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Al-Saqr posted:lol check out whats on frances ministry of foreign affairs emblem Judging by the logo alone, it's quite nice. Would stencil quite well. No sign of garbage modern corporate clip art. Wish more organisations kept their historical insignia, for better or worse. Rebranding is just what managers do to stamp their stink on an organisation when they take charge. A metaphorical human piss against a lamp post.
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Aug 2, 2023 09:25
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Atrocious Joe posted:seems like a struggle in DC about the route to take with regard to the military governments in West Africa. the think tankers are getting annoyed that Biden administration hasn't called it a coup yet. It's to the benefit of the USA if France loses power and influence. At the same time the USA needs to provide limited lip service support to France. A weaker France is a weaker EU, then everyone is more dependant on the USA.
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Aug 3, 2023 04:16
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mawarannahr posted:that's nothing, military just spent 3-4 times that amount on a travel booking system with SAP that didn't pan out, so they're back on the old system they say is so inefficient it is seriously hindering us military readiness or something Sir should we just spend a hundred million on more admin clerks to do the bookings by hand and imbed them in units to improve service? Sir why are you tearing up my promotion recommendation? Okay a smartphone app it is sir.
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Aug 4, 2023 06:09
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Being photogenic is important these days. I guess Burkina Faso is calling the shots.
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i say swears online posted:A 1993 report by IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss explained that “there is probable cause to believe that funds in certain bank accounts controlled by Bola Tinubu… represent proceeds of drug trafficking; therefore these funds are forfeitable to the United States.” I'm not sure what the USA is going to do with seized US dollars if nobody else is trading with them after they de-dollarize. You can't even make a scrooge mcduck diving vault out of money when its all just spreadsheet cash.
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Aug 7, 2023 13:47
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Votskomit posted:Tiktok recently appointed some ex military, ex NSA and ex CIA people to help keep their platform safe from Don't worry they'll stay completely loyal. Don't ask to who though.
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Aug 7, 2023 13:48
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VoicesCanBe posted:Very likely the latter. They sent Nuland who is a go-to for coercive measures (aka threats) and it sounds like the Niger military junta told her to gently caress off "We'll cut you out of swift!" Doesn't have the same threat it used to.
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Aug 9, 2023 00:49
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gradenko_2000 posted:If Nuland visits your country, be very loving afraid Last decade, absolutely.
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Aug 9, 2023 13:12
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(plonks crystal ball on table with a thud) "Western" intervention will lead to widespread west Africa destabilization. The pillaging and plundering by France and the USA must continue at any cost. Any cost. Tens of millions more refugees will go to Europe. It will be hailed as restoring the democratic order, which is basically a synonym for restoring profitability to certain USA friendly private monetary interests. It will all seem eerily familiar. Cue twilight zone music, fade to black.
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Aug 9, 2023 23:39
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Proxies in motion, tinder lit, stacks of hay dry.
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Centrist Committee posted:hoping for a quick and decisive french/us L Depends on who makes life difficult for whom. I suspect. NATO & USA materials are already spent or reserved for other conflicts. Light infantry, commando raids, maybe. I can see the supply of gold & uranium being disrupted for some time, since this is all just a resource grab. Niger is less a factor than say, Algeria.
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Aug 11, 2023 05:23
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mawarannahr posted:this is interesting. has the world bank cited its values while dealing with a country before? Par for the course as certain issue motivated individuals grow older and end up in certain decision making positions. It'll be just one of many vaguely similar in time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to1ngiM-Y0g Thank you Jimmys Dores. The USA is not yet calling Niger a coup. 15 hours ago. France is bombing it though. Apparently. Yellowcake and gold baby. Quite a motivator.
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If France can't keep getting cheap (below market rates) gold and more specifically, uranium (because corruption), they won't be able to fuel their nuclear energy grid for pennies on the dollar while also exporting energy to the rest of the EU at premium prices. In other words their GDP will be hosed, their credit rating will be hosed and their whole economy is fundamentally powered by colonial slavery & exploitation. So they are extremely motivated to put the... oh we don't say that word any more... back in their places. I love it. Cradle of western civilisation folks.
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gradenko_2000 posted:if it gets to goldbelly, that's trouble Only the 7th largest producer. It's probably only France making GBS threads bricks while everyone else looks on and laughs. Those silly snail eaters. (no offense French ordinary people, you're great, but your leadership over history I make no comment)
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Frosted Flake posted:lol okay, I'm increasingly convinced that ISIS is a western proxy The great thing about Isis is nobody knows who is under those robes. Could be tribals, locals, maybe even little green men from a distant faraway land, who can say.
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Aug 16, 2023 02:23
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A good watch. Good thing we have a rich plump American think tank lady to tell those ignorant Africans what they're actually thinking.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I was reading some news about China no longer allowing Japanese fishing imports because of nuclear waste, and I learned that many countries dump theirs in Somalia. wtf What you don't like isotope sushi? Here add soy sauce, it taste great.
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://www.reuters.com/world/french-soldier-killed-iraq-battle-with-islamic-state-militants-2023-08-29/ If they did battle with a bakery and fine wines things would have gone better.
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Bot 02 posted:Oh right, why does China have a base in Djibouti anyway? https://theculturetrip.com/africa/djibouti/articles/10-traditional-djiboutian-dishes-you-need-to-try
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France still agitating for ECOWAS to do something about Niger turning off the cheap gold and uranium flow to France. Good thing everything outside the western EU is a wild jungle free for all otherwise some people might get put out by that sort of colonial attitude.
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Sep 5, 2023 02:43
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Frances whole economy is based around extracting from Africa for pennies and selling on in the EU for premium prices. They'll burn all of West Africa down before allowing that to stop. Specifically France had very old granddaughtered in sweetheart prices far, far below market value from mid last century. This whole coup was about ending that. France can still buy... At market rates. Naturally that's very unacceptable because it would obliterate their GDP. The whole topic has been and will remain very under reported. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 02:58 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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lumpentroll posted:infinite isreals TV ad: every day an Israel goes hungry. Sponsor an Israel today and get a photo of your own personal Israel as it grows older and this collector's broach after 5 years of sponsorship. Call now.
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/hadnetkeleta/status/1699152170191319433?s=20 Indeed.
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These wagner coup plots are starting to sound like chatgpt drama TV episode scripts. Can someone tell the DC crowd to learn some creative writing skills, please, instead of pressing "generate" on a random number generator?
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KomradeX posted:Why do Liberals want to destroy their countries for the strategic goals of the United States? Ever heard of the phrase "he'd sell his own mother" used to describe a conniving weasel?
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Sep 20, 2023 04:10
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Chin up buttercup.
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mawarannahr posted:aggravated life sentence in prison. it's basically life in solitary afaik Now that old Soros is being replaced by young Soros I imagine a lot of old favours will be forgotten about in the natural shuffle.
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Flavahbeast posted:Apparently the bombing campaign is being conducted by the intelligence services, not the defense ministry Ah the bit the USA is occupying and controlling is being hit by the Turkmen. This might get interesting.
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Ardennes posted:That is one thing I noticed about Istanbul; it really wasn't that cheap even if you had dollars. Perhaps a bit cheaper than the US, but more expensive than parts of Europe. Anyone with lira has had their savings long since liquidated, and anyone working a job is seeing their income drop in real time. Best denim I've bought that wasn't Japanese was Turkish.
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PawParole posted:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopia-peace-minister-critical-pm-abiy-held-suspected-coup-plot-2023-12-12/ It's been long established that using drones to blow up weddings etc is perfectly fine so I don't see any issue.
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guidoanselmi posted:poor Turks, where will they get porn without vpn? They'll have to resort to paper magazines, like animals.
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OhFunny posted:Iran, EAEU sign free trade agreement Seems like a big deal. Apart from reuters no western outlets are reporting this, far as I can tell. Plenty of non-western ones are though.
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Can't fight them in the physical world of reality, maybe suppressing their flag on wikipedia will amount to the same thing.
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I wonder how many DC think tank failkids are learning "what is soft power" for the first time in their lives.
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A good response to anyone seeking a vassal nation. Much easier to say now the decline of empire is snowballing.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1755496562846032168?s=46&t=UyfxoSAUKW7QZlR_GhkuYA Furously copy pasting all the pro slavery quotes from the 1600s and 1700s but changing the wording slightly to fit a pro Blackwater intervention. It'll make them happy and content, that sort of thing.
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I am disgusted and outraged that Burkina Faso is now taking all the gold, that is actually already theirs. Surely they wouldn't like to reconsider and send that say 100 tons of gold overseas to be processed? We've processed all 80 tons of your gold sir. Your shipment of 50 tons of gold will be arriving next month.
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Weka posted:The UN's Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has found ISIS was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in Marea, Syria on the 1 September 2015. Oh so since "we" funded that as our proxy we're responsible. Fantastic.
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