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Zero Hedge: How China Colonized An Entire Continent Without Firing A Single Shot
Back in 1885, to much fanfare, the General Act of the Berlin Conference launched the Scramble for Africa which saw the partition of the continent, formerly a loose aggregation of various tribes, into the countries that currently make up the southern continent, by the dominant superpowers (all of them European) of the day. Subsequently Africa was pillaged, plundered, and in most places, left for dead. The fact that a credit system reliant on petrodollars never managed to take hold only precipitated the "developed world" disappointment with Africa, no matter what various enlightened, humanitarian singer/writer/poet/visionaries claimed otherwise.
And so the continent languished.... until 2012 when what we then dubbed as the "Beijing Conference" quietly took place, and to which only Goldman Sachs, which too has been quietly but very aggressively expanding in Africa, was invited.
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WNU Editor: The consequences of this heavy borrowing by African governments is now coming home to roost .... China Prepares To Seize Kenya's Infrastructure Over Failure To Repay Massive Debts (December 28, 2018).
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Obama invited all the dictators to Washington to much fanfare, the Monsters Ball.
But did he try to develop Africa economically by fair trade?
Obama is the source of my acne, my car running out of gas, and my kid not getting all A's in school...Obama Obama Obama....when will he leave office and we get a new leader who will fix all things?
Obama’s monsters ball: How the White House opened its doors to some of Africa’s most evil dictators and homophobes and turned blind eye to their human rights record
Meanwhile Xi was cleaning up.
OBAMA HAS BEEN OUT OF OFFICE FOR TWO FULL YEARS. WHAT HAS TRUMP DONE? We have forces in Africa to fight terrorists while China colonizes large parts of Africa and is winning over the continent and also in south America whilst the Am pres plays golf when not closing down his govt. this is 2019 and Trump is the putative leader...stay with reality and stop moving back to the past. The present is NOW. The post deals with NOW. Trump sucks. period
Robert Mueller Has Been Botching Investigations Since The Anthrax Attacks
Of course Meuller is going to attack. Democrats are flying air cover for him.
He gets a paycheck, per diem, to look impotent, and the Democrats will clean up any of his messes.
"Mueller chose not to attend the announcement and has at no point conceded the investigation’s costly missteps. A prosecutor’s letter formally exonerated Hatfill, who had already won a $5.82 million legal settlement from the government.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Willman’s book, “The Mirage Man,’’ was just published"
"...commitment to the dog evidence served to misdirect the investigation for years — and it could have been averted, based on well-publicized murder and rape cases in which the dogs’ reliability had been discredited." - Boston Globe
They get rid of drug sniffing dogs after awhile. It is not that the dogs were ever good or want to do their job. It is just after so many years the number of false alerts climb. When the climb high enough you retire the dog hopefully to a good owner. Or you can do it the Humane Society way and throw them in the dumpster!
But you know Mueller does not have a lick of sense.
I am not tired of criticizing Obama or Mueller. Both are still doing damage to the country.
Therefore they are todays news.
Who do you think set Mueller up? Obama and his staff as an insurance policy.
So very current news and very germane.
FISA court judges need to go to jail.
I notice that you did not refute 1 dam,n thing about Obama's kid gloves treatment of Boko Haram nor Mueller's follies.
Very telling.
I see no need to argue about bs, stupid argument. What, tell us, has Trump done about Boko Haram? Nothing. zip. zero. The Chinese are all over Africa now and Trump does nothing ...yes. He has hidden ops to take out somebody or other (we do not know who where ) but the Chinese are building, buying and winning friends while we get nada....thanks Trump. It is 2019 and Trump is in charge..no matter what Obama did or failed to do. Trump is the president and all you can do is badmouth the past...you too are a total failure
The Chinese have state capitalism that is state controlled capitalism.
The US has free market capitalism. The president cannot go out and force corporations to invest in Africa. The president could use his bully pulpit. Or maybe he could work with Congress to give American companies something like tax breaks for investing there. But congress people are to bus F-bombing little children and the public, So I do not see working with congress happening.
Meanwhile we have Mueller, who is IRS agent extroadinaire. Or maybe he isn't and the government is going to have to pay damages to several people like in previous Meuller investigations. 18 months and NO RUSSIA Collusion, but now Mueller gets an extension to do what? Look into who Trump had sex with before he was president?
If all Trump did was make Africa safer, all sorts of companies would invest there. But If we send more troops people like you would crawl on their hands and knees if you had to to get to a mic and denounce the American military and American bases overseas. We know you are good for it.
We ally with any government to go after Kony and you'll 1st look at their human right record and try to wreck any action from the get go.
Why go into Nigeria? Obama let Boko Haram get well established, so now it will be a long hard fight and the MSM will talk about body counts. Besides Trump would have ti undo the arms embargo that IMO Obama placed on Nigeria to help out Boko Haram.
"I see no need to argue about bs, stupid argument"
Translated you got pwned.
No misfit: saying some shit does not make it so...Trump lost (or gave) Syria to Russians and to Iran and Trump has allowed China to run amok in Africa...now you can talk about private enterprise etc all you want, but China is entrenched in Africa and also now in South America...is that why he want a wall at the border? To keep China out of U.S.? Trump an utter failure and calling upon Mueller and Obama alters nothing you simpleton What has Trump done about Boko Haram? He said ISIS finished and just above these posts we learn of a very active ISIS...more Trump BS for the Deplorables to suck on
"Trump lost (or gave) Syria to Russians "
Come again? We you born yesterday? I covered that this week. Either you forgot or you were playing hooky.
"In 1971, under an agreement with President Hafez al-Assad, the Soviet Union was allowed to open its naval military base in Tartus, a facility the former Soviet republic continues to use to this day. On 8 October 1980, Syria and the Soviet Union signed a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation ..."
Let me parse this for you since you have the slows. Russia has been in Syria for a long time. Trump could not give it away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_Tartus
"also now in South America.."
I grew up in South America ... because American companies are entrenched there
So are Swedish (Scania)
Norwegian,
German,
Dutch,
British,
etc
We have South American companies entrenched in North America like Embraer.
You had a point?
Lol smith that really cracked me up.....so tell me why is the truth so amusing or is it just me?
I was speaking the truth. Read Brasil's corporate law. It shows that I spoke the truth not you.
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