Thursday, September 14, 2023

Questionable “Influencers” Loosed on the World

Kingdom of the Strange:
Lunatics and Illiterates Abroad


Portrait of a Dangerous Person’s Tracks in the Road


Questionable Individual Questionably Connected 

  • Secretly funded
  • No apparent substantive or relevant education or training
  • No critical understanding of Eastern European or Asian cultures, and 
  • No essential language literacy


2020

The individual observed in Nevada September 2020 working with Republican candidates as an “opposition research operative

Clark County, Las Vegas area, Nevada, USA 
Post 2020 USA Presidential Election

The individual joins “efforts to bring members of the ‘Proud Boys’… to a rally in front of the Clark County Department of Elections” (Las Vegas, Nevada area).
The individual receives “message from the vice president of McShane LLC” (according to Linkedin’s entry a Las Vegas based “advertising services” firm engaged in “web design, video production, targeted digital ads, peer-to-peer texts and calls, and strategic consulting”) “hired by the Republican Party to investigate electoral fraud.”
The individual “contacts a group of far-right activists, at least one of whom was a member of the ‘Proud Boys’” followed by the Clark County Republican Party’s banning from participation their events designated individuals, one of whom had been “a ‘Proud Boy’ the prior individual “had contacted when recruiting for the Clark County rally.”

2021

The individual in the spring of 2021, under name change and under the Democratic Party banner, decides to run (and by October discontinues the campaign) for a seat on the Las Vegas City Council

2022 Eastern Europe

The Individual arrives in Ukraine on March 4, 2022, and establishes residence in a city in Eastern Ukraine from which the individual sends messages to a San Francisco, California-headquartered establishment under Q Digital called “LGBTQ Nation” whose marketed audience is the named group. Questionably financed and situated in a conflict zone hotly debated by world powers East and West, this individual sends ethnically divisive messages further inflaming relations between neighbors and kin—fired by a resurrected WW2-era element.

The individual shows up in August 2022 in Ukraine’s Ministry Defense with no relevant education or language facility, engaged in “writing ‘policy’ papers and ‘analyses;’” and by October 2022 is announcing apparent pledge of allegiance to Ukraine and entry into the “Armed Forces of Ukraine” (“AFU”).

Ending 2022

This individual—with allegiance to the armed forces of Ukraine and with no apparent wealth or schooling or stated source of funding—in December 2022, meets (site undisclosed) with members of the Congress of the United States and other questionable “influencers” to include Mississippian Roger Frederick Wicker (Federal Washington gerontocrat: on staff of MOC Trent Lott 1980-1982; ensconced in 15 U.S. Congresses: U.S. House 1995-2007; U.S. Senate 2007 – present 2023); sundry aides, activists and NGO operatives; and members of the Washington, D.C.-headquartered U.S. Congress-created “independent U.S. government agency” known as “the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.”

2023 early and through 


The individual, after being “wounded” in February 2023 and in recovery, “returns” in May 2023 to Federal Washington, D.C.; and holds court (reportedly) with sundry “influencers” to include Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, various aides; and (even MORE CURIOUS) Spanish (immigrant, 2013-documented U.S. citizen) celebrity chef, restaurateur, NFP NGO founder José Ramón Andrés Puerta.
 
In this week’s news from international presses, this individual—a U.S. native (Floridian) pledging allegiance to the president of a section of Ukraine and in an apparent mental breakdown—is discovered erupting in maniacal manifesto: “that ‘next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash even harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes.’”

 

This questionable influencer loosed on the world
has been identified in news and reference sources as “Sarah Ashton-Cirillo” “formerly Sarah Cirillo and Sarah Ashton,” “an American” “serving as a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces.”





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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Africa Hits Headlines

Speaking of Sovereignty, Positive Connections, Billions-Strong previously (neo) Colonized Continent

SUCCESSOR TO the Organization of African Unity (OAU 1963-1999) and headquartered in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the African Union (AU) was established officially in 2002. It is a “continental body comprised of 55 member states” situated on the African Continent.





SUCCESSOR TO the Organization of African Unity (OAU 1963-1999) and headquartered in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the African Union (AU) was established officially in 2002. It is a “continental body comprised of 55 member states” situated on the African Continent.

 

The website Nations Online lists the continent of Africa as the world’s “second-largest continent” (48 countries on the mainland, six islanded) covering “20 percent” of the planet Earth’s total land area; a population “1.37 billion people” inhabiting “54 sovereign countries” and “two disputed areas” (the latter “Somaliland, autonomous region of Somalia, and Western Sahara”). Western Sahara is under occupation of Morocco and is claimed by the Polisario” (Western Sahara’s indigenous population, the “Sahrawi people” or “Sahrawi nationalism” opposing Spanish colonialism 1884–1975 and Mauritanian and Moroccan invasions 1975–1979; 1975-present; historically represented by the “Polisario Front”; seeking “self-determination” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polisario_Front; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahrawi_nationalism). https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/world_population.htm

 

Below are the 55 Member States, their abbreviation, and date of joining the OAU or AU

 

Central Africa

 

  1. Republic of Burundi          Burundi               25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Cameroon     Cameroon           25 May 1963
  1. Central African Republic                Central African Republic               25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Chad               Chad     25 May 1963
  1. Republic of the Congo      Congo Republic 25 May 1963
  1. Democratic Republic of Congo      DR Congo            25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Equatorial Guinea      Equatorial Guinea            12 October 1968
  1. Gabonese Republic            Gabon  25 May 1963
  1. Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe       São Tomé and Príncipe   18 July 1975

 

Eastern Africa

 

  1. Union of the Comoros        Comoros              18 July 1975
  1. Republic of Djibouti           Djibouti                27 June 1977
  1. State of Eritrea    Eritrea 24 May 1993
  1. Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia  Ethiopia               25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Kenya             Kenya   25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Madagascar  Madagascar       25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Mauritius        Mauritius            August 1968
  1. Republic of Rwanda          Rwanda                25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Seychelles       Seychelles            29 June 1976
  1. Federal Republic of Somalia          Somalia               25 May 1963
  1. Republic of South Sudan  South Sudan        27 July 2011
  1. Republic of the Sudan       Sudan   25 May 1963
  1. United Republic of Tanzania          Tanzania             25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Uganda           Uganda                25 May 1963

 

Northern Africa

 

  1. People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria   Algeria  25 May 1963
  1. Arab Republic of Egypt   Egypt     25 May 1963
  1. State of Libya     Libya     25 May 1963
  1. Islamic Republic of Mauritania     Mauritania          25 May 1963
  1. Kingdom of Morocco       Morocco               1963/31 January 2017
  1. Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic             Sahrawi Republic               22 February 1982
  1. Republic of Tunisia           Tunisia  25 May 1963

 

Southern Africa

 

  1. Republic of Angola             Angola 11 February 1975
  1. Republic of Botswana        Botswana             31 October 1966
  1. Kingdom of Eswatini         Eswatini               24 September 1968
  1. Kingdom of Lesotho          Lesotho                31 October 1966
  1. Republic of Malawi            Malawi 13 July 1964
  1. Republic of Mozambique                  Mozambique      18 July 1975
  1. Republic of Namibia          Namibia               June 1990
  1. Republic of South Africa South Africa       6 June 1994
  1. Republic of Zambia           Zambia                16 December 1964
  1. Republic of Zimbabwe      Zimbabwe           18 June 1980

 

Western Africa

 

  1. Republic of Benin               Benin    25 May 1963
  1. Burkina Faso [1958–1984 Republic of Upper Volta] Burkina Faso    25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Cabo Verde    Cabo Verde         18 July 1975
  1. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire                 Côte d’Ivoire      25 May 1963
  1. Republic of the Gambia    Gambia                9 March 1965
  1. Republic of Ghana              Ghana  25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Guinea            Guinea 25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Guinea-Bissau              Guinea-Bissau    19 November 1973
  1. Republic of Liberia           Liberia 25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Mali                Mali      25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Niger               Niger    25 May 1963
  1. Federal Republic of Nigeria           Nigeria 25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Senegal           Senegal                25 May 1963
  1. Republic of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone      25 May 1963
  1. Togolese Republic             Togo     25 May 1963

 

 

https://au.int/en/member_states/countryprofiles2
https://au.int/en/overview



Africa makes Early-September Headlines


“G20 admits African Union as permanent member: The 55-state bloc received a formal offer at the summit in New Delhi on Saturday September 9, 2023,” https://www.rt.com/africa/582631-african-union-g20-membership/

Making the announcement was India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.



Environment, Climate, Plunder, Profiteering


“The fundamental logic of … ‘pollution permit markets’ is to benefit polluters”: 
Ease their journey in polluting endlessly, anywhere, anytime, without check or arrest

Kenya-headquartered Think Tank “Power Shift Africa” is sounding the alarm about the “Africa Carbon Markets Initiative” (ACMI). 

In its September release of results of an investigation, the group concludes that the ACMI is “a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” …; “a dangerous distraction for Africa from its real interests and priorities for development, energy, climate, biodiversity and resilience.” https://www.powershiftafrica.org/storage/publications/The%20Africa%20Carbon%20Markets%20Initiative%20Wolf%20in%20Sheep's%20Clothing_1693903765.pdf

The scheme of carbon credits rising from a fantasyland or “imaginary commodity of tons of carbon ‘saved’ credits” continues permissive or neoliberal measures further entrenching the fossil-fuel industry status quo— “allowing companies across the world to continue to burn their polluting product, with impunity”; and ensuring “huge mark ups” for “the financial brokers who buy and sell the credits.”

The “neo-colonial carbon market” scheme of monetizing both the African nature and the climate crisis, enabling “polluting entities to continue polluting” while “shifting the carbon ‘reduction’ elsewhere, as cheaply as possible,” is unconcerned about the “development and resilience needs” of countries and communities of the Africa—human essentials of “food security, thriving economic development, and decent work.”
“The history of carbon markets, and the fundamental flaws associated with commodifying carbon, farming, forestry and other activities, and leveraging these into global financial markets, shows that Africa should not go down the path proposed by the African Carbon Markets Initiative.”
The “wolf in sheep’s clothing” bites into the flesh. Creates a multitude of new and even more serious problems; and never provides real benefits.

Individual Ingenuity, National Sovereignty 

A Quest


The Continent of Africa should “focus on real climate solutions” supportive of the development of African peoples and nations.
Power Shift Africa encourages leaders of Africa to look to “financial flows” other than the African Carbon Markets Initiative; “to implement their own zero-carbon sustainable development pathways, while retaining African Sovereignty for delivering development and climate objectives.”
The countries of Africa, overall, “should increasingly and purposely invest domestic means and currencies in renewable(s) and in sound industrialization, ensuring democratic sovereignty over their own development pathways.”



Sources

Paper
Power Shift Africa “The Africa Carbon Markets Initiative: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” September 5, 2023, https://www.powershiftafrica.org/publications/the-africa-carbon-markets-initiative-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing
https://www.powershiftafrica.org/storage/publications/The%20Africa%20Carbon%20Markets%20Initiative%20Wolf%20in%20Sheep's%20Clothing_1693903765.pdf

Source Background
Power Shift Africa’s website gives its mission statement in part as “mobilizing climate action in Africa and amplifying African voices through increased visibility in media and public communications” ; and its goals as establishing “a strong network of African media professionals to increase engagement and amplifying climate change and energy advocacy at national, continental, and global levels;” and strengthening African voices that sense connections between renewable energy mechanisms and systemic means of lessening African poverty and as necessary steps toward sustainable development. https://www.powershiftafrica.org/about-us
info@powershiftafrica.org; No: 5, Waridi Court, Rose Avenue, Kilimani, Nairobi (Kenya)

AU Background
The African Union is rooted in the “post-independence continental” Organization of African Unity formed in 1963 with Charter signatures of “32 Heads of independent African States” convening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At its website, the AU proclaims, “An Integrated, Prosperous and Peaceful Africa driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.” African Union Headquarters, Roosvelt Street W21K19, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, https://au.int/en/overview
https://au.int/en/member_states/countryprofiles2

Nations Online, One World Africa, https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/africa.htm; One World Population, https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/world_population.htm

News Reporting

RT News “G20 admits African Union as permanent member: The 55-state bloc received a formal offer at the summit in New Delhi on Saturday,” September 9, 2023, https://www.rt.com/africa/582631-african-union-g20-membership/

RT News “Climate groups reject African environmental initiative: The scheme is misleading and imposes neo-colonial barriers to achieving genuine development paths in Africa, organizations argue,” September 6, 2023, https://www.rt.com/africa/582485-climate-activists-reject-african-environmental-initiative/

RT News, “African civil organizations demand removal of US company from Climate Summit board: Western governments and corporations have hijacked the event to advance a pro-West agenda and interests, activists claim,” August 18, 2023, https://www.rt.com/africa/581406-african-civil-societies-us-company-climate-board-membership-concern/




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