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Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

they need a bigger table

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Centrist Committee posted:

they need a bigger table

imo they need a smaller table (remove seats for UK and france)

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/TheDejazmach/status/1719541487396901064

Big moves for FANO

Pomeroy
Apr 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1719776756826091905?t=VoabYNenb9KoSdMw29eW4w&s=19

DasNeonLicht
Dec 25, 2005

"...and the light is on and burning brightly for the masses."
Fallen Rib
Can someone explain to me why Niger is not forcing the US out?

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

DasNeonLicht posted:

Can someone explain to me why Niger is not forcing the US out?

they have to choose between being saddam'd and being qaddafi'd

ThatBasqueGuy
Feb 14, 2013

someone introduce jojo to lazyb


I also just think that, as weird as it sounds, the US is a way better partner in africa than France. Not to say it's benevolent or even particularly good, just that the French have set the bar ultralow (and have been wearing out their welcome for an extra ~50+ years). Better to divide and conquer your colonial overlords than try to do it all at once, presumably.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

lmao @ the french pillaging niger of its gold and uranium since "decolonialization"

are nigerian bank reserves still stored in french banks?

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/onetruescotman/status/1720146277290144114

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

bedpan posted:

lmao @ the french pillaging niger of its gold and uranium since "decolonialization"

are nigerian bank reserves still stored in french banks?
Nigeria got its own money (the Naira i believe) but yeah Niger still uses the Franc CFA and nigerien banks reserves are most likely still stored in French banks.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i used to live near the central bank of nigeria and used zenith bank as my retail banker, but yeah that poster meant nigerien currency reserves

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

DasNeonLicht posted:

Can someone explain to me why Niger is not forcing the US out?

Just for fun, make a list of all the countries that used to have US military bases but don't any longer.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

There's a plan to replace the Franc CFA with the Eco among the west African ECOWAS states, but until it's actually implemented Nigerien money is issued by French banks.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

mawarannahr posted:

wasn't particularly involved afaik. in terms of specific, personal responsibility, the suppression of the Sheikh Said rebellion was among his greater crimes imo, as well as the asdassination of TKP founder Mustafa Suphi and comrades, as well as the banning of the TKP.

still there is something to be said for his effectiveness in fighting the imperialists, which is why the Soviets supplied him with money and weapons. also other stuff like women's rights and education, facilitating literacy nationwide, state enterprises, loosening the stranglehold of the religious establishment etc. mostly stuff that akp is undoing or already has.

ty

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
https://x.com/Audreva_/status/1720519260777205880?s=20

crepeface has issued a correction as of 07:32 on Nov 4, 2023

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


how is that real

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Domain grabbing I guess

https://whois.domaintools.com/allaboutqatar.qa

Junkozeyne
Feb 13, 2012

Orange Devil posted:

Just for fun, make a list of all the countries that used to have US military bases but don't any longer.

Taliban ftw

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan all used to have bases.

Bot 02
Apr 2, 2010

Dude... Did my plushie just talk?

Tweet's gone, what did it say

Votskomit
Jun 26, 2013

Bot 02 posted:

Tweet's gone, what did it say

Something like "it sucks that Qatar is a Slave state cause they're like Littlefinger."

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Junkozeyne posted:

Taliban ftw

did what even the cpc couldn't do!

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Bot 02 posted:

Tweet's gone, what did it say

https://x.com/Audreva_/status/1720519260777205880?s=20

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

https://twitter.com/jhon_odey/status/1720794900424163739?s=20

Almost all the reporting on this claims Camara was broken out of prison by armed men.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/jhon_odey/status/1720794900424163739?s=20

Almost all the reporting on this claims Camara was broken out of prison by armed men.
And now four hours later, according to Reuters and AFP, Charles Wright, the Guinean minister of Justice claimed on Guinean radio that's Camara escaped alongside three other high ranking officers.
Source

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKJfNYwvm8

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
Despite being grown in the depths of Yakub's lab for the sole purpose of causing revulsion, I can't bring myself to hate that fellow. Judging by the titles of his videos, he does do useful things even if it's in the worst way possible

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Standards are so bad that doing philanthropy for clout is legit makes him morally superior to most other rich people and youtubers

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

he actually walked around Zimbabwe for a few hours which I didn't expect. figured he'd be an hour away from a hilton in kampala or something

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

ANKARA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Sunday elected Ozgur Ozel as its new leader, ending a 13-year term for incumbent Kemal Kilicdaroglu, as the country gears up for local elections next March.

Ozel, 49, has been serving as the CHP's deputy parliamentary group chairman since 2015 and has been a lawmaker since 2011. He announced his candidacy in September, after Kilicdaroglu and the CHP's painful defeat to President Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling political alliance in May presidential and general elections.

Ozel, a pharmacist by trade, received 812 of 1,366 possible votes at a tense, hours-long party congress in Ankara that took two rounds.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-main-opposition-elects-ozgur-ozel-new-leader-run-up-local-elections-2023-11-05/

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

what consequences will that have?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Megamissen posted:

what consequences will that have?

nothing. he's a buddy of kılıçtar.

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

mawarannahr posted:

nothing. he's a buddy of kılıçtar.

what are the factions within chp?
did the latest loss cause any changes in their position?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Megamissen posted:

what are the factions within chp?
did the latest loss cause any changes in their position?

I don't really follow what chp's up to the last few years. from reading social media there are the mainstream and the wokes and the people who would be in a more nationalist party but they're somehow unappealing. the perception seems to be that özel is more of the same and he has a history of being a loser too.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1721534148400279951?s=20

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

briefly lol, I didn't hear they caught him

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

i say swears online posted:

briefly lol, I didn't hear they caught him

Took the whole day, apparently.

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
PetroChina to replace Exxon as lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield


quote:

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq has signed a settlement agreement with U.S. energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp to finalise its exit from the West Qurna 1 oilfield and allow PetroChina to become the field's lead contractor, a senior Iraqi oil executive said on Saturday.

"We studied the settlement agreement and the oil ministry with the Basra Oil Company believe that the best option is for Petrochina to become the lead contractor of West Qurna 1," Hassan Mohammed, deputy Basra Oil Co. manager in charge of oilfields and licensing rounds affairs, told Reuters.

This brings an end to Exxon's involvement in Iraq's energy sector.

mcclay
Jul 8, 2013

Oh dear oh gosh oh darn
Soiled Meat

tristeham posted:

mao's right

he commonly is

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/neby_G/status/1719335997211639886

https://twitter.com/Amhara_News/status/1723355444394029064

War in Ethiopia intensifying. So far we have ENDF vs Tigray, ENDF vs Fano, ENDF vs Oromo, Amhara vs Tigray, Amhara vs Oromo, Afar vs Tigray, Afar vs Somali, Oromo vs Somali. now it seems Abiy might declare war on Eritrea.

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