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u      Who makes these weapons? Do you know of              After 50 years of independence, the debt was
        any  African  country  that  makes  guns? And  why   erased only last year, after 50 years. And what does
        put  guns into  the  hands  of our children? So  that   the  International  Monetary  System  do  after  that?
        we may kill each other? And war has started once     They say to our governments, “Listen, we will rate
        again. Who are the instigators? They are the multi-  you and to rate you here this is the adjusted struc-
        nationals. Why? Because, as you may know, there      tural plan that you must follow to keep your public
        is a product, a mineral, called coltan; it is thanks to   expenses down concerning education, health and
        coltan if we have GPS, that we have laptops, cell    social  assistance.”  It  is always  the  poor who  are
        phones, all kinds of gadgets, thanks to it Bill Gates   annihilated,  whom we make disappear and since
        is getting richer, Nokia is                                                it is impossible for the State
        getting  richer,  Samsung                                                  to pay its debts to the Inter-
        is getting  richer, but the                             Coltan  (short     national  Monetary    Fund,
        main component comes                                 for    colombite-     what happens? They pocket
        from Congo, in the north-                            tantalite) is a very   the money that used to pay
        east  region.  While our                             rare mineral  that    down the debt and enrich
                                                             is essential for the
        precious minerals are                                development    of     themselves more and more,
        mined, all the value-add-                            cell phones, GPS,     while  we  the  poor we  be-
        ed refinements are  done                             laptops, cameras      come  poorer and  poorer.
        in developed  countries.                             or other electronic   This  is  the  rule  of  the  Inter-
        Why the war? It is to cre-                           devices.   Thou-      national Financial Mafia. This
        ate chaos...                                         sands of children     is how we are treated by all
            Once again  I de-                                are  employed  in     these freemasons of finance.
        nounce  the  injustice of     coltan mines, since their small stature allow   And us, we are the apos-
        the  international  mafia,    them to crawl in tunnels... On average,  ex-  tles of the good news of So-
        organized  and  structured    tracting one kilogram of coltan causes the   cial  Credit,  we  are  sent  by
        to make a  population         death of two children.                       Louis Even to denounce this
        suffer because of its nat-                                                 Mafia – I thank you for it. I re-
        ural resources. They fix                                                   cently listened to his confer-
        the price; they exploit to save their financial inter-  ence given in 1957. Already at that time he was an
        ests. And this is a mafia that organizes itself with   extraordinary visionary. I am captivated and speech-
        the  political  leaders  of the  country.  A  scandalous   less, he explained the documents of the Magister-
        fact, at the airport in Goma, an American airplane   ium  since Pope Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI,
        lands, registered in the USA, with American pilots   I would even say today up to John Paul II, and up to
        on board, with $300 billion in funds destined to buy   Benedict XVI. Looking ahead, I even proclaim him
        minerals. And who sells these minerals? It is the war   PROPHET OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. I proclaim
        lords. They  come  to  enrich  the  war  lords, yet  on   Louis Even as PROHET OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE,
        these $300 billion, they will make $2 billion.       he  understood completely  and he  made himself
            And these war lords, who manipulate  these       a prophet and envoy of the universal Church and
        billions, do you  think  they  will look to  negotiate   wages the battle that God wanted since the begin-
        for peace? Do you think they will look to stop the   ning of creation,  since creation and since the be-
        war? NO! The goods of the earth, as taught by the    ginning. What a spiritual vision! He denounced this
        Church, and as Louis Even said in his conference,    financial system of exploitation, of institutionalized
        should profit every human being and they should      injustice. And he engaged himself at the vanguard
        be at the service of each and every man for his hap-  of this war so that the goods of the earth profit and
        piness and lead him to his eternal destiny.          bring happiness to all mankind.
            Joy begins here. I should feel happy, complete-      Happiness. This is the battle of Social Credit that
        ly fulfilled as a Congolese because God has bless-   in my eyes is of divine inspiration. Let us not worry;
        ed us with the goods of the earth, but, I am not…    we are bearers of this gospel of distributive justice.
        I am not because of the unrealistic and speculative   For Louis Even, we must work with faith and deter-
        economic system of the capitalist bankers. I am not   mination in the rehabilitation of the rights of the per-
        because of the economic and commercial financial     son so that each person does not live in want. How
        institutions such as the World Trade Organization    I would like to see this dream realized!! Each sitting
        (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that    in their home in Africa should say to himself: “I ate
        bear a GREAT responsibility in deliberately keeping   well, I slept well”. This should no longer be a dream
        us poor in poverty when we are a VERY, VERY rich     but should become a reality. This is why since last
        country!                                             night I told myself: “For me this man is the Prophet



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