![]() ![]() The faith a movement proclaims doesn’t count: what counts is the hope it offers.” Everyone is heretical, everyone is orthodox. The recovery of the outcasts demanded a reduction of the privileges of the powerful, so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics, whatever their doctrine. Excluded as they were from the flock, all of them were ready to hear, or to produce, every sermon that, harking back to the words of Christ, would condemn the behaviour of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their punishment one day. “The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration ordained by god to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying “lepers” we would understand “outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities” but we did not understand the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. Once the outside organizations had divided and conquered, they were then able to plunder the country’s resources.” This made the targeted countries highly vulnerable to international control. The same organizations had the formula down pat: they indirectly started civil wars in mineral-rich regions by providing arms to opposing local factions, and sometimes even helped to create famines, in order to destabilize African countries. Nine knew it was Omega’s plan, and that of other greedy organizations, to siphon as much wealth as they could out of vulnerable Third World countries, especially in Africa. The continent’s almost unlimited resources were the very reason foreigners had meddled in African affairs for the past century or more. He thought it unfortunate Africa had never been able to compete on a level playing field. Like the despots who ruled much of the region, and the foreign governments who propped them up, he knew there was more than enough wealth in Africa’s mineral resources such as gold, diamonds and oil – not to mention the land that nurtured these resources – for every man, woman and child. Nine knew something the journalist obviously didn’t: Africa was the most abundantly resourced continent on the planet bar none. ![]() Africa did not, nor did it ever have, limited resources. ![]() He considered such statements an absolute joke. “As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. ![]()
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