It’s been a year since a Regina Walmart illegally hired two foreign students, and triggered a drama with them confined to churches granting them sanctuary from the Harper Government’s punitive mean streak. For Immediate Release June 18, 2013 One Year Anniversary: University Students Still in Hiding This week marks one year since two University of […]

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Qatar is neck-deep in the muck of  terrorism funding.  Qatar is funding terrorist gangs not only in Syria but wherever muslims want to create havoc and go on killing sprees.  Their support of Boko Haram, the terror gangs in Nigeria, has long been suspected.  Now, with Al Jazeera starting its propaganda machinery in Nigeria, purporting to have had an interview with a Nigerian soldier who shifts blame for civilian deaths on the Nigerian government,  they are clearly trying to recruit more muslims in the Boko Haram harem.

From NewsRescue:
Al Jazeera, the Qatar government-owned media, recently released a video of a purported Nigerian soldier, whose identifiers were disguised; claiming there were aggravated civilian deaths in the Nigerian military offensive against Boko Haram……


……Going through comments on the published video release, one could only realize the overwhelming condemnation of Al Jazeera’s intentions in producing such questionable material…..


…..NewsRescue has no answers, but a lot of questions as raised by commentators:

What is Al Jazeera’s(the Qatar dictator’s) intentions in the Nigerian quagmire? 

Does Al Jazeera really believe in the story of the so-called soldier in the video and his claim that he saw over 3000 civilian dead bodies at the “front-line,” since the May 14th Military action? Where are these “3000 dead?” 

Does Al Jazeera in like fashion scrutinize and “expose,” government crack-downs by Middle Eastern brutal regimes, like that of  near-by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia? 

How far does Al Jazeera go in reporting on and exposing the results of Drones used by the west and NATO on innocents in African countries and the Middle East? 

How honest is Al Jazeera’s reporting on the al Qaeda insurgency and militant action in Syria, with terrorist-rebels declaring full allegiance to al Qaeda, being caught with Sarin gas and even eating the heart of government troops? Or was it, in reporting on the terrorist action in the Libya Gaddafi overthrow that later led predictably to the death of US Ambassador Stevens? 

Why has Al Jazeera been obviously upset from the very first day the Nigerian government announced its serious action and state of emergency in response to Boko Haram; the Doha based network immediately publishing videos suggesting the government is “worse than Boko Haram?” 

Does Al Jazeera and Qatar prefer a Boko Haram government in Nigeria?” 

Why would Al Jazeera show a video of only one house with a narration of “houses seen here?” 

Why did Al Jazeera say, “civilians among dead,” if its reliable source said 3000. This means at least 4000 Boko Haram have been killed, for 3000 to be “among,” dead and not “most dead.” 

Why would Al Jazeera show as evidence in the video, military fatigue clad dead Boko Haram rebels, while describing the images as being those of civilians? 

Is Al Jazeera promoting Boko Haram as a civilian association?………

All hail the powers-that-be who rule over us gullible Earthlings.  They are wise and all powerful.  
Hail O wise outer worldly ones, we puny humans bow to your superior intelligence for making all things perfect.


Terror and death is a way of life in the new creation:
…..Unknown assailants threw an explosive device at a military checkpoint in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi early on Wednesday, killing three soldiers and injuring three others, security officials said.
The attack was the latest in a wave of violence against security forces in the city, the cradle of the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
Nearly two years after he was ousted, the Tripoli government is still struggling to impose its authority on a country awash with weapons and where lawless militias do as they please.
“In the night, unknown assailants in a black Chevrolet car threw an explosive device as they passed a military patrol at one of the city’s roundabouts,” a police source said.
“There was no shooting. They then just fled.”
Abdullah al-Shaafi, spokesman of Benghazi’s security operations room, confirmed three soldiers had been killed and three others wounded in the attack…...

Mountains of weaponry from Libya going to Syrian terrorists:
The reason for this night’s meeting,  and indeed for the Libyans’ 10-day trip to southern Turkey and across the border into northern Syria, was to help the Libyans figure out how to get some of Libya’s vast and loose stockpiles of machine guns, artillery, ammunition and antiaircraft systems — leftovers amassed largely by snatching government stockpiles during their own successful military uprising against their late dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, and from supplies donated to the Libyan rebels by the oil-rich Gulf nation of Qatar — to Assad’s opponents.





Sunni suicide bombers imported from Libya:
Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar claims to have planned the two deadly suicide attacks last week in Niger. One of the recent targets was a uranium mine owned by the French company Areva, which makes it the second foreign energy facility in African to be hit this year by Belmokhtar-organized forces. It’s also the former AQIM man’s first appearance since his alleged death in March.
One notable claim made by Niger’s president in the aftermath was that the suicide bombers came from Libya. It’s not the first time that Belmokhtar has been linked to the country – he reportedly visited to conduct weapons deals as far back as 2011 – but the connection leads us to investigate whether Southern Libya, which borders Algeria, Chad, Niger, and Sudan, is becoming the preferred no man’s land for militant Islamist groups.


Kidnappings and closing of airports … all in a day’s work:
Sebha Airport reopened again today  after a joint statement was issued by the local council, elders and civil society organisations condemning the kidnapping on Sunday in Tripoli of Alashae Mehdi, head of the Qatrun Martyrs Brigade, which is based in the southern town.
It was closed yesterday by a group of Tebus in protest at the disappearance of Mahdi from his Tripoli hotel on Sunday.


Case of light-skinned African Muslims hating dark-skinned African Muslims:
Libya Deports 1500 Africans.Many Nigerians and some other African nationals are now stranded in Agadas, Niger Republic after been deported by Libyan authorities. Two people were reported dead on their way to Niger out of about 1500 Africans who claimed to have been tortured while in detention before transported in 10 vehicles which took them to Agadas.
Some of them who spoke to BBC Hausa Service said they were arrested in their houses and shops where they run their daily business.
BBC reported that among the deported persons included Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Cameroon, and Cort d’ Voire nationals among others.
A Nigerian explained that “when they arrested me, I asked them to let me wear my clothes but one of them said no, you are going to wear your cloth when you get back to your country, but not here.”
“They took us to a place where there were no toilets. Now we are here, some of us do not even have decent cloths,” he said.


Look who’s talking …. the nation that arms terrorists wants them dead when they turn against that nation’s interests:
France urged African nations  on Tuesday to make a concerted effort to tackle a growing Islamist threat in the deserts of southern Libya.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, speaking on a visit to Niger where suicide bombers attacked a French-run uranium mine last week, said there were signs that Libya’s lawless south was becoming a safe haven for Islamist groups in the Sahara.





The Brits are proud of their Libyan Students program, this country can’t commit suicide fast enough:
….Amid bombs and security alerts, the British Council signed an agreement with Libyan officials which we hope will smooth the path of up to 5,000 Libyan scholars due to study in the UK each year. Cherry Gough, British Council Director Libya, reports…..
…..So as you can see, life at the British Council in Tripoli is swings and roundabouts – enormous opportunities in a context of sometimes very frightening instability. But in the end, the reason why we live with the bombs and the unpredictability is because we believe in what we’re doing, and we respect the people we’re doing it with.
We know that education will make a huge contribution to Libya’s future, and that’s where the UK has something exceptional to offer: the chance to get a world-class education in a country that’s proud (mostly) of its diversity and its openness. And if anybody deserves to get that chance, it’s the astonishing, hopeful, courageous young Libyan men and women we meet every day here in Tripoli. I hope more people in the UK get the chance to meet them, too…


Al Qaeda major base operating in Libya with the government’s approval:
A Library of Congress report that received almost no media attention detailed – one month before the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi – how al-Qaida established a major base of operations in Libya in the aftermath of the U.S.-NATO campaign that deposed Muammar Gadhafi and his secular regime.
The report documented al-Qaida and affiliated organizations were establishing terrorist training camps and pushing Taliban-style Islamic law in Libya while the new, Western-backed Libyan government incorporated jihadists into its militias.
The document named Benghazi as a new central headquarters for al-Qaida activities.
“Al-Qaeda adherents in Libya used the 2011 Revolution to establish well-armed, well-trained, and combat-experienced militias,” stated the report.
The report also said a terrorist released from the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba became the leader of the al-Qaida-affiliate Ansar Al-Sharia in Libya, which espoused anti-Western ideology…..


Muslim network also blames NATO.  They beg the USA and NATO to come to their rescue and then when rescued they criticize them for not doing enough.  That’s the muslim way.  What they expect is that the West come rescue them and then take care of them forever.
Libya is proof that Nato knows how to destroy a country, but doesn’t know how to rebuild it.  
Most of the news coming from Libya is distressing, the London-based daily Al Quds Al Arabi said in its editorial yesterday, following the deadly car bomb explosion in Benghazi.
“The country is experiencing successive crises over more than one aspect of affairs: daily living, politics and security, and they are mostly because of the inability of the feeble political elite to build and empower state institutions,” the paper said.

Thousands of  domestic workers plead to be sent back to their countries as they no longer can tolerate  the torture and slavery in that hellhole.

Ellen Knickmeyer writing in the WallStreetJournal:
….The tent city at the Philippine consulate is one of the most dramatic outgrowths of Saudi Arabia’s recent crackdown on what by some estimates are 2 million to 3 million foreign workers living in the kingdom without proper documentation.


Saudi Arabia is seeking to break the kingdom’s reliance on cheaper foreign labor and get more Saudis into the private sector, in what the Saudi government and most analysts say is a badly needed overhaul of the Saudi labor market.


 As part of that restructuring, the kingdom has given foreign workers who are working without the proper paperwork until July to sort out their working documents and visas, or face deportation.


Many workers went into hiding for days when the government first announced the crackdown, and some still fear they may be imprisoned in Saudi Arabia rather than immediately deported. The workers outside the Philippines consulate, however, mostly saw the Saudi deportation orders as an opportunity, rather than a threat.


Many workers in the tent city are seeking deportation after fleeing their employers due to abuse, said Marion Guinto, a resident in tent city helping to coordinate meals, medical care and hygiene for the camp. They say that their employers withheld wages, beat them, or subjected them to sexual abuse, Ms. Guinto added……….


…..The consulate has set up a phone bank to call the workers’ employers, pleading with them to sign the necessary paperwork for the workers to go back to the Philippines, Mr. Garibay said. The Saudi employers typically refuse, saying they want repayment first for the costs of bringing the workers to Saudi Arabia, the diplomat said.


The Philippines has asked the Saudi government for a paperwork waiver, as well as amnesty on the average $2,000 fine each runaway worker owes the Saudi government, Mr. Garibay said.


The Saudi foreign ministry has told the Philippine authorities that the government is studying the request, Mr. Garibay said, speaking over the wails and shrieks of the children now living in the consulate.


About 67,000 of the 655,000 Filipino workers here face similar paperwork problems, he said. So do unknown numbers more among the millions of Indian, Pakistani and other Asian and African workers here………

According to UNICEF’s 2009 Human Development Index, the impoverished North African nation of Niger ranks lowest in nutritional and health indicators. In that country, one child in five dies before their fifth birthday.
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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Green Party leader Elizabeth May says Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning Canada into a “rogue nation” and the “North Korea of environmental law”. The Saanich-Gulf Islands MP was reacting to Thursday’s shocking revelation that the Conservative government last week quietly withdrew from yet another important international body, the United Nations [...]

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The A marks Loliondo, a Maasai village in northern Tanzania.

I have written about the Maasai before, on this blog in The Wheat Field, and in African publications in the 90s. In the fight between pastoralists and farmers, I support the farmers, if only because poor countries need food sources. But in the fight between the pastoralists and the oil sheiks who want to turn Maasai land into the Disneyworld of Big Game Hunting, you have to support the Maasai.

At this very moment, the government of Tanzania is evicting Maasai from their land in northern Tanzania to please Abdul Rahim Al Ali, an uber-wealthy Arab who bought the rights to hunt there. This is the sad end to a land dispute that has been going on for over 20 years. Eighteen years ago, I visited Loliondo and saw what was going on.

The drive from Arusha to Loliondo . . . → Read More: Yappa Ding Ding: Loliondo and the Shiek

The A marks Loliondo, a Maasai village in northern Tanzania.

I have written about the Maasai before, on this blog in The Wheat Field, and in African publications in the 90s. In the fight between pastoralists and farmers, I support the farmers, if only because poor countries need food sources. But in the fight between the pastoralists and the oil sheiks who want to turn Maasai land into the Disneyworld of Big Game Hunting, you have to support the Maasai.

At this very moment, the government of Tanzania is evicting Maasai from their land in northern Tanzania to please Abdul Rahim Al Ali, an uber-wealthy Arab who bought the rights to hunt there. This is the sad end to a land dispute that has been going on for over 20 years. Eighteen years ago, I visited Loliondo and saw what was going on.

The drive from Arusha to Loliondo . . . → Read More: Yappa Ding Ding: Loliondo and the Shiek

Participants from occupied Western Sahara joined the opening march of the World Social Forum 2013 in Tunisia. (Photo: MaghrebEmergent)

Major march to launch the World Social Forum

Photo courtesy of One by OneI can remember the first time I heard the word “fistula”. It was a funny sounding word for a horrific condition – a hole between the birth passage and an internal organ such as the bladder or rectum. A woman cannot hold her …

Photo courtesy of One by OneI can remember the first time I heard the word “fistula”. It was a funny sounding word for a horrific condition – a hole between the birth passage and an internal organ such as the bladder or rectum. A woman cannot hold her …

A new ground-dwelling species of South African spider has been discovered. The medium-size arachnid is distinguishable by a black dot on its back and its restricted habitat range. It’s called Copa kei, named after a town near the Great Kei …

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Adding a Canopy Tour to your travels is a great way to put a little adventure into your vacation. Imagine standing 30 metres (90 feet) high on a platform overlooking a magnificent jungle canopy. That’s a thrill unto itself, but the best is yet to come! In an instant you’ll step off the ledge and [...]

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The Hadza, or Hadzabe, tribe are some of the last hunter-gatherer’s in Africa. Living near Lake Eyasi in central Tanzania, there are only about 1,000 of them left. I had the chance to visit with them on my way back from Ngorongoro Crater, and it was an experience I won’t soon forget. The first thing [...]

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Muslim terrorists are all over.  But, it’s easier to pretend they are not.

Boko Haram releases video of French family kidnapped in Cameroon.  Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, has released a video showing the French family kidnapped in Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria.
The three minutes, 26 seconds video, posted on YouTube on Monday, shows the seven members of the Moulin Fournier family, kidnapped on February 19.
The video shows three adult members of the family-two men and one woman; and four children sitting between two armed men, masked, and in military fatigue, and a third who acted as the group spokesperson.
The spokesperson confirmed they belong to the Jama’a Ahl al-Sunnah lil Da’wa wal Jihad, better known as Boko Haram.
He accused France of waging war on Islam, and said the condition for releasing their hostages was for the Nigerian government to release all female jihadists imprisoned, while the Cameroonian government releases their male counterparts……

France perpetrated two large deceptions in conducting its military intervention into Mali six weeks ago. These have been universally accepted in mainstream media reporting.

The first is that the unilateral decision to invade Mali on January 11, 2013 was hastily made, prompted by imminent military threats by Islamic fundamentalist forces against the south of the country where the large majority of Malians live.

 The second is that France intends to quickly exit Mali. “French leaders have said they intend to start pulling out the 4,000 troops in Mali in March to hand over security to the Malian army and to the U.N.-backed AFISMA force, an African military contingent…” says a typical report in the Chicago Tribune on February 18.

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Photo courtesy of http://www.childsoldiers.org/

Romeo Dallaire is one of the most courageous humanitarians of his time, and a personal hero of mine. Aside from the fact that this awesome, inspiring man is a Canadian, he is perhaps best known for being the Force Commander for UNAMIR, where he bore witness to the Rwandan genocide. Now as a retired lieutenant-general and Canadian Senator he is an outspoken advocate for human rights, mental health and war-affected children.

Wanting to transform his hellish experiences into a constructive contribution, he founded the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, and made it his life’s mission to end the use of child soldiers worldwide. He documented his experiences and proposed solutions in two best-selling books: Shake Hands with the Devil and They Fight like Soldiers, Die like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers.

Just imagine more than 250,000 children (estimated 30-40% girls) recruited – often forced – to be soldiers. Many are stolen from their families, maimed, raped, drugged, used as sex slaves or otherwise abused and as child soldiers, are often forced to commit atrocities against friends, families and neighbours. Dallaire says children are used because they are considered expendable, plentiful, cheap to maintain and easily indoctrinated by the adults who recruit them. They are used as a strategic military tool—a weapons system—to advance the interests of persistent human rights violators.

For my weekly Give a Little challenge I donated to the Child Soldiers Initiative which is committed to ending the use and recruitment of child soldiers worldwide, with a focus on prevention, through ground-breaking research, advocacy, and security-sector training.

Because to tell you the truth, if Dallaire can be selfless and brave enough to take on the fight of a lifetime, the least I can do is give a little to support the cause.

Read about my weekly Give a Little challenge and other posts. I have to give ongoing props to Wendy Smith for her inspiring book, Give a Little. Consider giving it a read.