Foxy,

"This is from people who have done their research and know what they are talking about."

No Foxy, this is from people who are anti-semites and anti-capitalist.

http://edgar1981.blogspot.com/2013/12/war-on-want-charity-that-is-just-anti.html (just one of many articles exposing these people's real intent)

This isn't an unbiased piece of research. This is propaganda designed to fool those who are willingly gullible.

They use the word "control" because its emotive and draws in those who want to be misled. Nowhere do they explain how these companies 'control' the resources. They just say it and the Foxy's of the world believe it.

In fact, these companies work under license to the various governments to access the resources and then sell to the world. The governments provide such license because it is beneficial to the nation. We do the same here. Its how the world works - its just that some people don't know how it works and others use that to fool them.

Foxy,

Who sold the slaves to the European slave traders?

I just want to see if you know, I've done my research.

Next time I'm speaking to Shasti I'll tell him that he has an admirer in Australia who is as one-eyed as he tends to be.

Is Mise,

I can tell him myself - when I next see him.
:-)

Foxy,

You've never met him, but have you found out yet who sold the slaves to the Europeans and the Arab slave traders as well.

Is Mie,

Is that why the slaving stations West Africa usually went only a hundred metres or so inland from the beach, or on islands out in the bay ? So who actually captured those people who were to become slaves ? Other African groups, who passed them on to Arab slavers, who then took them to the coast and sold them on to the slave ships ?

So ...... Africans, Arabs (i.e. Muslim African groups?) AND Europeans were all involved in the slave trade ?

How far back does it go ? Hugh Thomas in his magnificent history of slavery, seems to take it right back to the Romans, and of course before then, in Egypt.

So when did the slave trade end ? The British stopped the actual trade in about 1808, I think, and banned slavery altogether (officially, at least) in the mid-1830s. But it continued across the Middle East, and the Saudis eventually banned it (officially, at least) in 1962. So slavery has been banned now for well over fifty years in the enlightened Middle East. Officially, at least. It still exists in Mauretania and maybe other Muslim-African countries, but the slaves there now have the right to vote in national elections, going back nearly fifteen years now.

Of course, India still has maybe forty million debt-slaves, people who never pay off their debts and remain slaves for life, as do their children after them. But that's Indian culture which we know shouldn't really ever be criticised from our biased and ethnocentric point of view.

Joe

mhaze,

Well you've lost me now.

Stooping to give the extremist Zionist blogger's website
as a reputable source - against the "war on want"
a registered charity - is despicable. Of course this nutter
would be against "war on want" they're pro justice for Palestine.
He (Edgar Davidson) started blogging in 2005 to protect what he
claims is the blatant anti-Israel bias that permeates every
aspect of British society. " He always seeks new ways to
high light the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel narrative."

In other words he's a nutter.

His attack on and online abuse after a 15 year old girl's
prize-winning speech on Palestine - was shameful.

You should have been discerning enough to opt for a
little fact-checking as to who this blogger is.
Had you done that perhaps you would not have been so
easily convinced by false information.