THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA AND DEBT

I WAS WATCHING NEWS AT TEN LAST NIGHT AND TO MY BEWILDERMENT I STARTED LAUGHING OUT ALOUD. ALL MY FRIENDS WERE LOOKING AT ME LIKE I WAS MENTAL.

YOU SEE IT STRUCK ME AS SOMETHING OUT OF A MOVIE OR A PLAY WHEN MORGAN TSVANGARI AND PRESIDENT MUGABE FINALLY PUT THEIR DIFFERENCES BEHIND THEM AND DECIDED TO RULE ZIMBABWE TOGETHER. THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER THOUGH, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW ZIMBABWE HAS BEEN THE TOPIC OF POLITICAL UNREST FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.

MUGABE HAS APPEARED TO BE USING RACISM, ANGER, GREED AND POWER ALL IN SUCH AN ABUSIVE WAY THAT SANCTIONS WERE PUT ON HIS COUNTRY BY THE WEST [WHICH KILLED MANY INNOCENT CIVILIANS DUE TO INFLATION FROM THE SANCTIONS, WHICH IN TURN STARVED THE PEOPLE] UNTIL HE RELIEVES HIMSELF OF HIS DUTIES AS THE PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE [SO THAT'S WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT, OR IS IT.]

LET'S LEAVE THE ALL TO FAMILIAR STORY OF THE AFRICAN GREEDY DICTATOR ALONE FOR A MINUTE. LET'S LOOK AT THE FACTS: AFRICA ALSO KNOWN AS THE DARK CONTINENT, THE MOTHERLAND, THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN THOUSANDS OF MINERALS WHICH PHARMACUTICAL COMPANIES RELY ON FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THEIR DRUGS, FOOD GROWS INTHE FORM OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN THE THOUSANDS, THIS IS VITAL FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL, AND PRECIOUS STONES ARE SCATTERED TO AND THROW WHEREVER YOU GO.

ALSO OIL IS RIFE THROUGHOUT THE CONTINENT, WHICH IS THE MAIN ENERGY SOURCE OF THE WORLD ONLY SECOND TO GAS. WITH ALL OF THESE THINGS BEING NATURALLY PRODUCED THROUGHOUT AFRICA, IT WOULD STRIKE ANYONE WITH CONFUSION AS TO WHY AND HOW THESE PEOPLE AND THIS CONTINENT IS IN MASS DEBT. WE'VE ALL SEEN THOSE ALL TO DISTURBING ADVERTS ON TV STATING PAY TWO POUNDS A MONTH AND YOU COULD BE HELPING A WHOLE FAMILY IN AFRICA.

WE'VE ALL SEEN THOSE NEWS BROADCASTS IN REMOTE VILLAGES IN AFRICA WERE PEOPLE ARE DYING OF DISEASE ETC. THE QUESTON STILL REMAINS HOW CAN THIS BE THIS PROBLEM IS SEWN INTO THE FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY SO MUCH THAT TO UNRAVEL HOW THIS HAPPENED IS TO UNDERSTAND THIS PROBLEM CANNOT BE IRRADICATED BY ERASING A DEBT WHICH WILL STEADILY CLIMB STRAIGHT BACK UP DUE TO THE TRADING POLITICS THAT TAKE PLACE ON A DAILY BASIS.

IMAGINE YOU ARE AN AFRICAN FARMER THAT HAS NEVER HEARD OF FREE TRADE, G8 SUMMITS, LIVE 8, COMIC RELIEF, OR ANYOTHER SO CALLED CHARITY CLAIMING TO BE FOR THE PEOPLE [BECAUSE MOST AFRICANS HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THESE 'PROGRAMMES'] BUT YOU DO KNOW DR MARTIN SCHWARTZ WHO COMES EVERY HARVEST AND BUYS CROPS OFF YOU FOR WHAT YOU WOULD BELIEVE IS A TIDY PROFIT [LET'S SAY TEN SHILLINGS A KILO] YOU NEED TO FEED YOUR FAMILY, YOURSELF AND ANY LOCAL GROCERS THAT NEED FOOD.

THE NAME OF THE GAME IS BUSINESS AND ANY BUSINESS MAN THAT KNOWS BUSINESS WILL TELL YOU THERE'S NO POINT BUYING SOMETHING YOU CAN GROW YASELF. THEREFORE THE LAND WHICH THESE FARMERS OWN ARE LIKE 'LIFE' TO THE BUSINESSMEN WHOM ARE NORMALLY REPRESENTING COMPANIES LIKE THE I.M.F. , TESCO, J SAINSBURY, AND OTHER EUROPEAN BIG BOY COMPANIES. VARIOUS METHODS ARE THEN TAKEN TO LITERALLY ROB THESE FARMERS OF THEIR LAND.

THE MOST COMMON IS CALLED 'OVERSCALLING' WHICH IS TO LEND SEEDS, MONEY, TRACKTERS, ANYTHING WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO THE FARMER. ONCE YOU HAVE BORROWED THEM THESE GOODS WHICH YOU HAVE CHARGED THEM AT A HIGHER CURRENCEY [LET'S SAY POUNDS] THE NEXT STEP IS TO ALWAYS BUY EVERYTHING THAT THE FARMER HARVESTS, AT THEIR RATE. [SHILLINGS] THIS LEAVES THE FARMER AND HIS FAMILY HUNGRY AND ALSO EFFECTS THE LOCAL ECONOMY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE FARMER IS INCAPABLE OF SUPPLYING LOCAL GROCERS.

THIS LEEDS TO STARVATION BECAUSE THE MONEY THAT IS OWED IS BEING PAID AT SUCH A HIGH RATE THAT THE FARMER IS BROKE. NOW THINK ABOUT THIS FROM A GOVERMENT LEVEL; 'OVERSCALLING' LEND AT A HIGHER CURRENCEY RATE [AID, WHICH WILL BE PAID BACK AT A HIGHER CURRENCEY RATE] THEN BUYING [ALL] THE GOODS PRODUCED BY THE FARMERS AT THE LOWER CURRENCEY RATE, WHICH LEEDS TO STARVATION AND MORE DEBT. WHICH LEADS TO LAND REPOSSESSION [ALL YOU MORTGAGE OWNERS SHOULD UNDERSTAND.]

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING; WHY DON'T THEY TRADE WITH COUNTRIES THAT HAVE A SIMILAR BASED RATE CURRENCEY. THEY CAN ONLY TRADE WITH COUNTRIES THEIR DEBTORS ALLOW THEM TO TRADE WITH AND IF THEY DISAGREE LIKE MUGABE, THEN SANCTIONS ARE PLACED UPON THE COUNTRY [NO ONE'S ALLOWED TO TRADE WITH THEM.] THEY STARVE, THEIR CURRENCEY GOES EVEN LOWER AND AGAIN THEY NEED AID. THIS GAME IS PLAYED ON ALL FRONTS. YOU CAN CHANGE THE PRODUCT AND SEE THE SAME THING HAPPENING IN AFRICA WHETHER THE PRODUCT IS FOOD, MINERALS AND PRECIOUS STONES, OR ENERGY.

WITH SUCH A HOSTILE CLIMATE OF BUSINESS THE COUNTRY BECOMES ANGRY, HUNGRY, AND RESTLESS, JOBS ARE NO LONGER IN CIRCULAION DUE TO POVERTY AND LOSS OF BUSINESS, WHICH CAUSES THE ECONOMY TO CRUMMBLE AND THEIR CURRENCEY REMAIN WEAK. REBELS BEGIN TO TAKE UP ARMS DUE TO IDEALISTIC VIEWS AND WHO SELLS THEM THE GUNS.

I WANT PEOPLE READING THIS TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS NO LIE AND IT IS NOT CIRCUMSTANCIAL THAT ALL THESE THINGS ARE TAKING PLACE. I HAVE BEEN TO AFRICA AND I HAVE DRIVEN FOR MILES ON END WHILST STARING AT THE SAME COMPANY LOGO WHICH GROWS TOBACCO TO SELL TO THE WORLD, TO GIVE THEM CANCER, TO TREAT THEM WITH DRUGS GOT FROM AFRICA.

OUR MEDIA LIES TO US AND CALLS THE REVOLUTIONARY THE BED GUY. FROM FIDEL CASTRO, TO MUGABE, TO GADDAFFI THESE MEN HAVE TRIED TO BE FOR THEIR PEOPLE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MET WITH SANCTIONS FROM THE WEST - AND ANYBODY WHOM DOES BUSINESS WITH THESE GUYS, WILL NOT DO BUSINESS WITH US. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ANIMOSITY ANYMORE. PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ARE LIVING TOGETHER IN PEACE WHILST COUNTRIES CAUSE WARS, PLUMMET STOCK MARKETS AND ROB EVEYBODY BREATHING.

IT AIN'T PERSONAL, IT'S JUST BUSINESS.

Written by D-Raw

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