Europeans stealing in Africa -- Again!!!?!?!

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So it is... in Lagos, Nigeria, Gunmen who seized two German and four Nigerian oil workers are demanding petroleum giant Royal Dutch/Shell honor promises of jobs and benefits in the oil-rich south.

Royal Dutch/Shell controls the oil in Nigeria, not the Nigerians. In effect making Shell a shadow-member of OPEC. The caustic and ugly problem in Nigerian and all African Oil states is that Africans -- who's natural resource the oil is -- don't have the technology (and it and the money required to leverage it are stridently keep from the African regimes) to better their countries.

The kidnappers are dissatisfied with Shell's implementation of an agreement to provide nine communities bordering oil fields with jobs and basic social benefits. Now, if you read between the lines then you'll quickly see that what this means is the Shell, like all Occidental powers, is doing it's most conniving to keep Africans poor and struggling. And I think I know why. See if the states in Africa got their act together like China, then the global economic shift would transfer tons and tons of wealth to Africans -- as their countries are the most natural resource rich ON THE PLANET and the labor costs would undercut even the Chinese.

The World Bank, IMF, Trilateral Commission and the G8 (not to mention all the cats who gather in Davos every year) wouldn't want this to happen.

The Iduwuni National Union for Peace and Development group claimed responsibility for the Wednesday kidnapping of the six employees of a German contractor for Shell.