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  • in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 20 July 2025 #62360
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    You would not believe this cronetoo – just about an hour ago, I said on the Genocide thread that I sense a tipping point.

    I’ve not done listening to Mamood yet but the first airdops of aid was a disaster.  They dropped some in the ocean .. and they dropped only seven pallets.  It is unclear.  So, let me continue and listen to Mamood – Thanks for posting.

     

     

    in reply to: Africa V #62264
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Get France out of Africa? (New wordsound for disgust, that I learned from Marwa Osman: Tfeh. Make it like spitting!)

    French Company Canal+ Acquires Pan-African Broadcaster MultiChoice

    South Africa’s antitrust regulator has conditionally approved the acquisition of pan-African media group MultiChoice by French television company Canal+ for $2 billion.

    The deal paves the way for the creation of Africa’s largest pay-TV and streaming business. Canal+ has been gradually purchasing MultiChoice shares since the deal was announced last year and will now buy out the remaining stakes from shareholders. The transaction is expected to close by October 8.

    So, an African broadcaster has just been sold to a French broadcaster. This is how neo-colonialsm is supported – for money. How hard is Russia and China working to build a broadcasting network that is not western.

    My dad had a word that he used for disgust .. Njef. I’m using both lol. There is the saying that they use in the UNSC and in African high level meetings: African solutions for African problems. It is only the Sahel States and Ebrahim Traoré that is living the truth. It is not good. Most of the rest are still in it for the money.

    We can watch and hope and encourage.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 20 July 2025 … Open Thread #62220
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    HT: “Sometimes, we need a fairy lie to brighten our day.”

    Yes! Roll ’em HT – we’re in tough times, and laughter refreshes the soul!

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 20 July 2025 #62216
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Basics .. and I don’t know much. His Majesty King Bhumibol – the ninth King of the Chakri Dynasty, worked to improve the livelihoods of all Thai citizens. He was known as the father of the nation and died at the end of 2016, after 70 years on the throne. Very solid Royal tradition if you go for that kind of thing, and the Thais apparently do.

    The one that took over was initially iffy, but then he rediscovered Buddhism and sorted himself out. But he is now aged as well. His daughter, who was slated to take over, became ill somewhere in 2023, fell into a coma, and died early this year. She was no slouch and worked for a living. She held a master’s degree and a doctorate and worked as the Thai ambassador to Austria, Slovenia, and Slovakia, as well as in roles with the Attorney General’s Office, the Royal Security Command, and as the Thai ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. What is left is two boys (more children, but the girl and these two boys are eligible according to their system), playboys, and estranged. Both said they will now return. That is about what I know. So, after the old King died, beloved in the Thai royal tradition, or so they say, and the one who is now king, shaking himself out and working, there is now no clear inheritor except for two estranged playboys.

    The Thais love their Royal Tradition. It’s their history and the stuff of dynasties.

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 20 July 2025 #62211
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    “Thailand has a much larger and better-equipped army, as well as greater economic power.”

    That may have changed. There are systemic problems exacerbated by the ‘Kingly’ problems. There is no heir and there is illness. And this has always been a solid and stable issue that kept the country together. That structure is now trembling. Some conversations that I was involved in recently, has that there are systemic financial and economic problems. Tariffs may hammer them hard as industry will leave to Vietnam and Indonesia. Industry will flee.

    Seven key labor-intensive industries are particularly vulnerable: textiles, garments, gems and jewellery, electronics, electrical appliances, processed foods, and rubber products.
    Millions of jobs are at risk, with specific sectors facing mass layoffs, including an estimated 400,000 workers in the garment industry, up to 800,000 in the jewellery sector, and 600,000 in electronics – those are just the major ones and then there is the downstream. The garment industry closes a plant, and the street vendor selling juice to the workers is toast. So is the sandwich supplier and the vendors that supply that.
    If these tariffs are implemented, a long-term decline is anticipated.

    I feel the economics have something to do with this fast war .. I mean,there has been skirmishes but nothing extremely serious. The entire picture is not yet clear. Who knows if a little bird did not whisper in some of the Thai government’s ears that if they did this or that, perhaps we could do something about Tariffs.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 20 July 2025 … Open Thread #62198
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    They’re gonna destroy Trump. This is the latest South Park. No worries, there is a lil’ dicky in there but I don’t think it is x rated. 2 short movies one of which is Trump in bed with the devil.
    https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/155789?single

    Another joke – the jokes are flying …

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 20 July 2025 … Open Thread #62181
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    We know they are disgustingly perverted.  I am concerned about Candace herself, thinking that she is charging out on her white steed to do the world a favor.  It’s very American that!

    You know what they say in Africa … when China comes we get roads, airports, railroads etc etc.  When the US comes, we get a lecture.

     

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 20 July 2025 … Open Thread #62179
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    So, it is a setup.  I am just sorry for Candace who is just a person trying to do her best.  And she is not government – she can say about Macron whatever she pleases, so it is strange, this lawsuit.  It is not what they want to hide, it is what they want to accomplish.

    For her sake, she should settle and drop it is my sense.

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 20 July 2025 … Open Thread #62157
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Somebody must tell me about Candace Owens.  OK, so I’ve checked her out now and again, maybe similar to what Mr.P checks out ol’Sal the Sailor Man.

    I just posted that she ended up headlines in the Chinese papers because Macron and His Other started this lawsuit.  So, Candace comes out fighting, and says:  “I think you’re sick. I think you’re disgusting. And I am fully prepared to take on this battle on behalf of the entire world,”

    Here is the question.  This  is not the ‘entire world’s battle’.  How do we tell her to fight that battle for her own reasons,  The rest of us?  Not interested – The Other One could be a woke Martian for all I care.  Sexual crimes are systemic.  Peeping into the Macron panties is not my thing and I guess the RoW are just not interested.  We know there is evil and most leaders are completely bent from head to toe, in one way or another.   Now go look at the systemic nature of it, the killing of innocence.  I mean, this stuff sits in the white house – we know the Kennedys, we know about blue dresses and cigars, we know about harassment and bribes and grooming and ….  The ‘world’ is just cold to this issue.    Let her please not go and fight her battle on behalf of any of the ‘rest of the world’.   Especially not against poodle Macron.  You sleep with those dogs and you certainly wake up with fleas.

     

    amarynth
    Keymaster

    ❤️❤️ it Nico!

    in reply to: Africa V #62077
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Hi emersonreturn, RT has a reasonable article mainly about Nelson Mandela. In it, you will see how much of the original video is just wrong and I get so mad if they slander Mandela. You will see from his quotes in the article that he wanted the country to bury the hatchet. https://www.rt.com/africa/621448-nelson-mandela-lifelong-struggle/

    You will also notice that Mandela eventually started negotiations after rejecting them a number of times, but not under the the ANC. So, you may understand why I get so angry with the current bunch, because they have sold out every principle that Mandela set out – every sense of true reconciliation that there ever was.

    The white community was with Mandela. Anyway, much better article than the usual. There are a few detail problems. Each time it is described that some action was ‘peaceful’, it was very violent, from all sides.

    That beautiful and productive country these ANC dicks and criminals broke apart. I wonder if people even have any idea what a successful reconciliation in South Africa could have meant for the rest of Africa. It could have been the Burkina Faso of the times.

    Mandela: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”
    “I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred… The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity,”

    He understood the path of freedom very deeply.

    “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

    “It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

    Now check this: “The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs, it will not change that policy.”

    And lo and behold, Mandela was hardly cold in his grave and they changed that policy.

    amarynth
    Keymaster

    See Ya on the other side. RIP

    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Just a tad of Fela Kuti

    in reply to: Africa V #62022
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Femi Akomolafe is the only one that I know that writes on these things … in English.  He has a burning article out now, but local stuff and probably difficult to get.

    There was one piece that struck me:

    “You cannot claim to be oppressed and yet carry yourself as the conqueror of every land you set foot upon.” You cannot cry marginalization in one breath and, in the next, impose your royal titles, tribal colors, and brash behavior in a land that is not yours.

    Have we learned nothing from history?

    Let us revisit the ugly chapters we often pretend never happened— no apology to those who may call it washing dirty linen in public. We are not in the image laundry business as polemicists. We are in the naked truth business. There is no integrity in calling out and cussing imperialism and racism while we romanticize our shortcomings in Africa.”

    He is not behind a pay wall, so you can read here:  https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/igbo-kingdom-of-commotion

    He says:  I am an unapologetic Pan-Africanist who is unconditionally opposed to any form or manifestation of racism, fascism, and discrimination.  There are not many of those around that say these things.  It is quite a joke .. if he has a piece that we can use, I always tell him “The whites are raiding again!  May I use this or that piece?” and we laugh … because we both know and we both are irked!

    Sputnik has an Africa X channel, but both Sputnik and RT only write about those who are Russia-oriented, and because of that, they sometimes publish absolute rubbish and interview the dregs, as long as they say they love Russia.    This channel sometimes has some good info:  https://t.me/africaintel  

    I did see an article today that describes how the media sphere is changing to independent media –  first because of cost-cutting and secondly because people have had enough of the bad media.

    in reply to: Africa V #62007
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    My dearest emersoonreturn,

    I do not know what you want me to say, but I’ve said some things.  The problem is that most of Africa is still so entangled in neo-colonialism, and it is not ‘the other guys fault’.

    This starts with a liberation movement that does not end up well – they are there to liberate but not to govern effectively.  YEAH! and then the excuses start.

    The white party … How dumb is Jamarl?  How many times has he been there?  Has he ever looked at the DA?  It is an integrated management team and a multi-cultural party.  I guess in this sphere, he is skating on thin ice by applying his Western values.  He does not know what he is talking about.  The DA is the 2nd largest party without which the ANC cannot survive.  If the DA walks, the ANC has no mandate to govern.   The DA is a relative white party as they are from the Cape Province and there are relatively more whites, coloreds and indians.  Rainbow nation duh!

    The white genocide … If he used his head, and looked at the numbers, the killings of farmers are critical. The crime rate is sky high, and if you roll it into the crime rate, it looks like nothing which shows how pathetic the crime rate is.  But if you start comparing.. farmer killings (and it is now all colors but there are relatively fewer black farmers) as a percentage of for example, killings of any other grouping, it is way beyond – compare that rate of killings of farmers with say … uhm, killings of policeman, the farmers are way ahead.  Farmers in South Africa are being killed at a higher rate than a small war.   Trump called ‘white genocide’, nobody else.   Nowadays the farmers are solidly connected with radios and can call for help very quickly.  The local social groups are intent on security.

    I just replayed the New African Covenant, from Traoré, before I saw your video here…

    Mandela was a stop gap president? What shortsightedness. He (and his alter ego) set a tone, they set a value .. and that was the value of a Rainbow Nation (many tribes or ethic groups) .. not a bunch of liberators that steal and refuse to govern. Always remember that the ANC inherited a functioning and thriving country, and now ALL state organizations are bankrupt – the airlines, the railways, the post office, the power generators… everything – all state governed service operators.  The ANC screwed it up totally. Not even the IMF or World Bank will give them loans any longer, and I’ve said before that BRICS won’t give them a sou, because they don’t develop; they steal it. And that has not changed.

    Mandela was in negotiations from the late 1980’s with the so called freedom election or democracy in 1994. He was neither isolated nor ignored and had his team with him even in the jail.  How bitter, to blame Mandela. How little does one have left over if you have to blame Madiba, the clan name of The Father of the Nation?.

    The ANC missed the opportunity, and they were advised by ‘whites’ on black empowerment to make structural changes. Now, the whites are to blame again. That is a dead ANC give-away – blame the other one, best if it is a white.

    Now, after 30 years, they want to do something? They’ve failed. How many do-overs do they want?

    People have rights, they can speak – he says. But they cannot live. They cannot eat. And they want to smash the state? That means smashing themselves, the ANC and I concur heartily. The state that made it so that they cannot eat? The story about wearing military uniforms – that is just nonsense. Traoré is at war .. it is a military administration – the western forces have put a mess of ISIS types on the Sahel States. Traoré has been there for just a few years, and he has thrown France out.  South Africa still are in cahoots with the ‘white’ bosses – they call it minority capital, but if that leaves, nobody will eat. Because it is relatively simple, they could not establish a government or an economic system that works.  They intend to make the Bolshevik mistakes.

    The race laws do not support the poor masses. They encourage those that do not work, do not learn and do not do anything … because they can shout race laws.  See how clever – those that cannot get the neo-colonialists out because they are in full cahoots,  by saying it is not a fundamental change. Uhm .. that kind of criticism just pissed me off.  Psychology of subordination?   Take a look at Traoré, he is not throwing out French that work with him .. he is throwing out those that are taking the Burkina Faso’s wealth in mining or in any other productive endeavour and in the main, he is economically supporting it locally – So what is this guy jealous about?  He is still decolonizing his mind? Sure sure .. Let’s keep a colonized mind so we have an excuse.

    The interviewee is also not South African, although he lectures there.  He is almost certainly from Northern climes, judging by his last name.  That name does not exist but it exists further North.

    You’re listening to a skilled ANC operative who would not be able to run a spaza shop if it were given to him.  He is there to encourage DEI at university level.  (Spaza shop, little local grocery, like very local grocery and daily milk and bread store – all universities in the country are now DEI shops.).

    Jamarl?  Well, what shall I say?   The man is deceived, and perhaps he wants to be deceived. Maybe he has to get on a plane and visit – and purchase from the little Spaza shops and hear what the real folks on the ground are saying these days.

    They cannot even agree on a budget. This is the latest from President Cyril Ramaphosa.

    Even as the world faces difficult economic headwinds, our economic reform agenda will create the conditions for higher growth and investment, while renewing our infrastructure for generations to come. (Now he has said that for the past 8 years!)

    Economic reform agenda?  He has said that for eight years!  Here is just one response. There were thousands, and all of them said .. Get Out! You are an incompetent fool who robs the country and helps your buddies to rob it more.  And the people stay hungry.

    Hay Cyril I truly thought you were different from the rest but this Mkhwanazi situation has exposed you completely. You’ve shown that you’d rather protect the ANC’s image & its corrupt comrades than stand up for the people of this country.

    Time & time again, you turn a blind eye to the very things that are destroying South Africa, collapsing institutions, lawlessness, illegal immigration & public sector looting all to protect a party not a nation. While you polish the ANC’s legacy, millions of South Africans are sinking deeper into poverty, unemployment & hopelessness. You are a disgrace to the legacy of black South Africans & those who fought & died for democracy. OMandela noHani didn’t sacrifice everything just so future generations would still be trapped in poverty, living with empty promises & staged unity. If this is what “freedom” looks like, then their fight was in vain because the black majority is still suffering, not thriving. History will remember this betrayal.

    Mkhwanzini was a fine, high-level police commissioner who uncovered graft from the political class. Ramaphosa gave that political class nice vacations, while they were under investigation. So far, not a word as far as I know.  This has happened repeatedly. I guess they need a real revolution to throw their lazy asses out and put the people who can govern a country to work. The danger is that this revolution is coming from the two small parties that are worse than the ANC. The one party led by the former president is quite something – he built himself a large village, utilizing state resources and labor, and lives there comfortably with his entourage of wives, numerous swimming pools, and fleets of luxury cars.

    Finally, Trump made a deal .. stop the race laws, stop the landgrabs without compensation and Trump the High Lord will be kind with tariffs.  They did not and now the tariffs are about 40% all told.   I see hungry people.

    OK; you have my comments.  It is a pity, because I love Africa.

     

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