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African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax

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Re: African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax

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That articles looks bogus. For instance: It’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_France , that's pretty much equivalent to the budget of the French government. If that number were true, France finances o…

It's definitely bogus. I can't dig up anything on this except reblogs of it. The Chirac video is taken out of context, from a television interview where he says the current state of France as a first world country, and a G8 country comes directly from its former past as a colonial power. Hmm, looks like I can dig something up: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Afro... > In relation with that is…

This article has nothing bogus. if you are in search of truth, this article is real and I have been in West Africa long enough to confirm that, otherwise you can always find rented mouths that support colonialism even if they are Africans.

Re: African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In other words all that noise about "our values" is just hot air. Btw, if by "a drunk Russian bear" you 're referring to Putin, the guy does not dring, or at least, he does not get drunk, unlike most Russian men of his age. That's one reason Russian women like him.

"Drunk" was a joke playing on Russian stereotypes in the West and on the expression "drunk with power" (the Russian military is currently making a spectacle of itself all over Scandinavia and the Baltic, not to mention the little issue of Crimea).

> the Russian military is currently making a spectacle of itself all over Scandinavia and the Baltic, not to mention the little issue of Crimea)

Whatever the Russian military is making of itself, it's nowhere near as bad as what the "Coalition of the Willing" has been up to in

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