@Gubloinvestor Nothing says "grifter" after a former scam artist who was exposed for being a thief on X Finance and being discredited by the whole community, grifted to a far-right talking point.
Everything falling apart rapidly in #Eritrea
Everything seems to be falling apart in Eritrea, particularly in Asmara. As the city's water crisis deepens, many residents are forced to buy salty water delivered by private tankers. A single barrel, when available, costs around 15 Nakfa (about US$1)—yet that water must cover drinking, cooking, bathing, washing clothes and cleaning (unaffordable to many).
The consequences are visible and unavoidable. Open sewage channels along roads emit foul odours, while toilets—even in some hotels—often cannot be properly flushed because there simply is not enough water. Prolonged electricity blackouts compound daily hardship, disrupting homes, businesses and basic services.
Medicines have also become scarce. Even common painkillers such as paracetamol are hoarded, often brought into the country by relatives returning from abroad. Having a few tablets at home has become a matter of luck rather than routine.
Yet as living conditions continue to deteriorate, the regime's appetite for confrontation and militarisation appears undiminished. For many Eritreans, the greatest threat to their country's wellbeing is not an external enemy but the policies of the self-proclaimed president, Isaias Afwerki.
🇺🇸🇪🇷 Trump's team is pushing to lift sanctions on Eritrea. the 'North Korea of Africa, ' famous for endless forced military service, zero elections, and locking down its people like a fortress.
Why now? It controls 700+ miles of prime Red Sea coastline right next to the Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint.
With Iran & Houthis threatening to shut shipping lanes, strategy > human rights lectures... at least for Trump.
Source: @WSJ
Instead, Africa's longest armed struggle for independence was followed by an even longer period of decay, degradation, and economic decline. And no, it was Woyane or some foreign hegemonic power to blame.
Almost 32 years ago, Eritrea developed a decent macroeconomic policy that was a good fit for a post-war, low-income, coastal-state.
It was a classic East Asian Tiger growth plan: export-focused growth based in agriculture and diversified manufacturing and services.
It was to be led by strong State that mobilizes the economy without dominating it: another document which was produced the same year, the National Charter, was going to ensure the delivery of democracy, gradually, with the ruling party guiding it. That was the vision.
The reality: an Eritrea that sees democracy, guided or unguided, as a national threat and a narrow, Party-centric, State-centric, Diaspora-funded, mining-based economy which has averaged a measly 4%-5% per year.
It has been a lost decade, repeated three times.
What happened?
https://t.co/90O8e4oChB
🚨COMPLETE REMISSIONS of Stage IV cancers using anti-parasitics are now being documented in the peer-reviewed literature.
HUNDREDS of studies find ivermectin and fenbendazole exert over 12 distinct anti-cancer mechanisms across more than 12 cancer types.
This is the man Iranians (primarily the wealthy diaspora) are backing to unify the country. Neither he nor Iranian freedoms are factors in this Israel-Iran conflict,sadly.#IranIsraelWar
This is the saddest video you will watch today. Russian pranksters trick Reza Pahlavi into believing they are representatives of German Chancellor Merz. Despite obvious flags - the unmistakable Russian accent, the representative's Hitler mustache, who also introduces himself as Adolf (!) - the man who wants Trump to install him as Shah in Iran, cluelessly falls for it.
But it gets worse: The "German" representative announces that Germany will start bombing Iran together with Israel and the US (this was days before the war started), and an elated Pahlavi welcomes it and says that it is important that the US and Israel are not isolated in conducting this "crusade."
Yes, Pahlavi approvingly calls the Israeli-US war on Iran a crusade...
(Incidentally, Pahlavi's handler is Justin Forsyth, a former British government official who later resigned from his post at UNICEF after admitting to inappropriate behavior with female staff...)