Artificial intelligence & Change Leadership

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Scandal: According To A German Newspaper, Africa Pays Approximately 400 Billion Euros Annually to France
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This economic slavery is important for the development of the French economy. Whenever this traffic is likely to fail, France is ready for anything to reconquer it. If a leader of the CFA zone no longer meets the requirements of France, Paris is blocking its foreign exchange reserves and more, France closes the banks in this country considered “rebel”. This was the case of Côte d’Ivoire with Laurent Gbagbo.

A German newspaper accuses France of looting 440 billion euros each year to Africans through the CFA Franc.

“The French government collects from its former colonies each year 440 billion euros of taxes. France relies on the revenues coming from Africa, not to sink into economic insignificance, warns the former president Jacques Chirac.

In the 1950s and 60s, France decided the French colonies of Africa to become independent. Although the Paris government accepted formal declarations of independence, it called on African countries to sign a so-called “pact for the continuation of colonization.” They agreed to introduce the French colonial currency FCFA (“Franc for the French colonies in Africa”), to maintain the French schools and military system, and to establish French as an official language.
The CFA franc is the denomination of the common currency of 14 African countries members of the Franc zone. This currency, which constitutes a brake on the emergence of these countries, was created in 1945, when France ratified the Bretton Woods agreements and proceeded to implement its first declaration of parity to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) . This was called “Franc of the French Colonies of Africa”.

Under this law, 14 African countries are still obliged to store about 85 per cent of their foreign exchange reserves at the Banque de France in Paris. They are under the direct control of the French Treasury. The countries concerned do not have access to this part of their reserves. As the 15 per cent of reserves are insufficient for their needs, they must borrow additional funds from the French Treasury at market prices. Since 1961, Paris controls all foreign exchange reserves in Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

In addition, these countries must each year transfer their “colonial debt” for infrastructure built in France to Paris as Silicon Africa 3 reported in detail. France takes around 440 billion euros a year. The government in Paris also has a right of first refusal on all newly discovered natural resources in African countries. Finally, French companies must have priority in awarding contracts in former colonies. As a result, there is the most assets in the fields of supply, finance, transport, energy and agriculture in the hands of French companies.

The ruling elite in each African country must fulfill these compulsory claims without any other choice. African leaders who refuse are threatened with assassination or overthrow of their government. Over the past 50 years, there have been 67 coups d’état in 26 African countries. 16 of these 26 countries were former colonies of France.

An example is the first president of Togo West Africa, Sylvanus Olympio, overthrown by a coup. He had refused to sign the “Pact for the Continuation of Settlement”. But France insisted that Togo pay the compensation for the infrastructures that had been built by the French during the colonial period. The sum is equivalent to about 40 per cent of households in Togo in 1963, requiring the fairly independent country to reach its economic limits quickly.

In addition, the new president of Togo decided to remove and print his own national currency, the French colonial currency FCFA. Three days after this decision, the new government was overthrown by a group of former foreign legionaries and the President killed. The head of the Legionaries, Gnassingbe Eyadema, received 550 euros from the French embassy for the attack, according to the British Telegraph. Four years later Eyadema was promoted with the support of Paris, the new president of Togo. He established a tyrannical dictatorship in this West African country and remained in power until his death in 2005.

In the following years, the Paris government kept the link with the former legionaries to overthrow unpopular governments in its former colonies. This was the case of the first president of the Central African Republic, David Dacko, overthrown by former members of the Foreign Legion in 1966.
The same thing happened to the President of Burkina Faso, Maurice Yaméogo, and with the President of Benin, Mathieu Kérékou, the author of a coup d’état. This was also the case of the first President of the Republic of Mali Modiba Keita, who was also the victim of a coup by former legionnaires in 1968.
The reason, a few years earlier, he had simply decided to part with the French colonial currency. “

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Geopolitics is a lucrative business for Djibouti. The US pays US$63 million annually in rent for its base, the French US$36 million, China US$20 million and Italy US$2.6 million. The amount Japan pays is not publicly disclosed.

There are an estimated 4,000 soldiers and Filipino workers at the American base, 180 troops at the Japanese camp and 1,450 at France’s two bases — one near the airport and a naval facility on the coast where the Germans and Spaniards are also stationed. Around 80 Italians are situated in a base near the US camp.

China’s Doraleh base is close to a new seaport and the end station of a new Chinese-built 759-kilometer railroad extending from Djibouti’s coast to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The standard gauge railroad was opened for commercial traffic on January 1 this year, replacing a a meter-gauge railway built during the French colonial era that is no longer used.

Passengers can use a station close to the airport while freight trains carrying containers go all the way to and from Doraleh. Nearby is the largest free trade zone in Africa, known as the Djibouti International Free Trade Zone (DIFTZ), where hundreds of trucks can be seen waiting to pick up goods destined for Ethiopia and other countries beyond Djibouti.

The Chinese-financed, UD$3.5 billion DIFTZ opened earlier this year, covering an area of 4,800 hectares. According to an official announcement, it will focus on logistics, export processing, financial support services, manufacturing and duty-free merchandise trade.

This small and largely peaceful republic on the Horn of Africa is fast becoming China’s economic gateway to Africa. But it is the naval base that has sent jitters through the Western military community in Djibouti.

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Chinese PLA Navy officers on guard at Beijing’s Djibouti naval base. Photo: Facebook

The official China Daily, which covered the opening of the base in August last year, stated at the time it could “support some 10,000 people” with the caveat that “official figures for the number of personnel to be stationed there have not been released.” The paper said the official reason for the establishment of the base was “to support the Chinese military’s escort and peacekeeping missions in Africa and West Asia.”

The Western powers that have bases there usually refer to the same reason for their presence in Djibouti, as well as to fight pirates famously active off the coast of Somalia.

But The China Daily was probably more frank than Western spokespersons as it also quoted Liu Hongwu, a professor at Zhejiang University, as saying that Djibouti “is situated at the juncture of Europe, Asia and Africa; in a sense, it is at the crossroads of the world.”

That’s more likely why China is there, to protect its economic and strategic interests in the region — and hence also better position itself for any potential conflicts between China and the West, primarily the US.

Djibouti is not America’s only base in the region. It also has an important facility in Qatar, as well as the highly secretive, multi-purpose base at Diego Garcia, a leased atoll in the British Indian Ocean Territory that is the only possession the United Kingdom keeps in the region after it withdraw from east of Suez in the 1960s.

In that sense, China’s new base in Djibouti is the first serious challenge to US military supremacy in the Indian Ocean region. And China is making incipient moves in that direction.

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US Marines train at their Camp Lemonnier Base in Djibouti. Photo: Wikipedia

In July 2017, just before the official opening of the base, the Chinese warships CNS Jinggangshan and CNS Donghaidao brought in personnel and materiel to the base. The CNS Jinggangshan carried marines, engineers and military vehicles to the base while the CNS Donghaidao transported some unspecified heavy equipment.

Then, in September last year, troops stationed at the base carried out their first live-fire drills. The exercise, which involved dozens of soldiers, took place at Djibouti’s national gendarmerie training range and was meant to test their combat readiness when faced with extreme heat, humidity and salinity — all omnipresent in Djibouti as well as other parts of Africa.

To keep up the pretense that nothing untoward is underway, the combined European Union counter-piracy task force in Djibouti and China’s PLA Navy carried out a joint exercise in October.

But there is no hiding the fact that Western powers are peeved by China’s newly established presence. In March this year, Marine General Thomas Waldhauser, the top US general for Africa, told a US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee hearing that “the consequences would be significant” if China took over the port at Doraleh.

That is now happening as the Djibouti government took over the port from Dubai’s DP World in February without any official explanation and appears now to be negotiating an agreement with the state-run China Merchants Group to take its place.

DP World appealed against the decision and in August won a legal battle against Djibouti at the London Court of International Arbitration. But that is no guarantee that Chinese interests will not soon win control of the port.

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# Paganism & #Christianity

many ways Christianity and Paganism are inter-twined. loavesmiracle #’ve #InThey existed along-side each other for nearly 2000 years and often share a language and culture. I often lament Modern Paganism’s obsession with belittling Christianity but I understand it too. We live in the shadow of our much bigger cousin, and might only exist because he began to falter and was unable to maintain his monopoly.

Christianity emerged amongst pagans and most of its early converts were pagans. Once Christianity rose to prominence in the Roman Empire (and later Europe as a whole) it actively worked not just to suppress those paganisms it grew up with, but to actively destroy them. There were pagans of old who disliked Christianity, and there were even sporadic and half-hearted attempts to persecute the followers of Jesus, but never a systematic effort to eradicate Christians, it just didn’t happen. (1)

Strangely though, even as Christians attempted to destroy ancient paganisms they also found that they couldn’t quite quit those very same paganisms. Pagan holidays became Christian feast days. When a form of folk magic was found useful it survived, though sometimes modified to fit the new context. The story of Jesus and the letters of Paul were all written in Greek, a pagan language, which meant Greco-Roman (pagan) ideas were put it into its texts, ideas that the Jewish Jesus would have never agreed with. For nearly 1,500 years Christianity was also essentially polytheistic. People experienced the divine through the mysteries of the saints, and there were hundreds of them, both male and female. In some places the differences between pagan and “Christian” faiths were nearly nonexistent. New names replaced those of the ancient gods, but life remained much as it had before. (2)

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Eventually Christianity changed again, pulled forward (or backward depending on your point of view) by the Reformation that began with Martin Luther. The Christianity that emerged in the wake of that shake-up was far less pagan, but something else happened at the same time. Just as Christianity started to become more monotheistic the gods of pagan antiquity began to return. True, not everyone was worshipping them quite yet, but they began to exist again in stories and art. They were once more a part of society, and those that were passionate about them probably worshipped them, even if that’s not the title they gave their veneration. (3)

What follows are some generalized thoughts on how Christianity and Paganism have co-existed over the last 2000 years.

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There was no “one paganism” during the formative years of Christianity. Instead there were various kinds of paganisms percolating throughout the Roman Empire. “Exotic” cults, such as those of Isis, Mithra, and the Magna Mater were popular. At the same time the deities of the old Greco-Roman pantheon(s) still held sway as well. If we think our Paganism today is diverse, it was probably even more so during the First, Second, and Third Centuries of the Common Era. Philosophical ponderings on the very nature of the gods were common and ancient pagans formulated ideas that we might call Neo-Platonism and even monotheism today.

Christianity grew up in this vast cauldron of religiosity, absorbing some ideas and discarding others. I don’t believe Jesus was “created” to be a “dying and resurrecting god” along the lines of Dionysus or Osiris, but the myth of the man was certainly influenced by the Roman Empire’s many pagan gods. Later ideas about Jesus’s mother Mary would be influenced by pagan goddesses, as would many Christian “saints.” Some have even argued that the very structure of the Catholic Church was influenced by the rites of Mithra. Christianity is no more a “pagan religion” than Wicca is a Christian one, but it was certainly influenced by the faiths it grew up alongside of.

One influence that Christianity did not pick up from ancient paganisms was a spirit of tolerance. Christianity actively sought to destroy pagan faiths, and succeeded to some degree. The church did stamp out a great many paganisms while absorbing many of their best features at the same time.

tumblr_inline_mlemwp8giH1qz4rgpThe Middle Ages

Christianity during the Middle Ages was not a bastion of monotheism, and many Christians today probably wouldn’t even recognize it. It was a hybrid of what was (pagan faiths) and what Christianity would later become. Multiple deities were replaced by numerous saints of both genders. Mary emerged as a true “Goddess” figure in her own rite, and many of the old pagan feast days continued to exist in varied forms. Often times the liturgy of Christianity resembled the somewhat monotheistic religion it wanted to be, but in practice was something else entirely.

The gods of paganism went underground (or changed their names and vestments) but in many places worship continued much as it had before. Magical practices remained, and the temples of the old faiths sometimes became the churches of the new. Christianity and practices we’d probably think of as “pagan” intermingled a great deal during the Middle Ages, even as some looked on disapprovingly.

Many of the seasonal observances we attribute to ancient paganisms were born during this period of time. Many of the traditions we associate with a holiday like Lughnasadh come from this pagan-Christian era of Europe. Lip-service was paid to Christian names, but holidays most likely looked and felt pagan. Magical practices and ideas from this period of time have shown up in many of my rituals over the years.

f25e6498db9960b52e57dbd2669147a1The Renaissance

One of the most extraordinary things about the Italian Renaissance was the re-emergence of pagan deities. I don’t want to overstate the power of the Greco-Roman deities during the Renaissance, but it’s hard for me not to. The Middle Ages were not as intellectually dead as many have made them out to be, but the Renaissance gave birth to a renewed interest in art, literature, culture, and science. At the same time all of those wonderful things were happening “the gods” were becoming popular symbols once more. People may not have been worshipping them in name, but they very well might have been worshipping them in deed.

As images of the gods became popular and acceptable once again, Christianity finally became Christianity (there’s often a dash of bad with the good). Much of its more pagan ideology and practice was finally set aside, and a “Christian worship” that most of us would recognize today began to emerge. Saints were still venerated, and Mary retained her goddess-hood (at least in some traditions), but Christianity was no longer paganism with Biblical names inserted into the spaces we would expect to see Hecate and Hermes in.

It was during the European Renaissance and not “the Dark Ages” that “witch burnings” reached their peak. One could paint pictures of pagan gods again, but worship of anything outside of Jesus, the saints, Dad, and Mary was still out of the question. Christianity was certainly at its worst in the centuries during and immediately after the Renaissance, and there are some in today’s world who refuse to leave that version of Christianity behind. Progress is sometimes exceedingly slow, but eventually the influence of the gods reawakened during the Renaissance would pave the way for a more scientific and rational Europe. Eventually that set the stage for the emergence of Modern Paganism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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We live in a modern world that has been shaped by Christianity for both good and for ill over the last 650 years. As a result Christianity has helped shape the development of Modern Paganism. Traditions like Wicca were directly influenced by generally Christian groups like the Freemasons, and many of our ritual structures are re-workings of Christian Ceremonial magick (which had been influenced by pagan magick prior). If you are calling “The Watchtowers” into ritual you are tapping into a current of angel magick that has been popular in ceremonial magick since the Middle Ages.

Sometimes the influences of Christianity on Modern Paganism are subtle, other times more direct. In a few weeks there will be a Christmas Tree in my living room. Sure it’s a tradition that might have pagan echoes, but it’s a practice popularized in the English speaking world by Christians. It’s probably not in my living room if Queen Victoria had been offended by it 150 years ago.

I’m not arguing that Paganism is Christian (far from it) but nothing exists in a vacuum. Most of us have friends, family, and neighbors who are Christians. Of course that’s going to be an influence! Pagan groups attempting to organize as churches or temples is most likely a direct result of how Christians organize themselves. That’s not a bad thing, just a thing. Even our gods are sometimes influenced by Christianity. James Frazer’s dying and resurrecting god was a deliberate attempt to find parallels between Jesus and ancient paganisms. As a result of Frazer’s work there’s a new male-deity archetype anchoring many myths that revolved around The Wheel of the Year.

Modern Paganism has grown up in the shadow of Christianity, we are linked with it whether we wish to be or not. But Christians are forever linked to paganisms past, present, and future too. Their holidays are often our holidays, and even now Christianity is being influenced by Modern Paganism. More tolerant and progressive strains of Christianity are finally embracing the religious openness of ancient paganisms. Due to circumstances ancient and modern, Paganism and Christianity will forever be linked in some way. Here’s hoping we can find ways to celebrate our differences and live happily side by side.

NOTES

1. Candida Moss’s The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom is a thorough debunking of the “Christian martyr” myth. Pagans weren’t really throwing Christians to the lions, unless of course the Christians in question offered us little choice. (Seriously, there were just a lot of folks looking to be martyred.)

2. Ronald Hutton’s Pagan Britain contains a lovely few pages detailing the synthesis of pagan and Christian during the English Middle Ages. I reference it extensively in the linked to article Lammas: First Fruits & A Sort of Christian Feast.

3. Joscelyn Godwin is one of Pagandom’s most overlooked scholars. His The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance is a lovely and captivating look at the re-emergence of the pagan gods during the Italian Renaissance.

4. Not really referenced in this article but I’m sure my completion of this piece over the last 24 hours (I started writing this last March in response to something) is somehow connected to my recent reading of A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism by Page duBois.

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#የታላቁ_ ህዳሴ #ግድብ #ታሪክ በምስራቅ አፍሪካ እየሆነ ካለው ቀጠናዊ ክስተት ተለይቶ አይታይም። #ሳኡዲ#ቱርክ ፥ #ኩዋታር ፥ ኤሚሬቶችና ግብጽ ሁሉም የየራሳቸውን ተጽእኖን ማሳረፍ ይፈልግስሉ ። አደገኛውና ^ውስብስቡ የመካከለኛው ምስራቅ ጂኦ_ ፖለቲካዊ ውጥንቅጥ ቀይ ባህርን ተሻግሮ ዘሎ ምስራ አፍሪካ ላይ አርፎአል።  #Middle _Eastern geopolitics have jumped the #Red_ Sea .#Middle _Eastern powers are scooping up real estate for military and naval bases, claiming arable farmland and reportedly cultivating proxies to pressure their rivals.
የገልፍ ሃገራት እያደገ ያልርው ተጽእኖ በምስራቅ አፍሪካ ገንቢ የሆነ የሰላም ስምምነትን ማድረግ አስችሎአል ልምስሌ በethio_eritrea እንዲሁም በethio_somalia መሃከል ስምምነትንና እርቅን ማስገኘት አስችሎአል። ይህም።ለቀጠናው ወደፊት በኢኮኖሚ በንግድ ብልጽግና እድሉን ለመጠቀም በርን የከፈተ ነው።
In some cases, #Gulf countries’ growing #influence and #resources have helped #broker #constructive compromises that #move #eastern #Africa forward:

ግብጽ ቀስ ተብሎ የግድቡ ውሃ ካ10 አመት ባነሰ ግዜ ውስጥ እንዲሞላ ስትሻ በምን ያህል አመታት ግድቡ ይሞላ በሚለው ላይ ግን የተደረሰ ስምምነት የለም።
አንድ ዲፕሎማት እንዳስቀመጡት " ኢትዮፒያ ሃይል ታመነጫለች ፥ ሱዳን በመስኖ ታለማለች ግብጽ ደግሞ ውሃውን ትጠጣለች " ።
ግድቡ ከሱዳን በ20 ማይል ላይ የሚገነባ ሲሆን መጀመርያ የተቃወመችው ሱዳን የግድቡ ጥቅም ሲገባት ወዲያው ሃሳብዋን ቀይራ ግድቡን ደጋፊ ሁና ከባድ መኪኖችን በስጦታ እስከ ማበርከት ደርሳለች።
ግብጾች በዚህ ግድብ ለነርሱ ጠቀሜታ ላይ ቢጠራጠሩ አያስገርምም። ምክንያቱም ግድቡ የውሃውን ፍሰት ስለሚቆጣጠረው የሱዳንን ጎርፍ መጥለቅለቅ ሲቀንስላት ሱዳን በመስኖ እምታለማውን መሬት እስከ 20 በመቶ ይጨምረዋል። በአካባቢው ባለው ሰልፍ ሱዳን የግብጹን ፕሬዝዳንት የአልሲሲን Al si si መንግስት ከማይደግፉት  ከኩዋታርና ከቱርክና ኢራን ጋር ሲሆን ሰልፍዋ በዚህም ከግብጽ ጋር ሆድና ጀርባ ስትሆን ግብጽ ለሱድስን መመለስ የነበረባስትንና ቃል ገብታ የነበረውን የሃሊብ ትርያንግልን (Halib Triangle ) ለሱዳን አልመለሰችም። ሱዳንም በበኩልዋ ለቱርክ አንድ ደሴቱዋን ለረጅም አመታት በኪራይ ሰጥታለች።
በሲናይ ሰርጥ እሚታየው የአመጽ እንቅስቃሴ በግብጽ ፥ በሌሎች የምስራቅ አፍሪካ ሃገራት እሚታየው አለመረጋጋት ፥ እንደዚሁም ወደ መካከለኛው ምስራቅ አገራት ከምስራቅ አፍሪካ እሚጎርፈው ስደተኛ ብዛት ለነሳኡዲና ኤሚሬቶች ስጋት ነው። #በነሱ ውስጣዊ ጉዳይ ጣልቃ  የገባን መስለንም መታየት የለብንም።
(in politics perception is more important than reality ) በነሱ #ጉዳይ ውስጥ እጃችንን መክተት የለብንም።  #የገልፍ አካባቢ ባለው ውስጥዊ ጉዳይ አንደኛውን አጠናክረን አንደኛውን የምናዳክም መስለን መታየት የለብንም።# ከኩዋታርም #ቱርክም ሳኡዲም #ኤሚሬትም ጋር ህብረትን መፍጠር ያስፈልጋል። #ከውጭ አገር ጋር እሚደረግ ግንኝነት የውስጥ #አንድነትን ስጋት ውስጥ እሚከት መሆን የለበትም።

dictators failure in ethiopia

እምባገንኖች የሚወድቁበት ፦

ምህኛት #ቀድሞ _ሲታዘዝላቸው #የነበረው_ አልታዘዝ ይላቸዋል። ይህ በደርግ እንዲሁም #በኢህአዴግ ዘመን የታየ ነው።#ኮ/ል መንግስቱ_ #ሃይለማርያም በስልጣን ዘመኑ መጨረሻ ጦሩን #ማዘዝ _እንኩዋን አልቻለም።ሃይለስልሴም መኩዋንንቶቻቸውንና የልኡላን ቤተሰቦችን ካጠገባቸው #እየወሰደ_ #ደርግ ሲያስር ማስቆም_ አልቻሉም።

Some #observers #have #argued_ that# dictators #undertake #high-profile #gender_ reforms #such_ as these to improve #their country’s image, hoping #investors and lenders will look more favorably on a '“modernizing #autocrat.”

But our research,# published at# Comparative Political #Study_ _at# shows that these _reforms #can also bolster #domestic #political _stability. #Certain #kinds of #autocracies #more #actively invest in #gender reforms — #because by #doing so, they #win _a larger base of support #that_ helps them stay in# power.
ለምሳሌ #ጋዳፊ #ጠባቂዎቻቸው _በርካታ# ነበሩ።

activism in ethiopia

እክቲቭስት_ አይነቶች #activist _types፥

#በመዠመርያ _ሃሳብን #በነጻነት _የመግለጽ ነጻነት ውስጥ ይህ ሁሉ ጽሑፍን በማህበራዊ ሚዲያ ለምስንበብ የተቻለው #ዶ/ር _አብይ ወደ ስልጣን መምጣትን ተከትሎ #የሃሳብ_ ልዩነትን እሚያስተናግድ ወይም እሚታገስ #tolerate_ እሚያደርግ #ስርአት_ በመፈጠሩ ሲሆን በቀጣይም የኢንተርኔት ዋጋው #ካንዴም ሁለት ሶስቴ እንዲቀንስ በመደረጉ ነው።# ስለዝህ _ክብር ለሚገባው# ክብር እንስጥ dude ።# ፌስ ቡክን _ለማሾፍና የስርውን ፎቶ በ#adobe _photoshop እያወላገዱ ሲስቁ ለመዋል አይዶለም #dude.
ከ#activists _ውስጥ #አስቸጋሪዎቹ_ ጸጉር ሰንጣቂ ወይም ውሃ ልምን ቀጠነ #ባይ_ እክቲቭስቶች ናቸው።#ሌሎቹ _ደግሞ #በፌስ_ ቡክ የሚደረገው #ዘመቻ _ምንነት በደንብ ያልገባቸው #አክቲቪስት ነን ባዮች የሌላው መሳርያ መሆናቸውን እንኩዋን አይረዱም። ያገኙትን #ጽሑፍና #ፎቶዎች_ ሲያሰራጩ #share _ሲያደርጉ እሚውሉ ናቸው። በራሳቸው ብዙም #ፈጣሪዎች_ ወይንም #original_ አይደሉም ።
#ቅልብ# አክቲቪስቶች _እነኝህ ደግሞ ከሁዋላ እሚደግፋቸው ያለ# ፎቶና _ጾታ እየቀየያየሩ# fb_ ላይ ተጥደው የሚዉሉ ናቸው። #አድራሻቸው _በውል #እማይታወቅ _ሲሆን ባገር ውስጥ ወይም በውጭ #ሊሆን _ይችላል።
°     ♣♠ •       •          ፨       ♣  ♠ 
#እንደ #veronica_melaku እንደምትለው እርስዋ ቀለም ነች።#  አንተ _እየዞርክ ወሬህን ስትከካ እርሱዋ ደብተርዋ ላይ ተደፍታ #ትውል_ ነበረ። #የስፒኖዛን _፥#ኒቼን _ስትከካ ነበረ። #ጌች ቢሆን ይህን ሁሉ ስትጽፍ ሱሪህን ዝቅ አርገክ# ኮዳ #ታንጠለጥል_ ነበረ ።

የሸገር ትውስታ

ባዲስ አበባ ውስጥ በሃና ምስርያም አካባቢ በሚገኝ በአንድ መንደር ውስጥ አቁዋርጬ እያለፍኩኝ ነበር ። ሰአቱ ወደ ከሰአት ነበረ።  እናም ምን አየሁኝ መሰላችሁ ወጣቱ ተሰልፎ ልክ ዳንቦ እንደሚገዛ ጫት ለመግዛት ተሰልፎ አየሁኝ ከጫት ተራ። እናም ገርሞኝ ይህ ሁሉ ወጣት ሰርቶ ያገኘውን ገንዘብ በጫት መጨረሱ አግባብ ነው ወይ ጎበዝ።

ግጥም እወዳለሁ

መቀመጫ ጠፍቶ ሰው ሁሉ ሲቸገር፥
ለማን አርገሽው ነው ያን ሁሉ ወንበር.።

bit coin & the mark of the beast

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Bitcoin's Relationship With 'Mark of the Beast' Theories
Jul 27, 2017 | By Jamie Redman - |
6-8 minutes

Bitcoin’s Relationship With ‘Mark of the Beast’ Theories

Op-Ed

Over the past eight years bitcoin has been involved in a few conspiracy theories, and even though they are highly improbable, they are pretty humorous, to say the least.

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The New World Order and Bitcoin
Bitcoin's Relationship With the 'Mark of the Beast' Theories
Lots of people thought this man’s company purchased Bitcoin the other day. Baron Jacob Rothschild, of the Rothschild Family Baronetcy, allegedly the richest family on earth for three centuries.

Just recently we reported on the Rothschild Investment Corporation purchasing bitcoin shares and how some people thought it was Lord Rothschild, the alleged owner of the world’s largest fortune for three centuries.

Since the end of time, humans have always liked to tell ‘tall tales.’ Bitcoin itself is often considered a weird subject because an anonymous developer made the software and this has led to many conspiracy-like discussions involving the digital currency. Some have said the protocol was created by the CIA or some underground government agency plotting to rule the world. Today we will discuss two tales that have often been tethered to bitcoin by those who wear tin foil hats. After reading this, you may find yourself in a Faraday cage with your ‘bug-out bag’ waiting for the next EMP, so please proceed with caution.

The Mark of the Beast

Bitcoin's Relationship With the 'Mark of the Beast' TheoriesThis particular tale is tied to a religious belief based on the Christian’s book of Revelations where bitcoin could be considered the “Mark of the Beast.” Yes, there are a couple of random people on this earth who believe that the digital protocol may be the tool of the Antichrist that allows you to purchase food and survive under the Devil’s rule. The Illuminati has many tricks up their sleeve, and this one is fantastically clever.

The Mark of the Beast comes from a story in the Bible’s New Testament, in the book of Revelations chapter 13. In that section, particularly 13:17, it says that people on earth will have to get a mark on their bodies in order to purchase living necessities. The mark is forced upon everyone from “the great, the small, the poor and the rich.” Now because society is gravitating toward a cashless society some curious characters believe bitcoin will be the notorious mark. 

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name,” explains Revelations 13:17
Bitcoin's Relationship With the 'Mark of the Beast' Theories
Microchip implants with bitcoin wallets have helped fuel the ‘Mark of the Beast’ and Bitcoin theory.

So you might be still asking yourself — How the hell is bitcoin associated with this mark? Well, more recently the subject of “biohacking” and microchip implants have become a popular trend. Some people in this movement have installed chips into their hands with a bitcoin wallet inside. Because Revelations states people will “receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads,” some consider this the missing link to bitcoin and the mark.

However, there are those in religious circles that think this theory of bitcoin being the mark might be the opposite of what’s really happening. The publication Christian Money says bitcoin might be a way people can fight the beast.

“One of the key elements of the Mark of the Beast is to be able to prevent those that refuse to take the Mark from buying and selling. Bitcoins are decentralized and prevent any such control,” explains Christian Money.  

The One World Currency

Bitcoin's Relationship With the 'Mark of the Beast' TheoriesAnother story conspiracy theorists have up their sleeves is the “One World Currency” scheme. Another speculative theory thinks that the whole globe will share one single currency, likely owned by the Rothschilds and the Bilderberg group. Now, this conjecture is again tied to the ‘cashless society’ progression, and if you want to be even more clever, this theory can be related to the Mark of the Beast. The one world currency will be trackable, and everyone on the globe will likely be forced to use these funds. That’s where bitcoin comes in, and some speculators believe that because the blockchain is traceable and the technology is part of the ‘cashless society’ paradigm shift — Bitcoin will be the one world currency. For instance, the website Occupy Corporatism believes this may be the case.

“The technocratic push toward cyber-currency or e-money, is a march toward complete control over global currencies with the development of supporting technologies and the distribution of such that facilitate an online representation of money that can be used for exchange with another fiat system,” explains Susanne Posel, of Occupy Corporatism.

The reason why conspiracy theorists believe a global currency is on its way is because many Keynesian economists have bolstered this idea over the years. Even John Maynard Keynes himself has been cited as a single world currency advocate. This school of economic thinking believes it would help the global economy and improve international trade. The introduction of the Euro, a currency that covers many countries was considered the beginning of this effort. However, in recent times certain countries like Britain, for example, have distanced itself from the Euro during the Brexit vote. As far as bitcoin is concerned becoming the world’s reserve currency, some forecast it to be the sixth largest reserve currency by 2030.

So to some of these theorists, bitcoin is just another catalyst towards the cashless one world currency secretly crafted by the elite. In essence, any electronic currency is suspect for being part of the ‘1 percent’s’ plan to enslave the ordinary plebs of society. Even the other day on July 25, 2017, the publication Beforeitsnews published a report called “The globalist one world currency will be very similar to bitcoin,” so these theories still run rampant.
It’s Highly Improbable Bitcoin Will be a One World Currency or the Mark of the Beast

Bitcoin is indeed a strange phenomenon filled with curious characters like Satoshi Nakamoto. However it doesn’t mean bitcoin was created by the CIA, will be used for a one world currency or even the mark of the beast.

What do you think about conspiracy theories tied to bitcoin? Let us know in the comments below.

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ethiopia china sattelite

China to help launch Ethiopia’s first satellite in 2019 — Quartz Africa
Abdi Latif Dahir
4-5 minutes

With Beijing’s assistance, Ethiopia is heading to space in just under a year.

The Horn of Africa nation announced it would launch its first earth observatory satellite in Sept. 2019, with China footing much of the bill. Officials from both governments’ space agencies met both in August and November (in Amharic) to advance talks on technological transfer and sign cooperative agreements on space activities.

Designed and built at a cost of $8 million, China will pay for $6 million of the capsule’s price, the head of the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) at Addis Ababa University Solomon Belay Tessema told The EastAfrican newspaper. The satellite will be launched from China, but its command and control center will be based in Ethiopia. Once launched, Addis Ababa says it will utilize it to collect data on changes in climate and weather-related phenomena.

Ethiopia Ministry of Innovation and Technology
In agreement.

The latest announcement marks a noteworthy development to Ethiopia’s space ambitions, which started accelerating in the last few years. In 2016, the government established ESSTI as a way to fully exploit space technologies for development purposes. In Jan. 2017, the ministry of science and technology announced it would launch a satellite into orbit in three to five years to improve its weather-monitoring capabilities. This followed the launch of a privately-funded, multi-million-dollar astronomical observatory in the Entoto hills overlooking Addis Ababa—a one-of-its-kind station that would allow Ethiopia to observe both the northern and southern hemisphere skies. Just this month, ESSTI announced plans to build (in Amharic) a satellite assembly and test center.

As satellites get smaller and cheaper, an increasing number of African nations are declaring their plans to look skyward. Countries including Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, and Morocco have partnered to launch or launched their own programs to power their own scientific, technological and military ambitions. The African Union has also introduced an African space policy, which calls for the development of a continental outer-space program and the adoption of a framework to use satellite communication for economic progress. And as criticisms abound over the anomalous use of resources in the face of more pressing day-to-day concerns, the demand for satellite capacity is expected to double in the next five years in sub-Saharan Africa.

China, which has deepened its place in Africa in all spheres economic and political, wants to wade into this sector. Conquering the space business and providing space mapping services is part of Beijing’s globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative, with both state-run and private Chinese space companies selling made-in-China satellites abroad. In January, China gave $550 million to Nigeria for the purchase of two satellites from Chinese manufacturers both of which are slated for launch in the next two years.

Yet China’s technological transfers to Africa have increasingly come under scrutiny, with experts warning that these digital systems could be used for Beijing’s intelligence operations and electronic surveillance. While Addis Ababa says it would use the satellite to monitor crops and the weather, it could also use it for spying purposes. And even though Ethiopia is opening up and reforming under its new prime minister Abiy Ahmed, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t use the satellite to boost its military and surveillance might.

france german africa

howafrica.com
Scandal: According To A German Newspaper, Africa Pays Approximately 400 Billion Euros Annually to France
MT in Art, History & CultureBest of AfricaPoliticsShockingWorld Buzz 2 days ago
5-6 minutes

This economic slavery is important for the development of the French economy. Whenever this traffic is likely to fail, France is ready for anything to reconquer it. If a leader of the CFA zone no longer meets the requirements of France, Paris is blocking its foreign exchange reserves and more, France closes the banks in this country considered “rebel”. This was the case of Côte d’Ivoire with Laurent Gbagbo.

A German newspaper accuses France of looting 440 billion euros each year to Africans through the CFA Franc.

“The French government collects from its former colonies each year 440 billion euros of taxes. France relies on the revenues coming from Africa, not to sink into economic insignificance, warns the former president Jacques Chirac.

In the 1950s and 60s, France decided the French colonies of Africa to become independent. Although the Paris government accepted formal declarations of independence, it called on African countries to sign a so-called “pact for the continuation of colonization.” They agreed to introduce the French colonial currency FCFA (“Franc for the French colonies in Africa”), to maintain the French schools and military system, and to establish French as an official language.
The CFA franc is the denomination of the common currency of 14 African countries members of the Franc zone. This currency, which constitutes a brake on the emergence of these countries, was created in 1945, when France ratified the Bretton Woods agreements and proceeded to implement its first declaration of parity to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) . This was called “Franc of the French Colonies of Africa”.

Under this law, 14 African countries are still obliged to store about 85 per cent of their foreign exchange reserves at the Banque de France in Paris. They are under the direct control of the French Treasury. The countries concerned do not have access to this part of their reserves. As the 15 per cent of reserves are insufficient for their needs, they must borrow additional funds from the French Treasury at market prices. Since 1961, Paris controls all foreign exchange reserves in Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

In addition, these countries must each year transfer their “colonial debt” for infrastructure built in France to Paris as Silicon Africa 3 reported in detail. France takes around 440 billion euros a year. The government in Paris also has a right of first refusal on all newly discovered natural resources in African countries. Finally, French companies must have priority in awarding contracts in former colonies. As a result, there is the most assets in the fields of supply, finance, transport, energy and agriculture in the hands of French companies.

The ruling elite in each African country must fulfill these compulsory claims without any other choice. African leaders who refuse are threatened with assassination or overthrow of their government. Over the past 50 years, there have been 67 coups d’état in 26 African countries. 16 of these 26 countries were former colonies of France.

An example is the first president of Togo West Africa, Sylvanus Olympio, overthrown by a coup. He had refused to sign the “Pact for the Continuation of Settlement”. But France insisted that Togo pay the compensation for the infrastructures that had been built by the French during the colonial period. The sum is equivalent to about 40 per cent of households in Togo in 1963, requiring the fairly independent country to reach its economic limits quickly.

In addition, the new president of Togo decided to remove and print his own national currency, the French colonial currency FCFA. Three days after this decision, the new government was overthrown by a group of former foreign legionaries and the President killed. The head of the Legionaries, Gnassingbe Eyadema, received 550 euros from the French embassy for the attack, according to the British Telegraph. Four years later Eyadema was promoted with the support of Paris, the new president of Togo. He established a tyrannical dictatorship in this West African country and remained in power until his death in 2005.

In the following years, the Paris government kept the link with the former legionaries to overthrow unpopular governments in its former colonies. This was the case of the first president of the Central African Republic, David Dacko, overthrown by former members of the Foreign Legion in 1966.
The same thing happened to the President of Burkina Faso, Maurice Yaméogo, and with the President of Benin, Mathieu Kérékou, the author of a coup d’état. This was also the case of the first President of the Republic of Mali Modiba Keita, who was also the victim of a coup by former legionnaires in 1968.
The reason, a few years earlier, he had simply decided to part with the French colonial currency. “

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france german africa

howafrica.com
Scandal: According To A German Newspaper, Africa Pays Approximately 400 Billion Euros Annually to France
MT in Art, History & CultureBest of AfricaPoliticsShockingWorld Buzz 2 days ago
5-6 minutes

This economic slavery is important for the development of the French economy. Whenever this traffic is likely to fail, France is ready for anything to reconquer it. If a leader of the CFA zone no longer meets the requirements of France, Paris is blocking its foreign exchange reserves and more, France closes the banks in this country considered “rebel”. This was the case of Côte d’Ivoire with Laurent Gbagbo.

A German newspaper accuses France of looting 440 billion euros each year to Africans through the CFA Franc.

“The French government collects from its former colonies each year 440 billion euros of taxes. France relies on the revenues coming from Africa, not to sink into economic insignificance, warns the former president Jacques Chirac.

In the 1950s and 60s, France decided the French colonies of Africa to become independent. Although the Paris government accepted formal declarations of independence, it called on African countries to sign a so-called “pact for the continuation of colonization.” They agreed to introduce the French colonial currency FCFA (“Franc for the French colonies in Africa”), to maintain the French schools and military system, and to establish French as an official language.
The CFA franc is the denomination of the common currency of 14 African countries members of the Franc zone. This currency, which constitutes a brake on the emergence of these countries, was created in 1945, when France ratified the Bretton Woods agreements and proceeded to implement its first declaration of parity to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) . This was called “Franc of the French Colonies of Africa”.

Under this law, 14 African countries are still obliged to store about 85 per cent of their foreign exchange reserves at the Banque de France in Paris. They are under the direct control of the French Treasury. The countries concerned do not have access to this part of their reserves. As the 15 per cent of reserves are insufficient for their needs, they must borrow additional funds from the French Treasury at market prices. Since 1961, Paris controls all foreign exchange reserves in Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

In addition, these countries must each year transfer their “colonial debt” for infrastructure built in France to Paris as Silicon Africa 3 reported in detail. France takes around 440 billion euros a year. The government in Paris also has a right of first refusal on all newly discovered natural resources in African countries. Finally, French companies must have priority in awarding contracts in former colonies. As a result, there is the most assets in the fields of supply, finance, transport, energy and agriculture in the hands of French companies.

The ruling elite in each African country must fulfill these compulsory claims without any other choice. African leaders who refuse are threatened with assassination or overthrow of their government. Over the past 50 years, there have been 67 coups d’état in 26 African countries. 16 of these 26 countries were former colonies of France.

An example is the first president of Togo West Africa, Sylvanus Olympio, overthrown by a coup. He had refused to sign the “Pact for the Continuation of Settlement”. But France insisted that Togo pay the compensation for the infrastructures that had been built by the French during the colonial period. The sum is equivalent to about 40 per cent of households in Togo in 1963, requiring the fairly independent country to reach its economic limits quickly.

In addition, the new president of Togo decided to remove and print his own national currency, the French colonial currency FCFA. Three days after this decision, the new government was overthrown by a group of former foreign legionaries and the President killed. The head of the Legionaries, Gnassingbe Eyadema, received 550 euros from the French embassy for the attack, according to the British Telegraph. Four years later Eyadema was promoted with the support of Paris, the new president of Togo. He established a tyrannical dictatorship in this West African country and remained in power until his death in 2005.

In the following years, the Paris government kept the link with the former legionaries to overthrow unpopular governments in its former colonies. This was the case of the first president of the Central African Republic, David Dacko, overthrown by former members of the Foreign Legion in 1966.
The same thing happened to the President of Burkina Faso, Maurice Yaméogo, and with the President of Benin, Mathieu Kérékou, the author of a coup d’état. This was also the case of the first President of the Republic of Mali Modiba Keita, who was also the victim of a coup by former legionnaires in 1968.
The reason, a few years earlier, he had simply decided to part with the French colonial currency. “

ethiopia somalia port

mareeg.com
Ethiopia to be given a key port in Somalia
2-3 minutes

MOGADISHU, Somalia – President of Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmajo) has agreed to be giving the coastal town of Marka to Ethiopia, following Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somali talks in Ethiopia 12 November.

Marka, a coastal town lies about 91km southwest of Somali capital Mogadishu.

The talks held by Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somali leaders in Ethiopia were mainly discussed the port town of Marka in Somalia, sources, who asked to be anonymous said.

Marka will be among in a joint investment in Somali ports in what could be seen as Premier Abiy Ahmed’s move to legitimize logistical deals initially questioned by Mogadishu.

    Will Ethiopia be given a Somali base? Unconfirmed suggestions that this was agreed by Pres. Farmajo, with a possibility of Merca discussed during the Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somali talks in Ethiopia 12 November.

    — Martin Plaut (@martinplaut) November 28, 2018

In June, Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed ‘Farmaajo’ and PM Ahmed said they will be investing in major infrastructure projects including ports and roads.

The two said they will constitute a designated joint technical team to craft the details and timelines for the project.

The ports were not named in the dispatch but Ethiopia’s latest move could be seen as correcting the controversy it created earlier in the year by buying a stake in the Port of Berbera in Somaliland.

Ethiopia would own 19 per cent but that deal drew the ire of Mogadishu with MPs saying it had violated the Provisional Constitution as well as the sovereignty of Somalia.

Somalia demands that all deals made by breakaway regions of Puntland and Somaliland with foreign entities be endorsed by Mogadishu.

ethiopian airlines eal,#dubai#travel#open-air

reuters.com
Ethiopia overtakes Dubai as top feeder of air traffic to Africa
Omar Mohammed3 Min Read
3 minutes

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia has overtaken Dubai as a conduit for long-haul passengers to Africa, highlighting the success of the state airline’s expansion drive and the reforms of its new prime minister.

Travel consultancy ForwardKeys said on Wednesday Addis Ababa airport had increased the number of international transfer passengers to sub-Saharan Africa for five years in a row, and in 2018 had surpassed Dubai, one of the world’s busiest airports, as the transfer hub for long-haul travel to the region.

Analyzing data from travel booking systems that record 17 million flight bookings a day, ForwardKeys found the number of long-haul transfers to sub-Saharan Africa via Addis Ababa jumped by 85 percent from 2013 to 2017. Transfers via Dubai over the same period rose by 31 percent.

So far this year, Addis Ababa’s growth is 18 percent, versus 3 percent for Dubai.

Dubai has long been a major global air travel hub because it is the base of Gulf carrier Emirates. Given the lack of an “open skies” deal smoothing flights across Africa, many passengers traveling between one part of the continent and another, or from Asia or Europe to Africa, must often transit through Dubai.

But this is changing.

Ethiopian Airlines [ETHA.UL], the country’s most successful state company, is accelerating a 15-year strategy it launched in 2010 to win back market share on routes to and from Africa that are dominated by Turkish Airlines and Emirates.

It is also weaving a patchwork of new African routes to rapidly expanding and lucrative Asian markets.

ForwardKeys also attributed the recent jump in bookings via Addis Ababa in part to a positive international response to the broad reforms introduced by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who came to power in April and has upended politics in the Horn of Africa country of around 105 million people.

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It cited two changes in particular: a move to allow visitors to apply for visas online, and Abiy’s pledge to open Ethiopia’s largely state-controlled economy to foreign investment.

After Abiy made peace with Eritrea to end a two-decade state of war, Ethiopian resumed flights to its neighbor in July. This month, it relaunched flights to Somalia’s capital after four decades.

And the rise of travel via Addis Ababa looks set to continue. International bookings via Ethiopia are up 40 percent year-on-year for November to January 2019, ahead of all other destinations in Africa, ForwardKeys said.

Reporting by Omar Mohammed; Editing by Maggie Fick and Mark Potter

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The collision of these 3 geographies is creating a new world order

The rise of the Indo-Pacific, Eurasia and the Arctic will change how nations view the world.

Image: Reuters

01 Nov 2018

Samir SaranPresident, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)

This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils

For the past seven decades, the world has been moulded by a strong, transatlantic relationship with the US and EU underwriting the terms of peace, stability and economic prosperity.

The success of this order has created its own existential challenge. Its rising beneficiaries in Asia and elsewhere increasingly challenge the validity of these arrangements and the efficacy of rules that have managed global affairs. While the historian John Ikenberry described the liberal world order as a “hub and spoke” model of governance, with the West at its centre, it is now clear that the peripheries of the system are developing wheels and engines of their own.

Indeed, the rise of Asia as a whole is recasting the physical and mental map of the world. Proliferating transnational relationships and new flows of finance, trade, technology, information, energy and labour have created three new strategic geographies which are already escaping the shadow of transatlantic arrangements. They essentially represent the collision of erstwhile political constructs – and their management requires new ideas, nimble institutions and fluid partnerships.

The Indo-Pacific

The first collision, which is already well underway, is the union of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Popularly defined as the Indo-Pacific, it is a construct encouraged by the rise of China but defined in equal measure by regional actors responding to Beijing’s proposition. Maritime Asia is now larger than the US, ASEAN and China – earlier organized under the Asia-Pacific construct. Its frontier is not limited to the eastern Indian Ocean. From Nantucket to Nairobi, conversations on security, development and trade in this region will now include actors from three continents.

Eurasia

The second is the conflation of Europe and Asia into one coherent strategic system: Eurasia. This is an old idea, steeped in history, but it has a new vocabulary. The interaction of markets and communities from these once separated geographies is creating a new super-continental-sized interdependence.

Yet this interdependence is not without friction: China’s shadow looms large over Europe and its promise to underwrite the continent’s prosperity has proved too difficult to resist. Moscow, meanwhile, is exhibiting a new zeal to reclaim its place as the archetypical Eurasian player and members of NATO continue to bicker over their future role in the region. As these geopolitical tectonic plates both clash and merge, it is clear that East and West will set new terms of engagement.

The Arctic

And finally, we have the Arctic. Born as an unintended consequence of climate change, this geography will, for the first time, merge the politics of the Atlantic and the Pacific, even as it stimulates a clash between the arrangements that exist in these regions. The Northern Sea Route has been a tantalising theory; global warming is renewing it as reality. The global shipping giant Maersk, for example, completed its first voyage unassisted by ice-breakers this August (even though the company expresses scepticism about the near-term viability of the route). The emergence of this geography, however, will be far from frictionless and may well create a new distribution of wealth and power in the region.

While most Western governments currently share Maersk’s ambivalence, Moscow and China are investing heavily in building commercial infrastructure, naval capacity and military capabilities. As part of its Polar Silk Road ambitions, in fact, Beijing now actively encourages its enterprises to utilize the Northern Sea Route. Additionally, de-facto control over shipping routes in the region currently rests with Moscow, which has arrogated the power to grant shipping permits – a position that American officials have already warned might contravene the UN Convention of the Law of the Seas. In 1956, Britain went to war with Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal; without appropriate arrangements for Arctic governance, history may well repeat itself a few latitudes north.

The collision of these three geographies will shape the 21st-century world order. Yet this process has no historical parallels. The post-war order and its predecessors were born after a revolutionary and catastrophic churn in global politics – and devastating, large-scale conflicts. Today, this change is likely to be gradual, interdependent and evolutionary. There will be no single defining moment when a new order will be born. Instead, global politics will operate in 50 shades of grey for the foreseeable future.

As these three geographies discover themselves, then, there are five trends that deserve attention:

1. The first is the risk of separate cold wars across geographies. Unlike the 20th century, this tension will not be bipolar and each actor's motivations, means and goals will differ. Whether it is the Himalayan cold war between India and China, the Arctic chill between Moscow, Europe and Washington, or the Mediterranean melee between the EU and China, multiple powers will exercise influence over these geographies and will compete at the intersection of social, commercial and military domains.

2. More "coalitions of convenience” are likely to emerge across these geographies. In an uncertain and fluid world order, issue-based partnerships may well have outsized influence over certain conversations. Russia, for example, is entering the fray in Afghanistan after nearly three decades with help from Iran and China, while India and France are cooperating on maritime security and development. China is partnering with Greenland – amid much anguish in Denmark – to cement its Arctic claims. If global institutions fail to manage emerging geographies, such coalitions will likely multiply.

3. The third is the possibility for new institutional dialogues. Already, the EU is claiming a stake in the Indian Ocean Rim Association and ASEAN states are making overtures to the Arctic Council. These actors and organizations are transcending their 20th-century mental maps in search of new commercial and strategic opportunities. It is not entirely inconceivable that NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), for example, might one day have a conversation on Eurasian security and connectivity.

4. The fourth trend: the opening up of the Arctic will test the ability of powers to provide security as a public good in other parts of the world. In other words, with geostrategic conduits like the Suez Canal and the Malacca Straits possibly approaching their expiry dates, the imperative to secure Arctic sea lanes may well leave erstwhile routes bereft of powers willing to protect them. Are parts of the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia, then, destined to become ungoverned spaces – as in the Gulf of Aden – or will regional powers craft an arrangement of their own?

5. Finally, the institutional matrix will also evolve in response to these changes. It is clear that existing international institutions do not fully respond to the needs of developing countries and emerging regional powers. Which institutions, then, will be critical to these geographies? Will the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) usurp the role of the World Bank in Asia or will new multilateral propositions emerge from countries like India, America and Japan? Will the UN be central to conversations on peace and security, or will regional institutions like the SCO (perhaps in a different guise) and the Arctic Council strengthen their own norms and rules?

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In the 20th century, multilateral institutions were perceived to be mitigators and managers of conflict. That conventional wisdom may be turned on its head now, given that competing centres of power will, for the first time since the Peace of Westphalia, create their own institutional arrangements for exerting influence. An organization like the SCO, may, therefore, posit itself as the guardian of Eurasian stability, in contrast to an OSCE or NATO, that has hitherto played this role.

How nation states imagine the world is significant; their mental maps dictate diplomatic priorities, economic partnerships and security arrangements. The collision of new geographies is compelling states to reimagine their worldview.

In the 21st century, East and West are meaningless constructs. More important is how actors and institutions resolve the contradictions that will inevitably arise in Indo-Pacific, Eurasia and the Arctic. This is that strange and rare moment when global governance is more than the sum of its parts or individual regional configurations.

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Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is rejecting a central conclusion of a dire report on the economic costs of climate change released Friday by his own administration.

The National Climate Assessment, quietly unveiled Friday, warns that natural disasters are worsening in the United States because of global warming.

It says warming-charged extremes “have already become more frequent, intense, widespread or of long duration.” The report notes the last few years have smashed U.S. records for damaging weather, costing nearly $400 billion since 2015.

Trump says, “I don’t believe it.”

Trump, administration officials and elected Republicans frequently say they can’t tell how much of climate change is caused by humans and how much is natural.

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