Froschperspektiven

The "Values‑Preaching West" 65 Years Ago

"In August 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorised the CIA to eliminate Lumumba. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb personally carried poison to the Congo to place in his food or on his toothbrush.

His closest ally, Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko, became the CIA’s principal agent — paid to betray the very man who trusted him.

On January 17, 1961, Lumumba was tortured, beaten, humiliated, and handed over to a Belgian-backed firing squad.

Belgian officers cut his body into pieces [such a stark reminder of MBS's methods, isn't it!] and dissolved his remains in sulphuric acid. Patrice Lumumba has no grave. No tomb. No resting place. 

Before they killed him, they forced him to swallow the paper containing his Independence Day speech — as if they could erase his words by forcing him to eat them.

The CIA then installed Mobutu, who ruled the Congo for 32 years while foreign powers looted its diamonds, gold, copper, and cobalt as millions suffered in poverty.

Years later, CIA Director Allen Dulles admitted: 'I think we overrated the Soviet danger in the Congo.' They destroyed a man. They destroyed a nation. And they did it over a lie.

Patrice Lumumba dreamed of an Africa that controlled its own wealth, wrote its own destiny, and bowed to no empire. They killed the man, but they could not kill the dream."

"You will never find Justice in a world

No Democracy Under a Plutocracy

Sleepy Don

Just imagine how much money he’s raking in and how much of those profits – from insider trading, e.g. – he’s funneling to his clan!

Superfluous Evidence

As if we needed any further proof of just how completely insane he is. He commands the greatest military power of all time — surely no one would dare to check whether he’s still in his right mind.

And then there’s that unbeatably idiotic cynicism of comparing himself to Jesus while bombers circle overhead.

Brasiliens Lula vorm EU-Parlament:

"Ich staune jeden Tag aufs Neue, wenn ich aufwache und das Ausmaß dieser Zerstörung sehe, und dahinter steht ein einziger Mensch, den niemand zur Rechenschaft ziehen oder aufhalten kann!​

Wo ist das Völkerrecht, von dem 'Netanjahu' spricht? Dieser Mensch, der mit seinen Stiefeln auf die Menschheit tritt, der die Zerstörung liebt, als würde er sich von Nachrichten über Tod und Blut ernähren!

​Ist das Gerechtigkeit? Kann das Völkerrecht seine Macht nur gegenüber den Schwachen ausüben? Ist das Einzige, was euch gerade beschäftigt, dass die Straße von Hormus geöffnet wird und ihr um den Handel fürchtet?

They are buying up huge warehouses to set up concentration camps for migrants (including those with American citizenship). But our political caste in Europe, concerned only with saving its own ass, refuses to even think about it, let alone talk about it, fearing only that it will lose markets, have to swallow further tariff increases, and ultimately lose its privileges…

Amathia (ἀμαθία)

in Greek philosophy refers to a culpable or willful ignorance — a condition in which a person could know better but chooses not to. Unlike simple ignorance (agnoia), amathia is morally and intellectually blameworthy. It is often linked to arrogance, self-satisfaction, and resistance to correction, rather than mere lack of information.

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With the full force of the law!

Mail from the Killer Clown

Where on earth have we ended up?! And even without a gold border!

Wow, die Nordlichter über Grönland

Patrice Lumumba

"On the 17th of January, 1961, the US, UK and Belgium assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral reserves. Remember Lumumba!"

(via Jason Hickel)

And to this day, the West continues to mercilessly plunder this country's resources, as if it had not already brought enough destruction upon it. After ivory, rubber, copper, diamonds, and gold, it's now zinc, cobalt, coltan, lithium, and germanium. From 1990 to 2020, around 352,000 square kilometers of forest were cleared in the world's second-largest rainforest area, which is roughly the size of Germany.