Breaking news - Wagner's army mutineed and moving towards Moscow

 This is a very serious development and would change the war in Ukraine and may spark a war against Russia by Nato. The Ukraine forces could launch a takeover of all territories seized by Russia if the Wagner forces withdraw and refuse to fight them. A genocide of pro Russian Ukrainians in east Ukraine is on the card.

If Nato moves against Russia to support Wagner, the possibility of a nuclear war in Europe could not be ruled out. Putin is in big trouble and Russia could break up.

Lumumba - Africa's modern day Shaman with a title of a professor

This Shaman only knows how to talk, calling for Africa to be united and build Africa independently. Who does not know that? But he has no formula, did not understand the economics and mechanics of turning Africa great. He is talking like Donald Trump, making America great again. But how?
Without the education base, technology, knowhow, a trained workforce, finance and resources and good leadership, and a people wanting and willing to work hard, not work blindly, he thinks it is so easy to turn Africa into a developed continent?

What Africa has is abundance of resources. But most of the resources are as good as dirt if no one is buying them or wanting to pay for them. The people are mostly illiterate and not working or thinking as one people. No need to mention about the corruption and infighting among the tribal chiefs, now all wearing uniforms of generals.

The basic foundation of Africa for economic growth into a modern industrial economy is not there and needs help from countries that are willing to help them. No one owes Africa a living. No one is going to throw money at Africa freely. Everyone country has its own problems and issues that need money and resources to get by.

The colonialists came to rob and plunder Africa without giving anything in return. Countries like China and Russia came for trade and may give some assistance. If the Shaman is going to condemn countries like China and Russia for trading, to buy the dirt in Africa and pay good money for them, then these countries would eventually wash their hands and be hands off from Africa. And Africa would again be at the mercy of the white vultures waiting to tear them apart piece by piece.

The Shaman must be clear what he is talking about and differentiate between the devils and the good guys. No one is going to help Africa for free. China offers infrastructures and knowhow and these needs to be paid in money or in kind. Africa does not have money but have a lot of dirt that China can convert to money to pay for the infrastructures. Is that unfair? Is that robbing or plundering Africa? If China is not buying the dirt from Africa, who is? If there is no buyers, the dirt would be dirt forever, worthless.

The Shaman must come up with a working formula to make Africa rich and developed. It is easy to shout and call for unity to make Africa great. Trump also did the same thing, to make America great again. If there is no working formula, he can shout for the next thousand years and Africa would still be the same. Maybe he can chant, wala, wala, wala and Africa would unite and become rich and developed.

Making speeches is easy. All the politicians can do it to get elected. The difficult part is how to make it happened, how to turn dreams into reality. Can Africa become a modern industrial powerhouse without foreign assistance and technology?

PS. Mao was honoured for uniting China and drove out the foreign invaders. But it needed Deng Xiaoping with his pragmatic policies to turn China around from an agrarian economy to a modern economic powerhouse with many hard decisions backed up by a hungry people that wanted to progress and build a better life for themselves.

Demented Biden throwing tantrum like a child

 China on Wednesday called comments by President Joe Biden describing Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator “extremely absurd and irresponsible.”

The new clash of words comes just over a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing that sought to break the ice in a relationship that has hit a historical low.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Biden's comments at a fundraiser in California “go totally against facts and seriously violate diplomatic protocol, and severely infringe on China's political dignity.”

“It is a blatant political provocation. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and opposition,” Mao said at a daily briefing.

“The US remarks are extremely absurd and irresponsible,” Mao said.

Blinken's visit, during which he met with Xi, was aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers but appeared not to have achieved any solid results.

Biden, at the fundraiser on Tuesday night local time, said that Xi was embarrassed over the recent tensions surrounding a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been shot down by the Air Force over the East Coast.

“That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened,” Biden said. 

Anonymous

Failure of American sanctions leads to dedollarisation

 The usage of the US$ as a reserve currency has fallen 40% over the last two decades and that fall is no accident. By right it should have risen with all the money printing going on over the years and dispersed worldwide, exporting US inflation globally. From a high of 72%, it has gone down to 58% today. The USA can try all it can to preserve its dominance, but it is an exercise in futility.

The UAE and China just concluded a 'not less than 27 years gas deal' to be settled in Yuan, which is a major blow to the US$. Such deals will proliferate, with the Yuan increasing in demand. Sure, the effect may still be minimal and the USA can brush aside this as not highly significant, but over time, and with more of such deals, it is nothing to be sniffed at. As they say, slow and steady wins the race.

The rise of China followed the same pattern of slow and steady, with little boasting like some other country. The USA looked down on China, had the mentality that China could never rise with laundrymen and cooks just doing mundane stuffs, and became hysterical when they found out the truth. Now trying desperately to prevent China from overtaking them.

De-dollarision with the onset of the Ukraine war has escalated beyond imagination. The seizure of the Russian Central Bank reserves is the tipping point, and going forward it will no longer be anything like an average of an annual 2% fall in countries holding US$ as reserves. The switch to gold, the dumping of US Treasuries are not one time events or accidental, but will continue unabated and at a faster rate.

China is not preparing with intention for the Yuan to overtake the US$ as the global reserve currency. China knows that doing that a global reserve currency comes with plenty of responsibility and demands. China just wants to globalise the usage of the Yuan, to provide countries with an alternative to the US$ and makes USA sanctions toothless, as opposed to less teeths to bite today.

Countries now know how best to deal with sanctions. What sanctions are the West talking about when the EU is still buying Russian energy on the open market at much higher prices, providing China, India and Saudi Arabia a lucrative deal to make easy money at the expense of the Europeans.

The USA/EU is planning more sanctions on Russia and also Myanmar. What that will achieve is make the Myanmar people suffer more, not the leaders. How many countries have fallen to pieces under sanctions, or the people rising up against their leaders. Common sense will tell those people, whose country had been sanctioned, that it was the USA that caused all their misery. Cuba and North Korea were under sanctions for 60 long years. Did they fall? Did the people revolt? Did the Russian people revolt after several years of punitive sanctions?

Russia is a resource rich country, with energy, raw elements and grains not in shortage, and ordinary people's lives are hardly affected with those Western sanctions. Western businesses can just move out, but there are Chinese, Indians and Russian citizens raring to take over. Even fast food is not a problem to being taken over. Nothing secret about making burgers or frying chicken wings, which ordinary Russians would have mastered over the years working in such outlets. The only chaos in Russia were all created by traitors to the country, the opposition bought over by USA funded NGOs, and who are now conducting terrorism and distabilising the country. 

Anonymous

US and India anti Muslim exposed, but US still pretends to be loving Muslims in Xinjiang only

 If India can fake university degrees like printing toilet papers as money, what is generating fake news. It is a piece of cake. India learns well from its former colonial master, the Brits, but only all the vile and venomous stuff. Why do Chinese like to say, they trust a snake more than an Indian?

But, can you see the logic of Biden not to talk about human rights with Modi over the Muslim issue in India when they met in Washington? USA talks so much about upholding human rights around the world. A human rights issue is an issue to be brought up. Why refrain from talking about it? If Blinken could even fly to Beijing to talk about human rights, this is pure double standard which the world can clearly see. Between USA and India, from one snake to another, they are the same vile and venomous reptiles, hiding their dirty laundry from the world, keeping it in the pit and nobody will know. India assumes that if the USA does not ask or hype on it, it is acceptable, morally right and just can continue to treat the Muslims in India as collateral damage.

I believe the Muslim world is looking at the two snakes and what they are doing. It was and is all a hypocritical stunt about loving the Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but supporting the carrying out of human rights abuses against the Muslims in India. The Muslims around the world must be so glad that they are seeing the real stance of the USA and India towards Muslims.

How could Pakistan, a Muslim country, not continue to be at odds with India. The two countries could never move into a position of peace, the way the Hindus in India are treating the Muslims in India. Even the Sikhs are facing problems with the Hindus. This is another area to be exploited by the USA for igniting a conflict. It is only a question of time.

The game was using Pakistan, a USA supported regime, to tangle with Russian supported India. Now the USA needs India more than Pakistan, and is sacrificing Pakistan and trying to pry India away from Russia. The USA needs India to confront China in the QUAD and is eyeing the Indian market for energy and trade by pushing out Russia.

Anonymous