35 Burst results for "Zimbabwe"
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ex-Brazilian President Bolsonaro Hospitalized in Florida
"Bolson Euros in a hospital in America. In Orlando. So he went to Orlando, the day before the inauguration or two days before the inauguration, when the invocation of one 42 and getting the military on board with forcing the audit by going to the courts using their military force to arrest the judges, which is a 100% justified given their evisceration of the constitution. Who judges the judges, right? Who watches the watchers? Well, the judges say, hey, nobody can judge us. We're above the law. Well, the military should have exerted a role that is given to them in the constitution to take that court by force to take the electoral machines and audit them and evaluate them for their veracity that the lowest party has put forward didn't happen. Bolsonaro went to Orlando. My guess is he was planning to go into exile somewhere America is probably not that safe for him. The State Department will extradite him quite quickly as well as the journalists who've been in hiding because they've been journalists arrested censored. This court has got run a muck with rule of law. It is like watching a Zimbabwe Mugabe style justice administration of justice. And I think that I think that it's not safe for Bolsonaro in the U.S. or any of the Brazilian journals who've been in exile here. So I do think that I don't know why he's in the hospital. I've seen reports from globo nothing's confirmed as to the details behind it.
Bloomberg Crypto
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bloomberg Crypto
"In Dogecoin. When we say rally and Dogecoin, whereas doge trading, doge trade is trading at less than 15 cents. Okay. So let's just be clear. Temper that a little bit. Technically it's rallied, but this meme coin that Elon Musk loves has soared and the feeling is that maybe he'll allow that to be used for payments on Twitter so that would gain it some credibility and relevancy. People are basing their doge enthusiasm on like an emoji, right? Like somebody asked Elon in question, like, my guy, what are you doing about doge? And he was like, eyes emoji. And I'm like, what does that even mean? He tweeted a picture of a Shiba Inu with a Twitter T-shirt on. So, you know, make of that what you will. But other more serious developments binance, which is a huge exchange, crypto exchange has invested 500 million in Elon Musk's Twitter and said that it's developed a team to sort of look at ways to use blockchain technology to help with the issue of bots, which has been this issue. These bots that flood accounts are flood the network scams and et cetera and maybe blockchain technology or NFTs could be used to sort of mitigate that somewhat. Again, Elon Musk isn't very interesting character. He's got a lot of money. He's got a lot of thoughts, crypto, you know, is hoping that some of those thoughts may help to boost the industry from an idealistic standpoint. And then others who are more speculative think, you know, I'm going to buy doge now because it's going to become the currency of Twitter. So we'll see. Indeed. We'll be right back with more of the week's top crypto stories with Bloomberg editors Beth Williams and Dave litke. This Justin reportedly pigs can fly. We're now sending it live. Can't take another crazy headline. We'll hear something you'll truly appreciate. The my GM rewards card gives you best in class rewards with four points for every dollar spent. 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One of the, I suppose, counterintuitive things about crypto as a market over the past several months has been how much it's been a fed story. And there's no expectation, well, I'm sure there's at least a few economists who somehow miraculously think the fed is going to cut rates. But the broad reasonable expectation is that they're going to be in an increasing interest rate environment for the foreseeable future. Dave, what does that mean for Bitcoin, which had been sold as this inflation hedge and does not seem to be performing in any way that suggests that's true? Well, it's been evident for a while now. It's kind of stuck in the water. It's a crashed in the spring, early summer. It's trended around 20,000. And this is a market of expectations and without expectations that it's going to rise or you can drive the excitement about it. It has basically stalled. And the main reason is the fed has readjusted expectations for risk. So there's no longer free money in the system or 0% money on it. And now there's a cost of speculation on it. So people are raining in that speculation. In the absence of either the fed ceasing to raise interest rates or cutting interest rates and there being some kind of gigantic hype cycle about anything other than doge. What are some of the analysts expectations that you've seen for like what's next for crypto? I mean, folks are looking into you're seeing more activity in some of the old coins. There's a lot of conversation right now around what's next for DeFi, various countries, the latest being Zimbabwe are starting to talk about, well, maybe we'll just get into our own digital currencies. What are some of those kinds of trends? The biggest trend you hear really, even from the maximalist in the Bitcoin world is that the institutions have are still hanging in there on it. They've poured a lot of money into development, whether it's through VC money or some of the more better known major banks, through development, that type of thing, whether it's JPMorgan, whether it's own coin, Jamie Dimon, saying Bitcoin is trash, but we see the technology potential payment rail. So that's the incentive for a lot of folks to stay in and say, okay, the institutions are coming back. But it seems we're back at the test mode period rather than an acceleration stage again on it. And wait and say is very difficult when you're highly leveraged. Exactly. I was in a meeting recently with folks who work in and around payments and processing and one of the things that they were saying is exactly your point. One, they're taking an experimental approach. They're going to, they're going to see what's working. But two, they're starting to really separate things like crypto as asset class, investments opportunities, speculative risk reward from possibilities for payments, whether stablecoins or just using the blockchain for instantaneous supplements or whatever those things are. And it does seem like the phrase of the week is like Bitcoin is boring, but it does seem like right now, people are starting to ask the deeper questions around, okay, what else is there? Whether they find interesting answers to those questions
Bloomberg Crypto
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bloomberg Crypto
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ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Newt Gingrich: Think About What the FBI Will Do to You
"Gingrich, one of our great American statesman. I've never heard Newt Gingrich I was watching his interview last night on Fox News. I have never seen him. So angry. I think you remember the sandy Berger incident. He went into the national archives and came out with those documents in his pants and his socks and anywhere he can stick them. Look, there's clearly a double standard. But I think what's even more troubling. And whatever American, whether you're Democrat, Republican, doesn't matter. Liberal conservative, it doesn't matter. If 30 FBI agents can take over the house of a former president of the United States and probable candidate for president, what can they do to you? And when you look at the Democrats who are trying to add 85,000 IRS agents to the already existing 77,000, that would mean a 162,000 IRS agents compared, for example, to 29,000 people that we have on the border trying to control the border. But the purpose of it simple. They want to control you. These raids, the kind of thing you talked about earlier with taking people off an airplane and chains, having people, a guy standing outside at three in the morning in his pajamas. These things are all designed to intimidate if this government can get away with third world tactics of worthy of Venezuela or the East German Stasi or Zimbabwe under Mugabe. If that's the future, then the constitution has a working document has ceased to exist.
AP News Radio
Inflation sparks global wave of protests for higher pay, aid
"Rising food costs soaring fuel bills wages that aren't keeping pace inflation is plundering people's wallets sparking a wave of protests and workers strikes around the world This week alone has seen protests by the political opposition in Pakistan nurses in Zimbabwe unionized workers in Belgium railway workers in Britain indigenous people in Ecuador and hundreds of U.S. pilots and in New York UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warned of a food shortage catastrophe We face an emphasis global hunger crisis Economists say Russia's war in Ukraine has amplified inflation by further pushing up the cost of energy and prices of fertilizer grains and cooking oils as farmers struggle to grow and export crops I'm Charles De
AP News Radio
Toes-for-cash hoax reflects Zimbabwe fears of soaring prices
"Battling rampant inflation Zimbabweans are counting their toes as they struggle to buy food for their families An Internet rumor blazed through the country that desperate people were selling their toes for clash the false report became so widespread that the country's deputy minister of information then visited street vendors in central Harare earlier this month to debunk it one by one the traders took off their shoes to show they had all ten toes there as the state media recorded the digital examination It starkly true though that Zimbabweans are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet since the start of Russia's war in Ukraine inflation has shot up to more than 130% I'm Charles De
The Charlie Kirk Show
For the Great Reset to Take Hold, the Parent-Child Bond Must Weaken
"We've been talking about this theme for a couple of weeks that in order for the great reset to occur for a globalist vision of humanity to set in, the parental child bond must weaken. That the bond that children have with their parents is all that ties a society together. The Bible has told us this time and time again, the Bible has in the ten commandments. The only commandment that comes to the promise and involves your nation on your mother and father. So I mean, you might live long in the land of which you are in. A parental child bond actually keeps us free. Free from government intervention involvement in authoritarianism. There is no example of communism coming into place where strong families persisted. It does not exist. The phrase mother Russia, for example, came forward because they raised young children to believe their true mother was the Russian government. And Mao Zedong's China may have the Mao's red guard actually incentivizing children to turn their parents in. If they were not properly loyal to Mao's government, in Cuba, children were indoctrinated to believe that their maternal parents were not actually as important as the government body. I could go example after example and Mugabe's Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe. That in order for these totalitarian experiments to be successful, the family is in the way. This is one of the reasons why we have seen a resurgence and a revival. And an unexpected strengthening of the parents party.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"zimbabwe" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"Great Zimbabwe is playing a very, very, very important, a very important role because this is something that was taken by the colony from the Africans. So let's take it back. Right. That's why we then take the names babri. Then it means that we have taken back control of our own destiny, there's one more aspect of the great Zimbabwe ruins that I want to leave you with. In the ruins of great Zimbabwe, 8 bird sculptures made of soapstone were found. These sculptures hold great meaning and importance to Zimbabwe. And these are associated with the religion. These are also associated with the spirituality. So these three small health of the nation is bridge or health of the state. And 7 of those birds are still held at the ruins, while one is owned by Cecil Rhodes estate. But there's another place to see the bird. On the current Zimbabwean flag a small soapstone bird meant to pay homage to the legacy of great Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was also an important symbol for African liberation during the era of decolonization, which took place from the 1950s to the 1970s. And at the Zimbabwe independent celebration a reggae artist who called himself Bob Marley performed his new song. Zimbabwe, which was named after the nation. For legal reasons, I can't play it for you now, but that in no way stops you from going to listen to it after this episode ends. If that was something you were into. Our podcast is a co production of Alice obscura and witness docs. This episode was produced by baudelaire Zeus the production team includes Doug baldinger Chris naka. Camille's Stanley. Willis writer Arnold. Sarah Wyman, manolo Morales, Gianna Palmer, Tracy Samuelson. John delore. Peter Clowney our technical director is Casey holford. This episode was mixed by loose Fleming. Our theme and end credit music is by Sam tindall. I'm Dylan faris, wishing you all the wonder in.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"zimbabwe" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"zimbabwe" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"So the key thing about good Zimbabwe is that it is a remarkable piece of human genius. That shadrick shri coure he is the British Academy global Professor of the school of archeology at Oxford University, which is a mouthful. He's also a native of Zimbabwe, and he works as an archeology professor at the university of Cape Town. He basically he's a really busy guy. Who spends a lot of his time studying ruins. Ruins that include great Zimbabwe. Shadrick says that during its prime, grid Zimbabwe had a lot going for it economically. The key thing about that good Zimbabwe is it has evidence of a very strong local a production Abbas, and that is very important. So there is evidence of funny cattle keeping the keeping of a heap and good. There is also evidence of industry a gold iron working copper working, it's important to note that grid Zimbabwe was not the entire civilization, but actually just the capital city of the kingdom of Zimbabwe. It was an empire that covered an area about the size of Iowa, and at the height of the kingdom, Zimbabwe was a land of great wealth and architectural achievements, and great Zimbabwe, its capital was the cultural hub and economic center. Andy, guess what? What they say about Rome bad Rome was not built in one day, yes. It applies to grips, but we're good bubbles on building one day. Great Zimbabwe was built over a long period, about 6 or 700 years. In starting from 900 AD to about 1600, when the city was eventually deserted, as all empires eventually are. In the case of great Zimbabwe, there was no one reason. One factor could have been political. Perhaps there was a political instability that we can be a state. And then that's some groups broke away. Another could have been the environment. And then it is also possible that the environment ahead that deteriorated and could not support them, a large populations, and a third factor might have just been disrupted trade routes. At the world economy, I had changed strategic advantages at the shifted to other areas. But during that middle period, when great Zimbabwe was still being built during the height of the kingdom. They were an economic force to be reckoned with. The kingdom traded across Africa, as far north as northern Congo, which may not sound that far away, but it's 4000 kilometers, which is essentially Boston to Las Vegas. And beyond inter African trade, artifacts have been recovered in the ruins that show trade with China, India, and the Middle East. And it was this thriving economy that funded the walls of their massive capital city, of great Zimbabwe. And these walls, they still stand today. I should stress to you just how massive they really are. So if you drive those small cars such as the ones that we drive in Africa, not those big ones, you drive in America. You should be able to drive it on top of that world. Just to give you an idea of how amazing are those constructions are. So building walls that you, in some ways, in some cases, as high as 11 meters and the base, they are around four meters and then it's the engineering design. So that they would not collapse. So they would be two meters wide. The walls weren't just surrounding the city, but running all throughout it. It's estimated that the walls in great Zimbabwe hold a million granite bricks and weigh something like 15,000 tons. According to the latest archeology, the city was divided into three areas. The hill complex, the valley enclosures, and the great enclosures. If Greece Zimbabwe were Washington, D.C., think of the hill complex as where The White House and the government were. And the valley enclosures, they would be the downtown area, where the shopping and commerce happened. And then finally, the great enclosure was basically where everybody lived. At its height, great Zimbabwe had a population of around 18,000 people, which would have been pretty bustling for the time. But it wasn't just the scale of the city that made the place special. It was also its character. Great Zimbabwe is a community of enterprising people. So when you have enterprising people, you have opportunity. So all these people they were looking for, they were looking for opportunities, and they opportunities happened to be at a bit more. So that's one of the most amazing things that you have African community that was so organized to the extent that the economy are governance systems and international relations and they were engaging with them everyone else and still we are able to see a strong signature of the local production. So what we are seeing here is that good Zimbabwe managed to create opportunities for itself. And also opportunities for others. Maybe that was the American Dream of that time. Fast forward a few hundred years to the end of the 1800s. And things look remarkably different across Africa. Besides the devastating effects of the slave trade, it was also the beginning of what's called the scramble for Africa. A period when the European powers, after exploiting the continent for its people during slavery, began to carve up Africa into colonial holdings. In 1870, only 10% of Africa was under official European control. And by 1914, it was 90%. It's also when the colonial powers specifically the British began to erase the history of great Zimbabwe. One figure in particular stands out. The in the famous roads, because the system roads British South Africa company got royal charter from Queen Victoria, and then they had what was known as the pioneer column. Cecil Rhodes is a name you should know, especially if you own a diamond. Rhodes founded the de beers diamond firm, with diamonds mined from Africa, and through his ownership of the vast majority of the world's diamonds. The de beers firm controlled the entire diamond market until the early 21st century. Rhodes was also a critical figure in the exploitation of Southern Africa. And the pioneer column was essentially roads personal military force, given to him by Queen Victoria. So when they were marching, they were moving from South Africa, current based South Africa into what is now Zimbabwe. And they passed it through, remember, they were also following the routes that.
AP News Radio
US to lift travel ban on 8 southern African countries
"The the White White House House says says it's it's lifting lifting travel travel restrictions restrictions to to eight eight southern southern African African countries countries I'm I'm Ben Ben Thomas Thomas with with the the latest latest the the restrictions restrictions were were imposed imposed last last month month in in hopes hopes of of slowing slowing the the spread spread of of the the Omicron Omicron variant variant of of covert covert nineteen nineteen after after south south African African health health officials officials first first identified identified it it there there the the move move barred barred nearly nearly all all non non US US citizens citizens who who had had recently recently been been in in South South Africa Africa or or in in nearby nearby countries countries including including Botswana Botswana Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Namibia Namibia the the suit suit too too it's it's what what teeny teeny Mozambique Mozambique and and Malawi Malawi the the White White House House says says the the temporary temporary travel travel bans bans pot pot scientists scientists necessary necessary time time to to study study Omicron Omicron conclude conclude that that current current vaccinations vaccinations are are effective effective in in blunting blunting its its impact impact the the centers centers for for disease disease control control and and prevention prevention has has recommended recommended they they be be lifted lifted on on new new year's year's eve eve Ben Ben Thomas Thomas Washington Washington
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"There's like twenty eight billion bitcoins or something like that. And that's it that's all there is and so the value of them keeps going up because his that finite number of you can't really mind anymore of them and so as people trade them in demand for it goes up sodas value. But you can't ever print more to devalue that currency right and that's that's one of the big problems that zimbabwe has an is still having is that they just keep printing more money which devalued the current currency can do that with crypto. The other problem that poor monetary policy has an arguably. The biggest problem is just. The confidence of that currency in having valley parkway like in inflation in zimbabwe is rising again is because the public isn't confident that their currency has any value right. Because none of this is backed in anything real. We all have to agree. That fiat currency has a inherent value. If we don't agree then that value goes down if we do agree that valley goes up right but they don't have any any any confidence in these new zimbabwean currency to actually have any value. Because of the last thing. That i said they just keep printing more of it right and if the government could just keep printing money or fucking around with interest rates whenever the hell they want. That's not something that exactly inspires the zimbabwean people to believe that their money is going to have any long term value. And that's another thing that you just can't do with crypto right you can't you can't mess with it in that respect and so as a result people are more confident. That crypto has value because no government can go toying with the numbers in in the you know with this particular currency. Got a bonus for you. Crypto is secure amnesty centralized so all the transactions everything that happens are on these public ledgers and those ledgers are all over the world. they're not controlled by the bank. They're not controlled by government or by even an individual person. There's just like everywhere. That's what the blockchain is right and so all of the like currency is accounted for. So there's not just like money like disappears like it does here in the united states when we say oh i have no idea where three trillion dollars You know it doesn't do that. And also no more money is printed into existence. So it's much more stable. So i actually think that you know we're going to pull if zimbabwe seriously gonna pull out. I think they could be a really good use case for this. And and what's interesting. Is that you know zimbabwe..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"That with a duffel bag full money that by the way was quickly depreciating right or you would have to pay somebody to do it for you. And obviously there's a risk of getting stolen. The solution though is kind of genius. So zimbabwe might not have a lot of atm's but they do have a lot of mobile phones. Something like eighty percent of zimbabweans have a mobile phone of some kind right and a bunch of entrepreneurs scott together and decided to set up these mobile payments systems and it was super easy to get a widely adopted too because zimbabwe's telecoms are dominated by a monopoly company. I think it's called safari calm. And it's a kenyan Mobile network and all these other a foreign national companies like t. mobile and things like that are also all set up all the infrastructure for it already. The idea super simple though so there are hundreds of thousands of these middlemen right. These paid guys who are paid to take your money and put it into like elegant account of some kind so you give them the money and they deposited into an account. That's tidier sim card. And then you just literally text somebody money you just send him a text message just like that and you don't need a smartphone either like this works with regular dumb phones. That have sim cards so you just text them an amount of money. It's kind of crazy And you know what's cool about that. Is that when you get sent money. You have access to that money money with that ends up being tied to your sim cards accounts worth of money. It's kind of like ben mcadoo but like lower tech right And so since most of these zimbabweans already had mobile phones. And they already you know. Did the costly part. That's the setting up. The infrastructure raped the cell phone towers. And all that stuff already built. It was super easy for zimbabwe's people to pick this up. And they picked it up pretty quick and you know they've been basically using a like a form of vigneault or zell or whatever but like lower tech version for quite some time now in sexually pretty lucrative Something like twenty percent of the transactions that are done in zimbabwe are done through this method. It's obviously not all of the transactions. Not even the majority of the transactions but definitely eased a lot of this issue. Because now they're able to move money more quickly more securely and a lot of shops and stuff like that have the ability to just straight up. Pay the text message..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"Final money supply growth figures are released for december two thousand six the annual money growth rate had risen by fourteen hundred sixteen point five percent in early february two three. The rbc declared inflation illegal announcing that any person caught raising prices or rages between march. First june thirtieth would be arrested and punished Relation is legal and legal. If we don't raise your prices then yeah there's no inflation there's no There's no inflation. Only my grossest started jack up my peanut butter five dollars. There would be no inflation. Fully gas prices just stayed to thirteen. Remember when The gas Put the oil puts last year went to negative rates. Yeah had to like pay or the people who are buying put options that they had they had to the people own them had to pay. They lost it was. They went negative. Which is one of the craziest things i've ever seen So So despite these measures and two thousand seven. Zimbabwe injured inflation formerly because on month on month. Inflation reached fifty point four percent and year on year Twenty two one hundred percent. So we're getting onto the end of this. All right wild roller coaster inflation reached four hundred thousand seventeen thousand eight hundred twenty three percent in march in just march then. The ruling party lost three elections losing its majority in the legislature For the first time. And then mugabe actually. His mugabe is like one of the funniest dictators. Like yeah i mean just like style. Looking like weird. african dictators wag. Mugabe loses the election to his prime minister and but he is forced to drop out of the race. He just like well. That doesn't matter. I'm still president. That's basically what happens. There's more to this story. I don't know the full story but allegedly mugabe loses this election. he loses. They've and just like yeah. Like i'm i'm not gonna leave need you. Just don't just drop out..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"So whenever you hear the word parallel market what that's code word is for black market crash. So that means that they're trading another currency that they're not supposed to be trading in as parallel market means be black market inflation accelerated after mid two thousand one government borrowed from the rv approached the statutory limit of twenty percent of the previous year's revenue in interest rates remain sharply negative in real terms. The government began to enforce a requirement that forty five percent of institutional investors portfolios beheld in low yielding longer term government securities this together with the collapse of interest rates weaken the financial position of insurance companies pension funds and banks as portfolios became subject to a study and method article process of confiscation. The imf mission observed that there was no evidence that suggests that the government strategy had been successful as business fixed. Investments to construction had essentially ceased rather the negative real interest rates had caused acid substitution away from money market instruments creating bubbles and equity in residential real estate prices. These pricing bubbles were exuberation by the emergence of a growing class of speculators with access to bank loans at negative rate of interest in particular the arby's subsidized credit scheme at liquidity to financial system. Helping to fuel the asset price bubble as a low cost resources have been used in part by exporters to buy shares of these zimbabwe stock exchange or real estate so the acid bubbles exist when the market prices trade far higher than the fundamental says and expansion of the supply of money and credit and economy. It provides the fuel for these bubbles. Like what we see right now. Why what we see the american stock market right now. Wait with bubbles that are forming up. you know kathy woods the other day. She sold a bunch of chairs. The tesla seem like it's gonna pop maybe water But yeah why wouldn't you loan out. Why wouldn't you take a loan out with mel interest rates. Also you know negative real interest rates encourage in attitude of buy now rather than wait bright you know which further contributes to and acceleration of inflation. All right so as inflation continue to spiral. The government continued to treat it as a result of profiteering rather than a consequence of the arby's inappropriately loose monetary policies. The government introduced price controls. An attempt to contain inflation particularly in the price is of key staples in order to control the pricing of maize in wheat. The grain marketing board was established as a monopoly in june then from october tenth wholesale and retail prices of basic commodities and food came under control government control resulting in immediate shortages of these commodities. So what they're saying. Is that in an effort to please the masses the government reintroduced price controls and They started shifting. Its rudder rhetoric against the industry and blamed it for profiteering. soap price. controls are meant to make things more for law right for ranked tumors And know what. They're imposed on their imposed On food and usually energy products that's usually where You used price controls on sometimes. They're meant to curb inflation. And although the reasons for price controls may be Affordability and economic stability. When you see some things that are outrageously priced you know. There's a lot of political pressure to for the government to do something but they typically have the opposite effect. The immediate consequence of these price controls were shortages of these basic commodities..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"Because i mean that's not politically savvy the deal. Hey you're the pay for this war. I mean german word aggressive party in the war. So it's it's it's That's how that no. That was probably the starting point in the story. For the hyperinflation that goes on wine republic the war world war one monetize the debt and know what debt monetization is is when the government borrows money from the central bank to finance public spending instead of selling bonds to private investors are raising taxes so because prices were rising the government introduced price controls. And what they accused the business class or you know industries that were raising their prices. They said they're profiteering so also to make matters worse. Zimbabwe gets into a military conflict in the drc great. So they were. They sent like around ten thousand troops to the congo. Who was under attack by Brandon and ugandan backed rebels and there is no budget either for they're military divers so because of these Controversial activities foreign donors started to lack or scale back their assistance. And when i say four four and go donors i mean government and foreign aid along with the imf so they were like just spending their money. Pretty hard yeah. Yeah in also doing controversial stuff to give foreign aid when when there's a kind of aggressive policies going on so i'm going to quote from this paper again so in june two thousand a fast track resettlement program was announced by the government covering five million. Heck heck tar heck char's carers hectares harrison. Okay sorry everyone covering five million hectares and one hundred fifty thousand families in two thousand compared with a three point. Three million hectares and seventy three thousand families resettled since independence in the process to state listed. Two thousand four hundred fifty five farms for acquisition in terms of the announcement. The government would provide compensation for any capital improvements to the land but not for the land itself till prior to that though. I think it's important to note. A lot of these farms. Were actually being dated like people. Would you know a lot of these. War veterans would just go and say hey this is my form we gotta go right so in. A few months later The rb z. So essential baker zimbabwe announced a twenty four percent devaluation of zimbabwe dollar so it introduced a crawling peg exchange regime and what crawling pegs are used to provide exchange rate stability between trading partners so specifically when there's a weakness in the currency so typically crawling pegs established by a developing country whose currencies are linked to the us dollar or or even the euro. That's what crawling. Pegs are used for All right despite subsequent adjustments however the army chief failed to adequately adjust the exchange rate currency was still significantly overdoing overvalued by with the parallel market about twenty five percent more depreciated than the official rate..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"Fifty thousand zimbabwe dollars alongside a monthly pension that was equivalent to one hundred twenty five dollars. So what this this This pension plan did this payout to war veterans dead. It immediately inflated the budget by fifty five percent on the previous year now. The war veterans. Were still not very happy about this because they wanted to. What they actually wanted was to land reform program so in nineteen ninety-seven november mugabe response to these pressures. Any announces plans for the Compulsory acquisition of white owned commercial farms. Thus there is fourteen hundred commercial farms that were put up the sail. So what is does. The reaction is that it scares foreign. Investors because zimbabwe lacked the The budget in the financing for both this pension plan and it also lacked the budget and financing for the land acquisition process. Because they have to buy them. You know what i might have to compensate people for the farms. They're essentially nationalizing him in there. The government is buying farms and in their redistricting Distributing to other people and you know when there's distribution like that too. It's not the most needy people anyway. Let's say if you were given handouts and stuff you're just giving it to people who are friends with mugabe like you're it's it's a political cronyism. That's what the distribution is you know it's not to serve some higher 'cause or it's well intentioned it's just to be like hey look political powell's we're we have power who wants some land. Once you get a farm. You get a farm. You get a farm but pals. And i i've listened to some interviews to and a lot of it was like mugabe wasn't thumb. He wasn't a dummy. It was more like an internal pressure From his his cronies who who wanted stuff who wants who wanted his property right but Art so to go back. There's a there's a flight of capital and does zimababwe dollar at crashes in november fourteenth nineteen ninety-seven and it's caused the government to monetize their debt. Because there is already political chaos and riots. Because now we're going through an unstable time so the last thing that you can do when you're going through political chaos and riots is say okay. I got an idea. Why don't we pay your taxes are gonna raise right one of the reasons. Why what we discussed and our episode about the weimar republic hyper inflation. Is that the whole world. War one was financed without raising taxes. World war one was completely financed by the printing of money right. It wasn't financed by tax taxes..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"Think of like historically speaking was the japanese taiko land reforms during the yarmuk period which we also talked about where they nationalized land and patties were allocated by the government and pretty much every six years all free. Don't mills Received about point three acres and females even got landing point two acres that actually did result in a measurable population growth and a higher agricultural output. But i think there that's more of an exception than the rule thing. Generally speaking doesn't work out very well and in the case of zimbabwe. Doing this land reform killed both zimbabwe's economy and its food. Supply and as soon as the farms became less productive the demand for the food rose and so did the prices super fast and at this point daily inflation reaches ninety eight percent and the the economy totally collapses. Well i have this. So i have this paper that paper and i'm going to be quoting up. Jason coomer and thomas g- rushton taller you name rugged try good. Try strolling taller. Strauss german dollar. It's austrian probably. But i say it's just a women australian strand. Sorry i'm mispronouncing the name but mispronounced everything. No neighbors calmly hard. The papers called the the hyperinflation in zimbabwe and it was published in the quarterly journal of austrian economics. Opening surprised. you're quoting. You're quoting a paper. That was written by austrian economist. It is one of those. You guys know who i am by this point. I'm all right but in a disclaimer in this paper that the reliable data is often unavailable. So they're abusing mostly imf and nation numbers and then some information from the zimbabwe Federal bank central bank. But just from the imf the un. So i'm gonna go through the paper and then we can kind of just throw in points in here in. Turkey was interesting because this is probably the most thorough Paper that. I've i've seen covering this covering zimbabwe's hyperinflation so in the second decade of independence disease zimbabwean government launched an economic reform programme essential liberalizing the economy in dealing with these structural impotence to growth however fiscal policy was weak in monetary policy unsteady during the time period and the country suffered from too serious droughts which affected zimbabwe's agriculture is economic industry. A land reform had been a highly contentious issue since independence as the majority of prime agricultural land was owned by about four thousand white commercial farmers while the indigenous population continue to engage in substance farming so allegedly this land reform act. The first there was a couple of different land. Reform acts in the first version of it was relatively reasonable. Not saying was right but it was relatively reasonable to the later ones that come come after it and it required things like fair compensation and the form land had to be underutilized so they weren't as grabbing farms like there had to be some type of precedent. Okay you're not even using the farm and things like that right. But i mean for america still makes sense. Yeah it was a little more politically tactful. But then it escalated from there in the second half of nineteen ninety-seven because the government. What they do that. They announced a new compensation and pension plan for war veterans. So war veterans of the Other rhodesian bush were Their independence struggle and the these payouts apply to about sixty thousand war veterans and they were to receive a payment of.
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"Be the final stage in zimbabwe's battle against neo-colonialist So you can see why the the white people there were uncomfortable with mugabe and this layout the context. So even after after zimbabwe's independence white for about five percent of the population but they also owned eighty percent of the land While the majority native africans were left with really just kind of the common lands that were on arable at that. You can really grow anything so for convex throughout the colonial history. History of bob way in through the eighties and nineties zimbabwe's business was large scale agricultural. Exporting like they were the commercial farming sector had been one of the main sources of zimbabwe's economic wealth yet make tobacco actually to cash crops So you know. They were a net exporter and employed their commercial farming industry employed about four hundred thousand workers. However during this period most of the country's most productive farmland it belonged to the white minority mugabe. He began efforts at land reform. So white farmers were required to transfer land to You know the african Black zimbabweans so this is what sets up zimbabwe's hyperinflation situation right and and i had to give a little bit of context to that because as said i think it makes it sound like the black zimbabweans were the cause of the inflation. I think that's a little problematic. Yeah i'm not saying that. Yeah of course. I just want to clear that up for anyone's just want to clear that up for the folks that come in the review section. Pretend like we're saying that it's their fault in two thousand mugabe's you know does start doing this program beginning forcibly seizing land from the way farmers for redistribution and initially. He pitches this as a as a way to correct for the colonialism's unjust pass amusing super hard. Air quotes here because really. It's just a play to get support So that he can consolidate power for himself and you know the the farmers he put in place When he sees that land in more more often than not they had little to no farming experience. sometimes they didn't even wanna farm at all And he also gave a lot of land to his political cronies who obviously didn't know shit about farming either off any of the experience. White farmers were actually fleeing the country because mugabe's military basically using lethal force at times to remove them. You know so..
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"Right and the draw for the colonization here was the fact that zimbabwe had an abundance of gold platinum coal and diamonds which are all very lucrative resources for a late nineteenth century empire in because of the foreign capital of combined with the technical skills of rhodesia Rhodesia had a high standard of living compared to other african countries. Not exactly for everyone though. The territory was mostly entirely run by and exploited by small white-minority. But now we're just absolutely definitely. Yeah it was a racial state. But compared to other african countries there was a higher standard of living in asia for now nine hundred sixty five rhodesia becomes an independent country from britain. Well they were not formerly recognized by the rest of the world. But you know. They carved out their own nation state and know what they become is one of the two independent african that were governed by a white minority so the other being a south africa. So after rhodesia's independence from the british empire for the next fifteen years. There's a lot of political turmoil and violence mainly due to these these race. Politics knows what's known as the rhodesian. Bush war right and there were two native political factions that formed out of this conflict. zano z. a. n. those the zimbabwean african peoples union and they were backed by the soviet union and zap who Cap you The national union Which was backed by malice. China and Basically once zimbabwe declared their independence in one thousand nine hundred eighty the national union. One out and robert mugabe was elected. Prime minister mugabe by the way was total. Piece of shit He immediately consolidate power So his army was trained. Under north korea's kim il-sung at time believe it or not and day immediate. I'll go out and start killing dissidents which is yeah just par for the course for dictators You know a couple other things he did. He gave himself the power to dissolve. Parliament declare martial law. He got rid term limits And he ruled for about thirty seven years which is four short of africa's Which is interesting One fun fact. He was interviewed once and he let slip that his opponent one seventy three percent of the vote and then he immediately corrected himself Which is so ridiculous. It's actually kinda funny so yeah. Mugabe is You should read a really funny article about. Mugabe is justin raimondo's justin raimondo. Wrote an article about Him going to a conference and mugabe was speaker there And he got really upset. He's like i'm not. I'm not attending like i'm not speaking at this conference. Would that despots here and just as really funny article about him like just it's time to just look on google. If you went. Listen read this. Justin raimondo mugabe. By yeah he he would call this error. The third chiwenga. I think that's house pronounce. Jimmy chan shimon chiwenga moranga. It's jim ryan just fucking around it. It's super similar to the palestinian intifada. Actually bit the same way. But yeah the i guess. The first to morongo was the revolt against they had a revolt. Against the british. In the in the late nineteenth century and then the second was the rhodesian bush war and then this third period mugabe called the third trimaran gaza and was supposed to.
Bro History
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Bro History
"And on a good day you could withdraw the equivalent of two to three us dollars. Which was probably like gano. Quad like quadrille ian zimbabwean dollars. Something ridiculous right and or more likely probably that. There was no money in the atm machine. Because just can only hold so much and it was practically costing more money to print the money than the money was worth itself at the time. The government was spending something like five hundred thousand dollars per week to print new bills which were sent over from germany. But by the time they got the shipment in the money was already worthless which is also hilarious And you know all this created new problems As if people just going to work it just wasn't worth it some some folks. His annual salary wasn't enough to cover the bus fare home. So why would they go. we're talking about economic ruin here and it leads to the defacto dollarisation of zimbabwean economy. You know when the inflation hit two hundred and thirty billion percent the government declared the us dollar as its official currency Other currencies that were used for the south african ran the british pound indian rupee chinese yuan and of course the euro. There were also all used as legal tender Simultaneously with these ridiculous hundred trillion dollar zimbabwean dollars but that also made it supercomputing to buy things because everything had different exchange rates. Those exchange rates were changing pretty rapidly. So buying things wasn't consistently priced right. Like you might get a better deal if you used a euro then you would a yuan as an example said. It got very very confusing very quickly. What's interesting is you can buy. And bob way trillion dollar notes on ebay if you go and actually i was going to say that later but now that we mentioned it some. I actually looked it up. And there's one hundred trillion dollar zimbabwean notes going for like two three hundred bucks on ebay right now which is worth way more than they're worth. Which is hilarious It's like if you wanted to make a quick. You know flip you could just take those notes that you had that were basically worthless. i mean. leave it to the internet to buy useless shit but like you know. Lectures item like up zimababwe zimbabwe notes of a hundred dollar one hundred trillion zimbabwe dollars. It's just it's just funny to have yeah But you know you heard stories about like people using the currency is toilet paper and shit like that like it was cheaper. The kindle currency was cheaper than the than the actual toilet paper. so that's what they used So how did this happen while you know. Most of it is just extreme corruption and real things reckless spending and pacifying different disgruntled social groups and pointless military adventures and seizures of commercial farms But l- let's hit the background so zimbabwe used to be a british colony called rhodesia. Well technically south rhodesia what in eighteen ninety three zimbabwe was colonized by british settlers and they were led by minding magnet name cecil rhodes so cecil rhodes was sponsored by the british government..
BBC Assignment
Nigeria Beat Liberia in World Cup Qualifiers
"News down African qualifying for the 2022 World Cup where the Leicester City striker Colecchia Natural scored twice for Nigeria, who kicked off their Group C campaign with a comfortable two nil victory of a Liberia well, Nigeria will be with that natural and other top players for their next game, however. As Cape Verde drew 11 with the Central African Republic is on the UK government's covid red list. It means that anyone entering such a country would need to quarantine for 10 days upon their return to their English Premier League club. The two time African champions Every coast were held to a goalless draw in Mozambique, sides kicking off their in Group D Cameroon had a decisive two nil win over Malawi. Also on Friday, Tunisia went top of Group B, They beat Equatorial Guinea three nil. Zambia defeated Mauritania and in the group G Open in South Africa were held nail nail in Zimbabwe, Ghana beat Ethiopia one
CodeNewbie
How to Find a Mentor and Be a Successful Manager
"So tell us about how you got interested in code when i was in about grade. Three very slow which is about eight years old. I'll primary school got a set of computers and straighter the lab though at about four to six computers in the that was Squad got and they asked parents of the school if they were interested in enrolling children for often compete lessons and for some reason which i don't know my parents decided to enroll me fafsa mischievous at home and i started attending those computer classes and we didn't do anything complicated. Did like i remember. One particular program was like typing to program. We yet to that. Try type in like a sentence in the faucets diamond. You'd have the record and everything. But as a result of being exposed to competing debt early on as the school got more computers than computing became more combine. it goes across. Zimbabwe studied my primary school in high school and I was always good at it. And data than most other students within exposed later on in my high school korea i started doing actual computer science coating. I think what it's supposed to. Coding stuttered incomplete assigns. End as it was odd. I gained because i've been supposed to computing machines odia. I was good at the computer. Science side of it that really got some good interest in it And that. Lynn obviously took me to studying at university and everything but the roots reading comeback to that small computer lab which not everyone dope which you need to go through to that and my parents decided it would be useful for me to studying computer. That early on
Legion of Skanks Podcast
"zimbabwe" Discussed on Legion of Skanks Podcast
"So good make them fight to the death. Tauch eight episodes fucking. I've seen so that was one of the news was the first season i saw very first season. I think yeah the two maybe three. Maybe maybe we have anymore video. Different video zimbabwe's. You find who is name and fucking wish. I can't he loves it. He's getting plugged by the way. This is really helping. Oh for sure. I'm telling you we made fun of that. Other one the one that does the girl voice still. But he claims like love of of the bonfire. We're saying l. About how many. How many views do they have. How many views did that video have. Just curious the last one. We just watched valued what they're doing. I'm just saying you're not really giving people the punishment they actually fucking deserve. If they're working at a real thing the fuck a forty year old guy probably should be in share. Let me say but it's like you'll never get him for that and then here's thing will you have may be done is stopped him from ever doing it again. Because you may have scared straight for probably not you you fucking more careful more careful. I don't know it might be good or bad like but how many of us did that have on it. I'm very curious on youtube. One point two million no one. They're doing just one point. One is me over and over lot. Yeah we're pulling stuff. Can we get the cheaters guy. Getting stabbed just for me just to see once a year. I watch it if not you could bring i if no you could bring back up because he does make when the guy calls his wife. It's hilarious and she lady it but in arabic hop blah.
Mark Levin
Caller Shares Why He Originally Left Zimbabwe for American Liberty
"Doing great, Mr. Mark, Living first time call a longtime listener. Thank you. Born in Zimbabwe, every Republican and everything you are saying And in 25th position, correct. There's not even a single. Prop of blood of refusing In your speech, everything you conduct yourself. Thank you The truth and the devil hates the truth. Okay. Thank you Whenever something's being imposed on me on us We are called next biggest. We are homophobic. No, you can be whatever you want to do. But please do not impose that. Oh, my kids. That's the reason why I left Zimbabwe. Uh huh. You know, pasta and come to the number one world country. Tell me. How was life in Zimbabwe under the paradise of Marxism? Twice to third world. Mm hmm. You know what? That's a brilliant cut. That's why it's still the third world. Exactly. Good. That's your right, Edward. Why do we want to come here because of everything that has been built upon, But what's being done here? I'm black African. My kids are black. Being raised here are earned the right to be American. I can message Jim Bob Way. But I've got natural life. Do you know how much that took? Oh, I have voted heart. Uh, I had body height. Love to be in this country and we cannot take it for granted. Bed is always gonna lose. You're great. You are terrific. I'm going to stand for what's right, and that's the country and my kids and my family's Calipari's Because I heard to earn the right to be here. I wasn't born into it. Thank God you are here.
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
South Africa to Impose New Restrictions as Cases Surge
"Battling a fast increasing. Surge of covid nineteen cases south africa has reintroduced tough restrictions including a ban on alcohol sales and an extended nightly curfew. The delta variant i discovered in india appears to be driving. South africa's new increase. President cyril ramaphosa said on sunday night announcing the return to strict measures south africa recorded more than fifteen thousand new cases on sunday including one hundred and twenty. Two deaths bringing its total fatalities to near sixty thousand. Go tang the country's most populous province which includes the largest city johannesburg and the capital pretoria had the brunt of the current surge accounting for about sixty six percent of new infections health. Authorities are concerned that the country's eight other provinces likely to soon see spikes in cases to match those in go tang well. Hospitals are running short of covid nineteen beds and patients being taken to health facilities in other provinces neighboring zimbabwe namibia and mozambique also fighting growing numbers of cases hospitalizations and deaths south africa's vaccination rate is slowly picking up speed by sunday. Two point seven million people had received at least one jab more than nine hundred and fifty thousand of south africa's one point two five million healthcare workers have been vaccinated said ramaphosa as a new surge of the disease. Sweeps across africa's fifty four countries about one percent of the continents. One point three billion people have received at least one vaccine dose according to the africa centers for disease control prevention. South africa's rampant corruption has also become a factor as the health minister has stepped down because of reports his family members benefited from inflated payments on contracts related to covid nineteen.
Sounds of Science
Ambassadors of Science
"Welcome elaine and alan. Hi thanks for having much fiving us. Thank you for being here so first off. Can you both give rundown of how you came to choose science as a career alan. You want to start first ago. Fist so basically. I was fortunate enough to grow up in zimbabwe and the uk and during the time of kinda witnessed the spectrum of life on the side so in zimbabwe children dying from israeli curable. Diseases over here in the free healthcare so from that point on which i was always fascinated with science and knowing how culas in medicines work in order to kinda help people help alleviate some of those those problems faced and are now found myself here doing exactly that. When did you go to the uk was yes or me and my family migrated here in two thousand and five When i was nine years old. So yes oh. Half of my life was spent in zimbabwe in tough with my life has been spent here in the uk. Elaine how 'bout you. How'd you get started in stem. So i had a different background in. Just the i was always really interested in doing fun science things. So you know the star of your cook at putting main to suites into bottles of coca cola and getting the rockets and things like that and just generally really curious about things that i was really fortunate to have parents and family and teachers who encouraged release support that so i guess through school i was like. What do you want to be when you grew up. My answer was always something science. But i didn't really know within there and i guess for maybe similar to allen's story is that i was also really driven to to help people by did work experience at a hospital an absolutely hated it. I remember. i watched a patient get bone marrow. Taken and high nearly fainted in the patient was asking me. If i was okay and i think that was the end by medical career
Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
The Ariel School Alien Sighting
"Today's story is so bizarre and so hard to rationalize the only way to make sense of it is to go through it piece by piece from the very beginning it centers around the aerial school a private primary school in the small farming community of rua about twenty miles outside of zimbabwe's capital of harare. The students range from as young as five the way up to age twelve. I don't know what the school is like. Nowadays but back in nineteen ninety four. The kids would run around the playground every morning for their recess break. Friday september sixteenth was no exception. It's almost the weekend. The kids are excited as they're running around the playground. Meanwhile inside the building teachers convene for a staff meeting while they're gone. It's basically understood that the older children will keep an eye on the younger ones and not far from the playground is a ticshop which is basically like this little deli or canteen that serves students mothers rotate through managing. And the momma duty. This morning is allison kirkman. Now allison's minding the shop when shortly after ten a m. A student named luke runs in. And he's looking like he has seen an actual ghost. He has this sort of wide eyed stunned expression on his face. Ben luke tells. Allison he's just seen a literal alien outside now. Alison here's this and brushes it off. I mean she basically tells loop scherf very funny. Quit pulling my leg. But luke keeps insisting that he saw quote a little man in a one piece suit with a band around his head end quote ultimately alison isn't convinced enough to leave the tuck shop investigate even though her own daughter. Fi fi is out on the playground to in fact fi fi and her friends or just as stunned as lucas. Apparently the students were out running around when they noticed this thing hovering in the distance beyond the edge of the playground.
This Week
Zimbabwe to Start Selling Hunting Rights to Shoot Endangered Elephants
"An income shortfall because of lack of tourism. Zimbabwe is going to start selling rights to shoot hundreds of endangered elephants. The African forest elephants is on the critically endangered species list while the savanna elephants is classified as endangered. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management authorities said they're facing a $25 million shortfall due in part to a lack of sport hunting because of the pandemic. According to CNN, the center for Natural Resource Governance, eighth and Bob Way, environmental and human rights advocacy group called the decision quote. Appalling. I'm Jim Forbes.
JO Radio Live
"zimbabwe" Discussed on JO Radio Live
"You are listening to joe. Radio live a positive and motivational podcasts. Thank you for listening and do enjoy the following episode. It's time to enter into the presence of god with wonderful worship right here on jury life so we learned in zimbabwe you are. Don't we do you so yet again..
Seattle's Morning News with Dave Ross
When will the West Seattle Bridge be fixed, and how much will it cost?
"Has been nearly a year since the West Seattle Bridge closed down because of the cracking concrete, and now we're getting some prediction on when it might be open again. Here's Chris Sullivan, and that prediction is the end of June 2022 that is the target goal for returning traffic to the West Seattle Bridge, But that's about a space Civic is the city can be. I would like to be very, very specific about the time and date when you will be able to drive across the bridge. I cannot give that to you today that Seattle's mobility director, Heather Marks, who also also cautions West Seattle residents that include herself that even when the repairs are complete, that doesn't necessarily mean the traffic is going to immediately return. This is not a repair where we're just going to drop tools when we're done and open up the bridge, too. Traffic. We want to make sure that this is safe and we want to be able to measure and see how the bridge and the repairs respond to additional live load. Drivers should expect that the lanes to will open little by little over the days and weeks after repairs are complete, primarily just for safety and to prevent backups. We also need to think about how to create the conditions under which when we open up that first lane Everybody doesn't you know, heard to the bridge and we have backups from follow. Right, Fareed I five. So we need to think about that to the city has reached the 30% design Fresh Holden milestone on this project, and the request for bids went public yesterday. It's gonna be an interesting partnership. The way that they're doing. This is that they're bringing the contractor on board at this point. That will allow the contractor the winning contractor to work with the city on final design, from 30% completion to the end that allows them to see any potential problems and design as they're doing it that also helps speed up the process. It's expected that the repairs we will begin in November, repairs to the lower Spokane Street Bridge or also included in this contract that needs a little shoring up works and cracked filling, and it also might need some repair to the center locking mechanism. Mark says. It is possible that there will be times when both the high and the low bridge will be closed the same time, But she expects those to be brief. To the extent that we have to close the low bridge. We're gonna aim for weekends or holiday weekends to make sure that we're disrupt. Thing as few people as possible. Now, Speaking of that low bridge discussions are ongoing about how to allow more access to that lower bridge on call. Medical workers have been added to the list of people who can use that bridge while racing to the hospital. But they end up getting it a photo enforcement ticket and then have to prove they were an emergency call to get that wiped away. Not really the most efficient way to do things. Seattle police have told me that automated photo enforcement issued more than 7500 tickets in the 1st 15 days of February. That's just a two week period. But since then, and more the word has gotten out. The city says that more than 2000 fewer vehicles a day are now using that bridge, which means okay, maybe we have a little extra capacity. And there's a big push right now to allow people who need life saving medical care like chemotherapy or dialysis to use the bridge, but The problem is Terminal five, is going to reopen for business on Harbor Island next year. And so the city is worried that if they allow more access now, they'll have to take it away later and they don't want to do that. They don't want to carry that. Briscoe start opening a lot more. We'll be exactly because they're going to see significant amount of freight traffic. And because of that, they're going to see the capacity go away. As for the money, the dollar figures in all of this $175 million is the budget. That covers the repairs to the West Seattle Bridge. The lower Spokane Street Bridge also includes the money already spent for the showing process, traffic mitigation improvements being made in West Seattle. The monitoring work city already has about 124 million of that, and it's aggressively looking for Mawr's, according to Sam, Zimbabwe, the head of the Transportation Department. We're moving are a lot of different paths forward. We don't project that funding is going to be the challenge that Holds us up in this, but we still have some some fresh holds across and make sure that we have the resources needed to bring this resource back online.
You Beauty
An Expert's Guide To Curly Hair
"Welcome to. I'm sharon hunt and this week's look dropped by. Guest is the incredible ruby aka the guru of curly and afro hair. Ruby is originally from zimbabwe but nowadays. She calls australia home. The originally self-taught stylist fell into hairdressing by accident. After witnessing friends and families struggle to find someone that understood this strands so she wound up doing it herself in her lounge room eventually she took up an apprenticeship began stalling out of multiple salons before finally opening up her own place. Rooming co in two thousand four room. Be thanks for dropping by. Thanks so much for having me sharing now. When i was a kid i distinctly remember being told if you ate all your crusts. Yo hey would go curly and i really badly wanted. Kelly has a you better believe i was gobbling down the crofton. I of course realize it was an old wives tale. That parents just tell you to eight year food. But i have to say. It's not the only myth that i've come across when it comes to curly hair. So why do you think there are. So many misconceptions about kohl's. I think something is misunderstood. There's a desire to want to make it a lot more palatable to each individual like answer for that very reason people come up with their own anecdotes around what this complex appendage actually is so people come up with so many things now yes i mean you told your cross for me. It was like eat your vegetables. And your hair is going to be straighter. You know what i mean like. Oh my gosh eating those so yeah. I think it's just because people really want to understand something that is complex and so yet this is where a lot of myths have come along and i hear them all the time. I've got lots of them to ask you about. Oh let's go. I guess to start with with. Kelly has to understand that. There's not just one type of co run us through just as an overview the different types of kohl's because you can tell by looking at someone calls not the same to the next. So why should you treat them the same one colleague on one hundred percent. So there's three curl types wavy curly in africa's how we sort of break down but then when you're looking at the typing system you've got type two which is wavy and that's lusa curls and there's three subcategories of that you've got to a to b to c and two c would be the tightest within that range and then you've got type three which is curly and within that again. Abc and c. And seeping tighter and then same thing for africa harrah's well after or coyly hair. Because i guess everyone who has coyly hair has an effort background. He is another curly myth. I've come across curly hair. Shampoos a marketing hype and normal shampoos worked. Fine let's start right there fact or fiction fact. They all marketing hive. Well okay no no no let me put it this way curly hair. People shouldn't shampoo their hair. That's a myth. Okay great stafa. Let's start there because that's actually. What's more commonly said trump who your hair. I've heard condition as well really. Yeah stop it. Maybe straight hair. How should you be carrying the curly hair. When it comes to washing its really simple. One of the things that i say to my clients often is you have to get rid of straight hair tendencies right. And how do you do that. It's just simplifying it. And which is part of what we do. We try and simplify everything for our clients. Because if you don't do that it's as though you're eating soup of the fork and that's gonna be very frustrating. And so how do you shampoo we take people through this whole process and it's like pretty much. Get the right shampoo first of all what you need to have the right product. Because not all sham periods would then be the same. Most shampoos actually stripped your hair. Which is why in some way. Yes don't shampoo your hair. I get with people. Come with that myth because it doesn't leave your hair as hydrated but then when you've got shampoo that is specifically designed for curly hair. It's supposed to cleanse but also hydrate to leave your hair feeling very moisturised. Soft supple and clean as well without streaky. Feel that you get when you get a deep cleansing shampoo
PRI's The World
Zimbabwe Must Overcome Anti-Vaccine Sentiment as Access To Vaccine Becomes Imminent
"The african countries have started importing the covid nineteen vaccine. Zimbabwe's government says it has been offered to one hundred thousand three vaccines by china. Officials are also asking for assistance for fans to pitches the vaccine for the estimated fourteen million people. But there's a problem with that not everyone's looking forward to the vaccine as soon after the singer. Come as fantasies if it is true. That developed similar leaks dania. Grateful by the their is about this vaccine that ministries who we are sure we are. Not confidence. thought is another federal. That is bob. We has to jump as part of its efforts to find the coronavirus for the world. I'm columbus guy nari
Goodbye to Alcohol
Goodbye to Alcohol - Series 3 - Episode 10 - Mary Anne Shearer - the Natural Way - burst 01
"It was his guys talking roland hydra one year and end the sky was the and he came up to me after he said like. I'm here to help me recover from alcoholism. I don't want to rehab. I've just come to detox. My buddy what. Can i do to stop caving. Alcohol acid right. This is what you gotta do. Every morning you get up and you have as much fruit and a nice handful of narrow nuts or seeds with just eat as much food as you can stuff. Your face doesn't have to be early in the morning but it must be a first meal of the day and eat as much as it. If it's a box of mangoes and eat the box of mangoes op done that. Eaten a box magazine taya watermelon. And you might do that for three months and eventually what happens. Is you end up eating one mango in. It's really sweet sausage. I into stuff your face. Full of lucas. In every natural glucose fresh fruits nuts every time. You crave alcohol. Just reach out for some dates or some raisins or even like a hundred percent pure grape juice or you know have sparkling grape juice. It satisfies your cells needs for glucose that craving will stop welcome to goodbye to alcohol about calls from wealth without wine with you. Want to say goodbye to alcohol. Revie said goodbye. Twelve called over the on just so this is the podcast few. We've got recovery stories to in spy experts to inform you plenty of advice on how to drink and change your life. Hello hello and welcome to the good. By twelve coal podcast. My name is john goran. I'm the founder of wealth without wine. And i'm your host for this podcast. My hero wealth without wine we help people to change their relationship with alcohol over the past five years. We've helped hundreds of people to do just that and we created world without wind because we believe it's really really halt to change your drinking alone so wealthed without wine wit all about community each week we're going to feature a community voice just to give you a flavor of the also. Try his somebody from one of Subgroups hello everyone. So i have a little friday when which happened last night Myself my family celebrated thanksgiving with our american bamiyan states Remotely and it was the first time in twenty-six days at i would becoming face to face with an actual bottle of wine so i was a bit concerned and i knew that i had to have some safety precautions. Set in place for myself. So i had my phone Close by me. So i could contact group if i needed to My also got some alcohol free wine that was recommended by this group and And the support of my family so my mom and i enjoyed some lovely alcohol free wine. Which actually wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. We served at super chilled and it was actually super delicious and refreshing. We skype with a family overseas headed delicious meal and i didn't have a drop of alcohol And then at the end of the evening we weren't bid. I finished off my class of savvy. Rich in the candlelight listening to some chile music Went to bid and the biggest one of all was waking up this remembering exactly what happened last night and without a headache I'm super proud of myself. Never ever in a million years thought that this was possible. But it did it and today is day. Twenty-seven machine all a fabulous wonderful weekend wherever you are in the world if huge cut to join our woman welcoming community and get a bit of support. Just go to weld without wind dot com and click on the membership top. So let's get my guest today into being a lady who's pretty well known here in south africa. Her name is maryanne sheera now. Maryanne is a woman before had time. She wrote a book called the natural way more than twenty years ago. An only now is the way of life. She advocates going mainstream on apart from being an author. Marianne is a motivational speaker. And she runs a very successful pekan restaurant as well as running natural health programs. I'll begin by asking maryanne satele to bit about herself. I had serious health problems which included being bipolar had kids at had ear infections tonsillitis runny noses that was high blood pressure so we had these kind of. I call him normal health problems because it wasn't like the big three cancer heart disease diabetes. It was just all like niggly stuff that was affecting our relationships and was affecting the way we functioned from day to day. And i have always been interested in the human body i prob- i might have become a doctor. But i'm i'm glad i didn't because it made me look for answers and other places so i was fascinated with the human body studied physiology anatomy and chemistry in the sciences and i was fascinated with the how the human body worked. So we're not. We started having these problems and we were being treated traditional medical way with anti anti-inflammatories and antihistamines for a head allergic dermatitis. On my hands and the kids with antibiotics just didn't make any sense because nobody actually got well. all it doesn't seem to do is suppress symptoms. And then they'd come back two weeks later. I saw the athol up. Gotta find answers. This was long. Before the era of google that really dates meet And just go and do a search on google. And the closest i've got to google was on several occasions sneaking into the fits medical library in johannesburg and he are trying to find says there and looking at books in the archives and just like nobody really had answers to my questions had to find the myself now. I really believed because i could see the. You'll buddy actually repays itself if you cut your finger to paint it stop. You don't need to go and you know cost a spillover it or go to the doctor. My fingers cut itself. Please can drug. I mean unless you chopped to finger off you'd want to beg on but just a cut finger. Paper cut irritate you. It hurts but you it just eventually repays itself and and if you study the human body like a did you find out that the liver you can actually cut off your liver out. Remove it entirely donated to somebody else. Give the small lobe to somebody else in the big global grow and then you've donated your smaller that logo groesbeck like this is the most amazing thing and yet when it comes to lever cancer you told is no cure for it. You're going to die while you would because you're going to be given all these drugs and you live a second will just get sick and pick up than you will die so i was looking for ways to correct the looking for the causes and then ask trying to fix the causes. I did find that. Nutrition made a huge difference. When i changed my diet. Took after find sugar and my by pella symptoms when my crazy periods of manic unbelievable highs. We are could take on the world. And i was going to change the world and i'm actually by nature very idealistic person and my mission in life is i want to change the world. One person at a time. I want to get them healthy enough. Got the goal to reach. A million people wrote a book called the natural way it came out in nineteen. Ninety-one was a runaway bestseller according to the publishers and it sold as i say of three hundred thousand copies it's been published in the united states. The funny thing is it seems to be taking of now first published in the states in two thousand five fifteen years not getting traction. So it's like if it does take off and i happened to reach the new york times. Basically nobody can ever say was an overnight success at this pathetic years. So you're a woman before your time. Someone emission to really help people if i can get rid of my bipolar symptoms and be completely sane And and thinks straight and have a brain in and and bow bowels and bladder that works properly all the time and be living in that sweet spot of health than anybody can do it. Because i had terrible problems. Janet listening to all calls from weld without wine. Marianne take me about you just mentioned alcoholic parents. It that intrigued me wondering if that was one of the reasons why you want it to research to health unle- to healthier lifestyle was that of a trigger. I think it. I think it was. I think you know even mentioned to some one time that i want to try to get drunk when us fourteen and jank moms cara pheno one and didn't like the way i felt i felt out of control and i think that sense of not being in control of my immediate environment and i wouldn't say i'm a control freak but i needed to be common working properly and audley at the sense of order i think that comes from growing up in the chaos of alcoholic appearance at home and my mom was a party animal. She was functional alcoholics. She could party all night and go to work the next day in absolutely fine my father however party will not and he wouldn't work for six months and that was you know he'd worked for six months and then not work for six months to a year or two years so we grew up with that sort of chaotic and then my parents got divorced because my mother said she had four kids anita fifth one. My father married. Somebody was crazy as he was. You know do things like pour petrol over my stepmother and threatened sitter a lot this crazy stuff that chaos does makes you want to live an ordinary that the thing. That really got to me when i was a kid. My mom had this medical encyclopedia. And i would pour over at the age of four hundred. All these gory. Pictures of people as innocent large thyroid landed was like the size of pumpkin and the knicks and these open ruins and at sit there and cringes kind of not. Wanna look at them. But it's fasten. The human body fascinated me from a very early age. My mom was kind of forward thinking as much as she was a party animal. She told us we couldn't chew gum or drink. Physical because our brains would fry and and we went lottery comic books either. So i had the sense of trying to do the right thing I think it also grows up with you know you grow up with a parent. That's a bit narcissistic. i think. Alcoholism in a sense is a narcissistic habit. Because you just carrying about a million myself. And i'm trying to numb my pain. You know not thinking about the responsibilities of life you know growing up with it. I had the saints. That i wanted to please my mom and do the right thing so i was considered the goody. Two shoes in the family just always trying to do the right thing in an nfl had to take it back to pregnancy was a need to just have off in my life Feel like yeah. Things went as chaotic. As they've seen. We moved a lot as kids. You know doing a geographic alcoholic. Parents do that things. Don't work you just move somewhere else. Yeah i've i've come across two different reactions when people have Parents they are do what she did. And react against the kale. Some won't control an order in their life all they they tend to say well. You know sin family. I'm bound to be that as well and then kinda give up unsolved drinking as well so Is that been your experience as well. Do you think people tend to go. A different one of two was party. Animal ended in two brothers. That partied hard. I mean they crashed a few calls when they were aided. And that god they've grown up and grown out of it and They've so but very working my two brothers especially very sober and very hard working And and i just think. I think what you you learn the learned behavior sydney. I look at myself is it. I may not have been addicted to alcohol. But as very addicted to sugar so ahead addictive side to me that anita to the sugar made me feel good in that space. So i suppose in a sense. I was doing much what people do with alcohol when us feeling unhappy or was feeling sad or on feeling like a done something. Well i would reward myself or console myself with suga whether it was fragile candy or cake. So is scream. It didn't really matter how much as i said. Even propane sugar staying out of the sugar bowl. As i got older. I became health conscious. South for made fudgy using brown sugar. That was really good. But you're that that that needs that sense of of you don't you you know parents at properly as if you growing up in an alcoholic home so you learn. The navy is that that it's a k. To satisfy yourself for full let need with a something in a with some people it could be gambling. All pornography will with made was shook end and food as a compulsive overeater. And the only reason we're glad clinically obese of always been physically active and and if i was not eating properly and exercising. I wouldn't ever sleep. I would. And i think that looking at having dealt with so many people in our family and with people have met of the years that alcohol sometimes puts people to sleep just eventually knocks you out so eventually do sleep when you're very active brain not taught how to look off draw brain. How what does alcohol do to bring. What is caffeine due to the brain so one minute drinking coffee over here and then that's like over stimulating central noticing. Make all your nerve cells five. Ab rapidly and then you'd having alcohol too. Because that's a natural depressant than you take the to calm you down and put you to sleep and then you wake up the next morning and you hung oversee start with the coffee again in the brain goes into overdrive. Then you would lots of sugar into the coffee. So you just getting on this treadmill and i think i think if we were taught the staff about how everybody body reacted to sit and things from when we were kids. Part of the reason assorted school is that we would understand how our body worked and figure stuff out pretty soon and make good choices. But that's me probably being idealistic as well if you were talking to someone. That was drinking super too much. They weren't really aware of what it was doing to that office. That brains. what what would you tell them. How would you summarize the home that it does to us. Gee i'm the first thing we know. Is it really damages the central nervous system in the brain. And we've now these quite a lot of research showing that parkinson's disease which michael j. fox got a really young age and he has a. He was a big drinker. Huge drinker everything. I've read on him. The alcohol played a big role in. He's laughing was younger. That can damage your central nervous system. and it doesn't do it alone. Units alcohol and sugar and bed diets and bed living but alcohol plays a huge role in that. It really affects a whole lot of things affect your central nervous system in your brain so you don't handle stress well and lacewell you handle stress. The more you're going to drink because it numbs you. Eugenic feel you can just numb yourself. you stop feeling in dozen courage assistant behavior because it becomes all about my feelings and my stress and my money to numb in. I mean we all know this. We would go without food in a hassle appearance drink and i've seen it in other families. The mother a single mumble drink because she's lonely or because she feels a failure whatever. Her reasons are and there'll be no food in the fridge. Another normal alcoholic friggin. Look on his nets moke in there in a piece of cheese. And that's about it if you lackey Most just don't have food in them. And i know as kids if they was cheese enough ridge. We would flatness in like half an hour because he's a no win. The food was going come which didn't help but encourage things like a compulsive over eating so a central nervous system and that's the one side the other side that in a fix and impacts really badly as the indicating system and that's a system that controls every single part of the buddy janice it controls your liver your lungs your kidneys digestive tract your muscle tone. You sleep your menstrual cycles. Your facility these nothing. It's not in your breathing. Your lung function your hair. Growth your nails. You'll skin it it. It affects every single part. The endocrine system produces hormones in different parts of the body in those hormones may chemical reactions take place which makes the body function properly. Have alcohol's interfering with it function because what it does is it actually pushes your blood sugar up really really high so you feel like good on alcohol woo and then your blood sugar over produces your body produces over produces insulin. 'cause you're about to go into a diabetic coma and in your body's designed to repeat itself over produces the insulin brings it all the way back down and as it starts to slide mcdonagh feeling really tired immaculate and sleep and pass out if it gets really bad And then you you. You might have something like coffee or tea or another drink to try and raise your blood sugar again so when you blood. Sugar fluctuates fitting brain and central nervous. System your endocrine system and your immune system and you can understand the not explaining this very well with the whole covid. Nineteen they send. People are drinking and having caught accidents but alcohol suppresses immune function. That's what it does. So the government instead of educating everybody in showing us adverts over and over which i think would help better than just locking everybody down and telling you you know these content touch alcohol reagan so ridiculous. You can't buy alcohol during the on the weekend so everybody's just by way more so every restaurant selling wine under the counter to the clients you know because they can't make money selling food during lockdown. It was bizarre to see the activities that going on at the end of the day understood. Exactly what it does. And how it suppresses immune function we must take these things a little bit more seriously than being wrecked on the knuckles suck educate people that teach them the stuff so i think other thing that it does and this is fascinating. Refined sugar does exactly the same thing is alcohol does just desert loose something called reactive hopper blah seamier. Which when the blood sugar shoots up to high we over produce insulin and brings it right down so down so far down your blood sugar that the part of the brain your frontal lobe that controls moral behavior planning and forethought will just shuts down completely. Okay and the part of the brain that takes over as part of the brain that controls aggression appetite and sexual function. And i think this is probably really important to help people understand these blackouts that they have so you can have a blackout but you not passed out you just living life. I mean. I know a girl that poured wax all over yourself. Hot wax in that state couldn't remember how she got burned from this x. She took all our clothes often. Did this is absurdity. Because the people that were they told her what she does. She could not believe she did something like that. I had a woman that came and spoke to me. Because i was when i speak often speak about the stuff because it played such a role in my life and how important it is to make. Sure you're getting the right kind of glucose about in a while. And she came up to me after she said. I'm embarrassed to raise my hand and tell you what i do but cannot speak to you privately. Acid short can understand when she told me the story. She said i'm going to tell you. I'm very very committed. Christian person go to church regularly. my husband's actually involved in the leadership of the church. We go to bible study on wednesday nights. We go to between one and three services and the sunday we we're involved in the charitable work and stuff but she says periodically. I wake up in another town or another suburb in strange man's bid. And i have no recollection of how i got the and i say to you consume and she said. Nah don't i said are you a sugar addict. And she said yes osama title sugar addict and it does the brain. What alcohol does we. You just black out completely. Obviously you've got to be extreme amounts of sugar to do this but alcohol does the same thing you drink. Extreme amounts you'd binge drink and the knicks thing you wake up and you in somebody else's bid and like how the hell did you get in the shame of all of this is worse than you start drinking again and this whole thing goes on so what happens is when the primitive brain takes over. You either going to get aggressive. You're going to just eat and eat and eat canoe appetites. Just nothing's gonna be enough or you. Could your sexual function could take over. And you become extremely promiscuous and that's clearly very dangerous because besides possibility of fathering all mothering a child you could end up with terrible sexual diseases. So it's it's a huge problem and people don't know this until somebody like me comes and tells him and nobody studies this. Because you take the average psychologist or psychiatrist. Dr they studying medicine and how to cheat you when you sick with medicine and surgery than looking. And what is the cause of all these problems and vivian often. It's a physiological or physical course an and utrition is something that's kind of just ignored and net. That study was done with reactive. Hoppy glycemic was done by women. Called baba read stood. She lived in the united states and operated in stable municipal area and she was in charge of the juvenile delinquent and criminal juvenile delinquent and the prisoners. The adult prisoners in the end the juvenile delinquents and she found that of them something like ninety three percent of the people that she'd work with suffered from this reactive hypoglycemia and in that state of blacked out. Where you can't remember what went on people will kill the family. They'll the children we ask you. Yeah then they will beat somebody into coma they'll be do the most. They'll they'll commit a crime. And they have no recollection of course when you committing crimes being something people like as easy to say you lost your mind and you can't remember but it's an actual condition where you had no recollection of went on. It's completely blacked out. You listening to reply to alcohol. The podcast from world without one if eat lights join our tribe. Please check out website. That wine don't cold so yeah. Apparently those many people in child but have done that have a blackout killed somebody. You cannot in jail recollection too. Many people in jail i mean. Can you imagine Horrendous but blackouts very common in all community. We talk about the loss of people have blackouts. I used to have the have them as well Boston is like all it was a walking talking blackout because I was with some friends for afternoon. And apparently i seem quite normal. You know i was walking around talking. We'd walk quite a long way together. I have no recollection. I mean we'd been drinking since frightful Drink but i. It just hit me over the edge. I lost an entire. And you know i used to have blackouts where the end of the evening was a bit fuzzy Quite remember how it may be. But this one was really serious Hated the idea thought woking talking blackout the fat my brain was so alcoholic couldn't even make memories nazi Absolutely terrifying and here's the thing that people don't understand is that you'll cells and your buddy a designed to consume glucose. Nothing works in your in your at salable. You got thirty seven trillion cells in your body. They desperately need glucose they needed to make. Atp a denison triphosphate which is what creates energy your monaco andrea desperately. Need that your every little organ nelio in the plasma critical in these tiny little things inside the cell that you can't even see with your naked eye it needs glucose your brain and central system can't work without glucose and if you're not getting enough you going to crave alcohol or sugar and barbara read stood say we knew feed children refined sugar growing up on any level. She said you're actually preparing them for alcoholism because they get into the cycle. The blood sugar going up and it's coming down and they feel that the sugar satisfies and then you you graduate from a kid to adolescence or young young person in your twenties wait sitting stuffing faced with ice cream and chocolate says locked kind of interdict so will have a drink and it does. What sugar to to you. And now you recognize that. Except that the alcohol gives you even a bit of feeling takes you higher disrupts you lower so if we understood that we need need proper glucose for body's natural glucose and and so often when i've done a talk i actually say to the audience and i remember reading this one year at a secrets convention at sun city outside johannesburg. The were probably five hundred people Woman and i said to them. Okay if you do any of you crave sugar and they've just everybody put the hand and i said when you craving sugar. What is it that you put into your mouth. What is it you put. And what is it that you actually craving an attempt to get the point across. Imagine yourself in the garden of eden and you craving something sweet. What would you eat. And there was a stately silence and this woman blonde voluptuous woman sitting in the front rows in this deep voice. Adam evan rumor osc that christian. I'm thinking this woman. It was really funny at the time. But it's just interesting because i've often christian in los angeles of austin in the republic of hot bay of austin zimbabwe of austin the uk. Austin all over the
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