Monthly Archives: January 2024

President Tshisekedi Continues New Vision for DRC

DRC,

President Tshisekedi Continues New Vision for DRC

by PD Lawton, 31 January 2024

“Always at the national level, there is the challenge of safeguarding our national cohesion, which can only be achieved by renewing and consolidating our collective desire to live, a collective desire to live in which the scourges of hatred will be banished, tribalism, clannism and all the anti-values that today undermine the development of our country, in short a desire to live together as a sacred value that we will bequeath whole to future generations.”- President Tshisekedi, inaugural ceremony for his second term in office, 20 January 2024

In 2003 the annual budget for Africa`s second largest country, a country the size of Western Europe, with a population of over 100 million, was US$ 3 billion. The DRC is considered to be the richest country in the world in terms of natural resources.

In 2018 it had risen to a paltry US$ 5 billion.

In his first 5 years in office, President Tshisekedi has more than tripled the budget. It is now in 2024, US$ 16 billion.

He has done this by re-negotiating taxes paid by mining multi-national corporations predominantly headquartered in London who have been getting away with murder, quite literally. And by securing Congo`s eastern borders and largely stopping the illegal flow of minerals into Kagame`s Rwanda.

In his inaugural speech, President Tshisekedi laid out the 6 objectives of his second 5 year term. The objectives are:

Increase employment. Create more jobs, by accelerating the promotion of youth entrepreneurship by diversifying the economy and giving access to local projects

Protect the purchasing power of households by stabilizing the exchange rate of US dollar and Congolese franc

To ensure the security of populations and their property within the national territory by restructuring the security apparatus; territorial integrity. As Tshisekedi said: the only real enemies of Congolese are insecurity and poverty.

Pursue the diversification of the economy and strengthen its competitiveness by mineral/raw material processing and value addition in agriculture. To end export of raw materials. Value addition in agriculture ; process products such as tea and coffee and maize into finished goods for export. Increase production of rice. Become food self-sufficient. Development of the agricultural value chain

Infrastructure development. Building new roads for all 45 districts. Strengthening provincial government by assisting in construction of provincial government offices. Opening up the national territory with infrastructure;

Ensure more access to basic social services: electricity and potable water. Effectively strengthening public services. Improving the sanitation of cities.

In a SABC interview, Vice Prime Minister Jean Pierre Bemba commented on the strengthening relationship between South Africa and the DRC in terms of energy, infrastructure and agriculture investments. He stated that peace and stability will be achieved in the eastern provinces within a year.

 

 

 

RDC: Ministre Patrick Muyaya explique :le mal de la région s’appelle Kagamé.

British Financial Empire, Burundi, DRC, Rwanda,

Source: FRANCE 24

RD Congo : pour le ministre Patrick Muyaya, “le mal de la région s’appelle Kagamé”

Jan 22, 2024

Patrick Muyaya, ministre de la Communication et des médias de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), a accordé un entretien à France 24. “Le mal est connu dans la région, il s’appelle Paul Kagamé”, a tranché le ministre. Selon lui, “déstabiliser les voisins” fait partie de la “stratégie permanente” du président rwandais. Deux jours après l’investiture du président Félix Tshisekedi, Patrick Muyaya s’est en outre félicité du “premier processus électoral équitable (en RDC) depuis 2006”.

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger all leave the ECOWAS

British Financial Empire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger

re posted from                      AFROLEGENDS

the slave who is not capable of assuming his rebellion does not deserve that we feel sorry for himself. This slave will respond only to his misfortune if he is deluding himself about the suspect condescension of a master who claims to free him. Only struggle liberates

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger all leave the ECOWAS

On By Dr. Y.In Great Moments
Map of Mali with its capital Bamako

The authorities of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have announced simultaneously on 28 January 2024, their decision “in complete sovereignty on the immediate withdrawal” from the regional economic bloc that is the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger stated, ECOWAS “under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, has become a threat to its member states and its population.” The three countries have accused the regional bloc of failing to support their fight against “terrorism and insecurity,” while imposing “illegal, illegitimate, inhumane, and irresponsible sanctions.” All three countries were founding members of ECOWAS over 50 years ago.

Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

In reality, this comes as no surprise as it is the normal evolution of the state of things. After the coup in their respective countries, the ECOWAS has suffocated these countries by suspending all three countries and imposing heavy sanctions on Mali and Niger that have only served to exacerbate the populations’ sentiments that it is a puppet organization serving foreign interests. Niger even tried to amend the situations by inviting ECOWAS representatives to the country last week, but only the member from Togo showed up. Why should anybody remain a member of an organization that punishes the populations? Are they trying to pressurize the three landlocked countries? It is sad that we, Africans, have organizations that only work to serve the interests of others. It should not even be allowed for coastal countries to use sea access to landlocked ones as a pressure point! That is totally inhumane!

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Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger all leave the ECOWAS

NATO in Desperation Mode | Larry C. Johnson

British Financial Empire

superb interview with former CIA veteran, Larry Johnson. Why do Russians vote for Putin?

Source: Dialogue works

NATO in Desperation Mode | Larry C. Johnson

28 Jan 2024

Larry C. Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. You can also follow him on telegram (t.me/sonar_21 (https://t.me/sonar_21) and https://sonar21.com.

Nuclear Safety: The LNT Folly

British Financial Empire, Nuclear Energy for Africa, South Africa

re posted from                        HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

Notably, the committee was stacked with geneticists whose bottom line depended on the oil and gas industry. They did not base their results on the medical data of the atomic bomb survivors and rather relied on a few failed fruit fly experiments.

Nuclear Safety: The LNT Folly

The Nuclear Industry’s version of “Exxon knew”

by
Hügo Krüger
27 Jan 2024

In 2018, I came across an article on radiation safety that was written by Leon Louw, the former Executive Director of the South African Free Market Foundation (FMF), and Bonne Posma, who was the Chairman of Nuclear Africa at the time. I regard their paper as one of the best critiques against the excessive nuclear safety standards that are based on the Linear No-threshold (LNT) assumption. Unlike many scientists and engineers, economists tend to have a better appreciation of trade-offs and they have for a long time argued that pollution control and exposure is a matter of risk and benefit. From their perspective, there is simply no “pure” state of nature and there simply isn’t a best technology, there are rather various tradeoffs involved in any decision making that include metrics such as safety, reliability, cost, affordability, price and value.

continue reading HERE: Source:

https://hkrugertjie.substack.com/p/nuclear-safety-the-lnt-folly

Pretoria is Going Back to King Coal

British Financial Empire, ESKOM, South Africa

re posted from                             HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

I find it deeply concerning that our banks are employing ‘climate finance’ to hinder the revival of these power plants. There’s no way around it – this agenda is both racist and colonial, particularly if one considers that roughly two-thirds of South Africa’s youth are currently unemployed, with a majority of them being black. Imposing a decarbonisation agenda on a poor country is beyond callous and insensitive. Richer countries can afford decarbonisation, most of Africa cannot at this stage, because we are still developing and have various other trade-offs to consider.
It begs the question of how South Africa’s banks and business elites genuinely believe that prioritizing ‘saving the planet’ is a more acceptable tradeoff, despite the evident negative impact on the economy of the world’s most coal-dependent country, leading to an increase in poverty.

Pretoria is going back to king coal

The revival of rooiwal and Pretoria West power stations

Hügo Krüger
28 Jan 2024

The Rooiwal and Pretoria West Power Stations, constructed almost 70 years ago when my grandfather moved to Pretoria, are now in need of attention. They were standing idle for almost 10 years and, finally, it appears that the mayor of Pretoria has recognized the urgency and is taking steps to revive these aging coal power stations.

continue reading HERE: Source:

https://hkrugertjie.substack.com/p/pretoria-is-going-back-to-king-coal

South Africa launches programme to build new nuclear power plants

ESKOM, Nuclear Energy for Africa, South Africa

re posted from                         MYBROADBAND

South Africa launches programme to build new nuclear power plants

Jan Vermeulen29 January 2024

Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has issued a determination in the Government Gazette that will see South Africa procure 2,500MW of nuclear power.

According to the document, this capacity will be built by Eskom, any other organ of state, or in partnership with any other juristic person.

“The buyer of the electricity will be Eskom or any entity determined through Eskom’s unbundling process as the future buyer of electricity,” it stated.

Similarly, the designated procuring agency for the nuclear new build programme will be the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), any other organ of state, or a partnership with any other juristic person.

“The procurer designated above will be responsible for determining the procurement process which will be established through a tendering procedure which is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost-effective.”

continue reading HERE: Source:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/523059-south-africa-launches-nuclear-build-programme.html

RT Crosstalk: Leadership in Decline

British Financial Empire

Source: Canadian Patriot Press

RT Crosstalk: Leadership in Decline

Jan 25, 2024

It would seem Israel’s war in Gaza is changing everything. Not least the West’s claim to moral leadership in the world. The so-called ‘rules-based order’ has been shown to be a complete fraud. When there is a leadership vacuum, others will fill it. CrossTalking with Garland Nixon, Margaret Kimberley, and Matthew Ehret.

Ethnic mass killings in one Sudan city last year left up to 15,000 dead: UN report

Chad, Current African News, Libya, The Sudan

re posted from                              PRESSTV

The attacks were planned, coordinated, and executed by RSF and their allied Arab militias,” the sanctions monitors wrote in their annual report. “When reaching RSF checkpoints women and men were separated, harassed, searched, robbed, and physically assaulted.”

The monitors said the RSF takeover of most of Darfur relied on three lines of support, including Arab allied communities, dynamic and complex financial networks, and new military supply lines running through Chad, Libya, and South Sudan.

“Complex financial networks established by RSF before and during the war enabled it to acquire weapons, pay salaries, fund media campaigns, lobby, and buy the support of other political and armed groups,” wrote the monitors, adding that the RSF used proceeds from its pre-war gold business to create a network of as many as 50 companies in several industries.

Ethnic mass killings in one Sudan city last year left up to 15,000 dead: UN report

This image shows the remains of Imam al Kadhim School in El Geneina City, West Darfur State, which came under attack on April 27, 2023 for housing refugees who had been displaced due to fighting between the warring sides in Sudan. (Photo by UN)

Ethnic mass killings in one city alone in the West Darfur region of Sudan have left up to 15,000 dead, according to a UN report.

The UN report seen by Reuters on Friday said between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed last year in West Darfur State’s El Geneina City.

In the UN report, ethnic violence carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and allied Arab militia fighting Sudan’s Army led by the country’s de-facto ruler, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, was cited as the reason for the killings.

The RSF, however, has previously denied such reports, claiming that if any of its soldiers were found to be involved in ethnic violence, the perpetrators would be prosecuted and face justice.

continue reading HERE: Source:

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/01/20/718577/Sudan-UN-Ethnic-Mass-Killing-RSF-Dagalo

 

 

Neo-Liberalism: Economic slavery dressed as freedom/ Javier Milei defends Fascism

British Financial Empire

Private Profits vs Public Good
Neo-liberal corporate managerialism colliding with community orientated essential services
state services are made to follow the corporate model…usually prior to privatization
For the profit motive not the common good
Corporate `autocrats` are hired to run the corporation : think only profit
This has happened across the board in UK, Australia, South Africa. It has taken over America which is why America has the most expensive health care system with the worst track record. In Australia it happened to the Post Office of Australia. However, Christine Holgate came in and showed you can run a corporatized public service and serve both profit and public good. She was then targetted and falsely accused.

[Is this not what happened in Eskom under Brian Molefe? Molefe was running a good model. Eskom staff were working well together under his management AND Eskom was ticking along just fine.]

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Argentina`s( WEF Young Leader ) Javier Milei defends monopolies, defends Fascism
Private institutions taking over Government is the definition of fascism

British East India Company : corporate fascism . American economic success due to Alexander Hamilton creating NATIONAL BANKING as oppose to Central Bank MONOPOLY

Source: Australian Citizens Party

CITIZENS REPORT 25/01/2024 – UK PO scandal threatens Australia / Economic slavery dressed as freedom

Jan 25, 2024

1. The UK scandal that also threatens essential services in Australia

2. Don’t be conned into economic slavery dressed as freedom

Presented by Robert Barwick and Craig Isherwood