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The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« on: April 11, 2008, 04:48:50 AM »
A lot of people in the west only see one side of the land issue through the mainstream establishment media's system controlled eyes, but really and truly now, it goes back to when Zim got independence in 1980

It was agreed wit Mugabe, Margaret Thatcher(the prime minister of UK at the time and the colonial head of Zim at the time) and the evil dickhead colianialist Ian Smith(who was in renegade colonial control of Zim at the time, due to beef he had wit the UK back in the day) that because of independence, the majority of the fertile land that was in control of the colonialist farmers should be redistributed among the local population, especially amongst the freedom fighters(many of whom were in there teens back then) that freed Zim from colonialism. UK was to give money(around £2million back then,which would be a lot more in todays equilavent) in return to farmers for there land, this was what was agreed, it was supposed to have been done within 10 years.

But what the mainstream western media won't tell you is the UK held back the money, Mugabe didn't push urgently for land reform during the 10 year agreement due to the UK's guarantee's of payment during that period. In 1992 he came to the UK to ask and press for from the then prime minister John Major for the money to sort out the land issue, but Major said he wasn't part of the agreement and denied the money to give to the farmers for there land. Kenneth Kaunda the president of Zambia at the time was witness to this and the original 1980 agreement

So after that now, Mugabe started to sort out the land issue himself in his way

Now Mugabe isn't a angel, he was a freedom fighter, he was a revolutionary, his game was to get freedom by any means necessary, by the gun or whatever, he wasn't a politician, you need to have revolutionary's for the struggle, you need that, salute them everytime, worldwide, salute, but onced you get freedom now, you need politicians and most revolutionary's, freedom fighters, don't make great politicians, theirs always exceptions to the rule, theirs definetly a few that did there thing or are still doing there thing, but most don't make good politicians, not all, but most, history has proven that, its documented, but you still have to give the utmost respect to them, concrete respect ma nigga, salute, all day, everyday, its real, they did there thing and I love that.

A lot of western historians won't tell you that the evil colonialist goverment
of Ian Smith used napalm on the Zimbabwe guriella freedom fighters and the colonialists use to carry hundreds of dead bodies of fallen souljas, dead bodies of Zimbabwean brothers and sisters in fishnet type bags from helicopters so people could see there bodies through villages and cities to invoke fear in the local Zimbabwean population from resisting colonialism.
In all of colonial Africa, racist aparteid type regimes were employed in most country's, including Zim, not just South Africa, like you had a developed first town for whites only and a second run down town for the local population, this was common place in most colonial regimes in Africa, for example

You won't hear about this in the western media establishment, but this is what shaped most of the minds of that whole generation, Mugabe is a dickhead dictator now, but it still dosen't take away the respect people have for him for kicking out the evil colonialist, who were much worse, truss me on that, fewer than 50,000 people in control of the majority of the fertile land of the country when millions and millions of the population lives in adject poverty, thats a situation that legitimately had to get resolved

The western media establishment and the system only cared about the Zim situation after 98/99 when the white farmers had there farms violently taken away from them. Before then they didn't give a shit about Zim. Before then Zim's ecomony was in good shape, one of the best in Southern Africa, but Mugabe was getting on the same even before then, the 98/99 benchmark, why is it all of a sudden after he violently kicked out those white farmers in 98/99 did Zim's ecomony go into freefall, its obvious the system switched on him, because of that white farmer issue alone, because there is x-amount of dictators in Africa worser than Mugabe like Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo for example, but the western establishment media or system dosen't give him the same amount of coverage, maybe its because he lets them eat wit him wit Equatorial Guinea's oil profits, maybe thats a reason why you know, its the same fucking story worldwide ma nigga's. The only give two shits about Mugabe and have a hard on for him because of him dashing out those white framers and thats it, thats how racist they are, they don't give two shits about Zim's population, thats the way I see it

That opposition guy Morgan Tsvangirai is another Frederick Chiluba(the former CIA installed crook, conman president of Zambia who would have brought Zambia to its knees just like Zim if he was still in power), thats the way a lot of people see him as, he ain't the truth and he definetly ain't no revolutionary, he's just another puppet president that will use his political position to enrich himself, simple as, true fucking stories. There needs to be a new president but he ain't the answer, truss me on that

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2008, 08:44:00 AM »
I agree. I said at the time when the white farmers were getting kicked out, that the media would turn on Mugabe.

Not to say Mugabe is perfect, far from it. But when Western media establishments start painting foreign rulers/leaders as evil bogeymen you know that said rulers have done something to piss off some Western business interests.

Bin Laden, Mugabe, Saddam Hussein - all of these have been demonised by the media and all of them have had business links with Western businessmen and politicians. See a pattern?

Again, I'm not saying these people were saints, but it just shows that every country has got it's own share of shady shit going on.
 

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2008, 09:28:18 AM »
I agree. I said at the time when the white farmers were getting kicked out, that the media would turn on Mugabe.

Not to say Mugabe is perfect, far from it. But when Western media establishments start painting foreign rulers/leaders as evil bogeymen you know that said rulers have done something to piss off some Western business interests.

Bin Laden, Mugabe, Saddam Hussein - all of these have been demonised by the media and all of them have had business links with Western businessmen and politicians. See a pattern?

Again, I'm not saying these people were saints, but it just shows that every country has got it's own share of shady shit going on.

no doubt, those white farmers are related to a lot of toffs(posh upper class people) over here in the UK, because that was who most of the colonialists were, toffs, the media, tv, goverment is dominated by toffs, so it goes without saying the powers that be were pissed off, there the ones that got the system to put pressure on Zim and Mugabe after 98/99 and flopped there ecomony, truss me on that, its like you said, if you affect the business interests of friends of the system, the system will try make you pay for that at all costs, no matter the damage, just look at Iraq, true fucking stories, here's a timeline of the same scenario's thats been played out from then till now

this is taken from a underground left wing, website called http://www.serendipity.li, but the actual timeline is from a book by William Blum called 'Killing Hope', theirs loads of 'evidence' an 'documents' an 'facts' to back up these claims, from the United States goverment it self, the CIA recently released 'documents' breaking down there atrocities from back in the day, this is all on point, you can get a 'freedom of information' thing to see some of these 'documents'

so don't come on here wit that 'conspiracy theory' rubbish an less you have 'facts' an 'documents' or 'answers' to counter-act these claims, or that rubbish about the owner of the website, this 'timeline' is taken from a 'book' an its has been reprinted all over the internet

Timeline of CIA Atrocities
By Steve Kangas

INTRODUCTION

The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA since 1943.1

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment.

So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination.

These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator's security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.

This scenario has been repeated so many times that the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious "School of the Americas." (It opened in Panama but later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia.) Critics have nicknamed it the "School of the Dictators" and "School of the Assassins." Here, the CIA trains Latin American military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation, torture and murder.

The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations.2 Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust." The CIA justifies these actions as part of its war against communism. But most coups do not involve a communist threat. Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington's dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. Indeed, nothing has infuriated CIA Directors quite like a nation's desire to stay out of the Cold War.

The ironic thing about all this intervention is that it frequently fails to achieve American objectives. Often the newly installed dictator grows comfortable with the security apparatus the CIA has built for him. He becomes an expert at running a police state. And because the dictator knows he cannot be overthrown, he becomes independent and defiant of Washington's will. The CIA then finds it cannot overthrow him, because the police and military are under the dictator's control, afraid to cooperate with American spies for fear of torture and execution.

The only two options for the U.S at this point are impotence or war. Examples of this "boomerang effect" include the Shah of Iran, General Noriega and Saddam Hussein. The boomerang effect also explains why the CIA has proven highly successful at overthrowing democracies, but a wretched failure at overthrowing dictatorships.

The following timeline should confirm that the CIA as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering and analysis organization. The CIA cannot be reformed — it is institutionally and culturally corrupt.

TIMELINE

1929: The culture we lost
Secretary of State Henry Stimson refuses to endorse a code-breaking operation, saying, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."

1941: COI created
In preparation for World War II, President Roosevelt creates the Office of Coordinator of Information (COI). General William "Wild Bill" Donovan heads the new intelligence service.

1942: OSS created
Roosevelt restructures COI into something more suitable for covert action, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Donovan recruits so many of the nation's rich and powerful that eventually people joke that "OSS" stands for "Oh, so social!" or "Oh, such snobs!"

1943: Italy
Donovan recruits the Catholic Church in Rome to be the center of Anglo-American spy operations in Fascist Italy. This would prove to be one of America's most enduring intelligence alliances in the Cold War.

1945: OSS is abolished
The remaining American information agencies cease covert actions and return to harmless information gathering and analysis.

Operation PAPERCLIP
While other American agencies are hunting down Nazi war criminals for arrest, the U.S. intelligence community is smuggling them into America, unpunished, for their use against the Soviets. The most important of these is Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's master spy who had built up an intelligence network in the Soviet Union. With full U.S. blessing, he creates the "Gehlen Organization," a band of refugee Nazi spies who reactivate their networks in Russia. These include SS intelligence officers Alfred Six and Emil Augsburg (who massacred Jews in the Holocaust), Klaus Barbie (the "Butcher of Lyon"), Otto von Bolschwing (the Holocaust mastermind who worked with Eichmann) . The Gehlen Organization supplies the U.S. with its only intelligence on the Soviet Union for the next ten years, serving as a bridge between the abolishment of the OSS and the creation of the CIA. However, much of the "intelligence" the former Nazis provide is bogus.

Gehlen inflates Soviet military capabilities at a time when Russia is still rebuilding its devastated society, in order to inflate his own importance to the Americans (who might otherwise punish him). In 1948, Gehlen almost convinces the Americans that war is imminent, and the West should make a preemptive strike. In the 50s he produces a fictitious "missile gap." To make matters worse, the Russians have thoroughly penetrated the Gehlen Organization with double agents, undermining the very American security that Galen was supposed to protect.

1947: Greece
President Truman requests military aid to Greece to support right-wing forces fighting communist rebels. For the rest of the Cold War, Washington and the CIA will back notorious Greek leaders with deplorable human rights records.

CIA created
President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable to the president through the NSC -there is no democratic or congressional oversight. Its charter allows the CIA to "perform such other functions and duties as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.

1948: Covert-action wing created
The CIA recreates a covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."

Italy
The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes, broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works — the communists are defeated.

1949: Radio Free Europe
The CIA creates its first major propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe. Over the next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly false that for a time it is considered illegal to publish transcripts of them in the U.S.

Late 40's: Operation MOCKINGBIRD
The CIA begins recruiting American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda. Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham head the effort. Graham is publisher of The Washington Post, which becomes a major CIA player. Eventually, the CIA's media assets will include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more. By the CIA's own admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will become CIA assets.

1953: Iran
CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.

Operation MK-ULTRA
Inspired by North Korea's brainwashing program, the CIA begins experiments on mind control. The most notorious part of this project involves giving LSD and other drugs to American subjects without their knowledge or against their will, causing several to commit suicide. However, the operation involves far more than this. Funded in part by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, research includes propaganda, brainwashing, public relations, advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion.

1954: Guatemala
CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.

1954-1958: North Vietnam
CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA's continuing failure results in escalating American intervention and finally the Vietnam War.

1956: Hungary
Radio Free Europe incites Hungary to revolt by broadcasting Khruschev's Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. It also hints that American aid will help the Hungarians fight. This aid fails to materialize as Hungarians launch a doomed armed revolt, which only invites a major Soviet invasion. The conflict kills 7,000 Soviets and 30,000 Hungarians.

1957-1973: Laos
The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos' democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Army Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA's army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.

1959: Haiti
The U.S. military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator of Haiti. He creates his own private police force, the "Tonton Macoutes," who terrorize the population with machetes. They will kill over 100,000 during the Duvalier family reign. The U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record.

1961: The Bay of Pigs
The CIA sends 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade Castro's Cuba. But "Operation Mongoose" fails, due to poor planning, security and backing. The planners had imagined that the invasion would spark a popular uprising against Castro — which never happens. A promised American air strike also never occurs. This is the CIA's first public setback, causing President Kennedy to fire CIA Director Allen Dulles.

Dominican Republic
The CIA assassinates Rafael Trujillo, a murderous dictator Washington has supported since 1930. Trujillo's business interests have grown so large (about 60 percent of the economy) that they have begun competing with American business interests.

Ecuador
The CIA-backed military forces the democratically elected President Jose Velasco to resign. Vice President Carlos Arosemana replaces him; the CIA fills the now vacant vice presidency with its own man.

Congo (Zaire)
The CIA assassinates the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba. However, public support for Lumumba's politics runs so high that the CIA cannot clearly install his opponents in power. Four years of political turmoil follow.

1963: Kennedy Assassination

1963: Dominican Republic
The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Juan Bosch in a military coup. The CIA installs a repressive, right wing junta.

Ecuador
A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana, whose independent (not socialist) policies have become unacceptable to Washington. A military junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human rights.

1964: Brazil
A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will, in the next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. General Castelo Branco will create Latin America's first death squads, or bands of secret police that hunt down "communists" for torture, interrogation and murder. Often these "communists" are no more than Branco's political opponents. Later it is revealed that the CIA trains the death squads.

1965: Indonesia
The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, will massacre between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being "communist." The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects.

Dominican Republic
A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall Juan Bosch as the country's elected leader. The revolution is crushed when U.S. Marines land to uphold the military regime by force. The CIA directs everything behind the scenes.

Greece
With the CIA's backing, the king removes George Papandreous as prime minister. Papandreous has failed to vigorously support U.S. interests in Greece.

Congo (Zaire)
A CIA-backed military coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko as dictator. The hated and repressive Mobutu exploits his desperately poor country for billions.

1966: The Ramparts Affair
The radical magazine Ramparts begins a series of unprecedented anti-CIA articles. Among their scoops: the CIA has paid the University of Michigan $25 million dollars to hire "professors" to train South Vietnamese students in covert police methods. MIT and other universities have received similar payments. Ramparts also reveal that the National Students' Association is a CIA front. Students are sometimes recruited through blackmail and bribery, including draft deferments.

1967: Greece
A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the government two days before the elections. The favorite to win was George Papandreous, the liberal candidate. During the next six years, the "reign of the colonels" - backed by the CIA - will usher in the widespread use of torture and murder against political opponents. When a Greek ambassador objects to President Johnson about U.S. plans for Cyprus, Johnson tells him: "Fuck your parliament and your constitution."

Operation PHOENIX
The CIA helps South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in South Vietnamese villages. According to a 1971 congressional report, this operation killed about 20,000 "Viet Cong."

1968: Operation CHAOS
The CIA has been illegally spying on American citizens since 1959, but with Operation CHAOS, President Johnson dramatically boosts the effort. CIA agents go undercover as student radicals to spy on and disrupt campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War. They are searching for Russian instigators, which they never find. CHAOS will eventually spy on 7,000 individuals and 1,000 organizations.

Bolivia
A CIA-organized military operation captures legendary guerilla Che Guevara. The CIA wants to keep him alive for interrogation, but the Bolivian government executes him to prevent worldwide calls for clemency.

1969: Uruguay
The notorious CIA torturer Dan Mitrione arrives in Uruguay, a country torn with political strife. Whereas right-wing forces previously used torture only as a last resort, Mitrione convinces them to use it as a routine, widespread practice. "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect," is his motto. The torture techniques he teaches to the death squads rival the Nazis'. He eventually becomes so feared that revolutionaries will kidnap and murder him a year later.

1970: Cambodia
The CIA overthrows Prince Sihanouk, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into battle. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own people.

1971: Bolivia
After half a decade of CIA-inspired political turmoil, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows the leftist President Juan Torres. In the next two years, dictator Hugo Banzer will have over 2,000 political opponents arrested without trial, then tortured, raped and executed.

Haiti
"Papa Doc" Duvalier dies, leaving his 19-year old son "Baby Doc" Duvalier the dictator of Haiti. His son continues his bloody reign with full knowledge of the CIA.

1972: The Case-Zablocki Act
Congress passes an act requiring congressional review of executive agreements. In theory, this should make CIA operations more accountable. In fact, it is only marginally effective.

Cambodia
Congress votes to cut off CIA funds for its secret war in Cambodia.

Watergate Break-in
President Nixon sends in a team of burglars to wiretap Democratic offices at Watergate. The team members have extensive CIA histories, including James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five of the Cuban burglars. They work for the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), which does dirty work like disrupting Democratic campaigns and laundering Nixon's illegal campaign contributions. CREEP's activities are funded and organized by another CIA front, the Mullen Company.

1973: Chile
The CIA overthrows and assassinates Salvador Allende, Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leader. The problems begin when Allende nationalizes American-owned firms in Chile. ITT offers the CIA $1 million for a coup (reportedly refused). The CIA replaces Allende with General Augusto Pinochet, who will torture and murder thousands of his own countrymen in a crackdown on labor leaders and the political left.

CIA begins internal investigations
William Colby, the Deputy Director for Operations, orders all CIA personnel to report any and all illegal activities they know about. This information is later reported to Congress.

Watergate Scandal
The CIA's main collaborating newspaper in America, The Washington Post, reports Nixon's crimes long before any other newspaper take up the subject. The two reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, make almost no mention of the CIA's many fingerprints all over the scandal. It is later revealed that Woodward was a Naval intelligence briefer to the White House, and knows many important intelligence figures, including General Alexander Haig. His main source, "Deep Throat," is probably one of those.

CIA Director Helms Fired
President Nixon fires CIA Director Richard Helms for failing to help cover up the Watergate scandal. Helms and Nixon have always disliked each other. The new CIA director is William Colby, who is relatively more open to CIA reform.

1974: CHAOS exposed
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a story about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the U.S. The story sparks national outrage.

Angleton fired
Congress holds hearings on the illegal domestic spying efforts of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's chief of counterintelligence. His efforts included mail-opening campaigns and secret surveillance of war protesters. The hearings result in his dismissal from the CIA.

House clears CIA in Watergate
The House of Representatives clears the CIA of any complicity in Nixon's Watergate break-in.

The Hughes Ryan Act
Congress passes an amendment requiring the president to report non-intelligence CIA operations to the relevant congressional committees in a timely fashion.

1975: Australia
The CIA helps topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. The CIA does this by giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. Kerr, a longtime CIA collaborator, exercises his constitutional right to dissolve the Whitlam government. The Governor-General is a largely ceremonial position appointed by the Queen; the Prime Minister is democratically elected. The use of this archaic and never-used law stuns the nation.

Angola
Eager to demonstrate American military resolve after its defeat in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger launches a CIA-backed war in Angola. Contrary to Kissinger's assertions, Angola is a country of little strategic importance and not seriously threatened by communism. The CIA backs the brutal leader of UNITAS, Jonas Savimbi. This polarizes Angolan politics and drives his opponents into the arms of Cuba and the Soviet Union for survival. Congress will cut off funds in 1976, but the CIA is able to run the war off the books until 1984, when funding is legalized again. This entirely pointless war kills over 300,000 Angolans.

"The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence"
Victor Marchetti and John Marks publish this whistle-blowing history of CIA crimes and abuses. Marchetti has spent 14 years in the CIA, eventually becoming an executive assistant to the Deputy Director of Intelligence. Marks has spent five years as an intelligence official in the State Department.

"Inside the Company"
Philip Agee publishes a diary of his life inside the CIA. Agee has worked in covert operations in Latin America during the 60s, and details the crimes in which he took part.

Congress investigates CIA wrongdoing
Public outrage compels Congress to hold hearings on CIA crimes. Senator Frank Church heads the Senate investigation ("The Church Committee"), and Representative Otis Pike heads the House investigation. (Despite a 98 percent incumbency reelection rate, both Church and Pike are defeated in the next elections.) The investigations lead to a number of reforms intended to increase the CIA's accountability to Congress, including the creation of a standing Senate committee on intelligence. However, the reforms prove ineffective, as the Iran/Contra scandal will show. It turns out the CIA can control, deal with or sidestep Congress with ease.

The Rockefeller Commission
In an attempt to reduce the damage done by the Church Committee, President Ford creates the "Rockefeller Commission" to whitewash CIA history and propose toothless reforms. The commission's namesake, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, is himself a major CIA figure. Five of the commission's eight members are also members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a CIA-dominated organization.

1979: Iran
The CIA fails to predict the fall of the Shah of Iran, a longtime CIA puppet, and the rise of Muslim fundamentalists who are furious at the CIA's backing of SAVAK, the Shah's bloodthirsty secret police. In revenge, the Muslims take 52 Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

Lebanon: CIA Trains Phalangists on how to bomb civilians

El Salvador
An idealistic group of young military officers, repulsed by the massacre of the poor, overthrows the right-wing government. However, the U.S. compels the inexperienced officers to include many of the old guard in key positions in their new government. Soon, things are back to "normal" - the military government is repressing and killing poor civilian protesters. Many of the young military and civilian reformers, finding themselves powerless, resign in disgust.

Nicaragua
Anastasios Samoza II, the CIA-backed dictator, falls. The Marxist Sandinistas take over government, and they are initially popular because of their commitment to land and anti-poverty reform. Samoza had a murderous and hated personal army called the National Guard. Remnants of the Guard will become the Contras, who fight a CIA-backed guerilla war against the Sandinista government throughout the 1980s.

1980: El Salvador
The Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, pleads with President Carter "Christian to Christian" to stop aiding the military government slaughtering his people. Carter refuses. Shortly afterwards, right-wing leader Roberto D'Aubuisson has Romero shot through the heart while saying Mass. The country soon dissolves into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting against the military government. The CIA and U.S. Armed Forces supply the government with overwhelming military and intelligence superiority. CIA-trained death squads roam the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote in 1982, where they massacre between 700 and 1000 men, women and children. By 1992, some 63,000 Salvadorans will be killed.

1981: Iran/Contra Begins
The CIA begins selling arms to Iran at high prices, using the profits to arm the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. President Reagan vows that the Sandinistas will be "pressured" until "they say 'uncle.'" The CIA's Freedom Fighter's Manual disbursed to the Contras includes instruction on economic sabotage, propaganda, extortion, bribery, blackmail, interrogation, torture, murder and political assassination.

1983: Honduras
The CIA gives Honduran military officers the Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983, which teaches how to torture people. Honduras' notorious "Battalion 316" then uses these techniques, with the CIA's full knowledge, on thousands of leftist dissidents. At least 184 are murdered.

1984: The Boland Amendment
The last of a series of Boland Amendments is passed. These amendments have reduced CIA aid to the Contras; the last one cuts it off completely. However, CIA Director William Casey is already prepared to "hand off" the operation to Colonel Oliver North, who illegally continues supplying the Contras through the CIA's informal, secret, and self-financing network. This includes "humanitarian aid" donated by Adolph Coors and William Simon, and military aid funded by Iranian arms sales.

1986: Eugene Hasenfus
Nicaragua shoots down a C-123 transport plane carrying military supplies to the Contras. The lone survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, turns out to be a CIA employee, as are the two dead pilots. The airplane belongs to Southern Air Transport, a CIA front. The incident makes a mockery of President Reagan's claims that the CIA is not illegally arming the Contras.

Iran/Contra Scandal
Although the details have long been known, the Iran/Contra scandal finally captures the media's attention in 1986. Congress holds hearings, and several key figures (like Oliver North) lie under oath to protect the intelligence community. CIA Director William Casey dies of brain cancer before Congress can question him. All reforms enacted by Congress after the scandal are purely cosmetic.

Haiti
Rising popular revolt in Haiti means that "Baby Doc" Duvalier will remain "President for Life" only if he has a short one. The U.S., which hates instability in a puppet country, flies the despotic Duvalier to the South of France for a comfortable retirement. The CIA then rigs the upcoming elections in favor of another right-wing military strongman. However, violence keeps the country in political turmoil for another four years. The CIA tries to strengthen the military by creating the National Intelligence Service (SIN), which suppresses popular revolt through torture and assassination.

1989: Panama
The U.S. invades Panama to overthrow a dictator of its own making, General Manuel Noriega. Noriega has been on the CIA's payroll since 1966, and has been transporting drugs with the CIA's knowledge since 1972. By the late 80s, Noriega's growing independence and intransigence have angered Washington. So out he goes.

1990: Haiti
Competing against 10 comparatively wealthy candidates, leftist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide captures 68 percent of the vote. After only eight months in power, however, the CIA-backed military deposes him. More military dictators brutalize the country, as thousands of Haitian refugees escape the turmoil in barely seaworthy boats. As popular opinion calls for Aristide's return, the CIA begins a disinformation campaign painting the courageous priest as mentally unstable.

1991: The Fall of the Soviet Union
The CIA fails to predict this most important event of the Cold War. This suggests that it has been so busy undermining governments that it hasn't been doing its primary job: gathering and analyzing information. The fall of the Soviet Union also robs the CIA of its reason for existence: fighting communism. This leads some to accuse the CIA of intentionally failing to predict the downfall of the Soviet Union. Curiously, the intelligence community's budget is not significantly reduced after the demise of communism.

1992: Economic Espionage
In the years following the end of the Cold War, the CIA is increasingly used for economic espionage. This involves stealing the technological secrets of competing foreign companies and giving them to American ones. Given the CIA's clear preference for dirty tricks over mere information gathering, the possibility of serious criminal behavior is very great indeed.

1993: Haiti
The chaos in Haiti grows so bad that President Clinton has no choice but to remove the Haitian military dictator, Raoul Cedras, on threat of U.S. invasion. The U.S. occupiers do not arrest Haiti's military leaders for crimes against humanity, but instead ensure their safety and rich retirements. Aristide is returned to power only after being forced to accept an agenda favorable to the country's ruling class.

2002

Venezuela - The CIA attempts to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela. According to intelligence analyst Wayne Madsen, "the CIA provided Special Operations Group personnel, headed by a lieutenant colonel on loan from the U.S. Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to help organize the coup." Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has irritated the U.S. with his 2001 Hydrocarbon Law, which doubles royalties on foreign oil companies and requires a majority government stake in future joint ventures. Soldiers supporting the coup take control of the presidential palace, arrest Chavez and fly him to the Venezuelan island of La Orchil, where he is imprisoned. Businessman Pedro Carmona claims power and, in his first move as president, dissolves the Constitution, national legislature and Supreme Court, while arresting Chavez supporters. The U.S. immediately recognizes the Carmona government. However, the coup soon unravels when thousands of anti-coup protesters surround the presidential palace demanding Hugo Chavez's reinstatement. Two days later, Hugo Chavez triumphantly returns to office.

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2008, 10:05:21 AM »
That was a good read, props 8)

Quite depressing though, when you realise there is an unseen establishment that has the power to shape history, and there's fuck all you can do about it.

Here's a controversial thought; nobody decided to stop Hitler until 1939. He has been depicted as one of the most evil men in history. There were a lot of fucked up Nazi policies that were being pursued, but not much worse than those perpetuated by the British Empire and countless other empires before it.

So what did Hitler REALLY do that pissed off the Allied Forces? Replace Coca-Cola with a German brand? It wouldn't fucking surprise me.
 

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2008, 10:14:37 AM »
wow that is a long list of shit these pale faces managed to do.....
 

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2008, 11:17:49 AM »
Firstly to address the question you just asked the train of thought is that the establishment went after Hitler because it needed to create a portrayal of an evil man who must be stopped. Having achieved this aim of stopping him, the only way of making sure something like this never happened again, was to create the league of nations, i.e. to create the beginnings of world government not in the enlightened athiest sense but a means of consolidating power on a grand scale. Now regarding Mugabe I have a white Zimbabwean friend of mine who tells it no different to how you just addressed zimbabwe but lets not get this twisted in any way shape or form. Mugabe paraded himself as being a great socialist who was going to redistribute the land to the poor in order to garner the support of the poor and thus to create an encampment whereby anyone disagreeing with him would be seen as the enemy. Now of course those people have realised they were just pawns, the excuse to implement the land grabs because sure enough the land has not been redistributed to the poor, instead as has been heavily documented, it become a case of rampant cronyism, the people most loyal to him getting the spoils of the land. Also I always find it somewhat ironic that people will talk about the black man's suffering in Zimbabwe but totally ignore the minority indigenous population of zimbabwe who are clearly the most marginalised of the groups. They get shitted on by everyone and yet they are the forgotten group in zimbabwe, most of what people think of as indigenous zimbabweans are zulus, who arrived into Zimbabwe at basically the same time as the dutch did.

This is the problem which I myself have been guilty of before we know there is one group who are particularly bad and so we tend to see any group who shows opposition towards them as being good, when in fact the reality is both sides are bad. The truth is that Mugabe is just another tyrannical leader, who is driven by the same megalomania and lust for power as any european elitist. He uses the poor as his pawns, deceives them but manages to keep at least a proportion of them on his side by evoking the history of the white mans rule there. The rule of law has gone up in smoke and instead has been replaced with a wild pillaging where anything goes because "we are the law".
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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2008, 11:38:18 AM »
The flipside of all this is that if the West did not pursue the foreign policies it has done i.e., securing natural resources such as oil, gold etc., how would it impact us; the regular peeps who reside in Western countries?

We could face a catastrophic energy crisis in the near future - scheduled power cuts, hyper inflating energy prices all becoming the norm. And we, the regular consumer, would be hit first and hit the hardest. You could easily perceive the intentions of Western govt agencies as being "us or them" with regard to foreign nations.

Just a point I'm throwing out there - but I feel it's a valid one.
 

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2008, 12:25:31 PM »

We have never benefited from this the western corporations implement this seizure of resources to create a monopoly, without this monopoly, there woud be greater competition which would drive down the prices and would lead to a more stable world. Instead we have a situation in which a small group of individuals control everything and use that power to control governments, initially this was outward looking but it's now the west who are getting targeted also. England is a land of contradiction, it is supposedly bathed in affluence and yet over 50% of the population lives on a salary of less than 18,500, when you bear in mind spiraling inflation, that's close to living hand to mouth.  War doesn't just oppress those who face it directly in the form of hails of bullets and rockets, it also oppresses those who it's "fighting in the name of" bankrupting us morally, financially squeezing us to the point where it becomes difficult to breath without joining the system, inspiring thousands to become lambs to the slaughter.

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2008, 06:44:24 PM »
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I think its only natural that corporations would come about, although I agree the corporate system is one-sided, a government will give emergency money to a corporation to help bail them out of hard times, yet the individual stock holder waiting to retire won't get anything but a bad return...so word, it is not a truly 'free' market, because that could be chaotic for major industry and probably the economic system as a whole, its like imagine if every-country DID have the right to have nuclear weapons, it is not a truly free market, but it is a free market created in a particular form, whereas a real free market would be formless and ever changing, the hegemon and seat of military and economic power ever shifting.


The problem with this system is that its geared towards consumption and dependancy rather than self-sustainability and independence.
And Im not only meaning economically, its socially, culturally, individually, spiritually...

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Re: The Real Deal Behind The Land Issue In Zimbabwe
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2008, 05:55:09 AM »

We have never benefited from this the western corporations implement this seizure of resources to create a monopoly, without this monopoly, there woud be greater competition which would drive down the prices and would lead to a more stable world. Instead we have a situation in which a small group of individuals control everything and use that power to control governments, initially this was outward looking but it's now the west who are getting targeted also. England is a land of contradiction, it is supposedly bathed in affluence and yet over 50% of the population lives on a salary of less than 18,500, when you bear in mind spiraling inflation, that's close to living hand to mouth.  War doesn't just oppress those who face it directly in the form of hails of bullets and rockets, it also oppresses those who it's "fighting in the name of" bankrupting us morally, financially squeezing us to the point where it becomes difficult to breath without joining the system, inspiring thousands to become lambs to the slaughter.

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co-sign all of this, thats why the Iraq resource war for oil has got oil prices rocketing, these resource wars only benefit a elite few, like oil companies and Bush and Cheney's friends in Haliburton for example in relation to that Iraq oil war for example