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Hello, everybody. It's the great Joanna speaking. I'm doing my podcast live stream on the eve of King's Day. Tomorrow in the Netherlands, the king is having his birthday, but also the pope will be buried. So the king is not attending the pope's burial and instead they postponed it by a few hours.
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So I think in the mornings you're going to watch the pope getting buried and then there's going to be the King's Day festival here in the Netherlands. As usual, nowadays, I will start my stream by showing you the painting I've chosen for this episode. So I'll get myself out of the way for a second.
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You're going to get a good look at it. Hello, Dazzoom. This is the Thing Assembly. It's a drawing, I suppose, not really a painting. It was drawn by the author, illustrator... a Dutchman, Charles Rockison. He died in Rotterdam in 1894. This particular drawing, I'll show you one more time, was made in 1850.

Pivoting to Geopolitics, Neo-Colonialism in Africa, White Guilt [stream #70]

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Apr 25, 2025
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In this episode, I spoke about Africa’s 150-year-long losing streak, ever since the European powers (notably Germany, France, Belgium and Britain) began carving up Africa's resources, roughly around 1870. Africa, at first, saw Europeans as their friends and partners, unaware that Europeans were after their natural wealth. Then, Africans got addicted to German alcohol, and soon, Western corporations began seizing African markets (such as Heineken). The African losing streak can be ended by putting smarter people in charge, but then again, this isn’t my responsibility. I will start focusing on Europe, beginning with the question quo vadis? Where are we headed, what will our future look like?

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You're going to get a good look at it. Hello, Dazzoom. This is the Thing Assembly. It's a drawing, I suppose, not really a painting. It was drawn by the author, illustrator... a Dutchman, Charles Rockison. He died in Rotterdam in 1894. This particular drawing, I'll show you one more time, was made in 1850.