"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

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What is a central bank? It is a public financial institution that manages the currency of a country or a group of countries and controls the money supply. The central bank is the "bank of banks"
What is the money supply? It is the amount of money circulating in the circumscribed area.
The BEAC countries make deposits. These deposits with the central bank constitute the assets of these countries held by these countries.
The net foreign assets (NEA) of a central bank are the net claims or liabilities of this monetary institution on the outside. It is all the activities of the bank that relate to its operations with the outside. These net foreign assets are the difference between external assets (investments) and external liabilities (potentially debts or risks).
The financial press tells us that Gabon's external assets at the BEAC (the Bank of Central African States), fell by 30% in the first quarter of 2018. That is to say that the commitments of Gabon taken ex…

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Balthasar's Feast is a famous Rembrandt painting from 1635, which depicts a scene from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. It is the feast that precedes the announcement of the fall of Babylon because of its extravagant decadence, its depraved paganism and its profaning practices.
For this feast, Balthasar, king of the Babylonians, had gold and silver objects placed on the tables. Not satisfied with mocking the temple from which the objects had been removed, he glorified, while the people drank, the "gods of gold and silver, copper, iron, wood, and stone"; further offending the one and only God of Jewish belief.
We are there in Gabon. The similarities are obvious.
We will not give up!





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Le festin de Balthasar est un célèbre tableau de Rembrandt peint en 1635, qui décrit une scène du Livre de Daniel, dans l'Ancien testament. C’est l festin qui précède l’annonce de la chute de Babylone à cause de sa décadence extravagante, de son paganism…

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Arthur Rimbaud, a French author of the nineteenth century, was a very precautious poet. It is at the age of sixteen that he wrote "Le bal des pendus"; a poem in which he defends the paladins, those knights of the Middle Ages who fought for just causes; and strongly criticizes the state institutions that oppress the people. This blog sees in these Gabonese dancing at Bilié by Nzé’s orders, some poor people hanged in waiting, who, having lost their compass, no longer distinguish the paladin from their executioner who tomorrow, will execute them.
We will not give up!



RIMBAUD: Dance of the Hanged Men (1870)

On the black gallows, one-armed friend, The paladins are dancing, dancing The lean, the devil's paladins The skeletons of Saladins.
Sir Beelzebub pulls by the scruff His little black puppets who grin at the sky, And with a backhander in the head like a kick, Makes them dance, dance, to an old Carol-tune!
And the puppets, shaken about, entwine their thin arms: Their bre…