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What Else is a SLAVE But CAPTIVE Labor? (Part I)

Submitted Ras Jahaziel In the process of robbing the kidnapped children of The Middle Passage of their African homeland, so that African labor and the much coveted natural resources of Africa could be used to make Europeans wealthy while Africans perish in poverty, it became necessary to school, fool, and religiously indoctrinate the kidnapped African.…

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Submitted Ras Jahaziel

slavesIn the process of robbing the kidnapped children of The Middle Passage of their African homeland, so that African labor and the much coveted natural resources of Africa could be used to make Europeans wealthy while Africans perish in poverty, it became necessary to school, fool, and religiously indoctrinate the kidnapped African.

Consequently this far-reaching crime that would negatively impact the African for centuries would be officially pardoned, blessed, and legalized, and the victims would learn to honor and respect The Invader’s Right to Stolen Property.

The victims would therefore tell themselves that this is the way God planned it. They would therefore view their own present-day landless situation that resulted from the historical robbery as a normal life situation that has been ordained by God.

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112 responses to “What Else is a SLAVE But CAPTIVE Labor? (Part I)”

  1. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    This article and many like it is one sure way to indoctrinate the present descendants of slaves. As one proud black man, I do not recognize these hopeless, helpless persons to which the writer referenced. Nor do I see the natives of Africa making the best use of their resources. The referenced colonisers were also slaves and vassals of other nations but they do not dwell on it. Nor try to undo the past. The past are for lessons. Not new chains to restrain us for taking full responsibility for our welfare. Cut out the crap . Let us live in the NOW and move forward.

  2. Violet C Beckles Avatar
    Violet C Beckles

    Bernard Codrington. February 13, 2016 at 12:08 PM #

    @ the others blend in because of skin color ,others can not blend just by being born, We must learn from this and dont let it be reborn in Barbados.
    Yet ,Pimp title holders use the slave Masters titles to keep slavery alive and well, as the same shade benefits from the slavery labor, just like their BIBLE. So we have middle men or house negro doing the same she-it all over again, The next wave of Columbus,

  3. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    I would recommend “IT’S OK TO LEAVE THE PLANTATION, The New Underground Railroad, By C. Mason Weaver.”

    Mr. Weaver is a Black American, who writes from solid experience, and rightly maintains, “The plantation mentality has only one purpose: to create more anger and resentment among black Americans and more guilt among white Americans.”

    A good and enlightening read, for all Blacks who are still entrapped with the slave mentality!

  4. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Zoe February 13, 2016 at 1:04 PM
    “A good and enlightening read, for all Blacks who are still entrapped with the slave mentality!”

    No Zoe, your Judeo-Christian book is the only “good and enlightening read” for blacks. Not a good place to hide money from blacks, right?

    Doesn’t your book of plagiarized myths and legend approve the keeping of slaves?

    According to your Bible the white man has every right to keep black people as slaves as long as he doesn’t overly mistreat them. Then all he has to do is to go to his Southern Baptist, Anglican or RC church, pay his tithes and say three Hail Marys.

  5. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    Are we entrapped within the caste of our skin or is society so completely grounded on that basic power dynamic of master-slave that it flows through all facets of life.

    @Bernard Codrington, I agree that we have to take responsibility for our own welfare…and many of us absolutely have done that.

    But how do you as a “proud black man” who with the rest of us can now acclaim a Black US President as the exclamation point of the many first-in-class achievements by Blacks in various fields, contrast that with the fact that we continue to encounter so many issues of police discrimination (in US , primarily but other locales too) against Blacks.

    So many issues of discrimination of blacks in the corporate, medical and other fields…the on-the-ground daily type of stuff that stymies advancement to top posts.

    So @ Zoe it is absolutely OK to leave the plantation, but we need to tell the Caucasians that too…many of us Blacks have for a VERY long time now can’t tell the difference between a ‘corn-row’ and a row of corns. For some of us a Plantation is either John King’s song or a store that used to be on Lower Broad St. Some of us NEVER set foot on the damn plantation – figuratively and fah sure literally.

    But the looks of disdain, displeasure and downright hatred that emanates from our pale skinned fellow citizens (outside BIM for sure) tells me that the discussion about Plantations CAN NEVER be a one-way discourse.

    What was is that the late Glenn Frey and his band buddies wrote about ‘Hotel California’: ‘You can check out whenever you like but you can never leave’

    That sums up the Plantation discourse perfectly in my view.

  6. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    @Naki-Monkey, the more you write, the bigger the FOOL you become, STILL a Chimpanzee…see if you can EVOLVE to a Gorilla…maybe then you’ll acquire some sense, or just be another BIG IGNORANT GORILLA!

  7. islandgal Avatar
    islandgal

    https://www.facebook.com/TheAtlantic/videos/10153937622583487/

  8. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    I cannot deal with the post slave mentality of the Americans. I am sure the Afro Americans and the Euro- Americans are doing the best they can based on their experiences. My concerns are with fellow Barbadians like you who are playing a game designed to entrap you and the rules of which you do not understand or know. If you believe you are a slave you will behave like a slave. If you believe you are a free human being you will behave like one. Pray, tell me why would a proud Barbadian be doing in the capital cities of Europe begging the descendants of the colonizers for reparations.

  9. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    The stories in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian bible are records of people on a spiritual journey to reconcile themselves to God and to their fellow human beings. Race was not a big factor because Palestine was in a geographical location where Europe,Africa and Asia met. So there were wise men from the East, The Queen of Sheba who was dark and comely,and Pontius Pilate an Italian. So it is a collection of books from which all races can benefit. It is the meaning which one attaches to the stories that is very personal and is mostly influenced by one’s personal experience. Do you not find the Isrealites flight from Egypt interesting. And Mary and Joseph taking the child Jesus into Egypt instructive. They were black enough to fade into the landscape. It is not the Bibles fault that you take other peoples interpretation as gospel truth. Do your own thinking . You are no longer a slave.

  10. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ de Ingrunt Word February 13, 2016 at 1:34 PM,

    I was in the process of replying to Bernard Codrington’s post but I had to go to the shops before they closed. Your timely, intelligent and diplomatic reply saved me from sullying myself.

    I was recently in Barbados. It amazes me how an island that was built on slavery fails to acknowledge this fact. One can tour the whole island from St Lucia to St Phillips and you will see scarcely any written evidence on Barbados slave legacy. There are no sign posts. There are no examples of slave houses that have been preserved in the manner of an Anne Frank’s home in Amsterdam.

    Anne Frank was a young girl of Jewish descent who hid in a loft to avoid being taken away by the Nazis during the Second World War. Her house was preserved as testament that such events should never reoccur in Holland and would became a museum dedicated to her and the sufferings of Jews in Europe.

    The plantation house of today stands there as testament to my people’s sufferings. There are many people who pass through these great houses with no knowledge of the demonic secrets that these buildings guard. It is the responsibility of our government to inform both the tourist and her citizens as to how Barbados was developed. The deaths and mis-treatment of our ancestors should not be whitewashed from the history of Barbados.

    I do not need to be lectured or patronised by a “so called proud black man”.

    http://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2016/feb/09/brazilian-carnival-queen-too-black-nayara-justino-video

  11. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Bernie Codgy

    Very well written.

    Black peeps must never forget that sordid institution of Slavery. However, be guided by the Jews who were enslaved in Africa ie Egypt and who have been maltreated for thousands of years, their approach is to forgive but never forget and utilise education, UNITY of purpose, the Law and the corridors of power to excel.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @Exclaimer

    Did you visit Rock Hall Village?

  13. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ David,

    No I did not. Please tell me what the significance is of this village.

    I see that Money Brain has slithered his way into this discussion. Time for me to go.

    http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-roots-set-arrive-amid-plethora-slave-narratives

  14. David Avatar
    David

    @Exclaimer

    Here is a link to kickoff.

    http://www.barbadospocketguide.com/our-island-barbados/monuments/rock-hall-freedom-monument.html

  15. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Exclaimer

    “slithered”? Is that how U handle points that you have difficulty faulting?

    Casting dispersions on MB will prove of very minor value. U are correct to run away though.

    Are you aware that many plantation houses these days are occupied by those of African decent? Yes the new heartless oppressors of Bajans, politically connected bros.( apologies to those who deserve such propertiesby their hard work and brains)

  16. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ MoneyBrain February 13, 2016 at 4:17 PM #
    “Very well written.
    Black peeps must never forget that sordid institution of Slavery. However, be guided by the Jews who were enslaved in Africa ie Egypt and who have been maltreated for thousands of years, their approach is to forgive but never forget and utilise education, UNITY of purpose, the Law and the corridors of power to excel.”

    Why don’t you stop rubbing historical foolishness in the eyes of these stupid poorly read black people?

    You know very well that the Hebrew tribes as mentioned in the Bible are not genetically connected to the modern white or European Jews around the world and definitely not in the Israel of today.

    That would be like saying the Roman Catholic Irish are the descendants of the early followers of Jesus.

    If the Jews mentioned in the Bible were white they would have died out long time ago from skin cancer as is happening in Australia and certainly in Barbados. There is absolutely no way a tribe of white people could have been enslaved and forced to work in the hot sun for 400 years in Egypt and survive.

    It’s like saying the modern day Mexicans are descendant of the Olmecs.

  17. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    These ‘jews’ that people love to laud are toxic for the BLACK MAN & HIS WOMAN. These are the same entities who master-minded the slave trade that brought them wealth and nothing but misery for the Black man. Its this same lying, thieving, murderous, usurping entity that created today’s fianancial/economic system which affords the spoils to greedy, dishonest corrupt men and women while the ignorant, unsuspecting,hard-working poor people continue to give them the fruits of their labour. These same greedy men and women who profit from this corruption, love to boast about about their “brilliance & intellect” while neglecting to attribute their rotten gains to nothing more a snake oil saleman’s system which requires neither “brilliance nor intellect” but mere 3 card montyisms.

    So called “jews” were NEVER ensalved in Ancient Egypt, yet another blasted lie.

    The bogus holoCOST that they’ve kept the world’s mind trapped in since 1945 has got to be one of the most MONSTROUS LIES of that century and it continues today so they can continue to bleed our pockets.

    The “Diary of Anne Frank” is yet another blasted fakery just like the story that Aunt Jemima loves to ram down our throats about that fraud E”LIE” Weasel..what a fitting name.

    These bogus entities print up money and distribute it among themselves so they can buy up and own eveything and they have the world clamouring after their dirty money to become rich like them…how foul!

    The Black Man should not confine himself to Africa. Before the “Native American” crossed the Bering Straits or the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria landed in America, BLACKS were already domiciled in the Americas. Blacks were all over this planet for eons before this knuckle-dragger exited his cave.

    Brutality, “education” and religion are at the root of the Black man’s enslavement. They’ve been beaten into submission and today we continue this submission because of a lack of self-knowledge. Black folk including the “leaders” in Bdos are victims of ignorance. They don’t comprehend the disease called white-supremacy, neither do they comprehend the MO of today world yet they believe that the enemy’s MO is correct because they’ve been fed so many lies about THE enemy and about ourselves.

    Black folk are busy sending off their children to his universities to learn his nasty duplicitous ways and they return to you only to RE-INFORCE this same filthy system that ensures their “perpetual” bondage.

    Does anyone still wonder why this world is in the filthy GOD-FORSAKEN state today?

    When the Black Man and his Woman gain SELF-KNOWLEGDE and shake this PARASITE off his back, then this enslavement will stop and this planet will be back on its intended TRAJECTORY because it has been derailed by the recessive mutants.

  18. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ Money Brain,

    You have much to learn. What gives you the right to express your narrow views on slavery and it’s after effects on this forum?

    You seem painfully ignorant of the aftermath of slavery and how it has blighted the future of the Negro race.

    Take a look the article below. You will see that the residue from our slave heritage is still a problem till this day.

    https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2012/07/01/the-brazilian-mulata-black-woman-or-something-entirely-different-2/

  19. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Miller

    I did not say the Jews were the Ashnekazi of Europe or that they were white!

    Good try though.

  20. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Exclaimer

    U have much to learn EX.

    U see I believe that black peeps can accomplish much as some actually do! The major problem is people like Raz, the author, who just wants to focus on the past, I recommend focusing on the positives and the future there for the taking, by those who are clever and/or hardworking. How can one believe in yourself and success if you focus on the negatives????? My main point is that too many of the Negro race are BLIGHTING themselves instead of focusing on developing POSITIVE Psychology!

    I dont have narrow views BUT I am forced by some stupid fools on this site to take an opposing view so they can appreciate that there are always 2-3 different perspectives on every issue, not narrow at all. I thought you would have realised that by now.

  21. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Hopi

    WE ALL come from Africa!

    There are several murderous stinking African leaders that never went to University and hardly made it through Primary school!

    The parasite is in some Black peoples minds/ Psychology!

    As it is in whites/ Orientals et al.

    So Hopi what is your solution/S?

  22. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Exclaimer February 13, 2016 at 8:43 PM

    Exclaimer I know your background of being a black man growing up not stupid under the local Bajan Union jack but as an enlightened and true fighter for the rights of blacks trained and hardened in the trenches of places like Brixton Handsworth and Toxteth.

    But here is a bit of advice from one who is about to leave the scene.
    Any fight for reparations for Afro-Caribbean people because of slavery MUST have the BLACK WOMAN at the Forefront of the struggles. It is she who was raped and exploited by the White Man.
    Can you imagine what would have happened if a black man had even tried to rape a white woman?
    Can you imagine if a black man today rapes a black woman what would be in store for him?

    Just look around at the number of mulattoes and ‘brownings’ that have survived down the decades of the white man’s raping of the warm p**sy Nubians.

    That is where the real reparations justification lies. It’s there fore everyone to see.
    Every ‘black’ woman of mixed colour has a stake in every property own by the whites who are the descendents of slave owners, plantation owners and supervisors.

  23. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    @Miller

    A worthy strategy that will fail. There will be no significant monetary reparations, indeed to speak of such is likely to retard the progress of those stupid enough to serious believe!

    Which Govt would be so stupid as to write a cheque for $Billions when they are nearly all BANKRUPT right now! When the beloved Clinton Administration approved the repealing of the Glass Steagal Act he sealed the fate of the World! These idiots have not even properly provided for the mammoth Demographic bulge that was born between 1946-1964, the Babyboomers, who are now moving swiftly into Retirement. Yes those aged 70 lead the group. Furthermore these clowns permitted China to join the WTO and trade heavily without adequate controls regarding:

    1Patents

    2 Workplace standards

    3 pollution controls

    4 FAIR trade

    It is a desperate situation of over SUPPLY! Will lead to DEPRESSION in every meaning of the word! Sad for Black peeps that they will suffer too!

    These corrupt stupid Pols of all races have lead the globe to abject poverty!

    Please dont give vulnerable young minds the impression that big $$$$$$$$ going to flow, this will NOT happen.

  24. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    @Money Brain…..

    Did we all really come from Africa?

    Those murderous stinking Africans were and are supported by Western Colonizers.

    The parasite is in some Black peoples minds/psychology…Is this really true? So we all just imagined that the Caucasoid benefitted from his pillaging of Africa? It didn’t really happen did it?

    Orientals are rugs, stop insulting the Asians. How many times have you seen whites work against their own self-interest?

    My solution is for the Black man to reject this system. It does not work for us despite the fact that a few of us are allowed a little prosperity. We should return to the ways of our Ancestors..to that time before they encountered the white man and gave him a helping hand only to be slapped in the face by that same hand. We must return to those teaching that gave us knowledge of Ourselves and of the Universe. We must return to that time when we dealt in the WHOLE and not in segments. This system does not work for us its killing us in more ways than one.

  25. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Zoe February 13, 2016 at 2:07 PM #
    “Naki-Monkey, the more you write, the bigger the FOOL you become, STILL a Chimpanzee…see if you can EVOLVE to a Gorilla…maybe then you’ll acquire some sense, or just be another BIG IGNORANT GORILLA!”

    First let it be said that Naki-Monkey is ‘man’ enough to accept the science that supports the theory that humans evolved not from monkeys and other primates but from a common ancestry that is responsible for the same family tree. Hence we should appreciate the 98% of DNA similarity we share with our closest cousin the chimpanzee especially from the House of the Bonobo who have sex to acknowledge and celebrate everything under the Sun; just like humans.

    Now let us get to the real issue. I am not dealing with emotion or speculation but real evidence in black and white unless you want to call the writers a bunch of frauds and your god a blind old man looking down from above but blissfully unaware of the ‘sins’ committed in his name.

    Here are a few extracts from the New Testament which reinforce what the Old Testament demanded of slaves but with a more “Christian” touch:

    • Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; not by way of eye service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. (Ephesians 6:5-8)

    • Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. (Colossians 3:22-25)

    • Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable. For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God. For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, (1 Peter 2:18-21)

    • All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine will not be spoken against. Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles. (1 Timothy 6:1-2)

    • And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. (Ephesians 6:9)

    • Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven. (Colossians 4

    Now you couldn’t want a more prescriptive code of Christian behaviour expected from blacks when interacting with their white god-like masters, can you now?

  26. RT Avatar
    RT

    Geneva-based chocolate manufacturer, Nestlé, has been accused of using child labor to produce its chocolate and other food goods. The 72nd-ranked company on the Forbes Fortune 500 Companies list has admitted to the heinous offense.

    Last year Reuters reported that the company confessed and was willing to clean up its act. This year the company is facing a major lawsuit for its human rights violations.

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold Nestlé, the world’s largest food maker, accountable for using child slaves to harvest cocoa in Africa looks set to be a landmark battle over labor used overseas, according to Reuters.

    The case starts in 2005, when the lawsuit was filed against Nestlé, Archer Daniels Midland Co and Cargill Inc. by former child slavery victims originally from Mali in West Africa.

  27. RT Avatar
    RT

    On 14 July 2005, three individuals from Mali and Global Exchange (a human rights organization) filed a class action lawsuit in California federal court against Nestlé, Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill.  The individuals alleged they had been trafficked from Mali as child slaves and forced to work harvesting and/or cultivating cocoa beans on farms in Côte d’Ivoire.  The plaintiffs allege that they were forced to work long hours without pay, kept in locked rooms when not working and suffered severe physical abuse by those guarding them.  The plaintiffs allege that the companies aided, abetted or failed to prevent the torture, forced labour and arbitrary detention that they had suffered as child slaves.  The lawsuit alleges violations of the Alien Tort Claims Act, Torture Victim Protection Act, US Constitution and California state law.  The plaintiffs further claimed that the companies’ economic benefit from the labour of children violates international labour conventions, the law of nations and customary international law. 
    In August 2005, Nestlé filed a motion to force the disclosure of the names of the former child slave plaintiffs, which was opposed by the plaintiffs.  In addition, the defendants have filed a motion to dismiss the case.  On 27 July 2006, the court ordered further briefings to be filed on various issues related to aiding and abetting standards.  On 8 September 2010 the court dismissed the case finding that the case could not be brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act.  The court concluded that existing authorities did not demonstrate that corporate liability was sufficiently well established and universal to satisfy a claim under the Alien Tort Claims Act.  The plaintiffs appealed the dismissal.  In December 2013, a federal appeals court overturned the 2010 ruling and allowed the plaintiffs to refile the lawsuit.  In September 2014, the federal appeals court replaced its December 2013 opinion with an expanded one reversing and vacating the lower court’s dismissal of the case. The new opinion sets forth expanded reasoning for allowing the plaintiffs to amend their complaint to show the connection their claims have to the United States to address the US Supreme Court’s holding in Kiobel v. Shell. The court found that the plaintiffs have standing to bring their Alien Tort case because of the universal prohibition against slavery.  In September 2015, the defendants petitioned the Supreme Court to throw out the federal appeals court’s ruling and want it to decide if companies are subject to liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act.  In January 2016 the Supreme Court declined to hear the companies’ appeal.

  28. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Hopi
    Orientals are people from the Eastern Hemisphere. We are Occidentals–from the Western Hemisphere—please stop showing that you dont have that good an education!

    Hopi the REALITY is that the “highly educated” and RICH in any society regardless of skin colour/ shade take advantage of those less fortunate.

    Do you think that in the UK the mid and especially the lower classes were treated well? It has little to do with race and there should be no indictment based on race because the majority of Whites have suffered from the actions of the overlords. Indeed, like Bim today where the Black political class/ overlords DONT give a RODENTS RECTUM for poor Black peeps!

    I am certainly not denying that the colonisers were pillagers.

    What is the difference between White and Black Rapers and Pillagers! Both Rapers and Pillagers!

  29. RT Avatar
    RT

    European – still looting Africa

    Niger has a land area twice the size of France, with a population of only 17 million – a quarter of France’s. Much of the Sahelian country is arid and hostile to agriculture. But given its relatively small population, Niger should be a wealthy nation owing to its other vast natural resources. 

    It is the world’s fifth top producer of uranium ore – after Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia and Russia. Niger has also other mineral riches, including gold, iron ore, molybdenum, tin, salt, gypsum and phosphates – and what are reckoned to be huge untapped oil and gas reserves. 

    Yet despite all this natural wealth, Niger is officially the poorest country on Earth. According to the United Nations Human Development Index for 2012, it is ranked the lowest out of 186 nations. 

    The explanation for this anomaly is that Niger’s chronic condition of underdevelopment, poverty and hunger is a result of politics – French politics to be precise. 

    Like many other African countries, Niger gained official independence from France in 1960. But, as with other former colonies, its newfound «freedom» soon proved to be illusory. 

    For the past six decades, Niger has been kept enslaved under the French monetary system known as the «African Franc». The currency was imposed on more than a dozen former French colonies, including Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad, Mali and Niger, as a condition for their political «independence». 

    Paris dictates that all member countries must deposit their annual revenues with the French Treasury, from which the former colonies can draw down borrowing – but they are charged financial interest for this dubious «privilege». Meanwhile, the French government allows itself to use this African money to invest in its own companies – interest free. 

    France also unilaterally determines the exchange rate for the African Franc against the Euro and other international currencies. 

    In this way, France has been able to continue its rapacious exploitation of Africa as if it were back in the colonial heyday of the 19th and early 20th Centuries – only now under the politically correct guise of «independent nations».

    The financial and economic looting of Africa means that resources are extracted at the lowest cost to France, which can then export products back to its former colonies at the highest price. The upshot is that Africa is caught in a poverty trap of underdevelopment and hunger – as we are witnessing now in Niger – even though the continent has some of the most abundant resources on Earth.

    A measure of Niger’s forced underdevelopment is this: apart from uranium ore, the other major exports from the country are livestock, cowpeas and onions. In other words, the county – despite its vast natural wealth – is stunted and crippled. And France wants to keep Niger crippled, economically and socially, because it ensures that France can exploit the country at will and in particular for the strategically vital uranium ore. 

    Some 80 per cent of France’s national energy supply is derived from nuclear power generated at 59 plants operated by state-owned Electricite de France. About one-third of France’s total annual supply of uranium ore for its power stations is sourced from Niger. The French uranium-mining company, Areva, has mines across Niger, guarded by French Special Forces.

    Electricity supply is perhaps the main determinant of a country’s overall development. So, while French citizens can enjoy ubiquitous electricity, and all the social development that goes along with that, it is on the back of widespread poverty and human suffering in Niger.

    Areva is the world’s second biggest uranium-producing company with annual profits of €430 million.

  30. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    Why Do Jews Win So Many Nobels?
    Jews make up only 0.2% of the world population, yet comprise 22% of Nobel laureates. What’s the deal?

    A guide to the 2013 Nobel Prizes – so far
    Tel Aviv University professor shares Nobel for physics
    2013 Nobel Prize Two Israeli scientists who emigrated to U.S. win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Brussels to name famed atomium monument after Jewish Nobel laureate
    Canada’s Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize in Literature
    Philip Roth: Too (New York) Jewish for a Nobel?
    No drain – Israel simply has too many brains

    Does the story of Creation hold up to scientific scrutiny?

    Anachronism and provinciality: Welcome to the Nobel Prize selection process
    Jews have a reputation for being smart. The fact that all three recipients of this year’s Nobel prize for Chemistry are Jewish is yet another brick in the wall of that long-lived perception.

    As such, it joins many others: In fact, it seems that no less than 22% of all Nobel laureates have been Jewish.

    Now, Jews comprise 0.2% of the world population. One might call their representation in the august company of Nobel prizewinners disproportionate.
    One could argue that the figure, presented by multiple sources, does depend on ‘what is a Jew’. But even if one weeds out recipients who, say, eat of the swine or smoke on Shabbat, it’s still a lot.

    Science has shown that despite being identified with certain mutations such as Tay-Sachs, Jews do not constitute a distinct genetic group – there is no “Jew” gene. So, what makes Jews so smart?

    Cultural elements, apparently, though debate rages over which ones – from “Jews value education” to “They had to be smart to survive” in exile. (Not to mention before exile. The ancient Middle East was just as war-ridden as it is today.) So, are Jews smarter? Who knows. What’s sure is that these Jewish laureates have made the world a better place, and a more knowledgeable one.

    The God particle and the Jew

    A number of these Jews are Israelis, though some are Israeli no more, at least in residence. One such is Arieh Warshel, who on Wednesday was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with his Jewish colleagues Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus. Warshel studied at the Technion but now works at the University of Southern California.

    The three won the prize for creating computer models that can delve into complex chemical processes. For instance, their work underlies computer models of proteins, which are horribly complex molecules. They also helped elucidate the pathways of photosynthesis, without which life as we know it would not exist. So the more we understand it, probably the better.

    Tuesday’s crop of new Nobelists included the Belgian scientist – and Jew – Francois Englert, for his role together with the renowned Peter Higgs in predicting the so-called ‘God particle’ – the ultimate stuff of which the universe is made.

    Preceding this lot, Israel can boast 11 laureates in the award’s 65-year history. The Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman of the Technion University won the Chemistry prize in 2011, for discovering quasicrystals. Normal crystals are orderly, period. For instance they only break along certain lines. Quasicrystals have order but they’re not periodic – that’s science argot for they look messy and can occupy whatever space they’re squeezed into.

    Shechtman was reportedly queasy about the scientific reaction to his discovery, on which he therefore sat for a while. And this helps mankind how? Can you pack your luggage more efficiently? Probably you could, but it’s his paradigm shift in chemistry, which translates into manufacturing, that won him the plaudits.

    In 2004, two Israeli biologists, Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, won the Chemistry award along with Irwin Rose (yup) for their work on a peculiar protein named ubiquitin.

    Now, most proteins differ from species to species. (Because they were CREATED that way!) A mouse’s keratin won’t be exactly the same as a lizard’s or your mother-in-law’s. Not ubiquitin, which is from the word “ubiquitous”. It’s the same. They were the ones to elucidate that it’s a sort of cellular garbage truck (to massively oversimplify): it directs proteins to destruction.

    Their work has implications for understanding a host of diseases.

    The Israeli-American Daniel Kahneman of Princeton won the Economics prize in 2002 despite irritating investors the world wide with his inconvenient theory that the markets are irrational. Bad news, folks. But it’s the sort of thing that’s better to know than not to know.
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.551520

  31. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    @Miller-Monkey-Naki. Come now Mr. Gorilla, see if you can start to DEAL with and ANSWER to the FACTS, as challenged below? Instead of running around like a Chimpanzee with you head STUCK UP your ancestral anal cavity!

    Zoe January 27, 2016 at 10:45 AM #
    @Miller, below are my CHALLENGES to YOU early in the New Year, which you CANNOT refute with any sound science methodology; so what do you do?

    As usual, Miller, you now come again with more Ad Hominem attacks, as you CANNOT offer any substantive facts or evidence in defense of your NAKI-NAKI fables, or against the science FACTS and EVIDENCE, confirming the Bible, God’s Word.

    Come on Miller, get real, be intellectually HONEST, if that’s possible at ALL; and deal with the EVIDENCE of TRUE science, OR, REFUTE, which you CANNOT!

    Zoe January 8, 2016 at 6:53 PM #
    @ Miller, come on NAKI, instead of asking silly questions about Leviticus 15, I CHALLENGE you AGAIN, to deal with my post as of Jan 4, 2016 @ 7:28 AM.

    REFUTE these points as listed below, historically, by sound science methodology, NOT with OUT any substantive facts as YOU always do; and rhetorical NONSENSE!

    Waiting to hear from you NAKI!

    Zoe January 4, 2016 at 7:28 AM #
    @ Miller, Evolution, is a Philosophy, NOT a Science, it is pseudo-science.

    Miller, this post @ 7:28 AM# dealt with “The finding of pliable blood vessels, blood cells and proteins in dinosaur bone is consistent with an age of thousands of years for the fossils, not the 65+ million years claimed by the paleontologists.”

    Once again, Miller, you CANNOT answer to the TRUE science of these FACTS, which clearly reveal that Dinosaurs lived THOUSANDS of years ago, consistent with Creation, and NOT 65+ million years as claimed by bogus paleontologists!

    Zoe January 4, 2016 at 7:52 AM #
    Dinosaurs – a Powerful Testimony for Creation.

    Sensational dinosaur blood report!

    “It is of course much less of a surprise to those who believe Genesis, in which case dinosaur remains are at most only a few thousand years old.”

    What are you, Miller, going to do with these TRUE science FACTS? Keep dogging the TRUTH!

    Zoe January 4, 2016 at 9:15 AM #
    What growth rate is needed to get six billion people since the Flood?

    “It is relatively easy to calculate the growth rate needed to get today’s population from Noah’s three sons and their wives, after the Flood. With the Flood at about 4,500 years ago, it needs less than 0.5% per year growth.6 That’s not very much.”

    Miller, REFUTE this? Go ahead, I CHALLENGE YOU to REFUTE the calculations which bring us down to get today’s population from Noah’s three sons and their wives, AFTER the Flood! Entirely consistent with God’s Word, the Bible!

    Zoe January 4, 2016 at 9:25 AM #
    Mitochondrial Eve and biblical Eve are looking good: criticism of young age is premature
    by Carl Wieland

    “Creationists have enthusiastically welcomed the ‘mitochondrial Eve’ hypothesis (i.e. that all modern humans can be traced back to one woman) because it clearly supports biblical history and contradicts evolutionary scenarios.”

    So, Miller, because you honestly CANNOT deal with above posts, which rest ON True science methodologies, substantiating the Bible, you then in YOUR typical red-herring distractives, now come AGAIN, with the SAME foolishness, referring to Numbers 31: 7, 17-18, and Deuteronomy 20:16, ALL of which I have ALREADY answered in its proper Old Testament context of the ancient PAGAN nations, with whom God HAD to deal with accordingly, in His Righteousness and Holiness, NOT vindictiveness, which you will NEVER understand!

    Come on Miller, get real, be intellectually HONEST, if that’s possible at ALL; and deal with the EVIDENCE of TRUE science, OR, REFUTE, which you CANNOT!

  32. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    @Miller, You are a SLAVE to IGNORANCE and FOLLY re Biblical facts and truth!

    Does God Approve of Slavery According to the Bible?

    Introduction
    God condones slavery?

    Skeptics claim that the God of the Bible approves of and encourages slavery. What they won’t tell you is that selling a person into slavery was grounds for the death penalty, according to the Old Testament…

    The claim is often made that the Bible approves of slavery, implicating God as its supporter, since rules governing slavery can be found in the both the Old and New Testament. Since virtually everyone agrees that forced, involuntary servitude is morally wrong, how can Christians justify the Bible’s apparent support of slavery?

    What the Old Testament says about slavery

    First, we must recognize that the Bible does not say God supports slavery. In fact, the slavery described in the Old Testament was quite different from the kind of slavery we think of today – in which people are captured and sold as slaves. According to Old Testament law, anyone caught selling another person into slavery was to be executed:

    “He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.” (Exodus 21:16)

    So, obviously, slavery during Old Testament times was not what we commonly recognize as slavery, such as that practiced in the 17th century Americas, when Africans were captured and forcibly brought to work on plantations. Unlike our modern government welfare programs, there was no safety-net for ancient Middle Easterners who could not provide a living for themselves.

    In ancient Israel, people who could not provide for themselves or their families sold them into slavery so they would not die of starvation or exposure. In this way, a person would receive food and housing in exchange for labor.

    The Irrational Atheist by Vox DaySo, although there are rules about slavery in the Bible, those rules exist to protect the slave. Injuring or killing slaves was punishable – up to death of the offending party. Hebrews were commanded not to make their slave work on the Sabbath, slander a slave, have sex with another man’s slave, or return an escaped slave.

    A Hebrew was not to enslave his fellow countryman, even if he owed him money, but was to have him work as a hired worker, and he was to be released in 7 years or in the year of jubilee (which occurred every 50 years), whichever came first.6 In fact, the slave owner was encouraged to “pamper his slave”.

    What the New Testament says about slavery

    Since many of the early Christians were slaves to Romans, they were encouraged to become free if possible, but not worry about it if not possible.

    The Roman empire practiced involuntary slavery, so rules were established for Christians who were subject to this slavery or held slaves prior to becoming Christians.

    The rules established for slaves were similar to those established for other Christians with regard to being subject to governing authorities. Slaves were told to be obedient to their master and serve them sincerely, as if serving the Lord Himself. Paul instructed slaves to serve with honor, so that Christianity would not be looked down upon.

    As with slaves, instructions were given to their masters as to how they were to treat their slaves. For example, they were not to be threatened, but treated with justice and fairness. The text goes on to explain that this was to be done because God is the Master of all people, and does not show partiality on the basis of social status or position.

    There is an interesting letter in the New Testament (Philemon15-21) that gives some insight into the problems encountered in the early Christian church regarding the issue of slavery.

    Paul, the author of the letter, is writing from a Roman prison awaiting trial. He is writing to Philemon, who runs a local Christian church out of his house (since Christianity was highly persecuted at this point in time).

    Philemon, we find out, is the master of the slave Onesimus, who has escaped but has been converted to Christianity by Paul. In the letter, Paul indicates that he is sending Onesimus back to Philemon. However, Paul says that he has confidence that Philemon will “do what is proper” although Paul wants him to do it by his “own free will”. Even so,

    Paul indicates that Onesimus would be a great aid in helping him spread the gospel. Paul ends the letter by saying that he has “confidence in your obedience” and indicates that he knows Philemon “will do even more than what I say.” Although Paul did not directly order Philemon to release Onesimus from slavery, it would have been difficult to come away with any other conclusion from his letter.

    God does not distinguish between slaves and freemen

    Truths that Changed the World: Discovering Christianity’s Most Dangerous IdeasContrary to the claims of many skeptics, the New Testament proclaims that all people are equal in the eyes of God – even slaves:

    There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)
    knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. (Ephesians 6:8)

    And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. (Ephesians 6:9)
    a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11)
    Conclusion Top of page

    The idea that God or Christianity encourages or approves of slavery is shown to be false.

    In fact, anybody who was caught selling another person into slavery was to be executed.

    However, since voluntary slavery was widely practiced during biblical times, the Bible proscribes laws to protect the lives and health of slaves. Paul, the author of many of the New Testament writings, virtually ordered the Christian Philemon to release his Christian slave from his service to “do what is proper”. In addition, numerous verses from the New Testament show that God values slaves as much as any free person and is not partial to anyone’s standing before other people. http://www.godandscience.org

  33. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    An interesting take on pigmentation issue view the below entitled

    “I am NOT Black,You are NOT White”

    https://youtu.be/q0qD2K2RWkc

  34. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    RT
    So what is Niger doing about this?

    Have they complained to the UN? Have they designed their own currency? Have they invited the Chinese to help develop the U industry? What?

  35. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Zoe , please …Jewish nobel prize winners…lol even st lucia has more per capita than Israel . Get to what really counts the phone the tv the engine the bicycle the refrigerator the toilet , penicillin, insulin etc etc . Forget trying to rewrite history from the head butt to the golf course Scotsmen have shaped your life.

  36. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    @HOPI, you are such a DECEIVED LIAR, and denier of facts, evidence and truth!

    90 Important Facts About . . .
    The Holocaust

    The Holocaust began in January 1933 when Hitler came to power and technically ended on May 8, 1945 (VE Day).i

    Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews.f
    Over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust.

    Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new generation of Jews. Many children suffocated in the crowded cattle cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately taken to the gas chambers transported Holocaust The Holocaust would not have been possible without mass transportation

    The majority of people who were deported to labor and death camps were transported in cattle wagons. These wagons did not have water, food, a toilet, or ventilation. Sometimes there were not enough cars for a major transport, so victims waited at a switching yard, often with standing room only, for several days. The longest transport of the war took 18 days. When the transport doors were open, everyone was already dead.

    The most intensive Holocaust killing took place in September 1941 at the Babi Yar Ravine just outside of Kiev, Ukraine, where more than 33,000 Jews were killed in just two days.

    Jews were forced to undress and walk to the ravine’s edge. When German troops shot them, they fell into the abyss. The Nazis then pushed the wall of the ravine over, burying the dead and the living. Police grabbed children and threw them into the ravine as well.a

    Carbon monoxide was originally used in gas chambers. Later, the insecticide Zyklon B was developed to kill inmates. Once the inmates were in the chamber, the doors were screwed shut and pellets of Zyklong B were dropped into vents in the side of the walls, releasing toxic gas. SS doctor Joann Kremmler reported that victims would scream and fight for their lives.

    Victims were found half-squatting in the standing room only chambers, with blood coming out their ears and foam out of their mouths.b

    In 1946, two partners in a leading pest control company, Tesch and Stabenow (Testa), were tried before a British military court on charges of genocide. It was argued that the accused must have realized that the massive supply of Zyklon B they provided to concentration camps was far above the quantity required for delousing. They were convicted and hanged.e

    Auschwitz complex Auschwitz was the largest of the German concentration camps
    Over one million people were murdered at the Auschwitz complex, more than at any other place. The Auschwitz complex included three large camps: Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz.b

    Prisoners, mainly Jews, called Sonderkommando were forced to bury corpses or burn them in ovens.

    Because the Nazis did not want eyewitnesses, most Sonderkommandos were regularly gassed, and fewer than 20 of the several thousand survived. Some Sonderkommandos buried their testimony in jars before their deaths. Ironically, the Sonderkommandos were dependent on continued shipment of Jews to the concentration camps for staying alive.e

    The “Final Solution” was constructed during the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. Fourteen high-ranking Nazis met in Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin, and presented a program to deport all Jews to Poland where the SS would kill them.

    Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass” occurred throughout Germany and Austria on November 9, 1938, when the Nazis viciously attacked Jewish communities. The Nazis destroyed, looted, and burned over 1,000 synagogues and destroyed over 7,000 businesses.

    They also ruined Jewish hospitals, schools, cemeteries, and homes. When it was over, 96 Jews were dead and 30,000 arrested.e

    In the initial stages of the destruction of European Jews, the Nazis forced Jews into ghettos and instigated a policy of planned, indirect annihilation by denying them the basic means of survival. In the Warsaw ghetto in Poland, the largest ghetto, about 1% of the population died each month.f

    An estimated 1/3 of all Jewish people alive at that time were murdered in the Holocaust.e

    In his memoirs, Rudolph Hess described the process of tricking the Jews into entering the gas chambers.

    To avoid panic, they were told they had to undress to be washed and disinfected. The Nazi guards used a “Special Detachment Team” (other Jewish prisoners) to help keep an air of calm and to assist those who were reluctant to undress. Children often cried, but after members of the Special Detachment team comforted them, they entered the gas chambers, playing or joking with one another, often still carrying their toys. http://www.facts.randomhistory.com

  37. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Vincent

    Brilliant Video!

    I have said before, ask yourself this question:

    Did God ask U what colour U wanted to be when U passed through God’s Paint Shop??????

    I was brought up with various shades of brown/black, played sports on Indian dominated teams, married an Oriental/ Asian, have mixy kids and therefore have experience that not many others have.

    All races have really nasty “humans” amongst them and very good humans too, a full spectrum.

  38. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Zoe
    Why Do Jews Win So Many Nobels?
    Jews make up only 0.2% of the world population, yet comprise 22% of Nobel laureates. What’s the deal?
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    …same way that they manage to redirect the resources of the mighty USA towards their own petty ends…. Mossad probably manages the whole selection process as a Jewish state policy… 🙂
    The `damned people are paranoid with their feelings of self-importance and their need to be seen as ‘over and above’ everyone else…

    The TRUE people of God would much more likely be humble, all-embracing, and ultra-conservative about their true abilities and talents…… potential brass bowls if you asked Bushie…

  39. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    I wonder who inspired this massacre?

    http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/01/evidence-of-prehistoric-massacre-in.html

  40. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Another interesting read on the origins of the slave trade.

    http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html

  41. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    The Fossil record, each and every time they are found, appear FULLY FORMED, exactly as they were CREATED; not one single transitional fossil has ever been found, and NEVER will be, as they were ALL Created, EACH after its OWN kind!

    Argument DONE! No transitional fossils, NO EVOLUTION EVER OCCURRED!

    What you see is complexity at every stage.

    Fossil Record

    Fossils are the remains of once-living things. They can be plant or animal bodies that have been partially or completely replaced by minerals. They can be impressions that just show the shape of a creature, or tracks left behind by a traveler, or other remnants that testify to the lives of long-gone organisms. Some rare fossils even have original organic soft tissue encased in rock, showing that their organisms couldn’t have been dead for millions of years, as evolution claims.

    All fossilized creatures appear suddenly and fully formed in the rock record, with no clear history of evolutionary transitions.

    This is consistent with the Bible’s assertion that God created life forms to reproduce within their own kinds.

    Second, fossils formed very quickly, before the animal or plant completely decayed or was scavenged. This means that fossils formed through catastrophic circumstances.

    Most fossils can be attributed to the worldwide catastrophe of Noah’s Flood, in which countless creatures were killed and then rapidly buried, or to its residual effects.

    Fossils also serve as reminders of God’s character. His righteousness and holiness obligated Him to cleanse the world of wickedness by drowning every land-dwelling, air-breathing creature that was not providentially preserved on the Ark. Fossils should be taken as reminders of the penalty of man’s sin and should motivate people to prepare for death.

    Fossil Anemone Tracks Don’t Fit Evolution

    Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago.

    But such a find is difficult to reconcile with the evolutionary teaching that muscles, and therefore animal locomotion, did not evolve until much later. More…

    Fossil Cuttlefish Has Original Tissue

    Cuttlefish are mollusks with a hard, supportive structure made of cleverly woven strands of a biochemical material called chitin and mixed with a hard biomineral called aragonite. A team of paleontologists found a supposedly 34 million-year-old fossil cuttlebone that still had both the original aragonite and chitin.

    This is significant, because one might expect the hard aragonite to persist in the fossil record, but not the organic chitin or protein. More…

    Fossil Discoveries Disrupt Evolutionary Timescales

    Paleontologists assess the age of fossilized creatures by the rock layers in which they are found. A fossil found in a lower rock layer is considered to have lived in a much earlier time than one found in a higher (“younger”) stratum.

    Fossil discoveries, however, continue to challenge this interpretation of the geologic timescale. More…

    Fossil Feather Colors Paint Recent Creation Picture

    But organic molecules like pigments, and especially proteins, shouldn’t be there if the specimen is older than a million years. These results challenge the “millions of years” date assigned to this fossil. More…

    Fossil Feathers Convey Color

    Analysis of an unusual Brazilian fossil has led U.S. researchers to link microscopic fossil features to bird feather colors. The fossil has dramatic black and white banding patterns that have been interpreted as post-fossilization bacterial activity. However, there are structures in the rock in which it was found that are the same size and shape as cells from living dark feathers. More…

    Fossil Indicates Fig and Wasp Life Cycles Were Always Intertwined

    The life cycles of fig trees and fig wasps are so closely intertwined, they look like they were made for each other. If this is true, then their fossils would be quite similar to modern forms, showing no history of imagined evolutionary past.

    And recent research on a fig wasp fossil shows exactly that. More…

    Fossil Moth Still Shows Its Colors

    Many butterflies and moths have colors that show a metallic sheen. That sheen occurs because the refracting material in their wings and bodies is spread out in layers precisely as thin as the wavelengths of the light they refract.

    Researchers recently found these delicate structures in moth fossils from Germany that are supposedly 47 million years old. But how could something that delicate last that long? More…

    Fossil Pigment Paints Long Ages into a Corner

    The famous Confuciusornis sanctus fossil from China contains patches that appear to be residue from the bird’s original tissues. Long evolutionary ages should have made this impossible, since any such biological material would have completely decayed millions of years ago.

    But although the fossil is supposedly 120 million years old, researchers recently confirmed the presence of original organic material. There is a serious problem with this fossil’s age assignment. More…

    Fossil Skin Pigment Evolved Three Times?

    Paleontologists recently presented their analysis of original skin leftovers from three marine reptile fossils and inadvertently revealed three clues that darken their evolutionary explanations. More…

    Fossilized Biomaterials Must Be Young

    Institute for Creation Research scientists documented several clock-like processes in rocks during the groundbreaking Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) project, confirming an age of 6,000 years. More…

    Fossilized Brain May Give Paleontologists Headache

    Who has ever heard of a fossilized brain? Few would expect such a discovery, yet it looks like that’s what researchers found inside a Stone Age skull from Norway. If so, it would confirm a published creation prediction and challenge many evolutionary timescales. More…

    Circular Reasoning in Polar Bear Origins Date

    Biologists agree that polar bears, brown bears, and black bears all descended from a prototype of the bear kind. Some researchers infer from the biblical record that bears rapidly and recently diversified from a representative bear pair on board Noah’s Ark, while those who reject the biblical record derive age information from other sources. More… http://www.icr.org

  42. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    ….and this bit about the present day isrealis(Khazars) masquerading as jews

    http://www.apfn.org/thewinds/library/khazars.html

  43. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    Against All Odds – Israel Survives –

    The national miracle of Israel

    If there ARE miracles, Israel itself has to be one. Born out of the ashes of the Holocaust, it was just one day old when it was attacked by twelve armies that the world fully expected would annihilate it. Israel didn’t even have an army. There was one tank and five cannon with which to fight back an Armada against them. And yet, Israel won. How?

    Every time Israel has been attacked, Pentagon and Kremlin leaders have declared defeat as inevitable.

    In 1973, the odds of surviving were so impossible, prime minister Golda Meir considered suicide. The cabinet drew up plans for a government in exile. Complete annihilation was a certainty. At the last minute, American aid provided by a president known to be devoutly anti-Semitic provided the largest airlift of arms since World War II to save Israel. Why? When Saddam Hussein literally rained down scores of scud missles on Israel’s cities during the Gulf War, not one person was killed. How do you explain that? The military experts at West Point won’t study Israel’s wars because their outcomes are too impossible.

    But the anomilies don’t stop on the battlefield…How did Hebrew become the only dead language in history to be revived after 2,000 years?

    Why would millions of people from around the world leave their homes and move to a desert wasteland to build new lives for themselves? How did these people manage to turn a land more than 80% desert into one of the largest food and flower exporters in the world?

    Why have incredible achievements in science, medicine, and new technologies happened here in greater concentration than anywhere else? There are no logical answers. Some say these things can only be explained as miracles.

    Our journalistic approach to dealing with and investigating miracles

    AGAINST ALL ODDS: In Search Of A Miracle seeks out credible individuals whose personal experiences or eye witness accounts of humanly unexplainable phenomenon cannot be dismissed as hearsay or the fantasies of someone of questionable mental acumen.

    When these individuals tell their stories, every effort is made to find corroborating testimony to confirm the experience. In telling the stories on the programs, Michael Greenspan conducts a one on one interview with these individuals, probes the natural possibilities that might be reasonable explanations for the phenomenon experienced and then allows the audience to draw their own conclusions as to whether or not what has been described was in fact a miracle or an explainable natural occurrence. http://www.jewishsoftware.com

  44. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    MoneyBrain February 14, 2016 at 10:13 AM #
    Vincent

    Brilliant Video!

    I have said before, ask yourself this question:

    Did God ask U what colour U wanted to be when U passed through God’s Paint Shop??????

    I was brought up with various shades of brown/black, played sports on Indian dominated teams, married an Oriental/ Asian, have mixy kids and therefore have experience that not many others have.

    All races have really nasty “humans” amongst them and very good humans too, a full spectrum.

    Yes, MB, “For ALL have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.” (Rom:3:23)

    NOT once in God’s Word, the Bible, is the COLOUR of man’s skin, ever referenced as the problem; as there is NO such thing as WHITE SIN, or BLACK SIN, or any other colour of SIN!

    “For ALL have SINNED, and come SHORT of the Glory of God.” ( Rom: 3:23)

    ‘For the wages (Results) of SIN, is DEATH, (eternal separation FROM God, in conscious Misery, and punishment) but the GIFT of God is eternal LIFE, though Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom: 6:23) Emphasis added.

  45. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Zoe
    At the last minute, American aid provided by a president known to be devoutly anti-Semitic provided the largest airlift of arms since World War II to save Israel. Why?
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Steupssss…Wuh If Barbados was able to bamboozle the USA into allowing us to stock ‘secret’ atomic weapons yuh think Froon would be brek and walking bout the world begging for loans?

    What miracle what? …When you are about to lose everything …and you threaten to use the atomic weapons – it is only obvious that airlifts will be provided…
    Skippa..If they are “God’s people”, how come 100,000 angels did not chase the attackers away…? or a big earthquake?

    Get a life do, Zoe…
    The damn people are simply greedy, sadistic impostors placed there by racist WW2 victors, and whose very existence is tied to their ability to force America to be their lapdogs….
    When America goes…they go…

  46. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    In 1807 Britain outlawed slavery. In 1820 the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti inquired why the Christians did not want to trade slaves with him anymore, since they worshipped the same god as the Muslims and the Muslims were continuing the trade like before.

    The civil rights movement of the 1960’s have left many people with the belief that the slave trade was exclusively a European/USA phenomenon and only evil white people were to blame for it. This is a simplistic scenario that hardly reflects the facts.

    Thousands of records of transactions are available on a CDROM prepared by Harvard University and several comprehensive books have been published recently on the origins of modern slavery (namely, Hugh Thomas’ The Slave Trade and Robin Blackburn’s The Making Of New World Slavery) that shed new light on centuries of slave trading.

    What these records show is that the modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. For moralists, the most important aspect of that trade should be that Muslims were selling goods to the African kingdoms and the African kingdoms were paying with their own people. In most instances, no violence was necessary to obtain those slaves. Contrary to legends and novels and Hollywood movies, the white traders did not need to savagely kill entire tribes in order to exact their tribute in slaves. All they needed to do is bring goods that appealed to the kings of those tribes. The kings would gladly sell their own subjects. (Of course, this neither condones the white traders who bought the slaves nor deny that many white traders still committed atrocities to maximize their business).

    This explains why slavery became “black”. Ancient slavery, e.g. under the Roman empire, would not discriminate: slaves were both white and black (so were Emperors and Popes). In the middle ages, all European countries outlawed slavery (of course, Western powers retained countless “civilized” ways to enslave their citizens, but that’s another story), whereas the African kingdoms happily continued in their trade. Therefore, only colored people could be slaves, and that is how the stereotype for African-American slavery was born. It was not based on an ancestral hatred of blacks by whites, but simply on the fact that blacks were the only ones selling slaves, and they were selling people of their own race. (To be precise, Christians were also selling Muslim slaves captured in war, and Muslims were selling Christian slaves captured in war, but neither the Christians of Europe nor the Muslims of Africa and the Middle East were selling their own people).

    Then the Muslim trade of African slaves declined rapidly when Arab domination was reduced by the emerging European powers. (Note: Arabs continued to capture and sell slaves, but mostly in the Mediterranean. In fact, Robert Davis estimates that 1.25 million European Christians were enslaved by the “barbary states” of northern Africa. As late as 1801 the USA bombed Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli precisely to stop that Arab slave trade of Christians. The rate of mortality of those Christian slaves in the Islamic world was roughly the same as the mortality rate in the Atlantic slave trade of the same period.)
    Christians took over in black Africa, though. The first ones were the Portuguese, who, applying an idea that originally developed in Italian seatrading cities, and often using Italian venture capital, started exploiting sub-Saharan slaves in the 1440s to support the economy of the sugar plantations (mainly for their own African colonies of Sao Tome and Madeira).
    The Dutch were the first, apparently, to import black slaves into North America, but black slaves had already been employed all over the world, including South and Central America. We tend to focus on what happened in North America because the United States would eventually fight a war over slavery (and it’s in the U.S. that large sectors of the population would start condemning slavery, contrary to the indifference that Muslims and most Europeans showed for it).

    Even after Europeans began transporting black slaves to America, most trade was just that: “trade”. In most instances, the Europeans did not need to use any force to get those slaves. The slaves were “sold” more or less legally by their (black) owners. Scholars estimate that about 12,000,000 Africans were sold by Africans to Europeans (most of them before 1776, when the USA wasn’t yet born) and 17,000,000 were sold to Arabs. The legends of European mercenaries capturing free people in the jungle are mostly just that: legends. A few mercenaries certainly stormed peaceful tribes and committed terrible crimes, but that was not the norm. There was no need to risk their lives, so most of them didn’t: they simply purchased people.

    As an African-American scholar (Nathan Huggins) has written, the “identity” of black Africans is largely a white invention: sub-Saharan Africans never felt like they were one people, they felt (and still feel) that they belonged to different tribes. The distinctions of tribe were far stronger than the distinctions of race.

    Everything else is true: millions of slaves died on ships and of diseases, millions of blacks worked for free to allow the Western economies to prosper, and the economic interests in slavery became so strong that the southern states of the United States opposed repealing it. But those millions of slaves were just one of the many instances of mass exploitation: the industrial revolution was exported to the USA by enterpreuners exploiting millions of poor immigrants from Europe. The fate of those immigrants was not much better than the fate of the slaves in the South. As a matter of fact, many slaves enjoyed far better living conditions in the southern plantations than European immigrants in the industrial cities (which were sometimes comparable to concentration camps). It is not a coincidence that slavery was abolished at a time when millions of European and Chinese immigrants provided the same kind of cheap labor.

    It is also fair to say that, while everybody tolerated it, very few whites practiced slavery: in 1860 there were 385,000 USA citizens who owned slaves, or about 1.4% of the white population (there were 27 million whites in the USA). That percentage was zero in the states that did not allow slavery (only 8 million of the 27 million whites lived in states that allowed slavery). Incidentally, in 1830 about 25% of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves: that is a much higher percentage (ten times more) than the number of white slave owners. Thus slave owners were a tiny minority (1.4%) and it was not only whites: it was just about anybody who could, including blacks themselves.
    Moral opposition to slavery became widespread even before Lincoln, and throughout Europe. On the other hand, opposition to slavery was never particularly strong in Africa itself, where slavery is slowly being eradicated only in our times. One can suspect that slavery would have remained common in most African kingdoms until this day: what crushed slavery in Africa was that all those African kingdoms became colonies of western European countries that (for one reason or another) eventually decided to outlaw slavery. When, in the 1960s, those African colonies regained their independence, numerous cases of slavery resurfaced. And countless African dictators behaved in a way that makes a slave owner look like a saint. Given the evidence that this kind of slavery was practiced by some Africans before it was practiced by some Americans, that it was abolished by all whites and not by some Africans, and that some Africans resumed it the moment they could, why would one keep blaming the USA but never blame, say, Ghana or the Congo?
    The more we study it, the less blame we have to put on the USA for the slave trade with black Africa: it was pioneered by the Arabs, its economic mechanism was invented by the Italians and the Portuguese, it was mostly run by western Europeans, and it was conducted with the full cooperation of many African kings. The USA fostered free criticism of the phenomenon: for a long time no such criticism was allowed in the Muslim and Christian nations that started trading goods for slaves, and no such criticism was allowed in the African nations that started selling their own people (and, even today, slavery is a taboo subject in the Arab world).

    Today it is politically correct to blame some European empires and the USA for slavery (forgetting that it was practiced by everybody since prehistoric times). But I rarely read the other side of the story: that the nations who were the first to develop a repulsion for slavery and eventually abolish slavery were precisely those countries (especially Britain and the USA). In 1787 the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in England: it was the first society anywhere in the world opposed to slavery. In 1792 English prime minister William Pitt called publicly for the end of the slave trade: it was the first time in history (anywhere in the world) that the ruler of a country had called for the abolition of slavery. No African king and emperor had ever done so. As Dinesh D’Souza wrote, “What is uniquely Western is not slavery but the movement to abolish slavery”.

    Of course, what was also (horribly) unique about the Western slave trade is the scale (the millions shipped to another continent in a relatively short period of time), and, of course, that it eventually became a racist affair, discriminating blacks, whereas previous slave trades had not discriminated based on the color of the skin. What is unique about the USA, in particular, is the unfair treatment that blacks received AFTER emancipation (which is, after all, the real source of the whole controversy, because, otherwise, just about everybody on this planet can claim to be the descendant of an ancient slave).
    That does not mean that western slave traders were justified in what they did, but placing all the blame on them is a way to absolve all the others.
    Also, it is worth noting that the death rate among the white crews of the slave ships (20-25%) was higher than the rate among black slaves (15%) because slaves were more valuable than sailors but nobody has written books and filmed epics about those sailors (often unwillingly enrolled or even kidnapped in ports around Europe when they were drunk).
    To this day, too many Africans, Arabs and Europeans believe that the African slave trade was an aberration of the USA, not their own invention.

    By the time the slave trade was abolished in the West, there were many more slaves in Africa (black slaves of black owners) than in the Americas.

  47. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    MoneyBrain February 14, 2016 at 11:58 AM #

    Good idea to open it…..I did not want to be another Zoe filling up the blog space with what I view as important knowledge.

    Presently we are enjoying being the victim and use that as the excuse for our mediocrity…..time this was exposed.

  48. RT Avatar
    RT

    Throughout the late 19th century, and well into the 1950’s, Africans and in some cases Native Americans, were kept as exhibits in zoos. Far from a relic from an unenlightened past, remnants of such exhibits have continued in Europe as late as the 2000’s.

    Moneybrain should be proud about this.

  49. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    RT
    Why would I be proud of that?

    I certainly doubt the fact and the timing is authentic! Please provide the proof source.

    Were those Africans sent to those Zoos by African Leaders????????

    U did not answer my questions at 10.02 am.

    RT, U dont like people who ask questions of U.

  50. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Hopi

    I am not surprised that the system is killing some black peeps. We hosted the NBA All Star week end here in Toronto. Guess who was imbibing copious quantities of Louis 14th @$295 an ounce! Richass black bros!

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