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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on September 26, 2010, 10:15:55 PM
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I was given an opportunity to make 2 million bucks. Sadly, my exposure to the quaker faith has instilled in me the value of simplicity, so I must decline. However, to you less enlightened types, I will give you the opportunity to profit at a grieving widow's expense. ;D
FQ13 who thinks this one is a classic ::)
Received in my email today:
From: Mrs.Mable Kabila.
My Dearest One,
Good day, Firstly, I apologize for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a Certified/Post-mail. It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutualinterest to share with you. Hence, this letter to you.I humbly crave your indulgence to read this e-mail with all seriousness of purpose devoid of any doubt in your mind because this project is based on Trust Confidentiality and Sincerity of purpose in order to have an acceptable meeting of the minds.
Please I seek your permission and would want to get myself introduce to you. I am Mrs.Mable Kabila, from Democratic Republic of Congo in East Africa.There is an information I would like you to keep very confidential. There is sum amount of money my Husband Late President Luarent Desire Kabila deposited in a security company here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa for safe keeping. Before he was killed by his Eldest Millitary Son. The squable happened as immediately we returned back from our London trip,My husband married us two.I am the second wife,I will not be able to give you the full details that led to that urgly incidents. The Eldest Son is the current President of our country now.For now I am staying in Abijdan, the enconomic capital of Republic of Cote d'voire,just to save my life,with my two children. The money in question,is 22Million U.S.Dollars.I can not make the withdrawal of this fund,because my husband registered the Beneficiary of the fund as his (Foriegn Bussiness Patner) and also(Family valuables as the content of the deposit) The documents of the deposit are here with me.
What I would want you to do, is to assist me to get the consignment withdrawn from the security company, and we shall open a small account in a Bank here in your name, and transfer the money to your country, through the account.We shall replace the name Foriegn Patner to your own name, because the code was used for security reason.I will give you 10% out of the total money for your assitance.There is no risk in this transaction. I will use the remaining balance of the money for an investiment in your country and for the future of my children.If you are intrested, and can maintain the very confidential of this transaction,you e-mail me(mrsmable001@bol.com.br) Immediately for more clearification, and also note that I am a refugees in Abidjan Cote d'lvoire becuase of the assasnation of my late husband,and the civil war going on in our country,Democratic Republic of Congo.
Thank you very much.
Mrs.Mable Kabila
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Gunna jump on that one! Need the $$$$$ LOL
Richard
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That two timing Hussie!! I thought I was her Dearest One. No wonder I haven't heard from her since I sent her my account information.
I was worried she was in some sort of trouble, but I see she just threw me over for FQ. WOMEN!!!
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I'm getting so much money from Nigeria that I'm going to pass on this offer. ;)
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I guess I should jump on the offer made to me by Mr. Weegonna Taka Yadough, First Minister of the Interior of Nigerian Fraud.
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The Kabila name rang a bell.
This guy singlehandedly kept the "Humanitarian relief" industry going for 40 years .
His Bio reads like a who's who of people I would have got a medal for shooting.
NO WIFE NAMED MABEL, her name is Sifa Mahanya
Also, it wasn't his "Son" that whacked him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Kabila#Assassination
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The Kabila name rang a bell.
This guy singlehandedly kept the "Humanitarian relief" industry going for 40 years .
His Bio reads like a who's who of people I would have got a medal for shooting.
NO WIFE NAMED MABEL, her name is Sifa Mahanya
Also, it wasn't his "Son" that whacked him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Kabila#Assassination
I actjally met the man at an African Studies Conference in NY. He came off as as a used car salesman. His death was mourned by no one. His son? He seems to have potential, but that country is FUBAR to the Nth degree. Hell, it was screwed up so badly that King Leopuld of Belgium burned his records from when it was a royal remit, and this was in the 19th century before International Law and Universal Jurisdiction. One shudders to think how bad it was. Mobuto didn't help either. Kabila junior seems to be doing his best, but with the spill over from Rwanda and Zimbawe playing games? Good luck. ::) >:(
FQ13 Who thanks God he wasn't born there :-\
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I actjally met the man at an African Studies Conference in NY. He came off as as a used car salesman. His death was mourned by no one. His son? He seems to have potential, but that country is FUBAR to the Nth degree. Hell, it was screwed up so badly that King Leopuld of Belgium burned his records from when it was a royal remit, and this was in the 19th century before International Law and Universal Jurisdiction. One shudders to think how bad it was. Mobuto didn't help either. Kabila junior seems to be doing his best, but with the spill over from Rwanda and Zimbawe playing games? Good luck. ::) >:(
FQ13 Who thanks God he wasn't born there :-\
Remember the "Central African Republic ? ;D Old Bokassa makes this guy look like a saint .
Emperor Bokassa served his political enemies.
To other political enemies.
I understand it was a very nice rice, if you did not mind recognizing the meat dish. ;D
Then over in Liberia you had Charles Taylor, another paragon of "African virtue". He was the basis for one of the characters in that Nicholas Cage movie "Lord of War". This charmer was also the power behind the 10 year old "Child soldiers" depicted in "Blood Diamond" (very good movie, and if taken in context it's relatively accurate.)
And you voted for one ? ;D
To get sort of back on topic, The Belgians were bastards, that's why the King burned the records, they were worse than the Spanish Conquistadors ever dreamed of being, Visitors from German and Portuguese colonies, which were notorious for the harsh conditions, were appalled by the condition of Congolese natives.
Read a book about Von Lettow Vorbeck that went into conditions in German East, as well as other African colonies at the outbreak of WWI.
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Remember the "Central African Republic ? ;D Old Bokassa makes this guy look like a saint .
Emperor Bokassa served his political enemies.
To other political enemies.
I understand it was a very nice rice, if you did not mind recognizing the meat dish. ;D
Then over in Liberia you had Charles Taylor, another paragon of "African virtue". He was the basis for one of the characters in that Nicholas Cage movie "Lord of War". This charmer was also the power behind the 10 year old "Child soldiers" depicted in "Blood Diamond" (very good movie, and if taken in context it's relatively accurate.)
And you voted for one ? ;D
To get sort of back on topic, The Belgians were bastards, that's why the King burned the records, they were worse than the Spanish Conquistadors ever dreamed of being, Visitors from German and Portuguese colonies, which were notorious for the harsh conditions, were appalled by the condition of Congolese natives.
Read a book about Von Lettow Vorbeck that went into conditions in German East, as well as other African colonies at the outbreak of WWI.
One of my Profs, Kaythy Boone, wrote a very influential article. Her argument was this. African countries with few natural resources tend to be more Democratic than those blessed (or in her opinion cursed) with a lot of them. The argument goes like this. Gold/copper/diamond mines require state capital and security. Whoever runs the government gets the money. Its all about state control. Subtract those resources, and its all about farmers and merchants. There is less for the state to sieze and thus democracy has a better chance. Its like comparing Spain to Great Britian. There was no gold to be found in the colonies. The wealth was in tobbaco, indigo and cotton farms and timber and local industry. Spain was all about the gold mines. There was no accident that Latin America is full of despots in a top down system, and we are spared that because political power does not equal economic power. In Congo, it does. Better for them if they didn't have the copper and gold mines. Then they might have an economy based on yeoman farmers and merchants which are much harder to control.
FQ13 who could go on, but I think I've raised a point
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Remember the "Central African Republic ? ;D Old Bokassa makes this guy look like a saint .
Emperor Bokassa served his political enemies.
To other political enemies.
I understand it was a very nice rice, if you did not mind recognizing the meat dish. ;D
Then over in Liberia you had Charles Taylor, another paragon of "African virtue". He was the basis for one of the characters in that Nicholas Cage movie "Lord of War". This charmer was also the power behind the 10 year old "Child soldiers" depicted in "Blood Diamond" (very good movie, and if taken in context it's relatively accurate.)
And you voted for one ? ;D
To get sort of back on topic, The Belgians were bastards, that's why the King burned the records, they were worse than the Spanish Conquistadors ever dreamed of being, Visitors from German and Portuguese colonies, which were notorious for the harsh conditions, were appalled by the condition of Congolese natives.
Read a book about Von Lettow Vorbeck that went into conditions in German East, as well as other African colonies at the outbreak of WWI.
Yes, the Belgians were bastards, incredibly brutal and vicious toward the natives - large scale murders, amputations, floggings, the list is huge. However, the reason the records were burned was because the King in his own person, as an individual, owned the Congo. All of it, lock, stock and barrel. He and he alone, not the country, not the parliament, not a syndicate - just him.
The parliament finally took it away after the abuses started becoming public, but long after incredible damage had been done to the people, and king Leo destroyed the audit trail.
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FQ, Her theory may have been influential, but it is wrong as it fails to account for places like Somalia, Ethiopia, or for that matter most of northern Africa.
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FQ, Her theory may have been influential, but it is wrong as it fails to account for places like Somalia, Ethiopia, or for that matter most of northern Africa.
Islam changes things. Ethiopia is trying to figure out what it is post monarchy. Maybe they should repatriate the Rastafarians. ;D
FQ13 Ja love ;D ;D ;D
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Islam does not change anything, Cyrus and Sargon were no shrinking violets when it came to squashing some one.