In the section about the "white architecture in Africa", I have posted several videos about the project Eko Atlantis in Nigeria.
Next door to this project, the country suffers from civil wars and hunger. My question is, "Who is gonna buy those apartments ? Are they black? Are they black African? Black Americans? Are they white? Chinese? Arabs? Russians? Who is gonna pay for that? How come a country like Nigeria can pay for such a project while the same country does not have the money for its own people?
On the video above, we can see Bill Clinton visiting the Eko Atlantis wall of Lagos, and this is one of the many questions I have about the Commonwealth inside the American politics. Is the Commonwealth raising a new kind of Americans who are going to enslave those Africans?
Here again, who is gonna pay for this project? Are they British, American, Canadian, Australian, South Americans? And when we say Americans, do we mean the tax payers of America, the American companies in Nigeria, the Bill Clinton Foundation?
Taxes are like a jar where the family puts the money. Everyone participates with his own possibilities and skills. At the end of the week, the family can eat and pay the bills. The family shares the money.
Taxes shall work the same way but instead of a nuclear family, the country is a polynuclear family where everybody brings a contribution and at the end, the contribution shall profit to everybody.
The problem arrived with invading empires who did not consider the people as their own family. They took the money in the jar and they said, "work more for your own money". A power, be it an emperor, a king or a state takes the money from the people for its own purpose and aside of this, the people still have to work to manage their own portion which is not a share, but a spare. The spare time that the people have left to work more in order to survive.
The question arise with the grants funding projects in America. The tax payer pays for it, but some projects are subsidiary projects that tax payers of other countries don't pay. Great Britain, Australia and Canada for instance don't have any space program. The American tax payer pays for it. Same with some "research" projects that other companies in other countries will build.
Lagos does not concern me directly, but when I read in the news that Nigeria suffers from hunger, I personally cannot live without ignoring this fact, because it affects my faith and my practice. Mostly, it affects my choice of a religion, the dedication that I want to spend into it and the harmony that I want to build my entire life. When I vote, I don't want to put my voice only into a tax system, but I want to put my voice into a system that can make me proud of my choice, my country, my people, the kind of culture I represent, the kind of civilization that I participate and of course the kind of religion that I will be able to listen.
In America, I am supposed to be free to choose a religion. I am even free to not have any. I am not so free to criticize, to analyze and to ask question, but if ever I don't fear troubles, I can take a chance to sound a voice. The constitution gives me the right to be alone with my own ideas. America is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic.
Another very excellent video to understand the difference between a republic and a democracy.
The conclusion of the following video explains how a democracy becomes an oligarchy and how the United-States can only end up to become an oligarchy or a republic.
If it would be an oligarchy, we can already perceive the structure of this oligarchy with dominant groups and influences. The shadow of the Commonwealth is not far behind because the Commonwealth is not only a system of government. It is also a system of church, the Anglican church. When a democratic system and a religion come together with a propaganda, the fears become the instrument of chaos.
In the following video, Rabbi Daniel Lapin explains (starting minute 7:10) the failure of chaos as a way of government.
On the following podcast, starting minute 14:30, Rabbi Daniel Lapin explains the structure of a tribe and a government.
The Eko Atlantis project has been commented on several websites. Here are some abstracts that definitively ask the question of the morality behind those projects.
Source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/12/02/why-eko-atlantic-city-very-bad-idea-david-damiano
From the same author in December 2017.
Source: https://dailyfreepress.com/blog/2017/12/02/worldview-eko-atlantic-nigerias-apocalypse-city-ultra-rich/
I am shocked by the kind of comments this article has received, the lack of perspective from the people who made those comments, their lack of understanding of a functioning country.
I high lighted "engineer" because many things have been done by engineers and since then, we have a global warming, pollution, over consumption and disparities that become big and bigger. An engineer is not a label or the guaranty they are doing good. Engineers have limited knowledge, and they can be a real problem when the politics have limited knowledge too.
John, who made the comment, believes that this project comes "FREE of charge of the government". Really? Africa shall teach the American politics how to build free projects because there is never anything free in this world. Instead, companies and the banks behind them are investing the money that shall have gone to the people and that a small portion will benefit while the others will have done the work. Nigerians are paying, Africans are paying and only them. No investor would ever put his money for free. Investors put their money in the corruption and the death of people who are misrepresented by their own governments.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/africa/eko-atlantic-gbenga-oduntan-conversation/index.html
On this article of CNN, we are in pure colonialism.
"Be the home of a million people", who obviously would come from abroad. And to accommodate the life of the 1/2 million people, 150,000 would commute each day in a country that does not even have the basic food. Of course, this new city would become a model of good governance in a country that does not have any kind of governance at all. At least, when the article speaks about transparency, it is transparent that the Nigerian government is rather "corrupted".
So far, there is a governance, but this governance is in the private sector and we understand why with the following, because the banks are holding those sectors. The banks, that no one in America would want for a government are good for Africa. Those banks are First Bank (Colorado, USA), FCMB (First City Monument Bank, Lagos, Nigeria), Access Bank plc (Nigeria), GT Bank (Nigeria), BNP Paribas (France), Fortis (Belgium, The Netherland, France), KBC Bank (Belgium).
On the Wikipedia page of GT Bank, we learn that the project shall have been finished in 2016.... so far, there is only sand with some illusion of roads as if the money was moving at the speed of a Swiss Bank, one stone at a time.
Source: https://www.ekoatlantic.com/category/project-updates/
On the wikipedia page of Access Bank, we learn that this bank is linked to Chase Bank (USA) and Crédit Lyonnais (France).
Crédit Lyonnais is an expert bank, with BNP Paribas for laundring money. Crédit Lyonnais is also the lender of Hollywood. No less to mention that the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, is a banker.
FCMB has both offices in Nigeria and the United-Kingdom, but the assets and the revenues of this bank are relatively small compared to the other banks.
FCMB:
Access Bank:
BGTBank:
LBNP Paribas:
LCL Crédit Lyonnais:
FKBC Bank:
FirstBank:
First Bank is a little bit bigger than the Nigerian banks but way smaller than the French and Belgium Banks. In French, they say "that's the turkey of the stuffing", calling for more banks to come in the game. What's intriguing here, is the role of Bill Clinton in the Eko Atlantic Project. American investment in Lagos are not so big, so what is the trick? Did French banks finance any foundation that Mr and Mrs Bill Clinton would own or maybe Nigerian banks did ???
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