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eppur_se_muova

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Sat Jan 17, 2015, 05:00 PM Jan 2015

Why Poverty? Stealing Africa, a documentary ...

video: http://video.pbs.org/video/2296675180/
one chapter at a time video links: http://www.whypoverty.net/fg-stealing-africa/
(fourth and eighth chapters are most relevant)

Mark Rich, the biggest US tax criminal up to that point in time, was pardoned by President Clinton. This documentary reviews what he did to rob Zambia of its mineral wealth and hide his profits from taxation. He also did oil deals with Iran despite sanctions.

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Why Poverty? Stealing Africa, a documentary ... (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Jan 2015 OP
The vultures have been stealing Africa for centuries malaise Jan 2015 #1
of course he did. and of course clinton pardoned him. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #2

malaise

(267,786 posts)
1. The vultures have been stealing Africa for centuries
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 05:10 PM
Jan 2015

then they blame Africans for their own poverty. Just contemplate stealing generations of people because you're too fucking lazy to do your own work..and then calling your victims lazy.

It's all an inversion of reality.

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