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Only Super Trump Can Beat Trump
November 24, 2021 Mark Noonan
There is much talk about Trump. This is in itself astonishing – never has the guy who allegedly lost a Presidential election commanded this much attention a year later. That he's still a massive topic of discussion shows the historic nature of his Presidency.
A lot of the talk is a bit of whistling past the graveyard. Especially a lot of Never Trump who didn't go Full Democrat are certain that Trump is a fading commodity and we can all just move on from him. For the moment, their eyes are fixed firmly on Ron DeSantis…whom I think we all agree would be a fine President, but we also have our doubts about him. Not on basic policy, but on attitude. And that, I think, is why Trump stubbornly won't fade away.
We on the right do want a good policy President. And we'd like a President who is much better at picking staff than Trump proved. And we don't need daily drama. OTOH, we also know that more than ever, we need a fighter. Someone who will, day in and day out, go toe to toe with our opponents and never let up for a minute. Is DeSantis that guy? He does fight pretty well…but are we sure that when push comes to shove he'll choose us rather than the Ruling Class? I think for DeSantis, or anyone other than Trump, they are going to have to really prove it to us.
Now, if Trump decides not to run – he will be 78, after all – then all bets are off. The race will be anyone's for the taking. But even there, the person who gets the nod will be the person who most firmly convinces us that they are unafraid of a four year long slog of fighting. Because we have to have a fight. We can't afford to compromise even a bit. We win, they lose: that has to be our goal.
The best and easiest way for any putative standard-bearer to make their mark is to simply defend the 1/6 defendants. Even Trump hasn't been out front on that – and if he runs, the only way anyone will be able to attack Trump successfully will be from the right. As I said in 2016 when Trump was the front runner, the only way to beat Trump is to out-Trump him. Cruz tried, but I think he tried too late. But if you want to be the man, you have to beat the man…and nobody is going to beat Trump by going softer than Trump.
The crucial thing to know is that the old rules don't apply. They really haven't applied since the Democrats cooked up Watergate into a Presidency-destroying scandal. I mean, what is Watergate compared to Gore taking sacks of cash from monks pledged to poverty? You get the picture: whatever was wrong about Watergate, it wasn't anything to get too worked up about. But that is when the Democrats, using their cat's paws in the MSM, started making all political battles scorched Earth battles. But from Watergate to Trump, the GOP never engaged. We worked on the assumption that Democrats, like us, want what is best for America. Uh, no: what Democrats want is what is best for Democrats. All other considerations come in a distant second. They do this because they sincerely believe that basic human decency requires Democrats to be in charge. That we see it differently doesn't matter – and is irrelevant. What we must do in response is what we've always had to do but refused: sincerely believe that basic human decency requires the GOP to be in charge.
It isn't a very large mental shift, but it is a necessary one – because it builds into the mind the need to always thwart the Democrats and always advance the GOP. Never compromise. Never give anything and if you really are forced to give them something, make certain that you get ten times as much for yourself. Never attack your own side; abandon those found to be corrupt, but don't attack them. Ignore them. If asked about one of ours who goes wrong, immediately launch into an attack on a Democrat who did similar. Always cast Democrat programs in the darkest possible terms – it is easy to do because all their supposed social programs are mere grift to payoff donors. What is being done against CRT is the template – the old GOP might have merely quibbled around the edges while essentially conceding the main point. But the people battling CRT started with the assertion that CRT is evil…and they've forced the Democrats into the untenable position of defending the worst aspects of CRT…and it is working for us. It played a huge role in winning Virginia.
It is all a very long way to 2024, but I think I can be safe in saying that how it will come out won't be in anyone's predictive model. We're in flux. We're in danger of civil war, actually. None of the old political certainties are holding up. Liberals in San Francisco are buying guns while working class Latino voters are for the first time casting GOP votes. Meanwhile, upper class white people with a college degree become even stronger for the Democrats. Victory and disaster stare us in the face: we'll get one or the other. And only a fighter – backed by fighters – can prevail.
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23 thoughts on "Only Super Trump Can Beat Trump"
Retired Spook November 24, 2021 / 8:29 am
If asked about one of ours who goes wrong, immediately launch into an attack on a Democrat who did similar.
I had this discussion with my son-in-law a while back when he accused me of engaging in whataboutism. My response was, in a time when one side (Democrats) constantly accuses the other of doing what THEY themselves have done or are doing (ie., colluding with the Russians) then "whataboutism is not only just, it's a moral imperative. He never brought it up again.
Cluster November 24, 2021 / 8:55 am
I think Democrats are beginning to realize that the extreme woke Left of their party which they have lived in fear of, is beginning to consume and destroy that party and their electoral chances. I have learned that watching MSNBC is in reality watching a Democrat planning session in real time and this morning the panic was real. Jimmy Neutron (Joey Scarborough) was fretting over inflation and crime and Democrats inability to solve either and what that might portend for 2022. A couple other panel members chimed in claiming that the 2020 election was an election where the electorate wanted a "return to normal" from the "drama" of Trump. Now aside from the fact that MSNBC is 90% responsible for the "drama" surrounding Trump, a fact which was entirely lost on them of course, this was an accurate observation which leads me to this conclusion. Covid is going away. My prediction is that come early Spring, the manufactured numbers of Covid will begin to plummet, mandates will wane, restrictions will ease, and Biden will declare victory over the most dangerous pandemic known to man. Democrats need a victory and Covid is an easy one.
And IF Republicans were smart, they would begin to track the infrastructure money and let their constituents know exactly where that money is going because just like Obama's $800 billion dollar infrastructure bill in 2009, shovel ready jobs won't be so shovel ready and most of that money will help Democrats, not average Americans.
Amazona November 24, 2021 / 12:03 pm
I think there is a growing sense that we need a bulldozer to plow through the incredible messes created and being created by Biden, and if Trump is anything it is a bulldozer. Add to that the fact that there hasn't seemed to be anyone on the Left who could challenge him.
But I see two things on the horizon. One, just revealed, is Tulsi Gabbard. As I pointed out last night, she has suddenly popped up on media radar—-and the media are ours. From being a former Rep out there on a Pacific Island giving an opinion every now and then she is suddenly on talk shows in New York. A couple of years ago she didn't stand a chance against the Dem machine placeholders like Warren and Sanders who were demanding their turn and, of course, Biden. This is a different Dem scenario, and if they are not desperate they should be.
I think Cluster made a good point about the country wanting to stop the drama, and Gabbard is the most calm, rational-appearing and undramatic candidate they could find. She's a woman, which checks one box. She's a veteran, which would appeal to independents. She's young, well-spoken and articulate, and she's pretty.
The other storm cloud I see rising is vaccinations. I don't see how we can go on for another three years poisoning out people. When this blows up, and I don't see how it cannot blow up, I think it will be a Hiroshima/Nagasaki explosion and there will be blowback on Trump. Who brought Fauci in? Trump. Who pushed rapid development of the vaccines? Trump. Who first promoted vaccination and told us it was safe? Trump. He'll be tagged as the guy responsible for the vax deaths and injuries. We already know that about half of the electorate is as dumb as a box of hammers, so blaming Trump will fit right in with the old narrative that made the last election stealable.
If I am right, the next election could be between an old bull with baggage that can now be claimed to include responsibility for the greatest human rights attack in our history against a fresh young newcomer with no negative baggage and an appealing persona. One is often barely articulate, the other is glib and an excellent communicator.
And we are, at this point in time, stuck with that possible paradigm, because we as a party have still not moved away from Identity Politics into ideology—-a word that has, by the way, been effectively demonized by the Left. In an Identity Politics battle, someone like Gabbard is going to win because she checks the boxes the Left will come up with. It will be female vs male, young vs old, articulate vs not so much sometimes, no baggage vs tons of it, and most of all the image of calm and reasonable vs barn-burner. A Gabbard candidacy would leave the radicals in the dust, but there aren't that many of them, but suck in Independents and anti-Trumpers like a Hoover. (vac, not pres)
I see the best move now to be a preemptive one by Trump. That is, a full hour on prime time TV in which he does a major and sincere mea culpa, takes responsibility for bringing in Fauci and believing him and the CDC, talks about being lied to by the experts he should have been able to count on, spends a solid fifteen minutes on this, then goes into a full exposure of the dangers of the vaccine and most of all the culpability of the current administration in continuing to push it even with full knowledge of those dangers. The one thing he has going for him right now is that the data on the vax deaths and injuries did not come out on his watch. He pushed for a fast development, but after that he handed it over to Biden and Biden's CDC and media. I think if he were the one to blow the lid off this, he would be a super hero and clear the decks of future accusations trying to drag him into the muck.
And once the public starts to move to Trump's side on this, they are likely to stay there in an election.
This would sweep the legs out from under everyone in the current Dem administration, including a lot in Congress, and set the stage for a Trump presidency as he could then run on cleaning house in the other corrupt corners of government. A campaign that focused on bringing to justice the people who callously caused such great harm to the nation would be explosive, but drama in a good way, and throwing in the DOJ/FBI would make for a dynamic campaign. This is the kind of drama that would be good drama and energy, and I think the only way to balance a campaign that would be based to a great extent on the other side being so calm and undramatic.
Also, if DeSantis had to step in for Trump, I am very sure he could handle it. I haven't seen a hint of quit in the man. He is as tough as Trump, maybe a little more focused, and reminds me of our last Happy Warrior. DeSantis is having fun chopping Dems into fish bait. (That's a Florida reference)
And an election matching a young dynamic DeSantis against a young dynamic Gabbard would then by definition have to fall back on ideology. And as a Democrat, she would have to either throw the Leftist big-government top-down Constitution-bending ideology under the bus, upsetting the base even more, or run with it around her neck against a seasoned governor who has been not only fighting that model but winning against it. Too bad he couldn't bring in Winsome Sears as his running mate, because in reality we can't completely ignore Identity Politics.
Trump could run for the House and become Speaker, under a President DeSantis, and really freak out the Left. Some pundit recently claimed that there is no requirement for the Speaker to even be a Representative. If you're going to play the game, might as well play hard.
The anniversary date of November 22 reminded me of the last time a dynamic young Democrat military veteran with Congressional credits went up against an old Republican war horse with baggage and a personality deficit. That election still took some vote manipulation to win, but we still saw how it turned out.
Last night a comedian guest on Gutfeld! said "If I was told I only had three months to live I'd watch The View to make it seem longer".
What this guy said … Happy Thanksgiving everyone
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/mark-brnovich-like-a-freaking-boss/
Retired Spook November 25, 2021 / 10:24 am
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Cluster, and everyone else. I'm thankful that we're still free in most parts of the country.
Echoing the wishes for a happy Thanksgiving. There is still a lot to be thankful for.
The Democrat and the Media narrative is 100% responsible for the Waukesha massacre. They are the extremists, they are the racists, and they are a direct threat to our Republic
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/paul-joseph-watson-the-truth-about-the-waukesha-killer/
Amazona November 25, 2021 / 3:18 pm
One of these is the fact that even radical Lefty goofball Debra Messing can see through the dishonesty of wikipedia's wokepedia's silly effort to downplay the massacre in Waukesha by calling it the "2021 Waukeshas Christmas Parade Car Crash".
Debra Messing✍🏻
@DebraMessing
Dear Mainstream Media—a man intentionally drove his car through a parade killing 6 and injuring 50+.
It was not an ACCIDENT.
🔥Call it by its name🔥#WaukeshaMassacre
And it was a domestic terror attack.
Don't minimize. Please.
Some Lefties even thought the "car crash" label was too harsh. "A request that this article title be changed to 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade incident is under discussion.""
The comments about the linked article are sometimes funny. It was a mostly peaceful massacre by a mostly peaceful black man, loved by his mother was probably the best.
Most relevant: "Is there going to be an individual I divert or I put in the treatment program who is going to go out and kill somebody? You bet, guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."
John Chisholm in 2007 (as reported by Fox News on "The Five")
—now Milwaukee County DA
Cluster November 25, 2021 / 3:29 pm
Waukesha was simply a black supremacist killing white people. And the cowards in this country will never be able to recognize that fact.
Two headlines this morning lays bare the reality of how Democrats govern:
Thieves make off with $20,000 of products from California Apple store:
More than 60,000 homes and businesses in Southern California are left without power on Thanksgiving after utility company cut service as strong winds raised the risk of wildfires
So they don't enforce laws and can't keep the electricity on, but other than that, I hear they care about the working class.
Maybe now that Apple's ox is being gored the company will revise its SJ equity policies
A new day, a new crisis in Joe Biden's America. Stay safe !!
'It is coming': NY Gov. Kathy Hochul declares state of emergency in response to new Covid variant after Biden banned travel from eight African countries:
I've always wondered how a country like the United States could possibly become a dystopian society, ie., Divergence, Hunger Games, etc.. I think we're seeing it play out in real time.
Is she still alive???
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bag-lady-is-not-happy-with-trump-supporters/
Cluster November 27, 2021 / 10:07 am
Well here it is folks, straight from the true power source in the Democrat Party … MSNBC. I mentioned this the other day and now Jimmy Neutron, aka Joey Scarborough is also saying that Covid goes away next year. Why?? Because the Democrats need a win and since they are clueless on the economy, crime, and foreign affairs, the easy one to fix is Covid. And the last sentence reveals why …
"I, I, I said it before, Mika. I suspect that, eventually, inflation will cycle out. It may get worse before it gets better. Oil may go up to $100 per barrel. And, you also — we may have another surge in COVID. I do think, though, especially COVID, washes out in the spring; all the advancements that we're making. I really do believe—and this is the importance, the important thing—that Americans are going to see a return to normalcy, as far as shutdowns and COVID mandates. I think we will see that next year. And the party in power will benefit from that."
Ok this is just too funny not to post, and it so perfectly exposes the current intellect dominating the Democrat Party … these are truly stupid people. Here's a former Philadelphia police commissioner commenting on the recent surge in retail crime:
"Many of the young people we arrested had no previous criminal records. And why they were getting involved in something like this I have no idea . . . So I don't know what's driving this."
So he has no clue why these stellar young people would engage in crime but just a few seconds later, he makes this comment:
"The punishment for this kind of crime is very, very minimal. In most cases it's a misdemeanor. There are some DAs that have flat-out said they're no longer going to prosecute shoplifting."
hahahahahahaha and the panel nodded right along in agreement. And these are the people who are going to save the planet LMAO!!!!
YCMTSU.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2021/11/26/cnn-analyst-has-no-idea-whats-behind-smash-grab-robbery-wave
This kind of utter stupidity is so easy to ridicule, but unless Conservatives have a national platform (like Amazona has often talked about), it's just falling on deaf ears or preaching to the choir. Ridicule (one of Alinsky's most effective principles) is one of the few tactics of the Left that we ought to emulate every chance we get.
The recent SNL skit "Are You A Republican" did a great job of this. The fact that the group now owning CNN has John Malone as a major partner, and that he has talked about the need for CNN to get back to actual journalism, might be a good sign.
Malone owns huge swaths of land in the same small Wyoming County where Phil Anschutz and Timothy Mellon have land. Anschutz used to own the movie company that made the Narnia movie series, and demanded of the director that the Christian allegory that is at the heart of the book series be retained in the movies. He also owns the Washington Examiner and a local Colorado Springs newspaper, indicating an awareness of the need for right-leaning media. (He used to own National Review and dumped it when it veered off to the Left.) Mellon once wrote a million dollar check to the governor of Arizona to help in her defense against the lawsuit filed against her by Barack Obama, for enforcing immigration laws, and recently contributed nearly 98% of the donations to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's $54 million border wall fund,
This county in Wyoming is what I call the Billionaire Boys' Club, and it is pretty well-kept secret. Another in the club, or at least eager to be accepted in it, is Bruce White, who owns most of the Marriott chain. The amount of money concentrated in this obscure little county is amazing, and these guys all know each other. If Anschutz and Mellon and Malone are taking a slightly more public stance this might indicate some movement toward a more robust involvement in national politics.
Uhhhh- just spitballing here, but could it be that these rioters, vandals, arsonists, thieves and assaulters don't have criminal records because no one has ever prosecuted them for any of these crimes?
Jes' sayin'
And, to continue this line of pure speculation, could they be continuing to do these things because they know there will never be any consequences?
Just thinking of some theories for the CNN "journalists" to pursue in their unending quest for explanations for what baffles them
Exactly. Retail crime is a no risk, all reward type venture right now. Nothing to lose, yet the genius police commissioner didn't connect the dots on that one. It's hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
Amazona November 28, 2021 / 12:28 am
Well, no risk for some. A security guard has died after he was shot while he protected a San Francisco Bay Area television news crew covering a smash-and-grab theft, part of a rash of organized retail crime in the region.
This was, however, a mostly peaceful social justice reparations activity engaged in by people with no criminal records, in a situation where some people did something and then a gun shot someone.

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2016 was truly a year of highs and lows for Africa and we've been tracking these milestones to understand how they're (re)defining consumer expectations. From entrepreneurial ventures to new killer apps, to big brand services and government initiatives, below we've highlighted only the very best of 2016's innovations and the 5 key African consumer trends they'll represent in 2017.
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Year of the (black) sheep!
With 2016 representing a year of social polarity, political extremism and further divisions, isolation has never felt so at home in the minds of the masses and the marginalized.
However, across the Middle East and Africa, 2017 will mark the year that a host of progressive brands and crowd-powered activist initiatives stand up for the repressed and the excluded.
Why? Because the expectation for more egalitarian societies has reached boiling point and, in 2017, ostracizing mentalities will no longer cut it for the majority of city-dwelling Africans. Many are all too familiar with the long-term negative effects of a divide and rule system, which today runs contrary to the aims of the continent (see the increasing convergence of the African Union).
Meanwhile, the exploding youth population is paving the way for a NEW AFRICAN NARRATIVE, one that snubs the parochial mind-set of those that came before. Young Africans are open to celebrating their differences, and seek brands willing to do the same.
So in 2017, expect to see more brands responding to these macro-shifts with new campaigns, empowering initiatives, and daring media, all heralding the rise of long-subdued or once taboo groups.
October 2016 saw Kenya host the first ever beauty pageant for people with albinism. Held in Nairobi, and an initiative of Kenya's first albino MP Isaac Mwaura (who also founded of the Albinism Society of Kenya), the event saw 20 contestants competing for titles and prizes. Activities involved in the national pageant included singing and dancing. In many parts of Africa, albinism is considered a curse, and albinos are discriminated against and regularly fall victim to violence.
August 2016 saw the launch of PrideTV: South Africa's first LGBT video-on-demand channel. Priced at ZAR 79 (USD 5.50) per month, over 200 titles were available at launch, including content from African directors and studios. PrideTV's content spans numerous genres – including documentaries, comedies, and dramas. Around 65% of the content is gay male focused, with 35% having a lesbian and transgender interest.
In August 2016, the Refugee Olympic Team competed in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. An initiative from the UN Refugee Agency and the International Olympic Committee, the team was made up of athletes from Syria, Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – all of whom had fled their countries in the face of violence, war and persecution. The Refugee Olympic Team competed in sports including swimming, running and judo.
October 2016 saw Angola-based Bantu Games launch Zungueira Run: a free video game based on Angolan peddler women who sell goods in the street from large bowls carried on their heads. The Temple Run-style game allows players to assume the character of a peddler woman (also known as Zungueira), to collect coins while running away from the taxman. Zungueira often experience harsh treatment by authorities trying to crack down on the informal economy, with heavy fines and threat of imprisonment in place to deter the street vendors. The game made it to the semi-finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition.
In November 2016, a group of five teenagers in Port Said organized the first mass bike-riding event to protest against the intolerance of female cyclists. Calling themselves 'There Is No Difference,' the group aim to promote cycling as a viable option for women and put an end to harassment of those who choose to cycle in the Egyptian city.
Not every form of activism must be forceful.
Choosing which group, and how to champion them, requires deep cultural insight and sensitivities towards the idiosyncrasies of your target market. Otherwise, there is a risk that your initiative might not be readily accepted by your customers or, worse still, go against the agenda of the community you're attempting to appease. Kenya's response to Obama's stance on gay rights, stands as a cautionary tale.
With this in mind, consider what strategies you can employ to not only empower the forsaken but carry the masses along too - in a non-patronizing and assertive (yet empathetic) manner.
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In 2017, brands will pay closer attention to increasingly affluent African consumers who are looking for new ways to splurge on mental and physical wellbeing.
As a wave of entrepreneurship continues to sweep across the continent, expectant patients welcome a more dynamic service delivery, regardless of cost implications. Of course – recessions aside – disposable cash from the emerging middle classes are key. This group amounts for almost 50% of Kenya's population, according to Kenya's National Bureau of Statistics.
Unlike in the West, where medical check-ups, fitness tracking devices and functioning health systems are ubiquitous, Africans have always taken it upon themselves to be wholly responsible for their own wellbeing. And with the ever-growing availability of health information online, the awareness of topical wellness issues (from gluten intolerance to internet addiction) is becoming more prominent in the mind of the average African consumer.
At the same time, social media has legitimized behavior once considered vain or boastful. A workout that isn't captured and shared with a selfie is a workout wasted – after all, healthy consumers accrue status in the eyes of their peers.
HAUTE HEALTH products, services, and experiences that promise wellbeing and let users tell a story are bound to cause delight in 2017.
LagosVegFest's 2016 theme was 'green living and yoga', with workshops and stalls showcasing food and fitness products and services designed for a healthy lifestyle. The three-day event, held in November 2016, included yoga classes from teachers across Nigeria, stalls showcasing vegetarian and vegan foods and events promoting green, sustainable living.
October 2016 saw the launch of the Bachir Mentouri internet rehab program in Algeria. The program treats those suffering the effects of internet addiction such as red eyes, headaches, anxiety and back pain. Treatment is funded by the Algerian government and includes counseling, meditation, exercise and music therapy.
Zipline began running a drone delivery service in Rwanda during November 2016. With an operational distance of 150km (93 miles), the drones are being used to provide blood, plasma and coagulants to hospitals in rural areas of Rwanda, landing thanks to parachutes which are attached to the small packages. The battery-powered drones guide themselves via GPS system, and the service is paid for by Rwanda's health department on a per-delivery basis.
During September and October 2016, 19 malls across the Middle East and North Africa offered complimentary heart health testing to female shoppers. Provided in partnership with the UAE's Ministry of Health and City Centre Clinic, the service aimed to raise awareness of heart health while motivating women to exercise more. At certain malls, the Feel the Beat campaign recorded participant's heartbeats via a digital stethoscope. A DJ was on hand to mix individual heartbeats with a track from a selection of 500 songs to create a personalized song. All participating malls were equipped to measure blood pressure, blood sugar and Body Mass Index, with the aim of promoting heart health awareness.
August 2016 saw the opening of the Flora Blend Bar: a pop-up dedicated to educating consumers about the margarine spread. Located in a South African department store, visitors to the pop-up could learn about key ingredients via an interactive digital board as well as observe the blending process. Guests could also raise money for the Heart and Stoke Foundation by clocking up miles cycled on a stationary bike and a variety of margarine-based foods were on offer to try. The aim of the bar was to educate people, and help them make informed choices about their heart health.
1. How can a timeless health-related issue be solved in a more contemporary manner?
2. As the continent continues to develop and evolve, can you anticipate your customers' future health concerns before they do?
Whichever road you choose, embedding a status play is absolutely imperative in ensuring your offering puts the 'wealth' in the 'health'. And remember: this opportunity isn't limited to brands in the health sector!
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On a macro-economic scale, Financial Technology (FinTech) is set to be one of the biggest game-changers in 2017, as investors patiently await the killer FinTech product that, like M-Pesa, will disrupt, not only Africa, but also the world-at-large.
Confidence remains in the continent's growth. In January 2017, the George Soros-backed private equity company LeapFrog Investments raised a rumored USD 800 million for new African businesses. But there's still plenty of work to be done. In December 2016, a senior director from the Central Bank of Nigeria reported that 40% of the country's population remains unbanked.
As digitally powered businesses on the continent begin to thrive, many are held back by the lack of financial infrastructure. According to McKinsey, e-commerce in Africa is expected to generate annual sales of USD 75 billion by 2025 (McKinsey, December 2016). Moreover, the digital world is growing exponentially across the continent: "Cameroon aims for its digital industry, which now accounts for a little under 5% of the GDP, to double in size to 10% over the next three years. The sector currently employs 10,000 people but also intends to expand that to 50,000 by 2020." All this indicates the cruciality for online payments and mobile financial infrastructures to be put in place.
Local bricks and mortar markets no longer service the over-exposed tastes of the young; and that, coinciding with the ever-increasing need to transact fluidly across geographic borders, has made Africa's transition into FinTech a matter of urgency.
Flutterwave is a financial transactions system allowing people to process secure payments and access banking services in Africa. Beta-launched in August 2016 offering services to Nigeria and Ghana, the US-based online system offers a safer infrastructure, facilitating simple card payments and bank transfers across Africa. Flutterwave's digital payments system is accessible via APIs facilitating all payment options.
A payment platform focusing entirely on subscription payments launched in Nigeria in June 2016. Amplify automates transactions which typically happen via cash, such as monthly pension contributions, insurance premiums, internet service subscriptions, and membership club fees. Aimed primarily at subscription businesses, customers can create, view, upgrade, monitor and cancel subscription plans; businesses are provided with insights and analysis in order to support their brand.
Standard Chartered Bank has unveiled video banking services for customers across nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Initially launched in July 2016 in Malaysia and Singapore, the channel allows people to access many of the services available in store, such as taking out a loan, or signing up for new cards. Banking services are free to use, and selected markets also have access to wealth management advice.
A free app facilitating the digitization of payments of church tithes and offerings in Nigeria was announced in August 2016. Introduced by Nigerian technology company netplusdotcom, the Ten mobile app works with the Central Bank of Nigeria, aiming to offer an additional channel for contributions alongside traditional methods. The free app also allows churches to offer other benefits such as streaming current and past services and the provision of a calendar of events.
If you're a business, this conundrum wholly concerns you. In the mind of your customers, 'convenience is king'*, so remember that the easier it is for your customers to transact with you, the better.
What solutions will ensure your customers are no longer stuck at the point of sale? This might involve partnering up with an already established platform or, if you're a bank or a FinTech entrepreneur, developing a service that will be useful to both the business and customer.
*Keep in mind that many African countries still rely on cash. Be thorough about understanding how this will affect your customers in their adoption of your rolled-out system. Communicate the benefits clearly and, if need be, educate consumers about your new app or service. Don't assume that convenience is their only concern – apprehensions surrounding safety and usability will undoubtedly affect the adoption of your FINTECHPHILIA solution. So get hand-holding!
Killing two needs with one stone.
Across the continent, many citizens are accustomed to being deprived of the everyday necessities their fellow (read: wealthier) citizens are accustomed to wasting.
Yet such shortcomings have meant that sharing resources and maximizing the uses of everyday items comes as second nature to most Africans. Reusing, repurposing, upcycling and sharing are interwoven into the very fabric of the African lifestyle. So much so that it's integral to African culture.
Up until now, the formal consumption arena has seldom tapped into this phenomenon, opting for waste over sustainability. And despite the very apparent need for organizations to operate more efficiently, traditional businesses are still infamous for turning a blind eye to irresponsible operations that harm vulnerable communities.
In 2017, savvy brands will address some of Africa's most fundamental issues by maximizing the purpose(s) of their offerings, and minimizing wasted resources. These brands will focus on CAPACITY CAPTURE by creatively unlocking new sources of value from what would otherwise be an underused (or dormant) product and service element.
Launched in Nigeria and Sudan in April 2016, the Watly is a solar-powered machine aiming to provide electricity, clean water, and internet services across rural Africa. The device captures solar energy via photovoltaic panels on its surface, delivering 5,000 liters of drinking water each day, and providing wireless internet access within an 800-meter radius. The unit also operates as a charging station for electronic and mobile devices.
November 2016 saw Uber in Johannesburg provide aid to residents in Alexandra who were affected by flash floods. UberCOMMUNITY allowed users to request a car that would collect and deliver items such as toiletries, babycare products, feminine hygiene products and non-perishable food items to over 130 people left homeless by the disaster. The transport provider offered the service for free, and requested that donations were boxed up and marked clearly to make the process as seamless as possible.
May 2016 saw Montana Lisboa launch a campaign aiming to help prevent the spread of malaria in Angola, where the disease is responsible for more than 6,000 deaths every year. The Lisbon-based graffiti store developed Zero: a spray paint made with citronella, which keeps mosquitoes away up to 30 meters from where it's applied. Montana Lisboa then gave the paint to three well-known graffiti artists and asked them to create art works on empty walls on Luanda's streets. The paint remains active and functional even after rainfall, preventing mosquitoes from breeding in nearby puddles.
From November 2016, organizations and individuals holding a training event in Lagos, Nigeria can use Hotels.ng's premises for free. Provided that the event is taking place at the weekend, and that it concerns software, digital marketing or engineering, office space for up to 50 people is available. Hotels.ng provides electricity and internet for the event, which must be free for participants to attend.
2016 saw the City of Kigali unveil a fleet of 400 smart buses equipped with 4G wifi. The Rwandan city's buses also have a cashless payment system which functions via Tap and Go cards. Wifi speed on the buses is amongst the best in Rwanda, and the initiative is part of government plans to scale up broadband provision across the country.
When devising a CAPACITY CAPTURE strategy, first identify the parts of your current offering that are underutilized. Then find a compatible value-adding solution, like Uber or Hotels.ng, who repurposed physical assets for new uses.
Addressing Africa's gargantuan issues (health, safety, education, shelter, utilities, and more), by reusing already-existing services is not always an easy feat, so don't force it.
Try asking your customers about what other uses they envisage, or observe what they are already doing with your product – the answers might surprise you. Done well, CAPACITY CAPTURE is a win-win trend!
Why 'good' business will be good for business.
With less time (and resources) to get things wrong, Africans in 2017 will be reveling in their own innovation-shortcuts that leapfrog the global status-quo regarding P2P, social media and other interactive platforms.
Before the internet existed, 'community' had long been a bedrock of African culture – more so than 'individualism'. And thus, whether related to sharing, socializing, or even trading, the adoption of all things social was always going to be a no-brainer in African communities.
And while the continent was slower to jump on the digital bandwagon, 2016 represented the year that media conglomerates, developers and entrepreneurs alike began their departure from globalized platforms and began creating truly forward-facing and local and culturally-relevant solutions.
Most Africans already have a knack for navigating a plethora of nuanced interactive scenarios, all with intricate rules and specific conducts. From bartering in a marketplace to respectfully greeting a relative of high esteem or charming a potential date, the versatility of an average African consumer in an offline social setting is extensive. Yet up until now, Silicon Valley's social media world has barely kept up – and young African consumers are impatient.
In 2017, regional innovators will turn their attention to social media solutions that leapfrog the West's in order to 'fit' the needs of the local market. These social advancements will focus on embedding African cultural norms into services and platforms.
May 2016 saw the introduction of a new wifi network on the Congolese island of Idjwi. The mesh wifi network is beamed across the lake by a powerful antenna, with the signal being transmitted by masts. Around 10,000 islanders can access the wifi for free via a kiosk in the island's largest village, where there are four computers and five tablets which villagers can use. The cable-free wifi network can also be picked up within 100 meters of the kiosk, although people can also make their own homemade antennae in order to share the connection. The project was developed by Congo-based social incubator Ensemble Pour La Difference in partnership with British innovation consultancy Fjord.
In November 2016, a prolific Nigeria-based blogger and entrepreneur launched Linda Ikeji Social: a social network that combines new reports, social interactions and online shopping, and pays users with over 50,000 followers. The network also plans to reward users with NGN 8,000 (USD 63) for original news content pieces. The cash incentives are paid out via the wallet section on the network where people can add their bank account details. According to Ikeji, the aim of the business is to give back to the online community, with the hope that the network's popularity will rival that of Facebook.
InstaVoice Celeb is a service giving subscribers access to audio updates from their favorite celebrities. Launched by Zambian telecommunications company Zamtel, the service allows people to follow famous individuals such actors, musicians and fashion designers and receive periodic voice updates. Subscribers can also receive InstaVoice Sport updates, giving them access to audio alerts and updates from favorite soccer clubs, such as Manchester United and Arsenal.
In May 2016, South Africa-based NetFlorist launched a campaign filming people's reactions to flower deliveries. A targeted online campaign directed consumers to the florist's website where they were able to select the Happy Cam button and the delivery person filmed the reactions of the recipient and emailed the recordings to the sender. Netflorist's videos could also be shared across social media.
In October 2016, Nigeria-based Balogun Market launched an app that allows people to buy products and services via chat. The online marketplace was developed to make the goods sold at Balogun Market in Lagos more accessible by allowing customers to avoid travel and high temperatures in the city. According to the brand, many people people visit physical markets as a way of socializing and communication is often a prelude for commerce. BuyChat enhances service by recreating a market experience as users can browse, interact with sellers, haggle, and complete sales through the app. Shoppers can also book flights and hotels, order food, and connect with local brands.
Launched in South Africa in June 2016, Wango is a mobile dating app promising a 'women-centered approach'. Male users are granted a 'Gentlemen's Badge' on sign-up, but lose it if two users report 'misbehavior'. The free app features icebreakers and one-click date requests, and all dating arrangements can be made in-app without the need to exchange phone numbers.
Unlike in the West, blurring the online and offline world isn't always about developing more sophisticated or complex data-draining platforms.
In order to understand this trend, draw a parallel with the unanticipated success of mobile money or feature phones across the continent, which somewhat simplified their Western versions for something more relevant yet still progressive.
From an African context, the goal of LEAPFROGGING SOCIAL is for digital solutions to ultimately adopt the specificities of what it's like for your customer to exist within their own physical community, yet with all the benefits of being technology-driven (wider reach and more). Thus any social platform that mimics real life – and the interactions, expressions, customs, norms and rules that occur within it – will surely be embraced by communities far and wide.
The eternal desire for connection, and the many (new) ways it can be satisfied.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had all sorts of brilliant ideas I wanted to implement before the new year. I very quickly realized I was biting off more than I could chew, that I was a little too late for that.
Instead of pushing the issue and not enjoying the prospect of those new ideas, I decided to take my foot off the accelerator. I figured it would be way better for my business to use this last month to reflect and plan for 2015. I want to set myself up for a successful year and really appreciate all the wonderful things that happened in 2014.
Does that scenario resonate with you? Would you like to do the same? Here's my little secret recipe to make the most of the coming new year.
1. Log off and connect. If you follow me on social media, you might already have noticed that things are a little more silent on my feed. Disconnecting from all the social platforms helps you to be more present and connect with what's happening right now.
2. Calm minds are more creative. Creativity happens when you're not pushing it. Ever noticed how you have the most brilliant plan or solution when you're going for a run, taking a shower, or while considering a totally unrelated topic? Your subconscious mind is always working for you, and it will come up with the perfect solution for you. You have to trust.
3. Do more of what works and forget what doesn't. OK, now that your mind is calmer and clearer, start thinking of what worked really well for you this year. How can you build on it for the next one? What didn't work? Leave it and come up with a new plan.
4. Focus on your new dreams and goals for 2015. What steps do you need to take to put them in action?
December can feel like a whirlwind, and with so many obligations, it's easy to neglect yourself. Remember to be a little selfish and take time for yourself. Your success depends on it, and when you diminish yourself, you're also cheating your loved ones by giving them a watered-down version of you.
← Just do it already, OK?


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The Cal, O'Day, and Ranger Owners of the Chesapeake Bay are planning a fall rendezvous in Harness Creek.
Bay gourmets and Catalina 30 owners, Frank and Tina LeAnne, share some breakfast-making tips for small spaces.
A fleet of four boats left Hampton, VA, on the morning of June 24 on a circumnavigation of the DelMarVa peninsula.
The Annapolis Yacht Sales (AYS) annual rendezvous June 23-24 attracted 165 guests from as far away as the Bahamas. A total of 71 boats were represented.
A parade of Dickersons sailed June 16 from Choptank Light to Oxford to begin a summer rendezvous celebrating the club's 52nd anniversary.
Ten tips and a guide for creating sailing checklists that help skippers and guests feel more confident and have more fun.
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Fences like this one in Ohio could soon interrupt Michigan's Great Lakes shoreline if the state Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision.
Like a boulder crashing into a quiet pond, the recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling against Great Lakes beachcombing is making big waves across the Great Lakes Basin. The Appellate Court decision, Glass v. Goeckel, has delighted property rights activists in the state, motivated property rights groups in other Great Lakes states to bring the new doctrine to their own beaches, and even attracted support from some Michigan environmentalists.
The decision, announced by the state Appellate Court on May 13, stemmed from a minor tiff between neighbors over access to some Lake Huron shoreline. Yet it resulted in a major ruling that, according to legal observers and a statewide property rights group called Save Our Shoreline, forbids people from strolling along Great Lakes beaches unless they keep their feet in the water. The ruling could also give rise to many fences and No Trespassing signs in a watery landscape that is widely regarded as a place made for wandering.
As the case heads to the Michigan State Supreme Court, however, other environmental groups that oppose the decision point to what they say are even more serious consequences. They worry that, if Glass v. Goeckel stands, it would make it more difficult for the state to prevent beachfront property owners from damaging the shoreline with aggressive vegetation cutting and grooming, excavation, and other activities that could harm both the lakes' and the land's ecology and wildlife.
So far, the ruling's most dramatic effect is in Ohio. On May 28, the Ohio Lakefront Group, a conservative property rights organization, filed a lawsuit in state court that somewhat mimics Glass v. Goeckel in its claim that beachfront residents actually own their property up to where land touches water. Therefore, they claim, they can bar people from strolling along the beach.
But the defendant in the case, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, disagrees. It says that the State of Ohio has owned Lake Erie shoreline below the lake's high water mark since the state's 1803 founding. The state asserts that there is a narrow strip of beach, called the foreshore, where people can legally walk without getting their feet wet.
The Ohio Lakefront Group is a formidable adversary. Founded in 1999, it claims over 4,000 members dedicated to extending their property rights down to water's edge. And it is looking to the younger, smaller Save Our Shoreline for guidance.
"In Michigan, Save Our Shoreline is doing good stuff and I just wish we could be that effective," said Mr. Yankel.
To Save Our Shoreline, which claims to represent 2000 households comprised mostly of Great Lakes coastal property owners, the Appellate Court decision was another step in its three-year drive to gain unrestricted private ownership of Great Lakes shoreline, including the lakes' "bottomlands." With those bottomlands — legally the area between the historic high-water mark and the water — now very large along most Great Lakes beaches due to historically low water levels, SOS persuaded the Republican-dominated state Legislature to change the state's rules controlling what landowners can do to their beaches.
The Legislature passed the law with comparative speed. The final proposal gained unanimous Republican and near-unanimous Democratic support, including that of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm who signed the measure into law. For the first time, it is now legal for Great Lakes property owners in Michigan to mow and rake bottomland vegetation. And a smaller group of owners along Saginaw and Grand Traverse Bays, where there are extensive bottomlands, can now dig, plow, fill in, or dredge down to the water's edge, albeit after obtaining a letter of approval from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Observers say SOS's last-minute amicus brief in Glass v. Goeckel heavily influenced the court. Currently the organization is attempting to push the decision well beyond what many legal experts think the court actually said. SOS not only claims that beach walking is illegal, but also that full ownership and control of the bottomlands now rests in private hands, instead of, through the public trust, with the state, which acts to protect them for the sake of navigational, erosion, and ecological concerns.
The Appellate Court based its decision largely on Hilt v. Weber, a 1930 Michigan Supreme Court ruling that said shore land that was no longer under any threat of submersion could become private land. The court used the words "shore," "shoreline," and "water's edge" without clear definition, leaving its decision open to future re-interpretation.
As legal experts debate the controversial decision, some Michigan environmentalists said that Glass v. Goeckel could help their causes. For example, Charles Davis, president of Preserve the Dunes, a non-profit organization, said that the ruling could help protect fragile sand dunes. Mr. Davis, a prominent advocate for better sand dune protection, says some people take advantage of the state's beach walking tradition to reach remote Lake Michigan sand dunes with high-powered vehicles.
"Now we can cut off their access to these dunes by preventing off-road vehicles from slipping across beachfront property" Mr. Davis said.
But attorney Pamela Burt, who represented beach walker Joan Glass in Glass v. Goeckel and is appealing the case to the state Supreme Court, says the public trust doctrine that protects the Great Lakes and their bottomlands from shoreline-altering activities also bars off-road vehicle passage.
Other groups say the sudden shift in shoreline law threatens the state's ability to properly manage Great Lakes bottomlands, which are actually large ecosystems that influence the health of the big lakes they rim.
"Regardless of the final decision on ownership patterns," said Wil Cwikiel, policy director for Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, a non-profit water resource group based in Petoskey, "the State of Michigan will always have an obligation and the authority to protect the public's interest in the health of shoreline ecosystems and the quality of Great Lakes water. The SOS effort to change ownership patterns as part of their strategy to gut environmental laws is contrary to the interests of all Michiganians — not to mention a colossal waste of everyone's time."
Meanwhile, as green groups in Michigan ponder the ruling and some property rights activists begin spreading the SOS message in Wisconsin, activists in Ohio are working to stop the Ohio Lakefront Group. A bill passed by the Ohio state House to advance private ownership of the shoreline stalled in the state Senate after a broad, powerful coalition of more than 10 organizations, including the Audubon Society, the Public Interest Research Group, the League of Ohio Sportsmen, and the Ohio Bass Federation, announced they opposed it. One Ohio DNR official noted that the coalition is both unusual and effective.
Jess Piskor is a summer intern at the Michigan Land Use Institute. You can reach him at jess@mlui.org.


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Your best bet is to keep adding information to your site and this will most likely spike the interest by the search engines.
Have a look at the SEO Tutorials here and see what else you can do to give it your best shot.
I have checked your account details and can confirm that your email address is correct on our system and payment for your domain has been captured.
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Dan Olsen, former Performics VP has been working hard (along with some fellow top SEO experts) on a new set of online tools for small businesses. Today his creation, DIYSEO, officially launches to the public.
"DIYSEO's high value, low cost solution empowers small businesses to take advantage of opportunities available in SEO, for the first time in many cases," said DIYSEO co-founder Patrick Gavin. "We're filling a huge void in the marketplace, and we have a proven industry veteran in place as CEO to take this much needed solution to market."
DIYSEO's focus is on simplicity. A step-by-step process starts with a diagnosis of your website and industry to find the best targeted keywords for your SEO plan. Tasks are then bucketed into sections, including link-building, on-site optimization, local search and social media. The system also includes tools to track your SEO progress and of course, reporting to monitor your own performance and the SEO of your competition.
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Q: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Invalid column name 'machine_name' with CE 3.2 SQL Server I'm trying to launch a Corda Enterprise 3.2 node with a Microsoft SQL Server 2017 database and I get this error at startup:

com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Invalid column name 'machine_name'.

It was working fine with CE 3.1.
Here is an extract from my node.conf
"dataSourceProperties" : {
    "dataSource" : {
    "user":"<username>",
            "password":"<password>",
            "url" : "jdbc:sqlserver://<HOST>:<PORT>;encrypt=false;databaseName=corda"
    },
    "dataSourceClassName" : "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource"
},
"database" : {
    "runMigration" : true,
    "schema" : "dbo",
    "transactionIsolationLevel" : "READ_COMMITTED"
},

I use mssql-jdbc-6.2.2.jre8.jar as JDBC driver

A: It was a case sensitive DB configuration issue.
Solved with this sql command :
USE master;
GO
ALTER DATABASE corda
COLLATE French_CI_AS ;
GO

Old value was was : French_CS_AS

A: It looks like you need to run the database migration tool to upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2. Do you have that Jar file already? If this is a test environment and you don't care about application data in the vault you can always drop/recreate the corda database. Restarting 3.2 will then build the necessary tables. If you need to preserve data then database migration tool is the way to go.
https://docs.corda.r3.com/database-management.html?highlight=migration
https://docs.corda.r3.com/database-management.html?highlight=migration#migration-tool

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