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post-colonial-realness-blog · 7 years ago

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Five mind numbing facts about how to use vape pen with button

Right through this blog post, we will make you learn that how to use vape pen with button! For the beginners it is quite difficult to know how to charge, assemble and use an oil cartridge vape pen. Let’s teach you five facts about how to use vape pen with button!

Interesting Five facts about how to use Vape pen with Button:

Fact No 1: In the first step of using the pen is all about charging your vape pen battery. You all need to assemble the bus charger on top of the battery by means of screwing it in. You want to assemble the USB charger just as over on top of the battery by screwing it in.

Fact No 2: You can easily charge your vape pen this at your desk or with the use of any bus charger. You should avoid charging your vape pen in your car as for the reason that it can cause the battery to overheat.

Fact No 3: As you would first of all first plug the pen in the light it will be red, after an hour or so the light will eventually as turn green. Once the light is green your pen is on the whole fully charged and is often ready to use!

Fact No 4: In the next step is all about the removal of the small rubber stopper off the bottom of the oil cartridge. You need to do not throw the rubber bottom away as you may need this later for the sake of the storage.

Fact No 5: You have to carefully affix the cartridge on top of the battery by screwing it in clockwise. Just as once the cartridge stops turning let it stay there, and hence be careful to not over tighten the cartridge as this can damage the cartridge.

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post-colonial-realness-blog · 7 years ago

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Who was Thomas Sankara?

Thomas Sankara, often referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara” was the president of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. He seized power in a 1983 popularly supported coup, with the goal of eliminating corruption and the dominance of the former French colonial power. Sankara’s foreign policies were centered around anti-imperialism, with his government eschewing all foreign aid because, as he often said, “he who feeds you, controls you.” He pushed for debt reduction and nationalized all land and mineral wealth, averting the power and influence of the IMF and World Bank. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritizing education with a nation-wide literacy campaign, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children. And his was the first African government to publicly recognize the AIDS epidemic as a major threat to Africa. Thomas Sankara was an extraordinary man.

He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages, and polygamy and was the first African leader to appoint women to major cabinet positions and actively recruit them for the military. A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-woman motorcycle personal guard.

He encouraged women to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.

He launched a nation-wide public health ‘Vaccination Commando’ a state run program that in a period of only 15 days in early November 1984, completed the immunization of 2.5 million children against meningitis (a world record), yellow fever and measles. This operation was so successful in that children in neighbouring countries like the Ivory Coast and Mali were sent to Burkina Faso for free immunization that helped curtail high rates of infant and child mortality.

He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers. He lowered his salary, as President, to only $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, and a refrigerator.

He planted over ten million trees to halt the growing desertification of the Sahel and established an ambitious road and rail construction program to “tie the nation together.”

He was known for jogging unaccompanied through the capital city in his track suit and posing in his tailored military fatigues with his mother-of-pearl pistol. And when asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, he said ”there are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”

Sankara’s revolutionary policies for self-reliance and defiance against the neoliberal development strategies imposed by the West made him an icon to many supporters of African liberation. But his policies alienated and antagonized the vested interests of the small but powerful Burkinabe middle class, the tribal leaders who he stripped of the traditional right to forced labor and tribute payments, and the foreign financial interests in France and their ally Ivory Coast. Compaore and Sankara On October 15, 1987 Sankara was killed by an armed militia of twelve officials in a coup d’état organized by Compaore. Sankara’s body was dismembered and buried in an unmarked grave. Compaore immediately took power, overturning most of Sankara’s policies. Compaore reportedly ousted Sankara because he believed that his revolutionary policies were jeopardizing Burkina Faso’s relationship with France and Ivory Coast. Sankara and Compaore were not only colleagues, they were childhood friends. This is why ‘Bad Karma’ should be Blaise Compaore’s middle name. He is a ruthless man who orchestrated the brutal assassination of his best friend. Yet he is the man routinely designated by the international community to act as a ’mediator’ to help resolve African conflicts… smdh

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post-colonial-realness-blog · 7 years ago

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A part of the black bourgeoisie seems to be committed to developing, or attempting to develop, a form of capitalism within the black community, or the black colony as we call it. As far as the masses are concerned it would merely be trading one master for another. A small group of blacks with control our destiny if this development came to pass.

Such a notion is reminiscent of our earlier history when we had blacks slave masters. A small percentage of the blacks owned slaves; they were our first black bourgeoisie. But we have today are their spiritual descendants. And just as the earlier black slaveholders fail to alleviate the suffering of their slaves, so today the black capitalists (those few in existence) do nothing to alleviate the suffering of their oppressed black brothers.

But in a greater sense, black capitalism is a hoax. Black capitalism is represented as a great step toward black liberation. It isn’t. It is a giant strides away from liberation. No black capitalists can function unless he plays the white man’s game. Worse still, while the black capitalist wants to think he functions on his own terms, he doesn’t. He is always subject to the whims of the white capitalist. The rules of black capitalism, and the limits of black capitalism are set by the white power structure.

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