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[Zmeselo]

[Abe Abraham]

ፈረንሳውያንን ፓኪስታናውያንን ( ኣብ ካራቺ ) ሱዳናውያን 'ውን ከይተረፉ ኣብ ዓዶም ዘየሐጉስ ነገራት ከጓንፍ እንከሎ ብትዕግስቲ እዮም ዝሓልፍዎ ። ማለት ብዘይ " ሰማይ ይፈርስ ኣሎ " ዝብል ስምዒት ።

ኣብ ሃገርና ሓንቲ ብሽክለታ 'ውን ተቓጺላ እንተ ዝሰማዕ ክንደይ ኣብ ወጻኢ ዘለዉ ጽዩቓት ከም ዘጋድድዎ ዝተፈልጠ እዩ።

[Zmeselo]

Why You Need To Start Paying Attention To The 'Twitter Files'

DEC 26, 2022

Authored by Kevin Downey Jr. via PJMedia.com

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why ... tter-files

This is an article to show your haughty, “know-it-all” brother-in-law who thinks our government is somehow squeaky clean...



The “Twitter Files” have now officially had more sequels than Planet of the Apes and can be difficult to absorb. Thus, I don’t think they’re getting the attention they deserve.



For those of you not following the “Twitter Files” drops, let me catch you up on what I believe are some of the most important parts:

• The FBI paid https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... uests.html Twitter $3.5 million to censor conservatives.

• The FBI pressured Twitter to give them information that would legally require warrants, though they did not have warrants.

• Leading up to the 2020 election, the FBI would eventually hold weekly meetings with Twitter and tell them whose tweets to squelch and which accounts they wanted to be suspended. Almost all were those of conservatives.

• The FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop story was real, they knew it was coming out — weeks before the 2020 election — and they told Big Tech to expect a “Russian disinformation” drop and squelch the story. That means the FBI corrupted the election to help Joe
“totally showered with his daughter, Ashley” Biden.

• There are so many former FBI employees at Twitter that they have their own Slack channel.

FACT-O-RAMA! Hunter’s laptop proves beyond a doubt https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/k ... 654824that the Biden family took in tens of millions of dollars from Chinese companies linked to the commies for no discernible work. The FBI pressured Big Tech firms to downplay the story, even making it unsharable, even thought the FBI knew the laptop was real. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... force.html

The commie bum-lickees at Twitter were happy to play along, even going so far as to suspend the account of the the NY Post for releasing the Hunter laptop story.

In response to the “Twitter Files” detailing how the FBI-Twitter circle jerk was real, the bureau called the allegations “conspiracy theories” https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/fbi-blast ... t-company/ but never actually denied its relationship with Twitter.

Elon Musk provided the world with an early Christmas present on Saturday with Twitter Files Pt. IX. I’ll sum it up so you can avoid the Twitter mess and get to the relevant facts:

• The FBI was a portal, specifically the San Francisco office, for other government agencies to get to Twitter to surveil and censor Americans.

• Hiding under the title of Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), actors from local police departments to the Department of Defense (DOD) and the CIA were watching and censoring Americans — not foreigners.

• Twitter wasn’t the only Big Tech firm hip-deep in spooks. The feds had their fingers in Verizon, Reddit, Facebook, Microsoft, and, for some reason, Pinterest.

• As the 2020 election neared, the FBI-FITF assailed Twitter with hundreds of requests to censor Twitter accounts and tweets. There were so many requests that Twitter execs had to come up with a system to prioritize them.

• FBI employees were tasked with doing word searches on Twitter, looking for violations of Twitter policies — instead of chasing actual criminals.

• The FBI had roughly 80 agents https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... force.html working with Big Tech companies. It is unclear how many members of the DOD, CIA, etc. were involved.

What Have We Learned?

We have learned the FBI is not the only government agency censoring and surveilling Americans. Twitter was a veritable “pig pile” when it comes to spying on We the People. The DOD, CIA, and even local police had their fingers in the pie. And Twitter was only one of the pies. Other Big Tech firms, including Facebook and Verizon (pssst that’s a cell phone carrier), were in on the game. Big Brother is watching. We are being spied on, and frequently silenced. Well, at least those of us who speak out against the Stalin-like censoring and surveilling of Americans.

[Zmeselo]

The Africa Puppets Summit

Like a father endearing himself to children in a difficult marriage, the U.S. President Joseph Biden was speaking cash and more cash

Yusuf Serunkuma

https://panafricanreview.rw/the-africa-puppets-summit/

December 24, 2022



It was Ugandan writer, Mary Serumaga who precisely described the recently concluded Africa-US summit as

the African Puppets Summit 2022.

The English language dictionary defines ‘puppet’ as

a movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.

In her puppet imagery, Serumaga was precise: These men—all the 49 who attended had one woman among them—presiding over perhaps the richest continent in the world have agreed to hand all their God-given bounties to the western world—and then turn themselves into smartly dressed beggars. Before, Washington, they had been pictured lined up in Moscow, Paris and Beijing, and had been ignominiously bussed around London during the burial of their deceased colonial monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Sitting over the envy of the world, and instead of sitting back and waiting for beggars from the western world (with neither minerals nor food) to come and beg from them, our men simply surrendered themselves and their countries’ wealth to the western world. I know, it is complicated, but their acquiescence, servility, indifference, and subservience to the methodical tyranny of the western world in bamboozling.

While all begging excursions need to be frowned upon, the Washington one stands out because all the other competing powers—specifically, China and Russia—are thriving, exploiting a world order that the United States and Europe created. But one would wonder, why would these powers call for meetings in their capitals like they were calling for an assembly of school children to communicate and negotiate things that they have often executed through emissaries and emails. The idea is to build a false sense of comradery with the African countries, but most importantly, to reflect and display power to competitors in China and Russia. But one wonders why to this day, African leaders still have the calmness to clown in the power games of the world powers sadly gambling with their resources. Surely, these summits are not about American, Russian or Chinese benevolence to the Africans, but a barely disguised scramble

for power and resources—masquerading as friendship.

Like a father endearing himself to children in a difficult marriage, right in his remarks, the U.S. President Joseph Biden https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... enda-2063/ was speaking cash and more cash: for food, security, disease, politics—it was all money. In addition to promising to

commit $55 billion in Africa to advance the priorities we share,

in the next three years, he promised to ask

Congress for the authority to lend $21 billion to the International Monetary Fund to provide access to necessary financing for low-and middle-income countries.

He would then go ahead and promise to

invest $75 million to strengthen transparent, accountable governance; facilities — facilitate voter registration; support constitutional reform; and more.

On this one, he promised to throw some of these monies at Civil Society and regional institutions.

There was more money to be announced by President Biden: Talking about something they called Agenda 2063 (clearly a time where all those octogenarians and many of us will be gone—and may never see the results of our actions), Biden promised more money in the next three years:

100-billion-dollar — 100-million-dollar pilot program, the Department of Defense will work with our African partners to boost reforms that build their security capacity.

Yes, there has to be security as well, like something is eternally threatening the lives of Africans, and, rightly, more money needs to be thrown at this problem.

Very quickly, Serumaga’s puppets were agreeing to things, signing things, and issuing press statements. While clearly mortgaging their wealth to serve the beautiful lives in the western world, these things are often couched in the language of partnerships, investments, collaborations, shared interests, security, etcetera. Uganda was the first to issue its success in this begging encounter, that American group, Albertine Graben Energy Consortium (AGEC) agreed that the

Final Investment Decision for the estimated US$4.5billion East African Energy Security Transition Investment Project will be taken in 2023.

Pumping up the hysteria, the government newspaper, The New Vision ran with an exciting headline,

Oil Refinery: American Firm to Invest $4.5b.

this is a bit of a misleading headline, but exciting enough for the oil sector that was seeing environmental and political related opposition, especially from the EU.

What is so disturbing with all these seemingly benevolent cash handouts (in whatever name they come) is the sheer stereotyping of Africa’s economic problems. The western world seems to have a singular diagnosis for Africa’s problems—be they political or economic—and thus a singular recommendation, money. How could a discussion on low-and medium-income countries (say involving small and medium size enterprises) end without a discussion on the business environment, taxes and banking regimes in which the people in these countries try to build their businesses? How could President Biden seek to offer more funding, ironically to the IMF—so as to pass it to Africa—and no one reminded him that the IMF has been responsible for the ongoing ruin of African economies since 1980s and 1990, which sadly, unfairly, and violently benefits only European and American capitalists! How could one not seek to remind President Biden that it is their banks—with headquarters in Europe and North America—running extractivist interest rates on the African continent, which has made it difficult for start-ups to thrive! Why wouldn’t this be the opportunity to discuss IMF and World Bank ruinous structural adjustment policies on the continent, as opposed to receiving cash handouts? How does the continent grow its Elon Musks, Mark Zuckerberg, build their own Silicon Valleys, and New-Yorks, enjoying full protection from international capitalists? If the United States is still ruthlessly protecting https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/ ... 93840f3caf Microsoft and Apple from Chinese Huawei, and Europe/France still subsidising https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-b ... SKBN20C2BK its agriculture, why don’t Africans focus on growing their own capitalists (protecting and subsidising) who would invest in their minerals, and not the United States sending her capitalists? These things are worrisomely silent from this so-called leader’s summit.

Still, in the course of the summit, the cameras would quickly zoom in on Zambia and DRC, as these countries, with US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, signed

a memorandum of understanding in which the U.S. will support the DRC and Zambia in developing an electric vehicle value chain.

When these big countries declare support, they are actually taking over because they are convinced locally, there is no technical nor intellectual expertise in these things, and thus everything will be in their hands. Secretary Blinken made sure https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinken ... ey-kakubo/ to mention the fact that

the DRC produces more than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt. Zambia is the world’s sixth-largest copper producer, second-largest cobalt producer in Africa. Global demand for critical minerals is going to skyrocket over the next decades.

To this end, the grand plan is

to develop an electric battery supply chain that opens the door for U.S. and like-minded investment to keep more value added in Africa.

The irony in this message is that if this were not simply being handed over to US firms and was open to

like-minded investment

from elsewhere, why then would there be a need for an MoU?

As one activist K. Diallo https://twitter.com/nyeusi_waasi interpreted this MoU on social media, this was

[surrendering] the supply chain and production of copper and cobalt to American control.

[Temt]

Say whatever demonization as they may, but President Isaias of Eritrea remains one of the few leaders who seem to be unfazed by the so-called "Carrot & Stick" tactics of the powers to be. Thank you Mr. President for standing for a solid principle for the people of the Horn and beyond!