(The terrorist organization) MI6 plans to send Ukrainian mercenaries to Africa. The “hit squad” will target vital infrastructure and Moscow-friendly leaders
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1691835711555555458

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 16 2023 16:06 utc | 4

Posted by: jpc | Aug 16 2023 16:02 utc | 3
Because we totally own EU institutions and governments…

Posted by: Passerby | Aug 16 2023 16:09 utc | 6

that is like saying cia and friends will end nefarious ways, or shift to other continents which means – just a continuation of the same bs of manipulation thru money or other deceptive ways…
Posted by: james | Aug 16 2023 15:49 utc | 2
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I am grateful for the many bad actors. They keep us on our toes. If someone wasn’t testing us, we might become very soft and weak. That we have to be vigilant about lies and manipulation, yes it keeps us on edge, but it also keeps us sharp.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 16 2023 16:25 utc | 8

Perhaps the CIA needs a new front organization since every big city in the US got it’s own “taste of Soros” through his sponsored District Attorneys.

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Aug 16 2023 16:46 utc | 10

30% of Argentines support the election of a lunatic who wants to decriminalize the sale of children and human organs.
Where are the conspiracy theorists who talk about reptilians and satanist pedophiles now? hehe

Posted by: Mathaus | Aug 16 2023 17:02 utc | 12

@ David Levin | Aug 16 2023 16:10 utc | 7
this has been going on for a lot longer then the tass announcement… something about former colonial/imperialist powers ganging up with one another to maintain the rape and pillage philosophy… they had a good thing for so long and like an addict, they don’t want it to stop.. thus isis in syria, or nazi ukee troops – this is the depraved level the west now operates on… to expect anything different would be to expect a miracle, lol.. dying empires and all that rot is what it is… long live the cra franc, or usa $ or whatever financial tool they need to sustain the raping and pillaging and forced slavery… obviously some countries in africa want to see it differently..

Posted by: james | Aug 16 2023 17:21 utc | 14

Assumptions:
1. Wagner is / remains arms-length, plausible-deniability agent of GRU.
2. Wagner can freelance but not color too far outside the lines of Russian foreign policy.
3. Russia is sympathetic to anti-imperialist uprisings in Africa, but will not want to be too pro-coup, viewing this a legacy / primary tool of Western rules-based international disorder.
Are there moves RF *could* still make consistent with these assumptions?
1. Quietly signal support to Niger
2. Perhaps establish a fair-trade cartel for African resources with Russia (eg, uranium)?
3. Establish a joint-commission with African countries, eventually including Niger, to jointly study how to reverse Western neo-colonial stranglehold on African resources–drawing on Yeltsin years. Re-nationalization of resource control.
4. Offer to mediate between ECOWAS & Niger, which would include a transition to the return of elections?

Posted by: Paul Damascene | Aug 16 2023 18:53 utc | 16

Posted by: bevin | Aug 16 2023 18:57 utc | 18
“This was revealed in hacked Clinton emails from 2011 (released in 2015). One of them featured Clinton Foundation employee Sydney Blumenthal (a proxy for a CIA agent, it was later learned) telling Hillary the following:
“The vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli. This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA).”
I have read something like this before. What has always baffled me is that the French franc ceased to exist in 2002, when France began to use the Euro. So Francophone African countries had to have alternative to franc already much before 2011.

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 16 2023 19:09 utc | 18

Vijay Prashad’s overview of events in the Sahel (highly recommended):

When I traveled to these regions before the pandemic, it was clear that the anti-French sentiment found no channel of expression other than hope for a military coup that would bring in leaders such as Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, who had been assassinated in 1987.
Captain Traoré, in fact, sports a red beret like Sankara, speaks with Sankara’s left-wing frankness, and even mimics Sankara’s diction. It would be a mistake to see these men as from the left since they are moved by anger at the failure of the elites and of Western policy. They do not come to power with a well-worked out agenda built from left political traditions.

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/16/niger-is-far-from-a-typical-coup/
The contrast between Prashad and Simplicius, on the subject of Sahel turmoil, speaks volumes about the outlook of these two commentators. Simplicius seems so hopeful and optimistic lately, his view is that of a young man, for better or worse. He has to keep apologizing for having just implied the total collapse of Western hegemony is due any minute (God bless him!)
Vijay Prashad, on the other hand, has been around the world in 80 zillion days, and his considerably more uncertain prognosis for the Sahel could be a mark of his maturity.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 16 2023 19:14 utc | 20

that is like saying cia and friends will end nefarious ways, or shift to other continents which means – just a continuation of the same bs of manipulation thru money or other deceptive ways…
Posted by: james | Aug 16 2023 15:49 utc | 2
Good one, James, you are a cynic! And Cynicism is the smoke that rises from the ashes of our burned out dreams!

Posted by: madmarc | Aug 16 2023 19:18 utc | 22

Membrum Virile@19
I’m not sure of the way in which the French managed that transition. And that despite the fact that I recently read a long and clearly written article on the subject. But the reality seems to be that the crafty French are still pumping the riches out of their former colonies (not Vietnam though). Niger evidently though very wealthy and strategically placed, has the second poorest population in the world.
Aleph_Null@ 21 recommends a good article, (I think I posted a link to it yesterday)on the subject which is obviously developing into the next big issue, and perhaps (I hope not) a war as the imperialists (sadly that is what they are) try to cut their losses.
As William Gruff points out in some countries coups are more democratic than elections and Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso appear to be three of them.
Incidentally and changing the subject completely (and with no offense to Karlofi) this business of substack is beginning to become ridiculous- paying $10 a month to keep up to date with the latest musings of other commenters is not going to work. Except for the ruling class which must be delighted at the way that its critics swap audience reach for a few bucks.
Another reason celebrating b’s energy and principled generosity in keeping this place open to all

Posted by: bevin | Aug 16 2023 20:01 utc | 24

Membrum Virile | Aug 16 2023 19:09 utc | 19–
Within my article, “What’s Happening in Niger and Why”, is an excerpt on the CFA Franc that came from this source, which despite being 3 years old is extremely good. An internet search for more on the CFA Franc will bring even more results that explain its function as a ball and chain for most former African French Colonies.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 16 2023 20:07 utc | 26

Balance can be found by embracing both extremes?! Me like.

Posted by: Rae | Aug 16 2023 20:30 utc | 28

@ AG | Aug 16 2023 20:31 utc | 30
interesting article that casts a pale light on germany and in particular its current leadership.. thanks..

Posted by: james | Aug 16 2023 20:37 utc | 30

Why is the US doing this, and why does China allow it ?
” Millions of US tax dollars STILL being sent to 27 Chinese labs: Research facilities benefitted from $15m to perform dangerous and cruel animal experiments – despite fears Covid leaked from Wuhan ”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12357955/American-tax-dollars-perform-animal-experiments-foreign-labs.html

Posted by: Shocked | Aug 16 2023 20:47 utc | 32

Posted by: bevin | Aug 16 2023 20:01 utc | 25
“But the reality seems to be that the crafty French are still pumping the riches out of their former colonies”
Yeah, undoubtedly. I have high hopes that China could do a lot of of good in that regard.
Russia, with it’s use of Wagner, is quite clearly ‘Meet the new boss, same as old boss’
But we shall see…
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 16 2023 20:07 utc | 27
Thanks for the newframe link. Very informative, though I disagree with some of it’s conclusions. For instance pegging the CFA franc to euro, instead of the French franc changes the dynamic quite a bit, since euro is not controlled by France and euro is used much more widely.

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 16 2023 21:45 utc | 34

@4 and @36
Stop this “war” before it’s too late !
Even not yet starting physical area war between US-Pentagon-Biden guys & Biden-
FAM ? Sons and Nuland/Killary ..? : The “Truth” awaiting anytime .. !
Great laugh – be careful Ms.360-Degrees, You young small on-fashion “girl” might be next to be eliminated ..
Whether or not .. Europe Gov. (elected by whome??) seems to be sure to destroy its own economy furthermore.
So the pretty well-styled EU-mother v.d.Liarsmay be careful to win the next step: Reaching NATO-Chef/Boss ..
If so would be, Paris’s going down to its latest steps, and proclaim the criminal EU-Prostitute v.d. Liars, at least to have saying & to demand ..

Posted by: spare_truth | Aug 16 2023 22:14 utc | 36

@karlof1 27
yep,thx from here too

Posted by: AG | Aug 16 2023 22:23 utc | 38

Posted by: kana | Aug 16 2023 20:03 utc | 26
What motivated them NOT to fix it? I’d argue a couple of things.
1) Underfunded budgets w/ rich assholes not paying their fare share of taxes.
2) Disaster capitalists calling the shots?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lahaina-fire-disaster-capitalism

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2023 22:27 utc | 40

Earlier today I tweeted/Xeeted at Elon and Zuck that I’d fight them both at the same time for a hefty $ sum, to be donated to a charity of my choosing: My checking account. FWIW I am definitely serious.
So far no replies. Maybe my comments were shadowbanned per what CJ Hopkins discusses here.
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-free-speech-twitter-psyop

What she’s talking about is the future of Internet censorship. Not the ham-fisted government-initiated censorship that people tend to think of when they think about censorship. Corporate censorship. “Free-market” censorship. What she’s talking about is the virtually imperceptible moment-by-moment manipulation of social-media content, search engine results, “reference” platforms like Wikipedia, everything most people see on the Internet. The corp-speak term is “visibility filtering.”
From now on, instead of being suspended or deplatformed — which is bad PR, and only draws more attention to the deplatformed party — dissident voices will be “deamplified.” We will be “free” to post whatever we like, but we will be talking to no one, in a digital void, which most people won’t even know exists.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2023 22:30 utc | 42

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2023 22:30 utc | 43
What she’s talking about is the future of Internet censorship. Not the ham-fisted government-initiated censorship that people tend to think of when they think about censorship. Corporate censorship. “Free-market” censorship. What she’s talking about is the virtually imperceptible moment-by-moment manipulation of social-media content, search engine results, “reference” platforms like Wikipedia, everything most people see on the Internet. The corp-speak term is “visibility filtering.”
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I think it goes much further. Once CBDC’s and smart meters and biometrics etc are instituted there will be ‘censorship’ of transactions. Restrictions on the access to types of transportion, entry to buildings, shops, services, rationing of domestic electricity use, automobile mileage per hour/day/week/life etc. Internet censorship is just a very small part of what might be coming. Russia now going ahead with CBDCs, soon vaccine passports and national biometric system (I think I read that a few days ago, hopefully that’s correct), other countries in various stages inc Canada, Mexico, Ukraine, China, many more.
Where will it all end? I hope and pray that calls like that from AfD are taken up world wide. Please, let’s go back to patchworks of smaller states, old Europe style, rather than huge behemoths dominating over many others, increasingly dominated by bureaucratic, machine-mentality. The Americans led the way and have shown how hegemony ends badly. Let’s learn from that mistake and not repeat.
“Think small; aim small.”

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 16 2023 22:50 utc | 44

Kana @ 26, Tom Q Collins @ 41:
The wildfires occurred in part because the old sugar cane and pineapple plantations, had been lying idle for several years (perhaps decades even?) and as a result became overgrown with weeds and brush, with a lot of undergrowth.
No, this is not the kind of disaster capitalism that relies on natural disasters like a tsunami sweeping away fishing villages in Sri Lanka or other parts of SE Asia so that their properties can be taken over by governments and turned over to global property developers. The old plantations in Maui already belonged to wealthy private individuals, families and companies.
What I think has been happening for some time is that the owners of these plantations have deliberately allowed them to go fallow so as to claim tax losses on them and that way minimise profits (and thus tax liabilities) on their other investments. If we assume this, then the Maui wildfires become another surprise boon for the owners, because they can now claim natural disaster relief from the Hawaii state government or the US federal government for the plantations that were ruined. The money the owners get from the government (and thus US taxpayers) might be enough for them to rebuild on the plantations and turn them into resorts or private residential properties. That way, instead of using their own money to build something new on the old plantation grounds, the private owners use public money that should have been invested in public infrastructure and institutions.
The phenomenon of wealthy people deliberately neglecting properties or other investments they own, so as to claim tax losses on them and minimise their tax liabilities on the more lucrative and productive investments they have, is not unusual. There are individuals and companies that have investments in subsidiary companies which run tax losses, and these losses can be offset against tax profits made by other investments to reduce the amounts of tax payable or to put the owners into a lower tax bracket.
Who might some of these wealthy individuals owning property in Maui be?

“… Maui [is] the location of properties and residences owned by some of the world’s wealthiest individuals. Former CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos owns a $78 million, 14-acre estate, surrounded by thousands of acres of dormant lava fields on La Perouse Bay on Valley Isle in Maui. Oprah Winfrey, with a personal wealth of $2.5 billion, owns 2,000 acres on the island.
Other billionaires who have property on Maui include Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and software tycoon David Duffield. Facebook (Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg ($107 billion) and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison ($141 billion) each own thousands of acres on the Hawaiian islands Lanai and Kauai, near Maui.
These billionaires and others have been buying up land and homes in Hawaii for decades, typically as vacation spots, but also as a place to park their assets. While some of these individuals are silent about the Maui catastrophe, others have come forward with charity activities for public relations purposes …”

News now being reported is that Hawaiian Electric Company is now facing a class action lawsuit over the deaths of at least 99 people for not shutting off the power supply during a period of high winds just before the wildfires began.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Aug 16 2023 22:56 utc | 46

Acc.to the latest reports of “The ground frontlines”, UAF have made “some success” in Sothern directions (RF-1st.Line region). Now, what then ?
The “old” Russian tactics to let move the enemy UAF-Infantry into the Gray-Zone to destroy them there .. is no more a good tactics due due the UKR-commanders have learned “a little” thereto.
So, drone bombing attacks sent by either side have been started and successfully targeted & destroyed material + persons on either positions on-ground.
Good luck on that type-of war whithin the remaining soldiers in their trenches ..!
Once more:
RF Navy should now more concentrate to “The Black SEA” .. There will be starting the “final fight”.

Posted by: spare_truth | Aug 16 2023 22:58 utc | 48

Russian general reports on US involvement in possible upcoming pandemic:
https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Chief-of-Nuclear-Chemical-and-Biological-Protection-Troops-of-the-Armed-Forces-of-the-Russian-Federation-Lieutenant–08-16-2

Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity

New one by Aurelian: https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-performance-is-over
Seems he is expecting mayhem soon in Europe with already many zones in French suburbs run by Muslim gangs. He says that our managerial classes and society in general have lost the ability to tell fantasy from reality.

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 16 2023 23:32 utc | 50

New analysis by Aurelian about how and why the West is falling apart. This one about how managerial class mainly performs rather than actually does and increasingly cannot tell the difference.
The Performance is Over.
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-performance-is-over
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Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity

I recall that on 18 October 2019, two months before the first official reports about the emergence of the new coronavirus infection in China, John Hopkins University conducted Event 201 exercise in New York.
This exercise simulated the epidemic of a previously unknown coronavirus that, according to the scenario, was transmitted from bats to humans via a porcine organism, the intermediary virus carrier.
The development of the pandemic under this scenario, as well as the implementation of EcoHealth Alliance projects, raises questions about the possible intentional nature of COVID-19 and U.S. involvement in the incident.
The next step, taken by the United States to realise its strategic plans in establishing global biological control, was the creation of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy.
The official establishment of the Office was posted on the White House website on 21 July 2023.
It is envisaged that the new structure will be responsible for setting the course and coordinating actions to combat known and unknown biological challenges, including pathogens that could trigger another global emergency.
The priorities of this Office include work on vaccines and drugs to relieve viruses and their genetically modified variants, as well as the introduction of advanced technologies in bioproduction.
Retired Air Force Major General Paul Friedrichs, special assistant to the president and senior director for global health security and biodefence at the National Security Council, will head the structure.
Thus, as in 2019, the U.S. has begun preparing for a new pandemic by searching for virus mutations. We do not rule out that the United States will use of so-called defensive technologies for offensive purposes, as well as for global governance by creating crisis situations of a biological nature.
In doing so, the White House is creating a new government agency, and, at the same time, is making an attempt to allay the world’s concerns about its illegal biological activities.

https://tinyurl.com/25h3j6cs

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 16 2023 23:39 utc | 52

Just a quick post at bedtime. Music will help healing. Because all things end. Gave me a lump in my throat.
‘A Moscow-based musician, Alexander Losev, plays music for Ukrainians he meets through a chat roulette that randomly matches people.
Watch all of the initial tension disappear at the first sound of music in the encounter with this Ukrainian, who ends up having to hold back tears… Music does transcend borders, especially, the ones that shouldn’t even be there…’
Via https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/30442
Will have read of thread tomorrow.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 17 2023 0:02 utc | 54

Hi guys, I’m kind of new here and was wondering about peoples views on the following.
The US seemed to have had no problem blowing up the NordStream pipeline adversely affecting one of its (supposedly) closest allies. LNG was supplied to Germany by the US at 4 times the price of Russian gas, but the desired outcome may be to force the German government to “bend the knee” to the American ruling elite.
Could the same thing be in play with the US trained military officers in Niger? Macron was getting a little uppity when he was in Beijing and maybe this was just a bitch slap. When Macron “bends the knee” the coup leaders will say that the Uranium and gold shipments will resume, with a price increase and America getting its cut.
Thoughts?

Posted by: Just a grunt | Aug 17 2023 0:35 utc | 56

I have just been to follow David Levin’s link about MI6 training terrorists from Ukraine to cause trouble in Africa, we all know where they will kick off in the Sahel desert of West Africa and I came across this posted to Tass two hours ago
ECOWAS activates rapid response forces to restore order in Niger

“The association announced that the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defense Staff will meet in the Ghana capital city of Accra on August 17-18 to discuss the final plan of deployment of the rapid response forces in Niger
RABAT, August 17. /TASS/. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commenced the activation of its rapid response forces for restoration of the constitutional order in Niger, Al Hadath reported Wednesday.
The association announced that the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defense Staff will meet in the Ghana capital city of Accra on August 17-18 to discuss the final plan of deployment of the rapid response forces in Niger.”

So what some of us predicted has come true. I still have doubts that ecowas will actually send a massive invasion force as the risks are too high but the need to protect all of the breakaway states Niger, Burkina Faso & Mali while Chad remains a bit of a cypher as it is led by a military junta which has been supported by France from time to time, hence both ‘sides’ visiting it since Niger’s coup, means that the new government will need to devote considerable resources protecting all of it’s borders (remember Niger is land-locked) whilst Ukies posing as Wagner men and amerika terror contractors ISIS/Daesh and al Quaeda cause all sorts of trouble in the Sahel .
The next move after that will be franco-amerikan counter-juntists to pop up in urban areas violently ‘protesting’ the extremely popular junta. However the urban middle classes who enjoyed the larger crumbs france left on the table are not only vulnerable to bribery & extortion to resist the junta from the imperialists, many will have connections to France & africom.
These new regimes will need much support and I for one remain unsure of Algeria’s committment to that support; without the great Colonel Ghadaffi of Libya, things are gonna be tough and require Nigeriens plus the citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad to stand firm in the face of what looks like being a particularly vicious onslaught.
It is vital that african americans are informed of this properly so they can understand this conflict is closest to the amerikan civil war and requires that they also commit. I can appreciate that for most of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa they were simply too busy fighting for their own liberation however they were sorely missed and very appreciated when they did come on board towards the end of the 1970’s.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Aug 17 2023 0:59 utc | 58

“As William Gruff points out in some countries coups are more democratic than elections and Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso appear to be three of them.”
Possibly true of the US as well. Certainly the military “leadership” can’t be any worse that what’s currently ongoing. And shall we talk about elections? How come Trump is getting indicted and I’m not?
OK, I don’t have a platform like he does. It’s almost like I have to drop a line on all these assholes indicting him that they need to indict me too. There is no rule of law; that’s the big issue. Where do I send the targeting coordinates for all these bastards. But no, the Russians are not going to do the work I need to do.

Posted by: oracle | Aug 17 2023 1:41 utc | 60

re:bevin | Aug 17 2023 1:23 utc | 59
Thanks very much for the links bevin, I’ve just read the first on french fascist Bolloré who in this business taking over an influential news outlet comes across as just as late to the party on this as he was back in the noughties with leveraged corporate takeovers.
It should enable him to push the counter-coup in West Africa though I have doubts of its success African people have understandably had enough.
I guess the lateness is the result of the liberal alleged ‘freedoms’ coming later in france & europe generally.
In a sense he like many others is behaving as Rupert Murdoch has in owning media outlets to pressure politicians but many seem to have missed the second most essential element of Murdoch’s model, in that one doesn’t just pressure the pols to force through their own agenda as that can cause a loss of interest by media consumers and leave the media outlet being a ongoing liability, it is vital to trumpet other’s ventures in return for a slice of the action. This requires far more dedication to the media outlet than a late and elderly capitalist can give it yet it has been what made NewsCorp the most successful media scam in the world. We shall see, now I shall dive into the black agenda report link with considerable trepidation.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Aug 17 2023 1:51 utc | 62

bevin 59
I’m curious about an ethnic minority, Breton, exploiting black Africans because of the involvement of Scots in the savage colonisation of India and the poor little ethic minority savage colonisation of the world by ethnic minority Soros, or the poor little ethnic minority Kurdish role in Islamic State, Daesh.
The British ladder system for colonising involved offering assistance to weaker tribes against their local enemies. So when an African leader says he is a reliable ally of the US, or a Kurdish leader says the samr, it means only one thing, that that leader is baring his and his country’s backside for buggery by the Anglosaxon superpowers.
Kurdistan is currently sending its entire oil wealth to USUKIS. None of that oil wealth reaches the people of Kurdistan. The Kurdish Islamists have
won a stake in Kurdish politics and
Kurdish state mosques by fighting for
USUKIS under the Islamic State flag.
That is the meaning of political Islam. To gain a small worldly reward by selling your and your country’s backside for buggery by the Anglosaxon superpowers. Erdogan the same, the Trump clone.
So if the custodians of the truth of Islan do it, even educated fleas do it, then why not French speaking
Breton, billionaires in Africa?
There is no morality in this world.
All is fair in love and war , rules OK.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 17 2023 2:15 utc | 64

Well the Black Agenda Report article was much more supportive of Niger than I dared hope. There is certainly much more of a link between some of the African terrorist groups and capitalism than it appears is the case.
Perspicacious Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin of West Africa Weekly has compiled an excellent video report on Boko Haram’s capitalist roots which should surprise any non-cynics out there who see Boko Haram as an anti-imperialist movement.
His research of Boko Haram’s founders goes back decades and it impeccably shines a new light on the deviousness and deceit of corporate capitalism’s exploitation of their empire’s subjects.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Aug 17 2023 2:17 utc | 66

In the last not Ukraine thread nobody responded to my comment on Yoti. It turns out that this so-called Home Office approved ID verification company is just an extension of French Snapchat for teens Yubo.
The Recruiting firm Venn Group tried to force me to subscribe to this Tinder
for kids scam , Yoti and threatened not to pay me unless they could photo me and my passport. Look kids, when you photo your passport and your face and send it to the recruitment agency, they are receiving a low quality image forvthe sole purpose of ID verification. But when they photo you and your passport, there’s nothing to stop them using that high quality image for other nefarious purposes.
Personally I don’t like working for no payment. But hey, it’s us Brits’ turn now to be Hindus’ slaves. We’ve obviously been having that coming to us for a loooong time.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 17 2023 2:33 utc | 68

“It would be a mistake to see these men as from the left since they are moved by anger at the failure of the elites and of Western policy. They do not come to power with a well-worked out agenda built from left political traditions.”
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 16 2023 19:14 utc | 21
I respect Vijay Prasad but I don’t think his statement above holds water. Does he mean that real leftists can’t be angry? If people are starving and being violently exploited by colonial power and corrupt local officials, almost any political reaction is going to be “left” of the status quo.
If you listen to the president of Burkina Faso for example he is championing the rights of the people to food, shelter and human dignity. I don’t know what that is if not classic leftist aspirations.
Maybe socialism with military characteristics is a temporary necessity in parts of Africa who are still under the Western boot enforced by illegal occupying military bases. I’m more with Simplicius on this one and feel inspired by the coups in the Sahel..
After all what do we in the west know of such life and death struggle, yet? We here are the petit bourgeoisie that Vijay refers to and we aren’t even close to rising up.

Posted by: K | Aug 17 2023 3:14 utc | 70

In one way the Hawaiian bushfire is comparable to australia’s that is the existence of eucalypts whose fast growth has encouraged the unthinking to replant with eucalypts, frequently in areas that have been extensively milled to make common lands seem as though they are green and bushy even after rapacious timber corporations have destroyed thousand year old forests.
Australia where a limited number of bushfires occured since the beginning of time has finally realised the huge drawback of eucalypt forests, that is their sap eucalyptus oil is highly flammable. The quick growth and high flammability are closely related although not to the extent some environmentalists claimed back when state governments were encouraged to start regular fires across thousands of acres because “that is what the blackfellas did”.
They were ignoring the fact that when australian indigenous people did set fire to bushland it was only in quite rare circumstances through much smaller areas. Generally when the forest had become full of old growth trees unsuitable for man or beast to live off and even then the timing was significant. Only when wind direction was assured and wind believed to be short, as the biggest danger with any bushfire is that the massive heat generated creates its own wind if the area is too large. Hot air from the fire rises causing a vacuum where colder air comes pouring in pushing the fire much further until it spreads well beyond its intended area.
Few eucalypts are native to Aotearoa and they are likely the result of migrant birds traveling from Australia
I know of one huge eucalypt forest just far enough away from me so I am assured it will not effect me personally but that is little comfort. This ‘bush’ was planted by a band of ignorant hippies back in the late 60’s early 70’s to rehabilitate previously cleared native bush. When I first began coming down this way I confronted the leader of that band, a bloke who had personally profited enormously from the work of many and asked him what good was bush that would burn in an instant during the height of the summer holiday season when the region was chocka with know-nothing euro-tourists.
He went off like the lunatic he is, albeit a crafty madman; the gist of what he said was that it would take too long for the bush to return naturally. I don’t deny that as our whanau owns a large block of once beautiful bushland that was cleared for some pakeha who had returned from WW1 to be given it and farm.
For myriad reasons chiefly transport the land was uneconomic so when we bought it in the early 70’s a decision was made to let the land return to it’s natural state. It has taken from then to now, some 50 plus years for the Ti-Tree which covers the land to grow tall enough to provide sufficient protection that Rimu, Totara and Kōwhai saplings appear and our children will have passed on before Purriri and Kauri show themselves. The cycle of progressively taller and/or stronger trees providing nurture for other species which will grow even taller and stronger takes centuries but imo is worth the wait.
Lets hope that the indigenous Hawaiian groups leading the way on post fire recovery see the purpose in patient recovery of their native bush.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Aug 17 2023 3:32 utc | 72

fanto 73
Maybe they’re consuming additives in meat, or maybe in GM food, or contraceptives. They say fish DNA was added to tomatoes, which is why they no longer taste like tomatoes. Who knows what Big Pharma is doing.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 17 2023 4:06 utc | 74

Somalis fully understand that Islamistvterror is from USUKIS. David Xameron when he was politically alive was very keen to develope Somali oilfields. Haiy niya. Shameless . I was going to say dog, but dogs are quite respectful compared with Tory politicians.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 17 2023 4:10 utc | 76

Posted by: suzan | Aug 17 2023 3:24 utc | 71
Here is a snippet from Andy Merriman’s blogpost “John Berger and Gramsci in Rome: Personal Reflections” —

Monsters aren’t able to exert their “hegemony” no matter how many Capitols they storm or wars they manufacture. They bully and manipulate, for sure, might even dominate; but they’re rarely leading or in control. What emerges, says Gramsci, is a “form of politics that’s cynical in its immediate manifestation.” Meantime, he says, “the great masses have become detached from their traditional ideologies, no longer believing in what they used to believe previously.”

Interesting how it echoes current times. Of course what is now happening is a continuing of a long process, the change from an old civilizational culture into a modernist, secular something else. It seems to be advancing in waves; there is a large push forward and then a quiet period for a while, then another push, another pause….
And very intelligent expression. Thxs.
I think it is ‘cynical in its immediate manifestation’ because the urge to dominate comes from a quasi satanic disconnection from the heart, from human feeling. It is detached but still driven, compulsive because underneath it there still is humanity, there still is feeling but it has been disconnected by an over-emphasis on a distorted, fractured mentality. And because it is unnatural it inevitably becomes cynical even though in many ways successful, and because it is cynical it alienates ordinary people who become ever remote even as further control is exerted. In short, they are doomed to fail. But they can cause a lot of harm flailing around before they are finally stripped of status and influence.

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 17 2023 4:22 utc | 78

@ bevin
thanks for the numerous links you’ve provided…

Posted by: james | Aug 17 2023 4:29 utc | 80

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 17 2023 2:50 utc | 69
Re: Fire not predictable; Hawaii being a lush tropical paradise…Are you remotely serious?
https://newsrebeat.com/world-news/181444.html
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-16/ignored-warnings-hubris-slow-response-fueled-maui-wildfire
There was waist high grass (non-native/invasive) surrounding the city, unused sugar cane plantations (some here have convincingly argued intentionally such as RefinneJenna), eucalyptus trees that are highly flammable, lack of rain, high winds, a lackadaisical approach to managing the electricity grid and possible downed power lines during such high wind events, etc.
There were PLENTY of warnings and EXPECTATIONS of such a fire.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 17 2023 4:35 utc | 82

botete | Aug 16 2023 23:20 utc | 50–
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, as Crooke details in this interview, the “awakening” is multifaced and dangerous, here.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 17 2023 4:50 utc | 84

Still no replies, likes, or engagement on my (100% good faith) Twitter offer to fight both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at the same time for $100,000 – donated to the charity of my checking account (which would mean a SIZEABLE donation to MoA!).
It should be fair. I’m in between their ages (Zuck mid 30s, Elon 54), about half an inch taller than Elon (meaning about 5″ taller than Zuck), and weigh 205lbs, being nowhere near as flabby as Musk (and could easily bench press Zuck).
C’mon people – Use your connections and help me make this happen!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 17 2023 4:59 utc | 86

Sleepless night so here we go nice and early here in the U.K.
Good thread already, a nod to 1&2 @ Posted by: jpc and james for setting me off on the rant below .
“cia and friends will end nefarious ways, or shift to other continents ”
TL;DR
They have ALWAYS been doing that shit on other continents. What’s different now is that they have had to bring their methods home to roost , ever less subtly in recent years, to keep us down , ever more brutally daily as they have always done in these now not so far off continents.
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My wider opinion is that the veneer/mask of democracy, free trade, competition, regulations, justice has dropped for the ‘home nations’ as it has been in the not so far off other continents – for example jailing Assange , deploying a multinational Gauntlet to keep Corbyn out, the massive electoral fraud, anti-independence of certain European Peoples , support of xenophobia, fascism and deadly war – standard practice in Borrell’s ‘Jungle’ where manipulations and murders by our state minions and imperial minders are standard practice in colonialism for centuries; that playbook has been brought into the ‘Garden’ of the Collective Waste that we have been cocooned in as willing self deluded superiority complex stricken morons that we are.
We are now almost fully subjected to the same methods of barely disguised manipulations as these long suffering peoples in the exploited world. – over the last generation , starting with the appeal to avarice of monetarism in the 80’s , the neoliberal goals of the 90’s, the fake Terror of the 00’s to the fear of Fear of the recent coup de gras of the pandemic and religious vaxxing – we have swallowed the exponential increase in postal and electronic vote fixing and allowed ourselves to easily hate whole Nations!
The Collective Wests entitled, privileged, smug, superiority complex and self delusion that we live in supposedly incorruptible first worlders, is being deliberately rolled back. Our Masters want us to be the same as the desperate of these other continents. We are being kicked down to the their levels since they can remain the very few still at the top.
They want us to be afraid, apathetic to believe that we have no choice. TINO. There Is No Option, a return to the Thatcherite/Reagan era platitudes. Now with added ratcheting of the WEF agendas sold with the new religions of Woke , Gender fluidity and GND bullshittery.
These supranational deepstate intelligence agencies have been under the same control doing their work for ‘National Interests’ ALL of their existences, regardless of what names and public masks they present to their own populations. These National Interests are represented in the various governments through the massive billions spent getting their nurtured from youth sociopathic politicians elected, their perma state Civil Servants placed through nepotism. Their praetorian military run by their aristo classes who have been feeding off exploitation for dozens of generations. The revolving doors between government and private business spinning non stop all pretence of propriety dropped.
Most of these National Interests are determined by the same international entities. They even invented a whole new artificial life form, giving themselves, corporations, the same legal protection as a person, within the WTO Rules!
You get to see the picture when the undeserving scions of the top politicians end up placed at Burisma. As they have always been in the upper echelons of the western corporates and what used to be called quangos , now NGO’s and pretend Charities. No one blinks an eyelid knowing that Biden, Kerry, the others rich little brat kids are just undeservedly collecting millions for their own dynasties.
But that is just breadcrumbs compared to their Masters for whom they deliver the real big heists. The Blackrock, Vanguard, etc Finks. The Big Oil and Commodity Extractors, Agro and Pharma Industrial complexes. The Bankers. Who do the pillaging of the Environment. They have done it since the Spice Trade, Tea, coffee, tobacco… slavery. The Ancient Aristos!
Creating many a Banana corrupt ‘nations’ along the way – ruled with an iron hand, slave masters raised from their own exploited peoples, mercenaries, undeclared wars and actions and thousands of outposts and miltary deployments under many Western Flags guarding these Exploiters through the ages.
They all work together. If they can’t corrupt they kill and assassinate.and even bomb and invade and even put boots on the ground when the spooks and mercenaries aren’t enough. South Asia to South America. Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq and now Ukraine – that’s Europe ffs!
Libyas destruction wasn’t just France and Sarko.
Hillary cackling “We Came , We Saw, He Died” about Gadaffi. Blair did his bit too. A independent currency across multiple African States threatened the Bankers of The City and their partners in crime in the Collective Waste. What if they had succeeded in setting up their own All Africa Bank – the WB and IMF would have become irrelevant. What if they insisted on greater control and share of their commodities – the end of Shell and BP and the rest of the Pirates and old Aristo plantation owners, these who never gave up anything even as they handed out fake ‘independences’ to the long exploited ‘nations’ artificially created.
We the subjects and citizens never really paid attention, because what we see has been obscured in our daily lives. Our understanding mostly comes from potted history, Hollywood and TV.Not many take an interest in independent media such as MoA.
Most of the population believe our spy’s are the good guys. The James Bonds and Jack Ryan’s, our Special Forces are saints killing only bad people. The endless series’ of police procedurals. The super heroes and individuals who are mythical good guys forged in the fake wars.
The majority of propaganda is delivered by the entertainment media. Mainstream news and talk shows and now social media does the rest.
Thank goodness I gave up TV and Cinema and Newspapers and Radio and never really got sucked into Social Media.
These teats we are glued to is what keeps us mentally enslaved , addicted, so that the Masters can get us to believe anything. They lie they cheat they steal and they break heads and kill. But they are the very few. That is why they can and will lose. Because with Xi and Putin and their hundred year change to Multipolarity is unstoppable and Africa will emerge.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 17 2023 5:09 utc | 88

Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2023 5:30 utc | 89
Oh yeah they are. Pretty sure this was the speech. Very short excerpt below.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1691519557251235840

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 17 2023 5:39 utc | 90

Posted by: Passerby | Aug 17 2023 5:40 utc | 91
Did you catch the hint? Nowhere does it say Kiev accepts or concedes terms. Like here:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraine-commits-last-remaining-elite
Ukraine is being ALLOWED to possibly give up territory. By whom, one might ask.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 17 2023 5:43 utc | 92

The evil commies burned Hawaii!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0XgAbl2SbZh10vavAF8CenhlxTH1tFprJzg1tgHaNJ3MLHLz7X2Y8MKbM&v=_trfO858GsQ&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: Surferket | Aug 17 2023 6:12 utc | 94

@ bevin | Aug 17 2023 2:09 utc | 63 with the report of African countries going under the China/Russia “umbrella”
That umbrella is both economic and military.
What we aren’t made aware of is the military support coming from the China/Russia axis during the transition. Certainly nuclear can be promised easily in our MAD world but protection from biological weapons and faction fighting support is going to be dicey as Niger is showing.
Let me add the title of the latest Wall Street On Parade to show the level of corruption that exists in God Of Mammon land
Mega Banks Take Down Stock Prices after a Fitch Warning About a Possible Downgrade to JPMorgan Chase and Its Peers
When the going gets tough, the elite blow up the global system of finance and expect results to sort out in their favor. I think we may be close to that stage but have thought so before so,
The shit show will continue until it doesn’t.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 17 2023 6:34 utc | 96

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 16 2023 22:41 utc | 44
“Similarly, in the US, they should break back down to sovereign States for a while”
Just for the sake of discussion, would you recommend the same for Russia?
And why/why not?

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 17 2023 6:45 utc | 98

Sorry Norsk is what I should have said, if there is ever a chance of putting my foot in it I usually find it.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Aug 17 2023 6:50 utc | 100