OCGFC Colonization of Rwanda: Members Excerpt

The fact is that Pokigame is widely viewed in Africa as a Western neoliberal puppet, who has essentially turned Rwanda into a colony of the IMF, a colony of Western investors. And he has achieved that. He has achieved the colonization of Rwanda to the IMF and to Western investors through severe suppression of democracy. And even the the the the violent elimination of political rivals, he's he's achieved that through purely autocratic means. The fact is that under Kagame, Rwanda has backed the m 23 rebels in the Democratic Republic Of Congo, and that the violence that they have caused has dramatically benefited those very same Western investors and multinationals who have colonized Rwanda, and and for whom Kagame has collaborated with the colonization of Rwanda.

Has allowed them, you know, much cheaper and much easier access to Congo's minerals through illegal mining, artisanal mining, smuggling, and so forth. With the with the with the chaos and the violence, what you you you can look at chaos and violence in the perspective of neoliberalism is utopian level deregulation. Chaos and violence is the ideal suspension of any type of regulation or law or rules that investors and foreign multinationals that they have to abide by, that they have to follow. So all the rules go out the window when it's a when it's a war zone, when it's a conflict zone. So that gives you free, open, Wild West style access to the riches under the earth, giving them access to what are called now conflict minerals conflict minerals or, you know, blood diamonds, blood minerals.

That's what they're that's what they're trading in. That's what powers your iPhone and your electric cars. And in fact, since the resurgence of violence in The DRC with the m 23 rebels backed by Rwanda and the Kagame regime, mineral exports from the DRC have increased between 1520%. That's a lot, and that's that's what's on record. That's not even talking about what goes what's not on the books, the illegal, the smuggling, and so on.

Companies like Tesla, Apple, Intel, HP, Dell, Volkswagen, BMW, all of them have been accused of sourcing blood minerals, conflict minerals for their manufacturing. The fact is that Kagame has basically run Rwanda according to IMF dictates, structural adjustment reforms, neoliberal macroeconomic recommendations, and so on. He's he's he's hollowing out the public sector and privatizing all state assets, state enterprises, and so forth. He's privatizing them, selling them off to Western foreign national foreign multinationals. I mean, one of his one of his top advisers is a former World Bank official.

And and BlackRock, the largest asset management firm in the world, has partnered with Rwanda's sovereign wealth fund to manage a portion of their portfolio, and they, BlackRock, invested something like $50,000,000 to run infrastructure projects in Rwanda. So they're they're buying that country. So, of course, the the the agenda of the narrative is to obscure all of this, is to obscure the reality that Paul Kagame is a Western colonizer collaborator who has sold his country to BlackRock and to the IMF and to Western private sector power, while also allegedly with evidence supporting the m twenty three rebels to spread violence and chaos and anarchy and atrocities in the DRC for the benefit of those same western private sector powers. But the the the narrative is to obscure the the the reality of Paul Koyame and his regime and and their collaboration with colonization and their undermining of their own sovereignty, their Rwanda's own economic sovereignty, as well as undermining the sovereignty of their neighbors and the stability of their neighbors, we're supposed to see any Western client tyrant as a hero of democracy, as an icon of progress, you know, an icon of of development instability, who's steering his nation in the right direction.

So you see how if you're if you're getting your news from CNN, you have no idea what's going on in the world. You really you really have no idea. They're not gonna tell you all of this. And that's part of what the narrative is about. The narrative is specifically for the purpose of ensuring that you don't get real information, that you only get fake information so that you never understand the world.

They're they're they they they take some elements of fact. This is why you have to first, you know, when you when you're reading an article, you have to look at you have to first identify what's the actual information in the article. Very often, it will be just a few sentences in the body of a of an entire article. There will maybe be just a few sentences that are actual information, and then you have to identify what's narrative, which is going to be most of the article. And then you have to identify what's the agenda of that narrative, and then try to understand what's the meaning of all of that.

So like here, the meaning of all of this to me is that the West is losing power in Africa. And so they have to hype up one of the the few remaining puppet client regimes that they have, which is Rwanda. Because as I say, most of the people who are gonna be going to the CNN website have no idea why they should care about Rwanda. But Rwanda is a geostrategic country. It's an important country.

And as we can see by what is allegedly taking place by Rwanda's backing of the m twenty three rebels, they're having an influence over another country. They're a gateway country for Western companies to access the blood minerals, the conflict minerals in the DRC. So it's a very important country, and it's important for you as as as a reader to think that it's a great and wonderful upright virtuous, you know, democratic, progressive, stable country where the leader is overwhelmingly popular. Even though any other country in the world where a leader got 99% of the vote, it would be immediately laughed at and mocked as a very blatant plebiscite, as a very blatant phony election. But here, they they actually report it with a straight face.