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January 29, 2026
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2026-025
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Maybe I must clear some misunderstanding
Some people seem to think making a geopolitical choice implies becoming a stupid follower, parroting the propaganda memes of one camp or be called by names for not doing so.
Some of those “talking points” are just stupid, and only stupid people play stupid games to please others.
Some African countries made the geopolitical choice of the East, while others are always aligned with the West.
Some Est-european countries are now aligned with the west from being with the Est, while their neighbors remains as in the past.
I don’t think the first are western bootlickers, as I don’t think the laters are Putin and Xi bootlickers.
Speaking about Africa, we have hard facts today.
Russia faces virtually no competition in the African weapons and military equipment market. Only Turkey occupies a marginal second position. To sell their expensive weapons, Western countries must use state-to-state cooperation agreements to impose them.
Otherwise, even countries that have remained loyal to the networks of their former colonizers equip their armies with Russian equipment, the only one that is cost-effective.
China seems to be deliberately holding back in the African arms market, favoring Asia. Therefore, China is the leading partner for manufactured goods, and Russia is the primary partner for defense in Africa.
This is already an indisputable fact for more than fifty countries out of fifty five, and there is no way going back.
Those who are urging a complete break between Africans and the West are ill-informed and insensitive.
Because the remaining ties—history, languages, and culture—cannot be severed. This demand is akin to the erasure of Russian language and culture in Ukraine: absurd, impossible, and counterproductive.
As for a financial and monetary break, it’s an ambition akin to the European Union’s desire to renounce Russian gas and oil: suicidal.
Those who promote this message not only understand nothing about relations between peoples but are as dangerous as the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
Propaganda kills. Just ask the Ukrainians.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 7:42 utc | 503
Because the remaining ties—history, languages, and culture—cannot be severed.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 7:42 utc | 503
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What about the Judiciary? Who wrote the Laws? Who is reforming the Law? Is root and branch reform considered, or only trimming the dead leaves?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 7:52 utc | 505
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 7:52 utc | 505
Let me ask you the question: who write the laws in your country ?
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 7:58 utc | 506
who write the laws in your country ?
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 7:58 utc | 506
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Originally our country was Roman fiefdoms that metastasised into Christian Cantons about 600 years ago. With the Reformation there became a Protestant/Catholic split. Then we were invaded by Napoleon and our Law became Napoleonic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code
After we regained our independence the Napoleonic Code our Law evolved into the Swiss Civil Code.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:14 utc | 507
After we regained our independence the Napoleonic Code our Law evolved into the Swiss Civil Code.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:14 utc | 507
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After we regained our independence our Napoleonic Codes evolved into the Swiss Civil Code.
Your turn Sebgo. What about your Judiciary?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:18 utc | 508
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:14 utc | 507
Good.
For us, things was different.
As kingdoms, we had different laws, written and non written.
When we were conquered by the British, French and German, (yes, the German), theirs laws applied to us.
So, anecdotally, we were ruled by the Napoleonic laws together at a certain time.
After the independences, each country began with a corpus of laws that mimics the colonial master.
And progressively, the lawmakers of each country adapted his law to his local realities.
In the recent years, we decided to try to federate our small countries to be stronger.
So we have a mechanism to make the laws convergence in our groupings like ECOWAS or UEMOA.
It is already done for all business laws.
Before you ask, our law is not written by foreigners in a foreign country. This is children anti-western propaganda.
For example, the death sentence exist here and have always exist but for 6 years.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 8:29 utc | 509
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 7:36 utc | 502
Probably a whimper along with dollar devaluation and geo politically no western influence east of Turkey. Pacific and Indian ocean fiefdom of kings of the east and in Atlantic west has to share space with Russia.
And progressively, the lawmakers of each country adapted his law to his local realities.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 8:29 utc | 509
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Interesting.
This map, apparently made from UN data, shows your region to be governed by “Customary Law” ==> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Legal_Systems_-_Global.svg
There is a lot of room for interpretation for what “Customary Law” is.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:41 utc | 511
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:41 utc | 511
This is a recently innovation of the military rulers.
That simply means that in some cases, like weeding, the old custom rules of each ethnic group can apply.
But the written law is always there, with courts and lawyers.
The last innovation was the abolition of all political parties last week.
We don’t know what is supposed to replace that, and it’s not wise to ask.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 8:47 utc | 512
Sorry for the many typos…
Couldn’t proof read and posted accidentally.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 8:48 utc | 513
Sorry for the many typos…
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 8:48 utc | 513
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It was perfectly readable.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 8:57 utc | 514
Washington is trying to push Venezuelan oil on India in exchange for reliable supplies from Russia. https://share.google/YzVbXUUiFsIa754Yj
Same intention with Iran.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 0:28 utc | 416
Thank you, I really enjoy your comments.
I think racism must be clearly defined though, and distinguished from xenophobia or simple hatred. Everyone tend to put everything that looks like it under the label “racism”. I know it’s easier but it’s not precise.
Racism is an ideology based on races’ hierarchy.
Xenophobia is a sentiment born of fear or ignorance.
Hatred is both the consequences of racism or xenophobia, but it can also have its origin in conscious or unconscious resentment.
For example, in France (or any Western country for what I know), racism justified colonisations and enslavement – same as it does in Israel : “we colonised and/or exterminate these people because they’re less human than us”. Today’s racism in France is rooted in this past and it was in some way amplified by decolonisation and our sometimes brutal eviction from African countries (it is very blatant with Algeria and Algerians for instance).
On the other hand, some try to label as “anti-White racism” what is in fact a hateful response to discriminations or recurrent brutalities or simply the feeling of being second-class citizens in their own country. That’s what I would call “conscious or unconscious resentment”.
I lived and worked many years abroad, four on a Melanesian country and ten in China.
In Melanesia, I learned, sometimes at my expense, not to impose my views, my manners or my way of doing things. In a context of indecisiveness between traditions (kastom) and modernity, I heard many racist comments about how local were incapable of doing anything properly. My friends proved that wrong to me and taught me how to respect their way of life and to enjoy it. Best time in my life.
In China, I occasionally witnessed what anyone would call racist clichés about Africans. I may be wrong, but to me that was more xenophobia than racism, a result of ignorance and/or fear than real racism. Maybe even, on a historical scale, opinions by mimicry. The only really racist tendencies I observed in China were towards other Chinese, such as míngōng (migrant workers) and especially Uyghurs, who were (at that time) seen by Hans in a way that is quite similar as Gypsies in Europe.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Jan 31 2026 10:25 utc | 517
South America riling against the USA:
Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention
by Medea Benjamin / January 30th, 2026
When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly.
I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá on January 24-25 with about 90 delegates from 20 countries, where speaker after speaker denounced the open revival of this doctrine — and its companion, the so-called Trump Corollary or “Donroe Doctrine” based on raw coercion— as a blatant, illegal, and reprehensible interference in their internal affairs. The message from Latin America could not have been clearer: the future of the Americas must be decided by its peoples, not imposed by the U.S. empire.
The gathering, called Nuestra América and convened by Progressive International, brought together ministers, parliamentarians, diplomats, trade unionists, and grassroots movement leaders from across Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. After two days of intense closed-door deliberations and public assemblies, we adopted the San Carlos Declaration, launching a new continental project to defend sovereignty, democracy, and peace.
MORE..
https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/01/latin-america-pushes-back-against-u-s-intervention/#more-164743
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 10:34 utc | 518
‘General’ comment:
Sebgo makes an important point about the impossibility of covering all aspects, special cases, and exemptions of any topic in a single (or even multiple) post. It behooves the reader to recognise this and be gracious and accommodating in their response, rather than seeking out a ‘gotcha’ (what about? – but not whatabout?) and mindlessly pouncing to score points or denigrate the writer.
An example. I recently posted a comment on the wonderful experiences I have had with African people. That was true, honest, objective – but quite incomplete. Among a broad spectrum of experiences, I also had by far the very worst experience of my life with a wonderful young African student. The student was struggling with a maths course I was lecturing. I offered free, unlimited one-on-one tutoring, and we started to make excellent progress – which sadly ended when the student terminated their life in the most horrific way just outside the lecture theatre. That was many years ago, but I still ask myself questions as to what I could have done that would have precluded that outcome.
I will stop now and allow the reader to ponder in peace…
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 10:35 utc | 519
Posted by: jonku | Jan 31 2026 9:38 utc | 516
Thanks.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 11:15 utc | 520
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Jan 31 2026 10:25 utc | 517
Thank you so much for sharing and for the accurate definitions.
It is indeed often difficult to distinguish between them, especially in our societies that are modernizing.
We had classmates who had kept Black slaves in their homes and who had to learn to live with us without any sense of superiority.
I am still learning about this topic from you.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 11:16 utc | 521
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 10:35 utc | 519
I’m truly sorry for this shocking experience.
I also teach science, so I’m quite familiar with the “student stuck” scenario.
I discovered with a foreign student that the problem was more the language than the scientific discipline itself.
And I was able to verify that even those who weren’t foreigners had language difficulties, which somewhat improved my own ability to teach them.
But of course, we must also acknowledge that not everyone is suited to this.
Thank you for the discussion and have a good day.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 11:19 utc | 522
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 30 2026 11:16 utc | 226
Excellent. Take it as “food for thought”. The fundamentals of what he says regarding what happened that day is after 25 years the only way so far I can reconcile the observed facts-on-the-ground with any sort of credible physics-based explanation
“Food for thought” is quite the understatement. Khalezov’s confidence is contagious, though I still have questions. I’ll be digesting this info for days, weeks, months, and I guess, years.
Thanks again for this input. If I come up with anything pertinent to say I’ll get back to you.
Posted by: john | Jan 31 2026 11:30 utc | 523
Well a good thread development on Africa, which I have long attempted the denizens to pay attention too. I have plenty to say … sorry.
But before I do , I’ll feed the drive by troll
@ Posted by: Vatnik observer | Jan 31 2026 2:45 utc | 452
You do like to flag your Russophobia unmistakably; chutzpah and black knight respects to you I suppose.
I shouldn’t worry about law enforcement and civil safety in the RF if I were Russian.
After all there will soon be hundreds of thousands of young, fit, smart and battle experienced SMO’ers returning from their VOLUNTARY service defending the Russia Mir.
I’m sure they will have enough gumption, ethics and vitality to fill all the needs of the society they have fought to protect.
Donchafink?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 12:12 utc | 524
Ian Moss 1983 Georgia On My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhFXjzRRv4w&list=RDMM&index=10
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 12:14 utc | 525
Moving on.
@ Sebgo et al.
Cheers for the Africana and others contributing in a knowledgeable manner.
As I said, over the years I have been stating in the bar that the future IS Africa, because it is:
The largest continent on the Earth – therefore the greatest amount of land resources;
Has the greatest amount of diversity of life, flora and fauna;
Including therefore human dna diversity!
It will have the largest human population over the next century and half – dwarfing the Chinese and subcontinent…
That is likely to be close to 4 billion vital diverse humans on that single continent at its apex.
Let’s not forget that African civilisations, kingdoms etc were supreme in the distant past and certainly hardly acknowledged in the demented ‘history’ that the colective western world has been shilling as the Eurocentric Classical History of humanity which starts vaguely with some ‘Greeks’.
This has led to a criminal misconception of Africa in the Collective Waster minds.
For example In some representations Cleopatra is acknowledged as ‘African’;
the much older Sphinx has the enigmatic features of an ‘African’ etc.
yet all propoganda has attempted to portray that queen as European! Greek even! Including the pharaohs – writ large in the cartoon history of fascists banderist Azov shittery.
Much of the ancient civilisations clearly disappeared under the Sahara and other deserts… as the climate changed , as it is wont to do naturally and catastrophically.
Perhaps it’s lost monuments will reappear some day, like the terracotta armies of China.
So to Africa today, try to be nice to them as they rise – because they will remember and will also be wanting all the stolen artifacts back and we will need them more than vice versa.
The AngloEuropean zionistfascist imperilist colonisations that are the Collective Waste and 5 eyes with the one ring to bind them all ‘WasNeverReal’ is … screwed!
Their centuries of plunder is coming to an end. Only enduring because HUNDREDS of Private Military Companies doing the job that the EIC once did, the CIA does now; representing the ‘National Interests of hegemonic empire’; once a purview of the mighty miltary and navies of the invented Nation States.
As that US general last century proudly stated of the role of the US Marines as the racketeers muscle!
Not much changed until NOW. The WoT was the last great attempt at stealing the treasuries of the Indy oil nations.
To steal the opium. To attempt to steal the world island, once again. And fail again.
Next my opinion on how China (so the multipolar) fits in to that evolution.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 12:29 utc | 526
China has MASSIVE capacity, it has more concrete and steel production then it will need anymore – once the roads and rails are built, once plentyfull housing and hospitals and schools are built – what to do with that?
The answer has been clearly the BRI.
Use these concrete and steel industries instead of having to shut them down – they are difficult to restart especially the foundries (as US and Europe know).
That is investment as colonialism and imperialism in a Chinese style!
Build, not destroy and steal.
Of course the Chinese labourers are there – how else is their knowledge, experience and AVAILABILITY to be used by CHINESE managers sent to build?
Earlier this century I was in Nepal where i met chain smoking Chinese managers surveying the Anapurna mountain ranges, thinking of building roads – whereas Brits were looking at that as a route to taking EurAsia from the south! And enrolling their hardy mountain men as our mercenaries!
That has to END.
These native peoples need to finally be allowed to achieve the level of progress as all humanity. Which will have a stronger collective Human Civilisational progress – which is vital for the survivability of our species, within the next thousand years.
And for the tens of thousands of years to come with the natural death and destructions that befalls the Earth – regularly.
So having the Chinese masses be the agents of human progress and building is therefore not a bad idea- it’s almost as if it’s PLANNED!
Having enough educated, trained, experienced builders and engineers that can build such major infrastructure for the whole planet actually makes more sense than piecemeal native locals having to do a shoddy job, that will fall to pieces.
The Owners, Old Bastards want that obviously and then to own it, by theft as usual! However it seems the Chinese and the multipolar have other ideas. And are pretty much saying ‘not so fast Fink, not this time, not ever again, your game is up!’
Trying to windup local populations to disrupt that work is absurd ! The unemployable there need training and work and education, housing and security more than they need to do the jobs of the expert Chinese neo ‘coolies’ – because you know, it was the Chinese who actually built the railroads of the US connecting east to west.
As their modern equivalents are building the Railroads and roads that connect China through Laos, Thailand, Malaysi, Indonesia to the Oz continent ultimately. As they will build the railroads that will connect EurAsia to the Americas.
Their and our only problem is to stop the Old Bastards taking control of it through their foul means as always.
Africa will be the greatest and will provide the future Einsteins and Engineers and if we survive long enough to inhabit space.
The future human space travellers will mostly look like Africans, with some others that reflects the genetics of the planet.
Not the dumbed down supremacists who want to make Elon The First King of Mars with its largely gammon skinned settlers wanting to have just a white planet of their own!
Fucking maniacs.
Anyway it is always nice to find a decent Chinese restaurant and it seems Africa as well as other BRI beneficiries will leave behind more that the great infrastructure – its marvellous cuisine.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 12:40 utc | 527
Posted by: Femi | Jan 31 2026 12:58 utc | 527
Femi,
Arabs are not the only guilty, Indians and Japanese are too. Africans are even too Black for African Americans, go figure!
How can it be fixed?
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 13:06 utc | 528
Always happy to promote indi.ca:
Escape From Spamopticon:
Again, the owners of these social media platforms should be drummed out of society. They’re, to a man, genocide supporters, and most of them are rapists or pedophiles and all of them are thieves. The dirtiest dicks in the universe dictate terms of service, and the most sensational sharks censor the rest of us. Again, Western social media is run by the worst sociopaths imaginable. I’ll repeat myself because I already wrote this. The machine is owned and controlled—from the chipset up—by the worst human beings ever seen. Paedophiles and genocidal maniacs and thieves and insufferable dweebs.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 13:31 utc | 529
Jeffrey showing early talents with money and women! Sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redaction] to Donald Trump for $22,500.
Showed early ‘people skills’ too. Even though I handled the deal I didn’t get any of the money on the girl!”
And now, newly released Epstein files include victim statements alleging that Donald Trump hosted parties at Mar-a-Lago where…
“Jeffrey Epstein would bring the children in and Trump would auction them off.”
“He measured the children’s vulva and vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children on tightness.”
We were taken in rooms, forced to give oral sex to Donald J Trump. Forced to allow them to penitrate us. I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present.”
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 13:44 utc | 530
Having enough educated, trained, experienced builders and engineers that can build such major infrastructure for the whole planet actually makes more sense than piecemeal native locals having to do a shoddy job, that will fall to pieces.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 12:40 utc | 526
Easier said than done. South Africa is a classic case of the above. Africans were used as cheap labour for a century; hard labour to shunt the locomotives and carriages, clear the rubble from mines after the White engineers set of the explosives, cleaned offices on the orders of White managers and supervisors and generally prevented from being promoted by Apartheid’s Job Reservation laws.
After the transition in 1994, Black South Africans were expected to take over and run the country as efficiently as the Whites did for decades without the formal training required. They were often labeled incompetent and resistant to training, “See, I told you so”, became the Whites catch cry as the brain drain boarded flights to other parts of the world.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 13:46 utc | 531
Posted by: Femi | Jan 31 2026 12:58 utc | 527
Sport and especially football unfortunately became the vehicle of the worst human instincts. But only at the margins, because it’s mostly a beautiful thing to watch for those who know how to appreciate it.
The final between Senegal and Morocco is, in spite of but mostly because of everything that happened during the game, a memorable game. Take for instance a similar episode such as the famous 1982 game between France and Germany during which the German goalkeeper Schumacher violently attacked the French defender Battiston who ended up unconscious with broken teeth. I can tell you, though I was a kid at that time, that it also awakened some bad memories between the two countries. For a few minutes at least.
Some of your words call for questioning :
When Morocco exited the tournament
Isn’t it Senegalese players who exited the game ?
The last AFCON was not a sporting rivalry. It was a shameful racial hierarchy made visible, and Africans were humiliated on African soil inhabited by Arab invaders.
You oppose Africans and Arabs (i.e Moroccan), but aren’t Moroccans Africans themselves ?
What remained was the old order: Arabs as arbiters and slave-hawkers
Aren’t you oversimplifying the notion of “Arab enslavers” by confusing a very complex constellation with a single muslim country, i.e Morocco ? Aren’t you in a way trying to sum up a single game through the lens of your own (but legitimate) resentment as an African of slave descent towards Arabs ?
Why has the Arab world not saved Palestine?
Here again I think you’re confusing the coward attitude of some leaderships (though it must be put, imho, into perspective with a network of possible toxic influences and interferences) and the public opinion within Arab countries.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Jan 31 2026 13:49 utc | 532
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 12:40 utc | 526
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Warwick Powell recently said on a podcast that China graduates 8x as many from STEM fields annually as America. Yes, they have a larger population, but 70 years ago started in 3rd world conditions and had that handicap to overcome to get where they are today.
The future is not in law, but in hard sciences related to the manipulation of the physical world.
The foundation of any great people has to be rooted in knowledge.
The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are all very focused on engineering of different sorts. The Chinese Politburo is staffed by engineers, and that process driven approach is evident in how quickly they make progress and iterate.
A government of engineers will solve problems.
A government of lawyers will be contentious and internally adversarial.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:03 utc | 533
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 13:31 utc | 529
Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 14:04 utc | 534
Warwick Powell recently said on a podcast that China graduates 8x as many from STEM fields annually as America
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:03 utc | 533
More like 3x , China also has a larger population base. Otherwise, I agree with you.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 14:15 utc | 535
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 13:44 utc | 530
I haven’t yhe slightest inclination to start fact-checking this but did I get it right? This was released and once the “mistake” was discovered the DoJ withdraw the file instead of doing its job which is to catch the bad guys, in this case their boss DJT? That to me is just as bad as any of the crimes depicted here. Patel, too, was chosen for his job as the FBI chief just for a time like this. Does anyone seriously expect Kash Patel to do anything? Bongino on the other hand didn’t disappear from the FBI top for nothing.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 14:24 utc | 536
I detect no lie. The American obsession with lust and sexual degeneracy is regressive and leads to abuse. It is very Zionist. Very Judeo-Christian.
It is now institutional. Decivilizing.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 7:22 utc | 499
Speaking of little girls in Islam…
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 14:31 utc | 537
ShoeOnHeads review of 2026 – and it’s still only January
Is America Ok?
This was just as the Epstien bomb got dropped.
Oh, wait…half the Epstein bomb.
Democrats accuse DoJ of not releasing millions of Epstein files despite legal requirement
Robert Garcia, the Democratic ranking member on the House oversight committee, which has taken a lead role in investigating the government’s handling of the files release, accused Bondi of breaking the law.
So yeah, Pam Bondi, lock her up! After you lock up all of the perps.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 14:46 utc | 538
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 14:31 utc | 538
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Islam is a belief, and in that belief, women are revered and honored.
In the West?
Not so much.
Remember, Epstein wasn’t a Muslim. His “people” are the self-declared enemies of Islam.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:46 utc | 539
The Epstein release has been great, they “accidentally” released information about Trump being a rapist and all sorts of men going to Epstein to discuss and procure girls.
The Musk emails are damning, IMO.
I see a minority owner of the NY Giants has had to issue a statement.
Sunlight, the best disinfectant.
I called it months ago. The midterms are going to be a bloodbath.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:50 utc | 540
I guess the other 3 million documents finger too many Dems…
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 14:53 utc | 541
Islam is a belief, and in that belief, women are revered and honored.
In the West?
Not so much.
Remember, Epstein wasn’t a Muslim. His “people” are the self-declared enemies of Islam.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:46 utc | 540
You have an amazing capacity to score your own goals. I will deny you the pleasure of thinking you win big in every comment. If you were honest you would already have understood where I was going with this. It strikes me as odd you describe yourself as an old man. One usually associates old age with wisdom.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 14:54 utc | 542
So yeah, Pam Bondi, lock her up! After you lock up all of the perps.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 14:46 utc | 539
This is the question. Why did DJT giver her the permission to release the rest of the files in the end unless he was certain the whole institution was under his thumb?
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 14:58 utc | 543
I called it months ago.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 14:50 utc | 541
Another I-told-you-so moment in a long series of I-told-you-so moments.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:00 utc | 544
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 14:53 utc | 542
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Trump was a Dem when he was fingering young girls at Mar-a-Lago with Ghislaine Maxwell observing, according to what they have now pulled back from the release.
It’s a uniparty.
Everyone is evil, bar Ron Paul, who likely fingered many women as a OB/GYN in a professional context.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:00 utc | 545
Epstein and Melania movie director Brett Ratner CUDDLING UP with unknown women
Ratner ‘vehemently denied’ accusations of sexual harassment by 6 women in 2017
Photo -https://x.com/RT_com/status/2017578676599112005
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:07 utc | 546
Link fixed
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2017578676599112005
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:07 utc | 547
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 14:58 utc | 544
She is terminally stupid, and iirc she tamped down the original Epstein investigation when she was Florida AG.
Maybe the institution is under the thumb of the GOP, but they figured this was a safer bet than the 25th amendment.
Vance is waiting in the wings – the Palantir President.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:11 utc | 548
Re: Torture videos
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2017342681723375913
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Epstein spent 50k to honor Trump’s Commerce Secretary and best friend, Howard Lutnick, whose son now lives in Epstein former apartment
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2017342059187777932
So much good stuff, the Democrats won’t even need to use any, it will develop a life of its own. A black hole sucking MAGA into Hell.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:15 utc | 549
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:11 utc | 549
To me this is an extremely serious matter, so it is important to get the details right. Pam Bondi did not suppress the original 2007–2008 Epstein investigation or plea deal — that process unfolded under her predecessor, Charlie Crist, with the federal case handled by U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta. That part is often misstated. The criticism of Bondi is narrower but still serious: during her tenure, as new evidence surfaced and additional victims came forward — including flight records, expanded trafficking allegations, and claims of abuse continuing after 2009 — her office did not reopen or pursue state-level investigations against Epstein or potential co-conspirators in Florida. So the issue isn’t active cover-up of the original deal, but alleged inaction when there were later opportunities to act.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:16 utc | 550
Pale faced, forked tongue…
‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with President Antonio Costa and President Ursula von der Leyen co-chaired the 16th EU-India Summit in New Delhi on 27 January 2026 and underlined their commitment to raise the EU-India Strategic Partnership to a higher level based on shared values and principles including democracy, human rights, pluralism, rule of law, and the rules-based international order with the UN at its core‘
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2026 15:17 utc | 551
I guess the other 3 million documents finger too many Dems…
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 14:53 utc | 542
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You misspelled children’s vaginas.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 15:17 utc | 552
To correctly gauge the state of opposition (here and elsewhere) to this new, tragic “unipolar moment” which plagues our times, you only need to look at one thing.
The agile conversion of the established high priests (especially Prof.Pangloss), from the ritual blabbing about the “Axis of Resistance”, to petty American nonsense such as “midterms” and Epstein files…
A very much concerned troll.
Posted by: MoaMetal | Jan 31 2026 15:18 utc | 553
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:15 utc | 550
You think the Dems will get off scot free? LOL.
It’s going to be an Elite WWE Celebrity Death Match.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:18 utc | 554
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:16 utc | 551
Fair enough, but that is still a high level of complicity.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:21 utc | 555
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:21 utc | 556
Absolutely it is
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:22 utc | 556
I am no longer bothered by any of this. What I have watched Israel do the last 3 years has numbed me.
Epstein on torture again
https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/2017618269352472933
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Apparently PizzaGate was real
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2017555478717304954
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Sworn declaration that Trump and Epstein threatened to kill a former Epstein employee if they talked.
https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/2017618106441486508
Note, the last link is the stuff that was suppressed by the Department of Justice for years, Democrat and Republican.
Now, who is excited about election day? 😂😂😂
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:24 utc | 557
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:18 utc | 555
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I believe in Divine retribution. I think it unlikely that justice will ever be done by humans.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:26 utc | 558
Not that it will matter but if we are trying to get a sense of Bondi’s situation: she has a credible conflict-of-interest concern based on relationships and subsequent non-action.
As Florida AG (2011–2019), Bondi’s office did not pursue new state-level investigations or reopen aspects of Epstein’s Florida conduct despite emerging victim testimony and evidence after the 2008 Acosta plea deal (which occurred under her predecessor). She later became a high-profile Trump ally (campaign surrogate, impeachment lawyer, AG in 2025), while Epstein was a longtime Trump friend, donor, and Palm Beach social associate during her tenure. Legally, proving direct interference or quid pro quo is hard — no smoking-gun evidence exists of her actively blocking anything. But ethically, prosecutors must avoid even the appearance of bias. The combination of political alignment, personal/social proximity to Epstein, and her office’s inaction creates a credible red flag that reasonable observers can question her independence. It’s not “she covered it up” (unproven), nor “nothing to see here” (optics are poor). It’s a classic conflict-of-interest concern that matters for public trust in the DOJ, especially given her current role overseeing Epstein file releases.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:26 utc | 559
Bear in mind that shitlibs are speed searching these huge archives with politically motivated terms and names.
When the real diggers get to work is when the SHTF.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:28 utc | 560
The full Dugin quote that I posted earlier…
🚨BREAKING NEWS
Alexander Dugin: Apparently, the entire US is on Epstein’s files.
You chose these people, you allowed them to rule you, you admire them, and you support them in attacking other nations for their greed and appetite.
You are complicit.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:30 utc | 561
You are complicit.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:30 utc | 562
Yes that is the voice of divine judgment, coming through you. Funny how that works. Thanks for trolling though, never a boring moment.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:32 utc | 562
Going to post this in full about the RottenChild self declared ‘journal of record’ of the financial corporatocracy, regarding Craig Murray’s independent reporting from Venezuela. Check out his site
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
Currently also featuring exciting legal news on Palestine Action legal challenge in Scottish courts which i have just posted on Palestine thread.
Here is Jonathan’s as usual critical thinking journalism (I used to read him in the MI6 House newspaper The (spit) Guardian before it went full tonto with its ziofascist agenda breaking out from the mask of socialist Labour and went neoliberal with added juice.
Jonathan Cook
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Jan 30
Yesterday the Economist’s defence editor Shashank Joshi engaged me – journalist on journalist – in a debate about what proper journalism should do. Presumably, he understood he didn’t come out of it well.
Today, like the predictable corporate journalist he is, he blocked me.
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Jonathan Cook
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Jan 29
The Economist defence corespondent’s premise in his response to me below is the very antithesis of the journalistic ethos he claims to represent.
Shashank Joshi maligns a reporter for telling us what he has witnessed on the ground in Caracas. Why? Because it discredits the Economist’s own editorialising, based on reports from fellow corporate journalists that accord with the Economist’s corporate agenda.
Joshi’s implicit argument is that we should trust only those journalists who work for corporate outlets. This view might hold water if those corporate journalists had a well-documented record of truth-telling. They do not.
I have spent years documenting the endless disinformation promoted by the biggest names in our profession. I just did so again last night when the BBC’s Sarah Smith spoke of Iran’s “nuclear weapons programme” – as if it were an established fact rather than a self-serving and highly dubious claim made by Israel and the White House.
Caroline Hawley headlined her own report on Iran with the incredible, evidence-free suggestion that “tens of thousands” of protesters had been killed in Iran – on a par with the dead in Gaza after Israel’s two years of carpet-bombing the enclave.
This isn’t journalism. It is state propaganda. It is what corporate journalists are employed to do. If they didn’t do it – and even more importantly, they didn’t actually believe in what they were doing – they would be out of their job.
I know the stenographic function these people play in corporate media because I saw it first hand time and again in my 20 years reporting from Israel-Palestine.
Here is just one example. I was the only journalist who investigated the Israeli army’s killing of UN worker Iain Hook in Jenin. I then had to watch dozens of international publications, who sent no reporters to Jenin, regurgitate Israeli military disinformation as if it were the facts. I couldn’t even persuade my former employer, the Guardian, to run the investigation. Why? Because the foreign editor told me no one else had reported what I was saying.
None of this will make the slightest sense to the Economist’s correspondent below because he is deeply immersed in his Manichaean worldview, one that sees politics as a simple battle between Good versus Evil.
He is not a journalist. He is what, in less dishonest times, was called a courtier.
Jan 30, 2026 · 1:36 PM UTC
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 15:35 utc | 563
I will stop now and allow the reader to ponder in peace…
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 10:35 utc | 519
Thank you, General F. When a young person’s life ends so abruptly there are so many questions. Even though your memory is most certainly a painful one, that you do remember your student is a sign that his life was important to you. That memory is a tribute to his having been among the living, so it is what you give to honor him. He was here, and he made a difference in your life.
I have been remembering the huge hug between Lavrov and an African cohort – I don’t remember who that was – quite a while back. Once we can come to the end of the Ukraine tragedy, perhaps the Russians can do more in that continent to help than they are able to do at present.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 31 2026 15:37 utc | 564
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:32 utc | 563
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That is part of the Dugin quote.
If you’re not going to post intelligently, post less.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:39 utc | 565
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 15:26 utc | 560
My original point was that locking up Bondi isn’t the point.
Perps first, cover-up officials later.
Both are legion.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 15:42 utc | 566
EU-India Strategic Partnership to a higher level based on shared values and principles including democracy, human rights, pluralism, rule of law, and the rules-based international order with the UN at its core
Have frau Von leyen and her fellow EU nobles never heard of AFSPA, the world’s most draconian ‘anti insurgent law’, bestowed to India by its brit mentors ?
Seven sisters, the Tibet that no anglo/euro wanna talk about
”It is not Fallujah, Palestine or even Kashmir but only a small province in the north-east of India. But there is no doubt that what the people of Manipur are staging right now is a full-scale intifada against the atrocities of an occupying army.
The immediate target of their ire is one of the world’s most draconian ‘anti-terror’ laws anywhere- the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, imposed on several parts of the Indian north-east since 1958. The larger protest is against what is correctly perceived as decades of racist oppression by successive Indian governments that ‘inherited’ the north-eastern territories from British colonial rule in 1947.
https://www.countercurrents.org/hr-sagar240804.htm
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2026 15:51 utc | 567
Menz #519. Your link to Code Pink has been blocked. Is there another option? Thanks for posting. Many interesting and troubling events in Central and South America, including the deliberately set fires in Argentina and Chile. Apparently the fires in Argentina are still out of control as Melei the lunatic refuses to fund the fire fighters. Mean while, weather warfare possibly occurring in Chile. Numerous “tormentos electricos” in a country which rarely has them. Fires started. Torrential rains and the poor sons of B’s who were made homeless by the fires – hundreds if not thousands – are now homeless and sheltering in improvised tents with not in the way of the basics of life. Gaza in Chile. As Ray Bradbury said long ago “something wicked this way comes.”
Thanks to all and especially b for providing this forum.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jan 31 2026 15:53 utc | 568
to those who think Dims are unscathed by this I say it is a win win for Democrats as they can get rid of some rich and powerful men who are not what a real Democrat would consider someone who has their best interests in mind. sleazy bastards like Schumer and Schift, just as an example, I would happily throw in the dustbin of politics. Of course there are democrats in the files. We already know about Clinton and I don’t know what color Gates is. There is also an ex prime minister of Israel too. This was a rich man’s club. political affiliation is not in the least relevant
Posted by: dan of steele | Jan 31 2026 16:05 utc | 569
Ali Aljzadeh provides a unique internal view of Iran’s political complexity and the evolving uneasy relations wifh Russia and China. He has a conversation with Danny Haiphong here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf22_khAzXM
It is worth watching the video.
Posted by: Richard L | Jan 31 2026 16:19 utc | 570
Quiz
‘How many territories, kingdoms, countries have India gobbled up since 1947 ?
Not holding my breath !
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2026 16:19 utc | 571
Ans
seven sisters+Sikkim+Goa+BHutan = 10
NOt a mean feat that.
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2026 16:35 utc | 572
That is part of the Dugin quote.
If you’re not going to post intelligently, post less.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 15:39 utc | 566
Good job, plausible deniability. Maybe you are not as dumb as everybody thinks.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 16:37 utc | 573
Seven sisters, so called ‘India’s North East, sic
Do they look like ‘Indians’, ?
How did they ended up in India ?
Ask the limey.
They gobbled up these kingdoms, including part of South Tibet, then ‘bequeathed’ it to Bharat, together with that dreaded AFSPA
‘ANti insurgent law’
Anybody notice the ‘seven sisters’ are in turmoil again ?
The Tibet that no anglo/gringo wanna talk about !
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2026 16:52 utc | 574
I knew I was part all of their problem and I was ashamed of this. It was my country that betrayed them in 1947 and was carrying on betraying them by failing to say anything about what was happening now
https://tinyurl.com/3ztmcvdy
They dont call Bharat South Asia’s USA for nuthin you know !
G7+India = 8NA
Partnership made in HELL
tHATS all folks !
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2026 17:15 utc | 575
I am just hearing that Ibrahim Traore has ended political parties in Burkina Faso as they are now creating an entirely new system where democracy can be restored in a manner that works for the Burkinabe people.
The big view is that it sounds like an African version of the Russian system. Maybe a bit of the Chinese system. Not a single party state but a single country agenda enacted over time by different parties.
Less squabbling and division, less each new leader deconstructing the work of the last.
Very ambitious. Revolutionary.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 17:57 utc | 576
🇺🇸 Epstein chasing girls around his kitchen in a disturbing video.
Video
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2017656046941302987
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 18:16 utc | 577
One of the redacted photos from the latest batch of epstein files.
Is this a baby or a body part?
photo
https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/2017663606117023979
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 18:30 utc | 578
@579 love
You need to be careful. DOJ releasing incriminating information on the duopoly? In what world does TPTB go white knight for the people?
In this age of fake, can we believe anything we see? I can just see the videos now of video experts confirming the “reality” of the above video of Epstein chasing young girls around a kitchen island.
Well, CASE CLOSED! He clearly was chasing them to murder them, to cut them up, and cook them. I don’t need to see anything else!
Does it occur to you that the Epstein affair is a rabbit-hole, another spinning plate in the air for the eyes of those caught in this wicked experiment to warp your imagination, to render you as a conspiritorialist, isolating you from any semblance of authority to those you would seek to wake-up?
TPTB learned from Socrates and Jesus that they can no longer kill the messenger. They must instead break the hold the messenger has on his followers. To atomize the chemical bond of the gifted and the student.
“I now only feel a general unease about the man wearing a sandwich board and hollering nonsense on the street. His rantings are unintelligible.”
Love, this is not to say that the elite are not baptized into their satanic cult through ritualistic transgression. Only that you must understand: they have contingencies for when the people start to get wise, when the people want to live in an upright kingdom directed towards God.
They utilize the scapegoat mechanism and they point fingers and whisper unt you end up chasing shadows on the wall of your own mind.
This Epstein ritual is to humiliate and to confound the would-be teachers, the aawareness. How long has it been we have been following the pizzagate Epstein case? How much longer do we have to go?
Two weeks?
Meanwhile the slow motion erosion of our freedom is ongoing. Trump has been set-up to gather the conservative mandate for a surveillance state that will push back on them in 2028 when the Dems come back into town and all the virtue signallers will be cheering on ICE Federal Hate-Speech Officers as dissidents are sent to re-education camps.
My father told me it was my own fault for refusing the vaccine and losing my livelihood. My fault.
My own father. I know what’s coming. And it ain’t justice for Epstein’s victims. You know, the ones playing tag innocently around a kitchen island with a family friend.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 31 2026 18:53 utc | 579
Awareness should read: awakeners
b, please find a way to bring back the preview function.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 31 2026 18:55 utc | 580
Question for people here: The weather over the past week in the US has been unusually cold, and yet this time around I am not reading much about massive power outages or things like Ted Cruz going to Mexico while his state is freezing.
Did the US massively modernize/upgrade its grid over the past few years? Seems unlikely, but maybe. Are there any other plausible explanations?
Thanks!
Posted by: Weather Watcher | Jan 31 2026 20:03 utc | 581
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 17:57 utc | 577
Less squabbling and division, less each new leader deconstructing the work of the last.
How can it be if nobody in the people is associated with the definition of a new set of rules by a few ? Absurd.
<<To do something for us and without us is to do something against us.>>
Mahatma Ghandi / Nelson Mandela
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 20:20 utc | 582
@ Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 20:20 utc | 583
Gabriel Rockhill, Ndongo Samba Sylla and others will speak tomorrow on Anti-Imprialism in the Sahel modertated by Radhika Desai of the International Manifesto Group.
The format is a live stream on YouTube at 17h00 CET, 01 Feb 2026.
If you care to give your feedback on the presentation it would be much appreciated.
Anti-imperialism in the Sahel ==> https://youtu.be/22u-ZXPyrhs
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 20:33 utc | 583
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 20:33 utc | 584
No, thank you. I know my country, you don’t.
The last guy who did this kind of thing without being “cleared” by those who have power have not been seen for months if not years.
Dare to write on MoA is one thing, go to the world stage to say people with power in a military state of exception are lying is another.
Please take note that our constitution, that is supposedly still in force, doesn’t allow the government to dissolve politically parties.
It clearly say that the multiparty and republican form of the state can’t be changed even by constitutional reform.
Yet it’s that have just be done, amid the cheering of those who said they defend “freedom and self-determination”.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 20:48 utc | 584
No, thank you. I know my country, you don’t.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 20:48 utc | 585
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Yes, but how can people who don’t know your country learn if the people that do don’t speak out?
Is Ndongo Samba Sylla a representative voice?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 20:53 utc | 586
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 20:53 utc | 587
I don’t know this gentleman personally.
I can just told you he is not from Burkina Faso and doesn’t know my country either.
But be sure that like some barflies here, he will describe the wonderful heaven our country is becoming since we made the “good choice”.
And how “revolutionary” it is to make a military take over and abolish democracy, this “devil’s thing from the west”.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 21:00 utc | 587
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 20:20 utc | 583
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Traore is leading this, AFAIK. I am not Burkinabe, but I approve, as I often say, the only form of government worth having is a revolutionary one like in Venezuela, Cuba, the DPRK, Yemen, Iran, and China.
I am just reporting the news as I understand it at a distance. As you are literally on the ground, you can certainly provide insight.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 21:05 utc | 588
But be sure that like some barflies here, he will describe the wonderful heaven our country is becoming since we made the “good choice”.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 21:00 utc | 588
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I don’t think so. He is an economist critical of the CFA-Franc. I think he will speak on monetary flows as that is his area of expertise.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 21:05 utc | 589
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 20:20 utc | 583
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My thoughts, coup Traore if you don’t like what he is doing. Right or wrong, he seems to be in control.
The strongest man usually leads. If you or someone else is stronger, stake your claim.
But you make his point exactly. There are hundreds and thousands of perspectives. That is why representative democracy does not work. I think, by design.
If Traore doesn’t do what satisfies the Burkinabe, he will be open to removal, like so many other African leaders.
He sits, like most rulers outside of the West, beneath a Sword of Damocles.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 21:11 utc | 590
The Quincy Institute is a bunch of Libertarian eccentrics. They are not serfs of the Koch bros., like the Cato Inst. is. They indulge in a lot of wishful thinking, though.
Posted by: lester | Jan 31 2026 21:13 utc | 591
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 21:05 utc | 590
This gentleman is from Senegal.
He is known in West Africa for being an anti-Fcfa with a degree in economics.
But this debate is no more an economic one, it is now a geopolitical talking point that is passionately defended with lies.
They know the true, but they know the people that have been lied to by propaganda doesn’t want to listen the true.
So they say what is needed to be famous and invited everywhere.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 21:25 utc | 592
Posted by: lester | Jan 31 2026 21:13 utc | 592
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Spent a lot of time around libertarians 25 years ago.
Any libertarian who romanticizes the American revolution or the American system is a crypto-Republican, IMO.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 21:33 utc | 593
Time zones.
My body clock has been totally messed up for the last twenty years or so so and I sleep and awaken with no regard to time of day. Most here have normal body clocks and comment during certain hours of the 24 hour day depending on their time zone.
Generally, commenting is through the day and into the evening for any given time zone. Currently here in eastern oz, it’s about 7.30 am sun time or 8.30 bullshit time. Looking at time zones, Burkina Faso is ten hours behind my time.
To be consistently commenting in the very early hours of the morning from a particular time zone is a very odd thing – but whatever – everyone to their own.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 31 2026 21:36 utc | 594
Russia’s share of the world:
GDP – 1.9%
Trade – 1.4%
Population – 1.7%
Scientific articles – 1.9%
Patent applications – 0.6%
Considers itself a superpower
Posted by: alyona popova | Jan 31 2026 21:37 utc | 595
passionately defended with lies.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 21:25 utc | 593
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How do you suggest to differentiate the truth from lies? Is there a touchstone of veracity that gives the liars away?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 21:40 utc | 596
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2026 21:05 utc | 590
Here is what mister Sylla is not going to tell, because it’s not “panafricaniste” nor “revolutionary”
What is the true “casus beli” ?The countries of west Africa convened long ago to have a common currency, that will replace the Fcfa and the national currencies of the others.
Among the 16 ECOWAS countries, Ivory Coast has the second largest GDP, after Nigeria.
Ivory Coast generates more than half of its GDP through joint ventures with French investors, and a significant portion of other companies supply these joint ventures.
The fixed exchange rate with the French franc, and later the euro, facilitates their operations and shareholding. they even get loans in euro-bonds at a low rate.
This model has been successful and has propelled Ivory Coast ahead of Ghana, which has been hampered by a currency collapse.
Ivory Coast is therefore particularly wary of the model of a fluctuating independent currency, given the unfortunate examples of Ghana and Nigeria.
However, the choice of currency to replace the CFA franc is the main obstacle preventing this currency, inherited from the colonial era, from still existing.
The two Anglophone countries, Ghana and Nigeria, along with anti-CFA franc youth movements, favor a floating exchange rate and oppose a fixed parity with any currency, especially the Euro. The former want to manage their money as they are used to, and the later just want a break from the west.
Meanwhile, Côte d’Ivoire, the economic engine of the Francophone countries, wants to maintain a fixed parity and is influencing several french speaking countries in this choice.
And if course, France support this because the french shareholders are a powerful lobby.
The problem is that the “fix parity club” are outweighed by all metrics by the others. So they are playing time and diversion.
The “floating club” therefore chose to link it to decolonization to have more weight.
The inertia created by this disagreement has been transformed into a propaganda tool in the “West vs East” struggle, with a lot of fakes about how the currency was managed, how it works and why it’s a stalemate.
Everyone is told that this currency is the cause of all their misfortunes and the symbol of their dependence on the former colonizer. A divide and rule tool for west african countries.
However, France’s withdrawal from the governance of the currency and the removal of all deposits in that country were achieved long ago.
The only remaining link is the parity with the Euro, just like the Danish krone, for example. No one would dare say that Denmark isn’t sovereign because of this.
However, what allows the CFA franc to perform well is not really the fixed parity itself, but the strength provided by eight countries representing +140 millions of consumers, their solidarity, a common pool of foreign exchange reserves, and good management.
No currency created with fewer strengths will be able to do better; previous experiences by several individual countries have already shown this.
Those who insist on pushing the countries of the zone to venture out alone or in small numbers are therefore very poor advisors.
Especially since they have no solution for strengthening these countries’ initial reserves for the creation of said currency.
Those dangerous lunatics fail to remember that Swift, IMF, BIS, World Bank and other are under the control of this same west they smear, and that they will be without mercy for the adventurers of a new currency.
They know all that. But they won’t say it because it is not “fashionable”.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 21:43 utc | 597
@ drive-by troll @ 21:37 utc | 596
- It’s no secret that Russia punches well above its weight, so it must be doing something right.
- Now give us the corresponding statistics for Ukronazistan.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 31 2026 21:48 utc | 598