Packet Alcohol More Abundant Than Water in West Africa

“With distribution networks spanning the entire Mano River Market of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, their products find their way to even the deepest jungle villages, typically sold at small stands known as hokas, characteristically consisting of an umbrella and collapsible box.  Their products, packaged in small plastic bottles and pouches and referred to generically as ‘packet alcohol,’ are more abundant than purified water in some regions of West Africa, and a single packet costs around 500 Leoneans, or 11 cents. A variety of spirits, many flavored with fruits and herbs, are available, all with their own creative slogans and depictions.”

https://news.vice.com/article/packet-alcohol-delivers-a-serious-hangover-in-sierra-leone

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Africa Rising: The Military-Industrial Complex Gets to Work

“There seems to be a globalist plan to swap in Africa for Japan and China when it comes to creating nation-states and regions that can buy US Treasuries. [..] There is some sort of fairly ancient strategy being followed here. Apparently, nation-building includes finding a rationale for injecting troops into a given area with the idea of dominating the local culture and building new traditions that better mesh with invading forces. Long ago, religion seems to have been a primary justification for nation-building. Now apparently the ‘war on terror’ is the justification for a comprehensive military-industrial realignment in a given region.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35349/Africa-Rising-The-Military-Industrial-Complex-Gets-to-Work/

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Ron Paul: The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg

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“The president is right to be upset over the mistreatment of US military veterans, especially those who return home with so many physical and mental injuries. But his outrage over military abuse is selective. He ignores the most egregious abuse of the US armed forces: sending them off to fight, become maimed and die in endless conflicts overseas that have no connection to US national security.  It is ironic that the same week the president condemned the alleged mistreatment of veterans by the VA, he announced that he was sending 80 armed troops to Chad to help look for a group of girls kidnapped by the Nigerian Islamist organization Boko Haram.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35338/Ron-Paul-The-VA-Scandal-is-Just-the-Tip-of-the-Military-Abuse-Iceberg/

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South Africa Families Queue for Food as Strike Continues

“Thousands of people have received food-aid parcels in South Africa’s platinum belt, where a strike has crippled output at mines owned by the three biggest producers for almost 18 weeks and left many starving.  About 12,000 people have benefited from packs of corn, rice, beans and bread distributed in the Rustenburg area, where many of the nation’s platinum mines are located.  Employees don’t get paid when on strike in South Africa, which produces about 70 percent of mined platinum. The workers have forfeited 8.5 billion rand ($818 million) in wages, while the companies have lost 19 billion rand in revenue, the producers said on a joint website.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-21/families-queue-for-food-aid-as-platinum-strike-enters-18th-week.html

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Oil Nations Put Out Welcome Mat for Western Companies

“For years, Mexico, Iran, Iraq, Algeria and Libya—most of them among the top 10 producers world-wide—were fiercely nationalistic when it came to oil. They either offered Western companies punitive terms to develop their reserves or didn’t do business with them at all, controlling their supplies tightly with state-owned companies.  Now, facing a range of problems, these nations are offering Western companies generous deals to win their help.   In Iran, Libya and Algeria, the population is addicted to low energy prices and high oil-funded social spending. All of that is in jeopardy as countries struggle to boost production—and new revenue is needed to quell potential unrest.”

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303663604579503920995245090

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US Sends Troops to Chad on Nigerian Schoolgirl Hunt

“President Obama has informed Congress today that approximately 80 troops have been sent to Chad in a ‘support’ capacity to take part in the search for 276 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.  The troops, mostly Air Force personnel, will handle surveillance flights and drone flights over the area along the Chad-Nigeria border, where the girls are believed to be held.  The Predator drones are now being flown out of the Chad capital of N’Djamena, and officials say the troops maintaining those drones will remain until the kidnapping situation is resolved.  US flights have been scanning the area for 10 days, and have provided no details on what, if anything, they’ve found during that time.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/05/21/us-sends-troops-to-chad-on-nigerian-schoolgirl-hunt/

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Pregnant Sudanese Christian sentenced to die for refusing to convert

“Judge Abaas Al Khalifa on Thursday condemned Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, pronouncing, ‘The court has sentenced you to be hanged till you are dead.’  Ibrahim, raised as a Christian and married to a Christian man, was accused of being a Muslim and rejecting Islam, called ‘apostasy.’ The court followed the rule of Islamic law that the father confers his faith to his children. Ibrahim’s father abandoned her family when she was a young child.  She was ordered to be flogged on a separate charge of adultery, because her marriage is not recognized by the Islamic state. The judge gave Ibrahim, 27, two weeks to convert from Christianity to Islam.  She is being imprisoned with her 20-month-old son.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/pregnant-christian-to-die-for-refusing-to-convert/

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33,000 Cheers for Liberty in South Africa!

“One hundred years after the 1913 Native Land Act was passed in South Africa, the first fully tradable title deeds were released to black home owners in the Ngwathe municipality in the Free State province. Initiated in 2010, the Free Market Foundation’s (FMF) Khaya Lam (my house) project serves to convert land currently held under a complex variety of restrictive tenures and titles to unambiguous, freely tradable ownership.  Secure property rights represent one of the most important requirements for the protection of both economic freedom and civil liberties. The Ngwathe municipality prides itself on the extent to which it has implemented land transformation for black South Africans.”

http://isil.org/33000-cheers-for-liberty-in-south-africa/

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UN-backed Somalia government reintroduces taxes after 23 years

“The comprehensive new taxation system comprises both direct and indirect taxes on individuals and businesses. The plans detail tariff levels for taxes on income, property, corporate plus goods and services.  Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed said the government is committed to financial reforms so as to strengthen the country’s economy. ‘The minister of Finance has proposed a new tax system to ensure individuals and businesses are contributing their fair share to society and the rebuilding of our country,’ he said.  ‘The target [..] is to raise enough revenue to vastly improve the capacity of the government to deliver for its own people and eventually become self-sufficient.'”

http://www.africareview.com/News/Somalia-reintroduces-taxes-after-23-years/-/979180/2237214/-/14favcb/-/index.html

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Nigeria’s Moment

“Everywhere in Nigeria I saw enterprise. People sit for hours under primitive lean-tos by the highway to sell drinks and food to travelers. Open-air markets, which seem to occur every couple miles, are bustling, with people dashing hither-and-yon selling most everything you can find in a department store or supermarket.  Citizens of this former British colony typically speak English, the global commercial language. I visited a university filled with bright and engaging students hoping to make better lives for themselves and their country. What is desperately needed, said one business executive, is an ‘enabling environment’ for enterprise.  In this the government fails miserably.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/nigerias-moment

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