The “just” transition is absurd, Malthusian, and Neocolonial
25 July 2023
The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, is right that the concept of a “just” energy transition is a foreign one and that South Africa should rather transition on its our terms. In fact, he is being diplomatic as the NGO Industrial Complex’s policies, that are coming out of the Presidential Climate Commission, are completely out of touch with reality and in particular the scientific literature cited in Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
How the IPCC’s working groups and taskforces work is poorly understood by the public. As, Steve Koonin, Barack Obama’s Secretary of Energy, remarked a few years ago, the game of telephone that is being played between scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, and media headlines, is of such a nature that by the time that the message gets to the reader it is entirely blown out of proportion.
Five Eyes-AUKUS gang scapegoating Aussie ‘Top Gun’ Daniel Duggan for their war agenda -MEDIA RELEASE
25 July 2023
The same US and Australian political forces that have normalised talk of war with China have ripped an innocent Australian away from his wife and six children, holding him in solitary confinement, to make an example of him for their agenda. This is the conclusion the Australian Citizens Party has drawn from its investigation of the case of former US Navy “top gun” pilot, now Australian citizen Daniel Duggan, who has been held in solitary confinement for nine months waiting to see if he will be extradited to the United States. The Citizens Party has published its investigation in its Australian Alert Service magazine and on its website. Citizens Party Research Director Robert Barwick said today: “This is a terrible case, which should deeply shame all of us, because our government is destroying a beautiful Australian family solely to please Anglo-American war hawks and their Five Eyes spy network who want to make an example of Duggan for their propaganda war against China.” Barwick cited the following elements of the case: • The AFP arrested Duggan on the 21st of October 2022, designating him “extreme high risk” to hold him in harsh conditions in solitary confinement in very cold Lithgow with insufficient food, blankets, medical care and access to family and legal advice. • Five Eyes agency ASIO possibly broke the law by luring Duggan back to Australia to be arrested, which the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security is investigating. • Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who approved Duggan’s arrest, is improperly trying to interfere with the Australian court, by backgrounding journalists to harass the court to release the US extradition request which lists all the US allegations against Duggan, but which the court has declined to release in the interests of justice. • Australia only extradites if the charge meets the “dual criminality” standard of being a crime in both the country seeking the extradition (USA) and Australia, but the Attorney-General refuses to say whether Duggan’s charges are crimes in Australia–if the Attorney-General can’t even claim dual criminality, on what grounds did he approve Duggan’s arrest and harsh treatment? • An indictment cobbled together by the Trump administration in 2017, when anti-China hawks Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Peter Navarro were ramping up attacks on China, accuses Duggan of training Chinese military pilots at a training school in South Africa between 2010 and 2012, but he vehemently denies they were military pilots, and nobody else associated with that school has been charged. • Even if they were military pilots, the official attitudes of the US and Australian governments towards China in 2010-12 were very different than today–even as recently as 2019 Australia conducted joint military exercises with China! • UK Air Chief Marshal Wigston acknowledged in 1st of February 2023 testimony to the UK House of Commons Defence Committee that such foreign pilot training had been quote “going on for many years and it goes back to a period when we took a different approach to China. … So I can understand why those people … would have felt that it was a reasonable thing to do.” unquote • The 18 October 2022 Washington Post admitted most retired US military personnel ignore the law Duggan is accused of breaching, without consequences: quote “There is no criminal penalty for violating the law. Enforcement is almost nonexistent.” unquote The Citizens Party has documented these and more sinister aspects of Duggan’s case in our reports. We expose a coordinated Five Eyes operation to display Duggan’s head on a pike as a pretext for ‘national security’ crackdowns to consolidate the AUKUS alliance. Australians should be outraged and demand Dan Duggan be freed to return to his family.
Extractives bring in 46% of government revenue, so taxing mining companies in local currency is not such a bad idea.
In an effort to stem the decline of the currency, the Banque Centrale du Congo has ordered mining companies to pay their taxes in Congolese francs (CDF). The announcement followed a meeting on 17 July between President Félix Tshisekedi, central bank officials, the Ministry of Finance and bankers.
Other suggestions to strengthen the CDF were to hike interest rates further, for additional forex auctions to commercial banks, and for government bodies to pay civil servants’ salaries via bank transfer in the local currency.
“These new measures should be enough to temper the stress on the market especially in the short term,” says Willy Mulamba, Citi Country Officer for the DRC, and chairman of the Congolese Banking Association.
South Africa says more than 40 nations expressed interest to join BRICS
Brazil’s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira (L), South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor (C) and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a press conference as BRICS foreign ministers meet in Cape Town, South Africa, June 1, 2023. (Photo by Reuters)
More than 40 countries have already expressed their desire to join the BRICS group of nations, South Africa says, as the bloc prepares to hold a summit next month.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, South Africa’s Ambassador to BRICS Anil Sooklal said that 22 countries have so far formally asked to join the bloc.
Furthermore, there is “an equal number of countries that have informally expressed interest in becoming BRICS members … (including) all the major global south countries,” he added.
Sooklal’s remarks come as a BRICS summit is due to take place in Johannesburg between August 22 and 24.
Iran, Venezuela, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Argentina are among the list of the nations that have either formally applied to join or expressed interest.
BRICS is an acronym for the current members of the group, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Since the establishment of the bloc in 2006, member countries have achieved beneficial results in areas such as economy, trade, politics, security, technological innovations, as well as social and cultural exchanges.
The group’s members host around half of the world’s population besides representing one-fifth of the global economy.
prepare to have your minds blown with this astonishing interview… the de Villiers Commission : policy paper for the de-industrialization of post apartheid South Africa …and much much more . Interview with Crown Prince Adil Nchabeleng, independent energy expert.
Source: Morning Shot
INTERVIEW: Crown Prince Of The Bapedi Nation (South Africa).
This Wednesday, July 19th at 7pm, Li Kangzheng delivered a presentation on China’s untold history which is guaranteed to blow your mind and expand your understanding on the dynamics of our past and present world. I asked Li to make a short description of his lecture which follows: “This coming lecture will explore the British Empire’s scheme to tax every Chinese import and export for a century and the Chinese “precursor to the League of Nations”. We will also deal with the topic of Hong Kong in revolt featuring a true student massacre which accompanied an incredibly self-destructive educational revolution… but not the ones you think.”
China’s Battle with the British Empire (19th century to Present) PART 1 of 2
23 July 2023
This Wednesday, July 19th at 7pm, Li Kangzheng delivered a presentation on China’s untold history which is guaranteed to blow your mind and expand your understanding on the dynamics of our past and present world.
I asked Li to make a short description of his lecture which follows: “This coming lecture will explore the British Empire’s scheme to tax every Chinese import and export for a century and the Chinese “precursor to the League of Nations”. We will also deal with the topic of Hong Kong in revolt featuring a true student massacre which accompanied an incredibly self-destructive educational revolution… but not the ones you think.”
INTERVIEW: The President’s BRAIN Is Scrambled | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 255
14 July 2023
INTERVIEW: The talk in Washington is how to brush aside the increasingly confused Joe Biden for the 2024 election. But next in line Kamala Harris seems to be suffering from the same condition says Garland Nixon
CITIZENS INSIGHT – ASIC: The most dysfunctional agency in Australia – John Adams
Jul 19, 2023
CITIZENS INSIGHT – ASIC: The most dysfunctional agency in Australia – John Adams John Adams returns to CITIZENS INSIGHT to discuss the latest developments around the investigation of ASIC.
Economist, former Liberal Party advisor — www.adamseconomics.com
Hosted by Robert Barwick, Research Director of the Australian Citizens Party
