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Meanwhile, In Burkina Faso: Images From A West Africa Military Coup
In October of last year, Blaise Compaoré stepped down after nearly three decades as President of the West African nation of Burkina Faso amid a popular uprising that some likened (in spirit anyway) to the protests that defined the Arab Spring.
On Thursday, October 30, Compaoré sought to pass legislation that would have paved the way for a new 5-year term. Here's how WSJ describes what happened next:
That ambition was thwarted by tens of thousands of his compatriots, who swarmed the streets of the capital Ouagadougou. They set fire to the parliament building where the vote had been scheduled to take place, among other government offices. They tore through hotels and shops seen as pro-regime. Up to 30 people were killed in rioting, a French diplomat said, citing preliminary reports.
As the Journal went on to detail, "under Compaoré’s rule, Burkina Faso [had] seen an explosion of young people flocking to its cities. Many seek the perks of metropolitan life—jobs, spending money, a chance to travel abroad—only to find themselves on the underside of an economy where just 5% of working age adults are employed full time, according to a 2013 Gallup Poll." “We wanted a change, that’s all. If we people didn’t complain, it would have never happened," one citizen told the paper.
But the push for democratic reform would be short lived. Predicatably, several members of the military immediately declared themselves leader prompting the US and France to warn that if army officers took power, Compaoré’s outster would be considered a military coup. Around three weeks later, former foreign minister Michel Kafando was named interim President by a committee made up of military, religious, and political leaders.
Fast forward to the present. Burkina Faso had planned to hold free elections (viewed as a turning point for its democracy) on October 11, but that hope was dashed virtually overnight on Wednesday when, apparently in retaliation for a government decision to disband the Presidential Guard, the elite military unit (which served the Compaoré regime for decades) arrested President Kafando along with Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida.
Here's Reuters with more:
A shadowy spy master formerly the right-hand man to toppled President Blaise Compaore seized power in Burkina Faso at the head of a military coup on Thursday, less than a month before elections meant to restore democracy in the West African state.
General Gilbert Diendere, who for three decades served as Compaore's chief military adviser and operated an intelligence network spanning West Africa, was named as the head of a military junta called the National Council for Democracy.
The power grab led by the presidential guard unfolded three days after a government committee recommended dissolving the elite unit, which was a pillar of Compaore's 27-year rule and has repeatedly meddled in politics since his fall.
A spokesman for the coup leaders hinted at a political agenda to back a return to power by loyalists to Compaore, who has remained in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast since he was toppled by a popular uprising in October last year.
Under Compaore, Burkina emerged as an important regional ally of France and the United States against al Qaeda-linked militants. It hosts some 200 French special forces as part of France's Barkhane regional anti-terrorist operation.
On Thursday, soldiers fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of more than 100 protesters gathered in central Independence Square of the capital Ouagadougou. Soldiers drove the streets in pick-up trucks, beating and detaining demonstrators.
And more from WSJ:
The coup, which was confirmed in a television and radio announcement on Thursday, was greeted by protests in the capital Ouagadougou, which turned deadly as the demonstrators clashed with soldiers. At least 12 protesters were killed by soldiers during the clashes, according to a pro-democracy movement called Balai Citoyen, or Citizens With Brooms.
At least one presidential candidate said his home had been ransacked by the army, as the military attempted to regain control of the situation. However, the troops have struggled to quell the protests in the country at large.
A curfew is now in place, and the military has closed the borders. Here are the visuals:
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We suppose the question now, is how the West will view the coup in light of the spread of Islamist conflicts in neighboring Mali. We also wonder what this means for the future of Operation Creek Sand.
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Maxine Waters constituents after 5 more years of zirp
Science! Says we are the same species as these guys.
sorry but you're wrong....science says the exact opposite....
http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2510219/Ancient-humans-ra...
How to explain mocha cioccolata people to my daughter? Take our president, please!
This is what D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Compton, Ferguson, and other black ghettos will look like when El Choomo leaves office.
I am guessing these people do not know [yet] there's a Europe north of them who will welcome them with open arms and free housing, free food and even free dental care.
And the white women ripe for the raping.
Meanwhile in Finland...
https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/1/1b/Meanwhile_in_Finland.jpg
Gonna travel to the coast pay $1000.00 climb on a boat and go for NYC.
In some ways it looks more like Zero Hedge than D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Compton or. Ferguson...
The concept of the Economic Hitman originated with a black guy in Burkina Faso, not John Perkins.
Yes, just like the space program, nuclear energy, the internet, the Hubble Telescope, etc. etc. originated with them.
John Perkins is a joke. And the intellectual lilliputians around here who hold his book up as dogma should be ridiculed for their ignorance of recent history which they were too busy to observe because of their compulsive consumption of propganda (MSM or alternative).
I proved my point. You have no point, and your attempt at misdirection is laughable.
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Edit: There was another reason for posting that video, perhaps a bit esoteric... The origins of the coup in the fall of 2015 can be traced directly to that speech in the fall of 1987. Not only did Sankara call out the WB, IMF, Club of Rome, Club of Paris, G5, and G10 et al as financial assasins, but he accurately foretold of his own assasination several months later for doing so, by those very financial assasins (more specifically a local tool of the CIA and Foccalt's henchmen who couldn't allow the idea of odious debt relief to spread).
Neocolonial debt slavery and import dependency vs localization and self sufficiency... common crime vs bankster crime, the fallacy of "crisis"... the speech is only 16 minutes for those who haven't seen it and is subtitled for anyone doesn't parle francais.
People think you're kidding PE, but they don't know the black man-animal like you do....
The next wave of asylum seekers
Is it possible for the human species to Devolve?
Where in another thousand years some of us are swinging in trees again?
plenty are already at that point....you seen africa and inner cities in america?
I like the way that guy's face looks right before you start the video.
It kinda looks like he's got Obama's fist up his ass.
I was thinking he/it was a mannequin!
I'm not sure I really want to join this conversation but to your question, the driving force for evolution is natural selection (the weak die/get eaten first so that the strongest survive). If humanity provides a welfare state so robust that those less likely to survive (without the safety net) are the ones producing the most offspring, one could easily argue humankind is in a state of de-evolution.
Having said that, we're social creatures and humanity is partly defined by our better nature. Taking care of those in need is a good thing. It just shouldn't be taken to the point where people are encouraged/incentivized to be non-productive and unable to take care of themselves and their children.
Correction: White People take care of those in need. Yellow People just ignore them. Black People just make more of them.
Do not feed the animals. They will become dependent. Soon they will want cell phones, free housing, and your daughter.
"We're not the world,
They're not our children.
There ain't no way to make an ape humane,
So let's stop giving.
It's a choice we're making,
We're saving our White lives.
It's true, you know it's them or you,
So let them die."
My DNA says that I'm 2.8% Neanderthal (which is on the higher side). There is no Neanderthal genetic contribution to any population group in Africa, only those outside of Africa. You can pretty easily deduce that Neanderthal DNA was a beneficial improvement.
said the chimp.
OMG, we are GMOs!
That whole meme about man originating and migrating out of Africa has been proven wrong simply by virtue of other humanoids much older being found elsewhere.
Further, what about the reparations crap for past slavery?
Why is it that white folks whose ancestors never owned slaves should be paying when it was predominantly blacks and Muzzies catching the loose ones sold to slave traders under the auspice of HMQ of England's license to trade slaves, shipped to the colonies, etc., but I'm supposed to foot another fucking bill?
No, if I am responsible as in "Original Sin" then all the "folks" who're supposed to be my brothers should be jailed for being (Original Sin) of uncivilized criminal tendencies, proven by 4 generations of social/economic./moral and cultural regression under the manifestation of Johnson's Great Society.
Moreover, those so yet suffering under the entrails of Johnson's Great Society should begin to wake up and realize that the Democratic Party's welfare system is a form of enslavement for their votes, the result of the Free Shit being the ghettos full of crime, drugs and no future. Thanks Lyndon "I'll have those _____ voting Democrat for the next 100 years" Johnson.
Bad juju.
ease back on the throttle Ripley.....LOL
good rant.
Shhhh, you can't speak the truth, that would be wrong.
Just like how no one ever mentions that the Muzzies had a nasty habit of castrating their male African slaves. Whoops, here come the PC police.
You'll pay and you'll like it you blue eyed white devil.
What do ju's have to do with this?
Beat me to it. I was gonna suggest it was Obush's fault.
I think it is the height of racism to mix in pictures of modern day Detroit with what is obviously a Humanitarian disaster!
This ugliness must stop!
SHAME!
They be needin' some Men's Wearhouse.
If I live a thouand years, you can't convince or prove to me that they stopped evolving over there.
Why even post this stupid shit. It's a trap. Of some sort. Must be.
And I, obviously, fell for it.
I thought these photos were from a RAP concert...
Nah, just another night in downtown Ferguson.
Is this Baltimore or Fergusen...I can't keep them all straight? They just put out a new Baltimore Promo video......so you will come visit. Share it and help Baltimore out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepT0Ttwz7M&feature=youtu.be
Out of chaos...order
Ahhhh yes... Baltimore! You'll come for the random street violence- but you'll STAY for the Chlamidia!
Another Farrakhan love fest.
hahaha
Meh, Africa, 'nuff said.
No, not enough said. Compaoré was a CIA installed asset/puppet. Who do you think would have been the primary conduit between Compaoré and Langley for all those years? The same guy who just seized power, by any chance...
BTW WTF was Parliament thinking... defunding the BFST-trained Praetorian Guard??? -- You don't bring paper to a gun fight.
Yeah, that report was the trigger. RCP wasn't going to leave easily.
Looks like they didn't appreciate their last IMF terms
The inflation on bush meat is a real bitch.
Maybe we can import some of these fine folks to the USA.
Is this an attractive pipeline route?
It doesn't hurt to have another excuse for "boots on the ground" waiting in the wings.
OK folks, the new meme is now:
"Cause the children are our future!"
If you didn't get the memo, "For the children" has been sidelined for now.
Finally, I can wear my bread helmet again.
Does this mean the Orioles will be playing another game without a crowd?
Go on to the Stadium anyway, there'll still be a few of them waiting to beat you to death outside when the games over.
It's tradition.
They'd be much better off with a televised debate of presidential contenders. Of course, fifth grade linguistics would be too low for even this population. At least they understand when they get handed a shit sandwich.
Obama will fly them over here
"If I had a son......"
I dunno know, based upon the size of that crowd it looks like you've been very busy.
It's Africa, what'd you expect? Rich and vibrant is gonna be rich and vibrant....
Wake me up when their primary export isn't a pathogenic disease.
They do OK with slave labor cacao bean plantations.
such a waste of a great piece of land. the scouge of the earth, like locust. can't stand ya.
time for lang-lee to swoop in and steal their gold
I blame it on the banksters. Nothing much happens without money. Don't I know.
Always fun to see who's got their t-shirts out in front. I notice YSL in one photo. Represent!
More "Syrians" for Germany.
Burkina Faso?...
I've already got enough on my plate watching my government destroy what is left of the Middle East and the last secular government left standing let alone identfy another region in the world we are also attempting to loot unsuccessfully that 99.99% of us can't even find on a map including the U.S. military and "intelligence" that's probably in it right now!
So why is this seem so errily similar to Detroit, Baltimore, Compton, etc?
And you all ever note that when teary eyed stories about helping these poor unfortunate, etc., are being presented, the message is always being delivered by White Devils?
Something tells me that racial relations in this country have hit a new bottom?
Where do think they practiced before moving on to the places on your plate right now.
Primary export is Gold: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uv.html
"The country has seen an upswing in gold exploration, production, and exports"
A fucked up situation in Sub-Saharan Africa? Say it ain't so.
More 13 year old asylum seeker orphans for Sweden. You know, "13 year olds" that are 6 foot 5, 240 pounds, with full beards, and breaking all the junior athletic records in Sweden. So fast! So athletic!
Or, put another way, how about a little more " diversity" in the NFL?
How obviuos is this ? But sports. That's ok.
What you fail to understand is that we need to move them all over here so Maxine Waters will have a voting base.
Mass Anarchy, coming soon to a Western Civilization near you. Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Social..... I mean Liberal
FORWARD
The next chapter
What these people need is a black President- you know, to 'Let The Healing Begin'. Because, obviously, the cause of all of their violence and problems is racial inequality, a lack of black representation in their government and the fact that black people there are a minority. Obviously.
Mother Merkel would like to extend a cordial and warm welcome to each and every one of you poor darlings. She promises you jobs, free housing, an education and a blonde woman and at least 6 white slaves to provide for you for the rest of your life. And please bring your tribal traditions with you. We wouldn't want those quaint traditions of internecine tribal warfare, rape, incest, corruption to disappear. Alllll the children of the rainbow are welcome. *Heart*Heart*Heart*
Herzlich wilkommen... Brüder...
Did we help to install a Nazi backed government here too?
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A shadowy spy master formerly the right-hand man to ex- President Barrock Hussein seized power in Washington DC at the head of a military coup on Thursday, less than a month before elections meant to restore democracy in the United States after the assassination of Pres. Hillary Clinton.
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...coming to the USSR.
East Ferguson?
Fun fact!
The average IQ in Burkina Faso is....
68!
We should import some of these savages and ship 'em to some small town for their forced diversified interests.
No quotas!
HEY! lets bring them to estonia! estonia hates russia and pefers the gay-diversity of eu
estonia show us how much diversity you can bear take them aaaaaall in
their iq level is the same as yours anyway
if not, germany will take in all the rapist and criminals and satisfy them with some more welfare1
There is no problem taking place in Burkina Faso that bringing 500,000 of their citizens to America through refuge relocation won't solve. These people just need to be able to share and participate in the dream. As this small seed percentage of human potential grows in America it can give back to family and friends at home, raising thier ships above the seas of conflicts. Places like Rhode Island, Ohio, South Carolina, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oregon and New Mexico would be perfect places for the "regeneration" movement of people and nations to begin. Building on the premise of giving back to other nations will make the USA stronger for this effort. Note: I just learned this word "regeneration" here at ZH. It is so broad and powerful. :)
wait.....isn't that michael brown?
Let me guess:CIA and co
found:
A) Rare earth
B) Diamonds
C) Rare metals