- China in Africa: The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced
- Debt and infrastructure: Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
- Business and trade: How Chinese firms have changed Africa
- Political links: The price of friendship
- The media: China, meet Fourth Estate
- Defence co-operation: Ace of bases
- The future: Countering China in Africa
- China in Africa: Sources and acknowledgments
Thursday, August 17, 2023
China in Africa | May 28th 2022 | The Economist
China in Africa | May 28th 2022 | The Economist"To counter China’s growing role in Africa the West must first understand it, say Gady Epstein and John McDermott...
The State of Loneliness - Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
The State of Loneliness - Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles"Senator Chris Murphy(D) has proposed combating widespread loneliness in the country by creating a National Office of Loneliness.
This new arm of the government would use the CDC to
- track loneliness statistics and
- develop a national strategy to fight loneliness
- including creating guidelines telling Americans how many friends they should have to be less lonely.
The only ones keeping company with the National Office of Loneliness would be the myriad of other White House offices including the
- Office of Public Engagement, the
- Office of Neighborhood Partnerships, and the
- Office of Communications which all claim to talk to the public.
With so many government offices talking to us, how can we possibly be lonely?
Inviting the CDC to fight loneliness is like ushering an arsonist into a house party...
Inviting the CDC to fight loneliness is like ushering an arsonist into a house party...
Well, she wasn't wearing a MAGA hat...-----It's democracy in the dark without Nashville shooter manifesto's release
It's democracy in the dark without Nashville shooter manifesto's release - Glenn H. Reynolds“...Gov. Bill Lee ordered the special session to begin Aug. 21 in response to a March 27 mass shooting in which three adults and three children at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, were killed.
The Nashville Tennessean article refers only to “a shooter.”
The shooter was a female-to-male transgender shooter named Audrey Hale, aged 28, who left a manifesto before being killed by police...
The manifesto included detailed plans put together over months to shoot up the school, according to reports just after the shooting from police who had seen it.
Unfortunately, they’re the only ones who have seen it.
Local and federal authorities with access to the manifesto have refused to make its contents public...,
The Nashville Tennessean article refers only to “a shooter.”
The shooter was a female-to-male transgender shooter named Audrey Hale, aged 28, who left a manifesto before being killed by police...
The manifesto included detailed plans put together over months to shoot up the school, according to reports just after the shooting from police who had seen it.
Unfortunately, they’re the only ones who have seen it.
Local and federal authorities with access to the manifesto have refused to make its contents public...,
GOP erupts over 2018 text from Hunter Biden claiming he'd paid dad's bills for 'past 11 years' | Fox News
GOP erupts over 2018 text from Hunter Biden claiming he'd paid dad's bills for 'past 11 years' | Fox News:
"There’s more. Much, much more," said Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La. "Joe Biden is most certainly a heavily compromised career politician. Republicans on the Oversight Committee are revealing the depths of his corruption, and everyone close to him will be burned by the inferno of his crash."
"Bank records don’t lie," said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. "Follow the money: all transactions lead to the Big Guy and his money laundering shell games. Joe Biden should be impeached."
Social Security is running out of money
Social Security is running out of money - JOHN SEXTON
"Today in news that should shock no one: Social Security is running out of money.
"Today in news that should shock no one: Social Security is running out of money.
Yesterday was the program’s 88th birthday and socialists were celebrating and promising to expand it.
CBS News published a story yesterday explaining why it’s not secure.
Social Security is on track to cut benefits to retirees in 2033, when its trust fund reserves are forecast to be depleted. The reduction could be substantial, according to a new analysis...
...The alternative is to reduce benefits or increase the retirement age. I’m personally in favor of the latter but if you remember how the effort to up the retirement age went over in France recently, you already know why politicians are hesitant to bring it up...
History for August 17
History for August 17 - On-This-Day.com
Davy Crockett 1786 - Frontiersman, soldier and politician. He died at the Battle of the Alamo
- 1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.
- 1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC, harbor during the Civil War.
- 1915 - Charles F. Kettering received a patent for the first electric ignition device.
- 1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- 1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.
- 1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Joe Rogan bashes 'creepy' teachers pushing gender ideology with 'cartoon pornography:' 'F---ing loons' | Fox News
Joe Rogan bashes 'creepy' teachers pushing gender ideology with 'cartoon pornography:' 'F---ing loons' | Fox News:
Both commentators agreed that children’s minds are malleable at such a young age, making them especially susceptible to ideological influence.
Rogan noted one other disturbing aspect of transgender ideology in society is the omission of people who have since turned away from it.
Reporter confronts Fulton County DA about mysterious leak as Trump's lawyers turn up the heat: 'Shocking and absurd' - TheBlaze
Reporter confronts Fulton County DA about mysterious leak as Trump's lawyers turn up the heat: 'Shocking and absurd' - TheBlaze:
After the indictment was released, Trump's lawyers called the events "shocking and absurd" and described the leak as a "major fumble" and evidence that Willis "decided to force through and rush" the indictment.
How Corruption Makes You Poor | ZeroHedge
How Corruption Makes You Poor | ZeroHedge - BY TYLER DURDEN
"...The point is prices and incentives matter....
And it is one that is not lost on government policy makers.
By influencing prices, they can influence behavior...
To be perfectly frank, prices are corrupted by governments for the purpose of extracting capital from the economy and rearranging society in strange and unnatural ways.
To be perfectly frank, prices are corrupted by governments for the purpose of extracting capital from the economy and rearranging society in strange and unnatural ways.
In California, for instance, Assembly Bill No. 205, which was approved by Governor Newsom in 2022, requires power companies to charge customers a base fee that escalates by income bracket.
A recent proposal, would forcibly compel high income earners to pay a base fee that’s over 400 percent more than low income earners.
A recent proposal, would forcibly compel high income earners to pay a base fee that’s over 400 percent more than low income earners.
This is in addition to the actual use rate...
Turns out the likely reason for extra hot weather is due to a volcano, not "climate change"... - Revolver News
Turns out the likely reason for extra hot weather is due to a volcano, not "climate change"... - Revolver News"Were you aware that one of the biggest natural explosions on Earth took place last year in the South Pacific, near the Island of Tonga?
It’s a fact – an underwater volcano erupted with such force that it propelled massive amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere...
A new study says that this massive and historical eruption could wreak havoc and even “warm” the planet.
The study explains how the explosion was so incredibly powerful that it sent water vapor into the stratosphere....
The study explains how the explosion was so incredibly powerful that it sent water vapor into the stratosphere....
Mark Levin says Facebook and Instagram have blocked ads for his book because of the anti-liberal title - TheBlaze
Mark Levin says Facebook and Instagram have blocked ads for his book because of the anti-liberal title - TheBlaze:
"Facebook and Instagram have blocked my book from being advertised on their sites because of the title. Just another example of their censorship," Levin wrote.
The Economy's 'Red Death' Will Come for DC, Too - American Thinker
The Economy's 'Red Death' Will Come for DC, Too - American Thinker - By J.B. Shurk 
"In Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Masque of the Red Death," a group of nobles wall themselves off from the surrounding country to avoid a devastating plague...Eventually, however, the "Red Death" finds its way into their "safe space" and eviscerates their fantasy...trapped inside a fortress of their own making, they soon perish.
- This is a story that every D.C. power player should read.
The rift between Beltway conventional wisdom and the day-to-day reality of ordinary Americans is growing into an unbridgeable crevasse.
- While families struggle to afford food, fuel, and essentials for young children, the White House continues to assure Americans that the economy has never been better.
- While the Department of Homeland Security insists that America's borders are secure and that illegal immigration is under control, small towns across the country struggle to deal with spiking fentanyl deaths, transnational crime networks, and forced multiculturalism that often drives a wedge within communities.
- International trade deals that were negotiated and signed by residents of D.C. have hollowed out once thriving industrial towns and left multiple generations of blue-collar workers poor and adrift.
The "Rust Belt" has never been more corroded, yet Wall Street and Washington seem to be doing better than ever.
It is as if the wealthiest and most influential Americans have holed themselves up inside a luxurious castle, so that they may ignore the devastation afflicting the rest of the country...
Lunch video-----The Muslim ‘community centre for everybody’ scam and how it is used to c...
"In Britain, a popular way of turning a building into a mosque is to first get planning permission for a community centre, to which the general public will be welcome.
This is fraudulent."
Woke Disney actress Rachel Zegler comments on Snow White remake - TheBlaze
Woke Disney actress Rachel Zegler comments on Snow White remake - TheBlaze:
"And so when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it came about that the fairest of them all, meaning who is the most just, and who can become a fantastic leader," Zegler added.
Gal Gadot – who plays the Evil Queen in the new "Snow White" movie – chimed in by saying, "Also the fact that she's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's the proactive one, and she's the one who sets the terms, is what makes it so relevant to where we are today."
Remember when banks made student loans? And collected on them?!!-----Report: 300K Student Loan Borrowers Have Died Since Moratorium
Today On PYMNTS.com
And according to a report Monday (Aug. 7) by Bloomberg News, that means the government will have to write off billions in those borrowers’ loans...
- Report: 300K Student Loan Borrowers Have Died Since Moratorium
And according to a report Monday (Aug. 7) by Bloomberg News, that means the government will have to write off billions in those borrowers’ loans...
Anger at NHS Guidance That Lets Patients Who ‘Temporarily’ Identify as Female Share Single-Sex NHS Spaces
Anger at NHS Guidance That Lets Patients Who ‘Temporarily’ Identify as Female Share Single-Sex NHS Spaces - BY RICHARD ELDRED"In the face of NHS guidelines, there is growing concern as individuals can gain access to female-only wards based on transient gender identification...
The Mail has the story.
The Mail has the story.
- The Health Secretary faced pressure tonight to scrap ‘shocking’ rules that mean patients who only occasionally identify as women can share female-only hospital wards...
- Many hospitals make it clear that patients need only ‘temporarily’ present as women to enter female-only bays and bathrooms.
- One NHS trust’s policy states:...Some liken anyone who objects to the policy to racists, while others make it clear that if another patient complains, it is they who must move rather
- than the trans person.
- Midwives are told that they could harm trans people who have given birth by calling them ‘mother’.
- Staff are given long lists of baffling terms from ‘abrosexual’ to ‘third-gendered’, some of which have been written by lobbying groups such as Stonewall...
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