{"id":46597,"date":"2019-06-12T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46597"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:19:25","slug":"putin-the-african-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46597","title":{"rendered":"Putin, the African Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Putin, the African Queen<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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While filming \u201cThe African Queen\u201d everyone fell sick from drinking the water except for Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, who drank whiskey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Luke Harding is a former journalist for the Guardian. I say former because while he is still writing for the paper, he lost his one remaining shred of credibility last November with an article about Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange multiple times in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London<\/strong><\/a>, which soon was discredited as badly as an article can be, but has still not been retracted or corrected by the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you get caught in that kind of nonsense, you\u2019re surely not a journalist. Of course that was just one in an endless list of blubber that Harding produced about the likes of Assange and Trump. And Putin of course. And now he\u2019s back with more. About Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere in this new article by Luke Harding and Jason Burke for the venerable publication, they say that Russia only became interested in Africa in 2014. And obviously you know you can stop reading right there. Russia\u2019s been interested in Africa for decades. Because it\u2019s laden with resources. Because everybody else is there to get to those resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Harding manages to write up a piece that makes Russia\u2019s interest terribly suspicious and menacing. Because, you know, Skripal. The Russians did it. He\u2019s basing this on docs he claims to have seen, but doesn\u2019t provide, given to him by an \u201cinvestigative unit\u201d based in London and funded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Putin\u2019s worst domestic enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaked Documents Reveal Russian Effort To Exert Influence In Africa <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is seeking to bolster its presence in at least 13 countries across Africa by building relations with existing rulers, striking military deals, and grooming a new generation of \u201cleaders\u201d and undercover \u201cagents\u201d, leaked documents reveal.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Putin, the African Queen Luke Harding is a former journalist for the Guardian. I say former because while he is still writing for the paper, he lost his one remaining shred of credibility last November with an article about Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange multiple times in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, which soon was discredited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[18,14976,10800,10961,333,3771,26034,26035,23386,660,13924,694,5177],"class_list":["post-46597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-africa","tag-assange","tag-babies","tag-congo","tag-france","tag-guardian","tag-human-zoo","tag-khodorkovsky","tag-luke-harding","tag-putin","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-russia","tag-the-automatic-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46598,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46597\/revisions\/46598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}