Don't give up on hope. Sub Saharan Africa is a basket case. The UN prevents her from profiting from worthwhile endeavours. Africa is still fractured by race, ethnicity, warlords, poverty, lawlessness, religious turmoil and socialist nations. After WW2, when the UN was looking at how best to allocate resources to build the world, Asia looked the basket case with too many people and not enough resources, while Africa was ripe to join the developed world, with lots of natural resources and abundance of farmland which could make her a fruit basket. I'll ignore the North African nations in this analysis as their issues are different, more related to the issues of all Islamic nations around the world. Socialist policies in South Africa and Zimbabwe have been as successful as in Venezuela and Cuba. War torn Congo, Rwanda and Uganda owe some of their problems to international actors manipulating tribal schisms for personal gain. And yet along with with nations like Nigeria and Kenya there is hope. Not because of $trillions of aid money being diverted to war machines, but because through hard won law and order, local communities are working to improve their lot. Children are being educated, and some go to university. Middle classes are expanding. As nations like India internationalise, they create opportunities where they expand. The divisive issue of slavery still impacts on large swathes of Africa today, but a focus on it is counterproductive. There needs to be healing, but healing is best achieved with hope through the dignity of work. Aid alone will never compensate for the past.
Malcolm Turnbull takes selfies, and the pictures look for all the world as if USA and China are sharing a bad joke. Partisan Channel 7 are working very hard to hurt Pauline Hanson in Queensland. Queensland LNP provide strong, sensible policy, while ALP suggest harebrained AGW affirmations like spending over a $hundred million on Solar, but not achieving any result from the expenditure. The ALP are hoping for less plant food to be yielded. But Queensland don't have a Triffid problem. The ALP government have restricted political funding to the LNP, but have no restrictions on union slush funds going to them. That is what they can do in government.
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Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
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Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell rock
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bell chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell
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David Daniel Ball calls himself the Conservative Voice.
I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. ...
Viva came up with a meme.
https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/6300012/i-made-this-meme
It is good, but here is my response
I've finished the first book for Bread of Life compilation for populist podcasters VivaFrei, AUS, The Duran and Bongino.
In the first volume, with quotes from months Jan to Apr, I write about how Australia came to be up to Federation.
In the 2nd volume I write about Australia from Federation to Menzies (Ming the Merciless)
In the third edition I write about Australia post Menzies.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL4SGCW5
I've pubished it in Hardcover too. Limited publishing because it is a non standard size to accommodate the amount of text.
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