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West African Reactions On The Invasion of The Gambia
The Invasion of The Gambia, code-named Operation Restore Democracy, is an ongoing military conflict between several West African countries and some parts of the government of The Gambia, precipitated by President of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh's refusal to step down after the victory of Adama Barrow over Jammeh in the December 2016 presidential election.
Although there is no humanitarian crises in The Gambia, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided to intervene militarily in the Gambian constitutional crisis on 19 January 2017, as a result of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh refusing to step down after losing the December 2016 presidential election. The invasion was codenamed 'Operation Restore Democracy'.
On 19 January 2017 Senegalese forces entered The Gambia to ensure Adama Barrow assumes power as the country's new president. The United Nations Security Council unanimously expressed support for ECOWAS efforts to ensure Jammeh hands over power to Adama Barrow, but requested the use of "political means first" without endorsing military action. Gambia was placed under a naval blockade.
In the early hours of the offensive, clashes took place near the border village of Kanilai, the home town of Yahya Jammeh, between Senegalese and pro-Jammeh MFDC forces, and Senegal reportedly took control of the village. Following the clashes, Senegal halted its offensive in order to mediate the crisis one final time, with the invasion to proceed at noon on 20 January if Jammeh still refuses to relinquish power.
According to United Nations, several dead and around 45,000 people have been displaced and have fled to Senegal. Further 800 people have fled to Guinea-Bissau.
Here are reactions from around the continent on the invasion:
"A new ECOMOG, or as we now know it, U.S.WAFRICOM, or more correctly, WAMERIKKKOM." ~ Narmer Amenuti
"ECOWAS NEOCOLONIALIST PUPPET SCHEME FOR THE EURO-AMERIKKKAN IMPERIALIST ARMED INVASION OF GAMBIA: Here they go again: the loud-sounding empty barrels of the so-called "Ghanaian/African Left" and its "pragmatist" cheer-leading puppet-quislings of Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism! Lots of booklong Eurocentric pseudo-academic clap-trap but absolutely no interest in doing WHAT IS PRACTICALLY NECESSARY to wage anti-imperialist democratic Struggle; and therefore always rendering "Apologetics" for Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism, welcoming its interventions in Afrika for "Democracy" and its Genocide/Ecocide for the profitable rewards and awards they get to shore up their elitist flatulent petty-bourgeois and wannabe comprador bourgeois egos! While they join in calling upon and clapping for Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism in changing its puppet administrators of Neocolonialism in Afrika with ballots and/or bullets, they cushion themselves in comfort bubbles looking for bribes, rewards and awards from their masters and their agents and collaborators, and even credentials from foreign organisations, while nothing improves for the overwhelming impoverished masses of our Afrikan people at home and abroad, in spite of their globe-trotting trips! When will the basic lesson get drummed home to Afrikan progressive forces that the most primary DEMOCRATIC STANDPOINT for peoples subjugated to the colonial or neocolonial yoke of Imperialism is Anti-Imperialism? When shall we learn that we must allow our Afrikan people to exhaust all posssibilities of peaceful resolution of our conflicts and contradictions, even take up arms by ourselves as the very last resort, but absolutely without being the ones to invite Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism and its African stooges to "help" us with alien armed forces and weapons, for which we end up paying lots and lots more not only with our material and cultural resources but also with the innocent lives of our Afrikan poor! Yes, Yahya Jammeh is a clowning tyrant whose time in office has run out as decided peacefully by the people of Gambia themselves! Afrikan people all over the World have the capability of helping the people of Gambia to effect peaceful change without blood-letting "assistance" from Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism! When shall the progressive forces of Afrika desiring Peace learn to courageously fight independently for it with Justice unto themselves and the masses of their own Afrikan people and their true allies even in the reformist but dignified ways of Martin Luther King…?" ~ Kofi Mawuli Klu
"Unfortunately this is the only kind of language these mad men understand. I hope Jammeh isn't taken alive! No need to waste tax money on a trial, HE IS GUILTY!!!" ~ Atiga Atingdui
"It should calm now the excitable passions of people gunning for military intervention in Gambia who think a short glorious war whatever that means will win them prestige from some neocolonial masters. They should do well to remember that there might be Gambians like the Cubans of The 1983 US invasion of Grenada who do not like the buffoon ruling them but will prefer to have the issue solved peacefully and that they might actually pick up arms to defend their country with tenacity and willpower. Anyone who thinks a large military force necessarily wars is joking. A military intervention in the Gambia will not achieve the purpose of stabilizing the country. It will rather destabilize it." ~ Gbemela Kobla.
"If the fervor to invade Gambia could be directed towards Boko Haram. Will be nice!" ~ Narmer Amenuti.
"You cannot defeat Boko Haram. But you can invade The Gambia. Tswia Kai!" ~ Narmer Amenuti.
"IF THE "ECOWAS" HAS THAT.MILITARY POWER WHY DON'T THEY USE IT TO DEFEAT THE TERRORIST GROUP KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE IN NIGERIA? OR IN SOMALIA? ARE THESE "leaders" SERIOUS ABOUT INVADING GAMBIA?? DO THESE "leaders" HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF "RULE OF THE LAW"?? THE GAMBIA LEGAL SYSTEM IS ANALYSING A REQUEST MADE BY ONE CANDIDATE….ECOWAS NEED TO STAY AWAY AND RESPECT THE WORK OF THE GAMBIAN LEGAL AUTHORITIES. PEACE AND STABILITY. NOT DESTRUCTION" ~ Alex Akoman
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Narmer Jan 20, 2017 at 5:14 pm
Even The New York Times Calls It An Invasion.
"As the invasion began, the winner of the election, Adama Barrow (pictured), was being sworn into office in a brief ceremony about 150 miles outside of Gambia."
We live in times when invasions are legal.
Kaafueda Vanderpuye Jan 21, 2017 at 5:45 am
If ECOWAS REALLY wants to flex their political muscles they should organize to curtail the $500 BILLION (400 BILLION EUROS) FRANCE has been siphoning ANNUALLY out of the economies of their former colonies!
Kwame Boye Acheampong Jan 20, 2017 at 5:16 pm
After the ravages of war, will all those Facebook warriors who sat in the comfort of their homes while calling for war have the courage to speak and console the farmer who has lost his son, the widow who watched her children die because of famine? As you once said earlier, people who have never sharpened a cutlass are the ones who are calling for war.
Landing Nyassi Jan 20, 2017 at 5:17 pm
Don't mind this delusional so-called Pan-Africanist fabricating a headline to massage an ego. As at now no casualties reported it has been a smooth entry into the Gambia by ECOWAS forces assisted by some members of the Gambia National Army – the operation is halted as at now with hope that the only obstacle to peace; Jammeh gives in. Very soon all will be over! Get your facts first before spewing garbage to the world Narmer!
Razak Issah Jan 20, 2017 at 9:10 pm
I just ended an engagement with a socialist/leftists who is supporting the imperialist forces. I am even ashamed to call myself leftist if this is what count for left in Africa and Ghana. They support anything international community and hide their impotence behind human right claims. This is a plan to continue the covert control of west Africa and they can not see the dots or are willingly ignoring facts.
Emmanuel Amevor Jan 20, 2017 at 9:11 pm
If these countries, including Nigeria, has armed forces to invade The Gambia, why haven't they used this military might against Boko Haram all these years. This is just an opportunity to sell arms to the Ecowas countries by the military industrial complex of the imperialists. Leave The Gambia alone. Gambia solutions to Gambian problems.
Audu Salisu Jan 20, 2017 at 9:11 pm
They won't tell us that Jammeh asked for judges from Nigeria and Liberia to solve the issues and both countries refused.
Teresa Santana Jan 20, 2017 at 9:12 pm
'Amerikon' effecting its strategy in Afrika, the American command masterminding this move, a militar solution ready made to fit imperialist overtaken via the neo colonial institutions in Afrika such as 'Ecowas' or the AU these structures are subverted inside and brought to life to fulfil what after all is the end game. It is not by chance that only neo colonial states are allowed to prevail and consolidate across the wide and spread of our mother land, any form of national standing even residual cannot be allowed to fester, "not go Afrikans start to believe in themselves and their capacity to 'manage their own affairs', not soon we can also witness the bloodshed in South Sudan re emerging with so much ferocity as the tensions in Kongo, Mozambique engulfing Angola down to Zimbabwe will during this year develop. And become the focus of further instability and reason for intervention as elections will also take there this year and next. As global capitalism deepens its crisis and runs out of control, it still needs to feed itself and reorganise world spheres of influence and control, Afrika plays a central role in the competition for survival of the western world on a cliff edge between its 'wars' pump lifeline for world dominance, and a resourceful Afrika the sole reservoir of world strategic mineral resources necessary to power both the wars and the technologic revolution of this century that will guarantee finally a comprehensive victory to imperialism. The power that will comes out victor in Afrika will be the biggest superpower in the world. The problem still is that the 'left' in Afrika has been 'lobotomised' at the best or decimated very few can courageously stand today to face up on this challenge, and support or power the unfinished task of national liberation, is showing its ugly face once more and will continue to do so, until we can master a counter process to respond with mass awareness, that can expose the Jammeh's of today and their role in providing the space for their ready made opponents that imperialism find better suited to fulfil their neo colonial needs and plans better. National politics no matter how distorted cannot be allowed to fester in Afrika, because it sets bad examples, obedient 'chiefs' are sure a bet rather than disgruntled instable nationalist rhetoric's that cannot be relied upon. The upfront denunciation of the armed intervention on another Afrikan soil with an expeditionary military force will happen as proxy of "Amerikon" and tale of what is there to come. Afrika will only be capable of managing its own affairs when the new generations fulfil their historical mission and read themselves of neo colonial stogie's that for too long keep confusing real national agendas with self aggrandisement and blood shed. I am for no military intervention in the Gambia, let the Gambia institutions decide support them to do so independently. Maybe is time to use the cyberspace to agitate with Gambia progressive forces, the citizens who are now moving out of the country creating another focus and wave of refugees, to endorse a massive worldwide campaign such a petition to AU condemning their American tailor made intervention in Gambia, and demand the respect of the Gambia constitution and rule of law.
Mawuena Hormeku Jan 20, 2017 at 9:24 pm
I am really saddened this evening that my own country, Ghana have also sent troops to invade Gambia!!
Abena Kumordzi Jan 20, 2017 at 9:25 pm
Mawuena Hormeku, we supported both apartheid and racial segregation in 1969 and call on the fascists and imperialist to crush anyone who oppose them. Kufuor was then the deputy foreign minister.
Kwame Osei Taharqa Jan 20, 2017 at 9:26 pm
You know something is wrong when these forces lines up to invade Gambia. I hope I'm not wrong but this new Predident will turn out to be a Western stooge. He will rejoin the Commonwralth and the ICC. Jammeh is being lined up for the
Haig because Amnesty International and all the Pro Western politically motivated NGOs will ensure a case is made for either his exile or trial.
When these same ECOWAS leaders can not agree on something that is in their direct interest for many years but all of a sudden can decide on intervention then one sees the invisible hand of foreign powers. ECOWAS , for many years have not been able to settle on common currency but in a matter of weeks can decide on Gambia.
That's very true and look who they are picking on. A Country that does even have a functioning army. They have to teach Jammah a lesson for daring to pull out of the Commonwealth and the ICC. I thought we were making progress in Africa but we are going backwards. This new President is a plant. If you have enough money you can buy an election win ask Donald Trump.
Osuovierivie Ohwoyovwe Jan 20, 2017 at 9:29 pm
The Story Can Only lengthy For No Use. Those Nations In Support Of The Invasion Failed To Tell Adama Barrow His Mistakes For Early Dish Out Plans To Possibly Imprison The Outgoing President Of The Gambia People Long As Charles Taylor. His Early Threats Triggered The President's Recalled His Concealed To The Mandate.
Nii Opey Nash-Odai Jan 20, 2017 at 9:30 pm
What's wrong with you all "ISM" people. Are you implying that the killer Jammeh should be left alone to hold The Gambia to ransom? Is the country his personal property? And has he got a divine licence to commit murders as and when he do desires, like your Nkrumah did. Please spare us your big, big meaningless
ism words and the uncalled for attacks on the west.
Johnson Tunu Jan 20, 2017 at 9:30 pm
All you said is fine, except for driving Nkrumah's name here. Nkrumah didn't stage a coup to come to power and misrule for 22 years, or kill people, except the judicial killing of the only one who several times made an attempt on his life.
It is okay to express deep disappointment at the de facto continuation of illegitimate rule in the Gambia. It is very sad that Africans are eager to support continued military misrule on our continent, as if blaming imperialists for everything happening on the continent is worthy of even those who never went to the classroom!
Wait until violence visit your backyard. The last I checked, no ism was responsible for the fact anywhere violence was used against violence, the results were not good for the collective. Sometimes neocolonialists, l mean ISTS, not ISMS, just don't get it!
We are reminded by the immortal words of Dr K. A. Busia, former Prime Minister of Ghana, `Dialogue is human`. If Nigeria has an efficient professional army all these years, why haven't they been used to crush Boko Haram. We the ism people know that behind all these clamour for military intervention is military industrial complex, who thrive on wars and destabilision. Jammeh with all his faults has asked for judges from other West African countries to hear the petition, but they are not interested in that because the puppet master will not make money in a peaceful resolution of this crisis created by the independent electoral commissioner, who haven't created the mess has disappeared to Senegal.
To deride Nkrumah on this thread shows a lack of African independence knowledge. When Nkrumah left us Ghana regressed. Apart from him, Mugabe, Lumumba and Jammeh no one else in Africa has had the balls to speak out against US and European interference in African affairs.Puppets of these foreign powers always find a voice when they want to criminalise out spoken African leaders.
Guys just tell the brother we'd rather be Nkrumah's puppets than neocolonialists
Korku Senyo Klu Jan 20, 2017 at 9:33 pm
It's obvious that the brother lacks knowledge of his past and also the forces that are working relentlessly crushing Africa to her knees.
I ll support any African dictator than to throw my support behind a pro-western puppet any time.
Folks, I am happy to be an Nkrumahist Puppet rather than sell my African Brothers and Sisters for guns and dollars.
Comrades let us avoid Zombified Imperial Muppets on this page before they destroy our functioning brain cells with zombie virus. it's no longer their Academic Credentials that are questionable here but lack of commonsense and sound judgements.
Kofi Mawuli Klu Jan 20, 2017 at 9:35 pm
Brother Karim Bah! You are absolutely correct! My greatest concern is why are the so-called "revolutionary Pan-Afrikanists" joining neocolonialist quislings of Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism in support of ECOWAS being misused for USAFRICOM-schemed proxy aggression against Gambia rather not supporting their colleagues throughout West Afrika to organise People's Power for real Change in Gambia? The hypocrisy of those who say they are for Pan-Afrikan revolutionary change, only to do nothing seriously Pan-Afrikanist to enhance the independent grassroots revolutionary creativity of our Afrikan masses, but rather eagerly line up behind the neocolonial quislings of Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism to support their recolonising schemes of Reactionary Violence in Afrika is what I can no longer tolerate! The stinking hypocrisy is so strangulating that, like Frantz Fanon put it, some of us can no longer breathe! Even if our weaknesses now are such that we cannot act as such at this moment, why are we not using this opportunity to strengthen our Pan-Afrikan Unity by utilising it to pressurise the ECOWAS and the African Union (AU) to openly support and help organise the peaceful ML King-type of People's Power Challenge to Yahya Jammeh? Why should those claiming to be not only Pan-Afrikanists but also Left-Wing Socialists doing nothing more than urging the misuse of the ECOWAS to carry out the Euro-Amerikkkan imperialist proxy militaristic intervention in Gambia only to benefit external and internal right-wing forces of Neocolonialism throughout the continent and diaspora of Afrika? The fraudulence, bankruptcy and sheer criminality of such dangerous elements pretending to be on the Pan-Afrikan Left in and outside of Afrika today can no longer be hidden to deceive some of us!
It was the so-called revolutionary pan afrikanists who helped sell the whole revolution… They have never been pan african. they were always neocolonialists. What they say is different from what they do.
Well Mawuena, seems you ists and isms are already zombies, cos they (zombies) are walking dead, and can't move on because they are lifeless.
I rest my case.
You can do your best to avoid the poison that the New World Order and Fascist Media have planted in your head. Please adjust your mind to the truth and stop raving like headless chicken. The truth is right out there to shape your mind on Geopolitics and the agenda behind deploying deadly missiles and troops all over the world including Africa. Please don't live your life like a candle in the wind, in the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Why is it difficult to understand #isms and #ists
Comrade, I agree 100% with your analysis. There is so much information out there but most will not and yet want to engage in misguided argument. Geopolitics is the game before and now and will always be. I am pleased to hear you mention geopolitics and our people seriously need a lesson in this field.
Thank you Razak Issah for your analysis, it's only miseducated and ill informed homosapien with no conscience and sympathy for Gambians facing possible slaughter at the hands of an Imperial Army will remain unaffected.
Mawuena, it seems you are the brainless one who is refusing to yield to realities of changing times. You can live your miserable ists and ism life in the past for all I care. There's no need to argue with a zombie.
I am OK with it, I expect the #brainy like you to give us real lecture here, but unfortunately you pride yourself in ignorance. insults is your best medication to cure your low self esteem. Are you suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
I don't like to engage in fruitless argument, you have no monopoly over vile language, if that's what you're here for, then am ever ready to lecture you to be civil and decorous. What are you teaching your children at home? I don't want to offend Distinguish Comrades here, it's not my style, so don't pin me down with ignorance. Respect is the way, you can agree and disagree with this post, but insults should not be the way out .
Nii Opey Nash-Odai, ECOWAS, AU and the United Nations did not intervene to prevent NPP from dragging the people of Ghana to the Supreme Court from December, 2012 to August 18, 2013. All the so called legal brains in Ghana, West Africa and the International Community have not explain to us why Barrow should be installed as president when there is a dispute in the elections. Is it likely that he would step down if the court rule against him? Do we also expect that John Dramani Mahama, will step down if the Supreme Court of Ghana were to rule against him. Kofi Mawuli Klu, it is a fact that the Pan-Africanist including my good or bad self are weak and can not organize to stage demonstrations against these interference by our oppressors. It is a fact that in 1969 Kofi Busia the then leader of PP was going to have dialogue with apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia though the fascist regimes in those countries were killing scores of Africans. Today we are told Nana Akufo-Addo has dispatched troops to protect monopoly capital interest. The bell tolls for everyone of us. It is most unfortunate that some of our fellow citizens take pride in been at the end of imperialist dog chain.
Anthony Mainoo Jan 20, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Mental slavery at its best! And our people are miseducated not to be able to read between the lines to understand the system..
Yaa Ababawaa Jan 20, 2017 at 9:51 pm
For Ghana it was ,any idiot can go to court and we were prepared to let it go.
Mawuena Hormeku, its the story of the typical fool who chased his mother's lover with a machete, but invited his wife's lover into his bedroom, held her on his matrimonial bed for the man to enjoy an on top of that call her wife a fool. There are a lot of those typical around the world. They believe that they are not animated if the imperialist does not breath into them.
Kofi Mawuli Klu, imperialist world outlook has to do with the interest of the monopolies, rather than logic. In 1964 the people of Ghana through a referendum decided to have a one party state. Meaning that Ghanaians decided through democratic means to govern themselves. In 1971 the people of Chile decided through universal adult suffrage that they prefer the Chilean Communist Party to any other party. In 2014 the people of Ukraine decided that they prefer Yunikovich to be their president through elections. The same applied to countries that had the "Arab winter" which the west refer to as the Arab spring. In 2015 85% of the people of Syria voted for Al Assad to continue to be the president of Syria, in the face of terrorist acts by quislings of the west who were armed by the west to come to power through illegitimate means of terror and fear. They took part in the elections with Al Assad and lost. So the game been played in the Gambia now means that the west should have respected the rights of the countries we mentioned above to universal adult suffrage, rather than changing government through terrorist acts which started with Ghana in 1966 by the quislings of the U.S. and other western countries. We are all well aware of how the U.S. and her allies warned other presidents not to interfere with terrorists and armed protestors in their countries. It is also a fact that the U.S. and her allies use their judiciary to put to not the march by their 99% for a change in the socioeconomic system. It means that the U.S. and her allies are against universal adult suffrage if the parties that gain from it are not their dolls, but will use force of arms and mercenary nations to install their puppets. This is he game that imperialist quisling around the world are not able to figure out.
Kofi Mawuli Klu Jan 21, 2017 at 4:32 am
All we wanted is a peaceful resolution by Afrikans in dignity for the people of Gambia and that is what has been gained by and for all of us Afrikans in this outcome! Eventually, as some of us have all along believed would happen, Yahya Jammeh was persuaded to step down peacefully, in talks with the Presidents of Guinea and Mauretania – who deserve some commendation! My own view of Jammeh is such that I knew a threat of force could be a factor in persuading him to give up – but that force, in my candid opinion, ought to have ideally been the Black Power force of our glocally organised independent Afrikan People's Power, with Gambians spearheading its agency, and not the predatory USAFRICOM-controlled force of the "kalabule" neocolonial-puppet quislings of Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism masquerading as ECOWAS or the African Union (AU)! The most useful role Establishment structures like the ECOWAS and the AU could play in such situations is to back-up and support such a force of People's Power according to its self-determined needs, so as to enable its building by the masses into their own order of truly Afrikan Participatory Democracy from below. This is what genuine Pan-Afrikanists ought to be seriously working glocally for to happen in the future! As for the invading Senegalese Army, it had nobody to fight against. Thankfully, we did not have the ugly barbaric spectacle, as happened in Cote d'Ivoire and Libya and other places, of Afrikans brutally humiliating their own Afrikan kith and kin over eurocentric notions of so-called "Democracy" in accordance with schemes and orders from Euro-Amerikkkan imperialist master-puppeteers!
Narmer Jan 21, 2017 at 4:35 am
Jammeh cares more about The Gambia than ECOWAS. He left to prevent carnage! Kudos!
Mi Babangida Jan 21, 2017 at 4:35 am
I don't know why people seem to believe #Jammeh when he says stuff like this. Narmer Amenuti when you say he cares about #Gambia I laugh . what shows this guy love #Gambia when he decides to deny the verdict of his people and holds to ransom.
I did not say Jammeh loves the Gambia. I said he cares more about the Gambia than the headless mistake of Senegal marching soldiers into the Gambia. What Senegal could have done to innocent Gambians could have been much worse than anything Jammeh could had ever done.
Nii Odartey Jan 21, 2017 at 4:36 am
Lol! Did he even have an army under his control? The only carnage would have been his own life. All his "I won't step down tactic" was only to seek havens and avoid prosecution for past crimes. Dictators actually don't give a damn about the people I can assure you. When power (the only thing they care about) is about to slip from their hands, the priority becomes saving their skins.
Because you have met all dictators and you know them by heart? The pedestrian attitude towards this illegal invasion is mind-blowing.
Johnson Tunu Jan 21, 2017 at 4:37 am
ECOWAS has done something positive: Africa needs probity in governance, accountability to the people. The schooled in Africa ought to move from populist rhetoric to supporting those positions and African initiatives which are clearly directed to changing the negative tendencies around us. African leaders are not all or always puppets!
ECOWAS has set a very bad precedent. ECOWAS must be hebetated because of this illegal invasion into the Gambia. It was two African heads of state who managed to convince Jammeh to leave after all. Why? Because those two actually cared more about Gambian lives, and believed more in diplomacy than ECOWAS did. They beleived that Jammeh cared more about the future of his people than to stand against the invasion of his country! For most of the past weeks, ECOWAS was talking about invading a sovereign nation when they could have focused more on diplomacy, diplomacy and diplomacy. Invading a country is a no, no. But you would know that Johnson Tunu, since you hate that Russia entered the Crimea but love that Senegal entered the Gambia. Confusing!
Kwame Ampomah Jan 21, 2017 at 5:55 am
Here is my take: Yahaya Jamme has ruled the Gambia for twenty plus years. He came through a cout d'etat (which in itself is abominable). He has been an eccentric character, killed and maimed people etc. But let us overlook all that for the moment and discuss the matter on hand.
Time has come when democracy should mean something in Africa. Time has come when the "people's decision" should be considered as sacrosanct. For too long elections in Africa have been like a joke. As people are going to the polls, the leaders are already preparing for celebration because they know the elections have been stolen even before they are held. I am afraid we do not have to go far in looking for examples of stolen elections. We do not have to look far to find leaders in power already procured and shipped into the country printed victory clothing material, because they were certain that they were going to steal the verdict. Why do you procure "victory print" when you don't know the results.
Today, thanks to advanced technology and thanks to some people's innovation the voting process and the counting etc has evolved in such a way that now it is close to impossible to Rig the election. So in Nigeria, as a result of the element of "verification, " the incumbent government was not able to steal the election. They had no choice but to hand over power. Here in Ghana, a few weeks ago, thanks to the same "verification factor, " which eliminates the possibility of multiple voting and also the on-site counting, the election could not be stolen, 95 percent of all the old tricks were eliminated, through simple technology. The people's voice became overwhelmingly clear. The incumbent government had no other choice but to hand over.
Same has happened in the Gambia. The people have spoken, Jamme lost the election, he conceded, he must move on. Now he is playing rogue, true to his character. He must be pushed out by any means necessary and it is refreshing to see ECOWAS forces step up to the plate to do the right thing – to push him out. I pray that there is very little collateral damage in the process of forcibly removing him from office. It should not be described as "an invasion " but a cleansing exercise to rid the country of a rogue leader.
RELATED COMMENT – ON BLAMING THE WEST FOR YAHYA JAMMEH ALLEGEDLY LOOTING GAMBIA: Yes, Kari Bannerman, we are justified to keep blaming it on the West! Only those of you who CHOOSE not to be involved in the practicalities of our Pan-Afrikan Liberation Struggle can ignorantly deny the number of Afrikan progressive forces throughout the World who suffer persecution for active involvement in Resistance against such clowning tyrants only for the West, with your complicity in silence, to protect them and prevent them from being changed through the real participatory Democracy of Afrikan people by Afrikan people and for Afrikan people! What do you know about the Pan-Afrikan Activists that have long been in Resistance against the regime of Yahya Jammeh in Gambia and have been suffering Western persecution at home and abroad up till it suited the West to opportunistically get its ECOWAS runnig dogs to step in and effect FAKE CHANGE? Please, before commenting, let us properly study the matter, its history and the actual forces at play and their real agendas! As to what Jammeh is supposed to have taken out, let us wait and get the actual facts! It is possible but also there can be malicious exagerations! Let us not indulge in mere speculations and rumour mongering, particularly on the basis of what those opposed to Jammeh who are in government now in Gambia are saying. Some of us remember the stinking deluge of Nazi-style Big Lies that were spewed not only in newspapers and cartoons but also in books and academic publications and discourses for the purpose of deceitfully trying to smear Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah by the Euro-Amerikkkan imperialist puppet-regime of the Notorious Liars Council (NLC) in Ghana after the 24th February 1966 coup d'etat! Let the Truth be discerned as it always will be eventually!
Kofi Mawuli Klu Jan 23, 2017 at 10:55 pm
RELATED – CONCERNING DEBATE ON GAMBIA AND OTHER AFRIKAN MATTERS: Brother Kari Bannerman, as I have told Hermann von Hesse, I appreciate and encourage your critical remarks; some of which I agree with (eg anti-people hypocritical tyrants misusing pseudo-radical rhetoric against the West and Capitalism for their corrupt purposes ought to be distrusted; Afrikans have a significant share – not all – of the blame for their still miserable plight of domination and impoverishment – Frederick Douglas did hint at this long ago); others with which I strongly disagree (eg Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism and its puppets cannot be made to carry a huge part of the blame for the underdevelopment/maldevelopment, impoverishment and backwardness of Afrika; Afrika is at present free from foreign domination and only has to embrace 'Democracy' in its European fabrication to progress; the European model of Democracy ought to be our Afrikan ideal for salvation and progress)! So you have not committed any crime, Kari, and should feel absolutely free to strongly express your views as dictated by your conscience, regardless of whether they are agreeable to me or to anybody else! Do not make too much of formal classroom qualifications of Euroliteracy because they do not matter to me and, in any case, you do come across like a very highly intelligent person of awesome intellect deserving respect! Of course no one knows everything; so no one is a paragon of omniscience. Your very honest expression of your own views according to what knowledge you have compels me to think hard again and again about the rationale for my own points of view. One of my axioms as a Scholar-Activist committed to vigorous participation in the Battle of Ideas is: The constantly unexamined Struggle is not worth waging"! As they say, iron sharpens iron! So let us keep questioning each other and everybody else in honest criticism and self-criticism in order to reason out our knowledge towards Wisdom to ensure the best for Afrika and Humanity! I strongly uphold the axiom of Kwegyir Aggrey that only the best is good enough for Afrika! Cheers!
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What happens if the Fed raises rates?
A rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve could spark a sell-off in Asian stocks and trigger capital outflows in China, according to Sam Le Cornu, co-head of Asian listed equities & head of investments at Macquarie Investment Management.
Markets have been fixated on monetary policy moves by central banks of late, with speculation of an interest rate hike by the Fed next month rising after some policymakers suggested the world's largest economy was picking up pace. A possible increase by the Fed will also come at a time when other major central banks such as the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank are still biased to provide more stimulus.
"Unfortunately, sentiment has a huge amount of influence on the markets. If there is a Fed rate rise, there will implications for equities across Asia," Le Cornu said
"All assets are typically priced off of the risk-free rate of that government," Le Cornu told CNBC's "Squawkbox" on Thursday. A rise in the risk-free rate could be damaging to equities, he explained.
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Le Cornu also said he expected U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to address what would be in the Fed's monetary toolbox and the medium-term implications of a Fed rate hike in her speech during the Jackson Hole Symposium on Friday.
Markets have been quiet this week as traders stay on the sidelines directly ahead of the annual meeting of the world's top central bankers, themed "Designing Resilient Monetary Policy for the Future."
Emerging markets have benefited from low interest rates in developed markets as investors seeking higher returns have piled money. A tightening of monetary policy in the U.S. is expected to push up bond yields and narrow the yield gap over emerging markets, reversing these flows.
Higher interest rates in the U.S. could have adverse implications for China, the world's second-largest economy. Capital outflows that have abated recently could pick up pace again, Le Cornu said.
"Capital flows out of China will likely occur. There'll be implications on currencies throughout Asia and equities as a whole, will potentially be sold off," Le Cornu said.
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Welcome to the third and final webinar in our joint ISDP-KAS series on Sino-Nordic relations!
This joint ISDP-KAS will focus on Sino-Nordic Relations in the Arctic. Our invited discussant from the Nordic countries and Germany will share their insights and experiences about developing interests above the Polar Circle. The discussion will touch upon the regional implications of global climate change, efforts to establish new infrastructure and trade routes, relations between national governments and indigenous communities, as well as regional security concepts. This event seeks to ground to connect Arctic issues with a wider discussion of Sino-Nordic relations and follows on our two earlier events on September 28th and October 12th.
Did you miss the webinar? Watch the online recording here!
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Adam Stepien is a political scientist working at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Finland. His research interests include Arctic governance, Arctic cooperation, regional development in peripheral regions, and the role of the EU in the Arctic. Adam was involved in a number of policy advice projects for the European Parliament, the European External Action Service, and the Finnish government. Recently, he has been working on the EU's environmental and economic footprint in the Arctic, Chinese presence in the circumpolar North, with a focus on in Northern Fennoscandia, as well as prospects for innovation and a knowledge-based economy in the northernmost part of Europe.
Liisa Kauppila is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Turku and a PhD Researcher at the Centre of East Asian Studies, University of Turku. She holds two master's degrees in East Asian Studies and Futures Studies. In the past, she has lived in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and worked in China and futures research-related jobs in several Finnish state institutions, including the Bank of Finland and the Finnish Transport Agency. She is currently analyzing Chinese company acquisitions in the Nordic countries in an Academy of Finland-funded project and finishing her Ph.D. thesis, which is an Arctic case study of China's global economic outreach.
Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir is a Project Manager at the Centre for Arctic Studies. She holds a B.A. degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Iceland and an M.A. degree in International Relations from the same university. Currently, she is working on a PhD thesis at the University of Iceland. She has also been a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland, teaching on international relations and security. Her main research interests include the Arctic, Arctic security, foreign policy, small state security and Chinese foreign policy.
This webinar is part of the Institute for Security and Development Policy and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Sino-Nordic project.
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In a new video released by Amazon Prime Video, we see The Family Man star Manoj Bajpayee engaging in a fun chat with New Zealand's cricket team captain Kane Williamson. The two are seen chatting about cricket and shows as Manoj tries his best to get Kane to confess all the strategies he has been planning as his team gears up to face the Indian cricket team next year.
The versatile actor also taught the New Zealand skipper to say his popular dialogue from The Family Man Season 2 — "Don't be a minimum guy". Kane even revealed who could moonlight from his team as a good spy (Glenn Phillips) and someone who would ace the corporate job (Mitchell Santner).
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What do Citi Bike users in New York City dislike most about the 6-month-old system? They say it's the problem of unpredictable load imbalances.
Okay, they don't say that, exactly. What they say is that they don't like arriving at a station to check out a bike, only to find there aren't any left. Or, when they try to return a bike and there aren't any open slots. That's according to a quickie poll from the bike advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, which found the number-one complaint of 64 percent of those who responded was finding stations in a state opposite what they'd like. The poll's other options involved broken bikes or stations, a major complaint of the system's egregiously buggy early days.
You may notice that "too many bikes" and "not enough bikes" are mutually exclusive complaints, thus the conundrum of bike share rebalancing. Other cities have faced it. In Paris, for example, users accrue 15 extra minutes for returning a bike to on of the Vélib' system's Bonus V+ stations located at higher elevations. (Here's a map. And just for fun, here's a map of Paris' most famous churches. Notice the overlap.) New York City is a bit trickier, as it's not necessarily a matter of static geography but of fluid urban movement: Different places simply attract people at different times and on different days.
It's not an uncrackable problem, but its contours aren't as immediately evident as those of hills. In a July Reddit chat, a Citi Bike engineer said that they're working on it and will get better as the system pulls in more usage data. Until then, New Yorkers will have to grin complain and bear it like they do other factors of city life.
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'Completely hilarious . . . kind of The League of Gentlemen for kids' Zoe Ball Shabba me whiskers! It's a bold new look for Mr Gum, the best-selling cult classic, ready for a new generation of nibbleheads. Mr Gum's back! But what's he up to this time? Oh, dreadful things my friends, dreadful things indeed. It seems he's found himself a brand new treat – rancid kebabs just dripping with dirty grey sauce. And he just can't get enough of them. He's gotta have more! More! Less! I mean, More! But not everyone's too happy about Mr Gum's new dinnertime arrangements and soon the town of Lamonic Bibber is gearing up for war. Can Polly and her friends save the town from being torn apart? Will Mr Gum's hunger ever be satisfied? And who on earth is Thora Gruntwinkle? All will be revealed when you read "What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?" You'll see a gingerbread man driving through London! You'll see an annoying little monkey driving everyone mad! You'll see Friday O'Leary falling asleep in a hedge! Yes, it's all there in glorious black and white, my friends. Except for the cover, which is in colour. It's Bonus. What's for Dinner, Mr Gum? is the sixth book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children's Book Award. Don't miss Mr Gum's other villainously brilliant adventures… You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire Mr Gum and the Goblins Mr Gum and the Power Crystals Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear What's for Dinner, Mr Gum? Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout Andy Stanton studied English at Oxford but they kicked him out. Before becoming a children's writer he was a film script reader, a market researcher, an NHS lackey, a part-time sparrow and a grape. He is best known for the hilarious, bestselling and award-winning Mr Gum series and has also written picture books, including Danny McGee Drinks the Sea. Andy lives in North London and likes cartoons, books and music (even jazz). David Tazzyman studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University. As well as illustrating the Mr Gum series, he has illustrated many picture books Eleanor's Eyebrows, You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus, Michael Rosen's Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots and My Mum's Growing Down by Laura Dockrill. He lives in Leicester with his wife and three sons.
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Everything we know about Denver's proposed massive music festival
By Dylan Owens and Jon Murray, Special to The Denver Post Jul 18, 2017, 5:36 pm
Denver's Overland Park Golf Course has been selected by festival promoter Superfly as the venue for its next massive music festival. Superfly also hosts Bonnaroo and Outside Lands festivals. (Gabriel Scarlett, The Denver Post)
On Tuesday, the City of Denver released the negotiated terms for allowing festival organizer Superfly Productions, the promoter behind Outside Lands and Bonnaroo, two of the country's larger music events, to hold a large-scale music festival at Overland Park, a city-owned golf course in Denver's Ruby Hill neighborhood.
City officials and Superfly had been in talks for months, and now the contract goes to the City Council — which could vote as soon as Monday.
If the contract passes the council vote, the festival will be officially sanctioned, allowing Superfly to go forward with the event for at least the next five years.
With its fate still up in the air, here's what we do and don't know about the pending festival.
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Is the festival actually going to happen? It's hard to say. Some Denver City Council members, including Jolon Clark — whose south Denver district includes Overland Park Golf Course — have viewed the idea favorably. Others were waiting to see the contract's details, which they'll now review in depth before Monday's meeting.
Councilman Paul Kashmann is among those who have said they want to ensure there are enough protections for neighbors and sufficient plans required to get to attendees to the site, keep parking away from the adjacent neighborhoods and address other potential issues.
The council will let supporters and opponents sound off during a one-hour public hearing at its 5:30 p.m. meeting on July 24. It could then vote to approve the contract — or hold off for another week if council members want more time to digest the agreement.
How many years would the festival be in Denver? The contract stipulates a five-year deal (ending in 2022), but that could change if the first year doesn't go smoothly or there are breaches of the terms. The contract would be reevaluated after the term ends.
When would the festival take place? From noon to 10 p.m. on the second or third weekend (Friday through Sunday) of September 2018.
How big will it be? Organizers envision 30,000 to 40,000 attendees each day in the first year, with the crowd growing after that. The contract caps attendance at 80,000 a day.
How will you get to the festival? According to Grace López Ramírez, the community liaison for Denver's Office of Special Events, organizers are planning on promoting this as a no-driving festival. Superfly would provide a free bike valet and a shuttle system to the festival from satellite parking — perhaps in central Denver — as well as a ride-share kiosk. The organizer also is talking to the Regional Transportation District about transit access for festival-goers.
Music fans walk by the Sutro Stage as the Alabama Shakes perform during Day 2 of the 2012 Outside Lands Music Festival held at Golden Gate Park on August 11, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Trixie Textor, Getty Images)
What bands will play the festival? The festival hasn't been confirmed yet, so it's too early to tell. Headlining acts for a festival of this size typically book shows a year out, according to Superfly co-founder Rick Farman, which would mean the organizers would likely know by September. But even then, for marketing purposes, they likely wouldn't announce anything until closer to the festival's date.
Farman said that the festival would look to book a wide range of acts that represented Denver's tastes, referencing bands that appealed to older and younger audiences. The festival would also look to book acts from the local music scene, and mentioned the possibility of an all-local stage. For a point of reference, you could look to Lost Lake Festival, a brand new Superfly festival in Phoenix that would be similarly sized to the one in Denver. The Killers, Chance the Rapper, Major Lazer and ODESZA are headlining the festival's first year.
How loud will the festival be? The festival would be required to comply with the city's noise ordinance, sets limits for sound produced by amplifiers at events. There also will be a plan to monitor sound levels on the grounds and in a nearby neighborhood.
How many stages will there be? There would be four stages total: A main stage, two auxiliary music stages and a comedy stage. But organizers caution that the festival's layout could change.
What will the festival be called? All of the festival's marketing information is still forthcoming, including its name.
How much is this costing Superfly? Superfly would rent Overland Park golf course for $200,000, and pay $5,000 for every day they may need at the course over the 5-week period they're allotted for set-up and tear-down. They'd also pay $90,000 to the Golf Enterprise Fund for landscaping work, and $25,000 to provide a golfer discount for displaced golfers to play at other city courses during the closure. Superfly would also pay for all of the city's labor costs while it rents the park, such as rangers and maintenance staff. In exchange, the city would waive the expected expenses for police, fire and waste management, up to $200,000.
Will any of the money from ticket sales benefit Denver? The city of Denver will receive a seat tax of 10 percent of ticket sales. Two dollars of every ticket sold will go to the Golf Enterprise Fund, and an additional $1 of every ticket sold will go into a fund to benefit Overland Park Golf Course and its surrounding neighborhoods.
Superfly has selected the Overland Park Golf Course as the venue for its next massive music festival in Denver, Colorado. (Gabriel Scarlett, The Denver Post)
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How long would the Overland golf course be closed? The golf course will be closed for about 5 weeks. It will close two weeks prior to the festival to accommodate the load in, and reopen three weeks after the festival to give Superfly time to clean up the site.
What if the festival trashes the golf course? Superfly is expected to return Overland to the condition they found it, if not better. The city will hold a $50,000 damage deposit from Superfly that can be refunded if an independent firm judges the site to be up to standard. The festival organizer also must take out insurance and a $1.5 million bond.
How will the city protect the golf course? Superfly will have to fence off greens and tee boxes, along with natural areas on the course, during the event. Its plans call for the main stage to be on the driving range, with other stages on fairways.
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"No Time To Die" is the theme song of the upcoming James Bond film of the same name, and was written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell, who produces all of Eilish's tracks.
"No Time To Die" was recorded in Eilish and O'Connell's bedroom studio, and Eilish is the youngest artist in history to record and write a James Bond theme song, at the tender age of 18. In an interview in January 2020, Eilish spoke about the creation of the song to Variety magazine: "It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way. To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honor. James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I'm still in shock." Eilish's co-writer and producer as well as brother, Finneas O'Connell also spoke in the interview, adding: "Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we've been dreaming about doing our entire lives. There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of Goldfinger and Live and Let Die. We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise, long live 007."
Since the track was just released, there is currently no official music video. However, the official audio upload on YouTube that was uploaded yesterday, has over 5.3 million views and 616 thousand likes – as well as currently holding the #1 spot on the "Trending" tab on YouTube.
Release Date: 13th February 2020
Songwriter/s: Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell
Producer/s: Stephen Lipson & Finneas O'Connell
Label/s: Darkroom / Interscope
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Troy Ave appeared on Noreaga's 'Drink Champs' podcast and pleaded his innocence insisting he had nothing to do with the shooting that took place at Irving Plaza in 2016. Instead he confirms that the gun he was seen shooting on surveillance that fatal night belonged to Daryl "Taxstone" Campbell.
In two months, Taxstone's trial is set to begin for the murder of Troy Ave's bodyguard, Ronald "Banga" McPhatter. Tax is facing a life sentence for the fatal shootout after police found his DNA on the 9-millimeter Kel-Tec semi-automatic handgun's trigger, handgrip, and magazine. After a history of online beef Taxstone and Troy Ave allegedly got into a dispute, which resulted in shots fired in a crowded VIP room at the concert venue spilling into the main area where four people were injured.
Troy Ave discusses his past and present and how the case has affected his life.
"I lost so much money and, more importantly, I lost custody of my kids," said Troy Ave about how this has changed his life. "N***a, I'm still out on bail right now, half a million dollar bail." He went on to address the snitching allegations, saying: "Now when people sayin' I'm telling this person and telling that person whatever, I said in a line that I'm only loyal to my fam, middle finger from the stand, you saying it's me when it's you. That means that that person already went and said it was me. Period! This is court documented. That person already went and implicated me in crimes that I had nothing to do with. I'd be in jail right now if I had something to do with it. I had nothing to do with it."
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If you're going from College Station to Dallas, as we were toward the end of September 2019, it's nearly a straight shot due north, either up to Corsicana and I-45 or over to Waco and up I-35.
But we didn't go that way. Instead, we detoured a full day out of the way, for one very specific reason: for a few years running at the NAB Show out in Las Vegas, we enjoyed seeing exhibits that had come from Chuck Conrad's Texas Museum of Broadcasting and Communications in Kilgore, Texas, and we were not leaving Texas this time without paying a visit.
The museum building
Front room of the museum
Unless you're going from Dallas to Texarkana, Kilgore's not really on the way to much of anywhere. It's the heart of East Texas' historic oil country (the replica derricks right in the middle of town are a good clue), a few miles south of I-20 and just under two hours east of Dallas, if traffic's not too bad.
A few blocks off the main drag, you'll find the museum, occupying a big building that was built as a car dealership. And what a building!
The showroom space in front gives us just a taste of what's waiting inside – a big room filled with TV cameras, tape recorders, microphones, and TVs. There's an impossibly rare DuMont Electronicam, that bizarre hybrid designed to provide a live TV image and a simultaneous film capture for later rebroadcast.
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KRLD-TV's GE camera
Over there on the side is one of the GE field cameras that was part of the equipment roster at KRLD-TV in Dallas in November 1963 – and while it may not have been this exact camera that captured the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald and his assassination by Jack Ruby, it was at least one of its twins. (This camera's been loaned to the Sixth Floor Museum at the School Book Depository and the Newseum in Washington for exhibits.)
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From Dallas competitor WFAA-TV came an early RCA TK-41 color camera, just one of many treasures here. What's that along the back wall? A majestic collection of Philco Predicta TVs, some still in working condition. (And among the other TVs on display here, much to our surprise, we find an exact match for the little 5″ black-and-white portable set, vintage 1987, that once graced the dorm room of my college girlfriend, now spouse of many years!)
A display room at the museum
Chuck in a radio control room
Another part of the former showroom just behind the front room is packed to the gills with radios and phonographs, sales displays from long-defunct retailers, and many more treasures.
And then behind that – well, we'll get there in a moment. First, though, we check out a couple of the side rooms off the entrance gallery. There's a small space that's been fitted out as a fully-functional radio studio, complete with exotic things like "turntables" and "cart machines" that routinely impress (or perhaps flummox) visiting school groups of the early 21st century.
TV control room
There's a TV control room, with pieces and parts that came out of various area TV stations as they remodeled and moved over the years. (A neat exhibit here traces the short history of KLMG, channel 51 in nearby Longview, owned in the early 1980s by Clara McLaughlin, the first Black woman to own a TV station in the U.S.; plans to build out a four-station East Texas network fell apart, and eventually channel 51 went bankrupt, was sold, became a Fox affiliate, moved to Tyler, and we'll catch up with that in next week's installment.)
Did we mention there's a huge back room, the old service bays for the dealership? This space is – well, was, and eventually once again will be – rented out for events, including the Texas Radio Hall of Fame's induction ceremonies. Several corners of the big room hold Texas-sized displays: there's the set for the movie shows from channel 51's early Fox affiliate days, and a castoff set from the area's NBC affiliate, KETK (Channel 56). (It's set up with live cameras and a prompter so schoolkids can play news anchor there, too.)
Old KETK set
Radio exhibits
There are several displays of entire studios from area radio stations, including KCUL in nearby Marshall; as further proof your editor's early radio days were many decades ago, the first digital audio editing workstation I ever used, circa 1993, is on display as an exhibit here. (20 whole minutes of storage on the biggest hard drives of the day!!)
Cameras and the ESPN truck
Inside the ESPN truck
Which brings us around to the big open part of the back room – and two of the most impressive exhibits Chuck has on display. There were five mobile trucks commissioned for ESPN's launch in 1979, and of those, the last survivor, truck 327, is on display here, preserved and open for visitors to look around inside.
Vintage VTRs
The KBTV Telecruiser
There are more recent historic TV cameras here (that one from WPIX in New York, which was used on Yankees remotes in the 1980s, was on display at NAB in Vegas not long ago), and lots of VTRs going back to the quad era, and… well, feast your eyes on the finest DuMont Telecruiser Model B in existence. This Flxible bus was converted into a TV control room on wheels way back in 1949, when it belonged to the first TV station in Dallas, KBTV channel 8, founded by Kilgore oilman Tom Potter.
KBTV soon became WFAA-TV (you'll hear much more about that in a couple of weeks), the cruiser was repainted, and it stayed in use into the early 1970s. Among other things, it originated the network pool feed for the funeral of J.D. Tippit, the Dallas police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Telecruiser, upon discovery
The Telecruiser
And then it was obsolete, sold off and left to rot in a field – at least until Chuck found it more than a decade ago and set about what turned out to be a lengthy labor of love. Restored chrome, restored paint, a rebuilt interior with period-appropriate electronics – it's a gorgeous piece of history and enough reason all by itself to make the trek to Kilgore.
Inside the Telecruiser
QX-FM, next door
So if you're the kind of person who enjoys reading the history we chronicle in these pages, put Kilgore and Chuck's museum on your list of eventual travel destinations. It's well worth the detour!
And while you're in town, listen to Chuck's own radio stations, too – in a building right next door to the museum are the offices of Chalk Hill Communications, operator of classic hits KDOK (1240, plus four East Texas translators) and KZQX (100.3, plus a translator on 97.9 in Tyler), which plays a fun mix of standards and older soft AC tunes as "QX-FM."
Thanks to Chuck Conrad for the tour!
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This is the 20th year we have been publishing our calendar. In addition to the beautiful cover shot of WEJL, we have photos from New Jersey, Nebraska, Texas, and much more!
You can get the regular calendar, or you can order a storage bag for it if you keep them, or you can get it signed by Scott (and get a complimentary bag).
And when you're purchasing your calendar, don't forget to take a look at the other great products in our store.
And don't miss a big batch of East Texas IDs next Wednesday, over at our sister site, TopHour.com!
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In a letter to the commemoration participants, President Andrzej Duda called the Wujek victims national heroes with a deserved place in the pantheon of Polish freedom fighters, and compared them to the generation which struggled for Poland's 1918-restored independence.
"Despite different eras and circumstances, they shared a love of their country and a relentless striving to liberate the (Polish - PAP) people from the hegemony that had been imposed upon them. I am certain that because of their courageous stance, they all fully deserve to be a source of inspiration for us contemporary Poles and future generations," the president wrote.
Addressing the commemorations, PM Mateusz Morawiecki recalled that those years were decisive for Poland's future and confirmed that "for Poles the struggle for freedom and independence is worth the highest sacrifice, the sacrifice of their own lives."
He added that there were forces in the world that wished to present a false picture of Polish history, and stressed that this was why the Poles had to "nurture remembrance and truth."
"Remembrance and truth must be nurtured (...), because all the time various forces are trying to change and falsify Polish history," Morawiecki said.
Recounting the death of the Wujek miners, Morawiecki stressed that thanks to their heroic stance against the communists Poland's path to freedom "remained open despite the black night of martial law."
In his address, Solidarity Union leader Piotr Duda said the Wujek victims were the union's heroes, who brought the country freedom, and called it "a crying shame" that no memorial to them has been erected in Warsaw.
On December 16, 1981, three days after the imposition of martial law in Poland by the country's communist authorities, a strike in Katowice's Wujek coal mine was brutally suppressed by armoured riot police units. Nine miners were killed in the clashes.


You know you have Young Adult Syndrome when you're expected by your elders to run on the infinite batteries of youth because, well, you have the elixir of youth instead of orange juice for breakfast, don't you? When your middle-aged or older relatives start getting aches and pains, they look at you lounging in your easy chair and go, "Look at you, get me this, that and the other, and then go around and pick that up, and don't make that face, you're still young!" I know immediately getting up and obeying is what is proper, but I confess it does get tiring when you can't sit still for any amount of time because the elders have you get up every few minutes to do something or – icing on the cake – don't even let you sit down between one task and the other. OK, yeah, I'm complaining, but hear me out: I'm trying to make a point here.
The point is this: we youngsters don't run on electricity. More importantly, youth – as the previous generation remembers it – is not at all the same as the youth this generation has received. We're getting aches and pains and blood pressure and what not way before they did. We don't have the same diet, the same routine; therefore, we don't have the same energy. You can knock down all the energy drinks you want, but you still can't beat the natural high that your parents and grandparents got when they were young. Now that I've touched upon grandparents, let me appreciate that since they have observed the youth of their children, they are not so hard on their grandchildren. They have seen their children succumb to "old age diseases" twenty years before they did; they have seen them lose sleep and age quickly, and therefore they don't expect a higher quality of youth two generations down the road. They are realistic, and for that I am eternally grateful.
Why? That is because as far as parents are concerned, they have yet to realise that generation Y, or alpha omega Cornetto (whatever one we're on now), is not as rough, tough and ready to rumble as they were. We've had the juice sucked out of us by our erratic sleep patterns, wonky food intake, and you know all the rest. I can't help but suspect that there is some underlying factor beyond all this that affects the vitality of youngsters. Perhaps it's just being above the poverty line that makes us so feeble. The youth working away in the fields and furnaces seems to be as lively as ever, or maybe that is just how I see it.
Don't get me wrong, the youth is engaged in as many productive and constructive efforts as ever before. Whether it be the skill of churning out perfectly crafted fondant rosette after rosette on a handmade made-to-order cake, or raising money for a good cause, the youth has it and knows how to rock it. However, you have to talk to teachers, or other people who observe year after year to know how depression cases are increasing and emotional disturbances are spreading. All work and no play may make Jack a dull boy, but an entertainment-focused lifestyle is sure to get to your nerves in the end. It's like Sean Covey says in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers: family, friends, entertainment, school and all the rest are part of your life. Any one of them should not be the centre of your life. Your life should be principle-centred (honesty, hard work, faith, and so on are principles) because principles never fail you.
Still, I think even if become principle-centred, we cannot live as voraciously and energetically as our grandparents or even parents did. We have to find our own niche in the world and live as healthful and balanced a life as possible, with our own level of highs and lows. Also, we have to grow a thick skin against carefree remarks made about youth, because in the end, we are still going to hear the same old, "You're young! You should be full of life!" comments from our good old parents.
Those days when you can't come up with a killer hashtag for your latest dine-out meal's photo are the worst. The worst, I tell you. Everyone's Instagram updates (puh-lease, Facebook check-ins are so yesterday) are overflowing with snazzy snaps of yummylicious food but the real foodies are those who tag their photos effectively. Of course, my Instagram is public. Want to show up in the "explore" pages of all the happening folks, yo.
Which brings me to the word "foodie". Every Tahir, Danial and Harris calls himself a foodie nowadays. Huh. They think hanging around MM Alam, drinking designer coffee, and ordering customized cupcakes to go counts as foodie material. Time to wake up, dreamers. Real foodies only go out to the most exclusive restaurants, discovered ethnic cuisine before you even heard the word "Thai", and only drink hipster chai tea. Yes, it's "chai tea". Not chai, not tea; chai tea. If the gora calls it chai tea the desi foodie shall call it chai tea also. Don't worry if you can't grasp it yet. You probably still drink Nescafe sachet coffee.
Frozen yogurt is for people who can't afford Movenpick. Piling up toppings onto huge dollops of frozen yogurt like there's no tomorrow, is not classy. Going to high-end restaurant and paying top dollar for a microscopic scoop of pure heaven is the real deal. Taking a cool photo with your DSLR macro lens makes it all worth it. What, you're still using the "food" mode on your point-and-shoot? Gosh, I don't even know why I waste my time with you.
Let me walk you through the basic dine-out, you poor uninformed thing. First, there's the pre-dine-out meet-up at someone's place, where we take selfies and group photos. This is a good point to upload a photo to Instagram and announce how much fun we're having. Then, it's time to pile up into the car and tell the driver where to go. On the way, it's perfectly legit to touch up makeup, rearrange hair, or even do a full makeover on the guinea-pig tagalong of the group. (Don't tell me you don't know what that is. That's the socially bankrupt, wannabe coolster classmate we let come along with us because we're just that generous.) Then, upon arrival at the destination, we all make a graceful exit from the car and take a photo next to the name of the restaurant. We wait until we get inside and use the restaurant's wifi to upload that photo. This is the critical time where hashtags must, must, must be up to the standard. We stake out the area – you must keep tabs on what the aunties at the next table are discussing, and which waiter seems overly pleased at the arrival of a group of dolled-up teenagers, and then we establish ourselves at the best table. It's perfectly fine to refuse the table the maitre d' picks for us. We can wangle our way to the table we choose. We take as much time giggling and fussing over the menu as we want. After placing the order, it's time to hit the ladies' room for—you guessed it—more selfies! Polishing off the meal is no issue. Taking the perfect shot of it is. This is the part where we upload the photographic masterpiece to Instagram. Rounding up the meal with a dainty dessert, it's time to pile into the car again and go home for a good old fashioned gossip session. There you have it, your basic dine-out, "the matchless experience" that is the best entertainment Lahore has to offer.