Please don’t read “Today” unless you’re prepared to hear what’s really happening in the world.
Some subjects discussed as we move into the future may be distressing.
By now we may be seeing that the vaccines are instruments of global depopulation and mass control. The 5G network promises a new lot of problems.
It has never been about the virus, which kills a very small number; it’s always been about the vaccine, which promises to kill on a very large scale. … And now, 5G.
We must stop it.
And we will – gradually, peacefully, and legally.
How Starlink will Change the Internet
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5G Apocalypse – The Extinction Event by Sasha Stone
Thanks to Odette.
Matthew Ward: Protest 5G service until devices are modified so their frequencies are compatible with bodies’ electrical systems. (Matthew’s Message, May 4, 2020.)
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21st January 2022 Update Current News
(I’m going to bring Simon into “Today.”)
Simon addresses the rumor that this British government retreat is a deep-state trick. He does not think it is.
He points out that, even though people at, say, the Arizona rally are showing how knowledgable they are, we’re still only reaching the same people. The unawakened remain asleep.
“The only way we’re going to change this is if the mainstream media starts telling the truth.”
How could anyone think that people trying to keep things together have the time to sit back in a chair and debate these things? The expectation of a quick awakening under ordinary circumstances is not realistic, Simon says (paraphrase).
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Dr David Martin Exposes the ‘The Great Reset and COVID19 Vaccines’ Agenda
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Proof: Docs Know They’re Killing: Fauci’s Deadly Remdesivir Had 50% Kill Rate in Ebola Trial
Stew Peters Show, January 17, 2022
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Satanism has Come to Fox News’ Attention
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For Reflection
(The longer articles appear below.)
How much hides behind a self-image, in this case my own country’s.
How Canada Helped Kill An Anti-Imperialist Hero
Cassandra Kislenko, The Maple, 21 JAN 2022
In our latest article in our Great Gilded North series, Cassandra Kislenko takes a historical deep dive into Canada’s role in the death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
How Canada Helped Kill An Anti-Imperialist Hero
CASSANDRA KISLENKO – 21 JAN 2022
It was the summer of 1960, and Canadian soldiers had just landed in the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo as part of an unprecedented United Nations mission overseeing the country’s transition from Belgian colonial rule.
However, despite announcing themselves as a neutral presence, Canada and its colonial allies had an agenda – and the D.R.C.’s anti-imperialist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was in the way.
A Canadian Terrorizes The Congo
The Congolese had been living under colonial rule since 1885, when Belgium’s King Leopold II used mercenaries to enslave the local Indigenous nations and establish the so-called “Congo Free State.” He extracted the region’s natural resources, chiefly rubber and ivory, killing an estimated 10 to 15 million Congolese between 1885-1908 and amassing a personal fortune in the process.
Canada was instrumental in the establishment of the Congo Free State. In fact, one of the first “explorers” to invade the Congo Basin was a Halifax-born imperial soldier by the name of William Grant Stairs.
He accepted Leopold’s invitation to lead an excursion into the resource-rich Katanga region in northwestern Congo to, in Stairs’ own words, “(open) the expansion of English and other trade in supplying new markets for the goods of the world.”
Stairs’ target was the Yeke Kingdom, where King Mwenda Msiri Ngelengwa Shitambi’s forces had acquired muskets to resist European subjugation. Stairs’ men deceived their way into an audience with King Msiri, then murdered him and opened fire on his subjects as they fled.
Stairs then impaled King Msiri’s head on a pike and had it mounted outside the walled village as a warning against further resistance.
Writing about his violence, Stairs called the Congolese, “miserable, contemptible bushmen … the lowest form of man, upon whom the only weapon you can devise is one which inflicts a protracted, agonizing though certain death.”
This terrorism was integral in eliminating Indigenous resistance to Leopold’s Congo Free State. The Belgian government officially took ownership of the colony in 1908, renaming it Belgian Congo.Today, Stairs is commemorated with a plaque at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Patrice Lumumba’s Blazing Entrance
With their colonial regime collapsing in 1960, Belgium was desperate to negotiate an economic foothold in the nascent Congolese government. The most prominent and popular face of Congolese independence was African nationalist Patrice Lumumba, who was elected the country’s first prime minister on June 24, 1960.
Lumumba had captured the hearts of both the rural poor and urban middle class by articulating their oppression through the language of anti-colonialism and class struggle.
At a ceremony officially marking Congolese independence on June 30, Belgian King Baudouin gave a speech lauding independence as the “crowning glory” of Leopold’s genocidal mission.
Lumumba then took the stage unscheduled and delivered a scathing rebuke of not just the Belgians, but the actions and beliefs of all colonial powers, stating:
“No Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in … a persevering and inspired struggle … in which we were undaunted by privation or suffering and stinted neither strength nor blood.”
The speech shocked colonial leaders, and cemented Lumumba’s legacy as a voice of anti-imperialism worldwide. Malcolm X called him “the greatest Black man to ever walk the African continent.”
However, Lumumba inherited a chaotic political situation. Belgian colonizers had made bureaucratic training, as well as most other formal education, virtually inaccessible to Congolese during colonial rule. In the power vacuum left by the Belgians’ departure, various militant ethnic and class-based factions were vying for control of the region’s infrastructure and resources.
When these tensions led to violence between newly empowered Congolese and remaining European settlers, Canadian media seized the opportunity to sensationalize. The Toronto Star ran the headline “New Congo Terror: Two Whites Slain,” while the Globe and Mail declared “Cannibalism Making Comeback” and stoked fear of “primitives on the loose.”
Lumumba’s new government was further threatened when Katangan leader Moise Tshombe declared that his resource-rich province would secede from Lumumba’s united D.R.C. and economically ally with Belgium. Fearing colonial interference, Lumumba asked the United Nations to mediate.
Canada’s ‘Peacekeepers’ Bring Racist Violence
The Canadian government proudly upheld Stairs’ white supremacist views when it volunteered soldiers for the UN peacekeeping mission.
Canadian Ambassador to Belgium Charles Herbert had remarked in 1957 that the Congo region was “inhabited by very backwards peoples, few of whom can have any conception of government,” and that it was “asking a great deal to expect a transition from tribal warfare and cannibalism.” Canadian Trade Commissioner A. B. Brodie maintained that Belgian colonization had made the Congolese into “healthier and more useful citizens.”
Lumumba had visited Ottawa on July 29, 1960 in the hopes of establishing bilateral trade relations, but Prime Minister John Diefenbaker deferred to the Belgians and rebuked him. Lumumba identified these sympathies, calling Canada “just another imperialist country.”
Upon arrival in the D.R.C., Canadian military officials requested their near-exclusively white regiments not bunk with any of the Black Congolese soldiers, saying it was “not a matter of the colour bar,” but simply “differences in customs and diet.” In the end, they were given barracks in a converted former whites-only schoolhouse.
Once stationed, soldiers were constantly admonished for using racial slurs. They earned a reputation for drinking and brawling with locals, often in red light districts. Accusations of procuring sex workers, despite a formal ban on the practice, followed Canadian peacekeepers throughout the mission and future missions, in addition to accusations of sexual assault.
It didn’t take long for Lumumba to realize that the UN was favouring pro-Western and pro-capitalist factions in the conflict:
“How can you imagine that a hat painted blue is enough to eliminate the complexes of conservative officers from Sweden or Canada or Great Britain … Those countries sympathize with the Belgians because they have the same past, the same history, the same taste for our riches.”
Lumumba demanded the removal of white peacekeeping forces from the country, leaving soldiers from former colonies like India and Ghana. Colonial leaders called the demand “inverted racism” and refused.
With the UN mission looking more like an occupation, Lumumba considered support from the Soviet Union, which heightened tensions with colonial powers. Despite the presence of so-called peacekeepers, the D.R.C.’s situation was rapidly deteriorating.
Canada Betrays a Nation
Along with racism and accusations of sexual violence, Canada had earned a reputation for its close relationships with Congolese factions, something technically forbidden by the UN’s peacekeeping ethos.
Canadian Lt. Col. Jean Berthiaume had a particularly close rapport with Lumumba’s main rival, a Colonel in the fractious Congolese military named Joseph-Désiré Mobutu who was fomenting a coup against the new government.
In late 1960, Lumumba and his aides fled to Stanleyville (now Kisangani) to re-establish headquarters for his leadership. Hearing this, Berthiaume contacted Mobutu to give him the location and direction of Lumumba’s convoy.
Mobutu’s soldiers acted on this tip and intercepted Lumumba on Dec. 1 as he travelled east, arresting him and his two closest associates, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, at gunpoint.
Mobutu imprisoned Lumumba, Mpolo and Okito, beating and starving them in what Lumumba called “impossible conditions.” The three were relocated to Katanga, where Tshombe decided on next steps while Belgians and Congolese collaborators tortured them.
On the night of January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito were taken to a remote location in the countryside. One by one, they were placed in front of a tree and shot to death by Belgian firing squads.
Belgian officers threw their bodies in a shallow grave overnight, digging them up and dissolving them in sulphuric acid the next morning so there would be no memorial site.
Indian and Ghanian regiments called attention to Berthiaume’s betrayal, but when confronted by UN officials, the Canadian military chose to “let the matter rest.” No action was taken against Berthiaume.
Africans Mourn, Canada Forgets
Lumumba’s death would not be confirmed until Feb. 13 of that year. When the news broke, protests erupted across the world, including a demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City attended by civil rights activist Maya Angelou.
In Montreal, African-Canadian students at McGill and Université de Montréal boycotted classes and took to the streets in a demonstration that linked Lumumba’s death to colonization and imperialism, and implicated Canada in both. They criticized Belgium and the UN for having “contributed to this savagery,” and held Moise Tshombe and Joseph Mobutu accountable for having “allowed themselves to be used as colonial stooges.”
In response, the Montreal Gazette ran an editorial blaming Lumumba for the “chaos” that struck his country and chastising the “bitter hatred” supposedly held by African leaders for the West. The editorial also claimed African states are “without a history” outside of colonization.
Meanwhile, the Montreal Star published an extremely racist editorial cartoon. The incident soon faded from Canadian consciousness.
A Colonial Legacy
The Congo Crisis continued for several years, with the UN forces numbering nearly 20,000 troops at its highest point. When the UN withdrew in 1964, the country was still mired in political violence after nearly four years of occupation.
In 1962, the snitch Berthiaume became the first Canadian since the Korean War to be made an officer in the prestigious Order of the British Empire.
Canada’s good friend Mobutu seized power in a military coup on Nov. 24, 1965. He quickly outlawed all opposition parties and independent trade unions, changed the country’s name to Zaire, and his own name to Mobutu Sese Seko.
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