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Arabica Robusta

It's the regime change agenda all the time « what's left - 0 views

  • Many NGOs active in Africa create the illusion of being independent of the Western governments that have historically despoiled the continent, while relying on the same governments to provide their funding. It’s highly unlikely that organizations whose existences depend on the support they can get from Western governments stray far from their funders’ interests and foreign policy imperatives. The implication that NGOs are independent of governments is deliberately deceptive.
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      NGOs like Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada provide additional examples of questionable value for development.
  • But the flaw in the Kimberly Process is that it operates on the principle of consensus. That means that participants who seek to deny certification can, for their own mischievous political reasons, withhold their approval and therefore prevent consensus, invoking some unrelated humanitarian principle as justification.
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    The United States, Canada and Australia are abusing the Kimberly Process, an initiative to prevent the sale of "blood" diamonds, in order to frustrate Zimbabwe's efforts to establish a multi-billion dollar annual revenue stream from its rich Marange diamond fields
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