I never realised what a certified badass the Namibian President, Hage Geingob is! This is what standing up to The Man looks like. Watch him slice and dice to size the former President of the German Parliament and Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Foundation, Norbert Lammert, and publicly explain the self-defeating follies of smug, neocolonial thinking. I salute his remarkable courage to rebuff the arrogant rebuke by a beamish tirade of his own.
Neocon = ''New Con''.
These people are no one's friends, they come ''to punish and enslave'', as Barricade would say... Neocon, Decepticon... what's the diff., right?! IYKYK!
But I digress... The point is: don't let anyone come into your house and lecture you, or condescendingly instruct you from on high, patronise you with self-serving hypocrisy or ram their values down your throat.
Put them in their place without hesitation, if they came at you sideways. They came to you, so it is THEY who need something from you. So they must exercise humility and celebrate YOUR values. Nicely done, Sir... My Respect is now yours!
This was 4 YEARS ago, but a newsworthy story today and always. If only we had true leaders who work tirelessly for their people in every nation, rather than traitors who serve special interests, the world would be a FAR fairer and more peaceful place. It doesn't matter whether you're from America, EU, Australia, Africa, Eurasia, UK, or anywhere in between... Friends... understand this: the ESG-crazed, woke DAVOS blob bears no allegiance and no responsibility to any nation. It exists to serve the self-proclaimed elites, who despise those upon the shoulders of whom they stand. These people trigger the mindless masses by virtue-signalling with an IMMORAL compass that spins in four dimensions! What do you suppose could go wrong, right?! LOL! The end game of their centralised control is to syphon all wealth and resources to the top, and roll out CBDCs for the plebs. Citizenship won't matter a toss when they’re done. Why do you think the slogan of Europe is ''Ever Closer Union'' and the 'great reset cabal' touts "you'll own nothing and be happy!''? Outrageous? Watch them work. The end goal is global neo-feudalism. If we don't push back, there will be no refuge from these ideological fanatics—not even inside our own minds!
As I’ve said many times, they hop from crisis to crisis (https://www.torum.com/post/63fbe9fbc9fe0a001375541d) and this financial meltdown that's coming will clear the way for CBDCs by 2025.
So here’s Mr Namibia Flexing Freedom, enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89AP1TRyN0
Do you think he overreacted? Was his cup full too soon, at a seemingly innocuous observation made by the undiplomatic German diplomat… albeit, a diplomat who took it upon himself to try to chastise a PRESIDENT of a country?
At this juncture, allow me to present the wisdom of Yanis Varoufakis for your consideration and internalisation:
"The world... is ruled by insiders... insiders do not tell outsiders the truth, and they do not turn against other insiders..."
"So moving from the oligarchic ownership model, where you buy as many votes… and this is how you should think of shares; shares are votes! And they are the votes in the assemblies where serious decisions are made. The serious decisions are not made in the Houses of Parliament. They are not made in the Congress or the Bundestag. They are made in the boards of directors and the general assemblies of Goldman Sachs, of Volkswagen, of Google, and so on.
This is where the big decisions are being made, the decisions that determine your life, as well as life on the planet. So these are the votes that count. And to say that there is a market for votes and the rich can buy them is the end of democracy...
I call it techno-feudalism. I don’t call it capitalism anymore. We need to distinguish what was going on before 2008 from what was going on after 2008. Amazon is not a market; it’s a fiefdom. And it’s a fiefdom that’s connected to other fiefdoms, like Facebook, through the cloud services of Amazon, which are much greater and bigger than Amazon.com. It’s like a much more technologically advanced form of feudalism. And this is completely sustained by central bank money. So you have the combination of the king, the sovereign, the state, the central bank and the feudal lords, the techno-feudal lords. You can see that this system is constantly doubling-down on our extinction as a species. We had the pandemic and what did they do? More of the same...
Jeff Bezos is getting rich not because of the profits of Amazon, but because of the increase of the share price. You’ve heard that he made what, $60 billion since the beginning of the pandemic? That’s not because of the profits of Amazon. Amazon is not that profitable. They have huge revenues, but they also have costs. The actual profits are nothing like that. It’s maybe one billion altogether, but he made 60! From the share price."
Techno-Feudalism and the End of Capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis (17 May 2021)
Alright, back to Africa: This is not an isolated incident. Here is the beginning of the conversation (and this is a flagrant, condescending attitude problem Europe harbours… that’s systemic and has been prevalent for years):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-jKMFtkDI
The ‘collective West’ has been badgering everyone who'll listen and obey to break ties with China, as their goal is to weaken and ‘contain’ China (i.e., impede their growth and prosperity). Claiming ‘malign influence’ or what have you (as though their influence on others has always been—or EVER been—angelic and benevolent) … As we well know, the hypocrisy and double standards of the ‘rules-based order’ run deep and defy belief! I’m not a China apologist… Indeed, I see many problems in their system… however, investing and lifting developing nations out of the quagmire of abject poverty, largely caused due to asphyxiation by IMF tentacles, is NOT one of them.
I like facts and judge from history. At least CN doesn’t have a sordid history of invading, colonising and pillaging other countries. So all we can say at this point is that they’re an unknown entity, they used to be closed off and now they’re asserting their rightful place on the world stage. What will they do with it? Who knows? While it is well-known what the former colonisers from the EU bring to the table. Until 2010, CN was weak, DID the EU lift Africa out of poverty, improve education or end hunger, wars and disease? Nope. Not really. Our govts. used Africa for cheap labour and resources and as a dump for our toxic e-waste. The West had its chance and it is not within our purview to tell others what to do in their countries. Indeed, with their tarnished histories, our governments are in no position to lecture anyone on values, pollution, corruption, human rights or ethics. That’s the job of the UN and Amnesty International, alas! Both organisations have been hopelessly captured by servile stooges and ideological fanatics of Western interests—just like the MSM. I wonder what the CIA calls the ‘Operation Mockingbird’ for infiltrating foreign societies, engineering regime change and using their perfidious client regimes to run the victim-country’s economy and stability off a cliff...
Ok, back to the story at hand. Namibia used to be a German colony. In my view, Lammert overstepped the boundaries of his welcome and committed a clumsy faux pas, unbefitting of the high office he represented, when he presumed to lecture the Namibians about what kind of ties they ought to maintain, with a thinly veiled rebuke that they'd somehow failed because there are more Chinese than Germans investing into THEIR country. If this was the case in Germany, then he’d be perfectly in his right to lament about it. Diplomacy is a fine art and what is said out loud, is seldom as salient as what’s implied.
Essentially, Africans (and the rest of the ‘Global South’) are tired of being talked down to and lectured about Western/European values, as though these are somehow superior, the Holy Grail of evolution and the only path to the higher echelons of civilisation. It is a fact that the ‘First World’ countries became rich by pillaging the resources and stoking corruption and conflict in the under-developed nations (thus, keeping them underdeveloped and divided—ergo, easy to control).
As I’ve said before, I’m not at all an advocate for Reparations. Paying the descendants of exploited nations for the suffering of their ancestors does not sit well with me—because MUCH of this suffering was, actually caused by corrupt and immoral locals, who aided and abated the parasitic nations, in a tyrannical quest for personal gain. And because the true victims are long dead, the descendants are in NO way entitled to profit from the misery visited upon their ancestors.
Having said that, I DO like the idea of country leaders being mentally agile and nimble enough to read between the lines of veiled rebukes and threats and parry, where parry is due, by asserting their authority and independence. True leaders who take no BS from outsiders, in high-level talks, are formidable and commendable in my book. Lammert’s comment was egregiously inappropriate. Had the President let it slide, it would have been interpreted as a sure sign of weakness. And weak leaders get owned and/or devoured. Believe me, the man’s a boss with GOBS of experience in inter-govt. negotiations (see the link below, the man is dripping in OG cred).
Lammert's comment was intended to chastise and highlight some sort of ‘problem’ in the demographic composition of Namibia’s social/business sector, as though the Namibian govt. had somehow failed in its 'moral obligation' to curry favour with the Germans, while the Germans (according to the President), treat Namibians poorly in Germany, with even the diplomats are occasionally detained at airports and disrespected.
Don’t take it from me. Take it from the horse’s mouth, read speech here:
“Here, Bruges is a good example of the European garden. Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build - the three things together. And here, Bruges is maybe a good representation of beautiful things, intellectual life, wellbeing.
The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it, but they will not protect the garden by building walls. A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden.
The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.
Yes, this is my most important message: we have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world.
We are privileged people. We built a combination of these three things – political freedom, economic prosperity, social cohesion – and we cannot pretend to survive as an exception. It has to be a way of supporting the others facing the big challenges of our time.”
—Josep Borrell (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, as well as the Vice-President of the European Commission)
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/european-diplomatic-academy-opening-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-inauguration_en
There is a clear fatigue in developing nations from having the 'Collective West' sitting on the windpipe of their prosperity, dictating breathing patterns. People are sick and tired of being insolently instructed on how to conduct their domestic affairs for the benefits of meddling outsiders. They’ve had it with being lectured, manipulated, deceived and controlled—particularly by representatives of the nations that have raped and robbed them in the past. So in the second clip (cited at the top of this article), the President bluntly vents this frustration and puts the DE diplomat in his place, indicating that he ought to mind Germany’s business and choose his words with more sincerity, respect and wisdom. I know that on the surface, it sounds trite, but the undercurrent of the constant blowing of the dog whistle, demanding that ‘lesser nations’ come to heel, is like imperial claws scratching across a chalkboard of neo-colonial indoctrination. Particularly, to those who have experienced, first-hand, ruthless and relentless asphyxiation by said talons in the not-too-distant past!
Perhaps it’s easier to reflect upon and appreciate this colossal issue, if we zoom in, scaling it down to a personal level? Imagine that a decade after you graduate, your high school, PE teacher drops by your home for a garden grill party and begins judging the food you eat or the other guests. How would it reflect on YOU, if this exchange is overheard by your friends and they hear you meekly fawn and accept these insolent comments, if you do not stand up for yourself or them and in general, just let this person chastise, lambast and have their way with you publicly—in your home, no less… as though you are still a snot-nosed brat or a stooge on their payroll. I daresay, that your friends would think less of you, MUCH less, since you let an outsider publicly humiliate you like this in your own home…
Perhaps in your school days, you’d have heeded the teacher’s advice. Maybe you once looked up to this person… but as an adult, you wouldn’t take kindly to it, would you? You don’t need unsolicited advice and nagging. Whatever authority the person may have once held over you has evaporated long ago, right? Right!
Who are they to tell you what should be in your fridge or who should be allowed to party in your yard? I.e., how dare they presume to have the authority to instruct you on how to live YOUR life?! People uncouth enough to issue public, passive-aggressive insults, must be met head-on, with a firm and equally public rebuttal. As the saying goes: “don’t start nothing—won’t be nothing.”
Failure to respond signals a slavish mentality of fear and weakness.
The same exact thing applies to negotiations between nation states! Namibia is a sovereign nation and DE doesn’t get to saunter over and tell them what to do. Thankfully, those days are done! If only more leaders had enough backbone to push back when being told how to run their counties with ‘structural adjustment programmes’… there'd be not a squeak about some 'Great Reset' or CBDCs, as EVERY true leader would fight the 'woke, ESG-crazed DAVOS blob' to the death, to preserve the freedom and prosperity of their nation, culture, heritage and people!
I am aware, that his English is not the best, but his qualifications are titanic. Here’s an interview he gave in 2016 to a Washington DC-based show (Straight Talk Africa).
https://youtu.be/0z9gCHiK1f0?t=435
