My wife and I maintain a rental house in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. It is in the Ibex Hill district, which includes the U.S. Embassy. It is literally within walking distance of our house. Because we need to upgrade our domicile of operations, my wife investigated an offering of a house that happened to be adjacent to the Embassy property (a former lodging of Sam Nujoma, future president of Namibia, on the lam during revolutionary times). It was a fair-sized house, built to original colonial standards...being surplussed by USAID.
There were some interesting outbuildings, very sturdy. Upon entry, they were built stout as bank vaults, with "burglar bars" across the underside of the ceiling to prevent entry through the roof. It was empty, but from the impressions left in the dust, it was apparent that rifles and revolvers had been stored there, in quite large quantities. My wife asked about this and was told not to ask questions. In other similar outbuildings were shadow evidence of more weapons stores and even one filled with remaining crates of ammunition. While they were there, a truck came up to haul away the crates.
She was told that upon the termination of the USAID budget, all the USAID property was being remaindered. There was an additional small house on the property that my wife estimated could hold maybe up to 9 men. Question? Don't ask questions. Though a gate in a barrier wall against an adjacent property, they could see a group of 4x4 SUVs, also USAID materiel---to be given away for free. One of my wife's companions asked for one and his request was granted. Why not sell them? "We can't account for them," was the cryptic answer.
By this point, my wife had made herself persona non grata with the "sales agent" by the persistence of her questions. She asked the agent "Who owned the house?" and was told a name. Fortuitously, it happened to be a gentleman my wife new from her young years in her home district. She later called him up and discovered the connection to Nujoma. As my wife and I talked about this, the picture became very clear to me that all the humanitarian aid distributed by USAID (genuine enough, so far as it went) was a cover for an operation to fund, supply, recruit, and garrison revolutionary forces in the capital of an African nation. (Exclamation point!) Since it was never supposed to exist, they were liquidating it expediently without any paper trail of purchase. Notwithstanding its direct proximity to the Embassy, it is entirely conceivable that the State Department knew nothing of such USAID activities, since it operated independently. The casual corruption in Zambia encourages people to look the other way.
My wife has a nose for news.
“My wife and I maintain a rental house in Lusaka” your story gets even more bizarre, two days ago you were implying you were in America and waiting to get married to your “working” wife.
So we apparently have a condescending 74 year old with 3 degrees from Washington State who now lives in Africa with his african wife. Also a person who constantly shills against any counter narratives.
Currently telling people chemtrails are a figment of their imagination, because he knows stuff. Immigration is good because he knows stuff. He always takes a position of authority.
This guy is either an african who went to college in America on a scholarship paid by Americans, now larping as an American, or a civil servant spook. A shill nonetheless.
I called him out on his grammar and sentence structure, which is no doubt AI derived or formatted.
Either way, his story is all over the place, he is toxic, condescending and constantly subtlety dooming.
Don’t feed the trolls, especially the toxic ones.
Well done and thank you.
You are right about him, spot on.
I am in America (and have been an American all my life). She has been a resident alien for over 20 years. I have medical conditions that preclude travel...and I would be a third leg in the context of the problems to be worked on. Someone needs to man the home fires. We have been married for 9 years. If you would pay attention, you would be less confused.
The degrees are from the University of Washington (not Washington State University), a longtime source of Boeing engineers.
"Chemtrails" are imaginary misidentifications of contrails, and that is the beginning and the end of their notoriety. I do know my stuff, which is atmospheric physics, aerodynamics, and thermodynamics. I have explained contrails repeatedly. I can't help it if people refuse to listen and learn (apparently you).
You are the only one in my half-century professional career to "call me out" on my writing skills. The usual reaction is respect. I don't have anything to do with AI.
My story has been consistent from day one. You are poor at catching the information. And basically, all your deductions about me are worthless nonsense.
You are only upset that I have been posing a critique to baseless mythology when it shows up. I know what I am talking about and I don't subscribe to the concept of Internet Egalitarianism, where one man's ignorant opinion is as good as another man's informed knowledge. I have never doomed. I support Trump where others on this page have had impatience tantrums about not getting their arrests and public executions promptly. I have no problem with waiting on him without denouncing him and his team. I look forward to his progress. I dump cold water on mythological expectations that are not to be fulfilled, but they have nothing to do with supporting and anticipating Trump's progress.
Sadly, I feed you, because it is my policy never to turn down any sincere interest in dialogue. I call out your errors and shortcomings, but I don't call you names. You explain to me why all the people who have a problem with me end their arguments with name-calling and rudeness. I don't think I am any kind of toxic element. You might look in the mirror.
Your own words. Non American imposter.
You keep on getting it wrong. And you haven't explained that phenomenon. You might think about that. Back in the days of Socrates, they understood that when a person arrives at insults and name-calling, their capacity for rational argument is over.
I will bet you are far my junior.
You must enjoy being wrong. You have abandoned "the question at hand" altogether, since all your commentary has been Off Topic of my post. East Africans have a distinctive pattern of speech, but since I am not African it is clear that you have no idea of how Africans speak. No condescension, just helping you understand. You don't understand, for example, that "junior" as a comparative adjective refers to age or seniority. And your coyness on the subject makes me increasingly confident that I am at least old enough to be your father, if not your grandfather. Young people have a hard time with elder adults. I never said I was looking forward to my marriage, so you are telling a lie. I don't know how to "sponge off the welfare system", having paid (and still paying) income taxes for over half a century. All your nonsense about my being someplace I am not is a pretty strong abuse of the anonymity accorded to "anons." Don't worry about shutting off the internet in Africa; they are pretty good at doing it themselves. (Actually, a family friend, Dambisa Moyo, is helping the UK sort itself out. Check out her Wikipedia entry. She is a baroness.) You don't have to threaten me with poverty. I grew up without any of this modern stuff. i suspect you have no idea what poverty is like. And your racial hatred is pretty plain to observe.