Shark Island off the coast of Namibia (then German Southwest Africa):
|Shark Island (German Haifischinsel) is a small peninsulaadjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia. Its area is about 40 hectares.Formerly an island, it became a peninsula from 1906 on by the creation of a wide land connection that doubled its former size.Now a campsite for tourists, from 1904 to 1907 it was the site of a concentration camp, created for members of the Herero and Nama tribes in German South West Africa. (See Shark Island Extermination Camp.)|
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|The first Holocaust: Horrifying Secrets of Germany’s Earliest Genocide Inside “the Forbidden Zone” (Feb. 7, 2009 dailymall.uk article by Sean Thomas).
Huge costs, to this day, for the Scramble for Africa. I believe this is important to keep in mind, because the same colonizing spirit is in action today, only it’s just the world. People who are not members of (Anglo-Saxon, German, Dutch, etc., tribes?) carving up the world into regions and making treaties with each other about who gets which continent (or part of one) — should remember how the ancestors who formed the same armies and/or corporations, treated indigenous populations who got in their way, and the political/theological rationale for practicing atrocities.
I would not be dragging us through this (or have spent the time looking it up) did we not have major American leadership who had been schooled at Oxford, courtesy the Rhodes Trust, and as part of its Scholarship Program, running a good deal of politics today. In this set of scholarships. Women were not allowed til ca. 1970s (compare with when women got the vote in USA), and people of color, only one in 1907, and no more til the 1960s, with primary objection coming from contemporary American Scholars. In case I’m not clear on this, racism and sexism in the name of greed and pride.
When, in 1996, finally welfare reform was passed (privatizing welfare, basically) in the US, two Rhodes Scholars (one, a US President) at least were involved. Not coincidence, probably, that the populations welfare reform targeted were women and blacks, starting with black women. In general, people have reported that the US is slated now for “going under” after our assets have been appropriated; there only remains the delicate issue of what to do with, how to house, the remaining population — which are good for labors, which should be warehoused, and which discarded. Always remember, there is an end-game, and it’s rarely what it’s sold as.
This blog is about consolidation and centralization of wealth, while continuing to wear out and extort most of the population with taxes and lectures about morality, liability and the national debt — as if they were the cause of these issues. The history of the people behind “the Great Scramble” here is character testimony, and relevant today.
Sorry I can’t put a nicer spin on this ugly truth: The Germans practice for death camps and genocide on displaced tribes on an Island in German Southwest Africa. Before shipping them off to “Shark Island” their water holes were poisoned, they were driven beyond water into the desert, and guards posted to make sure they did not return. They were then used as labor (and the woman also used); they were even used in a very evil fashion after death.
While this section starts with the Germans, there were also the Dutch who practiced slavery, and Mr. Rhodes who fomented a number of the wars, and was absolutely not above mowing down people who stood in his way with an American invention, the Maxim machine gun. The American in question (Hiram Maxim), I learned was a prolific inventor from Maine, however he did move to London, and attempted to sell his gun to the British army; they were less than impressed, so instead he sold it to Kaiser Wilhelm II’s army, who took it up.
There is direct connection between practices here, Goering, Hitler, the concept of forbidding intermarriage of races, and a lot of other horrible things. I do notice (after my own experiences in ‘family court hell’ in America, another century) that the architect of apartheid started out in religion, but later focused on the fields of APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, AND WELFARE.
REGARDING “SHARK ISLAND” — HERE’S AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS:
Photo to left shows that to the east of the island is desert. Photo to the right shows that the ships are seeking shelter on the east side of the island. The prisoners were put in the NW side without sufficient clothing, where winds were fierce.
Shark Island at Luderitz would become the blue print for the death camps of the 20th century. The idea of collecting people from far away locations – shipping them by rail in cattle cars to a remote location beyond the public gaze – then systematically killing them – originated there.
If it was done once, it can, and would be done again…. It may be done yet again, depending on same circumstances, and particularly if the same groups (descendants of the colonialists, people with a desire for global domination of Anglo-Saxons such as Rhodes, the German Kaiser, the Dutch (who practiced slavery), etc.
The island is flanked by the vast Namib desert and the ice cold waters of the South Atlantic. (open image above left) The landscape was characterized by solid rock carved into surreal formations by hard ocean winds. Note modern day ships seeking shelter on the protected east side of the islands ocean swells.
Click either image for larger resolution pictures.
Shark Island – Photo Gallery Ezakawntu
Pls. Note: Drawn to sociology, applied psychology (conducting of psychological practices on others), and welfare; also architect of apartheid, drawn particularly to run education systems for the entire country, believed that Blacks only needed a minimum level of education, enough to fulfil their assigned role in society (i.e., serving the Whites and their businesses).
In studying “family court matters” (2009ff) and some of the top USA HHS (which administers and distributes “welfare”) leadership, I noticed that so many of them had majored in and were from fields of psychology and education, both of which are relatively “manufactured” fields seeking outcomes which are likely to be influenced by the politial winds.
Back to Cecil Rhodes BIOGRAPHY:
In 1888 De Beers was restructured as De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. and this company has continued to exercise a monopoly over Kimberly diamond production. Rhodes also won mining rights from the Matabele King Lobengula whose domain lay to the north of Bechuanaland.
In 1889 Cecil Rhodes formed the British South Africa Company and obtained a Royal Charter from the British Government to occupy Mashonaland. In 1890 he took office as Prime Minister of the Cape, from which office he had involvement later that year with the establishment of the British outpost of Fort Salisbury (named after the British prime minister of the day) deep in Mashonaland. By 1894 Mashonaland and neighbouring Matabeleland had been subjugated and were united under the name of Rhodesia.
In the late 1830’s a number of Boers had become frustrated with the oppressive interference of their British rulers of the Cape and made a `Great Trek’ northwards across the Vaal river where they hoped to live as they themselves pleased. The original Trekkers defeated a native opposition to their presence and were later joined by many Boer migrants. All of this led up to the establishment of a Transvaal Republic in 1860. Although Rhodes viewed the Transvaal Republic as an inconvenient obstacle to British expansionism in southern Africa it was, generally speaking, of little interest to anyone but their own citizens until 1887, when fabulously rich gold reefs were discovered in the Witwatersrand area.
The prospect of sudden and amazing wealth lured tens of thousands of non-Boers, many of them English, into the Transvaal to seek their fortunes. The Transvaal’s president, Paul Kruger, refused to grant these ‘uitlanders’ (aliens) meaningful political rights, and Rhodes used this denial as an excuse to conspire to overthrow the Boer-dominated government.
He organised his close friend, Dr. Leander Jameson, to lead a column of some 500 armed men to Pretoria with the aim of triggering an insurrection against the Kruger government. The Jameson Raid, which took place in December 1895, was a complete fiasco and resulted in a polarisation of animosity between Englishman and Boer throughout the country. Rhodes was severely censured by the British government for his involvement and forced to resign his premiership of the Cape in early 1896.
In the aftermath of the Jameson Raid, Rhodes spent much of this time up in Rhodesia, where he devoted himself to the development of his beloved country. Tensions had been rapidly building up between Rhodes’ pioneers and the country’s indigenous Shona and Matabele population. They eventually rose up in armed revolt against the white settlers, resulting in widespread loss of life. In 1896 – in what was undoubtedly his finest hour – Rhodes and three companions rode, by invitation but unarmed, deep into a Matabele stronghold in the Matopo Hills to negotiate for peace.
In October 1899, the simmering tensions between the British and the Boers finally resulted in the outbreak of the Boer war. Rhodes was in Kimberley at the time and was trapped there during a four month siege of the town by 5,000 Boer commandos. As well as playing an important supervisory and morale-building role in the defence of Kimberley – most of whose citizens were employed by his De Beers company – he even had his workshops manufacture a special artillery piece, called `Long Cecil’, to help ward off the attackers.
Rhodes, who had a weak and troublesome heart for much of his life, passed away at his beachside cottage at Muizenberg near Cape Town on March 26th, 1902 at the age of only 49. He died just two months before the end of the Anglo-Boer War. By the time of his death, Rhodes had been instrumental in bringing almost one million square miles of Africa under British dominion.
Rhodes actually left the greater part of his vast fortune for the establishment of these scholarships at his alma mater, Oxford University. Rhodes decreed that these scholarships were to be awarded to young men in regard to:
‘literary and scholastic attainments; his fondness of, and success in, manly outdoor sports; his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for the protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship, and his exhibition during his school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates’.
Continued on Part #4
which brings it into perspective, and an excellent summary of the history of this cartel also. FYI, the name “De Beers” came from some Boer brothers whose claims Rhodes (who produced no heirs; never married) bought out early on. As Rhodes also didn’t live past 50 years old, it turns out that his successor entrepreneur in South Africa was to be Ernest Oppenheimer, also part of this history. (see last paragraph, here in an (on-line) book by Edward Jay Epstein).