIST AND THE CHURCH" to subdue the people
of Africa. It's all such an ABOMINATION to God. Such
claims can only be a "turn-off" to the poor of Africa who
see the American New World Order System and the church that
justifies it as frauds. As a result, growing numbers of the
poor in Africa are turning to Islam which to many in Africa
is more a religion of the poor than is Christianity.
Christianity! - what is
that? It's a rich white man's religion having NOTHING
to do with them. What do the poor in Africa ultimately want
to do with a religion that justifies the very system - i.e.,
the American New World Order System - that oppresses and
brutalizes them? It's nothing more than a false "TRAVELING
MAGIC SHOW" that promises much, and delivers NOTHING.
Indeed, the leaders of
those churches in Africa who have submitted themselves to
the American church are those about whom Jesus warned when
He said:
"For there shall
arise false Christs, and false prophets, AND SHALL
SHEW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS; insomuch that, if
it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect." (Mt 24:24)
GOD'S
ANSWER TO THIS DECEPTION
The "Gospel of the
Kingdom" is God's answer to this deception. It has been
calculated to rip away the mask of piety that the religious
FRAUDS who wickedly justify this system hide
behind - for example, "Christians" (so-called) such as RCCG
Minister Adeboye; Francois Bozize President of the Republic
of Central Africa and a member of Eglise Christianisme
Celeste; Laurent Gbagbo, President of the Ivory Coast;
Charles Taylor, the former dictator of Liberia; President
Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, who is tightly
connected to the huge RCCG church; etc., etc. - ALL OF
THEM TOADIES OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH, and "DAUGHTERS
OF THE HARLOT" who serve the BEAST rather than
the "poor carpenter of Nazareth."
These men do not
proclaim the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but rather
what the Bible calls a "DIFFERENT GOSPEL" (2
Cor. 11:4; Gal. 1:6), which is NOT "good news"
at all, but a perversion of the "good news" of the Bible. We
are warned by Paul against it and all its "SEDUCTIVE"
forms which are at war with God's "Plan and Purpose in the
Ages."
The "Gospel of the
Kingdom" exposes these frauds - and the system they excuse -
for what they actually are, so that the poor can see
Christianity for what it really is: God's way of salvation
for them, and see Christ for whom He really was - a
POOR carpenter who said of Himself:
"... Foxes have
holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of
man hath not where to lay his head." (Luke 9:58) -
A Man who rather than
placating the rich (as the leaders of these harlot churches
so shamefully do), said of them,
"... Verily I say
unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the
kingdom of heaven.
"And again I say
unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a (sewing) needle, than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:23-24)
THE
GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM
The "good news" of the
kingdom [i.e., the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM"
(Matt. 24:14)] foretells the coming kingdom of Christ that
will entail social justice and equity between and among all
men; and there is yet another Gospel that is to be preached:
the "ETERNAL GOSPEL" (Rev. 14:6) which
foretells the destruction of "Babylon the Great," (i.e., the
American New World Order System) which has been set up
opposition to the coming kingdom of Christ.
C.I. Scofield writes:
"The 'GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM' (Matt. 4:23), i.e. the GOOD NEWS
THAT GOD PURPOSES TO SET UP ON EARTH THE KINGDOM OF
CHRIST ..."
The kingdom being
proclaimed here will be a kingdom grounded in social justice
for ALL mankind, a world of equity where men
are not divided up between the "owners of capital" on the
one hand and "labor" on the other hand, and where men and
women are not divided up on the basis of their race or even
their gender (Gal. 3:28); where the rich do not oppress the
poor; where every man has equal access to God; where
privileges cannot be bought by the wealthy; where there are
no death squads, no poverty, no torture, no hunger, no
disease, and no room for oppressors of any kind. Very
obviously, such a kingdom would be TOTALLY at
variance to the world we now live in and with the American
New World Order System that now prevails on the earth.
IT'S
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW - IN AFRICA: THE
GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM IS BEING PROCLAIMED
It is here - it is precisely here - in
places like Africa that we as Christians have been called to
preach the "Gospel of the Kingdom" - and the initial steps
in this direction are now being taken by people such as
Brother Eugene Bonsu
evangeleug@yahoo.com in
Accra, Ghana; Brother Anthony Anderson Showell, Sr.
anthonyandersons@yahoo.com
in Monrovia, Liberia; and Brother Hays Karrus in the
Liberian Refugee Camp in Ghana. [You may get in touch with
Brother Hays Karrus through Brother Eugene Bonsu.] All these
dear brothers have united themselves together with Antipas
Ministries to preach the "Gospel of the Kingdom" in Africa!
We URGE all of you to support them in your prayers
and by your financial giving!
The message to Africa
is this: CHRISTIANS IN AFRICA, AWAKE! AMERICA AND THE
CHURCH IN AMERICA ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS! We URGE
all of you in Africa to link yourselves up to people such as
Eugene Bonsu, Anthony Anderson Showell, Sr., and Hays Karrus.
God bless you all!
S.R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries |
