Between the 1960s and the 1980s, under the guise of "countering Communism," the CIA infiltrated Christian movements all over Africa and the Global South with the mission of steering Christian doctrines away from so-called "Liberation Theology" (teachings that encouraged people to stand up to corrupt governments and take collective action to better their lives), because this doctrine apparently was "Communist."
It funded and assisted the explosive growth of a whole new form of Christianity, which you recognise today as Prosperity Gospel, and it pumped millions of dollars into pushing it all over the Global South as part of its Cold War effort. This new doctrine ignored any kind of collectivism and encouraged people to see their Christian faith and salvation as individualistic issues that can be measured with specific individual outcomes, such as economic "blessing."
It was the perfect capitalist trojan horse because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national issue and rather as an individual responsibility, which meant they did not need to organise into pressure groups, political movements, trade unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entities that the US government considered "Leftist" or "Communist." It succeeded wildly, and turned the world's poorest people in Sub Saharan Africa into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists without capital.
And in case you're wondering whether this means that all your mega pastors in Lagos and Abuja are US government-funded industry plants, the answer is simple: do a 1-minute Google search and find out where they all gained their theology degree or pastor training. There's your answer.
Anyway this is all on open record on the FOIA section of the CIA's own website, but the oyibos have convinced you that "Africans don't read," and you have internalised your own false stereotype, so you definitely won't read regardless. Your job is to enter my comment sections and drop laughing emojis because your forced laughter is your coping mechanism for dealing with how completely powerless and lost you are in a world you haven't begun to understand.
Anyway for the benefit of the 2 people who understand the value of reading and exervising their brains:
CIA and Missionaries: Half a Loaf by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
https://t.co/CtDot4WW1v
CIA Covert Action Information Bulletin Number 18: The CIA and Religion
https://t.co/BZq01WaHqm
Blowback of the gods: the U.S. government's covert use of religion as a tool of foreign policy in the Cold War by Wallace, James C.
https://t.co/GHAoz9ZP3J
Liberation Theology: Religion, Reform, and Revolution
(CIA Directorate of Intelligence Research Paper)
https://t.co/UAHlslAHRR
The difference between the propaganda warfare of yesteryears and that of the present is the presence of platforms like X that at least enables people to tell their own side of the story. I remembered the build up to the Iraqi war, how the mainstream cable networks were instrumental in carrying out a brainwashing propaganda against Saddam such that we wanted a regime change. That’s how effective the propaganda was.
Not that this will accomplish anything, since you people hit the "off" switch inside your brains once your religion is mentioned, but for the benefit of the roughly 9 teachable people left in Nigerja, here is what is REALLY happening around you:
1. China is winning the economic war with the US, and the US is aware that it can no longer compete industrially with China, which is already a larger economy than the US in PPP terms. The only reason the US economy is still nominally larger is that the US dollar remains wildly overvalued due to its use as the global reserve currency.
2. The rise of BRICS means that the end of the US dollar as global reserve currency is coming. Once that happens, the US economy will implode, because it is built on exporting USD and importing the world's productivity. Without the overvalued USD as an imperial tool for controlling and extracting from the rest of the planet, the US will basically become Brazil with nuclear warheads.
3. The Trump administration knows this, which is why it has gone into full imperial mode, renaming the DoD to "Department of War," and preparing to deploy the US military across Latin America as part of its 'Monroe Doctrine.' The idea is to secure land, resources, and spheres of influence to compete with China and Russia, since it is no longer the unilateral superpower.
4. In this new multipolar world whose birth you are witnessing, there will be 3 or 4 great powers instead of just one, and all of them will compete and jostle for influence and access to resources. That is what you are witnessing playing out in Nepal, Bangladesh, the Sahel, the Middle East, Venezuela, and many other places. Yes, there are local factors, but everything exists in this wider context of a world being reshaped in front of our eyes.
5. During this reshaping of the world, Africa - the only continent with a majority of its states professing 'nonalignment' with any great power - is the biggest prize that is up for grabs. All of tomorrow's technology, which guarantees economic and military supremacy is built on resources found in DR Congo, Northern Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan and Somalia. (What unique security situation do all these places have in common?)
6.During this reshaping, "international institutions" are debased and made irrelevant. Bibi Netanyahu has an ICC arrest warrant that nobody will honour, and the US government sanctioned the ICC for issuing the warrant, even locking the ICC Chief Prosecutor out of his email and bank accounts. The UN has officially declared Gaza to be a genocide - and nothing happened. And nothing will happen because these "institutions" no longer have of the teeth they once pretended to have.
7. This means that the days of one state cooking up a reason to invade or annex another state - something expressly forbidden since 1945 - are now back. And since Africa has what everybody wants, any great power is now free to deploy a geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") and use it to justify invasion to take what it wants. In other words, colonialism is coming back - not IMF/World Bank, suit-wearing, conference-attending, Business-English-speaking, polite neo-colonialism, but open, obvious colonial theft and thuggery. This is not decades away - it is a few years away at the most.
8. Russia considers Europe to be its rightful sphere of influence and trade dominance. Hence it views European access to cheap African resources as a threat. Thus Russia is stepping in to provide military and infrastructure support for African states so that they can start to use their own resources for themselves and leave Europe dependent on Russia. Europe and the US see this as an existential threat, hence their proxy war in Ukraine and their new geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") to justify direct military occupation of West Africa.
9. No great power gives a single fuck about "Nigerian Christian genocide." All you are is a means to an end!
They are not "uncreating" anything. This is simply the logical next step of their time-tested Create Problem--> Spark Reaction --> Offer Solution strategy.
Objective: Seize resources from a nominally sovereign country which you cannot accuse of being a threat to you, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan.
Create Problem: Execute regime change to remove a progressive government growing the resource-rich African economy at 7% annually - the 3rd fastest on earth - and replace it with a coalition of semi literate ethno-feudalists and greedy morons.
Create Problem: Enable the growth of "Islamic terrorism" in that country by refusing to sell arms to it because of "human rights" and impose an arms embargo on it, to the point where a whole national government is forced to buy its anti-terrorism weapons and ammunition from international black market dealers and smuggle it using Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor's jet (who do you think leaked the intelligence to the South African government and the media?) Also refuse to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organisation for 3 years after it has started mass killings in the country, so that it can continue raising and moving funds for destabilising the country through the US-controlled SWIFT global financial system.
Reaction: Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians die violently over the next 10 years, targeted for their ethnicity, faith, economic class, and everything in between. Hundreds of thousands of the country's best and brightest flee to become bum-washers in Southampton and IKEA till attendants in Brampton, leaving behind a dying, acutely unsafe country which haemorrhages 70% of its pre-regime-change GDP in just 10 years. The increasingly desperate left-behind population looks for help from any source at all with the characteristic unreason and mortal foolishness of a drowning man. Ponzi schemes, religious escapism, drugs, overentertainment, trekking across the Sahara, foreign military intervention - everything becomes an option for these desperate people.
Offer Solution: Fly a kite about military intervention in the country to "stabilise" and "secure" it. If the people are foolish and desperate enough, they will not realise that you are the one who destroyed their lives in the first place, and they will joyfully bite off your hand to take your poisoned "help." And then you march in directly, remove the useless puppet government headed by an incontinent drug pusher that you installed, and replace it with something even worse.
That's how the real world works, my fellow Nigerians.
Nobody likes you. Nobody respects you. Nobody thinks your life has any value. Nobody cares about you. Everybody cares about the value of the land under your feet, but nobody is interested in the value of the lives above it. If the steam engine were not invented which led to the industrial revolution, the people whom you imagine are trying to "help" you would still be trading you and your children as a commodity. The only person in the world whom your life matters to is in the mirror. You are your only hope and your only saviour. If you do not save yourself, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
Learn to live with that reality.
Kowa fa da irin rayuwar da Allah Ya tsara mashi, Wallahi one million salary is not even enough for some, wasu kuma 100k ma ya ishesu, we have different wants and needs, we have different lifestyles, we are not living on a common manual, muna maganan fueling mota, wani tunaninshi wani kogi zai je ya sama ruwa mai tsafta ya sha, 300k is definitely not enough for a lot of us, but it’s everything for most of us, Allah dai Ya sawa nemanmu da samunmu albarka no matter how small or big.
Allah kuma Ya cigaba da rufa mana asiri.
Allah enjoins a specific type of kindness, which may have a great impact. It is being kind to one who mistreats you, as He says:
(Repel evil with that which is good)
That is, if anyone mistreats you in word or deed, especially one who has great rights over you, such as relatives, friends and the like, then respond with kindness towards him. If he cuts you off, then uphold ties with him. If he wrongs you, then forgive him. If he speaks ill of you, in your absence or in your presence, then do not respond in kind; rather forgive him and speak gently to him. If he forsakes you and does not speak to you, then speak nicely to him and be the first to greet him with salaam.
If you respond to mistreatment with kindness, you will achieve much good.
I think this time around Asuu should go on the strike indefinitely until all their demands are settled, FG is spending trillions on roads but can't inject 2trn on its education and such country wants to compete amongst it's peer academically with ever changing learning globally
The only time northern politicians would gather for a cause is either for their children's wedding or condolence but not for the well being of the region.
#copied.
@Siruzzle@UmAish40@ZayyadInc For me it all goes back to how parents bring up their children nowadays, giving them access to movies and internet watching stuffs without restrictions harden their minds and thoughts, Allah shi kare ya rufawa zuriyanmu asiri Ameen
Professor Philip J Jaggar in the University of London (SOAS) giving address in flawless Hausa to guests and European graduating students of the Hausa Language.
One of the Salafs wrote to his brother: "Make your intention sincere in all of your actions and little action will suffice you."
With sincerity, a person that is not as learned as others can make a meaningful impact in the society he lives in with his little knowledge
Visited a friend, found him in a small guest room downstairs as he cant access the large "master bedroom" with balcony upstairs due to health issues. Lesson; the worldly things we all crave for will one day be of no use. May Allah guide us to do the right thing at the right time