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Jun 6Liked by Karen Gordo

So far no surprises…except for the margins. The west went after Modi pretty hard and might have left him a bit battered but still standing. Looking forward to your second offering.

Off topic but a continuation of a previous post. I was reading somewhere there is continued puzzlement on the aircraft carrier debacle. The report was it has kind of wondered to an out of the way spot with issues making contact with personnel at times. It might have been a better strike than I was willing to give credit for.

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We are in anything's possible time. I said they were definitely hiding something. But in competing narrative creation world they can be hiding no damage to imply there was some, too. Not likely but not impossible.

These elections aren't really surprising. The Indian and South African ones in particular are so overdesigned a kindergartener could draw it up with a crayon.

They are hoping fledgling coalitions there will slow down BRICS. But rising 100 countries are planning to attend this year's conference. It won't help. Everybody sees the real layout. Nobody's being fooled. Even Armenia is dragging its feet moving westward. Georgia has stood up tall. Kyrgyzstan is hanging in there. The assaults are really tough there. Everywhere these smaller countries are becoming less willing to be total footrugs to the West. The dollar, euro, and pound debacle coming is known to all. If we can keep the clock ticking faster every day.

The watching helps give a sense of when that explosion happens. One little piece at a time. Next part is done; will be out in the morning after a quick check for.any new info.

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Jun 11Liked by Karen Gordo

While Zuma is a reprehensible fraud, ANC would be better off allying with 'his' MKZ party than with any other. JZ is an _elderly_ reprehensible fraud and rather easy to dislodge I think. The EFF are too easily smeared as oddball would-be guerillas. But the 'Democratic' Alliance are wholly-owned by Western interests and to be kept as far away from government as possible. They are quite certainly Russophobic and would be happy to torpedo BRICS given the chance.

As the two largest parties this also makes sense from simple arithmetical perspective.

I am very sorry to see that Nalendi Pandor looks unlikely to remain in frontline politics in ZA, an immense asset to the country.

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Jun 11·edited Jun 11Author

I don't really wade into deep details. Thanks for that synopsis! I'm pretty sure EFF is an NGO backed entity - which means Western controlled. It appears from that perspective that they wanted to force the ANC-DA alliance. Just like the alliance being forced in India. And now post EU elections in France and the UK. It's all a part of building chaos. Even if there wasn't ideal "order" in these places there was political stability. Even if a little on the short a few experience bricks side.

But now they are clearly looking for chaos. We must be willing to transcend that by forging at least workable alliances. In the people if not the politicians.

We have now France, UK, Venezuela, and Iran in the next 7 weeks. What a roller coaster!

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