Burkina Faso country
also: French West Africa, Upper Volta, Berkofas
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Claims (10)
Department of Defense funded
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“Islamic quote-unquote insurgent occurring, which is basically how he controlled his domestic population. In 2018 and 2019, Trump spent 100, not Trump, I mean the Department of Defense, spent $100 million in security cooperation funding for …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 38:48
France colonized
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“because I do have to say that several times, but that is one of the kingdoms that was there. Tengodogo was another one, and Yatinga was the third primary large that kind of coalesced into this one area. They were colonized just before the 1…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 16:31
Burkina Faso carried_out_attack
Yamoussa Ouedraogo host_asserted
“Just so that you understand how destabilized they left this country, they had a coup in 1966. They had a coup in 1980. They had a coup in 1982. They had another one the following year in 1983. They had a coup in 1987. And they had two in on…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 18:26
Blaise Compaoré carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“Which, hello, that's exactly what it is. So the Campari was described as cold and calculating and living well beyond his means. When he was couped himself in 2014, French troops evacuated him to the Ivory Coast, which of course is what I sa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 36:18
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“for at least six different training exercises and several actual in-residence courses. And he's the guy in January 2022 that seized power and couped the government. So Burkina Faso today ranks 144th out of 157 nations in quality of life, as…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 39:49
Ibrahim Traoré overthrew
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“It says he was disillusioned working inside of the government in Burkina Faso with all of the corruption. And so he and several other officers banded together and basically overthrew their government in 2022 in September. And the West immed…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:17:03
Blaise Compaoré carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And let's see, he also provided more than $35 million in security assistance to Campari, even though their security forces were engaging in Operation Gladio-style assassinations of his…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 37:18
Goodyear funded
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“They have major rubber plantations all over this area. And Goodyear has like an entire region of Burkina Faso under their control. And the money that they contribute to the manipulation of the Burkina Faso government is crazy. So there was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 27:11
France carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“The aftermath, French authorities agreed to launch an investigation. What the fuck is French doing there anyway? Get them people out of your country. You will never be safe as long as they're in your country. So there was another roadside b…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 1:00:35
Wagner Group carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso speculative
“That's another good thing. While anti-imperialist organizations and social media commentators have rightly celebrated these actions, Traore's domestic record presents a different picture. For starters, there's speculations he will turn towa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 39:00
Mentions (49)
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focus being on nationalism and what's out. Burkina Faso, to me, is one of the most fascinating stories that no one talks about. The taking back of after we decimated the entire continent of Africa with destabilization, they're taking back t…
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ones that are going on right now. You have Niger, you have Moldova, you had, let's see, Burkina Faso, you have Guinea-Bissau, you have things that happened in, there was a coup in,…
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I'm not sure how all that's going to work out, but I'm going to do my best. Anyway, so I am going to, so we're doing, as you can see, Burkina Faso. And if I thought any of the names were difficult before, boy, was I wrong.…
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So just so that you know, you can envision the continent of Africa on the west side. Like we've spent a lot of time over on the Horn of Africa that was on the east side. So Burkina Faso is on the west side. And as you go up, if you look at …
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Togo, Ghana, and basically the coast of Ivory is. You have just north of Ghana, Burkina Faso. So, easy for you to say. It has many neighbors. To the north and most of the west is Mali. It kind of goes across the northern border and swoops d…
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We have band after band after band of storm coming through here right now. I live in central Florida, so it's a little dicey. All right, so we're going to start over, and I'm going to talk about the geography. We have moved from the eastern…
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They didn't get their full independence and an elected president until 1960. But in 1958, supposedly, that process had started. And when they did that, they named this the Upper Volta, V-O-L-T-A. So that was the name of the country temporar…
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Just so that you understand how destabilized they left this country, they had a coup in 1966. They had a coup in 1980. They had a coup in 1982. They had another one the following year in 1983. They had a coup in 1987. And they had two in on…
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a mining industry, educating people in engineering and all kinds of stuff so they could be self-sufficient, which, again, is another reason why he was assassinated. So, spoiler alert. So, most of this information comes from a guy whose arti…
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He basically took heritable farmland and gave it to the people so that they could basically like an Allende. Of course, he ended up dead, as did the guy in Guatemala. I mean, in Nicaragua. Only 37 at the time of his death, he broke the powe…
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I looked into that a little bit. It seems to me like that was more in the dog homerstot mindset of actually helping new and evolving governance as opposed to rigging it for the West. So I found that very interesting. Burkina Faso.…
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was valued by outside powers because of its possession of rare earth minerals, including copper, zinc, limestone, manganese, phosphate, and gold, which Sankara sought to keep under national control. Kampari, by contrast, after he murdered S…
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Which, hello, that's exactly what it is. So the Campari was described as cold and calculating and living well beyond his means. When he was couped himself in 2014, French troops evacuated him to the Ivory Coast, which of course is what I sa…
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Islamic quote-unquote insurgent occurring, which is basically how he controlled his domestic population. In 2018 and 2019, Trump spent 100, not Trump, I mean the Department of Defense, spent $100 million in security cooperation funding for …
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France had withdrawn its financial aid prior to the coup in an effort to bankrupt Burkina Faso economy and provoke the tension in the revolutionary leadership and then destroyed wiretap targeting Campari the day after the assassination. So …
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Patrice Lumumba of Congo, who was assassinated soon after he publicly criticized their colonial system as well. U.S. diplomats had a view of Sankara similar to Mitterrand's. One diplomat, John C. Baxter, was expelled from Burkina Faso for s…
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The U.S. military training programs has provided access to the very center of power with the U.S. embassy holding a seminar for senior military officers, including Kampari. International military education and training program graduates wer…
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N-E-H-E-R, who had worked in Congo after Lumumba's assassination. Again, they just repeat the same people. Characterize Burkina Faso under Saqqara as a very radical, very troublesome country for you asshole international syndicate mafia, wh…
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had told him to approach Sankara for help in taking power in Liberia in exchange for a lucrative business opportunity. When Sankara rejected the idea, because they basically were trying to frame him, set him up, Taylor met with a general th…
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and the country of Chad's president, along with a white Frenchman who was probably part of the Foucart network, which is basically Gladio for France. At the meeting, it was decided that Taylor would be able to use Burkina Faso as a launchin…
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according to the man. So again, this is exactly the same pattern. So we want to take over Nicaragua. So we're going to take over Costa Rica. We're going to take over Guatemala. We're going to take over El Salvador. We're going to take over,…
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So, according to Cecil Allen, another of Taylor's top aides, the Americans and French sanctioned the plan to remove Sankara. Allen stated that, quote, there was a CIA operative in the U.S. embassy in Burkina Faso, worked closely with the Se…
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items across country lines into friendly countries if they have a non-friendly country through the national park system. And sure enough, as soon as you pull up this particular national park, which is its biggest one, it's called West Natio…
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terror training camps so they can control the entire area. Now, just with that one park alone, they can control Niger, they can control Burkina Faso, and they can control Benin with quote-unquote Islamic terrorist attacks when it's really O…
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Which is exactly how they sold the Columbia training, 20,000 of them down there as counter narcotics. Right. And the 10 African countries being that are comprised this partnership, Algeria, Burka, Fasa, Chad, Mali, Marutina, Morocco, Niger,…
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Okay, so on that note, let me tell you guys the good news of Burkina Faso. The guy that couped the government for the second time in 2022, his name is Ibram Traore. It's spelled T-R-A-O-R-E. And he was 36 years old.…
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It says he was disillusioned working inside of the government in Burkina Faso with all of the corruption. And so he and several other officers banded together and basically overthrew their government in 2022 in September. And the West immed…
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northern part of Africa. And when you're looking at the northern part of Africa, look at what you have. Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Mali. Oh, look, Burkina Faso, Nigeria. Every one of those has had coups and destabilization efforts …
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I didn't get a chance to. That's interesting. Yeah, it's like the Rhodes Scholarship. Yeah. So this guy had quite a diplomatic career. He served in the following countries. This is the 1960s and 70s. He was in Nicaragua, Indonesia, Senegal,…
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And then you run into Nigeria. And we have to talk about right north of Ghana is Burkina Faso, which is the one that we talked about. And also, we have to talk about Niger. Niger is just north of Nigeria. Niger goes all the way over to the …
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The U.S. had been forced to end collaboration with Niger on its counterterrorism efforts in accordance with the rule, American rules that prohibited partnerships with military juntas. To make up for the potential, quote unquote, loss of Nig…
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And in Pericou, Benin, a town also close to Barquina Fossa, and at three potential locations in Ivory Coast. And keep in mind, the Ivory Coast is where the people go that the CIA wants to protect because the Ivory Coast is in bed with the C…
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drone locations there is totally bizarre. The close placement of the bases to Burkina Faso also is very important from what we already learned when we talked about Burkina Faso. For nine months from September 02 to May of 2003, Burkina Faso…
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who invoked the legacy of Sankara. And remember, we talked about Sankara. Burkina Faso, socialist anti-imperialist president from 1983 to 87. That's Sankara. He was a pan-African ally of Omar Gaddafi.…
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Since 2017, about 41,000 people have been killed in jihadist violence in Mali. And we just mentioned that Mali is one of the neighbors. Burkina Faso and Niger. The disorder has created an opening for Russia to deepen ties in the region. The…
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military company throughout the African continent remained a significant topic of conversation as the world reacts to reshaping Western African geopolitical scenes. This is the first of a series of articles that this author was going to wri…
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After Kampore's unpopular attempt to change the constitution and extend his term limit, the move had ultimately led to his November 2014 downfall. I was living in Burkina Faso at the time and recall seeing pictures of Sankara being waved on…
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thanks to the CIA. By the end of Capore's rule, Burkina Faso was among the poorest nations in Africa, with almost half of the country living under the poverty line. And the poverty line there is ridiculously low. The rapid development and p…
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Donning Saqqara's iconic dress, red beret, and military fatigues. He also sought to appease concerns of the regional bloc that had been suspended by Burkina Faso's membership following the coup by promising to return to a constitutional civ…
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and the CIA being good when we know the CIA is anything but good. And we're just going to leave it at that. These reports remain unconfirmed, and there is no evidence suggesting Wagner is active in Burkina Faso. With that said, Torare's com…
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On the other hand, we cannot ignore the context of the ongoing insurgency, what country can be expected to develop where they're constantly under attack by ISIS and the West. Burkina Faso was an impoverished global South nation struggling t…
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Basically, it says the country's alignment with Russia and its courting of Wagner is worrisome to the West. I'm sure it is. Tohore's actions over the past year and throughout this coming year will decide whether or not the rule of a Sankari…
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Air Force Major General Kenneth Ekman said, Ekman, sorry, that Base 201 near Agadez, which houses surveillance drones, will also be dismantled in August, bringing the United States out of Niger entirely. Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have d…
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And in that process, then they have to be taken out. Some do that sooner than others so that they may get into office and be so completely inept that there's no way to pretend in a facade that he's actually leading the country. So he's not …
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If you look at a map, let me get that map back up. The map of Benin shows you that the north area of that area is Niger, where they had infiltrated. And right above that is Mali. And just to the west is Burkina Faso, blah, blah, blah.…
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The aftermath, French authorities agreed to launch an investigation. What the fuck is French doing there anyway? Get them people out of your country. You will never be safe as long as they're in your country. So there was another roadside b…
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Girl, talk, Cousin Ant. Just say it out loud. You want me to multitask. You're out of your mind. Yes. Well, you're wanting me to multitask. I can't multitask. So you're talking about Burkina Faso and Mali and such. And hot off the Russian p…
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neutral countries and that they wouldn't be involved in this at all right because they're neutral that's just a bit bold-faced lie and probably the most so you guys know when we're into these things and you're digging you miss the obvious a…
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Because that's exactly what the bottom line is to Venezuela and to Libya and to so many of these others. That's what Burkina Faso is doing right now with their gold mines. They want the sovereign wealth of their country to be enjoyed by the…