Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Video: Gato da Bato Ft Booba - Roulé Fort (Official Video)
Gato da Bato, a Haitian hip-hop artist, music video for single titled 'Roulé Fort' featuring Booba (France).
Buy: Gato da Bato - Nu Lajan (Single)
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Audio: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (The Deepshakerz Remix)
MUSIC: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (The Deepshakerz Remix)
Claude Monnet, a French edm DJ, single titled 'Voodoo Bounce (The Deepshakerz Remix)'.
Buy: Claude Monnet - Back to Fundamentals: Voodoo Bounce
Audio: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (Mr. V Main Remix)
MUSIC: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (Mr. V Main Remix)
Claude Monnet, a French edm DJ, single titled 'Voodoo Bounce (Mr. V Main Remix)'.
Buy: Claude Monnet - Back to Fundamentals: Voodoo Bounce
Audio: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (Dub)
MUSIC: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (Dub)
Claude Monnet, a French edm DJ, single titled 'Voodoo Bounce (Dub)'.
Buy: Claude Monnet - Back to Fundamentals: Voodoo Bounce
Audio: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (Original)
MUSIC: Claude Monnet - Voodoo Bounce (Original)
Claude Monnet, a French edm DJ, single titled 'Voodoo Bounce (Original)'.
Buy: Claude Monnet - Back to Fundamentals: Voodoo Bounce
Friday, August 29, 2014
Video: Slavery continues in Mauritania - Press TV Africa Today
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It was a controversial election, boycotted by several parties, but General Ould Abdel Aziz has been returned as the president of Mauritania, winning 82 percent of the votes.
Aziz has been congratulated by the African Union as well as the United States and France, which see him as a key ally in their "war on terror."
But while he claims to be a defender of human rights, Mauritania has become known as the last bastion of slavery.
Although the practice was finally criminalized in 2007, the country still has around six hundred thousand people, known as Haratan, who are held in bondage by fellow Mauritanians.
While the Haratan are black sub-Saharan Africans, their "owners" are overwhelmingly lighter-skinned Arabs.
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It was a controversial election, boycotted by several parties, but General Ould Abdel Aziz has been returned as the president of Mauritania, winning 82 percent of the votes.
Aziz has been congratulated by the African Union as well as the United States and France, which see him as a key ally in their "war on terror."
But while he claims to be a defender of human rights, Mauritania has become known as the last bastion of slavery.
Although the practice was finally criminalized in 2007, the country still has around six hundred thousand people, known as Haratan, who are held in bondage by fellow Mauritanians.
While the Haratan are black sub-Saharan Africans, their "owners" are overwhelmingly lighter-skinned Arabs.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Video: Jason DeRulo Ft MAUDE - Trumpets (French Version) (Official Video)
Jason DeRulo, a Haitian r&b artist, music video for single titled 'Trumpets (French Version)' featuring MAUDE.
Buy: Jason DeRulo - Tattoos
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Video: NGO's Position for Conquest and Coups - AfriSynergy
NGOs have been infiltrated by American CIA and British and French intelligence with the purpose of carryout coups in various countries. The media then casts this as peaceful protests for freedom, democracy, liberty and justice. As a part of these so-called protests, snipers and thugs are stationed in the area to kill and beat people with the finger then being pointed at the government targeted for overthrow.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
VIDEO: Daan Junior perform 'Ba Moin Yon T-Moment' Live in Paris, France, February 23, 2014
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Daan Junior, a Haitian zouk artist, perform 'Ba Moin Yon T-Moment' live in Paris, France on February 23, 2014.
BUY: Daan Junior - Ma Place
Daan Junior, a Haitian zouk artist, perform 'Ba Moin Yon T-Moment' live in Paris, France on February 23, 2014.
BUY: Daan Junior - Ma Place
Video: Haitian Revolutions - Crash Course
Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolutionary videos. Although freedom was breaking out all over, many of the societies that were touting these ideas relied on slave labor. Few places in the world relied so heavily on slave labor as Saint-Domingue, France's most profitable colony. Slaves made up nearly 90% of Saint-Domingue's population, and in 1789 they couldn't help but hear about the revolution underway in France. All the talk of liberty, equality, and fraternity sounds pretty good to a person in bondage, and so the slaves rebelled. This led to not one but two revolutions, and ended up with France, the rebels, Britain, and Spain all fighting in the territory. Spoiler alert: the slaves won. So how did the slaves of what would become Haiti throw off the yoke of one of the world's great empires? John Green tells how they did it, and what it has meant in Haiti and in the rest of the world.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Leaked tapes threaten former French president Sarkozy’s comeback
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not the only politician to be haunted by leaked recordings. On Wednesday, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy joined the expanding club of high-profile statesmen (and presumed presidential candidates) to be involved in a leaks scandal when French satirical magazine Le Canard Enchainé and the website Atlantico both published transcripts of illicit recordings made at the Elysée Palace in 2011.
The tapes (which, it must be noted, do not reveal any illegal activity) come from former Sarkozy aide Patrick Buisson, who reportedly used a hidden recorder to tape private meetings with the then president. Buisson, under heavy fire from Sarkozy’s center-right UMP party, claims the recordings were made for professional reasons — i.e., to prepare for follow-up meetings — and were later stolen from his residence. The published transcripts reveal internal squabbling over the makeup of the president’s cabinet, jabs by top officials at Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni, and Sarkozy’s dismissive attitude towards some of his ministers, notably former prime minister François Fillon.
The tapes (which, it must be noted, do not reveal any illegal activity) come from former Sarkozy aide Patrick Buisson, who reportedly used a hidden recorder to tape private meetings with the then president. Buisson, under heavy fire from Sarkozy’s center-right UMP party, claims the recordings were made for professional reasons — i.e., to prepare for follow-up meetings — and were later stolen from his residence. The published transcripts reveal internal squabbling over the makeup of the president’s cabinet, jabs by top officials at Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni, and Sarkozy’s dismissive attitude towards some of his ministers, notably former prime minister François Fillon.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Video: Origins of Mali's Tuareg conflict - CaspianReport
The ongoing conflict in Northern Mali is rooted in the country's geography and its history. The Niger River forms the backbone of the country and it essentially splits the country in two. The arid North, also known as Azawad, is home to the nomadic Tuareg people who share ethnic ties the Berber people. The South is a relative fertile region and is home to the Mandee people, a cultural group of people that populate the West African region. Both ethnic peoples form the core of Mali's history but both played a completely different role.
Friday, February 28, 2014
The original Statue of Liberty a black woman
The original statue of Liberty gifted by the French to America was not the stern-faced green Roman looking woman that you see today holding a tablet and a torch. The original and first Statue of Liberty was a Black woman holding the broken shackles of slavery. She was refused on the notion that the black statue would be a constant reminder of the liberty that the slaves earned, from successfully fighting in the American Civil War. The true Black Statue of Liberty remains rejected, forgotten and lost in broken fragments of Black history.
The statue of Liberty that stands today, that so many American’s love and proudly boast, that appears on all sorts of merchandise, in movies, and is the most recognized woman worldwide, is a colossal lie. Every good magician will tell you that the best way to hide something is to have it in plain sight. Undoubtably, a vast amount of important Black history – such as this – has been hidden from us all both Black and White.
WHY WAS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY REALLY CREATED?
French historian Edouard de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to the French government that the people of France should present the United States – through the American Abolitionist Society – the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the Black soldiers who won the Civil War in the United States, earning themselves their freedom. It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift was supposed to be a tribute to their prowess.
The statue of Liberty that stands today, that so many American’s love and proudly boast, that appears on all sorts of merchandise, in movies, and is the most recognized woman worldwide, is a colossal lie. Every good magician will tell you that the best way to hide something is to have it in plain sight. Undoubtably, a vast amount of important Black history – such as this – has been hidden from us all both Black and White.
WHY WAS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY REALLY CREATED?
French historian Edouard de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to the French government that the people of France should present the United States – through the American Abolitionist Society – the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the Black soldiers who won the Civil War in the United States, earning themselves their freedom. It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift was supposed to be a tribute to their prowess.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Humanitarian imperialism: Problemed white girls (and boys)
White people aren’t told that the color of their skin is a problem very often. We sail through police check points, don’t garner sideways glances in affluent neighborhoods, and are generally understood to be predispositioned for success based on a physical characteristic (the color of our skin) we have little control over beyond sunscreen and tanning oil.
After six years of working in and traveling through a number of different countries where white people are in the numerical minority, I’ve come to realize that there is one place being white is not only a hindrance, but negative — most of the developing world.
In high school, I travelled to Tanzania as part of a school trip. There were 14 white girls, 1 black girl who, to her frustration, was called white by almost everyone we met in Tanzania, and a few teachers/chaperones. $3000 bought us a week at an orphanage, a half built library, and a few pickup soccer games, followed by a week long safari.
Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library. Turns out that we, a group of highly educated private boarding school students were so bad at the most basic construction work that each night the men had to take down the structurally unsound bricks we had laid and rebuild the structure so that, when we woke up in the morning, we would be unaware of our failure. It is likely that this was a daily ritual. Us mixing cement and laying bricks for 6+ hours, them undoing our work after the sun set, re-laying the bricks, and then acting as if nothing had happened so that the cycle could continue.
After six years of working in and traveling through a number of different countries where white people are in the numerical minority, I’ve come to realize that there is one place being white is not only a hindrance, but negative — most of the developing world.
In high school, I travelled to Tanzania as part of a school trip. There were 14 white girls, 1 black girl who, to her frustration, was called white by almost everyone we met in Tanzania, and a few teachers/chaperones. $3000 bought us a week at an orphanage, a half built library, and a few pickup soccer games, followed by a week long safari.
Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library. Turns out that we, a group of highly educated private boarding school students were so bad at the most basic construction work that each night the men had to take down the structurally unsound bricks we had laid and rebuild the structure so that, when we woke up in the morning, we would be unaware of our failure. It is likely that this was a daily ritual. Us mixing cement and laying bricks for 6+ hours, them undoing our work after the sun set, re-laying the bricks, and then acting as if nothing had happened so that the cycle could continue.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Ousted Haitian prez reveals he was tossed because he refused to privatize
When United Nations troops kill residents of the Haitian slum Cité Soleil, friends and family often place photographs of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on their bodies.
The photographs silently insist that there is a method to the madness raging in Port-au-Prince. Poor Haitians are being slaughtered not for being "violent," as we so often hear, but for being militant, for daring to demand the return of their elected president.
It was only 10 years ago that U.S. president Bill Clinton celebrated Aristide’s return to power as "the triumph of freedom over fear." So what changed? Corruption? Violence? Fraud? Aristide is certainly no saint. But even if the worst of the allegations are true, they pale next to the rap sheets of the convicted killers, drug smugglers and arms traders who ousted Aristide and continue to enjoy free rein, with full support from the Bush administration and the UN.
Turning Haiti over to this underworld gang out of concern for Aristide’s lack of "good governance" is like escaping an annoying date by accepting a lift home from Charles Manson.
A few weeks ago I visited Aristide in Pretoria, where he lives in forced exile. I asked him what was really behind his dramatic falling-out with Washington. He offered an explanation rarely heard in discussions of Haitian politics. Actually, he offered three: "privatization, privatization and privatization."
The photographs silently insist that there is a method to the madness raging in Port-au-Prince. Poor Haitians are being slaughtered not for being "violent," as we so often hear, but for being militant, for daring to demand the return of their elected president.
It was only 10 years ago that U.S. president Bill Clinton celebrated Aristide’s return to power as "the triumph of freedom over fear." So what changed? Corruption? Violence? Fraud? Aristide is certainly no saint. But even if the worst of the allegations are true, they pale next to the rap sheets of the convicted killers, drug smugglers and arms traders who ousted Aristide and continue to enjoy free rein, with full support from the Bush administration and the UN.
Turning Haiti over to this underworld gang out of concern for Aristide’s lack of "good governance" is like escaping an annoying date by accepting a lift home from Charles Manson.
A few weeks ago I visited Aristide in Pretoria, where he lives in forced exile. I asked him what was really behind his dramatic falling-out with Washington. He offered an explanation rarely heard in discussions of Haitian politics. Actually, he offered three: "privatization, privatization and privatization."
Haiti, Ten Years Ago: US-France-Canada Coup d’Etat
Members of Congress Waters and Rangel and Randall Robinson, all three, confirmed that the President and Mrs. Aristide said they were forced on an airplane, at gunpoint, with U.S. and French soldiers guarding.
The plane eventually landed in the French/US de facto protectorate known as the Central African Republic . Aristide reiterated he did not resign and that he was being held hostage surrounded by French and U.S. soldiers in a place called the Chateau De Renaissance, in the Central African Republic.
Our Black people in Port-au-Prince Haiti are being slaughtered.
The duly elected President kidnapped by U.S. Marines and flown out of the country at gunpoint and is being held hostage in the Central African Republic under U.S and French guard.
Yesterday [Feb 29], it is reported that, under U.S. marine escort the former FRAPH/FAHD thugs rolled into Port-au-Prince.
The plane eventually landed in the French/US de facto protectorate known as the Central African Republic . Aristide reiterated he did not resign and that he was being held hostage surrounded by French and U.S. soldiers in a place called the Chateau De Renaissance, in the Central African Republic.
Our Black people in Port-au-Prince Haiti are being slaughtered.
The duly elected President kidnapped by U.S. Marines and flown out of the country at gunpoint and is being held hostage in the Central African Republic under U.S and French guard.
Yesterday [Feb 29], it is reported that, under U.S. marine escort the former FRAPH/FAHD thugs rolled into Port-au-Prince.
14 African countries forced by France to pay colonial tax for the benefits of slavery and colonization
Did you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today!
When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the french colonial elite in Paris got so furious, and in a historic act of fury the french administration in Guinea destroyed everything in the country which represented what they called the benefits from french colonization.
Three thousand French left the country, taking all their property and destroying anything that which could not be moved: schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were crumbled; cars, books, medicine, research institute instruments, tractors were crushed and sabotaged; horses, cows in the farms were killed, and food in warehouses were burned or poisoned.
The purpose of this outrageous act was to send a clear message to all other colonies that the consequences for rejecting France would be very high.
When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the french colonial elite in Paris got so furious, and in a historic act of fury the french administration in Guinea destroyed everything in the country which represented what they called the benefits from french colonization.
Three thousand French left the country, taking all their property and destroying anything that which could not be moved: schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were crumbled; cars, books, medicine, research institute instruments, tractors were crushed and sabotaged; horses, cows in the farms were killed, and food in warehouses were burned or poisoned.
The purpose of this outrageous act was to send a clear message to all other colonies that the consequences for rejecting France would be very high.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
On Dany Laferrière, Language and the Académie Française
Last December Haitian-Canadian (Québécois) writer Dany Laferrière was voted into the august Académie Française, taking the seat of the late Argentinian-born author Hector Bianciotti. He is the first Canadian and the first Haitian to become a member of the nearly 400-year-old institution; he is also the first who is neither French, naturalized French, nor a resident of France. The permanent secretary of the Académie, historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse even consulted with its patron, President François Hollande, who confirmed that the statutes did not require that members be of French nationality.
“Language,” said Carrère d’Encausse, “is the nationality.”
Laferrière’s friend and fellow author, Franco-Congolese Alain Mabanckou said that his election marks an increasing openness at the Académie Française, the purpose of which is to protect and monitor the French language.
“Language,” said Carrère d’Encausse, “is the nationality.”
Laferrière’s friend and fellow author, Franco-Congolese Alain Mabanckou said that his election marks an increasing openness at the Académie Française, the purpose of which is to protect and monitor the French language.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
France's Hollande is completely out of touch with modern economics
French President François Hollande startled many of his supporters last week, along with fans of evidence-based economics everywhere, when he rejected modern economics in favor of the sayings of an early 19th-century French economist. After winning the election on a platform that the government needed to fill the gap in demand created by the collapse of asset bubbles, Hollande repeated the old line from Jean-Baptiste Say that "supply creates its own demand."
While the appeal to French national pride may be touching, it is completely out of touch with modern economics. His plan to cut spending will have serious consequences. We should have known at least since Keynes that economies can be subject to prolonged periods of high unemployment due to inadequate demand. The problem is that the private sector does not necessarily generate enough demand to buy back everything it produces, leaving large numbers of workers unemployed and vast amounts of productive capacity sitting idle.
From an economic standpoint this is an incredible waste of resources. Economists often concern themselves with distortions created by quirks in the tax code or barriers to trade, but the losses from having an economy operate below full employment dwarf these inefficiencies. In the United States alone we are looking at more than $5tn in lost output to date, as a result of the downturn. The losses would be even larger inEurope where economies are operating much further below their levels of potential output.
While the appeal to French national pride may be touching, it is completely out of touch with modern economics. His plan to cut spending will have serious consequences. We should have known at least since Keynes that economies can be subject to prolonged periods of high unemployment due to inadequate demand. The problem is that the private sector does not necessarily generate enough demand to buy back everything it produces, leaving large numbers of workers unemployed and vast amounts of productive capacity sitting idle.
From an economic standpoint this is an incredible waste of resources. Economists often concern themselves with distortions created by quirks in the tax code or barriers to trade, but the losses from having an economy operate below full employment dwarf these inefficiencies. In the United States alone we are looking at more than $5tn in lost output to date, as a result of the downturn. The losses would be even larger inEurope where economies are operating much further below their levels of potential output.