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Dec. 28, 2009 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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1541 True News - Terrorism Over Detroit? The Facts from Freedomain Radio

The unreported facts and real story behind the terrorist attack on Christmas Day 2009.

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Hi everybody, it's Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain Radio.
I hope you're doing very well, and I hope that you are having a wonderful winter solstice holiday, and I hope that you have a very happy new year.
And I just wanted to touch upon this Nigerian bomber on the plane over Detroit on December the 25th.
Place it into some kind of context, because most people, particularly in America, live in this kind of biodome media whitewash bubble, like the People in the town in the Stephen King novel, Under the Dome, this crazy obfuscation comes down like a tea cozy over an egg and blinds people from the general causes and effects of human nature and the bounce-back horror of murder-ball-against-the-wall violence.
So let's do a quick tour.
I've got some notes here, and then we'll do an analysis of the facts.
Let's look at Eamon, where this guy was supposedly trained by Al-Qaeda.
Of course, Al-Qaeda can mount a twin plane ramming into the World Trade Center, which takes years to plan, but the best they can do is have a guy strap a condom of explosives to his legs and burn himself.
I really, really would be surprised if Al-Qaeda were involved.
But a human is damn close to a failed state, as are almost all of the countries in Africa that have received trillions and trillions of dollars in what is euphemistically turned foreign aid, but rather is a really, a realistically termed bribery for despots in order to provide resources to the West.
It's 70 million dollars in military aid just this year.
The Pentagon has poured 70 million dollars in military aid into Yemen because it is a part of the global war on terror.
And this is part, of course, of one of the largest tragedies in the modern world, which is that the US government says, the world, you see, is a very dangerous place, and so we need to tax you and control you and bully you and ID card you in order to protect you.
But of course, if we find that the police is selling weapons to the mafia, it becomes a little bit less believable when the police say that the mafia is really dangerous.
And in 2008, Washington Inc.
deals valued at $37.8 billion, or 68.4% of all business in the global weapons market, up significantly from American sales of $25.4 billion in 2007.
So a massive increase in arms.
Now, before 9-11 Yemen was banned from buying weapons from America, but ever since then they've been getting more and more weapons.
Now, who is the United States supplying these weapons to?
The Yemeni government.
Well, a third of Yemeni's seven million people, they're not just poor, they're actually malnourished, which is a just medieval kind of poor.
Police and military units act as enforcers for corrupt officials.
The judiciary dispenses political retribution.
Torture in Yemeni jails is systematic and brutal.
Local media has reported numerous al-Qaeda training camps within or facilitated by the Yemeni military.
Scores of terrorists receive military salaries.
Reports indicate that the leader Saleh requested additional jihadists from Ayman al-Zahari late in 2008.
Within months, an influx of foreign jihadists began amassing in Sa'dah.
The defense ministry of Yemen has published a fatwa legitimizing defense, sorry, legitimizing jihad in defense of the state.
And obviously that's a very very brief tour, but it's really really important to understand that the government is not the people.
The government, repeat after me, the government is not the people.
The government is not the people.
The government has the same relationship to the people that the mafia has to the shopkeepers and restaurant owners that it is shaking down for protection, as they say.
And so if The Mafia gets a hold of a bunch more weapons and enforcers and thugs and hitmen.
We scarcely believe that the life of the shopkeepers and restaurant owners that they prey upon will become significantly better.
Rather, we understand that when the Mafia gets more weapons and thugs and killers, the lives of those who it preys upon become much, much worse.
And the same thing is true of foreign or military aid to governments.
The governments, not the people. Say, foreign aid to Africa, foreign aid to the humanitarian government.
Bullshit! It is foreign aid to the corrupt and brutal dictators who prey upon the life, spirit, soul and blood of their people.
You are simply arming the mafia who hold the poverty of their citizens hostage in order to gain more resources.
Billions of dollars of aid since 2006 has been held in reserve For the Yemeni government.
Tens of millions more have flowed into the coffers of the government.
There are reports that in Nigeria upwards of $500 billion have been stolen.
Since 1960 by the government, by the thugs in charge.
So what does this basically mean?
Well, one thing that people have a very tough time understanding is empathizing with other people.
It doesn't mean sympathizing, it means empathizing with them.
So if the US government runs around saying, we will give Arms and we will give weapons and training and money and foreign aid to anyone who joins us in the war in terror.
Fundamentally what they're doing is they are purchasing Al-Qaeda in a country.
Understand this. They're purchasing Al-Qaeda in a country.
If I come up to you as a corrupt third world dictator, but I repeat myself, And I say to you, if you have al-Qaeda in your country, I will give you weapons and training and money.
Well, what happens is, inevitably, that you are purchasing, I am purchasing from you the presence of al-Qaeda in your country, which is why These guys invite al-Qaeda into their country to set up training camps, to start recruitment campaigns, so then they can go to Washington and say, aha! You see, you have to give us military and money because we have al-Qaeda, which is why this guy invites al-Qaeda operatives into his country.
It's completely obvious, completely predictable, and only an idiot or a government representative, but again, I repeat myself, would think otherwise.
Foreign aid is...
I'm going to do a whole series on foreign aid.
I've just finished doing the research for it.
It is a completely predatory destruction of the Third World.
And we'll get into that another time.
But the foreign and military aid that goes to Yemen, it's really, really important to understand how that is viewed by the citizens, right?
You give foreign aid and money...
So you give money and weapons to the government.
How is that viewed by the citizens?
Well, it's viewed exactly the same as if you were a restaurant owner in a mafia-controlled district.
You would view that the same as whoever gave...
The Mafia weapons and thugs.
You'd say, well, them getting weapons and thugs makes my life that much worse.
So whoever is supplying them with weapons and thugs needs to be stopped in order for my life to become even marginally better.
And that is the view that people have towards the United States government.
Again, the people and not the government.
But the US government is the largest by far arms dealer, arms seller in the world.
It's arming all of these brutal thug-like dictatorships.
So, if you have oil, obviously you're going to get a lot of military aid because you need to repress your own people in order, like, they bribe the rulers of these countries with the weapons and money to repress their own people in return for access to oil reserves.
I mean, this is Obvious, right?
And so let's turn to Nigeria and see the context for this fellow, right?
So he was trained, as they say, possibly in Yemen, and that's some of the facts about Yemen.
Nigeria, of course, has very large oil reserves.
It's actually the fifth largest exporter of oil to the United States.
And with the discovery of the new deep water oil reserves right off the coast, US strategic interest is growing.
Nigeria receives massive foreign aid and has for decades.
55% of the population live below the poverty line.
And the poverty line in Africa, particularly Western Africa, is a very low line to the ground.
One inch above a grave.
Now, you probably haven't heard much about this, but of course everybody with half a brain in Africa has.
The Obama administration's budget for the 2010 financial year proposes significant increases in U.S. security operations for African countries.
Security operations, weapons and sales, and direct involvement.
For the operations of the new U.S.-Africa command, called AFRICOM. So they're setting up an entire U.S. military command center in Africa.
Why? Because Africa has oil and because Africa has jihadists.
The administration's request raises the total funding for arms sales to Africa from 8.3 million dollars in the financial year 2009 to 25.6 million dollars in 2010.
It's quite a 300% increase in arms sales to Africa.
Again, I'm not saying they're huge, but it's pretty significant in a country that poor.
The State Department budget request, which includes funding for all US arms sales, military training and other security assistance programs, proposes major increases in funding for US arms sales to a number of African countries through the Foreign Military Financing program.
The budget proposes to increase FMF funding for sub-Saharan African countries more than 300%, 8.2 million to more than 25.5 million.
Washington's desire for Nigerian oil and territory triggered deeper military relationships.
During the reign of General Sonny Abacha, military ties were frozen, but since his death in 1999, the thaw has been quick.
That year, Nigeria purchased $74,000 in U.S. weaponry by 2001.
The US delivered thousands of times that.
A total of 3.1 million military aid also skyrocketed from 90 grand in 1999 to more than 4 million for 2003.
I couldn't find any more recent ones, but if you know about that, please let me know.
Chairman of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Rabudu, has accused past Nigerian leaders of stealing $500 billion worth of donor assistance from Western countries to Nigeria since its independence in 1960.
And what is the issue with foreign aid?
Well, of course, foreign aid simply increases corruption.
It becomes a massive prize of money and power that potential aspirants to state power can grab, right?
So, you understand, there's a reciprocal, natural, quote, natural resource that is going on between America and third world countries.
The resource that the third world countries have, you know, copper, tin, rubber, oil, and so on, those are the resources that the US government is trying to grab from the third world.
The resource that the third world is trying to grab from the US is foreign aid.
And that is the tragic reciprocity that is occurring, which is indebting the US taxpayers and destroying millions of lives in Africa and other places in the world.
A 2003 report from a leading Bangladesh university estimated that 75% of all foreign aid received in that country is lost to corruption.
Northwestern University political economist Jeffrey Winters estimated that more than 50% of World Bank aid is lost to corruption in some African countries.
The president of Nigeria announced in 2002 that African leaders have stolen at least 140 billion dollars from their people.
The decades since independence.
I'm not sure how that fits with the $500 billion claimed to have been stolen by Nigeria, but I couldn't find the source of that currency.
Maybe it's a local currency.
It's still bad, bad, bad.
An African Union study pegged the takings at a much higher rate, estimating Africa's toll from corruption at $150 billion every year.
Lavish automobiles are so popular among African government officials that a word has come into use in Swahili, wabenzi, for men of the Mercedes-Benz.
Most recipients of US development assistance are poorer now than when they were before first receiving USA. And of course that would be the case.
Oh, how could it be any different?
If a farmer is paid for producing additional wheat and he has the capacity to produce additional wheat, he's going to produce additional wheat.
Right? I mean, that is just inevitable.
If lots of people want to buy Microsoft Office, more copies of Microsoft Office will be produced.
And if money is received by Third World governments based on the number, nature and depth of the poverty, then they are like farmers growing the brittle sticks and bones of poor people.
Just think of it as a farmer with a whole bunch of poor people that he's growing, and that is the crop that he is selling in return for foreign aid.
So, of course, if you're being paid for the debts of poverty you're receiving, you have every incentive to not reduce the poverty that is in your country.
I mean, this is elementary, and it takes a damn fool not to see it.
And this has been decades of this kind of tragedy.
The great increase in the prizes of political power have been a major factor in the frequency and intensity of political conflict in contemporary Africa and in the rest of the less developed world.
As the natural resource of US foreign aid flows into these governments, you say, well, why are there all of these civil wars and coups in Africa?
Well, because there's hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid up for grabs.
Whoever gets control of the government gets all of that money.
So it is the natural resource that they're all fighting over.
The money that is robbed from you and I and sent by overseas.
U.S. aid proposed for 2010 is at its highest level in years.
Department of Defense allocated 66 million dollars in military aid for Nigeria.
Congress's Foreign Operation Appropriation Bill includes an additional 15 million dollars in military aid, 40 million in development and economic aid.
Other humanitarian aid is channeled through USAID. And some of this is human as well.
Human already receives more aid than it can effectively absorb.
Donors pledged $4.6 billion in 2006.
And human's counter-terror policies, that which they're being paid by the US for, Counter-terror policies are farcical and include releasing convicted terrorists, pretending terrorists are in jail or dead, and other elaborate ploys to deceive Western nations.
It's really, really important to understand that the U.S. in Yemen or Nigeria or any of these countries have no clue what is actually going on on the ground.
Somebody points and says, terrorist camp, go blow it up.
They go blow it up. They don't know what's going on.
It's like the CIA assassination squads in Vietnam would kill like 70,000 people.
Oh, he's a communist. I owe him money and I want him dead.
He slept with my wife. That guy's a communist.
They have no idea what is going on on the ground.
The idea, the very concept that American politicians can solve crime problems like Al-Qaeda, criminal problems in Yemen, is completely insane.
I mean, you understand, Washington is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the United States, if not the most crime-ridden city.
So if Washington and political officials within Washington, D.C., Cannot solve the problems of crime right outside their windows, where there's no language barrier, no cultural barrier relatively, and they have amazing and infinite and powerful control over the environment.
If they can't keep drugs out of jails, if they can't solve the problems of violent criminality in Washington itself, what the hell do you think they're going to be doing solving problems in Yemen and paying people to report the presence of Al-Qaeda, calling in airstrikes?
The final thing, of course, this is never going to be repeated in the mainstream media.
At least I'd be shocked if it did, but On December the 18th, Barack Obama ordered an US-supported airstrike in Yemen, which killed about 120 people.
And according to the footage that was taken off the site, who knows what the truth is?
Doesn't really matter. The truth is that the airstrike was ordered by Barack Obama because, you know, he got the Nobel Peace Prize.
So ordering airstrikes in countries he knows nothing about is part of that man of peace walk on the water bullshit.
They Slaughtered 120 people and, of course, the people who killed them says they're all terrorists and insurgents and the people who filmed the wreckage of the airstrike site have posted the video on their website and the video includes bodies of women and children.
I mean, who knows what's true? This is the whole point.
We have no idea what's true. But the relationship between this airstrike on Yemen and this guy, this Nigerian guy who was trained in Yemen and obviously has some emotional attachment and commitment to Yemeni's freedom, as he would see it.
Is it a coincidence that a week after an airstrike in Yemen, a guy trained in Yemen then tries to do something stupid on a plane over Detroit?
Of course it's not a coincidence.
This is the cycle of violence, and the only way to break this cycle of violence is to stop the government preying upon the U.S. taxpayers to fund all of these lunatic pokings of the wasp's nest overseas, because what happens?
Well, You get massive delays, snarl-ups, and cancellations of flights which have massive consequences, right?
A friend of mine who was at the airport yesterday said that the ticket agent said we're losing millions of dollars a day, just one airline.
One guy with a, whatever the hell it was, full of some kind of explosive, the shoe bomber explosive on his leg, lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the US economy at a time when the US economy has already bottomed out pretty solidly.
Now there's going to be billions of dollars more in additional useless stupid security.
People are going to delay flights.
People are going to stop doing stuff.
Salesmen are going to travel less because it's going to be that much of a hassle.
You'll have to pay them more for the destruction of the US economy.
This is what happens.
When you blow up people based on the reports of others overseas.
This is what happens when you sell arms to dictatorships in return for the supposed production of Al-Qaeda cells.
They'll just invite Al-Qaeda cells in saying, hey, we need more money because boy, oh boy, there's just Al-Qaeda all over the place here.
I think there's one crawling up my leg.
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