Kivindyo Ndivo

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[Kivindyo Ndivo @ActionKenyaPAC]

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[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

BREAKING: Today, we are sharing images from the Laikipia base that appear to confirm what we revealed a few days ago: the Ebola treatment facility is now nearing completion.

Using satellite imagery obtained from Reuters and Vantor, we compared the site before and after construction.

📍 Image 1: The area before the facility was built.
📍 Image 2: The same location after construction, with the facility highlighted.
📍 Image 3: A closer view of the site, which is reportedly designed to accommodate up to 50 patients.
📍 Image 4: Ground-level view of the facility.
One thing immediately stands out: the site is relatively close to Nanyuki town.

Given the size of the military base, I have to ask why the facility was not placed deeper inside the installation, further away from civilian populations.

While facilities of this nature are designed with strict safety measures, the location raises many questions.
This is only the beginning.

Over the weekend and next week, we will be releasing additional information, documents, images, and analysis relating to this project. So follow me here and stay tuned.

Also remember all this is happening while there is still a court order in place.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

China would probably have been fragmented into four or five separate states and would look much more like India in terms of economic development and technological advancement today if this had succeeded.

Just look at British India. They chipped off three countries from it, and India is still dealing with the consequences. People often explain the partition through religion alone, but that only scratches the surface. India today still has a Muslim population comparable to Pakistan’s. To understand what happened, you have to look at the geopolitical calculations behind it, who benefited, and how India was strategically constrained as a result.

As the Cold War approached, the British establishment feared that a unified India under the left-leaning, non-aligned government of Jawaharlal Nehru would not reliably serve Western strategic interests. Pakistan solved that problem. It gave the West a cooperative state on the Soviet Union’s southern flank and provided military, intelligence, and logistical access to a critical region.

The same logic applied to Burma. Before 1937, Burma was administered as part of British India. Separating it gave Britain direct control over its resources while creating a buffer between Indian nationalism and Britain’s vital interests in Southeast Asia.

There was also the question of scale. A unified British India would have included modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, a vast, heavily populated power stretching from Iran’s frontier to the borders of China and Thailand. For a declining empire, managing several smaller competing states was far easier than dealing with a single continental giant. The borders they left behind ensured that these countries would spend decades focused on regional rivalries rather than projecting power collectively.

Of course, partition was not imposed solely from outside. Local political elites had their own incentives. The Muslim League secured a Muslim-majority state, while Congress accepted partition as the price of building a centralized Indian republic without endless political deadlock.

Nigerians who casually advocate breaking up the country should understand something; imperial systems are often far more sophisticated than people imagine. They can sell you an idea so convincingly that you forget it was never yours to begin with, and may not even serve your interests.

That is partly why these endless internet arguments about religion amuse me. The discussion is far more layered than most people realize. You can analyze it through religion, ethnicity, economics, geopolitics, state formation, or external influence. Most people are arguing on one layer while remaining completely unaware of the others. Frankly, I’m still trying to understand all of them myself.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Scott Ritter's Brutal Takedown of Europe and the West

🚨Today, Europe is a rabid dog and it needs to be shot.

🚨Europe is simply an extension of the United States.

🚨Germany is becoming literally an expression of its Nazi past.

🚨There is no such thing as Europe.

🚨Europe doesn't exist.

🚨It's a falsehood.

🚨Europe is hopeless.

Scott is “the unintimidated honest man” as always…..my respect and thanks that brave man…
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[Clash Report @clashreport]

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on nuclear weapons:

Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program — and he was mocked and killed on live television to the delight of Hillary Clinton, who literally applauded in front of the screen.

North Korea simply concluded that without nuclear weapons, they would be wiped off the face of the earth.

They are acting on this choice — and no one touches them.

With Iran, all of this started because Iran had supposedly been promoting international terrorism for 47 years. It very quickly became clear that the reason was once again oil.

The Americans proposed that they and Iran control the Strait of Hormuz 50/50. It's all about oil again — all about the world's energy markets.

[🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 @STANISKRAPIVNIK]

“The war will last for a couple of decades. We need to learn to live with it.”

A powerful speech by the legendary intelligence officer and professional analyst Andrey Bezrukov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It resonates with what I usually say in response to the question: "When will all this end?" I reply: "Accept that war is our new normal."

Key theses - in quotes.

🔻 New type of war
"We are in a new war. Since it's pointless to seize territory anymore... this is a war of attrition and subversion." "Leaders, military, civilians, scientists" and "critical infrastructure on which the country depends" are being targeted. "This is the war we need to prepare for. It's happening, and it will continue."

🔻 West's strategy of 'boiling the frog'
"The West's strategy is very simple: to avoid a nuclear clash with us, from which they would emerge as losers. And so they need to 'boil the frog slowly' - gradually escalate tensions." "We're seeing this today. And they won't stop, because they have nowhere to retreat to. We're an existential threat to them."

🔻 First 'hill' of world war
"We're currently on the first hill of world war. There will be two hills, as in the First and Second World Wars... The rules of the game will be born after the next clash. It's likely to happen in Asia." What happened in Iran, he says, "proves that the hegemon is no longer the hegemon."

🔻 Strike on nuclear forces
The enemy's main task is to "avoid the nuclear threshold... and neutralize our nuclear forces": either by building a system in space to "prevent anything from taking off", or "like in Operation 'Spider Web', planting it here through their agents and striking our nuclear forces at a certain moment."

🔻 Destabilization and strike on infrastructure
"The plan is to overwhelm our decision-making system with complex attacks from all directions - ideological, physical, military." Already today, "a drone can fly into any region via Starlink and land in a precise location... Unfortunately, we weren't ready for it."

🔻 Threat of biowar
"All those labs around us... were making weapons of the future." Technology allows "an individual on individual equipment to create viruses that... could wipe us all out."

🔻 What to do
"We must admit that for the next... couple of decades we will be at war... We will have two generations that can practically be considered at war." The economy needs to be built in such a way that it "not only fulfills the task of development, but also the task of defense": deepen and protect critical infrastructure, create a "headquarters" for management, invest in protection against bioterrorism, and merge the army and society.

🔻 'Stop being good'
"We need to stop being good. We're too good for our enemies... They don't fear us because many red lines remain on paper." At the same time, Western Europe is dependent on imported gas, and "exploding a gas tanker is equivalent to a small nuclear explosion." The expert's conclusion: the country needs an "image of the future."

[American Alchemy @AmericanALCHMY]

Donald Hoffman episode dropping later today

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.

Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.

This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.

It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.

A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.

The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.

The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.

Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.

Full conversation is live now.

[Kwame Owino @IEAKwame]

Folks, here is the link to the real time counter for the sovereign debt in Kenya:
https://t.co/ljfoN9TzEY

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING :

The UN accuses Israel of committing EXTERMINATION in Gaza.

EXTERMINATION.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

“Israel is responsible for extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war..”

—The UN Human Rights Council

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes.. including extermination.. murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer.."

The UN Human Rights Council report published today is damning.

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

My friend @LavaniMila

What the heck is happening in @BungomaCountyKe?

KSH 106 billion in transfers in 11 years of devolution, Bungoma County county has a 49% poverty rate.

49%.

In other words, KSH 106 billion has not made any measurable dent in poverty.

But we should not be surprised.

Why?

Because when the law says, don't spend more than 35% of county revenue on salaries for the 1% in government, Bungoma politicians say, "it's our time to eat".

They spend 51%.

That is how the county, in the last three years alone, has stolen KSH 4.5 billion from citizens.

In three years alone.

The county with a 49% poverty, which only raised KSH 486 million in revenue from within the county, spent KSH 396 million travelling.

While, only devoting KSH 219 million to education/bursaries.

No discipline whatsoever.

Take a look what the travel related to.

Games in Uganda. KSH 28 million.

KSH 28 million for games.

Corporate Governance in Dubai.

Leadership masterclass in Singapore.

We have one "must do" in 2027.

Operation fagia wote.

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

How firms drain Sh1trn from Kenya through hidden foreign procurement https://t.co/YXs3eck84D

[BusinessDaily @BD_Africa]

Kenya is losing up to Sh1 trillion in economic activity every year through quieter, less scrutinised foreign procurement deals embedded deep within corporate cost structures.
https://t.co/sDFYzCDhgl

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

What was a joke 3 weeks ago 👇 is now reality. Which is pretty much the definition of Trump's presidency...
https://t.co/LlwBeR6ldA

[Kivindyo Ndivo @ActionKenyaPAC]

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

What was a joke 3 weeks ago 👇 is now reality. Which is pretty much the definition of Trump's presidency...
https://t.co/LlwBeR6ldA

[Kivindyo Ndivo @ActionKenyaPAC]

Ur not a good person😆

[Riverdale Reaper. @BoyBaiby]

@Josh001J I crode for him, the country let him down.

[Paddy Onyango, HSC @paddyonyango]

@smutoro @Senate_KE Never in the history of this country has the system been so broken. Never!