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The Art of Sounding Decisive While Saying Nothing…. The reporter’s question was direct: Given massive corruption, a sinking peso, a plunging stock market, slower GDP growth, and collapsing FDI, what is the plan to restore investor confidence and economic recovery? Mr. President BBM, your answer was a weather report, a vague lecture on “global shocks,” and a promise of more public spending—with no numbers, no targets, no reforms, and certainly no accountability. You did not answer the question at all. You were asked to present a plan to restore investor confidence and drive economic recovery. But what you said was: •A rundown of typhoons •A mention of climate change •An argument about the global trade structure •And the blanket fallback: “We’ll increase public spending.” Not a single part of your answer contained: ✔ A reform ✔ A timeline ✔ A target ✔ A policy adjustment ✔ Anti-corruption measures ✔ Monetary/fiscal coordination ✔ Investor-confidence repair steps Mr. President, the question was about governance and economic credibility. You revert to blaming the weather. EXCUSE #1: “It’s the typhoons.” Fact check: Wrong. Pagasa reports frequent typhoons every year, yet the Philippine economy grew 7.1% in 2021; grew 7.6% in 2022. Both years experienced severe weather events. Nevertheless, Typhoons didn’t stop growth then. Why now? EXCUSE #2: “Climate Change” slowed down the economy.” Fact check: Also wrong. Climate change impacts/harm agriculture, yes—but: •The sharp drop in FDI (down ~40%) •The loss of investor confidence •The peso’s fall to historic lows …are driven by financial and governance signals, not rainfall, not the weather. Investors do not flee or avoid a country because of clouds. They flee because they smell corruption, uncertainty, and mismanagement. EXCUSE #3: “Global trade structure shocks are hitting everyone.” Fact check: Only partly true—and misleading. Global headwinds exist, but: •Vietnam is still attracting record FDI with a growth rate of 8.23% in Q3, 2025 •Indonesia remains stable with a growth rate of 5.04% in Q3, 2025 •Malaysia is outperforming its forecasts with a growth rate of 5.2% in Q3, 2025 •India is surging •Bangladesh is maintaining growth •Japan is recovering •Even Thailand, with political uncertainty, is outperforming the PH in FDI inflows. •China’s growth even exceeds that of 2024. The Philippines, by contrast: •Has one of the worst-performing currencies in ASEAN this year •The weakest link in ASEAN economies •Has one of the largest FDI contractions •It is the only country where infrastructure disbursement collapsed due to corruption probes •has the sharpest stock market drop If everyone faced the same global conditions, why is the Philippines performing worse? Because the problem is not global, it is extremely, painfully domestic. EXCUSE #4: “We will increase public spending.” Fact check: Not a plan. No roadmap. Public spending was already budgeted. Increasing spending is NOT a strategy; it is an attempt to restart what corruption already broke. IMPLICATIONS: What BBM Answer Signals to Investors and the Public? seems he does not fully understand the economic drivers underlying the crisis. His analysis treats the Philippine economy as if: •Storms caused currency depreciation •Rainfall caused FDI outflow •The weather caused the drop in GDP growth In short, it signals poor comprehension or deliberate misdirection—both dangerous. 2. It seems he has no concrete recovery plan. If one existed, he would have cited at least: •tax reforms, •ease-of-doing-business measures, •procurement cleanups, •governance reforms, •monetary-fiscal coordination. •He cited none. 2.Investors will read his answers as red flags: Markets hate uncertainty, and a leader unable (or unwilling) to address governance issues signals instability. Sorry to say this, Mr. President Marcos Jr., but your answer to the reporter reveals a troubling pattern: excuses instead of solutions, deflection instead of accountability, and rhetorical confidence masking policy emptiness. It looks like a performance of leadership without the substance of governance. A speech filled with clouds, storms, and global winds, when the real storm is happening inside your own government and domestically. Folks, if this is the economic messaging coming from the top, it’s no wonder investors are heading for the exits.

The Art of Sounding Decisive While Saying Nothing…. The reporter’s question was direct: Given massive corruption, a sinking peso, a plunging stock market, slower GDP growth, and collapsing FDI, what is the plan to restore investor confidence and economic recovery? Mr. President BBM, your answer was a weather report, a vague lecture on “global shocks,” and a promise of more public spending—with no numbers, no targets, no reforms, and certainly no accountability. You did not answer the question at all. You were asked to present a plan to restore investor confidence and drive economic recovery. But what you said was: •A rundown of typhoons •A mention of climate change •An argument about the global trade structure •And the blanket fallback: “We’ll increase public spending.” Not a single part of your answer contained: ✔ A reform ✔ A timeline ✔ A target ✔ A policy adjustment ✔ Anti-corruption measures ✔ Monetary/fiscal coordination ✔ Investor-confidence repair steps Mr. President, the question was about governance and economic credibility. You revert to blaming the weather. EXCUSE #1: “It’s the typhoons.” Fact check: Wrong. Pagasa reports frequent typhoons every year, yet the Philippine economy grew 7.1% in 2021; grew 7.6% in 2022. Both years experienced severe weather events. Nevertheless, Typhoons didn’t stop growth then. Why now? EXCUSE #2: “Climate Change” slowed down the economy.” Fact check: Also wrong. Climate change impacts/harm agriculture, yes—but: •The sharp drop in FDI (down ~40%) •The loss of investor confidence •The peso’s fall to historic lows …are driven by financial and governance signals, not rainfall, not the weather. Investors do not flee or avoid a country because of clouds. They flee because they smell corruption, uncertainty, and mismanagement. EXCUSE #3: “Global trade structure shocks are hitting everyone.” Fact check: Only partly true—and misleading. Global headwinds exist, but: •Vietnam is still attracting record FDI with a growth rate of 8.23% in Q3, 2025 •Indonesia remains stable with a growth rate of 5.04% in Q3, 2025 •Malaysia is outperforming its forecasts with a growth rate of 5.2% in Q3, 2025 •India is surging •Bangladesh is maintaining growth •Japan is recovering •Even Thailand, with political uncertainty, is outperforming the PH in FDI inflows. •China’s growth even exceeds that of 2024. The Philippines, by contrast: •Has one of the worst-performing currencies in ASEAN this year •The weakest link in ASEAN economies •Has one of the largest FDI contractions •It is the only country where infrastructure disbursement collapsed due to corruption probes •has the sharpest stock market drop If everyone faced the same global conditions, why is the Philippines performing worse? Because the problem is not global, it is extremely, painfully domestic. EXCUSE #4: “We will increase public spending.” Fact check: Not a plan. No roadmap. Public spending was already budgeted. Increasing spending is NOT a strategy; it is an attempt to restart what corruption already broke. IMPLICATIONS: What BBM Answer Signals to Investors and the Public? seems he does not fully understand the economic drivers underlying the crisis. His analysis treats the Philippine economy as if: •Storms caused currency depreciation •Rainfall caused FDI outflow •The weather caused the drop in GDP growth In short, it signals poor comprehension or deliberate misdirection—both dangerous. 2. It seems he has no concrete recovery plan. If one existed, he would have cited at least: •tax reforms, •ease-of-doing-business measures, •procurement cleanups, •governance reforms, •monetary-fiscal coordination. •He cited none. 2.Investors will read his answers as red flags: Markets hate uncertainty, and a leader unable (or unwilling) to address governance issues signals instability. Sorry to say this, Mr. President Marcos Jr., but your answer to the reporter reveals a troubling pattern: excuses instead of solutions, deflection instead of accountability, and rhetorical confidence masking policy emptiness. It looks like a performance of leadership without the substance of governance. A speech filled with clouds, storms, and global winds, when the real storm is happening inside your own government and domestically. Folks, if this is the economic messaging coming from the top, it’s no wonder investors are heading for the exits.

Anna Malindog-Uy

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Dear self-esteemed Madame Nirmala Sitharaman, In your interview with India Today said "Look at this stupid-self confidence with which he stands up" taking potshots at our leader Rahul Gandhi as he was talking about the sad economic reality. You asked him back whether we made a single unit which brought in foreign exchange. Here you go, Madame Ji. This is just a beginning! Last year India's Software exports were $205.2 Billion out of $776.68B total exports. This is a huge 26% of the overall export. This is our single biggest contribution to our exports. From starting the first Computer Science course in IIT Kharagpur in 1971, to STPI to Aadhaar and NPCI we've built this software industry in India from ground up. What was your party doing back then? Trying to obstruct everything and create as many hurdles as possible. Let us remind you that your party declared 1984 as 'anti-computerisation year' and worked towards obstructing the IT sector which was the future. Despite all challenges, we went ahead and did it with the support of vast number of talented engineers of India. Here is a brief history of it. How India Became a Global IT Superpower A few decades ago, India was not known for computers or software. But today, it is one of the biggest IT hubs in the world. Millions of Indians work in the software industry, and companies like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS are global giants. This transformation did not happen overnight. It was the result of important government policies and decisions that started in the 1970s. Let’s go back in time and see how India’s IT journey began. IITs and the Birth of Computer Science Courses (1970s-1980s) India’s famous IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) started computer science courses in the 1970s and 1980s. IIT Kanpur was one of the first to introduce a Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) program in 1971, with the help of US universities. By the 1980s, almost all IITs and NITs had computer science departments. This was the first step in producing highly skilled software engineers. Many of these graduates went on to work in Silicon Valley or for Indian IT companies. Rajiv Gandhi and the Computer Revolution (1984-1989 In the 1980s, India was not very advanced in technology. Computers were rare, and many people feared that they would take away jobs. But Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi saw the future. He believed that computers would help India grow. With the help of Sam Pitroda, a telecom engineer, he introduced computers in government offices. At first, there was resistance. Many workers protested, fearing job losses. But soon, people realized that computers made work easier and faster. The government also encouraged companies and schools to use computers. In 1988, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) was set up to build India's own supercomputers. This created excitement around computers, and many young students started taking interest in computer science. The 1986 Software Export Policy – India Opens to the World In 1986, the government introduced a policy to promote software exports. The goal was to make India a hub for IT services. This led to the creation of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in 1991, where software companies could work with tax benefits. Foreign companies also started outsourcing their software work to India. Suddenly, there were many job opportunities in IT, and students began choosing computer science as a career. The 1991 Economic Reforms – A Game Changer The biggest turning point came in 1991 when India opened its economy to foreign investment. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh introduced economic liberalization. Before 1991, starting a company in India was difficult because of too many government rules. After 1991, foreign companies like IBM and Microsoft entered India, creating more jobs in IT. This encouraged even more students to study computer science. The Y2K Boom – India Saves the World (Late 1990s) In the late 1990s, the world faced a big problem – the Y2K bug. Many old computer programs used two-digit years (e.g., ‘99’ for 1999). People feared that when the year 2000 came, computers might fail. Indian IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS came to the rescue. They fixed Y2K bugs for global companies. This made India famous as a reliable IT outsourcing destination. After this, many foreign companies started hiring Indian engineers for software work. Seeing this success, more engineering colleges expanded their computer science departments. Conclusion – The IT Dream Becomes Reality India’s rise as a global IT powerhouse was not an accident. It was the result of smart government policies, investments in education, and the hard work of young Indian engineers. From Rajiv Gandhi’s computer push to the Y2K boom, and from IITs’ computer science programs to economic liberalization, each step played a role in shaping India’s IT success story. Today, Indian software engineers are leading global tech companies, and India remains one of the world’s top destinations for IT services. The journey is far from over – the future looks even brighter! So Madame Nirmala Sitharaman, shelve your stupid arrogance and think before you talk. Your Govt is able to sustain because of Software Exports which is $205.2 Billion out of $776.68B total exports, a huge 26% of the overall export. Do you need more? We will answer you in the coming days!

Dear self-esteemed Madame Nirmala Sitharaman, In your interview with India Today said "Look at this stupid-self confidence with which he stands up" taking potshots at our leader Rahul Gandhi as he was talking about the sad economic reality. You asked him back whether we made a single unit which brought in foreign exchange. Here you go, Madame Ji. This is just a beginning! Last year India's Software exports were $205.2 Billion out of $776.68B total exports. This is a huge 26% of the overall export. This is our single biggest contribution to our exports. From starting the first Computer Science course in IIT Kharagpur in 1971, to STPI to Aadhaar and NPCI we've built this software industry in India from ground up. What was your party doing back then? Trying to obstruct everything and create as many hurdles as possible. Let us remind you that your party declared 1984 as 'anti-computerisation year' and worked towards obstructing the IT sector which was the future. Despite all challenges, we went ahead and did it with the support of vast number of talented engineers of India. Here is a brief history of it. How India Became a Global IT Superpower A few decades ago, India was not known for computers or software. But today, it is one of the biggest IT hubs in the world. Millions of Indians work in the software industry, and companies like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS are global giants. This transformation did not happen overnight. It was the result of important government policies and decisions that started in the 1970s. Let’s go back in time and see how India’s IT journey began. IITs and the Birth of Computer Science Courses (1970s-1980s) India’s famous IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) started computer science courses in the 1970s and 1980s. IIT Kanpur was one of the first to introduce a Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) program in 1971, with the help of US universities. By the 1980s, almost all IITs and NITs had computer science departments. This was the first step in producing highly skilled software engineers. Many of these graduates went on to work in Silicon Valley or for Indian IT companies. Rajiv Gandhi and the Computer Revolution (1984-1989 In the 1980s, India was not very advanced in technology. Computers were rare, and many people feared that they would take away jobs. But Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi saw the future. He believed that computers would help India grow. With the help of Sam Pitroda, a telecom engineer, he introduced computers in government offices. At first, there was resistance. Many workers protested, fearing job losses. But soon, people realized that computers made work easier and faster. The government also encouraged companies and schools to use computers. In 1988, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) was set up to build India's own supercomputers. This created excitement around computers, and many young students started taking interest in computer science. The 1986 Software Export Policy – India Opens to the World In 1986, the government introduced a policy to promote software exports. The goal was to make India a hub for IT services. This led to the creation of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in 1991, where software companies could work with tax benefits. Foreign companies also started outsourcing their software work to India. Suddenly, there were many job opportunities in IT, and students began choosing computer science as a career. The 1991 Economic Reforms – A Game Changer The biggest turning point came in 1991 when India opened its economy to foreign investment. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh introduced economic liberalization. Before 1991, starting a company in India was difficult because of too many government rules. After 1991, foreign companies like IBM and Microsoft entered India, creating more jobs in IT. This encouraged even more students to study computer science. The Y2K Boom – India Saves the World (Late 1990s) In the late 1990s, the world faced a big problem – the Y2K bug. Many old computer programs used two-digit years (e.g., ‘99’ for 1999). People feared that when the year 2000 came, computers might fail. Indian IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS came to the rescue. They fixed Y2K bugs for global companies. This made India famous as a reliable IT outsourcing destination. After this, many foreign companies started hiring Indian engineers for software work. Seeing this success, more engineering colleges expanded their computer science departments. Conclusion – The IT Dream Becomes Reality India’s rise as a global IT powerhouse was not an accident. It was the result of smart government policies, investments in education, and the hard work of young Indian engineers. From Rajiv Gandhi’s computer push to the Y2K boom, and from IITs’ computer science programs to economic liberalization, each step played a role in shaping India’s IT success story. Today, Indian software engineers are leading global tech companies, and India remains one of the world’s top destinations for IT services. The journey is far from over – the future looks even brighter! So Madame Nirmala Sitharaman, shelve your stupid arrogance and think before you talk. Your Govt is able to sustain because of Software Exports which is $205.2 Billion out of $776.68B total exports, a huge 26% of the overall export. Do you need more? We will answer you in the coming days!

Congress Kerala

138,170 次观看 • 1 年前

Dr Pali Lehohla says South Africa’s economy should be 3x what it is, but the government is too stupid, corrupt and greedy. Dr Lehohla’s assessment resonate with many people because because it presents a straightforward diagnosis that if you simply root out corruption and adopt better ideas, the potential of the economy will be unlocked. By saying that it’s just stupidity, corruption and lack of “imagination”, Dr Lehohla appears to disregard how South Africa’s economy is structured. For starters, South Africa’s policy strategy, particularly since 1996 and especially in 2000 with the introduction of inflation-targeting, has relied heavily on attracting foreign portfolio flows to cover its chronic current account deficit. This is what has largely kept South Africa as Africa’s leading economy. The steady flow of hundreds of billions of dollars helps South Africa cover its foreign currency shortages which it desperately needs to trade in international markets. Now, to keep these financial inflows coming, National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank must prioritise high real interest rates and financial market stability to reassure foreign bondholders that SA is a safe space for their dollars, pounds and euros. Although these high interest rates attract foreign bond buyers, they also make borrowing expensive for local businesses, which stifles job creation, hence SA’s high unemployment rate. To National Treasury and the Reserve Bank, these are just the costs of doing business. The point is that contrary to popular belief, the Treasury isn’t acting out of ignorance or lack of vision. They are aware that if they were to deviate too sharply to pursue aggressive growth policies, they would risk a currency collapse, soaring inflation and other quite serious economic problems they would rather not deal with. Someone may argue that adopting these policies all those years ago in the first place *is* the stupidity Dr Lehohla is lamenting. This may very well be the case, but still, there were reasons beyond just a lack of imagination. For one, when the original GNU took office in 1994, it inherited an economy that had been isolated by sanctions, burdened by high public debt and severely capital-starved. The South African Reserve Bank had virtually no foreign exchange reserves to defend the currency or finance international trade. The SARB had no reserves because its senior officials had pilfered and looted the money when it started looking apparent that the White minority government would collapse. Because of this, South Africa had gone from an economy designed to comfortably serve 10% of the population, to one that had to service tens of millions more overnight. But the internal savings were far too low to finance the massive infrastructure and industrial development needed for this. To grow the economy and meet these new social goals, South Africa needed to import capital equipment and consumer goods. However, the country needed to importing far more than it was exporting which created a persistent current account deficit and without domestic savings to bridge the gap, the government had to desperately attract foreign capital. That’s how the foreign investors came swooping in. But there was also something that happened in the early 1990s that spooked the ANC and convinced leadership at National Treasury and the Reserve Bank that the country was hyper-vulnerable to foreign currency shortages. In early 1996, South Africa experienced a sudden capital outflow when rumours and market uncertainty caused foreign investors to pull short-term capital out of the country. As a result, the Rand depreciated by over 20% in a few months and because official foreign exchange reserves were so low, the Reserve Bank was powerless to defend the currency. So, to prevent currency collapses that would spark runaway inflation and destroy purchasing power, the government concluded it had to prioritise foreign investor confidence above everything else. So, in response to the 1996 crisis, the ANC shifted away from the state-led Redistribution and Development Programme and introduced GEAR which committed the country to the public budget and removing foreign exchange controls to reassure foreign investors that they could move their money in and out freely. In short, South Africa adopted the current way of doing things as a deliberate strategy to solve the fundamental dilemma of how to finance a growing, open economy with insufficient domestic savings and low foreign exchange reserves. Now, to be fair to Dr Lehohla, he could be saying they were stupid and spineless for caving to foreign pressure when they could have stood their ground and doubled down on state-led industrial development. In which case, I tend to agree. I would go a bit further and say what Treasury is doing may have been a necessity in 1996, but was already unnecessary by 2006, let alone in 2026. South Africa now has $75 to 80 billion in gross reserves vs. almost zero in 1996. So, the original scarcity rationale is diminished. Yet Treasury has continuously been running an austerity programme, even during commodity booms like in the 2000s when it could have built fiscal buffers and invested in infrastructure. So Dr Lehohla’s lack of imagination accusation appears to land when you ask *why* the ANC government never adapted its strategy throughout the decades as conditions changed. The answer to this question is disheartening. The reality is that if the government, through Treasury, were to attempt to change its economic trajectory, what happened in 1996 would repeat. Vested interests would pull capital, short the rand, spread negative news and systematically suffocate the economy until the government falls back in line. Still, Dr Lehohla is correct that the ANC has been stupid for a while. In the last twenty years they could have built countervailing power like through a sovereign wealth fund, a regional payment system outside dollar dominance, strategic reserves of essentials or diversified trading partners to reduce USD dependency. Instead, they accepted dependence on short-term foreign dollars, which is why they now have to keep going back to the IMF and World Bank to borrow more of those dollars. Similarly, the National Treasury has internalised the market’s preferences so completely that they now believe austerity is good policy instead of coercion. As Antonio Gramsci warned, the dominant ideology has now become common sense.

Dr Pali Lehohla says South Africa’s economy should be 3x what it is, but the government is too stupid, corrupt and greedy. Dr Lehohla’s assessment resonate with many people because because it presents a straightforward diagnosis that if you simply root out corruption and adopt better ideas, the potential of the economy will be unlocked. By saying that it’s just stupidity, corruption and lack of “imagination”, Dr Lehohla appears to disregard how South Africa’s economy is structured. For starters, South Africa’s policy strategy, particularly since 1996 and especially in 2000 with the introduction of inflation-targeting, has relied heavily on attracting foreign portfolio flows to cover its chronic current account deficit. This is what has largely kept South Africa as Africa’s leading economy. The steady flow of hundreds of billions of dollars helps South Africa cover its foreign currency shortages which it desperately needs to trade in international markets. Now, to keep these financial inflows coming, National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank must prioritise high real interest rates and financial market stability to reassure foreign bondholders that SA is a safe space for their dollars, pounds and euros. Although these high interest rates attract foreign bond buyers, they also make borrowing expensive for local businesses, which stifles job creation, hence SA’s high unemployment rate. To National Treasury and the Reserve Bank, these are just the costs of doing business. The point is that contrary to popular belief, the Treasury isn’t acting out of ignorance or lack of vision. They are aware that if they were to deviate too sharply to pursue aggressive growth policies, they would risk a currency collapse, soaring inflation and other quite serious economic problems they would rather not deal with. Someone may argue that adopting these policies all those years ago in the first place is the stupidity Dr Lehohla is lamenting. This may very well be the case, but still, there were reasons beyond just a lack of imagination. For one, when the original GNU took office in 1994, it inherited an economy that had been isolated by sanctions, burdened by high public debt and severely capital-starved. The South African Reserve Bank had virtually no foreign exchange reserves to defend the currency or finance international trade. The SARB had no reserves because its senior officials had pilfered and looted the money when it started looking apparent that the White minority government would collapse. Because of this, South Africa had gone from an economy designed to comfortably serve 10% of the population, to one that had to service tens of millions more overnight. But the internal savings were far too low to finance the massive infrastructure and industrial development needed for this. To grow the economy and meet these new social goals, South Africa needed to import capital equipment and consumer goods. However, the country needed to importing far more than it was exporting which created a persistent current account deficit and without domestic savings to bridge the gap, the government had to desperately attract foreign capital. That’s how the foreign investors came swooping in. But there was also something that happened in the early 1990s that spooked the ANC and convinced leadership at National Treasury and the Reserve Bank that the country was hyper-vulnerable to foreign currency shortages. In early 1996, South Africa experienced a sudden capital outflow when rumours and market uncertainty caused foreign investors to pull short-term capital out of the country. As a result, the Rand depreciated by over 20% in a few months and because official foreign exchange reserves were so low, the Reserve Bank was powerless to defend the currency. So, to prevent currency collapses that would spark runaway inflation and destroy purchasing power, the government concluded it had to prioritise foreign investor confidence above everything else. So, in response to the 1996 crisis, the ANC shifted away from the state-led Redistribution and Development Programme and introduced GEAR which committed the country to the public budget and removing foreign exchange controls to reassure foreign investors that they could move their money in and out freely. In short, South Africa adopted the current way of doing things as a deliberate strategy to solve the fundamental dilemma of how to finance a growing, open economy with insufficient domestic savings and low foreign exchange reserves. Now, to be fair to Dr Lehohla, he could be saying they were stupid and spineless for caving to foreign pressure when they could have stood their ground and doubled down on state-led industrial development. In which case, I tend to agree. I would go a bit further and say what Treasury is doing may have been a necessity in 1996, but was already unnecessary by 2006, let alone in 2026. South Africa now has $75 to 80 billion in gross reserves vs. almost zero in 1996. So, the original scarcity rationale is diminished. Yet Treasury has continuously been running an austerity programme, even during commodity booms like in the 2000s when it could have built fiscal buffers and invested in infrastructure. So Dr Lehohla’s lack of imagination accusation appears to land when you ask why the ANC government never adapted its strategy throughout the decades as conditions changed. The answer to this question is disheartening. The reality is that if the government, through Treasury, were to attempt to change its economic trajectory, what happened in 1996 would repeat. Vested interests would pull capital, short the rand, spread negative news and systematically suffocate the economy until the government falls back in line. Still, Dr Lehohla is correct that the ANC has been stupid for a while. In the last twenty years they could have built countervailing power like through a sovereign wealth fund, a regional payment system outside dollar dominance, strategic reserves of essentials or diversified trading partners to reduce USD dependency. Instead, they accepted dependence on short-term foreign dollars, which is why they now have to keep going back to the IMF and World Bank to borrow more of those dollars. Similarly, the National Treasury has internalised the market’s preferences so completely that they now believe austerity is good policy instead of coercion. As Antonio Gramsci warned, the dominant ideology has now become common sense.

Sizwe SikaMusi

22,892 次观看 • 1 个月前

RETWEET My Heroes Day Message to all Zimbabweans Today is Zimbabwe’s Heroes Day, a day on which we celebrate the sacrifices made by our heroes before and after our independence. Many Zimbabweans died fighting for our independence against the abuse of power by the racist colonial government. They fought for the rule of law, for the dignity of every Black child and every member of our society. They resisted police and military repression and brutality. They fought for a fair society, for land that was in the hands of a few white people, and against corrupt practices, as detailed in the liberation war song "Nzira Dzemasoja” that I have attached below. A song which was a clarion call based on Mao’s doctrine that included not being corrupt and was against abuse of power even against your captured enemies. Sadly, if you review the list I have provided, it appears that nothing has been achieved except replacing one brutal system with another. Today, we have a thoroughly incompetent, corrupt, and repressive government that steals from the people of Zimbabwe and does worse than the colonial government. It has failed to create an environment conducive to employment, with unemployment at 95% today. It has failed to manage the economy, with Zimbabwe now having the highest inflation in the world. It has failed to provide adequate healthcare, with over 2,500 women dying each year during childbirth because the largest hospital in Zimbabwe only has ONE maternity theatre, ironically built in 1977 by Ian Smith. It has failed to provide clean drinking water to all urban areas of Zimbabwe, as prescribed under the Water Act. It has failed to pay pensioners what they are owed due to corruption and looting led by the President himself. It has failed to uphold the constitution, and the court system has been deliberately undermined by the President himself. It continues to exploit poor citizens, charging them US$250 for emergency passports. The President is the mafia king presiding over a criminal enterprise that steals from the poor. He rigs elections, undermining one of the fundamental principles that led to the liberation struggle, one person, one vote. Today we have a president who steals money meant for the Covid-19 pandemic with his family, imagine stealing money for a pandemic, then he arrests and jails journalists for exposing this. He appoints his relatives in all powerful positions to facilitate the looting of public funds, is that what the liberation struggle was about? His own relatives are caught with his own bodyguard smuggling Gold to Dubai and they go scot free, is that what the liberation struggle was about? Given these issues, it is clear that the efforts of our heroes have been betrayed. It is crucial for Zimbabweans to continue the liberation struggle. We must intensify the fight for justice, equality, and prosperity without apology. The sacrifices made by Zimbabwe’s heroes during the liberation struggle were noble and deserving of today’s recognition. However, it is important to acknowledge that the country still faces significant problems such as corruption, economic instability, limited access to essential services, tribalism, repression and more. Ultimately, the true realisation of the dreams and aspirations of Zimbabwe’s heroes lies in the hands of its citizens, who must continue their legacy by striving for a better future for all. The betrayal of the liberation struggle's values by the predatory and corrupt ZANUPF leadership does not diminish the gallant efforts of the genuine freedom fighters who lie in unmarked graves across the country and the Southern African region. Their efforts ended colonialism, and now we must intensify the liberation struggle to end Black-on-Black oppression. The struggle must continue, Aluta Continua!

RETWEET My Heroes Day Message to all Zimbabweans Today is Zimbabwe’s Heroes Day, a day on which we celebrate the sacrifices made by our heroes before and after our independence. Many Zimbabweans died fighting for our independence against the abuse of power by the racist colonial government. They fought for the rule of law, for the dignity of every Black child and every member of our society. They resisted police and military repression and brutality. They fought for a fair society, for land that was in the hands of a few white people, and against corrupt practices, as detailed in the liberation war song "Nzira Dzemasoja” that I have attached below. A song which was a clarion call based on Mao’s doctrine that included not being corrupt and was against abuse of power even against your captured enemies. Sadly, if you review the list I have provided, it appears that nothing has been achieved except replacing one brutal system with another. Today, we have a thoroughly incompetent, corrupt, and repressive government that steals from the people of Zimbabwe and does worse than the colonial government. It has failed to create an environment conducive to employment, with unemployment at 95% today. It has failed to manage the economy, with Zimbabwe now having the highest inflation in the world. It has failed to provide adequate healthcare, with over 2,500 women dying each year during childbirth because the largest hospital in Zimbabwe only has ONE maternity theatre, ironically built in 1977 by Ian Smith. It has failed to provide clean drinking water to all urban areas of Zimbabwe, as prescribed under the Water Act. It has failed to pay pensioners what they are owed due to corruption and looting led by the President himself. It has failed to uphold the constitution, and the court system has been deliberately undermined by the President himself. It continues to exploit poor citizens, charging them US$250 for emergency passports. The President is the mafia king presiding over a criminal enterprise that steals from the poor. He rigs elections, undermining one of the fundamental principles that led to the liberation struggle, one person, one vote. Today we have a president who steals money meant for the Covid-19 pandemic with his family, imagine stealing money for a pandemic, then he arrests and jails journalists for exposing this. He appoints his relatives in all powerful positions to facilitate the looting of public funds, is that what the liberation struggle was about? His own relatives are caught with his own bodyguard smuggling Gold to Dubai and they go scot free, is that what the liberation struggle was about? Given these issues, it is clear that the efforts of our heroes have been betrayed. It is crucial for Zimbabweans to continue the liberation struggle. We must intensify the fight for justice, equality, and prosperity without apology. The sacrifices made by Zimbabwe’s heroes during the liberation struggle were noble and deserving of today’s recognition. However, it is important to acknowledge that the country still faces significant problems such as corruption, economic instability, limited access to essential services, tribalism, repression and more. Ultimately, the true realisation of the dreams and aspirations of Zimbabwe’s heroes lies in the hands of its citizens, who must continue their legacy by striving for a better future for all. The betrayal of the liberation struggle's values by the predatory and corrupt ZANUPF leadership does not diminish the gallant efforts of the genuine freedom fighters who lie in unmarked graves across the country and the Southern African region. Their efforts ended colonialism, and now we must intensify the liberation struggle to end Black-on-Black oppression. The struggle must continue, Aluta Continua!

Hopewell Chin’ono

52,437 次观看 • 2 年前

Vladimir Putin sheds light on Russia's complex relationship with the West following the collapse of the Soviet Union, detailing aspirations for collaboration with Presidents Clinton and Bush, concerns about NATO expansion, a CIA-backed coup in Ukraine, the Minsk Agreements, and the onset of the War in Ukraine in 2014. Russia's Post-Soviet Optimism Putin revisited the Soviet Union's dissolution, emphasizing Russia's initial hope for collaboration with the West. He highlighted Russia's voluntary acceptance of the Soviet Union's collapse, expecting the "civilized West" to view it as an invitation for cooperation. Putin recalled Russian President Boris Yeltsin's praised speech in front of the United States Congress, famously saying, "God Bless America," while expressing optimism for acceptance by the West. Putin's Missile Shield Plan In 2007, Putin proposed a joint U.S.-Russia-Europe missile defense system to President George W. Bush. While the U.S. claimed to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe to counter threats from Iran, Putin suggested a collaborative approach to avoid threatening Russia's security. Despite initial interest, Putin's proposal was rejected, leading to Russia's development of hypersonic missile systems. "I suggested working together: Russia, the United States, and Europe. They said it was very interesting. They asked me, "Are you serious?" I said, "Absolutely". I said, "Just imagine if we could settle such a global strategic security challenge together. The world will change. We'll probably have disputes, probably economic and even political ones. But we could drastically change the situation in the world." He says "Yes, and asks, "Are you serious? I said, "Of course". "We need to think about it." I said, "Go ahead, please." Putin describes how Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited him in Moscow in 2007 to decline his proposal. In response, Putin explained that Russia would be forced to take countermeasures. "We are now ahead of everyone, the United States and the other countries in terms of the development of hypersonic strike systems. And we are improving them every day. But it wasn't us. We proposed to go the other way, and we were pushed back. Now, about NATO's expansion to the east. Well, we were promised no NATO to the east, not an inch to the east, as we were told. And then what? They said, well, it's not enshrined on paper, so we'll expand. So, there were five waves of expansion. The Baltic states, the whole of Eastern Europe, and so on." NATO Expansion Concerns Putin describes Russia's grievances regarding NATO's eastward expansion, emphasizing the breach of promises made during earlier negotiations. He recounted the diplomatic efforts to dissuade NATO from encroaching on Russia's borders, illustrating a growing rift in relations, particularly in the aftermath of NATO bombing Yugoslavia in violation of the United Nations charter. Putin recalled asking President Bill Clinton about Russia joining NATO. After initially expressing interest, Clinton said it would be impossible after he spoke to his advisors. Putin also mentioned the CIA's involvement in supporting opposition parties in Russia. "The promise was that NATO would not expand eastward. But it happened five times. There were five waves of expansion. We tolerated all that. We were trying to persuade them. We were saying, please don't... We are a market economy, and there is no Communist Party power. Let's negotiate." "In 2008, at the summit in Bucharest, they declared that the doors for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO were open. Germany, France, and other European countries seemed to be against it. But then, as I was told later, President Bush exerted pressure, and they had to agree. It's ridiculous. It's like kindergarten. What kind of people are these? We're ready to talk, but with whom? Where are the guarantees? None. So they started to develop the territory of Ukraine." CIA's Role in Ukraine Putin took a deep dive into the Ukrainian crisis, particularly the contentious events surrounding the Orange Revolution in 2004 and Viktor Yanukovych's removal from power during the Maidan Revolution in 2014. He asserts that the United States, with a particular focus on the CIA and State Department, played a significant role in the 2014 Ukrainian crisis, characterizing it as a coup orchestrated with American backing. Putin explained that Germany, Poland, and France signed an agreement between Yanukovych and the opposition that would guarantee a peaceful resolution through an early election. Putin criticized the decision to resort to violence instead of allowing an early election, asserting that the CIA's actions were a political miscalculation. "He had no chance of winning, frankly speaking. Everyone knew that. Then, why the coup? Why the victims? Why threaten Crimea? Why launch an operation in Donbas? This I do not understand. That is exactly what the miscalculation is. CIA did its job to complete the coup. I think one of the deputy secretaries of state said that they cost a large sum of money. Almost 5 billion. But the political mistake was colossal. Why would they have to do that? All this could have been done legally, without victims, without military action, and without the loss of Crimea. We would have never considered even lifting the finger if it hadn't been for the bloody developments on Maidan." "The armed opposition committed a coup in Kiev. With the back of the CIA, of course. They have always been our opponents. A job is a job. Technically, they did everything right. They achieved their goal of changing the government. However, from a political standpoint, it was a colossal mistake. Surely, it was political leadership's miscalculation. They should have seen what it would evolve into." War in Donbas 2014 Putin discusses the events leading to the 2014 War in Ukraine, attributing it to NATO's open doors for Ukraine in 2008, the subsequent coup, and the persecution of those opposing it. "In 2008, the doors of NATO were opened for Ukraine. In 2014, there was a coup. They started persecuting those who did not accept the coup. They created the threat to Crimea, which we had to take under our protection. They launched the war in Donbas in 2014 with the use of aircraft and artillery against civilians. This is when it all started. There's a video of aircraft attacking Donetsk from above." "They launched a large-scale military operation. All this against the background of the military development of this territory and the opening of NATO's doors. How could we not express concern over what was happening? From our side, this would have been a culpable negligence." "We addressed the leadership of the United States and European countries to stop these developments immediately and implement the Minsk agreements." The Minsk Agreements Putin explained that current tensions result from Ukraine's leadership's refusal to implement the 2014-signed Minsk agreements. He highlighted Ukraine's reluctance to adhere to the agreements, with leaders openly declaring their refusal. Putin also mentioned former German and French leaders admitting to signing the agreements without intending to implement them. Despite the complexity, Putin expressed readiness to implement the agreements, criticizing Ukraine for favoring a military solution and accusing them of starting the war in 2014. "It was they who started the war in 2014. Our goal is to stop this war. And we did not start this war in 2022. This is an attempt to stop it." Why did the United States and the West refuse to collaborate with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What do you think about Putin's interpretation of events that led to the War in Ukraine? Do you agree with Putin's assertion that NATO expansion and a CIA-backed coup in Ukraine led to the War in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin sheds light on Russia's complex relationship with the West following the collapse of the Soviet Union, detailing aspirations for collaboration with Presidents Clinton and Bush, concerns about NATO expansion, a CIA-backed coup in Ukraine, the Minsk Agreements, and the onset of the War in Ukraine in 2014. Russia's Post-Soviet Optimism Putin revisited the Soviet Union's dissolution, emphasizing Russia's initial hope for collaboration with the West. He highlighted Russia's voluntary acceptance of the Soviet Union's collapse, expecting the "civilized West" to view it as an invitation for cooperation. Putin recalled Russian President Boris Yeltsin's praised speech in front of the United States Congress, famously saying, "God Bless America," while expressing optimism for acceptance by the West. Putin's Missile Shield Plan In 2007, Putin proposed a joint U.S.-Russia-Europe missile defense system to President George W. Bush. While the U.S. claimed to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe to counter threats from Iran, Putin suggested a collaborative approach to avoid threatening Russia's security. Despite initial interest, Putin's proposal was rejected, leading to Russia's development of hypersonic missile systems. "I suggested working together: Russia, the United States, and Europe. They said it was very interesting. They asked me, "Are you serious?" I said, "Absolutely". I said, "Just imagine if we could settle such a global strategic security challenge together. The world will change. We'll probably have disputes, probably economic and even political ones. But we could drastically change the situation in the world." He says "Yes, and asks, "Are you serious? I said, "Of course". "We need to think about it." I said, "Go ahead, please." Putin describes how Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited him in Moscow in 2007 to decline his proposal. In response, Putin explained that Russia would be forced to take countermeasures. "We are now ahead of everyone, the United States and the other countries in terms of the development of hypersonic strike systems. And we are improving them every day. But it wasn't us. We proposed to go the other way, and we were pushed back. Now, about NATO's expansion to the east. Well, we were promised no NATO to the east, not an inch to the east, as we were told. And then what? They said, well, it's not enshrined on paper, so we'll expand. So, there were five waves of expansion. The Baltic states, the whole of Eastern Europe, and so on." NATO Expansion Concerns Putin describes Russia's grievances regarding NATO's eastward expansion, emphasizing the breach of promises made during earlier negotiations. He recounted the diplomatic efforts to dissuade NATO from encroaching on Russia's borders, illustrating a growing rift in relations, particularly in the aftermath of NATO bombing Yugoslavia in violation of the United Nations charter. Putin recalled asking President Bill Clinton about Russia joining NATO. After initially expressing interest, Clinton said it would be impossible after he spoke to his advisors. Putin also mentioned the CIA's involvement in supporting opposition parties in Russia. "The promise was that NATO would not expand eastward. But it happened five times. There were five waves of expansion. We tolerated all that. We were trying to persuade them. We were saying, please don't... We are a market economy, and there is no Communist Party power. Let's negotiate." "In 2008, at the summit in Bucharest, they declared that the doors for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO were open. Germany, France, and other European countries seemed to be against it. But then, as I was told later, President Bush exerted pressure, and they had to agree. It's ridiculous. It's like kindergarten. What kind of people are these? We're ready to talk, but with whom? Where are the guarantees? None. So they started to develop the territory of Ukraine." CIA's Role in Ukraine Putin took a deep dive into the Ukrainian crisis, particularly the contentious events surrounding the Orange Revolution in 2004 and Viktor Yanukovych's removal from power during the Maidan Revolution in 2014. He asserts that the United States, with a particular focus on the CIA and State Department, played a significant role in the 2014 Ukrainian crisis, characterizing it as a coup orchestrated with American backing. Putin explained that Germany, Poland, and France signed an agreement between Yanukovych and the opposition that would guarantee a peaceful resolution through an early election. Putin criticized the decision to resort to violence instead of allowing an early election, asserting that the CIA's actions were a political miscalculation. "He had no chance of winning, frankly speaking. Everyone knew that. Then, why the coup? Why the victims? Why threaten Crimea? Why launch an operation in Donbas? This I do not understand. That is exactly what the miscalculation is. CIA did its job to complete the coup. I think one of the deputy secretaries of state said that they cost a large sum of money. Almost 5 billion. But the political mistake was colossal. Why would they have to do that? All this could have been done legally, without victims, without military action, and without the loss of Crimea. We would have never considered even lifting the finger if it hadn't been for the bloody developments on Maidan." "The armed opposition committed a coup in Kiev. With the back of the CIA, of course. They have always been our opponents. A job is a job. Technically, they did everything right. They achieved their goal of changing the government. However, from a political standpoint, it was a colossal mistake. Surely, it was political leadership's miscalculation. They should have seen what it would evolve into." War in Donbas 2014 Putin discusses the events leading to the 2014 War in Ukraine, attributing it to NATO's open doors for Ukraine in 2008, the subsequent coup, and the persecution of those opposing it. "In 2008, the doors of NATO were opened for Ukraine. In 2014, there was a coup. They started persecuting those who did not accept the coup. They created the threat to Crimea, which we had to take under our protection. They launched the war in Donbas in 2014 with the use of aircraft and artillery against civilians. This is when it all started. There's a video of aircraft attacking Donetsk from above." "They launched a large-scale military operation. All this against the background of the military development of this territory and the opening of NATO's doors. How could we not express concern over what was happening? From our side, this would have been a culpable negligence." "We addressed the leadership of the United States and European countries to stop these developments immediately and implement the Minsk agreements." The Minsk Agreements Putin explained that current tensions result from Ukraine's leadership's refusal to implement the 2014-signed Minsk agreements. He highlighted Ukraine's reluctance to adhere to the agreements, with leaders openly declaring their refusal. Putin also mentioned former German and French leaders admitting to signing the agreements without intending to implement them. Despite the complexity, Putin expressed readiness to implement the agreements, criticizing Ukraine for favoring a military solution and accusing them of starting the war in 2014. "It was they who started the war in 2014. Our goal is to stop this war. And we did not start this war in 2022. This is an attempt to stop it." Why did the United States and the West refuse to collaborate with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What do you think about Putin's interpretation of events that led to the War in Ukraine? Do you agree with Putin's assertion that NATO expansion and a CIA-backed coup in Ukraine led to the War in Ukraine?

KanekoaTheGreat

1,099,528 次观看 • 2 年前

It's not just the birthrate, our best and brightest are looking for the exits too. If I hear another young, educated and talented fellow tell me they are done with Australia and are giving up, I am going to scream! It is hard to know exactly what to tell them at this point... It is the new pandemic… twenty-and-thirty-somethings - particularly men, with a small business or a great qualification - looking to give up and leave. They have lost hope. Sick of the scamming, lying, politicians; sick of being flogged and lectured at; sick of the taxes; and the so-called “aspiration for all” - whatever that means. Most of the young men I speak to haven’t been here long enough to know what I mean when I say: “I just want Australia back”. Unless you lived it, it is almost impossible to explain. I was just a kid when the bicentennial celebrations kicked off in ’88, but that is a good place to start. What a time to be an Australian. We were filled with hope. Men were men, and women were women… We were filled with pride in our common achievements and looked with hope to an even brighter tomorrow. Sure, people had a whinge from time to time, but they were never taken too seriously. We just shrugged, motored on and thought "she'll be right mate" - and it was. We took pride in our work because it meant more than just a paycheque and if we made something, it was Australian made. That meant it was the best quality. We had fun, and everyone had the opportunity to prosper at all levels. Labourers and lawyers alike could afford homes, cars and even holiday houses. It seems like a different world today as the ideologues, lobbyists and hacks redefined words like fairness and prosperity. Today it would seem it is fair that Coles and Woollies can charge just about whatever they want, and insurance companies can kick up their prices 40% per year, and nobody says a thing. Prosperity is being able to rent a 70 sqm Meriton apartment and a Netflix subscription. It’s all walking distance to public transport, so it could be worse… you could be out of work. Soon... They tax us on our income; they tax our assets; and the things we buy with money we already paid tax on. Sometimes they even add the GST on top of the excise. They have a rule, a regulation and a law for everything - and I mean everything. The nannies are working overtime, and they are just about the only part of the country that is experiencing productivity growth – they’ve got to rake in those fines after all. So, the boys are giving up. They’re planning to leave. To be replaced by more “bum-wiping” ‘skilled migrants’ flown in to help bolster the University fat-cats and NDIS scammers, as they put the ‘care economy’ into overdrive. Controversially, this is not all Albanese’s fault, it has been decades in the making, Albanese has just put the cherry on Morrison’s icing. Australia is indeed in freefall, in every way. It is hard to believe it was an accident. I think most of us can see that now, which is why less of us care what the major party talking heads have to say every day. We have almost reached the chapter in the story where people vote against the status-quo, and anyone who had anything to do with building it… because this growing despair among our young men is catching. Passed from child to parent, friend to friend, there’s a deep melancholy, and a pining for better times. Echoes from the first fleet, the gold rush, the ANZACs and the 80’s. World Expo. Sydney 2000. Our birthright. Our home. Our Australia. It still whispers if you listen. Time to scream at the idiots that ruined it with their guilt, their rules, their taxes, and their windmills – vote them all out. Start again. I just want Australia back.

It's not just the birthrate, our best and brightest are looking for the exits too. If I hear another young, educated and talented fellow tell me they are done with Australia and are giving up, I am going to scream! It is hard to know exactly what to tell them at this point... It is the new pandemic… twenty-and-thirty-somethings - particularly men, with a small business or a great qualification - looking to give up and leave. They have lost hope. Sick of the scamming, lying, politicians; sick of being flogged and lectured at; sick of the taxes; and the so-called “aspiration for all” - whatever that means. Most of the young men I speak to haven’t been here long enough to know what I mean when I say: “I just want Australia back”. Unless you lived it, it is almost impossible to explain. I was just a kid when the bicentennial celebrations kicked off in ’88, but that is a good place to start. What a time to be an Australian. We were filled with hope. Men were men, and women were women… We were filled with pride in our common achievements and looked with hope to an even brighter tomorrow. Sure, people had a whinge from time to time, but they were never taken too seriously. We just shrugged, motored on and thought "she'll be right mate" - and it was. We took pride in our work because it meant more than just a paycheque and if we made something, it was Australian made. That meant it was the best quality. We had fun, and everyone had the opportunity to prosper at all levels. Labourers and lawyers alike could afford homes, cars and even holiday houses. It seems like a different world today as the ideologues, lobbyists and hacks redefined words like fairness and prosperity. Today it would seem it is fair that Coles and Woollies can charge just about whatever they want, and insurance companies can kick up their prices 40% per year, and nobody says a thing. Prosperity is being able to rent a 70 sqm Meriton apartment and a Netflix subscription. It’s all walking distance to public transport, so it could be worse… you could be out of work. Soon... They tax us on our income; they tax our assets; and the things we buy with money we already paid tax on. Sometimes they even add the GST on top of the excise. They have a rule, a regulation and a law for everything - and I mean everything. The nannies are working overtime, and they are just about the only part of the country that is experiencing productivity growth – they’ve got to rake in those fines after all. So, the boys are giving up. They’re planning to leave. To be replaced by more “bum-wiping” ‘skilled migrants’ flown in to help bolster the University fat-cats and NDIS scammers, as they put the ‘care economy’ into overdrive. Controversially, this is not all Albanese’s fault, it has been decades in the making, Albanese has just put the cherry on Morrison’s icing. Australia is indeed in freefall, in every way. It is hard to believe it was an accident. I think most of us can see that now, which is why less of us care what the major party talking heads have to say every day. We have almost reached the chapter in the story where people vote against the status-quo, and anyone who had anything to do with building it… because this growing despair among our young men is catching. Passed from child to parent, friend to friend, there’s a deep melancholy, and a pining for better times. Echoes from the first fleet, the gold rush, the ANZACs and the 80’s. World Expo. Sydney 2000. Our birthright. Our home. Our Australia. It still whispers if you listen. Time to scream at the idiots that ruined it with their guilt, their rules, their taxes, and their windmills – vote them all out. Start again. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

14,167 次观看 • 3 个月前

🇿🇦GIVE THAT MAN A BELLS - GARETH CLIFF NAILS IT “Politicians are parasites and they produce no value.” Gareth Cliff didn’t whisper that. He said it out loud, in front of cameras, and didn’t blink. And for once, someone said what millions of South Africans have been thinking for years, but few dare to voice. Let’s not water this down: he’s right. In a country drowning in corruption, captured SOEs, crumbling infrastructure and R5-trillion in national debt, it is not some unknown virus or international sanction that’s killing the economy. It’s career politicians. It’s people with no measurable skill, no private sector experience, no understanding of economic consequence — making billion-rand decisions that the rest of us are forced to live with. And still they arrive with blue light brigades, business class flights, taxpayer-funded accommodation, VIP protection, and an unshakable belief that they’re doing the nation a favour simply by showing up. Gareth’s comment, “they should be paid a pittance,” is generous. They shouldn’t be paid at all unless they earn their place by contributing real, measurable value. And yet, we have MPs and ministers who walked straight from campus protests into Parliament — zero work experience, zero economic track record, zero real-life grounding — deciding on legislation that affects energy policy, taxation, education, and constitutional reform. It's no surprise that South Africa is being run into the ground by people who’ve never built anything in their lives. Gareth puts it clearly: “You should only be allowed to go into politics once you’ve achieved something.” Start a business. Feed the homeless. Serve your community. Create jobs. Solve real problems. Not write slogans. Not memorise talking points. Not chant and pose. Because politics was never meant to be a career path for the unemployable. It was meant to be a burden of service — something you did after you proved your worth, not something you chose because you had no other options. Let’s be honest: how many politicians in South Africa today would survive even a single month running a private company? How many would make payroll? Navigate taxes? Deliver service? Balance a budget? Now think about this: these are the people writing laws for the rest of us. They regulate businesses they’ve never run. They tax income they’ve never earned. They manage infrastructure they’ve never used. And they fail, again and again, with zero consequence. The ruling party has turned politics into a self-enrichment industry. And no, the opposition isn’t clean either — too many are waiting for their slice of the same pie, not looking to throw the table over. And in the middle of it all, the citizens who actually pay the price — the builders, the doers, the risk-takers — are told to stay quiet and trust the process. No. The process is broken. And Gareth Cliff, love him or hate him, just spoke what too few have the spine to admit: our political class is parasitic. And unless we stop feeding it, it will devour everything. Give that man a Bells. He earned it.

🇿🇦GIVE THAT MAN A BELLS - GARETH CLIFF NAILS IT “Politicians are parasites and they produce no value.” Gareth Cliff didn’t whisper that. He said it out loud, in front of cameras, and didn’t blink. And for once, someone said what millions of South Africans have been thinking for years, but few dare to voice. Let’s not water this down: he’s right. In a country drowning in corruption, captured SOEs, crumbling infrastructure and R5-trillion in national debt, it is not some unknown virus or international sanction that’s killing the economy. It’s career politicians. It’s people with no measurable skill, no private sector experience, no understanding of economic consequence — making billion-rand decisions that the rest of us are forced to live with. And still they arrive with blue light brigades, business class flights, taxpayer-funded accommodation, VIP protection, and an unshakable belief that they’re doing the nation a favour simply by showing up. Gareth’s comment, “they should be paid a pittance,” is generous. They shouldn’t be paid at all unless they earn their place by contributing real, measurable value. And yet, we have MPs and ministers who walked straight from campus protests into Parliament — zero work experience, zero economic track record, zero real-life grounding — deciding on legislation that affects energy policy, taxation, education, and constitutional reform. It's no surprise that South Africa is being run into the ground by people who’ve never built anything in their lives. Gareth puts it clearly: “You should only be allowed to go into politics once you’ve achieved something.” Start a business. Feed the homeless. Serve your community. Create jobs. Solve real problems. Not write slogans. Not memorise talking points. Not chant and pose. Because politics was never meant to be a career path for the unemployable. It was meant to be a burden of service — something you did after you proved your worth, not something you chose because you had no other options. Let’s be honest: how many politicians in South Africa today would survive even a single month running a private company? How many would make payroll? Navigate taxes? Deliver service? Balance a budget? Now think about this: these are the people writing laws for the rest of us. They regulate businesses they’ve never run. They tax income they’ve never earned. They manage infrastructure they’ve never used. And they fail, again and again, with zero consequence. The ruling party has turned politics into a self-enrichment industry. And no, the opposition isn’t clean either — too many are waiting for their slice of the same pie, not looking to throw the table over. And in the middle of it all, the citizens who actually pay the price — the builders, the doers, the risk-takers — are told to stay quiet and trust the process. No. The process is broken. And Gareth Cliff, love him or hate him, just spoke what too few have the spine to admit: our political class is parasitic. And unless we stop feeding it, it will devour everything. Give that man a Bells. He earned it.

I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA

61,857 次观看 • 1 年前

Trump has done a complete 180 on everything he claimed to stand for. It doesn’t matter whether he’s scared, manipulated, acting on his own, or all of the above the outcome is the same. He has betrayed every principle and every single person who helped put him in power. The very people who carried him to where he is. He turned on them. Not just domestically, but internationally, look at the way he treated Orban. He forgets that Viktor Orban was a lone voice in Europe supporting him when everyone else was laughing at him and calling him a crazy orange man. Europeans hated him. Orban was his main supporter in Europe and the way he has treated Orban is just ugly, nothing more. Now he’s cozy with people like Lindsey Graham to the point where Graham is arranging meetings between him and people like the President of Finland. Let that sink in. He can scream ''I’m MAGA they are not,'' like a five-year old, but the truth is MAGA was never built by him, it was built around him. And now he’s completely betrayed what it was supposed to stand for. He’s insulted allies, betrayed partners and escalated tensions with adversaries burning bridges in every direction. And now, here we are again, he’s starting to echo the same tired neocon narrative we've heard for years ''Russia, Russia, Russia.'' It may not be as blatant yet, but give it a few weeks and we’ll be right back to blaming Russia for everything. What makes it even more crazy is that he himself was once the target of the entire Russiagate saga. I’ve seen stupidity before but this is on another level. This isn’t just more of the same, it’s something entirely new. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again the government is a reflection of the people. And right now, we have a narcissism problem in this country. We rank at the top when it comes to that disorder. What’s the core trait of a narcissist? Look at Donald Trump a textbook case. No empathy. Someone dies, and there’s no weight to it. His comment after Charles' death was disgusting. He talks about bombing people with this disturbing sense of excitement ‘we bomb the hell out of them’ like it’s a performance. The worst part is how easily this situation could have been handled. Ayatollah was old and sick he only had a few years left. There was a real opportunity for a deal. Trump blew it when he started bombing Iran in the middle of the negotiations. Twice! We keep ignoring reality. Israel is one of the most cunning and deceptive countries in the world. This is a state that secretly developed nuclear weapons and hid them from its own so-called ‘closest ally,’ the United States. This is a country that has spied on U.S. offices, blamed others for its actions and has has killed American soldiers and journalists. If we were honest and actually calculated which country has caused more harm to U.S. interests Iran or Israel, Israel would likely be far ahead. That’s not opinion, that’s a fact. Iran didn’t just become an enemy out of nowhere. We played a major role in creating that hostility from overthrowing Mossadegh to installing the Shah, whose regime imprisoned and brutalized its own people and we supported and backed him knowing he was a dictator. Now we have the audacity to tell Iranian people that they should get rid of their dictator and we can help by bombing them. You can't make this shit up! Are you kidding me? And there are still idiots who actually buy this. Iran has largely operated from a defensive position ever since. We label them terrorists, but from their perspective, they’ve been preparing for survival building regional influence and proxy networks because they fear exactly what history suggests, that they could be targeted next with bombs or even a nuke! In 2007, Wesley Clark said that the Pentagon had a plan to attack Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. We ended up doing much of that, one by one. Well, guess what, if I’m Iran, watching this and hearing a high-ranking Pentagon official say my country is on that list, and then I see each country on that list get taken down one by one, who here wouldn’t at least think about building a nuclear weapon for defensive purposes? When you know one of the biggest and strongest militaries in the world is planning to invade you someday, and they’re openly talking about it, what would you do? All of you geniuses who think Iran is the problem, honestly, which one of you wouldn’t consider building a bomb in that situation? And that’s without even getting into the role of countries like Israel and the influence they may have on pushing the United States toward these actions. If your argument is that Iran has a dictatorial regime, then you are a hypocritl. The United States installed a dictator in Iran themselves and overthrew a democratic leader and even after that the CIA said they had no problem with Ayatollah, in fact they said it would be 'good for us'.Then they got caught selling weapons to Iran. If the argument is - 'they’re building a nuclear weapon,' then the obvious question is: why? Why would they feel the need to? Maybe it has something to do with Wesley Clark, Iraq and many more?!.. So let’s be real, anyone who says Iran has no right to want a nuclear weapon is either being dishonest or just flat out stupid. Do I want them to have a nuke? No. But do they feel justified in wanting one? Absolutely! Put yourself in their position. You know the history you know what the CIA did to your country. Then you hear a high-level figure like Wesley Clark talk about a plan to take out seven countries in five years, including yours. You watch those countries get hit one after another and you are no position to stand against the US and actually win that war without taking great amount of casualties. What conclusion are you supposed to draw from that? At that point, it’s not crazy it's strategic! Any country in that situation would start thinking exactly about that, I know I would have if I was in that situation. Wouldn’t you? It’s not hard to understand why a country might see nuclear capability as a deterrent when it feels threatened by stronger military powers and some absolutely psychotic states like Israel. And let’s be realistic, Iran would never use a nuke against the United States, any use of nuclear weapons against us would mean their complete annihilation. Iran is many things but it’s not that suicidal, they don’t want to end their existence, they want their country to endure. The question is which country then would they use the nukes if they are ever put in that position? There’s only one country and that’s Israel not the US and Honestly I do not see how is that my problem at all? Do you? I mean it maybe Miriam Adelson's problem but it's not my problem. Most of Iran’s hostile actions came after the U.S. helped overthrow its government and backed a dictator for decades! So this narrative that Iran has been hostile to the us needs seriously clarification to why? Any regime would be hostile to you when you overthrow their democratic leader and instal a dictator that makes people miserable. After the revolution, Iran became openly hostile to the U.S for A REASON! The reason is the CIA and the corporate America nothing else.

Trump has done a complete 180 on everything he claimed to stand for. It doesn’t matter whether he’s scared, manipulated, acting on his own, or all of the above the outcome is the same. He has betrayed every principle and every single person who helped put him in power. The very people who carried him to where he is. He turned on them. Not just domestically, but internationally, look at the way he treated Orban. He forgets that Viktor Orban was a lone voice in Europe supporting him when everyone else was laughing at him and calling him a crazy orange man. Europeans hated him. Orban was his main supporter in Europe and the way he has treated Orban is just ugly, nothing more. Now he’s cozy with people like Lindsey Graham to the point where Graham is arranging meetings between him and people like the President of Finland. Let that sink in. He can scream ''I’m MAGA they are not,'' like a five-year old, but the truth is MAGA was never built by him, it was built around him. And now he’s completely betrayed what it was supposed to stand for. He’s insulted allies, betrayed partners and escalated tensions with adversaries burning bridges in every direction. And now, here we are again, he’s starting to echo the same tired neocon narrative we've heard for years ''Russia, Russia, Russia.'' It may not be as blatant yet, but give it a few weeks and we’ll be right back to blaming Russia for everything. What makes it even more crazy is that he himself was once the target of the entire Russiagate saga. I’ve seen stupidity before but this is on another level. This isn’t just more of the same, it’s something entirely new. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again the government is a reflection of the people. And right now, we have a narcissism problem in this country. We rank at the top when it comes to that disorder. What’s the core trait of a narcissist? Look at Donald Trump a textbook case. No empathy. Someone dies, and there’s no weight to it. His comment after Charles' death was disgusting. He talks about bombing people with this disturbing sense of excitement ‘we bomb the hell out of them’ like it’s a performance. The worst part is how easily this situation could have been handled. Ayatollah was old and sick he only had a few years left. There was a real opportunity for a deal. Trump blew it when he started bombing Iran in the middle of the negotiations. Twice! We keep ignoring reality. Israel is one of the most cunning and deceptive countries in the world. This is a state that secretly developed nuclear weapons and hid them from its own so-called ‘closest ally,’ the United States. This is a country that has spied on U.S. offices, blamed others for its actions and has has killed American soldiers and journalists. If we were honest and actually calculated which country has caused more harm to U.S. interests Iran or Israel, Israel would likely be far ahead. That’s not opinion, that’s a fact. Iran didn’t just become an enemy out of nowhere. We played a major role in creating that hostility from overthrowing Mossadegh to installing the Shah, whose regime imprisoned and brutalized its own people and we supported and backed him knowing he was a dictator. Now we have the audacity to tell Iranian people that they should get rid of their dictator and we can help by bombing them. You can't make this shit up! Are you kidding me? And there are still idiots who actually buy this. Iran has largely operated from a defensive position ever since. We label them terrorists, but from their perspective, they’ve been preparing for survival building regional influence and proxy networks because they fear exactly what history suggests, that they could be targeted next with bombs or even a nuke! In 2007, Wesley Clark said that the Pentagon had a plan to attack Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. We ended up doing much of that, one by one. Well, guess what, if I’m Iran, watching this and hearing a high-ranking Pentagon official say my country is on that list, and then I see each country on that list get taken down one by one, who here wouldn’t at least think about building a nuclear weapon for defensive purposes? When you know one of the biggest and strongest militaries in the world is planning to invade you someday, and they’re openly talking about it, what would you do? All of you geniuses who think Iran is the problem, honestly, which one of you wouldn’t consider building a bomb in that situation? And that’s without even getting into the role of countries like Israel and the influence they may have on pushing the United States toward these actions. If your argument is that Iran has a dictatorial regime, then you are a hypocritl. The United States installed a dictator in Iran themselves and overthrew a democratic leader and even after that the CIA said they had no problem with Ayatollah, in fact they said it would be 'good for us'.Then they got caught selling weapons to Iran. If the argument is - 'they’re building a nuclear weapon,' then the obvious question is: why? Why would they feel the need to? Maybe it has something to do with Wesley Clark, Iraq and many more?!.. So let’s be real, anyone who says Iran has no right to want a nuclear weapon is either being dishonest or just flat out stupid. Do I want them to have a nuke? No. But do they feel justified in wanting one? Absolutely! Put yourself in their position. You know the history you know what the CIA did to your country. Then you hear a high-level figure like Wesley Clark talk about a plan to take out seven countries in five years, including yours. You watch those countries get hit one after another and you are no position to stand against the US and actually win that war without taking great amount of casualties. What conclusion are you supposed to draw from that? At that point, it’s not crazy it's strategic! Any country in that situation would start thinking exactly about that, I know I would have if I was in that situation. Wouldn’t you? It’s not hard to understand why a country might see nuclear capability as a deterrent when it feels threatened by stronger military powers and some absolutely psychotic states like Israel. And let’s be realistic, Iran would never use a nuke against the United States, any use of nuclear weapons against us would mean their complete annihilation. Iran is many things but it’s not that suicidal, they don’t want to end their existence, they want their country to endure. The question is which country then would they use the nukes if they are ever put in that position? There’s only one country and that’s Israel not the US and Honestly I do not see how is that my problem at all? Do you? I mean it maybe Miriam Adelson's problem but it's not my problem. Most of Iran’s hostile actions came after the U.S. helped overthrow its government and backed a dictator for decades! So this narrative that Iran has been hostile to the us needs seriously clarification to why? Any regime would be hostile to you when you overthrow their democratic leader and instal a dictator that makes people miserable. After the revolution, Iran became openly hostile to the U.S for A REASON! The reason is the CIA and the corporate America nothing else.

ELIZABETH LANE

34,350 次观看 • 5 个月前

A Twist in the Tale: Has BJP become the adda of corrupt? In the run up to the 2014 general elections, the BJP centred its campaign around alleged corruption under the Congress-led UPA government, promising ‘ache din’ . Several times during the campaign, Narendra Modi Ji grandiloquently promised to jail the corrupt. He was equally loud about bringing back 'all the looted money stashed away in Swiss banks and eliminating black money'. People gave BJP a decisive mandate and Modi became PM in 2014. On 8th November 2016 in a public broadcast PM Modi declared that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes would cease to be legal tender and grandiosely announced that the purpose of #demonetisation was to crackdown on corruption and eliminate black money. It, however, turned out to be spurious. Recently, Supreme Court Justice B. V. Nagarathna said in a conference in Hyderabad that in the Indian economy at that time, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes comprised 86% of the currency and wondered about the goal of the demonetisation exercise since 98% of those notes came back to banks. She also questioned about black money eradication as demonetisation became a good way of converting black money into white money. In 2017 the BJP government introduced #ElectoralBond Scheme, which was anonymous financial contributions to political parties, by amending several laws namely, the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Companies Act, 2013, the Income Tax Act, 1961. Its avowed purpose was to enhance transparency and accountability in political funding by eliminating black money, corruption. etc. The Supreme Court has recently struck down this secret political funding as unconstitutional and directed disclosure of complete details of all electoral bonds. From the data available in public domain, thanks to the Supreme Court, it came to light that the BJP is the biggest beneficiary as out of total Rs. 11,450 crores it received Rs. 6,566 crores which is 57%. Contemporaneous evidence indicates that #ElectoralBonds have all the ingredients of a huge scam such as quid pro quo and corruption, shell and loss making companies donating to political parties huge sums of money suspected to be kickbacks, and laundering of black money. In order to shield our democratic process from foreign interference, the laws regulating foreign contributions prohibited political parties and candidates in elections from accepting foreign contributions. But the BJP government through Finance Acts, 2016 and 2018 amended with retrospective effect the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010 (#FCRA) by changing the definition of ‘foreign source’ not only condoning the past illegalities committed but also permitting political parties to receive foreign funds, and thereby paved way for foreign intrusion into our political and electoral process compromising our sovereignty. Further, notwithstanding the huge propaganda of alleged action against Foreign Funded NGOs, there has been a huge spike in #FCRA remittances since the 2014-15. While during the 20 years between financial years 1994-1995 and 2013-14 an amount of Rs. 1,51,036 Crores was received, during the 8 years between 2014-15 and 2023-24 Rs. 1,46,392 was received. Data for financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is not yet available. However, from the trends of #FCRA remittances in the preceding years it will be around Rs. 50,000 Crores together for both the financial years, making the total FCRA remittances during 10 year rule of BJP to be around Rs. 2,00,000 Crores which is humongous. Even if a small fraction of that huge amount of foreign funds has gone to political parties or candidates in elections, it amounts to serious subversion of our democracy and constitution. What sort of patriotism is this? Several months prior to 2014 general elections, a spate of alleged scams during UPA rule surfaced namely, Chit Fund scam, Chopper scam, Tatra truck scam, 2G Spectrum scam, CWG scam, Coal scam, Adarsh scam, etc. The courts, CBI, ED and IT proactively initiated action as a result several Congress and UPA leaders came under scanner. Though the BJP came to power on the anti-corruption plank, hardly any political leaders of significance was convicted, nor even paisa of black money stashed away in Swiss banks was brought back. On the other hand, the BJP has allegedly been misusing the law enforcement agencies to arm-twist the opposition political leaders under cloud either to defect to or align with the BJP. Out of 25 important opposition leaders who were allegedly under the scanner and joined BJP, 23 have reportedly got reprieve. Politicians like Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan who faces 38 criminal cases including 11 CBI and 7 ED cases, have been buying peace from the BJP. As a result none of his cases have seen the light of the day, notwithstanding the direction of Supreme Court to speed up trial of cases against politicians. Likewise, the DMK leaders namely, the Maran brothers, A. Raja, Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi have been acquitted, after they not so secretly cosied up to BJP, thanks to the lacklustre prosecution of their cases before the courts. These are only representative examples of how the BJP has become the adda for the leaders facing allegations of corruption, money laundering, etc. It is quite possible that some of them may be genuinely innocent. But as their innocence has been established only after their defection to or aligning with the ruling BJP, it creates dark shadows by raising serious moral questions. Last year, fourteen political parties approached the Supreme Court against the alleged misuse of central investigating agencies in arresting opposition political leaders and other citizens exercising their fundamental right to dissent and disagree with the ruling BJP. It was alleged that 95% of political leaders investigated by CBI and ED belong to opposition. That is, out of 121 prominent politicians facing ED probe between 2014 and 2022, 115 are opposition leaders who had been booked, raided, questioned or arrested. To wriggle out of or deflect the allegations of promoting corruption, shielding the corrupt who have joined or aligned with the BJP and targeting opposition leaders, etc, one of the standard refrains of the BJP has been that as Narendra Modi has no family he cannot be corrupt or has no motivation to be corrupt or shield the corrupt. That is a disingenuous argument. Late Jayalalitha, who was a spinster with no family, was convicted for corruption and was sent to jail. There are many prominent leaders who are unmarried or have no families facing cases or allegations of corruption. I don’t mean to even hint let alone allege that Narendra Modi is personally financially corrupt. I merely want to call out their bluff by highlighting the point that there is no connection between one’s familial status and corruption. It must be recalled that Manmohan Singh, whose personal financial integrity was impeccable, presided over a corrupt regime. As such, personal financial honesty of PM or a CM is meaningless if his party and government are not honest. Barring honourable exceptions, every political party while in opposition grandiloquently talks against corruption, not necessarily because they are honest, but because they try to make a virtue of out of lack of opportunities to make money. Notwithstanding its anti-corruption rhetoric the BJP is no stranger to corruption as its unsavory history tells. In 2001, none other than its National President late Bangaru Laxman was caught on the camera taking bribe from one Mathew Samuel, and was later convicted by a Special CBI Court on 27th April 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. Further, BJP’s former CM of Karnataka Sri B. S. Yeddyurappa faced charges of corruption and was also in jail for a while. There are allegations of misdeeds of BJP government in PM-CARES Fund which is mired in secrecy, in sale of Air India to Tatas for peanuts, about CAG’s concern about astronomical escalation in cost of construction of Dwarka Expressway from Rs. 18.2 crores per km to Rs. 251 crores per km, in the utility of more than Rs. 14,000 crores public funds for Namami Gange project while the sacred Ganga is on the verge becoming a sewer like Yamuna, and several others. The #ElectoralBondScam which points to several alleged scams, is only a tip of the iceberg. It seems further action to take it to logical end has come to a naught. Therefore, having seen the fate of investigation and trial of all the alleged scams and how the political class sabotage, it is imperative that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising serving or retired officers specially chosen by the Supreme Court, which will not be part of any Law Enforcement Agency but independently directly reporting to the Supreme Court, would alone will be able to unravel the truth. It is pertinent to recall the stellar role of RTI Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (before it was amended in 2018) in exposing alleged corruption in the Congress-led UPA government. Information is power. So, the RTI Act empowered people to seek information from public authorities on all official matters (barring a very few exceptions). Based on that information obtained through RTI process about alleged corrupt deals, illegalities, etc during UPA rule, the CBI which had no legal shackles could initiate enquiries and investigation into those allegations. The BJP while in opposition used and exploited this situation to the hilt to oust the Congress-led UPA from power. And having formed government the BJP is acutely aware of the dangers for the corrupt lurking in these laws. So they have systematically wrecked the RTI Act so much so that it has gone from citizens’ most powerful tool to an Act on life support. In 2018 they amended the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As per new section 17A introduced therein, “No police officer shall conduct any enquiry or inquiry or investigation into any offence alleged to have been committed by a public servant under this Act, where the alleged offence is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by such public servant in discharge of his official functions or duties, without the previous approval” of respective governments or appointing authority of the public servant. Which government will permit investigation into its own misdeeds? While Justice R. M. Lodha in 2013 denounced the CBI as a ‘caged parrot’, the BJP government translated his oral observation into a legal reality by destroying the Prevention of Corruption Act. Evidently, the real purpose of BJP undermining RTI Act and emasculating the CBI was to prevent visitation of fate similar to that of UPA by insulating and firewalling themselves from any future enquiries and investigations into their alleged corrupt deeds. Finally, there is an uncanny resemblance between the BJP’s anti-corruption rhetoric with a story in Jeffrey Archer’s popular book, ‘A Twist in the Tale’, which goes like this: Ignatius Agarbi was the new Financial Minister of Nigeria. He begins a sweep on corruption and makes a name for himself. Impressed by his extreme honesty, his president entrusted him to find out how many Nigerians have stashed their bribes in Switzerland. He arrives at the Swiss Bank with a briefcase. Despite his greatest persuasion, the Swiss banker refuses to break their code of privacy. In the end, Ignatius places a gun to the head of the Swiss banker and threatens to kill him. Still the banker refuses to divulge any confidential information. Ignatius, who was actually extremely corrupt, was only checking to find out if the Swiss Banks would actually reveal the name of an account holder. Delighted with their secrecy, Ignatius deposits $5 million in cash which he had skimmed as Financial Minister.”

A Twist in the Tale: Has BJP become the adda of corrupt? In the run up to the 2014 general elections, the BJP centred its campaign around alleged corruption under the Congress-led UPA government, promising ‘ache din’ . Several times during the campaign, Narendra Modi Ji grandiloquently promised to jail the corrupt. He was equally loud about bringing back 'all the looted money stashed away in Swiss banks and eliminating black money'. People gave BJP a decisive mandate and Modi became PM in 2014. On 8th November 2016 in a public broadcast PM Modi declared that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes would cease to be legal tender and grandiosely announced that the purpose of #demonetisation was to crackdown on corruption and eliminate black money. It, however, turned out to be spurious. Recently, Supreme Court Justice B. V. Nagarathna said in a conference in Hyderabad that in the Indian economy at that time, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes comprised 86% of the currency and wondered about the goal of the demonetisation exercise since 98% of those notes came back to banks. She also questioned about black money eradication as demonetisation became a good way of converting black money into white money. In 2017 the BJP government introduced #ElectoralBond Scheme, which was anonymous financial contributions to political parties, by amending several laws namely, the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Companies Act, 2013, the Income Tax Act, 1961. Its avowed purpose was to enhance transparency and accountability in political funding by eliminating black money, corruption. etc. The Supreme Court has recently struck down this secret political funding as unconstitutional and directed disclosure of complete details of all electoral bonds. From the data available in public domain, thanks to the Supreme Court, it came to light that the BJP is the biggest beneficiary as out of total Rs. 11,450 crores it received Rs. 6,566 crores which is 57%. Contemporaneous evidence indicates that #ElectoralBonds have all the ingredients of a huge scam such as quid pro quo and corruption, shell and loss making companies donating to political parties huge sums of money suspected to be kickbacks, and laundering of black money. In order to shield our democratic process from foreign interference, the laws regulating foreign contributions prohibited political parties and candidates in elections from accepting foreign contributions. But the BJP government through Finance Acts, 2016 and 2018 amended with retrospective effect the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010 (#FCRA) by changing the definition of ‘foreign source’ not only condoning the past illegalities committed but also permitting political parties to receive foreign funds, and thereby paved way for foreign intrusion into our political and electoral process compromising our sovereignty. Further, notwithstanding the huge propaganda of alleged action against Foreign Funded NGOs, there has been a huge spike in #FCRA remittances since the 2014-15. While during the 20 years between financial years 1994-1995 and 2013-14 an amount of Rs. 1,51,036 Crores was received, during the 8 years between 2014-15 and 2023-24 Rs. 1,46,392 was received. Data for financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is not yet available. However, from the trends of #FCRA remittances in the preceding years it will be around Rs. 50,000 Crores together for both the financial years, making the total FCRA remittances during 10 year rule of BJP to be around Rs. 2,00,000 Crores which is humongous. Even if a small fraction of that huge amount of foreign funds has gone to political parties or candidates in elections, it amounts to serious subversion of our democracy and constitution. What sort of patriotism is this? Several months prior to 2014 general elections, a spate of alleged scams during UPA rule surfaced namely, Chit Fund scam, Chopper scam, Tatra truck scam, 2G Spectrum scam, CWG scam, Coal scam, Adarsh scam, etc. The courts, CBI, ED and IT proactively initiated action as a result several Congress and UPA leaders came under scanner. Though the BJP came to power on the anti-corruption plank, hardly any political leaders of significance was convicted, nor even paisa of black money stashed away in Swiss banks was brought back. On the other hand, the BJP has allegedly been misusing the law enforcement agencies to arm-twist the opposition political leaders under cloud either to defect to or align with the BJP. Out of 25 important opposition leaders who were allegedly under the scanner and joined BJP, 23 have reportedly got reprieve. Politicians like Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan who faces 38 criminal cases including 11 CBI and 7 ED cases, have been buying peace from the BJP. As a result none of his cases have seen the light of the day, notwithstanding the direction of Supreme Court to speed up trial of cases against politicians. Likewise, the DMK leaders namely, the Maran brothers, A. Raja, Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi have been acquitted, after they not so secretly cosied up to BJP, thanks to the lacklustre prosecution of their cases before the courts. These are only representative examples of how the BJP has become the adda for the leaders facing allegations of corruption, money laundering, etc. It is quite possible that some of them may be genuinely innocent. But as their innocence has been established only after their defection to or aligning with the ruling BJP, it creates dark shadows by raising serious moral questions. Last year, fourteen political parties approached the Supreme Court against the alleged misuse of central investigating agencies in arresting opposition political leaders and other citizens exercising their fundamental right to dissent and disagree with the ruling BJP. It was alleged that 95% of political leaders investigated by CBI and ED belong to opposition. That is, out of 121 prominent politicians facing ED probe between 2014 and 2022, 115 are opposition leaders who had been booked, raided, questioned or arrested. To wriggle out of or deflect the allegations of promoting corruption, shielding the corrupt who have joined or aligned with the BJP and targeting opposition leaders, etc, one of the standard refrains of the BJP has been that as Narendra Modi has no family he cannot be corrupt or has no motivation to be corrupt or shield the corrupt. That is a disingenuous argument. Late Jayalalitha, who was a spinster with no family, was convicted for corruption and was sent to jail. There are many prominent leaders who are unmarried or have no families facing cases or allegations of corruption. I don’t mean to even hint let alone allege that Narendra Modi is personally financially corrupt. I merely want to call out their bluff by highlighting the point that there is no connection between one’s familial status and corruption. It must be recalled that Manmohan Singh, whose personal financial integrity was impeccable, presided over a corrupt regime. As such, personal financial honesty of PM or a CM is meaningless if his party and government are not honest. Barring honourable exceptions, every political party while in opposition grandiloquently talks against corruption, not necessarily because they are honest, but because they try to make a virtue of out of lack of opportunities to make money. Notwithstanding its anti-corruption rhetoric the BJP is no stranger to corruption as its unsavory history tells. In 2001, none other than its National President late Bangaru Laxman was caught on the camera taking bribe from one Mathew Samuel, and was later convicted by a Special CBI Court on 27th April 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. Further, BJP’s former CM of Karnataka Sri B. S. Yeddyurappa faced charges of corruption and was also in jail for a while. There are allegations of misdeeds of BJP government in PM-CARES Fund which is mired in secrecy, in sale of Air India to Tatas for peanuts, about CAG’s concern about astronomical escalation in cost of construction of Dwarka Expressway from Rs. 18.2 crores per km to Rs. 251 crores per km, in the utility of more than Rs. 14,000 crores public funds for Namami Gange project while the sacred Ganga is on the verge becoming a sewer like Yamuna, and several others. The #ElectoralBondScam which points to several alleged scams, is only a tip of the iceberg. It seems further action to take it to logical end has come to a naught. Therefore, having seen the fate of investigation and trial of all the alleged scams and how the political class sabotage, it is imperative that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising serving or retired officers specially chosen by the Supreme Court, which will not be part of any Law Enforcement Agency but independently directly reporting to the Supreme Court, would alone will be able to unravel the truth. It is pertinent to recall the stellar role of RTI Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (before it was amended in 2018) in exposing alleged corruption in the Congress-led UPA government. Information is power. So, the RTI Act empowered people to seek information from public authorities on all official matters (barring a very few exceptions). Based on that information obtained through RTI process about alleged corrupt deals, illegalities, etc during UPA rule, the CBI which had no legal shackles could initiate enquiries and investigation into those allegations. The BJP while in opposition used and exploited this situation to the hilt to oust the Congress-led UPA from power. And having formed government the BJP is acutely aware of the dangers for the corrupt lurking in these laws. So they have systematically wrecked the RTI Act so much so that it has gone from citizens’ most powerful tool to an Act on life support. In 2018 they amended the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As per new section 17A introduced therein, “No police officer shall conduct any enquiry or inquiry or investigation into any offence alleged to have been committed by a public servant under this Act, where the alleged offence is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by such public servant in discharge of his official functions or duties, without the previous approval” of respective governments or appointing authority of the public servant. Which government will permit investigation into its own misdeeds? While Justice R. M. Lodha in 2013 denounced the CBI as a ‘caged parrot’, the BJP government translated his oral observation into a legal reality by destroying the Prevention of Corruption Act. Evidently, the real purpose of BJP undermining RTI Act and emasculating the CBI was to prevent visitation of fate similar to that of UPA by insulating and firewalling themselves from any future enquiries and investigations into their alleged corrupt deeds. Finally, there is an uncanny resemblance between the BJP’s anti-corruption rhetoric with a story in Jeffrey Archer’s popular book, ‘A Twist in the Tale’, which goes like this: Ignatius Agarbi was the new Financial Minister of Nigeria. He begins a sweep on corruption and makes a name for himself. Impressed by his extreme honesty, his president entrusted him to find out how many Nigerians have stashed their bribes in Switzerland. He arrives at the Swiss Bank with a briefcase. Despite his greatest persuasion, the Swiss banker refuses to break their code of privacy. In the end, Ignatius places a gun to the head of the Swiss banker and threatens to kill him. Still the banker refuses to divulge any confidential information. Ignatius, who was actually extremely corrupt, was only checking to find out if the Swiss Banks would actually reveal the name of an account holder. Delighted with their secrecy, Ignatius deposits $5 million in cash which he had skimmed as Financial Minister.”

M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retired)

239,217 次观看 • 2 年前

🚨Piers Morgan Has Received Totally 100% Real and Accurate Lesson in Geopolitical History From Jeffrey Sachs 🚨Piers should be congratulated for allowing someone who has something knowledgeable to say to say it. 🚨ENJOY!!! 📑To my mind, this is overwhelmingly about the first issue, is about NATO, because that's been the issue on the table for 30 years. Territory was not on the table until two years ago. I think the non-negotiable parts of what Putin is saying, I would guess really non-negotiable, so we have to think about them, is that NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine, and I think Crimea is non-negotiable for, Russia's, core security, interests and perceptions and, history. So I think what's really absolutely core to what President Putin is saying is he would like to stop the war. 🚨He doesn't wanna take over Ukraine. He doesn't wanna take more of Ukraine. But what I do think is at the core of this all along was Russia, throughout its history, has always believed in keeping some safety from the West, which has repeatedly invaded, Russia. And after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US and Germany had said to Gorbachev and to Yeltsin, 🚨"We won't expand NATO one inch eastward." But then, like always with the United States, they, they lied, they cheated, and they started the expansion. And then, the Russians, I was, observing this all along. The first expansions, which were in Central Europe, didn't come too close to Russia, and they said, "Ugh, we don't like that. You cheated. You told us no." But okay, that's Hungary, Poland, and Czech Republic. That was 1999 under Clinton. But then it just kept coming and kept coming and kept coming, and they said with rising decibels, and, rising fervor, "Stop coming closer." And their ultimate red line has been consistent. It is Ukraine and Georgia. Why? 🚨 Well, it, it goes back, Piers, to, the British Empire to, 1853 to 1856, actually to Lord Palmerston. He had an idea. 🚨Surround Russia in the Black Sea. 🚨Render Russia's fleet in the Black Sea in Sevastopol, which was there in 1853 just like it's, there in 2024. Render it essentially inoperable. Control the Dardanelles. This is a long story. And, then Russia is a second or third-rate power. And President Putin is responding to what has been a British, imperial attempt for, 175 years and a US attempt since 1991, basically to surround Russia with NATO. And what Putin has been saying is, "Don't do that. Stop. Leave, Ukraine as a kind of buffer zone." And Ukraine was perfectly happy with that, and public opinion was perfectly happy with that, and they didn't wanna join NATO. And in 2009, they elected Viktor Yanukovych, who promised them neutrality, which was the promise that Ukraine itself had made in declaring its independence, that they would be permanently a neutral country. Cause they're in between West and East. They're in between Europe and Western Europe or European Union and Russia. So they wanted just, "Okay, we'll be, we'll be neutral." But then the United States did team up to overthrow Yanukovych in February 2014, and that's when this war started. That's when Russia, stopped saying, "Well, we'll lease a base in Crimea. Rather, we'll take back Crimea. We don't want it to fall into NATO hands," just like, the Tsar did not want, Sevastopol to fall into Palmerston's hands. So this is basically a long, long story. I think the rest is negotiable. I basically think either the US and Europe don't understand what they're doing, which is not impossible, or they're still on what has been a 30-year neocon agenda, which I know about in detail, which is get NATO all the way to surround Russia, because that was the plan of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Dick Cheney and others going right back to the 1990s. They still wanna do it, and they think they can still accomplish this. Okay. That's where I find your, I wouldn't say trust, I don't think that's the right word, but you seem very reliant on accepting Putin's worldview rather than perhaps the stark reality of the barbarism with which he's executed this war. 🚨Yeah, maybe because I know too much about the United States. Because the first war in Europe after world War two was the US bombing of Belgrade for 78 days to change borders of a european state. 🚨The idea was to break Serbia, to create Kosovo as an enclave, and then to install Bondsteel, which is the largest NATO base in the Balkans, in the southwest Balkans. So the US started this under Clinton, that we will break the borders, we will illegally bomb another country. We didn't have any UN authority. This was a, quote, NATO mission to do that. Then I know the United States went to war repeatedly, illegally, in what it did in Afghanistan and then what it did in Iraq and then what it did in Syria, which was the Obama administration, especially Obama and Hillary Clinton, tasking the CIA to overthrow Bashar al Assad. And then what it did with NATO illegally bombing Libya to topple Muammar Gaddafi and then what it did in Kiev in February 2014. I happened to see some of that with my own eyes. The US overthrew Yanukovych together with right wing ukrainian military forces. We overthrew a president. And what's interesting, by the way, is we overthrew Yanukovych the day after the European Union representatives had reached an agreement with Yanukovych to have early elections, a government of national unity and a stand down of both sides that was agreed. The next thing that happens is the opposition, quote unquote, says, we don't agree. They stormed the government buildings and they deposed Yanukovych. And within hours, the United States says, yes, we support the new government. It didn't say, oh, we had an agreement that's unconstitutional what you did. So we overthrew a government contrary to a promise that the European Union had made. And by the way, Russia, the United States, and the EU were parties to that agreement. And the United States an hour afterwards backed the coup. Okay, so everyone's got a little bit to answer for. In 2015, the Russians did not say, we want the Donbas back. They said, peace should come through negotiations. And negotiations between the ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine and this new regime in Kiev led to the Minsk II agreement. The Minsk II agreement was voted by the UN Security Council unanimously. It was signed by the government of Ukraine. It was guaranteed explicitly by Germany and France. And you know what? And it's been explained to me in person. It was laughed at inside the us government. This is after the UN Security Council unanimously accepted it. The Ukrainian said, we don't want to give autonomy to the region. Oh, but that's part of the treaty. The US told them, don't worry about it. Angela Merkel explained in Die Zeit in a notorious interview after the 2022 escalation. She said, oh, you know, we knew that Minsk two was just a holding pattern to give Ukraine time to build its strength. No, Minsk too was a UN security council unanimously adopted treaty that was supposed to end the war. So when it comes to who's trustworthy, who to believe and so forth, I guess my problem, Piers, is I know the United States government, I know it very well. I don't trust them for a moment. I want these two sides actually to sit down in front of the whole world and say, these are the terms. Then the world can judge, because we could get on paper clearly for both sides of the world, we're not going to overthrow governments anymore. The United States needs to say, we accept this agreement. The United States needs to say, Russia needs to say, we're not stepping 1ft farther than whatever the boundary is actually reached and NATO's not going to enlarge.

🚨Piers Morgan Has Received Totally 100% Real and Accurate Lesson in Geopolitical History From Jeffrey Sachs 🚨Piers should be congratulated for allowing someone who has something knowledgeable to say to say it. 🚨ENJOY!!! 📑To my mind, this is overwhelmingly about the first issue, is about NATO, because that's been the issue on the table for 30 years. Territory was not on the table until two years ago. I think the non-negotiable parts of what Putin is saying, I would guess really non-negotiable, so we have to think about them, is that NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine, and I think Crimea is non-negotiable for, Russia's, core security, interests and perceptions and, history. So I think what's really absolutely core to what President Putin is saying is he would like to stop the war. 🚨He doesn't wanna take over Ukraine. He doesn't wanna take more of Ukraine. But what I do think is at the core of this all along was Russia, throughout its history, has always believed in keeping some safety from the West, which has repeatedly invaded, Russia. And after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US and Germany had said to Gorbachev and to Yeltsin, 🚨"We won't expand NATO one inch eastward." But then, like always with the United States, they, they lied, they cheated, and they started the expansion. And then, the Russians, I was, observing this all along. The first expansions, which were in Central Europe, didn't come too close to Russia, and they said, "Ugh, we don't like that. You cheated. You told us no." But okay, that's Hungary, Poland, and Czech Republic. That was 1999 under Clinton. But then it just kept coming and kept coming and kept coming, and they said with rising decibels, and, rising fervor, "Stop coming closer." And their ultimate red line has been consistent. It is Ukraine and Georgia. Why? 🚨 Well, it, it goes back, Piers, to, the British Empire to, 1853 to 1856, actually to Lord Palmerston. He had an idea. 🚨Surround Russia in the Black Sea. 🚨Render Russia's fleet in the Black Sea in Sevastopol, which was there in 1853 just like it's, there in 2024. Render it essentially inoperable. Control the Dardanelles. This is a long story. And, then Russia is a second or third-rate power. And President Putin is responding to what has been a British, imperial attempt for, 175 years and a US attempt since 1991, basically to surround Russia with NATO. And what Putin has been saying is, "Don't do that. Stop. Leave, Ukraine as a kind of buffer zone." And Ukraine was perfectly happy with that, and public opinion was perfectly happy with that, and they didn't wanna join NATO. And in 2009, they elected Viktor Yanukovych, who promised them neutrality, which was the promise that Ukraine itself had made in declaring its independence, that they would be permanently a neutral country. Cause they're in between West and East. They're in between Europe and Western Europe or European Union and Russia. So they wanted just, "Okay, we'll be, we'll be neutral." But then the United States did team up to overthrow Yanukovych in February 2014, and that's when this war started. That's when Russia, stopped saying, "Well, we'll lease a base in Crimea. Rather, we'll take back Crimea. We don't want it to fall into NATO hands," just like, the Tsar did not want, Sevastopol to fall into Palmerston's hands. So this is basically a long, long story. I think the rest is negotiable. I basically think either the US and Europe don't understand what they're doing, which is not impossible, or they're still on what has been a 30-year neocon agenda, which I know about in detail, which is get NATO all the way to surround Russia, because that was the plan of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Dick Cheney and others going right back to the 1990s. They still wanna do it, and they think they can still accomplish this. Okay. That's where I find your, I wouldn't say trust, I don't think that's the right word, but you seem very reliant on accepting Putin's worldview rather than perhaps the stark reality of the barbarism with which he's executed this war. 🚨Yeah, maybe because I know too much about the United States. Because the first war in Europe after world War two was the US bombing of Belgrade for 78 days to change borders of a european state. 🚨The idea was to break Serbia, to create Kosovo as an enclave, and then to install Bondsteel, which is the largest NATO base in the Balkans, in the southwest Balkans. So the US started this under Clinton, that we will break the borders, we will illegally bomb another country. We didn't have any UN authority. This was a, quote, NATO mission to do that. Then I know the United States went to war repeatedly, illegally, in what it did in Afghanistan and then what it did in Iraq and then what it did in Syria, which was the Obama administration, especially Obama and Hillary Clinton, tasking the CIA to overthrow Bashar al Assad. And then what it did with NATO illegally bombing Libya to topple Muammar Gaddafi and then what it did in Kiev in February 2014. I happened to see some of that with my own eyes. The US overthrew Yanukovych together with right wing ukrainian military forces. We overthrew a president. And what's interesting, by the way, is we overthrew Yanukovych the day after the European Union representatives had reached an agreement with Yanukovych to have early elections, a government of national unity and a stand down of both sides that was agreed. The next thing that happens is the opposition, quote unquote, says, we don't agree. They stormed the government buildings and they deposed Yanukovych. And within hours, the United States says, yes, we support the new government. It didn't say, oh, we had an agreement that's unconstitutional what you did. So we overthrew a government contrary to a promise that the European Union had made. And by the way, Russia, the United States, and the EU were parties to that agreement. And the United States an hour afterwards backed the coup. Okay, so everyone's got a little bit to answer for. In 2015, the Russians did not say, we want the Donbas back. They said, peace should come through negotiations. And negotiations between the ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine and this new regime in Kiev led to the Minsk II agreement. The Minsk II agreement was voted by the UN Security Council unanimously. It was signed by the government of Ukraine. It was guaranteed explicitly by Germany and France. And you know what? And it's been explained to me in person. It was laughed at inside the us government. This is after the UN Security Council unanimously accepted it. The Ukrainian said, we don't want to give autonomy to the region. Oh, but that's part of the treaty. The US told them, don't worry about it. Angela Merkel explained in Die Zeit in a notorious interview after the 2022 escalation. She said, oh, you know, we knew that Minsk two was just a holding pattern to give Ukraine time to build its strength. No, Minsk too was a UN security council unanimously adopted treaty that was supposed to end the war. So when it comes to who's trustworthy, who to believe and so forth, I guess my problem, Piers, is I know the United States government, I know it very well. I don't trust them for a moment. I want these two sides actually to sit down in front of the whole world and say, these are the terms. Then the world can judge, because we could get on paper clearly for both sides of the world, we're not going to overthrow governments anymore. The United States needs to say, we accept this agreement. The United States needs to say, Russia needs to say, we're not stepping 1ft farther than whatever the boundary is actually reached and NATO's not going to enlarge.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

137,922 次观看 • 19 天前

The Naked Truth ‼️ Sometimes People Don't Want To Hear The Truth Because They Don't Want Their Illusions Destroyed MUST WATCH: The most important interview of our time Russia-Ukraine War The Best Explaned Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Has DESTROYED Ukraine, More Funding Would Be INSANE ➡️The longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. ➡️Russia will capture more territory. ➡️Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. ➡️It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. ➡️Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. ➡️The entire russian political class is against this. ➡️But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. ➡️That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. ➡️Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. 📑Well, first of all, this is purely money down the drain. So if they want to rip up another $61 billion, which is not chump change, they seem intent on doing it, but it will mean nothing except more destruction for Ukraine. The fact of the matter is, if you don't listen to the nonsense in our mainstream media but listen to your show and others, people would know that this war has destroyed Ukraine. And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. It's very simple, actually. If this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory. If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. If we continue the way we're doing, and this is a Biden project that goes back ten years now, will completely destroy Ukraine. So the idea that this is siding with Ukraine is absurd. Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine. We have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die for more and more territory to be lost. Because the most basic point of this war, which is that we overthrew a government in Ukraine in 2014 that wanted neutrality so that we could push NATO enlargement, was reckless, stupid, and doomed to fail, and it failed. Now Biden is just trying to hide the failure to get past November, but the failure is seen on the battleground every day. If the Republicans play into this, its unbelievable shame on them. Theyre basically on the right side, although Biden bludgeons them every day. Youll be the one to lose Ukraine. Well, the truth of the matter is Biden has been a disaster for Ukraine for a decade. The disaster is there in the graves of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and lost territory. This is a war that never should have happened. It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. And Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. The entire russian political class is against this. But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. And now they want another $61 billion to get them past November. It's a disgrace. It's completely a disgrace. To play devil's advocate. Let me give you the other side and then allow you to respond to that. What do you say to people that maybe acknowledge there were certainly missteps with the expansion of NATO and the provocation, but nevertheless, Russia chose to respond to that with an invasion. The situation in Ukraine is due to that invasion. And so what do you say to people who think, well, so we are now responding to that invasion by funding, not committing american troops, but funding a resistance in Ukraine that wants to continue fighting? Well, yeah, the war began ten years ago when Victoria Nuland not only passed out cookies on Maidan, but engaged in insurrection to violently overthrow a government in Ukraine. Pretty stupid. Pretty stupid to have a regime change operation on a country with the 2000 kilometer border with Russia. That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. And then the fighting went on for ten years. And then in December 2021, Putin said, look, stop the NATO enlargement. We can avoid an escalation. I talked to the White House at that point. Nah, we don't stop anything. They just thought they had all the cards. We're going to cut them out of this SWIFT banking system. We're going to bring the economy to the knees. Bunch of nonsense by ignorant people. And so Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. He escalated the war. And within, basically a week, Zelenskyy said, okay, okay, okay, we can be neutral. And the Turks mediated negotiations. And then, though the US government wants to hide all of these facts, which are sitting out there for those who know where to find them, the US intervened and told the Ukrainians, you keep fighting. And we have our senators who say, this is the best the money can buy, because it's Ukrainians dying, not Americans. They're weakening Russia. Well, they're not weakening Russia, but they are killing Ukrainians. So this is not responding to Putin's invasion. The war started ten years ago, and we kept refusing every off ramp till this day, Robbie, you know, you hear Putin say, and if you listen, every day, we're open to negotiations. And then these fools in the US government say, there's no one to negotiate. They don't want to negotiate. And then President Putin says, oh, we're open to negotiation. Oh, there's no one to negotiate, is what we hear from the US side. This is just narrative. It's destroyed Ukraine, and they just rip up money like there's no tomorrow. So another 61 billion. And now I hear from. From you that the latest plan is to take the illegally confiscated assets of Russia because there's no legal basis to do this and use that. That'll be really great for the international financial system. I'll tell you. Because these are people who don't think ahead one day. They just improvise day by day, and then they'll find out, oh, things don't work out so well for the US dollar, for the US as reserve currency for the US place in the world, because these people are acting like clowns, frankly, day by day, not thinking ahead, doubling down on lost gambles and everything to tell a story so that they can get to the elections in the way they see fit. Professor, I want to ask you about how the United States gets out of this now, because I'm reminded of conversations that surrounded the war in Afghanistan for years, which was that we shouldn't have gotten into it. This is a mistake. But now we've destabilized the country. We're in neck deep. We can't just stop funding and abandon this project. And that's a hamster wheel of sorts, right? So there are some people that I think are gonna listen to this and say, well, I agree with everything you're saying, but what do you do at this point? Is it just a sunk cost? Or is there some obligation to unwind this in a way that's responsible and doesn't leave Ukrainians high and dry? Ukrainians are high and dry no matter what we do. We've killed nearly half a million of them through this stupid project. And the ones that throw good money after bad are the ones themselves that are personally culpable for this. This is Biden's project. So this is the first starting point. You don't throw good lives after those already dead and good money after bad when you have an absolute failure and disaster on your hands. By the way, this is like every american effort. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam. The same words said about Vietnam. We do this over and over and over again in the US because our so called leaders have no sense and they don't think ahead. So, yes, we have to stop this. But the one thing that we don't do, and it's really a bit of a mystery to me, it's the worst I've seen in my whole lifetime. We don't negotiate. Does Biden call Putin, say, we need to talk? No, that would be weakness. That would be appeasement. They don't even have the idea that you negotiate anything. And, you know, if you try everything by a military approach and a failed one, and you do it in these proxy wars where it's the people themselves in these countries that are dying on the front lines, and you don't know anything about diplomacy? Well, you make a complete mess of the world. And so the answer is the first thing is the US and Russia should talk to each other because there's a cause of this war and that's NATO enlargement. And by the way, that's no secret and that's not propaganda. Even the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that absolutely explicitly, as did the top negotiator for Zelensky, Davyd Arakhamia. This is a war about NATO enlargement. So why doesn't Biden call up Putin, say, you know what, we gotta stop the war. And that whole NATO enlargement that I was party to going back to the 1990s and to 2014 coup and all that was a bad idea. Figure out how to stop the war, recognize mutual security, and stop the bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine. If Biden were really acting like a president, thats what he would do. Its been about a year since a group of economists wrote an open letter about you, accusing you of denying the agency of Ukraine peddling Putin talking points, all of those kinds of things. It's a year later. How do you respond to them? Well, I don't respond. I tell them I told you so. I told them so from the beginning that this would be a complete disaster for Ukraine. People don't want to hear this. They don't understand. They don't know enough about american history. I told them Ukraine is going to be like Afghanistan and boy is it like Afghanistan right now. So they didn't want to hear. That's not right. That's not fair. Professor Sacks. I was telling them facts. I was giving them some good advice. They didn't want to hear that. They wanted to hear about victory, glory, how Ukraine's going to succeed, that great counteroffensive, all the rest, all the baloney. But I said from the beginning that this would be a disaster. I said this is just the latest neocon debacle. And I said explicitly it was going to leave Ukraine like Afghanistan and it was completely avoidable. So that's what I tell them. I'm sorry. Listen, pay attention. Learn something. That's what I say to them.

The Naked Truth ‼️ Sometimes People Don't Want To Hear The Truth Because They Don't Want Their Illusions Destroyed MUST WATCH: The most important interview of our time Russia-Ukraine War The Best Explaned Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Has DESTROYED Ukraine, More Funding Would Be INSANE ➡️The longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. ➡️Russia will capture more territory. ➡️Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. ➡️It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. ➡️Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. ➡️The entire russian political class is against this. ➡️But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. ➡️That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. ➡️Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. 📑Well, first of all, this is purely money down the drain. So if they want to rip up another $61 billion, which is not chump change, they seem intent on doing it, but it will mean nothing except more destruction for Ukraine. The fact of the matter is, if you don't listen to the nonsense in our mainstream media but listen to your show and others, people would know that this war has destroyed Ukraine. And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. It's very simple, actually. If this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory. If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. If we continue the way we're doing, and this is a Biden project that goes back ten years now, will completely destroy Ukraine. So the idea that this is siding with Ukraine is absurd. Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine. We have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die for more and more territory to be lost. Because the most basic point of this war, which is that we overthrew a government in Ukraine in 2014 that wanted neutrality so that we could push NATO enlargement, was reckless, stupid, and doomed to fail, and it failed. Now Biden is just trying to hide the failure to get past November, but the failure is seen on the battleground every day. If the Republicans play into this, its unbelievable shame on them. Theyre basically on the right side, although Biden bludgeons them every day. Youll be the one to lose Ukraine. Well, the truth of the matter is Biden has been a disaster for Ukraine for a decade. The disaster is there in the graves of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and lost territory. This is a war that never should have happened. It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. And Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. The entire russian political class is against this. But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. And now they want another $61 billion to get them past November. It's a disgrace. It's completely a disgrace. To play devil's advocate. Let me give you the other side and then allow you to respond to that. What do you say to people that maybe acknowledge there were certainly missteps with the expansion of NATO and the provocation, but nevertheless, Russia chose to respond to that with an invasion. The situation in Ukraine is due to that invasion. And so what do you say to people who think, well, so we are now responding to that invasion by funding, not committing american troops, but funding a resistance in Ukraine that wants to continue fighting? Well, yeah, the war began ten years ago when Victoria Nuland not only passed out cookies on Maidan, but engaged in insurrection to violently overthrow a government in Ukraine. Pretty stupid. Pretty stupid to have a regime change operation on a country with the 2000 kilometer border with Russia. That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. And then the fighting went on for ten years. And then in December 2021, Putin said, look, stop the NATO enlargement. We can avoid an escalation. I talked to the White House at that point. Nah, we don't stop anything. They just thought they had all the cards. We're going to cut them out of this SWIFT banking system. We're going to bring the economy to the knees. Bunch of nonsense by ignorant people. And so Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. He escalated the war. And within, basically a week, Zelenskyy said, okay, okay, okay, we can be neutral. And the Turks mediated negotiations. And then, though the US government wants to hide all of these facts, which are sitting out there for those who know where to find them, the US intervened and told the Ukrainians, you keep fighting. And we have our senators who say, this is the best the money can buy, because it's Ukrainians dying, not Americans. They're weakening Russia. Well, they're not weakening Russia, but they are killing Ukrainians. So this is not responding to Putin's invasion. The war started ten years ago, and we kept refusing every off ramp till this day, Robbie, you know, you hear Putin say, and if you listen, every day, we're open to negotiations. And then these fools in the US government say, there's no one to negotiate. They don't want to negotiate. And then President Putin says, oh, we're open to negotiation. Oh, there's no one to negotiate, is what we hear from the US side. This is just narrative. It's destroyed Ukraine, and they just rip up money like there's no tomorrow. So another 61 billion. And now I hear from. From you that the latest plan is to take the illegally confiscated assets of Russia because there's no legal basis to do this and use that. That'll be really great for the international financial system. I'll tell you. Because these are people who don't think ahead one day. They just improvise day by day, and then they'll find out, oh, things don't work out so well for the US dollar, for the US as reserve currency for the US place in the world, because these people are acting like clowns, frankly, day by day, not thinking ahead, doubling down on lost gambles and everything to tell a story so that they can get to the elections in the way they see fit. Professor, I want to ask you about how the United States gets out of this now, because I'm reminded of conversations that surrounded the war in Afghanistan for years, which was that we shouldn't have gotten into it. This is a mistake. But now we've destabilized the country. We're in neck deep. We can't just stop funding and abandon this project. And that's a hamster wheel of sorts, right? So there are some people that I think are gonna listen to this and say, well, I agree with everything you're saying, but what do you do at this point? Is it just a sunk cost? Or is there some obligation to unwind this in a way that's responsible and doesn't leave Ukrainians high and dry? Ukrainians are high and dry no matter what we do. We've killed nearly half a million of them through this stupid project. And the ones that throw good money after bad are the ones themselves that are personally culpable for this. This is Biden's project. So this is the first starting point. You don't throw good lives after those already dead and good money after bad when you have an absolute failure and disaster on your hands. By the way, this is like every american effort. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam. The same words said about Vietnam. We do this over and over and over again in the US because our so called leaders have no sense and they don't think ahead. So, yes, we have to stop this. But the one thing that we don't do, and it's really a bit of a mystery to me, it's the worst I've seen in my whole lifetime. We don't negotiate. Does Biden call Putin, say, we need to talk? No, that would be weakness. That would be appeasement. They don't even have the idea that you negotiate anything. And, you know, if you try everything by a military approach and a failed one, and you do it in these proxy wars where it's the people themselves in these countries that are dying on the front lines, and you don't know anything about diplomacy? Well, you make a complete mess of the world. And so the answer is the first thing is the US and Russia should talk to each other because there's a cause of this war and that's NATO enlargement. And by the way, that's no secret and that's not propaganda. Even the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that absolutely explicitly, as did the top negotiator for Zelensky, Davyd Arakhamia. This is a war about NATO enlargement. So why doesn't Biden call up Putin, say, you know what, we gotta stop the war. And that whole NATO enlargement that I was party to going back to the 1990s and to 2014 coup and all that was a bad idea. Figure out how to stop the war, recognize mutual security, and stop the bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine. If Biden were really acting like a president, thats what he would do. Its been about a year since a group of economists wrote an open letter about you, accusing you of denying the agency of Ukraine peddling Putin talking points, all of those kinds of things. It's a year later. How do you respond to them? Well, I don't respond. I tell them I told you so. I told them so from the beginning that this would be a complete disaster for Ukraine. People don't want to hear this. They don't understand. They don't know enough about american history. I told them Ukraine is going to be like Afghanistan and boy is it like Afghanistan right now. So they didn't want to hear. That's not right. That's not fair. Professor Sacks. I was telling them facts. I was giving them some good advice. They didn't want to hear that. They wanted to hear about victory, glory, how Ukraine's going to succeed, that great counteroffensive, all the rest, all the baloney. But I said from the beginning that this would be a disaster. I said this is just the latest neocon debacle. And I said explicitly it was going to leave Ukraine like Afghanistan and it was completely avoidable. So that's what I tell them. I'm sorry. Listen, pay attention. Learn something. That's what I say to them.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

271,503 次观看 • 2 年前

I would like to wish all my compatriots a happy Independence Day, happy Independence Zimbabwe. The independence of our country, unlike many other African countries, came through blood that was shed. There are so many Zimbabweans who lie in unmarked graves from Tanzania to Zambia to Botswana to Mozambique, and they put their lives on the line so that you and I could have the independence that we did not have under colonial rule. There is a distinct difference between those who fought for the independence of our country and died, never seeing an independent Zimbabwe, and those who took over from colonial rule and then destroyed our country through incompetence, corruption, and many other afflictions that should never have been there. I am in no doubt at all that had our country not become independent, I and many Black citizens would probably not be where we are today, thanks to the early gains of independence. Sadly, I now find myself as a journalist and a Zimbabwean with NO freedom to speak, to write, and to exist as a full citizen in my country post independence after the derailment of the independence dream. Many of our people did not have the opportunities that I personally got, and many others got, to advance our lives. It is unfortunate that we find ourselves where we are today, not because independence is bad, but because we ended up with selfish, corrupt, and incompetent individuals who abandoned the principles and aspirations that inspired many Zimbabweans to go out there and fight so that their country could be free. So on this day, when we celebrate 46 years of independence, the same zeal and drive that defined those who died fighting for our country must be carried forward by those who are alive today, to make sure that the country is restored to where it is supposed to be. Zimbabwe is one of the richest countries under the sun. It has almost every mineral that you can think of, and it has some of the best soils in the world. There is no reason for any Zimbabwean to be unemployed, to fail to earn an income, or to go to bed on an empty stomach. There is absolutely no reason for any Zimbabwean to struggle if the country is led by people who know what they are doing and who put the country first, the national interest first, ahead of their own selfish needs. Whilst colonialism was a terrible stain on the history of our country, there are lessons that can be drawn from that period. Rhodesia was run like a business, not like a fiefdom. The fact that most of the central hospitals that exist today were built during the colonial period, with the exception of Chitungwiza, tells us that infrastructure was prioritised, even if it was designed to serve a minority. That reality does not excuse colonial injustice, but it exposes the scale of failure after independence. Forty-six years later, the government has built only one central hospital. Around 2,500 women die every year during childbirth due to a lack of adequate maternity facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a maternity theatre built in 1977, and even then only one of its two theatres is functional, with the working one having been refurbished by a South African bank. That is a damning indictment on the current leadership. The fact that millions of Zimbabweans have been forced to leave the country to take up menial jobs in South Africa, as waiters or farm workers, is an indictment on the current leadership. The fact that people like myself and many others have had to leave home out of fear for our lives is an indictment on the current leadership. Whilst the leadership has failed, we as citizens of Zimbabwe also carry a responsibility towards our country, in whatever space we occupy. We must stop following personalities and start following ideas, whether in the ruling party or in the opposition. Our country has been destroyed because we follow personalities, many of whom are vacuous and empty, and when they fail, they drag the nation down with them as our leaders have done. We must not wait for a Messiah to come and save us from the afflictions we face today. We have a responsibility to do what is right for our country. During the liberation struggle, leaders were changed at different points because the struggle was never about personalities, it was about an idea, an independent Zimbabwe where every Zimbabwean, black, white, green, or yellow, has the same rights and opportunities to pursue a better life. So as we celebrate, and we should celebrate, we must also reflect on our responsibilities going forward. We celebrate because independence itself was a noble idea and remains a noble idea. When things are bad, you do not burn down the house, you fix what is broken. We must honour and remember those who lost their lives so that people like myself could go to college, become journalists, and be recognised internationally, as many Zimbabwean professionals have been, some even advising presidents across the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe has some of the most accomplished people anywhere in the world, and it should not be where it is today. It is therefore up to us, as Zimbabweans, to make sure that we do what is right for our country. Once again, happy Independence to my compatriots, and thank you to all the stalwarts who laid down their lives for us to be independent and to the countries that supported our struggle. We could not have achieved independence in 1980 without Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, and many others who stood with us. They did well for us and we thank them. It is those who destroyed the country who should hang their heads in shame today. My heart bleeds when I see so many young Zimbabweans with university degrees, yet ending up as victims of drug abuse because there is no work to go to. There are no opportunities available that are aligned with what they went to university to study. It is a tragic indictment of the situation we find ourselves in today. Today we have become a nation where boreholes are being drilled in the middle of cities because the rulers have failed to do something as basic as delivering water into people’s homes. Today we have become a nation where the rest of the region laughs at us because our roads are riddled with potholes, yet the leadership drives Ferraris on those same roads. Today we have become a nation where even our O-level pass rate has not gone beyond 34% because of the failure of leadership to do what needs to be done. Today we cannot even feed ourselves. We have to rely on food aid, and yet we were once colloquially referred to as the breadbasket of the region. These are some of the realities we should reflect on. I could go on and on, but at this point, it is not necessary. To our leaders, I say, how does it feel when you hear the very people you lead saying Ian Smith was better, when they say colonialism was better? How do you feel? Or do you even feel anything at all when those words are spoken? Of course, colonialism was brutal. Of course, Ian Smith was a racist leader who upheld a minority regime built on exclusion and oppression. But it is a damning indictment of your failed leadership that some of our own people now feel pushed to the point of romanticising that dark past. Independence was meant to usher in dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity for every Zimbabwean, regardless of colour or creed. It was meant to restore ownership of our future to the people. Yet today, you cannot deny that a small, privileged few are the primary beneficiaries of that independence, while the overwhelming majority are trapped in poverty, penury, and relentless suffering. That is not what liberation was fought for. However, nothing can justify a failure to be grateful to those who fought and died for the independence of our country. They did their part. It is now up to us to do our part and ensure that our country becomes what it is meant to be. Happy Independence Zimbabwe.

I would like to wish all my compatriots a happy Independence Day, happy Independence Zimbabwe. The independence of our country, unlike many other African countries, came through blood that was shed. There are so many Zimbabweans who lie in unmarked graves from Tanzania to Zambia to Botswana to Mozambique, and they put their lives on the line so that you and I could have the independence that we did not have under colonial rule. There is a distinct difference between those who fought for the independence of our country and died, never seeing an independent Zimbabwe, and those who took over from colonial rule and then destroyed our country through incompetence, corruption, and many other afflictions that should never have been there. I am in no doubt at all that had our country not become independent, I and many Black citizens would probably not be where we are today, thanks to the early gains of independence. Sadly, I now find myself as a journalist and a Zimbabwean with NO freedom to speak, to write, and to exist as a full citizen in my country post independence after the derailment of the independence dream. Many of our people did not have the opportunities that I personally got, and many others got, to advance our lives. It is unfortunate that we find ourselves where we are today, not because independence is bad, but because we ended up with selfish, corrupt, and incompetent individuals who abandoned the principles and aspirations that inspired many Zimbabweans to go out there and fight so that their country could be free. So on this day, when we celebrate 46 years of independence, the same zeal and drive that defined those who died fighting for our country must be carried forward by those who are alive today, to make sure that the country is restored to where it is supposed to be. Zimbabwe is one of the richest countries under the sun. It has almost every mineral that you can think of, and it has some of the best soils in the world. There is no reason for any Zimbabwean to be unemployed, to fail to earn an income, or to go to bed on an empty stomach. There is absolutely no reason for any Zimbabwean to struggle if the country is led by people who know what they are doing and who put the country first, the national interest first, ahead of their own selfish needs. Whilst colonialism was a terrible stain on the history of our country, there are lessons that can be drawn from that period. Rhodesia was run like a business, not like a fiefdom. The fact that most of the central hospitals that exist today were built during the colonial period, with the exception of Chitungwiza, tells us that infrastructure was prioritised, even if it was designed to serve a minority. That reality does not excuse colonial injustice, but it exposes the scale of failure after independence. Forty-six years later, the government has built only one central hospital. Around 2,500 women die every year during childbirth due to a lack of adequate maternity facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a maternity theatre built in 1977, and even then only one of its two theatres is functional, with the working one having been refurbished by a South African bank. That is a damning indictment on the current leadership. The fact that millions of Zimbabweans have been forced to leave the country to take up menial jobs in South Africa, as waiters or farm workers, is an indictment on the current leadership. The fact that people like myself and many others have had to leave home out of fear for our lives is an indictment on the current leadership. Whilst the leadership has failed, we as citizens of Zimbabwe also carry a responsibility towards our country, in whatever space we occupy. We must stop following personalities and start following ideas, whether in the ruling party or in the opposition. Our country has been destroyed because we follow personalities, many of whom are vacuous and empty, and when they fail, they drag the nation down with them as our leaders have done. We must not wait for a Messiah to come and save us from the afflictions we face today. We have a responsibility to do what is right for our country. During the liberation struggle, leaders were changed at different points because the struggle was never about personalities, it was about an idea, an independent Zimbabwe where every Zimbabwean, black, white, green, or yellow, has the same rights and opportunities to pursue a better life. So as we celebrate, and we should celebrate, we must also reflect on our responsibilities going forward. We celebrate because independence itself was a noble idea and remains a noble idea. When things are bad, you do not burn down the house, you fix what is broken. We must honour and remember those who lost their lives so that people like myself could go to college, become journalists, and be recognised internationally, as many Zimbabwean professionals have been, some even advising presidents across the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe has some of the most accomplished people anywhere in the world, and it should not be where it is today. It is therefore up to us, as Zimbabweans, to make sure that we do what is right for our country. Once again, happy Independence to my compatriots, and thank you to all the stalwarts who laid down their lives for us to be independent and to the countries that supported our struggle. We could not have achieved independence in 1980 without Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, and many others who stood with us. They did well for us and we thank them. It is those who destroyed the country who should hang their heads in shame today. My heart bleeds when I see so many young Zimbabweans with university degrees, yet ending up as victims of drug abuse because there is no work to go to. There are no opportunities available that are aligned with what they went to university to study. It is a tragic indictment of the situation we find ourselves in today. Today we have become a nation where boreholes are being drilled in the middle of cities because the rulers have failed to do something as basic as delivering water into people’s homes. Today we have become a nation where the rest of the region laughs at us because our roads are riddled with potholes, yet the leadership drives Ferraris on those same roads. Today we have become a nation where even our O-level pass rate has not gone beyond 34% because of the failure of leadership to do what needs to be done. Today we cannot even feed ourselves. We have to rely on food aid, and yet we were once colloquially referred to as the breadbasket of the region. These are some of the realities we should reflect on. I could go on and on, but at this point, it is not necessary. To our leaders, I say, how does it feel when you hear the very people you lead saying Ian Smith was better, when they say colonialism was better? How do you feel? Or do you even feel anything at all when those words are spoken? Of course, colonialism was brutal. Of course, Ian Smith was a racist leader who upheld a minority regime built on exclusion and oppression. But it is a damning indictment of your failed leadership that some of our own people now feel pushed to the point of romanticising that dark past. Independence was meant to usher in dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity for every Zimbabwean, regardless of colour or creed. It was meant to restore ownership of our future to the people. Yet today, you cannot deny that a small, privileged few are the primary beneficiaries of that independence, while the overwhelming majority are trapped in poverty, penury, and relentless suffering. That is not what liberation was fought for. However, nothing can justify a failure to be grateful to those who fought and died for the independence of our country. They did their part. It is now up to us to do our part and ensure that our country becomes what it is meant to be. Happy Independence Zimbabwe.

Hopewell Chin’ono

12,473 次观看 • 4 个月前

🚨 DEBRIEFING: THE GREAT REPRICING A View From The Couch Receipts Only. No Hopium. No Guesswork. Everyone keeps asking “when does the system break?” Here’s the truth: It already did. Now they’re repricing the world around the wreckage. And the evidence is everywhere if you stop looking at isolated events and look at the pattern. 📌 1. When governments start seizing the rails, not the criminals 👉That’s repricing. ♦️FinCEN just hit Paxful for laundering the entire underground economy. ♦️Europol wiped out a €700M crypto network. ♦️Thailand froze $318M in assets tied to scam hubs. ♦️NZ & UK seized billions from the “Goddess of Wealth.” ♦️US regulators quietly relaxed leverage rules to buy time. 👉This is not enforcement. This is triage. 📌 2. When central banks start circling their gold like prey animals 🔸Italy trying to grab €300B from its central bank vault? 👉That is NOT normal behavior. Neither is: 🔸Russia tightening gold export flows. 🔸China absorbing record tonnage. 🔸BRICS building commodity-settlement rails. 🔸The West rewriting accounting rules in the dark. 🔸Gold is the tell. It always has been. 👉When gold moves, the system is repricing. 📌 3. When banks start failing quietly instead of loudly Look around: 👉Julius Baer loss provision 👉Credit Suisse charges resurfacing 👉Luxembourg investigations 👉Mexico ex-governor laundering arrest 👉BVI corruption 👉Margin rules being rewritten at 2AM 💥Why is everything collapsing in slow motion this time? Because they’re engineering the landing. Not trying to stop it. 📌 4. When cartels, traffickers, and dark money networks fall in PERFECT cadence 2021–2025: 🔹Sinaloa leadership taken down 🔹Tren de Aragua nodes disrupted 🔹Mongols MC raids 🔹Human smuggling orgs sanctioned under EO 13581 🔹INTERPOL Neptune VII (20 nations, 57 terror links) 🔹DEA seizing record narcotics in the same quarters as weather “events” 👉This is not random law enforcement. This is infrastructure removal ahead of a reset. You cannot reprice a global system while the old liquidity networks still exist. And they don’t anymore. 📌 5. When assets around the world suddenly become… irrelevant 💥Ports explode. 💥Supply chains rerouted. 💥Tunnels destroyed. 💥Biolabs neutralized. 💥Shipping lanes militarized. 💥Cobalt, lithium, and mineral rights quietly change hands. 💥Amazon builds the largest distribution grid in human history. Why? Because when the financial system reprices, everything physical gets revalued overnight. 👉The world is being rebuilt before the public ever realizes the old one died. 📌 6. When silver breaks $60 and nobody celebrates That’s the final tell. 💥When a monetary metal rips through a multi-decade psychological barrier and the media pretends it didn’t happen? 👉They’re hiding the repricing as long as possible. 📌 7. When every major storm, disaster, and mobilization aligns with arrests From fires to floods to hurricanes to earthquakes — the same shadow moves follow: National Guard call-ups FEMA deployments Telecom shutdowns Mass arrests NGO seizures Financial raids Nature doesn’t coordinate. Operations do. And every operation ends in the same place: Asset seizure → liquidity capture → revaluation. ⭐ So what IS “The Great Repricing”? It’s not a crash. It’s not a boom. It’s not a transition. It is the moment when the system stops pretending the old numbers still mean anything. Debt → repriced Commodities → repriced Banks → repriced Currencies → repriced Gold → repriced Labor → repriced Energy → repriced Real assets → repriced Digital assets → repriced Sovereignty → repriced The truth? It already started. Nothing can stop it. And the timeline is accelerating. Because the collapse already happened. We are just watching the accounting catch up. The Couch Astute Actual M. Nave

🚨 DEBRIEFING: THE GREAT REPRICING A View From The Couch Receipts Only. No Hopium. No Guesswork. Everyone keeps asking “when does the system break?” Here’s the truth: It already did. Now they’re repricing the world around the wreckage. And the evidence is everywhere if you stop looking at isolated events and look at the pattern. 📌 1. When governments start seizing the rails, not the criminals 👉That’s repricing. ♦️FinCEN just hit Paxful for laundering the entire underground economy. ♦️Europol wiped out a €700M crypto network. ♦️Thailand froze $318M in assets tied to scam hubs. ♦️NZ & UK seized billions from the “Goddess of Wealth.” ♦️US regulators quietly relaxed leverage rules to buy time. 👉This is not enforcement. This is triage. 📌 2. When central banks start circling their gold like prey animals 🔸Italy trying to grab €300B from its central bank vault? 👉That is NOT normal behavior. Neither is: 🔸Russia tightening gold export flows. 🔸China absorbing record tonnage. 🔸BRICS building commodity-settlement rails. 🔸The West rewriting accounting rules in the dark. 🔸Gold is the tell. It always has been. 👉When gold moves, the system is repricing. 📌 3. When banks start failing quietly instead of loudly Look around: 👉Julius Baer loss provision 👉Credit Suisse charges resurfacing 👉Luxembourg investigations 👉Mexico ex-governor laundering arrest 👉BVI corruption 👉Margin rules being rewritten at 2AM 💥Why is everything collapsing in slow motion this time? Because they’re engineering the landing. Not trying to stop it. 📌 4. When cartels, traffickers, and dark money networks fall in PERFECT cadence 2021–2025: 🔹Sinaloa leadership taken down 🔹Tren de Aragua nodes disrupted 🔹Mongols MC raids 🔹Human smuggling orgs sanctioned under EO 13581 🔹INTERPOL Neptune VII (20 nations, 57 terror links) 🔹DEA seizing record narcotics in the same quarters as weather “events” 👉This is not random law enforcement. This is infrastructure removal ahead of a reset. You cannot reprice a global system while the old liquidity networks still exist. And they don’t anymore. 📌 5. When assets around the world suddenly become… irrelevant 💥Ports explode. 💥Supply chains rerouted. 💥Tunnels destroyed. 💥Biolabs neutralized. 💥Shipping lanes militarized. 💥Cobalt, lithium, and mineral rights quietly change hands. 💥Amazon builds the largest distribution grid in human history. Why? Because when the financial system reprices, everything physical gets revalued overnight. 👉The world is being rebuilt before the public ever realizes the old one died. 📌 6. When silver breaks $60 and nobody celebrates That’s the final tell. 💥When a monetary metal rips through a multi-decade psychological barrier and the media pretends it didn’t happen? 👉They’re hiding the repricing as long as possible. 📌 7. When every major storm, disaster, and mobilization aligns with arrests From fires to floods to hurricanes to earthquakes — the same shadow moves follow: National Guard call-ups FEMA deployments Telecom shutdowns Mass arrests NGO seizures Financial raids Nature doesn’t coordinate. Operations do. And every operation ends in the same place: Asset seizure → liquidity capture → revaluation. ⭐ So what IS “The Great Repricing”? It’s not a crash. It’s not a boom. It’s not a transition. It is the moment when the system stops pretending the old numbers still mean anything. Debt → repriced Commodities → repriced Banks → repriced Currencies → repriced Gold → repriced Labor → repriced Energy → repriced Real assets → repriced Digital assets → repriced Sovereignty → repriced The truth? It already started. Nothing can stop it. And the timeline is accelerating. Because the collapse already happened. We are just watching the accounting catch up. The Couch Astute Actual M. Nave

TheDebriefing17

130,301 次观看 • 9 个月前

It shouldn't be very difficult at this point to consider the #5GW strategy of Trump's approach to the vaccine roll out. Rushing it out is exactly what stopped the great reset's full implementation. Speaking out on the vax injuries would give them the perfect justification to manipulate the flu/"covid" cases again and try for a bigger and longer lockdown. Trump speaking out against the vax would be the dumbest strategy at this stage and the instant gratification would be insignificant compared to the fatal countermove it would give to the cabal. It would completely compromise the 5GW strategy with warpspeed - which is exactly what stopped their depopulation fema camp end game agenda. Some people don't even understand the bullet we dodged thanks to Donald J. Trump He is a hero. The fact we can sit here and talk about this today, while not in a fema camp, is a testament to the success of Trump's strategy. Most of the doomers I know only just recently found out about the New World Order so they aren't able to see as easily how Trump is already stopping the "great" reset. Those of us that have known about the NWO for over a decade feel a great sense of relief at the way things have played out. If it wasn't for Trump, we’d already be in the camps. Their scamdemic narrative is completely obliterated and that was their BIG PLAN for world government. The People are AWAKE. They will never be able to do this again. Look around you, their scamdemic plan has been CRUSHED. “Emergency” officially ended. They are running multiple back up plans at once and are increasingly desperate. Trump stopped the New World Order with warpspeed. That’s right. Right now [they] are trashing around in their dying breaths of panic. Many people have no idea how bad the scamdemic was supposed to be. The defiant ones were supposed to already be depopulated. Their great reset into eating bugs, sleeping in pods in the 15 minute city, tracked with barcode tattoos, social credit scores and CBDC was meant for the sheep who survived AFTER the defiant had been disappeared. By Trump releasing the vax quickly, it ended tyrannical Governors’ excuse for lockdowns and removed their cover for the great reset with a destroyed economy. We know he already ended their wars and removed the camouflage that would have given them. It also forced them to release a vax under EUA that CANNOT be forcibly mandated, try as they did. That’s why they had to use incentives. It forced them to rush their agenda, which makes it way more visible than their usual slow incremental boiling water tactics, making so many mistakes and exposing themselves in the process. We all know every single time the vax is mentioned, President Trump emphasizes freedom of choice- he’s said no one should be forced and we have our freedoms. He says this repeatedly, every time, without exception. Every single time. He’s always been outspoken against mandates. Most people don’t even realize how huge that was. (Every President before was lockstep with the uniparty pushing the new world order and all pushed mandates.) He’s already said no kids should take it. We all know that all the face diaper parents would have injected their kids with rNA GMOs no matter what Trump said. If President Trump were to speak up about the injuries- they could seize on that opportunity with the countermove of locking us down again and blaming the injuries on Trump rushing the vax. Just look what they did when he mentioned HCQ- We’d hear an all out media tirade about how the injuries are Trump’s fault because he rushed it and if it wasn’t for him they’d be “safe and effective.” Not to mention, they’d leverage the Trump derangement syndrome they’ve created and associate ANY criticism of the injection agenda as “just a Trump supporter thing.” By removing himself from the equation, they didn’t have that card to play, even though they still try, it’s uniting people across the spectrum. By not saying anything, he’s forcing them into showing their hand to the entire world while it wakes up average everyday people everywhere. 15 years ago when I used to try and tell people there was a nefarious plan to fake a pandemic in order to force vaccinate (depopulate) the world and implement a totalitarian world government for the survivors — people thought I was crazy. Today this has become common knowledge. Trump has destroyed the media’s credibility and woken up regular people everywhere. As tragic as this is, with all the vax injuries and deaths, it’s the best possible timeline and way better than it would have been — which was everyone being forcibly vaccinated against their will without a choice. Trump gave us the choice to peacefully refuse without having to fight or run. The way that I and many folks were expecting this to happen 15 years ago, when we all thought they were going to make their big move with “swine flu” — was them going door to door to force this thing into people with the enforcement of the police and if you didn’t take it you’d be put on a bus and carted off to a quarantine camp, never to be heard from again. Don’t believe me? Look at China and Australia. That’s just not happening and there’s no way it can at this point- not only we’re they forced to end the scamdemic but now way too many people are awake worldwide. If it weren’t for Trump, they’d have already been rounding people up into fema camps and we would have long since lost National sovereignty to the totalitarian global government New World Order, now called the “Great Reset.” Warpspeed stopped that. When he says it saved millions of lives it’s because it DID - from the death camps. Now he is going to completely obliterated the deepstate. Watch what happens next. #TRUMP2024 #TrumpIsTheOnlyChoice 🇺🇸🦅

It shouldn't be very difficult at this point to consider the #5GW strategy of Trump's approach to the vaccine roll out. Rushing it out is exactly what stopped the great reset's full implementation. Speaking out on the vax injuries would give them the perfect justification to manipulate the flu/"covid" cases again and try for a bigger and longer lockdown. Trump speaking out against the vax would be the dumbest strategy at this stage and the instant gratification would be insignificant compared to the fatal countermove it would give to the cabal. It would completely compromise the 5GW strategy with warpspeed - which is exactly what stopped their depopulation fema camp end game agenda. Some people don't even understand the bullet we dodged thanks to Donald J. Trump He is a hero. The fact we can sit here and talk about this today, while not in a fema camp, is a testament to the success of Trump's strategy. Most of the doomers I know only just recently found out about the New World Order so they aren't able to see as easily how Trump is already stopping the "great" reset. Those of us that have known about the NWO for over a decade feel a great sense of relief at the way things have played out. If it wasn't for Trump, we’d already be in the camps. Their scamdemic narrative is completely obliterated and that was their BIG PLAN for world government. The People are AWAKE. They will never be able to do this again. Look around you, their scamdemic plan has been CRUSHED. “Emergency” officially ended. They are running multiple back up plans at once and are increasingly desperate. Trump stopped the New World Order with warpspeed. That’s right. Right now [they] are trashing around in their dying breaths of panic. Many people have no idea how bad the scamdemic was supposed to be. The defiant ones were supposed to already be depopulated. Their great reset into eating bugs, sleeping in pods in the 15 minute city, tracked with barcode tattoos, social credit scores and CBDC was meant for the sheep who survived AFTER the defiant had been disappeared. By Trump releasing the vax quickly, it ended tyrannical Governors’ excuse for lockdowns and removed their cover for the great reset with a destroyed economy. We know he already ended their wars and removed the camouflage that would have given them. It also forced them to release a vax under EUA that CANNOT be forcibly mandated, try as they did. That’s why they had to use incentives. It forced them to rush their agenda, which makes it way more visible than their usual slow incremental boiling water tactics, making so many mistakes and exposing themselves in the process. We all know every single time the vax is mentioned, President Trump emphasizes freedom of choice- he’s said no one should be forced and we have our freedoms. He says this repeatedly, every time, without exception. Every single time. He’s always been outspoken against mandates. Most people don’t even realize how huge that was. (Every President before was lockstep with the uniparty pushing the new world order and all pushed mandates.) He’s already said no kids should take it. We all know that all the face diaper parents would have injected their kids with rNA GMOs no matter what Trump said. If President Trump were to speak up about the injuries- they could seize on that opportunity with the countermove of locking us down again and blaming the injuries on Trump rushing the vax. Just look what they did when he mentioned HCQ- We’d hear an all out media tirade about how the injuries are Trump’s fault because he rushed it and if it wasn’t for him they’d be “safe and effective.” Not to mention, they’d leverage the Trump derangement syndrome they’ve created and associate ANY criticism of the injection agenda as “just a Trump supporter thing.” By removing himself from the equation, they didn’t have that card to play, even though they still try, it’s uniting people across the spectrum. By not saying anything, he’s forcing them into showing their hand to the entire world while it wakes up average everyday people everywhere. 15 years ago when I used to try and tell people there was a nefarious plan to fake a pandemic in order to force vaccinate (depopulate) the world and implement a totalitarian world government for the survivors — people thought I was crazy. Today this has become common knowledge. Trump has destroyed the media’s credibility and woken up regular people everywhere. As tragic as this is, with all the vax injuries and deaths, it’s the best possible timeline and way better than it would have been — which was everyone being forcibly vaccinated against their will without a choice. Trump gave us the choice to peacefully refuse without having to fight or run. The way that I and many folks were expecting this to happen 15 years ago, when we all thought they were going to make their big move with “swine flu” — was them going door to door to force this thing into people with the enforcement of the police and if you didn’t take it you’d be put on a bus and carted off to a quarantine camp, never to be heard from again. Don’t believe me? Look at China and Australia. That’s just not happening and there’s no way it can at this point- not only we’re they forced to end the scamdemic but now way too many people are awake worldwide. If it weren’t for Trump, they’d have already been rounding people up into fema camps and we would have long since lost National sovereignty to the totalitarian global government New World Order, now called the “Great Reset.” Warpspeed stopped that. When he says it saved millions of lives it’s because it DID - from the death camps. Now he is going to completely obliterated the deepstate. Watch what happens next. #TRUMP2024 #TrumpIsTheOnlyChoice 🇺🇸🦅

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HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAIL SCANDAL INCRIMINATED OBAMA & EXPOSED CHILD TRAFFICKING. Obama told the DoJ not to prosecute Hillary Clinton because if Hillary went down, it would implement and incriminate himself, the sitting president of the United States. Not only did Hillary have a non-government private server in the bathroom of her house, but she was accessing CLASSIFIED, TOP SECRET, and High-Level information from SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAMS (SAP). Not only stealing these state secrets but selling this information to foreign countries, "allegedly." Which sources confirm are most likely true. James B. Comey, FBI Director at the time, recommended no criminal charges for Hillary over this email, server, and the "mishandling" of classified state secrets, is what they called it. It was much worse than just mishandling. Way worse. This is how the media plays with words to downplay and hide key details, especially in headlines. This is treason. They both also signed papers stating that they knew these crimes, if committed, came with severe penalties, but committed the crimes anyway. First off, who is James Comey? Comey just happens to be the director of the FBI during the Anthony Weiner case. The infamous "Insurance File" on the laptop from hell that "allegedly" has Hillary and Huma doing very horrific things to a young girl. The emails associated with Hillary were also connected to John Podesta who was known and connected to Pizzagate, and caught in those emails using child predator code words confirmed by the FBI. The emails also included the communications with Laura Silsby or "Laura Gaylor," who was caught trafficking children from Haiti who was associated with the Clinton Foundation. The emails also allegedly contained them discussing the prices of the children and for their transportation out of the country. This is just one of many emails and subjects discussed within the 600,000 plus emails that were discovered and the primary reason besides implementing the current sitting president of the United States at the time, Barack Obama. People always complain about their never being any justice. What people do not understand is at the time of many of these scandals and to this day our government and the ones involved in all these crimes and corruption were the ones in power and control. Why would they indict themselves or their associates? Especially because now you have even more power and control if you blackmail these politicians and officials, rather them sending them to prison. Politics is a dirty world, especially when intelligence agencies are involved. The NYPD wanted to go after Hillary after discovering these files and others on the Weiner laptop which was also connected to the Hillary email scandal through Huma because she was married to Anthony Weiner at the time and Huma was associated and worked for Hillary. The FBI, "James Comey," shutdown the case and took the Anthony Weiner laptop away from the NYPD. They then threatened Comey and demanded that they prosecute Hillary and everyone involved to what happened to that little girl and everything else on the laptop, or they would expose it themselves. Then, coincidentally, 9 out of the 13 NYPD officers and detectives who were on that case who demanded justice and to prosecute Hillary and others all mysteriously "unalived themselves," in a very small period of time. Both cases were closed and never heard of again. James Comey's daughter, "Maurene," just happened to be the one in charge of the investigation of the Epstein suicide tapes which just happened to be erased or go missing during that time. Now, magically, the tapes have reappeared and ALLEGEDELY show Epstein as the only one in his cell, according to the new FBI Director and Deputy Director... The people still do not believe it and are waiting for the evidence to be shown. Are you starting to see how everything and all these people are connected? So Obama was using a pseudonym to communicate with Hillary and others and involved with stealing and selling secrets as well, while he was the president of the U.S., "allegedly." Obama tells the DoJ not to prosecute Hillary because he would go down with her. The DoJ tells the FBI not to prosecute Hillary and boom, Hillary is off the hook because they're ALL GUILTY. The FBI also stated that it's possible foreign governments gained access to Hillary's account, emails, and server. One last thing I want to bring up is how sensitive "SAPs" are, or "Special Access Programs." SAPs consist of many programs or projects that many others are NOT a part of and usually contain very important information or technology. I just want to make a point that some of our secret projects are under SAP programs. Projects like the "Tic-Tac UAP," and other UAPs, drones, DEWs, etc. Are you starting to understand the big picture and put things together, timelines, and information? There are no coincidences. All these people are on the same side. They're all controlled and/or compromised by the same people as you travel up the ladder. This started a long time ago, and a wrench was first thrown in the gear when Trump first took office in 2016. We literally had a sitting president and the secretary of state stealing and selling state secrets to foreign countries and discussing the trafficking of children on a non-government, unsecure private server in their own home. This ladies and gentleman is crimes against humanity and treason. Justice will be served and there will be no mercy.

HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAIL SCANDAL INCRIMINATED OBAMA & EXPOSED CHILD TRAFFICKING. Obama told the DoJ not to prosecute Hillary Clinton because if Hillary went down, it would implement and incriminate himself, the sitting president of the United States. Not only did Hillary have a non-government private server in the bathroom of her house, but she was accessing CLASSIFIED, TOP SECRET, and High-Level information from SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAMS (SAP). Not only stealing these state secrets but selling this information to foreign countries, "allegedly." Which sources confirm are most likely true. James B. Comey, FBI Director at the time, recommended no criminal charges for Hillary over this email, server, and the "mishandling" of classified state secrets, is what they called it. It was much worse than just mishandling. Way worse. This is how the media plays with words to downplay and hide key details, especially in headlines. This is treason. They both also signed papers stating that they knew these crimes, if committed, came with severe penalties, but committed the crimes anyway. First off, who is James Comey? Comey just happens to be the director of the FBI during the Anthony Weiner case. The infamous "Insurance File" on the laptop from hell that "allegedly" has Hillary and Huma doing very horrific things to a young girl. The emails associated with Hillary were also connected to John Podesta who was known and connected to Pizzagate, and caught in those emails using child predator code words confirmed by the FBI. The emails also included the communications with Laura Silsby or "Laura Gaylor," who was caught trafficking children from Haiti who was associated with the Clinton Foundation. The emails also allegedly contained them discussing the prices of the children and for their transportation out of the country. This is just one of many emails and subjects discussed within the 600,000 plus emails that were discovered and the primary reason besides implementing the current sitting president of the United States at the time, Barack Obama. People always complain about their never being any justice. What people do not understand is at the time of many of these scandals and to this day our government and the ones involved in all these crimes and corruption were the ones in power and control. Why would they indict themselves or their associates? Especially because now you have even more power and control if you blackmail these politicians and officials, rather them sending them to prison. Politics is a dirty world, especially when intelligence agencies are involved. The NYPD wanted to go after Hillary after discovering these files and others on the Weiner laptop which was also connected to the Hillary email scandal through Huma because she was married to Anthony Weiner at the time and Huma was associated and worked for Hillary. The FBI, "James Comey," shutdown the case and took the Anthony Weiner laptop away from the NYPD. They then threatened Comey and demanded that they prosecute Hillary and everyone involved to what happened to that little girl and everything else on the laptop, or they would expose it themselves. Then, coincidentally, 9 out of the 13 NYPD officers and detectives who were on that case who demanded justice and to prosecute Hillary and others all mysteriously "unalived themselves," in a very small period of time. Both cases were closed and never heard of again. James Comey's daughter, "Maurene," just happened to be the one in charge of the investigation of the Epstein suicide tapes which just happened to be erased or go missing during that time. Now, magically, the tapes have reappeared and ALLEGEDELY show Epstein as the only one in his cell, according to the new FBI Director and Deputy Director... The people still do not believe it and are waiting for the evidence to be shown. Are you starting to see how everything and all these people are connected? So Obama was using a pseudonym to communicate with Hillary and others and involved with stealing and selling secrets as well, while he was the president of the U.S., "allegedly." Obama tells the DoJ not to prosecute Hillary because he would go down with her. The DoJ tells the FBI not to prosecute Hillary and boom, Hillary is off the hook because they're ALL GUILTY. The FBI also stated that it's possible foreign governments gained access to Hillary's account, emails, and server. One last thing I want to bring up is how sensitive "SAPs" are, or "Special Access Programs." SAPs consist of many programs or projects that many others are NOT a part of and usually contain very important information or technology. I just want to make a point that some of our secret projects are under SAP programs. Projects like the "Tic-Tac UAP," and other UAPs, drones, DEWs, etc. Are you starting to understand the big picture and put things together, timelines, and information? There are no coincidences. All these people are on the same side. They're all controlled and/or compromised by the same people as you travel up the ladder. This started a long time ago, and a wrench was first thrown in the gear when Trump first took office in 2016. We literally had a sitting president and the secretary of state stealing and selling state secrets to foreign countries and discussing the trafficking of children on a non-government, unsecure private server in their own home. This ladies and gentleman is crimes against humanity and treason. Justice will be served and there will be no mercy.

The SCIF

428,198 次观看 • 1 年前