UNITED NATIONS: A CRIMINAL CONGLOMERATE Of NAZI FACTORY UNDER USA

The Zika virus


By Johan Van Dongen and Joel Savage


At this very moment, a perfect storm of biological events is unfolding worldwide. Nowadays in the Americas, a Zika virus epidemic is exploding towards a horrific pandemic event. 

The question is: Why did a virus found in 1947 in Uganda suddenly find its way to Latin America and the rest of the world in 2016?

Where does the original Zika virus come from?

The Rockefeller Foundation: A Mass Murder Institute

The most striking point is the fact that, just as the stories surrounding Aids and Ebola, the Zika virus was first discovered by the Rockefeller Foundation back in 1947. The question is: Is it a natural disease or a bio-weapon?

As we wrote about the Mafioso family Rockefeller, it strikes me again that the Rockefeller Foundation is the prime sponsor of public relations for the United Nations’ drastic depopulation program and is also involved in vaccination campaigns in Africa.

The Rockefeller Depopulation Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution was established by the six-generation Rockefeller family. 

It was founded by Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller (Senior), along with his son John D. Rockefeller Junior, and Senior’s principal oil and gas business and philanthropic adviser, Frederick Taylor Gates, in New York State on May 14, 1913, when its charter was formally accepted by the New York State Legislature. 

Over the past 100 years, it has been dedicated to the mission of “promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world.”

Some of its objectives and achievements included

1, Financially supported education in the United States “without distinction of race, sex, or creed”

2. Helped establish the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom.

3. Established the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health, two of the first such institutions in the United States;

4. Established the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto in 1927;

5. Developed the vaccine to prevent yellow fever;

6. Helped The New School provide a haven for scholars threatened by the Nazis

Some of its infamous activities include:

7. Funding various German eugenics programs, including the laboratory of Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, for whom Josef Mengele worked before he went to Auschwitz.

8. Construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm’s Institute for Brain Research with a $317,000 grant in 1929, with continuing support for the Institute’s operations under Ernst Rüdin over the next several years. 

Although it is no longer the largest foundation by assets, the Rockefeller Foundation’s pre-eminent legacy ranks it among the most influential NGOs in the world. By the end of the year 2008, assets were tallied at $3.1 billion from $4.6 billion in 2007, with annual grants of $137 million.

Apart from the Netherlands, evidence from researchers in America, England, Germany, and my research revealed that the Foundation and its corporate, medical, and political associates organized the racial mass murder program of Nazi Germany.

These globalists, who function as a conduit for British Empire geopolitics, were not stopped after World War II. The United Nations alliance of the old Nazi right and the new left poses an even greater danger to the world today than it did in 1941. 

Oil monopolist John D. Rockefeller created the family-run Rockefeller Foundation in 1909. By 1929, he had placed $300 million worth of the family’s controlling interest in the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now called “Exxon”) to the account of the Foundation.

In our previous articles, we wrote about the Foundation’s money, which created the medical specialty known as Psychiatric Genetics. 

For the new experimental field, the Foundation reorganized medical teachings in Germany, creating and thenceforth continuously directing the “Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry” and the “Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics and Human Heredity.” 

The Rockefellers’ chief executive of those institutions was the fascist Swiss psychiatrist Ernst Rudin, assisted by his proteges Otmar Verschuer and Franz J. Kallmann.

Eugenics & Racial Laws

In 1932, the British-led “Eugenics”  movement designated the Rockefellers’ representative as the president of the worldwide Eugenics Federation. The movement called for the killing or sterilization of people whose heredity made them a public burden. – The Racial Laws – A few months later, Hitler took over Germany, and the Rockefeller-Rudin apparatus became a section of the Nazi state.

The regime appointed Rudin, head of the Racial Hygiene Society. Rudin and his staff, as part of the Task Force of Heredity Experts, chaired by SS chief Heinrich Himmler, drew up the sterilization law. Described as an American Model law, it was adopted in July 1933 and proudly printed in September 1933, the Eugenics News (USA) with Hitler’s signature. The Rockefeller group drew up other race laws, also based on existing Virginia statutes.

Otmar Verschuer and his assistant, Josef Mengele, together wrote reports for special courts that enforced Rudin’s racial purity law against cohabitation of Aryans and non-Aryans. The “T4” unit of the Hitler Chancery, based on psychiatrists led by Rudin and his staff, cooperated in creating propaganda films to sell mercy killing (euthanasia) to German citizens. 

The public reacted antagonistically: Hitler had to withdraw a tear-jerker right-to-die film from the movie theaters. Note that every Aids patient knows exactly what it means to deal with the decrease of their T4 cells!!

The proper groundwork had not yet been laid. Under the Nazis, the German chemical company I.G. Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of New Jersey were effectively a single firm, merged in hundreds of cartel arrangements. I.G. Farben was led until 1937 by the Warburg family, Rockefeller’s partner in banking and in the design of Nazi German eugenics. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Standard Oil pledged to keep the merger with I.G. Farben, going even if the U.S. entered the war.

This was exposed in 1942 by Sen. Harry Truman’s investigation of the committee, and President Roosevelt took hundreds of legal measures during the war to stop the Standard-I.G. Farben cartel from supplying the enemy war machine. 

In 1940-41, I.G. Farben built a gigantic factory at Auschwitz in Poland, to utilize the Standard Oil/I.G. Farben patents used slave labor at the concentration camp to make gasoline from coal.

The SS was assigned to guard the Jewish and other Black inmates and select those who were unfit for I.G. Farben slave labor to be killed. Standard-Germany president Emil Helfferich testified after the war that Standard Oil funds helped pay for SS guards at Auschwitz. 

In 1940, six months after the notorious Standard-I.G. meeting, European Rockefeller Foundation official Daniel O’Brien wrote to the Foundation’s chief medical officer, Alan Gregg, that it would be unfortunate if they chose to stop the research, which has no relation to war issues, so that the Foundation could continue financing Nazi “psychiatric research” during the war.

In 1936, Rockefeller’s Dr. Franz Kallmann, interrupted his study of hereditary degeneracy and emigrated to America because he was half-Jewish. Kallmann went to New York and established the Medical Genetics Department of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. 

The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry published Kallman’s study of over 1,000 cases of schizophrenia, which tried to prove its hereditary basis. In the book, Kallmann thanked his long-time boss and mentor, Ernst Rudin.

Kallmann’s book, published in 1938 in the USA and Nazi Germany, was used by the T4 unit as a rationalization to begin in 1939 the murder of mental patients and various ‘defective’ people, perhaps most of them children. 

Gas and lethal injections were used to kill 250,000 under this program, in which the staff for a broader murder program was desensitized and trained.

Dr. Josef Mengele

In 1943, Otmar Verschuer’s assistant Josef Mengele was made medical commandant of Auschwitz. As wartime director of Rockefeller’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics and Human Heredity in Berlin, Verschuer secured funds for Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz from the German Research Council.

Verschuer wrote a progress report to the Council: “My co-researcher in this research is my assistant, the anthropologist and physician Mengele. 

He was serving as Hauptsturmführer and camp doctor in the concentration camp Auschwitz….With the permission of the Reichsführer SS Himmler, anthropological research is being undertaken on the various racial groups in the concentration camps, and blood samples will be sent to my laboratory for investigation.”

Mengele prowled the railroad lines leading into Auschwitz, looking for twins, a favorite subject of psychiatric geneticists. On arrival at Mengele’s experimental station, twins filled out a detailed questionnaire from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. 

There were daily drawings of blood for Verschuer’s specific protein research. Needles were injected into the eyes for work on eye color.

There were experimental blood transfusions and infections. Organs and limbs were removed, sometimes without anesthesia. Sex changes were attempted. Females were sterilized, males were castrated. 

Thousands were murdered, and their organs, eyeballs, heads, and limbs were sent to Verschuer and the Rockefeller group at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. In 1946, Verschuer wrote to the Bureau of Human Heredity in London, asking for help in continuing his scientific research.

In 1947, the Bureau of Human Heredity moved from London to Copenhagen. The new Danish building for this was built with Rockefeller’s money. 

The first International Congress in Human Genetics following World War II was held at this Danish institute in 1956. By that time, Verschuer was a member of the American Eugenics Society, then indistinguishable from Rockefeller’s Population Council. Dr. Kallmann helped save Verschuer by testifying in his denazification proceedings.

Human Genome Project

Dr. Kallmann created the American Society of Human Genetics, which organized the “Human Genome Project”–a current $3 billion physical genomics effort. Kallmann was a director of the American Eugenics Society in 1952 and served from 1954 to 1965.

In the 1950s, the Rockefellers reorganized the U.S. eugenics movement in their own family offices, with spin-off population-control and abortion groups. The Eugenics Society changed its name to the Society for the Study of Social Biology. 

The Rockefeller Foundation had long financed the eugenics movement in England, apparently repaying Britain for the fact that British capital and an Englishman-partner had helped old John D. Rockefeller out in his Oil Trust.

In the 1960s, the Eugenics Society of England adopted what they called Crypto-eugenics, stating in their official reports that they would do eugenics through the means of instruments not labeled as eugenics. 

With support from the Rockefellers, the Eugenics Society (England) set up a sub-committee called the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which for 12 years had no other address than the Eugenics Society.

This, then, is the private international apparatus that has set the world up for a global holocaust, under the UN flag and the old boys' Nazi factory under the guidance of the United States of America, a criminal conglomerate.

THE IMMORTAL LIFE Of HENRIETTA LACKS

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. 

Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. 

This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.

The author

Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Discover, and others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s NOVA scienceNOW, and is a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine and guest editor of The Best American Science Writing 2011.

She is a former Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle and has taught creative nonfiction and science journalism at the University of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University. 

Her debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than ten years to research and write, and became an instant New York Times bestseller.

She has been featured on numerous television shows, including CBS Sunday Morning and The Colbert Report. Her book has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviews appearing in The New Yorker, Washington Post, Science, Entertainment Weekly, People, and many others.

It won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and was named The Best Book of 2010 by Amazon.com, and a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, US News & World Report, and numerous others.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is being translated into more than twenty languages, and adapted into a young adult book and an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. Skloot lives in Chicago but regularly abandons city life to write in the hills of West Virginia, where she tends to find stray animals and bring them home.

She travels extensively to speak about her book. For more information, visit RebeccaSkloot.com, where you will find book special features, including photos and videos, as well as her book tour schedule, and links to follow her and The Immortal Life on Twitter and Facebook.

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MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND CORRUPT AFRICAN LEADERSHIP

Corruption cartoon in Africa

When a government in Africa is corrupt, there are also some MNCs and their shareholders who stand behind this government and push it to become more corrupt.


Whenever a government becomes autocratic, denying its citizens freedoms and rights, there are MNCs behind providing weapons to exact violence against its people.

Whenever there is a corrupt politician in Africa stealing money meant for schools, hospitals, roads, and the delivery of safe water and sanitation, you have a big MNC bank assisting in the transfer of the money to haven destinations.

This cozy relationship between the political and business elite in Africa and MNCs in Europe and North America not only affects governance, but it is one of the main reasons why economic underachievement, poverty, hunger, and instability permeate almost all African countries.

The parasites who parade themselves as leaders of the continent have for over the years, colluded and connived with MNC vampires who, since the days of slavery, have been the main instrument used by Western countries to strip Africa of its rich resources and to keep its inhabitants desperately poor.

Global Witness has produced documents that have implicated American, Belgian, British, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese firms and business entities. 

The dirty tactics employed by Western governments, the MNCs, the World Bank, the IMF, WTO are responsible for the demise of the African continent. Western countries, led by the US, Britain, France, and lately by China, continue to sell weapons to horrible dictators to crush democratic forces throughout the continent.

They continued to finance brutal wars in Africa ( Libya, Somalia, Ivory Coast, DRC) to keep Africa destabilized while their corporations steal the natural resources such as oil, gas, gold, and other precious metals, complicit with the Western media.

In a similar vein, Global Financial Integrity has demonstrated how Western MNCs working in Africa used fraud accounting, tax evasion, and other financial malpractices to cheat Africans of the billions of dollars that could be used to develop the continent.

IMF and World Bank, on their part, are in cahoots with MNCs and Western creditors to sell their toxic economic policies and poisonous, heavily laden conditional loans to African countries that keep them in odious debts that they spend so much of their GDP in servicing them, to the neglect of the human security needs of their people.

Switzerland, hiding behind its discredited illegal financial and banking secrecy laws and infrastructure, continues to play host to more than $150 billion that is siphoned off from the continent annually by the political and business leaders.

Read more: http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=57161&dir=2016/january/22.

J.N.K. Savage:Tracing the works of a great journalist behind computer age

Ghanaian journalist and filmmaker Justin N.K. Savage pictured with his wife, Nancy‑Elizabeth Savage (Nancy‑Elizabeth Hudson).

Justin Nobleman Kodwo Savage was a pioneering Ghanaian journalist, documentary film producer, and director. Born in Cape Coast in 1932, he became one of the most trusted media professionals of his generation.

While still in active service, he passed away on January 29, 1976, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire. During the Kwame Nkrumah era, Mr. Savage worked with Guinea Press, now The Ghanaian Times.

 

He travelled extensively with the president, covering Nkrumah’s international engagements and providing Ghanaians with first‑hand reports through The Evening News, a newspaper known for its CPP‑aligned coverage.

Although he had the opportunity to pursue further journalism studies in London, Nkrumah’s growing ties with Eastern Europe redirected Mr. Savage’s assignments to countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Russia. In the 1960s, when the president of Czechoslovakia invited African journalists to his country, Justin Savage led the Ghanaian delegation.

Their vibrant Kente cloth drew admiration and highlighted Ghana’s rich cultural identity. Throughout his career, Mr. Savage carefully preserved his press cuttings and later compiled them into a magazine titled A Mixture of Periodicals. After his passing, this collection became my personal treasure, the book that shaped my own writing journey.

Ghana entered a dark chapter when Nkrumah was overthrown on February 24, 1966, in a coup involving the CIA and local collaborators. Amid the chaos, curfews, and mixed emotions, Mr. Savage continued working at Guinea Press for another year before resigning.

He later pursued film production at the Kumasi Science and Technology Institute and subsequently joined the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) as an Advisor on Film for Television. His talent quickly earned him recognition.

When the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (West German Television Team) established a television project at GBC, Mr. Savage was selected for intensive training in West Germany. Upon his return, he was appointed Documentary Film Producer and Director.

At GBC, he produced several notable documentary films, including works showcased at the first and second Ghana International Trade Fairs. Among his productions were Ghana at a Glance, Cocoa in Ghana, Backyard Industries, and Furnace in a Village (1972). I had the privilege of appearing in Backyard Industries as a child.

Growing up, I often saw his colleagues, Mr. Kofi Badu of the Daily Graphic and Mr. Willie Donkor of the Weekly Spectator, still active in the media landscape. In the early 1990s, I contacted another of his friends, Mr. Ebo Biney, hoping GBC could rebroadcast one of my father’s films on the anniversary of his passing.

That was when I learned the heartbreaking news: all his films had been destroyed in a fire that once engulfed the Broadcasting House. Despite being far behind the computer age, I began searching online for any surviving traces of his work. Like winning the lottery, I found two.

The first was on the website of museum consultant Len Pole, who listed Furnace in a Village as a 1972 GBC production by Kodwo Savage. When I contacted him, he told me the film had been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, a revelation that filled me with pride.

The second discovery appeared in Selected Bibliography in Communication (JSTOR), where Graham B. Kerr referenced my father’s article “Ghana Jugend begeistert” (“Ghana inspires youth”). The publication included a powerful quote by Julius Nyerere:

“We must bridge the gap between leaders and masses, between government and people. No government tells the people everything, but every government must reach the people to tell them what they should be told.”

My search for my father’s work continues. Whenever I uncover something new, I will update this article. If any reader has information or suggestions, your contribution is welcome.

The remarkable story of this great writer, neglected as a child yet destined for greatness, is captured in my book, The Writer Died, available on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Writer-Died-Joel-Savage-ebook/dp/B013L54A7O

SPEND YOUR MONEY ON BREAD AND WATER NOT SICKNESS

The healthy fruits


The immune system is made up of special cells, proteins, tissues, and organs, which defend people against germs and microorganisms every day. In most cases, the immune system does a great job of keeping people healthy and preventing infections. 

People therefore have the best chance to enjoy a perfectly healthy life, but the creation of man-made diseases, to generate profit through pharmaceutical companies, and the constant abuse of the body with dangerous products have taken their toll on the health of humanity, and the cost is taking both the wealthy and the poor to the land of pain and poverty.

Abuse and the craving for things unhealthy for the body have put our lives at stake. Large consumption of alcohol can affect one's health, yet people don’t care. Cocaine and other dangerous substances aren’t good for health, but many don’t care. 

It is written on a cigarette’s box ‘The Surgeon General warns, cigarette smoking is dangerous,’ yet many ignore this warning and become human chimneys.

People drink heavily and get kidney problems, while others get cancer from long-term smoking. This can be prevented. Happiness in life isn’t always about being rich or living in luxury, because many are rich but suffering because of poor health. If you have good health, you will feel good and happy, even if you are rich.

Someone can drive your car, cook for you, do your laundry, and iron your clothes, but no one can bear your sickness or drink medicine on your behalf. 

This is the reason one needs to live clean because life is precious. Spend your money on healthy food, drink, and avoid making friends with the drug store. They are happy when they see you coming for medicines because the corrupt medical system made it so.

My tale as an immigrant living in Rome's Pantanella

Pantanella, the abandoned ex-pasta factory in Rome

As a child growing up in a strongly religious family, I was taught that everything opposite to the teachings of the Holy Bible, including laziness, is a sin. I tried my best to live a clean life. 

Without understanding that Israel, Jerusalem, and other biblical nations were on the same planet as our own, we were raised to think that they were all in heaven.

When I left my family looking for a job, I tried to be sincere and avoid doing anything wrong, which could land me in jail. I read that jail can change people’s attitudes for better or worse. But I wasn’t interested in knowing the positive or negative influences of jail on people. My only interest is in never being there because it’s not the right place for me.

In the year 1990, from Lagos, Nigeria, I made a transit in Rome on my way to Germany. In Rome, I was detained at Fiumicino airport. Italian immigration regularly does that to many foreigners, especially Africans. Like a tourist, I walked around the airport lounge without a room to sleep in or food for three days.

 

On the third day, I was really starving, so I approached one of the immigration officials and said to him that I was hungry. He looked at my face and asked me, “Am I your father?” Then he walked away.

Without knowing what the officials had in store for me, I handed over an application for asylum as a journalist, and it worked, because I have a few publications in my profession. 

On the fourth day, from nowhere came one of the immigration officers; he said to me, “Your application has been accepted; today the police will come to take you to Rome.” I was shocked beyond expression.

The good Samaritan didn’t only deliver the unexpected message, but he pulled out from his pocket several notes and said to me, “I don’t want my colleagues to see me giving you money; buy some food to eat at the airport.” I didn’t take the money. 

I told him, “This important information you have given to me has taken all the hunger away, thank you.” He walked away with his money.

On the fourth day, the police came, just as the officer told me, and took me in a police car to the city, Rome, and left me there to fight for my survival. 

Without anywhere to sleep, I passed all my nights at the Central Train Station. Among other Africans, we watched a big television screen during the day to forget our misery, and then at night, I went to sleep at my hiding place. The police and the workers at the train station never discovered the place where I slept.

After some time, I discovered places where I could eat every day without paying for food. I could take my bath and put on some clothes. One such place was at ‘Via Dandolo.’ 

Daniela, the head of the Caritas (Charity) at Via Dandolo, was a very good woman, but one of her female workers was a very bad woman. A thief, since we had no address, our letters passed through the Caritas at Via Dandola, and this woman took the opportunity to steal money from our letters.

I caught her twice, so I wasn’t surprised when I lost the 10 pounds a friend sent me from England, but I didn’t tell Daniela about it. Through Caritas, I had my initial lessons and attended classes to learn Italian. 

I was one of the best immigrants who could write and speak the language fluently, yet my life was miserable because I was still sleeping at the train station.

In Rome, I was robbed, admitted, and operated on at a hospital, but the nurse refused to touch me because of my color; thus, every morning when on duty, she called someone to attend to me, but she had time for every Italian patient at the hospital.

I was once sitting in the hospital’s garden after the operation when an old Italian man, one of the patients, came close to me, looked at my face, and said to me, “Marocchino motaccizoa.” – an insult, after mistakenly taking me for a Moroccan. I didn’t say a word.

Then all of a sudden, as if it was announced on the radio, all the immigrants in Rome without accommodation discovered an abandoned pasta factory called ‘Pantanella.’ Pantanella is notoriously known for all criminal activities, including drug peddling and crime, similar to the drug cartel zones of Mexico. 

One needs strength, courage, heart, and bravery to survive in that place. Italians think they are brave, but many of them dare to pass Via Casilina, the street where Pantanella is located, at night.

That was the place I lived and worked as a toilet cleaner for thousands of immigrants, using six containers as toilets, to raise money to feed them. I was employed by the Muslim head at the place. It’s terrible and frightening to live at Pantenella. 

It wasn’t a prison, but the place, I think, was tough like Alcatraz because of the criminal activities many illegal immigrants engaged in.

The abandoned factory accommodated both soft and hardened criminals from various countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Africa etc.  I lived in Pantanella for four months, and the Italian government, tired of the crimes going on in that abandoned pasta factory, ejected all the foreigners.

However, the Italian government did something great for the African immigrants. Something we weren’t expecting. The government paid for two weeks to stay in a hotel for all the Africans, with the ultimatum that before the two weeks expired, we should find a place on our own to live.

Through a very good and sympathetic woman called Nana (she died in Rome a few years ago), I got a job as a houseboy to serve one journalist called Claudio Lavazza, working at the television station TG2, belonging to the former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. 

He provided me with accommodation and paid me well. Besides, he gave me the new version of the Fiat Cinque Cento (500) to drive. It may be likely that I was the first Black man in the entirety of Italy to drive the new Fiat Cinque Cento when it first came out. I met other journalist friends of Claudio, including Michele Cucuzza.

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After three years, I said goodbye to Rome and returned to Africa. I married and returned to Europe once again, but this time I chose Amsterdam. 

‘Overseas Chronicle: The Rome and Amsterdam Experience’ is a book that once started, you’ll find it hard to put away because of the shocking, intriguing stories in the book. 

Find out more about what happened to me in Rome and later in Holland, which led me to detention in Amsterdam.

YOUR ENEMY GETS MAD, IF HE FAILS TO SEE YOU THE WAY HE WANTS

A Rae Smith quote

No one gives birth to a child and names him or her ‘Enemy,’ thus, I haven’t met anyone yet called ‘Enemy.’ Yet an enemy exists, the reason the dictionary defines it: As a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.

What causes enmity between people? I watched a program about a man who hates his neighbor. According to him, his neighbor’s stereo was too noisy, and many times when he asked him to reduce the volume, he refused to yield to his demand.

I understand him, especially after the week’s hard work, you wish to have a happy and quiet lovely weekend, reading your favourite books and newspapers, but that neighbour of yours has denied you all those good moments you’re longing for.

At times, you might be an enemy or someone might hate you for doing no wrong, just because of your efforts to live a happy life. Do you know that your hard work can sometimes spark jealousy and hatred from an empire of deceitful enemies?

Do you know that even your successful marriage sometimes makes you an enemy, because your neighbour’s marriage is on the rocks? How do you handle such situations when you haven’t done anything wrong but someone madly hates you?

I do hear people often say: The problem was beyond my control, the reason I used food as a means of consolation, became an alcoholic or a drug addict. That’s really a big mistake. When you’re experiencing problems, you don’t live on destructive measures to solve your problems; you need to fight those destructive elements.

Years back, when I arrived in Europe, among other foreigners, I came to Italy at a time when I didn’t know anyone. I slept at the Central Train Station in Rome for many days. (I have revisited Rome to see where I slept in the early nineties) I saw that the hard conditions were taking their toll on some of the homeless Africans.

Some became alcoholics, drug addicts, involved in drug trafficking, and some decided to go back to Africa. I encouraged them to stay, but many of them returned to Africa. Today, I’m no longer an illegal immigrant. 

Above all, I live with my wife and three children in Europe. I wake up every morning at 5 AM and go to work like other workers, enjoying a happy union with my family when I come back home.

I know what the enemy wants. I wasn’t ready to be a destitute, alcoholic, drug addict, or courier. If I have made it, then you can. Never blame anyone for your failure in life. Don’t let your enemy be happy. Fight those destructive forces to make them mad.

A MAN CAN'T BE PRAISED FOR HIS EVIL DEEDS, UNLESS YOU'RE EVIL

The quote of Martin Luther King Jr

We often hear “I don’t like Obama, I hate CNN, I don’t like George W. Bush, etc. If you try to find out the reason for their hatred and dislike, they will tell you why.

It is easier to hate than to show or give love to a person. Thus, probably if someone hates me, there must be a reason for that. But when I haven’t committed any crime, I would like to find out why someone hates me. Is it because of my probing articles?

I am an African writer living in Europe, reading every humiliating and degrading article European and American journalists write about Africa. Do you expect me to join them when they have many problems to deal with on their shores, but pretend everything is fine?

In Brussels, come daily European and other world leaders to talk about problems affecting the world, with the aim of finding solutions to tackle those problems. In the same Brussels stands a statue of Leopold II, the king who killed and maimed over ten million Africans, including women and children.

Belgium didn’t consider the crime of this criminal. Instead, they built a statue to glorify and named streets after him throughout the country, when there is no statue of Adolf Hitler, for killing 6 million Jews. Would you hate me as an African writer who values life if I write that the Belgian government should pull down that statue?

The world leaders and journalists converging at Brussels don’t care about any statue, because they are not Africans; moreover, the life of an African to them is valueless. But since the Bible I read tells me that ‘God created man in His own image,’ I will write an article against this injustice and ignorance.

No one in their right mind would praise someone who has committed such a heinous crime unless the person is sick himself or evil. Sometimes, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” said Martin Luther King Jr. Yes, the sufferer has to scream for the oppressor to know what the oppressed are going through.

Terrorism

The selfishness, greed, hypocrisy, and bad policies of European and American leaders have generated scores of hatred for the common citizens. Whatever terrorism has taken place in Europe and America, in the past and today, was caused by Europe and America.

In Brussels, they sit behind a heavy security gate and take measures to combat terrorism. After that, they give those measures to the media for publication, but the reasons that led to the killing of innocent citizens are never given to the media. Because they don’t want the public to know the truth, and again aren’t ready to change their bad policies.

Unfortunately, people don’t realize the harm these politicians are causing in society against ordinary citizens. Do we have to depend on such people/politicians for security or protection? They were there when 9/11 occurred. 

They were there when runners taking part in a marathon were murdered by unscrupulous terrorists. They were there when terrorists struck France, and they were there when Africa was intentionally plagued with Aids, Ebola, Lassa fever, and other diseases.

When they see victims of terrorism's bodies scattered, before you’ll see soldiers and the police with guns at every point of the street, disrupting public activities. These politicians have no protection for us today or tomorrow. In fact, they have left us sitting on a time bomb, without knowing when the next terrorist act will strike.

Honestly, the public can take good care of themselves more than what politicians can do, if each becomes his brother’s keeper, giving love, doing away with racism, discrimination, and living in peace and harmony. Love truly conquers everything.

THE EMBRACE OF ILLITERACY AS TRADITIONAL VALUE IN AFRICA

The festival of virgins

Africa is a vast continent filled with a variety of customs, traditions, cultures, and languages. Some of these outdated traditions and customs are seen as senseless, useless, valueless, illiteracy, and complete ignorance.

Female Circumcision: It is estimated that about 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the disastrous effects of female circumcision. Horrific procedures have severely traumatized and psychologically affected thousands of women. Female circumcision is practiced in 26 countries across Africa.

In the Republic of Sierra Leone, an ethnic group called “The Bondo Society” still carries this outdated tradition. Gambia launched a three-year program aimed at abolishing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Female circumcision is the number one on my list, as illiteracy is taken as tradition or custom.

Horrible tribal marks in Nigeria: In the olden days, tribal marks were used as identification, especially in Yoruba lands, such as Ogun, Oyo, Ondo states, and Benin. 

In case something happens to you, your tribal marks would help to identify the tribe you originate from or where you come from. The illiteracy behind this barbarous act has disfigured the faces of thousands of Nigerians.

Some of the marks are so horrible that they attract people and gossip. Some women have to live with it for the rest of their lives without husbands.  

Time changes as we step into the world of technology and development. Disfiguring of the face, as tribal marks are gradually fading away or have completely stopped in many places throughout the country.

In South Africa, there is a relatively landlocked country called Swaziland. The king of the country, Mswati III, has 14 wives. This illiteracy, which had been in existence for years, has been followed as a tradition.

The 46-year-old monarch has ruled over Swaziland, which is on the brink of economic disaster, for 28 years. He can’t even solve the problems of 40 percent of Swazis who are unemployed, the country’s highest HIV infection rate per capita in the world, and the life expectancy of 46 years, among the world’s lowest.

 Yet at every annual Reed Dance, the king takes the opportunity to take a new wife. Is this king ignorant, serious, or a joker?

Horrible tribal marks of a Yoruba woman

He recently married a girl of fifteen. Apart from the continued abuse of young girls, the king’s wealth includes expensive cars (fleets of top-of-the-range Mercedes and BMW cars, at least one Rolls-Royce, and a $500,000 Daimler Chrysler flagship Maybach 62) and a private jet ($17 million), while the citizens wallow in poverty. 

This money can be invested in education and health care to develop his country. Have you seen how stupid and ignorant some of these African leaders are?

When Asia is making headlines around the world, it’s about business, but in the case of Africa, it’s about poverty, corruption, war, conflicts, and such stupid traditions and customs, draining Africa’s coffers and underdeveloping Africa. 

I have said this and I will repeat once again, “If African leaders want the Advanced World to respect them, they should show a little intelligence and maturity because they underestimate and laugh at Africa.