US boycotts UN conference on racism

NEW YORK, Feb. 27 -- The Obama administration has said it will boycott a major U.N. conference on racism scheduled for April...
 

We are sad to have to do this, but we must share the truth with you as always.

Ever ask yourself why Obama made it? Well do we not know the truth? We may have been fooled and dragged along into believing it was the power of the masses, the hidden true democracy that had long been known to be extinct. We didn't listen when Hillary(the other, not better candidate) said the media was making this happen.

It was true! Who owns the media? Not aMerica, we all kno who owns the media in aMerica, yes that extra aMerican state in the Middle East.

Little wonder right after his victory, he did not hesitate but immediately went to NY for a 30,000 bucks a seat fundraiser hosted by Axlerod. But who is Axelrod? Well he owns tons of buildings in New York. The whole area in Harlem is being renovated to accommodate elite non-blacks, and gradually thanks to the development of Axlerod and the likes, Blacks are being kicked out of Harlem. Let's not digress.

In his first speech since becoming the DNC nominee, he made a statement that made ex president Jimmy Carter who just recently reluctantly endorsed him, cry. He made a statement that even Israelites don't make, and that the entire world knows, will never allow peace on Earth. He didn't make this statement by accident, he knows what it means, denouncing the United Nations declared illegal occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel.

Every one knows that this statement and any government so harsh as to continue opposing the United Nations demand, and refusing Palestine their little entitlement, will never allow peace on Earth.

The entire Middle east wept. No he wasn't to take sides, isn't it Obama, the guy for change. He was just meant to be neutral, on the side of the UN, on the side of peace. Or at the very least, quiet about highly controversial issues.

But he couldn't.

Obama never associated with Blacks, and Blacks knew this, but reluctantly followed him
Obama denounced his pastor of 20 years just to get that seat.
Now Obama has denounced the United Nations and the larger worlds only possibility of getting a peaceful agreement in the Mid East. he has stood as very few ever have, in the way of peace. He has even proven worse than G Bush.

All presidencies that couldn't in some way get peace in the Mid East, didn't last very long, and it is not likely his will.

It's a day of mourning, not for aMerica, but for the entire world, all peace loving people from the US to Israel, to Palestine, to Africa.

Did he play the electorate? Now we know why and how he got so far. Now we know why the media liked him. It's another day of a puppet in the White house.

Africa and the rest of the world must sit tight and keep their prayers and guards up, the White house is not going to change just yet.

The article below is what the main stream media may not hastily say.

And by the way, did you notice he has already started a retraction on his declaration of expedient withdrawal from Iraq?


"...Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama provoked a flurry of reaction Wednesday by touting Jerusalem as the 'undivided' capital of Israel, going further than the current administration of President George W Bush who was holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House.

Obama, speaking before an Israeli lobby group in Washington, said any future Palestinian state must be 'contiguous and cohesive' but rejected East Jerusalem as the capital of that state....

Jan 1 2008 (**This is a story to follow closely**)
ACCRA (Reuters) - Two U.S. Navy sailors were found dead on Tuesday in their hotel room while on shore leave in the West African country of Ghana, the U.S. Navy said.

The cause of death was unknown and was being investigated by Ghanaian authorities in cooperation with U.S. Navy officials, the Navy said in a statement.

"Currently there is no suggestion of foul play," Lieutenant Patrick Foughty, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet, told Reuters by telephone from Naples, Italy.

The sailors, who were not identified, were stationed aboard the Fort McHenry, a 600-foot (185-metre) dock landing ship based in Little Creek, Virginia.

The vessel was docked in the Ghanaian port of Tema, some 18 miles east of the capital Accra, as part of a U.S. naval partnership program in West Africa.

During a six-month mission, the Fort McHenry will train West African navies to fight drug smuggling and maritime security threats in a region which supplies nearly a fifth of U.S. oil imports.

Foughty said the sailor's deaths would not prevent the training mission from going ahead.

Source- http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080101/ts_nm/ghana_us_navy_dc

We rejoice and celebrate a victory for our struggles, for freedom and democracy, however we should take this as a wake-up signal and must not relax for a minute, but must continue our struggle to secure and keep safe Africa's freedom. Up Yar'Adua! Up Nigeria! Up united safe Africa!

Source- The Times Of Nigeria

Nigeria has clarified her position on the US/Africa Command (AFRICOM) by restating its opposition to the presence of foreign troops in Nigeria and the Africa continent. Ojo Maduekwe, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister made the clarification in a statement to the media in Washington DC today.

The Minister said it was necessary to clarify Nigeria’s position given the interest the issue has generated.

“President Yar’Adua’s statement on the proposed AFRICOM is consistent with Nigeria’s well-known position on the necessity for Africa to avail itself of opportunities for enhanced capacity for the promotion of peace and security in Africa;

“Nigeria’s position on AFRICOM remains that African Governments have the sovereign responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security in the continent, especially in the context of the proposed African Union Stand-by Force and

“In this regard, the need for support and assistance by Africa’s development partners, such as the United States, in the provision of training, funding and logistics for African militaries was duly acknowledged.” The statement concluded.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua himself clarified his position yesterday when he told the Hausa service of the Voice of America (VOA) in Washington DC that his position on AFRICOM remains unchanged.

“I did not accept AFRICOM in my discussions with Bush. I asked for assistance and told Bush that we have our plans to establish bases for African countries.

Source: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7026197.stm

US Africa Command - a unit designed to run all of America's military operations in Africa - opened for business this month.

Africom takes over the work currently done by three different command centres, all of them based outside Africa. While it is stationed in Germany for now, there has been a hostile reaction from many African countries to the idea of such a major US military installation moving onto African soil.

Many crucial details about how it is meant to work are still unclear. It has not yet been revealed, for example, where its headquarters will be.

And the fact that so much is still under wraps is fuelling the suspicion about what it is intended for.

Militarised society?
The Bush administration insists there's nothing sinister about the Africom initiative.
According to US Under-Secretary of Defence Ryan Henry, it amounts merely to the redeployment of a few hundred personnel.

Liberia's president Sirleaf has given her backing to Africom
"Today we have the European Command, the Central Command and the Pacific Command, that deal with Africa," he says.

The Federal Government has begun moves to frustrate the plan by the United States to establish a military base in the Gulf of Guinea. The oil-rich gulf is bordered by Nigeria, Angola, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe US has been desperately wooing some countries in the West Africa sub-region to allow her establish a military base to protect the strategic gulf for sometime now.

The move, according to US, is to protect the area from alleged external aggressions but with America now looking in the direction of Africa for her energy needs given the instability in the Middle-east, many analysts say the move is to protect her oil interests.
Defence sources, however, told THISDAY last night in Abuja that the Federal Government was already discussing with heads of government of the African Union and leaders of the sub-regional body, the Economic Community of West African State, on how to block any move by US to establish a base in the gulf.

"Nigeria is not taking the issue lightly at all and the government is not going to allow the US establish any military base anywhere in the ECOWAS region. The interest of the US government in the Gulf of Guinea has reinforced the commitment of the government to intensify its efforts at providing the needed security in the sub-region," the source said.

It was learnt that the Federal Government was worried by the terror alert raised by the US authorities last week and saw it as a ploy to label Nigeria and countries in the sub region as unsafe in order to get the opportunity to create a military base in the region.
As a first step to checkmate that plan, the FG has vowed to frustrate the campaign by the US to establish a base in the gulf.
"The government of this country is not ready for any blackmail. What they cannot get through the back doors they want to get through blackmail. We are not going to succumb to that game,” the source said. THISDAY also learnt that the Defence Headquarters has concluded plans to visit Pentagon, in Washington, to further discuss the issue with the US government.
"In a few weeks from now, some top military personnel will be in the US to present papers on the plans by the African Union to establish an African Command, which will be charged with the responsibility of providing the needed security in the continent.

"We really want to let the US and other countries of the world know that we are capable of protecting the resources within our continent. Nigeria is one country that will continue to move against any plans by the US government to establish a military base in our sub-region. We cannot afford to allow them do that, otherwise we will be finished as military,” he said.

There is broad consensus among African countries that foreign forces - specifically in the form of the United States' new African Command - would not be welcomed to establish themselves on the continent.

Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota expressed this sentiment Wednesday, during a briefing on the implementation of government's programme of action by Cabinet's International Relations, Peace and Security cluster.


The minister indicated a hesitance on the part of African countries to host the US's new dedicated command for the continent.

"The Africom [the US Africa Command] initiative has raised a lot of interest and attracted a lot of attention because ... Africa has to avoid the presence of foreign forces on her soil," Mr Lekota told reporters on Wednesday.

"If there was to be an influx of armed forces into one or other of the African countries, that might effect the relations between the sister countries and [would] not encourage an atmosphere and a sense of security," he added.

As a start, the 14-country Southern African Development Community had taken a decision that none of its members would be willing to host US forces, he said.

Mr Lekota said that the SADC had adopted the position that it would be better for the US not "to come and make a presence and create uncertainty here", the Defence Minister added.

"At the interstate defence and security committee meeting held in Dar es Salaam, the SADC defence and security ministers took the position and recommended that sister countries of the region should not agree to host Africom - in particular, to host [US] armed forces," he said.

complement the strengthening of the African Union peace force

US, West interests in Nigeria risk "terror attack"

This is a reason for concern. Nigeria and larger Africa absolutely do not need any part of the negative effects of this terror debacle.
Story--
U.S. and other Western interests in Nigeria are at risk of "terrorist attack", the United States embassy in Africa's top oil producer said on Thursday. The official warning, in a message for U.S. citizens in Nigeria, gave few details, but said potential targets include official and commercial installations in the capital Abuja and the commercial city of Lagos.
"The U.S. Mission in Nigeria has received information that U.S. and other Western interests in Nigeria are currently at risk for terrorist attack," the statement said.
The threat information advised U.S. citizens to play an active role in their personal safety by reviewing their security practices.
Militant attacks on multi-billion dollars Western oil facilities in the Niger Delta are common, but there has never been any large scale terrorist attack on Western targets outside Africa's oil heartland.
Nigeria's Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe berated foreign diplomats on Wednesday over what he said were excessive concerns voiced by their countries about insecurity in the oil-producing southern delta region.

Source:

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL06796061.html