The Eternal Doorman

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This is an interview, parts of which were used in  Independent POV: Behind Closed Doors . Arshad Sharif was shot and killed in Kenya in October 2022. See  Killing of Pakistani journalist Sharif in Kenya ‘planned’: Report : Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced an investigation and promised the government’s findings would be shared with the public. The military and Pakistani journalists also demanded a probe, as did Sharif’s widow, Javeria Siddique, and other family members. The 49-year-old journalist was living in exile after he fled the country in August to avoid arrest in the wake of multiple cases, including sedition charges, slapped against him for making comments on his show deemed offensive to the military. Meanwhile, Islamabad police have charged two Pakistani businessmen living in Kenya, who had hosted Sharif in the African country, with involvement in his killing. See also  ‘I am dying every day:’ Wife of killed Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif calls for justice

Apparently Ghana is Africa's biggest gold producer ahead of even South Africa. That is amazing! South Africa exported 110 metric tonnes in 2022, Ghana officially exported around 90 tonnes. The implication is that illegal exports amount to more than 20 metric tonnes. This is a problem all over the world. The gold price drives people to destroy their natural resources. Source  https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart . Here is an April 2023 UnHerd story about companies connected with Wagner group buying gold in Sudan:  How Wagner plundered Sudan’s gold  and this OCCRP  [*check who funds them!] report  Documents Reveal Wagner’s Golden Ties to Sudanese Military Companies . See  Livelihoods, Power, and Choice: The Vulnerability of the Northern Rizaygat of Darfur, Sudan . * The OCCRD are funded by, amongst others, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), US Agency for International Development (US

This is a report which has some relevance to the current fighting in Sudan, in which some much older conflicts seem to have resurfaced. The RSF came from a militia that crushed the 2003 rebellion in Darfur. This report was written in 2008/9: Livelihoods in Darfur are intimately linked to  the conflict, none more so than the livelihoods  of the Northern Rizaygat—a group of Arabic speaking, camel-herding nomads living in the  Sudanese states of North, South, and West Darfur.  They have achieved notoriety for their role in the  Janjaweed—the pejorative name given to the  loose groupings of armed Arab tribesmen, who,  since 2003, have been integral players in Darfur’s  conflict and instrumental to the Sudanese government’s counterinsurgency campaign ... This research aims to understand the causes of  vulnerability, which are often deeply rooted in  history, and embedded in complex interactions  between people, the environment, and institutional and policy processes. The wider purpose of th

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This is about the party in December 2020, ... I was in  Capurganá Colombia . See  David Lynch's Weather Report December 14, 2020 . Subscribe to  Dr. John Campbell .

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First time anybody put on an opera at Glastonbury, ... ❤️😍 Subscribe to Transeuropa . They started at 11:30 PM! See  https://twitch.tv/videos/1854883202 .  Unfortunately the sound is muted for a lot of it, but the intro is there: Fucking hell, I never saw anything remotely like that at Glastonbury before! Turned White Mustang into a car race! With some fans:

See  Anything to Say? See Reuters' report yesterday:  Fighting surges in Khartoum and Darfur as war enters 11th week  and Al Jazeera:  Sudan unrest: What are the Rapid Support Forces?  CNN, quoting anonymous "intelligence sources" claims that Wagner PMC are supplying weapons:  Russia’s mercenaries back Hemedti : “What is not in doubt is Wagner’s role in this, it has been supplying the RSF with arms and supplies through Darfur,” one Western intelligence official told CNN. “It follows Wagner’s modus operandi. Create chaos and seize power,” another intelligence source active in the region added. See  https://www.stopwar.org.uk/ David Rovics " ... In a land of rolling hills and royalty and other such refinements, ..." See  https://twitter.com/Stella_Assange  and  https://twitter.com/DEAcampaign . See  https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-deportation-of-a-peaceful-climate-activist In Hyde Park on my way home: See  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul .